Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location inventions 06/08

20080154438 - Distraction estimator: Improved apparatus and methods for determining the attention demands on a person are described. An example approach comprises obtaining sensor data representative of the person's environment, detecting sensory objects within the sensor data, and clustering together sensory objects (for example, objects having correlated properties) so as to determine an output... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, P.c.

20080154439 - Method and device for aiding the restoral of command of a moving vehicle by an operator of the vehicle: The fields of the invention are vehicle on-board security and vehicle piloting safety. The invention relates to a method and device for aiding the restoral of command of a vehicle by an operator of the vehicle. The command of the vehicle by the operator is ensured through vehicle piloting controls,... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080154444 - Apparatus and method for cooperative employment with installed airborne application control system: An apparatus configured for cooperative employment with an installed airborne application control system in an aircraft includes: an application control unit coupled with the application control system for cooperating with the airborne application control system to effect control of at least one second airborne application. The application control unit includes... Agent: Law Office Of Donald D. Mondul

20080154446 - Device for the integration of a laptop computer into an aircraft: The updating and consultation of flight documents, aeronautical maps and aircraft documentation is being facilitated by migration towards laptop-accessible electronic versions of these documents. To facilitate inflight exploitation of these documents, the laptop is connected to a docking station (105) itself connected to input (107)/output (106) peripherals accessible from flight... Agent: Perman & Green

20080154440 - Method for defining military refuel orbit: Defining military refuel orbit using unchanged commercial aircraft FMS capability includes uplinking military refuel orbits using an existing commercial FMS datalink function. Refuel orbits are defined as commercial NavDB STAR procedures using RF and TF legs. STAR procedures can also be stored within company routes. Company route names and STAR... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080154445 - Method, system, and computer program product for performance monitored aircraft rejected takeoff braking: In exemplary embodiments, braking of an airplane is controlled during a rejected takeoff. A rejected takeoff of an airplane from a runway is initiated. Position of the airplane is determined, such as by inputting aircraft position from a global positioning system. Distance remaining on the runway is determined. Deceleration to... Agent: Robert R. Richardson, P.s.

20080154441 - Methods and systems for displaying messages from a plurality of sources: Methods and systems for a flight deck display system for displaying text messages are provided. The system includes an alert generator configured to receive message signals from a plurality of aircraft systems and to generate alert messages based on the received message signals, and a flight deck display screen that... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080154442 - Methods and systems for displaying electronic enroute maps: Methods and systems for a position indicating display system for an aircraft are provided. The system includes a map display unit configured to display a map representative of an area being traversed by the aircraft, and an overlay comprising an own ship depiction, said overlay displayed on the map for... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080154443 - Reduced power mode for an aircraft electric brake system: An electric brake system for an aircraft as described herein is capable of operating in a normal full power mode, a low power mode, and a sleep mode. The full power mode is supported by the active power supply of the aircraft, while the low power and sleep modes are... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20080154447 - Determining suitable areas for off-airport landings: A routing tool is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method and system include receiving flight data and geographic data in the aircraft, and generating route data based on the flight data and the geographic data. The route data provides information about attainable landing areas for the aircraft.... Agent: Sawyer Law Group, LLP

20080154448 - System and method for automatic dependent surveillance collection and analysis: A system and method for collecting and analyzing data generated by at least one mobile platform (such as a train, ship, aircraft or automobile). The system includes a source of at least one user input, and a data interface control module that collects at least one type of data from... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080154449 - System, method, and computer-readable media for monitoring motion of railcars in a railroad yard: System, method and computer-readable media are provided for monitoring in a railroad yard effects of a railtrack having one or more curved track segments on motion characteristics of a railcar, as the railcar rolls along the railtrack due to gravity. The system may include impedance-measuring track circuitry arranged to monitor... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.a.

20080154450 - Combustion control in an internal combustion engine: The present invention relates to: self-tuning engine control algorithms using inputs from transducers that measure pressure in the engine cylinders, and from an engine crankshaft rotational position sensor; methods of processing the input signals to “self-tune” or learn accurate values for a) pressure transducer voltage offset, b) crank position encoder... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080154451 - Method of controlling a rail transport system for conveying bulk materials: A train is driven by drive stations positioned along a track for frictionally contacting side plates on the train. The drive speed is controlled in response to sensors located at each drive station sensing a position of a wheel and a side plate for confirming a presence of the train.... Agent: Carl M. Napolitano, Ph.d. Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.a.

20080154452 - System and method for predicting a vehicle route using a route network database: A system and method for predicting a route to be authorized by a dispatcher for a vehicle to travel on a route network comprises a computer system that has a database having stored data relative to interconnecting route segments that make up the route network. Data relative to the origination... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.a.

20080154453 - Control device for watercraft propulsion system: A control device for a watercraft propulsion system can reduce wear of a shift mechanism, can achieve an automated extremely slow speed navigation and easy watercraft navigation, and can negate differences between watercraft navigation skills of watercraft operators. A remote control operation section includes a remote controller shift lever. A... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080154454 - Engine off brake booster leak diagnostic systems and methods: A control system for evaluating a brake booster system is provided. The control system includes an engine evaluation module that detects an engine off condition. A pressure evaluation module monitors hydraulic brake line pressure and detects changes in brake booster pressure during the engine off condition. A fault reporting module... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080154455 - Mode changeover control device for a hybrid vehicle: A mode changeover control device for a hybrid vehicle includes an engine, a motor/generator and at least one driving wheel. A changeover between an electric drive mode using only the electric motor to power the at least one driving wheel and a hybrid drive mode using both the engine and... Agent: Young & Basile, P.c.

20080154456 - Method for operating a system, and driver-less transport system: In a method for operating a system, the system includes at least one path, which includes path sections. Vehicles are able to travel along the path, and an electronic circuit is included for controlling at least the speed of the vehicle. Codes are situated along the path, and the vehicle... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080154457 - Position detecting system and method of the same: A position detecting system and a method of the same are disclosed according to the present invention as follows: an inertia sensing module and an obstacle sensing module are adapted to detect a displacement signal of a cleansing apparatus and a distance signal of a distance between the cleansing apparatus... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080154459 - Method and system for intelligent maintenance: A method is provided for reconfiguring an operational system having a plurality of input parameters and a plurality of output parameters. The method may include obtaining a maintenance schedule of the system and obtaining a set of actual values of the plurality of input parameters and corresponding actual values of... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080154458 - System, method and program product for predicting fleet reliability and maintaining a fleet of vehicles: A system, method and program product for maintaining fleet performance for a fleet of platforms, especially for a fleet of aircraft. Part removal data is contained in a maintenance database. A query is constructed for extracting part removal data from the maintenance database. Weibull analysis is applied to extracted part... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Peterson, Jr. -- Boeing

20080154461 - Apparatus, system and method for allowing prescribed components in the system to be started with minimal delay: A method, apparatus and system are disclosed for allowing prescribed components in the system to be started with minimal delay, wherein a multimedia system for a motor vehicle, which comprises a control unit and a plurality of prescribed components that can be selected and started by a user. The operating... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080154460 - Driver's feeling control apparatus: A driver's feeling control apparatus which includes: a steering detection unit which detects the amount of steering operation by a driver; a seat in which the driver sits, and which has a movable part displaceable in a perpendicular direction with respect to the longitudinal direction of a vehicle, or in... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080154463 - Direction and speed control device for an electronic wheelchair: A direction and speed control device for an electronic wheelchair includes: a base member mounted on the electronic wheelchair; a manually operable pointing unit mounted on the base member and including a control stick pivotable relative to the base member; first and second three-axis g acceleration sensors, each generating a... Agent: Winstead Pc

20080154462 - Electric power steering system: There is provided an electric power steering system including a motor for imparting a steering assist force to a steering system of a vehicle, a current command value determination unit which determines a current command value based on a steering torque and a vehicle speed, a motor angular velocity detection... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080154464 - Automatic parking control apparatus for vehicle: An automatic parking control apparatus for a vehicle, that performs a steering control, a movement control for moving the vehicle forward or backward at a low speed, and a stop control for stopping the vehicle. A parking space and an initial position of the vehicle is recognized. The parking control... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080154465 - Device for sensing the position of a spoiler on a motor vehicle: A device for sensing a position of a spoiler on a motor vehicle, where the spoiler is moved with a drive unit between a retracted setpoint base position and an extended setpoint operating position. At least one sensor is provided with which at least one of the setpoint positions of... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080154466 - System and method for controlling a machine: A machine is provided. The machine includes an engine, an engine speed sensor, a transmission, a transmission status sensor, a pump, and a controller. The engine speed sensor is configured to sense the speed of the engine. The transmission is coupled to the engine. The transmission status sensor is configured... Agent: Caterpillar Inc. Intellectual Property Dept.

20080154467 - Method and apparatus for shifting gears in transmissions: A method of changing from a first gear position to a second gear position of a transmission arrangement is disclosed. The arrangement includes a rotatable transmission member, a hydrostatic continuously variable transmission coupled to the transmission member and operable to rotate the transmission member at a first speed, a controller... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080154468 - Variable displacement engine operation with nvh management: A system and method for controlling an internal combustion engine operable with a first cylinder firing frequency and a second cylinder firing frequency to reduce or eliminate transmission of torsional vibrations associated with the second cylinder firing frequency to reduce or eliminate constraints on reduced displacement mode operation using a... Agent: Bir Law, Plc/fgtl

20080154469 - Method of operating a clutch during a vehicle launch: A method of operating a clutch during vehicle launch including increasing a first hydraulic pressure in an inner chamber from a first to a second level; decreasing a second hydraulic pressure in an outer chamber from a third to a fourth level in response to engine speed and throttle position... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, Pllc

20080154470 - System and methods for an electric brake actuation overdrive feature in an aircraft electric brake system: An electric brake system for an aircraft includes an electric brake actuator overdrive feature that preserves full braking performance even with a failed or intentionally-deactivated electric brake actuator. The electric brake actuator (EBA) overdrive feature monitors EBA parameters, detects a failed or deactivated EBA, deactivates the failed EBA if needed,... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20080154471 - Method of adaptive braking control for a vehicle:

20080154472 - Motor vehicle and control method of motor vehicle: During a starting operation or a low-speed drive of a vehicle on a slope, the drive control of the invention sets a gradient-corresponding rotation speed N? as a rotation speed of an engine to output a required driving force against a longitudinal vehicle gradient ?fr (step S110), and sequentially sets... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080154475 - Aircraft engine management for fuel conservation: A method includes controlling an aircraft during descent, and controlling the engine pressure ratio of a jet engine so that the engine has a substantially equal pressure at the exhaust, and at the front of the engine during the descent.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080154473 - Gas turbine engine performance data validation: The invention validates propulsion data used in engine performance diagnostics based on heuristic knowledge of the physical relationships between engine parameters. The method identifies data anomalies, reduces overall scatter, and allows for the detection of true engine fault events. The method uses persistency to aid in differentiating between anomalous and... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.c. (p&w)

20080154474 - Non-linear fuel transfers for gas turbines: A method for controlling the rate of transfer between operation with gas and liquid fuel types to minimize the time in undesirable operational mode, thereby preventing excessive wear and damage to gas turbine hardware. The method includes completing a fuel prefill for the oncoming fuel type through the fuel system... Agent: Ge Energy General Electric C/o Ernest G. Cusick

20080154477 - Abnormality detection apparatus and method for oil level sensor: An abnormality detection apparatus for detecting an abnormality of an oil level sensor having lower and upper oil level detectors includes: a recording portion that records the output of the upper oil level detector before the internal combustion engine is started; and a determining portion that determines that the upper... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080154476 - Air fuel ratio control apparatus for an internal combustion engine: An air fuel ratio control apparatus for an internal combustion engine can improve accuracy in catalyst degradation diagnosis. The apparatus includes a first air fuel ratio feedback control section that adjusts the air fuel ratio of a mixture supplied to an engine in accordance with an output of an upstream... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080154478 - System and method for indicating quality of motor oil in a vehicle whose engine has an exhaust aftertreatment device that requires occasional regeneration: A system and method for including the effect of regeneration of a diesel particulate filter (22) on quality of engine motor oil.... Agent: International Engine Intellectual Property Company

20080154479 - Fuel injection system: A fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine, comprises: a pump comprising a pumping plunger which is driven, in use, to cause pressurisation of fuel within a pump chamber, an accumulator volume for supplying fuel to a fuel injector, a fuel passage providing fluid communication between the pump chamber... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080154480 - Outboard motor fuel controller: To enable smooth, highly accurate deceleration in various usage conditions of an outboard motor and realize stabilized engine speed after deceleration, a fuel controller for controlling the amount of fuel fed to an engine of an outboard motor mounted on a boat includes a deceleration determining section arranged to determine... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080154481 - Adaptive oxygen sensor methods, systems, and software: One embodiment is a system operable to control entry of an oxygen sensor into a learning mode. Further embodiments, forms, objects, features, advantages, aspects, and benefits shall become apparent from the following description and drawings.... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20080154482 - Method for monitoring functional components of a motor vehicle: A method for monitoring functional components of a motor vehicle is provided. To this end, microphones, pulsation sensors, strain gauges and a speed sensor are positioned on or next to one of the functional components to be monitored. The electrical signals of the microphones, pulsation sensors, strain gauges, and speed... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, Pllc

20080154483 - Method for operating a shutoff device for a device, in particular an internal combustion engine and/or an electric machine, as well as a shutoff device: A method for operating a shutoff device for a device, in particular an internal combustion engine and/or an electric machine, in which an operating element for initiating a shutoff operation is provided, and in which a transmission path is provided via which a shutoff signal is transmitted from the operating... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080154485 - Control of internal combustion engine: An engine controller for engine control apparatus is configured to retard an ignition timing, from an engine starting mode timing to a catalyst warm-up mode timing at an idle attainment moment at which an engine idling condition is reached, and to regulate an intake air quantity at a prior moment... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080154484 - Start control apparatus for internal combustion engine: There is provided a start control apparatus for an internal combustion engine (1) which starts the engine with injecting fuel to each cylinder (2) of the internal combustion engine in an intake stroke. The apparatus comprises a stop position distinction device (20) which distinguishes a piston position at a time... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080154486 - Method of creating and updating an atc flight plan in real time to take account of flight directives and implementation device: The present invention relates to a method of updating an ATC flight plan of an aircraft in real time to take account of the flight directives. A reference flight plan is designated. In tandem with the receipt of the flight directive messages originating from the ground, then verifying validity of... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080154487 - Method for estimating parameters of a navigation signal: The method for estimating parameters of a navigation signal received by a receiver which receives navigation signals through a plurality of paths wherein the parameters include data modulated on the navigation signal and complex amplitudes i.e. amplitude and phase shift, and time delays of the individual paths, comprises receiving a... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20080154489 - Guiding route generation device and guiding route generation method: When a user specifies a road that he/she wants to pass through, a guiding route generation device generates a guiding route that passes through the specified road up to a destination. A guiding route (37) generated based on waypoints specified is stored in a storage means (15) of the guiding... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080154488 - Method and apparatus for selecting poi by brand icon: A method and apparatus for selecting a desired point of interest (“POI”) for a navigation system displays matching brand icons associated with POIs to assist the user in finding an intended POI. When the user inputs characters indicating a POI name or a POI type, or selecting a POI type... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20080154490 - Method and device for calculating a path which is laterally offset with respect to a reference path: The invention relates to a method of calculating a path which is offset laterally by a first distance with respect to a reference path, comprising the calculation of a flight plan which is offset with respect to a reference flight plan. The reference flight plan is defined on the basis... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080154491 - Method for selective filtering of an aircraft flight plan according to the operational needs: The present invention relates to a method for selective filtering of a flight plan according to the operational needs, and it is characterized in that elements specific to the structure of the flight plan are added by the flight management system according to the nature of the elements inserted by... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080154493 - Distance estimation method for a moving object having a constrained vertical path profile: This method makes it possible to plot, from a terrain elevation database, a map of the distances of the points accessible to a moving object subject to constraints (inaccessible reliefs, unnegotiable obstacles, weather disturbances, path with an imposed vertical profile, etc.), the distances being measured only along paths that are... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080154494 - Image-related information displaying system: An image-related information displaying system includes: a host system having a three-dimensional land feature/place name information database and a delivery service subscriber list database; and multiple mobile terminal devices, each of which receives land feature/place name information from the host system and is connected to a base station via respective... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080154495 - Inertial measurement unit for aircraft: System for determining position of a vehicle includes an integral inertial measurement unit (IMU) including accelerometers and gyroscopes for providing raw data about movement of the vehicle and a correction unit coupled to the IMU and arranged to receive and/or derive positional corrections and the raw data from the IMU... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20080154492 - Portable device: This portable device includes a photographic means which photographs an image with a lens, and a first display means which displays this photographed image upon a first screen. Moreover, this portable device includes a storage means which stores map information in advance. Moreover, this portable device includes a position measurement... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080154496 - Methods and apparatus for capability-specific routing: A method is provided for performing capability-specific routing. The method includes receiving location information specifying a location. At least one capability indicator representative of user capabilities is also received. A database is accessed, the database specifying, based on user capabilities, facilities that can be accessed by a user, as well... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080154497 - Vehicle stray determination apparatus and destination guide apparatus: A vehicle stray determination apparatus in a vehicle includes a map database for designating a destination; an in-vehicle GPS unit for detecting a present position of the vehicle; a speed detector for detecting a speed of the vehicle; a parking signal input device for detecting an operation of a device... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20080154498 - Method and system for sharing navigation information: A method and a system for sharing navigation information are provided. The method includes the steps of: providing a navigation system and a mobile communication apparatus, in which the navigation system communicates with the mobile communication apparatus through a wireless communication protocol; positioning coordinates of the navigation system; transmitting the... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080154500 - Personal navigation device: A Personal Navigation Device (PND) includes a Global Positioning System (GPS) module for generating a plurality of sets of coordinate values respectively corresponding to a plurality of time points according to satellite signals; and a processing module, coupled to the GPS module, for controlling operations of the PND. The processing... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080154499 - Position display apparatus: A position display apparatus for own position and a position of an outside apparatus has: a position acquiring part adapted to acquire a first information indicative of the own position; a wireless communication part adapted to receive a second information indicative of the position of the outside apparatus; a map... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080154501 - Message formatting system to improve gps and imu positional reporting for a vehicle: The invention generally relates to a system for generating and transmitting a telemetry formatted message containing raw Global Positioning System (GPS) information, processed Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) information corresponding to the position and attitude of a high speed vehicle in motion. This telemetry formatted message is received on the ground... Agent: Navairwd Counsel Group

20080154502 - Satellite navigation using long-term navigation information: An improved approach to satellite-based navigation (e.g., GPS) is provided. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first set of tracking information. A nominal orbital path for the navigation satellite is determined using the first set of tracking information. Ephemeris data corresponding to the nominal orbital path is computed... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid, LLP

20080154504 - Determining position of a vehicle with reference to a landmark: A position determining system for a vehicle comprises an imaging unit for collecting image data. A wireless device reads or interrogates a radio frequency identification tag. An identification module determines whether the collected image data contains a visual landmark. A confirmation module determines whether the identified visual landmark is associated... Agent: Deere & Company

20080154503 - Method and associated system for wireless medical monitoring and patient monitoring device: A method for paging/finding a wireless patient-monitoring device in a WLAN network includes the steps of determining the status of a radio module (RM) (117) of one or more wireless monitoring devices comprising one of a Patient-Wearable Device (PWD) (115a,115b) and a Patient-Monitoring Device (PMD) (110a,110b) that are adapted for... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080147247 - Circuit for controlling an acceleration, braking and steering system of a vehicle: A circuit for controlling an acceleration, braking and steering system of a vehicle with at least two separate motors (13, 14) for actuating the acceleration and braking system and at least two separate motors (11, 12) for actuating the steering system, with at least one electronic control unit (17) for... Agent: Walter A. Hackler, Ph.d. Patent Law Office

20080147246 - Design for a kiosk for a vehicle screening system: A vehicle screening method and system. A vehicle occupant can be identified utilizing one or more biometric identifiers input by or obtained from the vehicle occupant via a biometric input device. A barcode can also be provided by the vehicle occupant from a scanned card or other structure upon which... Agent: Intellectual Property Honeywell International Inc.

20080147249 - Method and system for intention estimation and operation assistance: An intention estimation and operation assistance system for estimating an operator's intention and providing assistance to operation of a machine. Reference data, such as the operation of a plurality of hypothetical operators, is provided for comparison with the operation of a real operator, to determine an estimated intention of the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080147248 - On-vehicle system: An on-vehicle system includes a plurality of control devices, a common data match determining unit, and a common data transmission permitting unit. Each of the plurality of control devices stores control data that includes common data and identification information. A first control device is configured to transmit the common data... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20080147245 - System and method for provisioning a vehicle interface module: The present invention provides systems and methods for provisioning a vehicle interface module comprising receiving a VIM from a VIM manufacturer and entering appropriate VIM data into a dealer inventory, activating a SIM card for the VIM and installing the VIM in a predetermined vehicle, selecting a wireless activated VIM... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080147250 - Configurable vehicle bus storage cache mechanism: A remotely configurable telematics unit cache provides for selective caching of data of interest to a remote caller. The configurable caching system ensures that selected data is available when the vehicle is not in operation and the telematics unit is not powered on. A remote caller can remotely configure the... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080147252 - Motor controller: This application describes the software invented to control a dual electric motor system. The dual electric motor system is a Chorus Motor system applied to electric drive for aircraft taxi. The software uses closed-loop control together with several other control laws to operate the motors. Knowledge of the current operating... Agent: Borealis Technical

20080147251 - Multi-axis trim processing: Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide trim for a vehicle, such as an aircraft. For example, a method for providing trim may include generally simultaneously determining values for a plurality of trim variables in a plurality of degrees of freedom. In this manner, the iterative aspect of contemporary... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid, LLP

20080147253 - Vehicular anticipatory sensor system: System and method for preventing collisions between a vehicle and objects in a path of the vehicle includes a laser system arranged to direct at least one laser beam outward therefrom and which is in an eye-safe portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, an imaging receiver for receiving at least one... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20080147254 - Systems and methods for controlling dynamic systems: A control system (12) for controlling velocity and attitude of a dynamic system (20) includes a velocity controller configured to receive a desired velocity command and output a velocity error in the form of Euler angle commands to an attitude controller system. The attitude controller system includes a converter (14)... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080147255 - Air data stall protection system: An electronic multi-function probe (MFP) is provided for positioning adjacent an aircraft skin. The electronic MFP includes a plurality of pressure sensing ports and an electronics housing. Positioned within the electronics housing are air data processing circuitry and stall protection system processing circuitry. The air data processing circuitry is configured... Agent: Goodrich C/o Westman, Champlin & Kelly, P.a.

20080147256 - System and method for controlling horsepower in a locomotive consist: A consist controller is provided that enables an operator to take advantage of all horsepower combinations for locomotives in a consist. The consist controller provides a fractional increase option and a fractional decrease option that enables the operator to increase or decrease horsepower output with finer adjustments. In a preferred... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20080147257 - System and method for total management of ships: The system consists of a central, stationary Tele Connect Centre (15) with stationary servers (14), software modules, databases and call centre (21) on land. The call centre on land contains all ship-specific data relevant for the management and the operation of the individual ships. Further, there are mobile communication platforms... Agent: Yi Li

20080147259 - Electric power generation control method during idle charge in hybrid electric vehicle: A method of controlling electric power generation during idle charge in a hybrid electric vehicle. The method includes determining whether an idle charge condition is satisfied; if the idle charge condition is satisfied, calculating a first charge power amount based on whether a load is applied, a gear shift position,... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20080147258 - In chassis determination of lug curve data in a machine with an electric drive propulsion system: A machine includes an electric drive propulsion system including an internal combustion engine, an alternator, a motor controller, and at least one electric motor. The machine further includes an electronic controller in communication with the electric drive propulsion system. The electronic controller is configured to determine, in chassis, and store... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell, Mcneil & Harper

20080147260 - Method of controlling engine stop-start operation for heavy-duty hybrid-electric and hybrid- hydraulic vehicles: A start-stop or idle-stop method for a heavy-duty hybrid vehicle that turns off the fuel supply while maintaining the crankshaft rotation of the internal combustion engine when the vehicle stops or, optionally, when the vehicle travels downhill, travels in a noise sensitive location, travels in an exhaust emissions sensitive location,... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080147261 - Guide robot device and guide system: A guide robot device including a guide display unit for displaying the guide information to an unguided person and a moving unit adapted to move with the guide display unit mounted thereon is disclosed. The guide robot device further includes the guide display unit variable in the direction of the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080147263 - Electronic maintenance work cards: A method for electronically documenting the completion of maintenance tasks in a maintenance industry which requires recordation of maintenance tasks performed, and in which required maintenance tasks are documented on a plurality of work cards, the method includes retrieving a legacy work card that is an electronic document itemizing a... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.a.

20080147262 - Vehicle help system and method: A system and method for providing customized help to a vehicle user when a vehicle problem is detected. The method includes detecting vehicle data that indicates a condition of a vehicle and obtaining profile data comprising an estimated mechanical skill level of a user. The method further includes providing instructions,... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080147264 - Methods and systems for centrally managed maintenance program for aircraft fleets: Methods and systems for managing maintenance of a fleet of aircraft are provided. The method includes collecting data from at least one aircraft in each of the fleets related to the operation of the aircraft, determining a range of acceptable values of performance parameters associated with the collected data and... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080147265 - Vehicle diagnostic or prognostic message transmission systems and methods: System and method for monitoring the condition of a vehicle includes a communications unit arranged to interface with a wireless communications network, at least one sensor for monitoring at least one component or subsystem of the vehicle and which is coupled to the communications unit, and a remote site connected... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20080147266 - Discretization facilities for vehicle event data recorders: Exception event recorders and analysis systems include: vehicle mounted sensors arranged as a vehicle event recorder to capture both discrete and non-discrete data; a discretization facility; a database; and an analysis server all coupled together as a computer network. Motor vehicles with video cameras and onboard diagnostic systems capture data... Agent: Smartdrive Systems, Inc.

20080147268 - Method and apparatus for alternative performance of automobile features: A method and system for performing automobile features are disclosed. Upon communicating with a user device and receiving an indication of an event initiated from the communication, an automobile feature associated with the event is determined and an automobile module is directed to perform the automobile feature.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080147267 - Methods of discretizing data captured at event data recorders: Exception event recorders and analysis systems include: vehicle mounted sensors arranged as a vehicle event recorder to capture both discrete and non-discrete data; a discretization facility; a database; and an analysis server all coupled together as a computer network. Motor vehicles with video cameras and onboard diagnostic systems capture data... Agent: Smartdrive Systems, Inc.

20080147269 - System maintaining temperature of deck: A system for maintaining the temperature of a vehicle audio and/or audio-video deck provided in a vehicle cabin is provided, comprising: an air duct positioned on both sides of the deck for supplying cooled or heated air to the vehicle cabin, a side part of the air duct defining therein... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080147271 - Vehicle component control methods and systems: Control system for controlling at least one part of a vehicle includes a plurality of sensor systems mounted at different locations on the vehicle, each sensor system providing a measurement related to a state thereof system or a measurement related to a state of the mounting location. A processor is... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20080147270 - Vehicle interior environment control system: A vehicle interior environment control system includes a plurality of environment adjustment sections adapted to operate in cooperation with each other so as to control optimization of an environment of a vehicle interior, a grading parameter setting section for setting a grading parameter indicative of a capacity grade of each... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080147272 - Motion control device for vehicle: A motion control device for a vehicle is configured so that a hydraulic unit mounting therein a pump for generating a controlled hydraulic pressure applied to respective wheel cylinders of the vehicle is integrated with a control unit provided with a yaw rate sensor for detecting a yaw rate of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080147274 - Apparatus for alignment adjusting of radar equipped in a vehicle: In a first embodiment, an apparatus includes a vehicle turning system; a vehicle moving system; a signal transmitting system with transmitters that measure, and generate signals corresponding to, the locations of two portions of the vehicle; a signal receiving system that receives the signals; and a control system that estimates... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20080147275 - Electric power steering apparatus: An electric power steering apparatus is provided with a means for correcting a motor assist so as to inhibit a quick steering, when a foreseeable roll amount based on a difference between a first SAT (self-aligning torque) value which does not include a rolling motion of a vehicle and a... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080147273 - Method for increasing the driving stability of a motor vehicle: A process for increasing the stability of a vehicle upon acceleration on a roadway with a non-homogenous coefficient of friction, whereby a drive wheel is acted on by a braking force on a side with a low coefficient of friction by means of a drive slip regulation. A value (pASR)... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080147276 - Method, system, and apparatus for providing enhanced steering pull compensation: A method, system, and apparatus for providing enhanced steering pull compensation are provided. The method compensates for steering pull in a vehicle steering system that includes a handwheel. The method includes monitoring the vehicle to determine whether the vehicle is heading forward along a substantially linear straight-ahead path and, if... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080147277 - Active safety system: According to one embodiment, an active safety control system for a driver of a vehicle is provided when the vehicle is in a first perturbed state. The system generally includes a plurality of sensors, an actuation system and a controller. The plurality of sensors are operable to generate signals which... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c./fgtl

20080147278 - Knee airbags including film: Vehicle with a knee protection airbag having a storage position and a deployed position. The airbag includes at least one cell constructed from reinforced elastic film and an inflator for inflating the airbag from the storage position to the deployed position. The airbag is arranged to substantially fill a space... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20080147280 - Method and apparatus for sensing a rollover: Vehicle with an occupant safety system for use in a crash involving the vehicle includes an occupant protection device, an inertial measurement unit (IMU) arranged to measure acceleration of the vehicle in three orthogonal directions and angular velocity of the vehicle about three orthogonal axes, the accelerations and angular velocities... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20080147279 - Seat belt retractor system: A seat belt retractor system for a vehicle having a vehicle safety system. The seat belt is retracted at a faster rate when a threat is detected using a high-voltage generated by a local power source.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c./fgtl

20080147281 - Travel device: A two-wheel vehicle having a roll axis rotation flexibility in which a servo motor is mounted to each of two wheels operating independently of each other fails to perform stable straight-forward traveling on a laterally inclined road because a neutral position by a spring force of a handle or a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080147282 - Tracking system configured to determine a parameter for use in guiding an implement attached to a work machine: A tracking system employs at least one parameter for use in guiding an implement attached to a work machine, and includes a first global positioning system (GPS) receiver mounted on the work machine; a second GPS receiver mounted on the implement; and a controller configured to execute program instructions to... Agent: Deere & Company

20080147283 - Method for controlling a controllable unit: A method for the control of a controllable aggregate, in particular a transmission of a motor vehicle, in which to form at least one determinant magnitude various or varying numbers of contributions from delivery objects are taken into account, at least two different delivery objects being provided, by way of... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080147284 - Fixed speed operation in a hybrid transmission: A method of operating a hybrid transmission includes controlling the transmission according to a drive mode, which includes a continuously variable speed relationship, and controlling the transmission according to a fixed speed relationship mode, which includes a plurality of fixed speed relationships including mechanical gear ratios and virtual gear ratios.... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20080147285 - Method for estimating clutch engagement parameters in a strategy for clutch management in a vehicle powertrain: A method is disclosed for estimating clutch engagement characteristics of a friction clutch system in a vehicle powertrain. A dynamic model of the system is used under conditions that cause clutch slipping. Algebraic equations defining a functional relationship between clutch torque and an engagement angle have characteristic parameters that are... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20080147287 - Accelerator pedal system: An accelerator pedal system includes a pedal control unit that receives a vehicle speed signal and a signal from a switch, and compares the two signals. If the vehicle speed exceeds a preselected speed, the pedal control unit outputs a control signal to control a reaction force of an accelerator... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20080147286 - Control system for the parking brake of a brake system in a motor vehicle: In a system for controlling a parking brake of a brake system of a motor vehicle, a first target value for the braking force of the parking brake is predefined by a operating element for the parking brake and the braking force for the parking brake is released by a... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p. Patent Department

20080147288 - Method and control unit for protecting a clutch in a drivetrain of a motor vehicle: A method controls an internal combustion engine in a drivetrain of a motor vehicle. The drivetrain has a variable-speed transmission and a friction clutch which is to be actuated by the driver. By use of the friction clutch a force-fitting action between the internal combustion engine and the variable-speed transmission... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080147290 - Method and system for identifying gas turbine engine faults: An isolation method and system is described for distinguishing between turbine case cooling (TCC) and high pressure turbine (HPT) performance faults. A trend is observed in gas path parameter data during cruise and a resulting percent Δ signature across the shift in the gas path parameters is assignable to either... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.c. (p&w)

20080147289 - Methods and apparatus to facilitate gas turbine fuel control: A method for controlling a dynamic response of a fuel control valve in a gas turbine fuel control system is provided. The method includes regulating a fuel supply pressure for a gas turbine using a component model, sensing a pressure of a fuel supply to the gas turbine, and applying... Agent: John S. Beulick (17851)

20080147292 - Arrangement for controlling an internal combustion engine: In an arrangement for controlling an internal combustion engine comprising an electronic engine control unit, a fuel injector, electronic connecting lines extending between the electronic engine control unit and the injector and an intelligent electronic block forming with the injector a component unit, the intelligent electronic block comprises an electronic... Agent: Klaus J. Bach

20080147293 - Arrangement for controlling an internal combustion engine: In an arrangement for controlling an internal combustion engine comprising an electronic engine control unit, a cylinder with a combustion chamber, a fuel injector, an intelligent electronic block with an electronic data storage unit, a computing unit, a signal measuring unit and an electric energy storage device for supplying energy... Agent: Klaus J. Bach & Associates Patents And Trademarks

20080147294 - Control device for internal combustion engine capable of preventing deterioration of emission characteristic when internal combustion engine is started: An engine ECU carries out control of an intermittent operation of an engine mounted on a hybrid vehicle. The engine is provided with an EGR apparatus controlling a flow rate of an EGR gas by means of an EGR valve from downstream of a three-way catalytic converter through an EGR... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080147291 - Method for detecting at least one valve lift position in an internal combustion engine having variable valve control: Procedure for the recording of a valve lift of an internal combustion engine with valves, which are operated variably through application of an hydraulic pressure, whereby the valve lift is determined on the basis of a change of the hydraulic pressure.... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

20080147297 - Air-fuel ratio control system of internal combustion engine: An air-fuel ratio control system of an internal combustion engine having an intake air amount detecting means, a linear air-fuel ratio sensor arranged at an upstream side of an exhaust purification catalyst, an O2 sensor arranged at a downstream side of said exhaust purification catalyst, a target air-fuel ratio controlling... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080147298 - Control system and control method for internal combustion engine: In an ignition control system for an internal combustion engine which is capable of advancing the ignition timing beyond the MBT, the amount of fuel used for the combustion in a cylinder is made appropriate by performing a decreasing correction of the amount of fuel injection of a fuel injection... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080147300 - Controller of internal combustion engine of compression ignition combustion type: A controller of an internal combustion engine capable of spark ignition combustion and compression ignition combustion which restrains the degradation of operation performance and exhaust performance at the time of combustion type switching. The controller includes control means for performing combined combustion which leads to ignition combustion by a pressure... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080147301 - Engine: An engine includes an in-cylinder injector injecting fuel into a cylinder, a port injector injecting fuel into an intake manifold, and a valve-opening-characteristic changing mechanism changing at least lift or opening duration of an intake valve. When the engine is in a predetermined operating region and the valve-opening-characteristic changing mechanism... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080147299 - Fuel injection controller: A single fuel injection is performed in either one of cylinders during fuel cut control of a diesel engine to sense torque generated with the single fuel injection based upon an increase amount of rotation speed of a crankshaft at the time. Presence/absence of abnormality in an injection start timing... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080147296 - Method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine: An internal combustion engine is with an injection valve for metering a fuel directly into a combustion chamber during injection. The injection valve is provided with an injection needle whose stroke can be variably adjusted for a given injection process. During the homogenous operation of the internal combusting engine with... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080147295 - System and method for operating a compression-ignition engine: A system includes a controller configured to estimate a brake specific nitrogen oxide emission of an engine based on a plurality of sensed parameters of the engine. The controller is also configured to control one or more control variables of the engine to reduce specific fuel consumption while ensuring compliance... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20080147302 - Method of torque control for an engine with valves that may be deactivated: A system for operating an internal combustion engine with electromechanical valves, the system comprising of a cylinder with at least an electromechanical intake valve and at least an mechanically actuated exhaust valve that can be controlled to adjust valve opening and closing events relative to a crankshaft location; and a... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20080147303 - Method and apparatus for controlling combustion in generator gas engine: With the method and apparatus, gas engine output torque is controlled so that a relation of |ΔTd|−|ΔTs|>0 is maintained between |ΔTd| which is absolute value of change rate of load torque Td required to drive the generator in relation to engine rotation speed and |Δ Ts| which is absolute value... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080147304 - Key system for a motor vehicle, data transfer system for a motor vehicle and method for transferring data to or from a motor vehicle: A key for a motor vehicle includes an access module for unlocking or opening a door of the motor vehicle or for starting the motor vehicle. The key has a memory module for storing user data and a data transfer module for a wireless access to the memory module. The... Agent: Manfred Beck, P.a.

20080147305 - Car information system, map server and on-board system: According to the present invention, the highly accurate control can be realized in a system for performing the driving control of a vehicle using map data. A car information system 10 for controlling a driving control unit group 50 is located in a vehicle so that the driving control of... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080147306 - Transportation vehicle system and method of controlling transportation vehicle: A transportation vehicle measures its own absolute position, and transmits the measured absolute position to a ground controller. The ground controller keeps track of positions of a plurality of transportation vehicles in real time, and sends running instructions to travel, while avoiding interference between the transportation vehicles. As a result,... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080147307 - Method and apparatus for predicting future travel times over a transportation network: The present invention is a method and an apparatus for predicting future travel times over a transportation network. In one embodiment, a method for predicting future travel times over a transportation network includes receiving a data point indicating a real-time volume of traffic on the link at a given time... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080147308 - Integrating navigation systems: User interface commands and navigational data are communicated between a personal navigation device and a media head unit of a vehicle, the user interface commands and navigational data being associated with a device user interface of the device, and a vehicle navigation user interface at the media head unit displays... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080147309 - Termination secured route planning: A method of forming a safe termination operation volume, and an aircraft provided with a system using such a volume to plan a flight route and/or an emergency route. The volume indicates the lowest allowable flight altitude to achieve a glide path of a vehicle to a termination point of... Agent: Venable LLP

20080147312 - Map-based guide system and method: Provided is a computer system and methods for a map-based guide. A method includes but is not limited to receiving a request for the map-based guide; determining a location associated with the request; preparing a route in accordance with the location associated with the request and in accordance with at... Agent: Searete Llc

20080147310 - Method and database for navigating a person from a starting point to a destination: An interactive system and method for navigating a person from a starting point to a destination, using a wireless location determining device and a wireless navigating device. The person sends a request for navigational directions via the wireless location determining device. Using a database that contains the geographic location and... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080147313 - Presenting a travel route: Techniques are provided for presenting a route using a route presentation that provides both a context map and one or more detail route maps. Narrative instructions for the route also may be presented. The presentation of the context map and the one or more detail route maps may be interactive.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080147311 - Virtual location markers for mobile mapping: Described is a technology by which a virtual location marker (e.g., virtual pushpin or similar placeholder) is determined from the results of a query, in which the virtual location marker corresponds to a first coordinate set (e.g., a latitude, longitude and/or altitude of a business location) to represent a point... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080147314 - Driving directions printed text scaling: An exemplary system includes a driving directions subsystem configured to provide data representative of driving directions to an access device communicatively coupled to the driving directions subsystem. The driving directions subsystem is further configured to provide at least one print tool including a plurality of selectable map views to the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080147315 - System for assisting the ground navigation of an aeroplane in an airport: The invention relates to a system comprising a display device displaying, on a cockpit pilot display unit (7), a set of indications (10) containing an aeroplane symbol (8) which illustrates the position of the aeroplane and a map part (9) which represents the airport and moves in relation to the... Agent: Stevens Davis LLP

20080147316 - Vehicle peripheral monitoring apparatus: A vehicle peripheral monitoring apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a forward monitoring unit for monitoring an obstacle within a predetermined forward area extending in a direction forward of an own vehicle; one or more forward-lateral monitoring units for monitoring an obstacle within a predetermined forward-lateral area extending in a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080147317 - Navigaton device and route guiding method therefor: A navigation device and a route guiding method. The route guiding method includes: displaying a current map including a position indicator; displaying a related map that corresponds to the current map; and displaying the current map after a set period of time has elapsed. The set time period can be... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080147318 - System and method for marking a region of a road map displayed by a vehicle navigation system: In the case of a system for marking a region within an image of a road map detail displayed on a vehicle video screen, a location of the region can first be selected by a control element. The region, which represents one of several administrative levels, can be constantly fixed... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080147320 - Aircraft airspace display: A navigation device displays representations of airspaces so that a viewer such as the pilot of the aircraft can more easily distinguish between the airspaces represented based on a status of the aircraft. The navigation device includes a display assembly for displaying information to a user such as the pilot... Agent: Garmin International, Inc. Attn: Legal - Ip

20080147321 - Integrating navigation systems: User interlace commands and navigational data are communicated between a personal navigation device and a media head unit of a vehicle, the user interface commands and navigational data being associated with a device user interface of the device, and a vehicle navigation user interface at the media head unit displays... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080147319 - Landmark selection tools for map systems and methods: An exemplary system includes a system includes a map subsystem configured to provide data representative of a map to an access device communicatively coupled to the map subsystem, the map being representative of a geographic area. The map subsystem is further configured to provide a landmark selection tool to the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080147322 - System and method for reducing the amount of repetitive data sent by a server to a client for vehicle navigation: A system and method for reducing the amount of repetitive data sent by a server to a client for vehicle navigation. The system includes a computer-based vehicle unit located in a vehicle, a gateway configured to wirelessly send and receive trip information to and from the vehicle unit, and a... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, Pllc

20080147323 - Vehicle navigation system and method: A vehicle navigation system and method. The system includes a unit located in a vehicle and coupled to a first network, a traffic information center coupled to a second network, and a server coupled to the first and second networks. A trip plan is generated according to navigation information, vehicle... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, Pllc

20080147324 - Satellite based positioning method and system for coarse location positioning: A satellite based positioning method and system including storing satellite sub-almanac data on a mobile station. Embodiments include using the sub-almanac data to take measurements and calculate a coarse position of the mobile station. Embodiments further include a location server calculating a correction to the coarse position, and the location... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20080140264 - Method for providing stability control for a vehicle: A method provides stability control for a vehicle and includes: calculating a modified desired yaw rate for the vehicle using steer angle, steer angle rate, steer transition state, steer transition time, vehicle speed, lateral acceleration, and estimated surface friction; calculating a modified desired speed difference between the left and right... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080140265 - Interface system between human and car: An interface system between a user and a vehicle includes a vehicle information terminal in communication with the vehicle; a VXML server that converts information into voice signals, and receives and transmits the voice signals between the vehicle information terminal and a telephone; an SMS server that converts information into... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20080140267 - Rotary wing aircraft proximity warning system with a geographically based avoidance system: A safety enhancement warning system includes an avoidance system which communicates with a multiple of geographical positional systems. A geographic algorithm of the avoidance system utilizes a recursive algorithmic to determine if the aircraft will enter a sensitive area. If the aircraft distance to a sensitive area decreases below a... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.c.

20080140266 - Systems and methods for preflight planning and inflight execution using portable electronic data storage and display devices: This invention provide systems and methods for cockpit flight crew preflight planning and subsequent, systematic recall and execution of procedures, ground/inflight navigation, and communications using portable electronic data storage and display devices. A capability is provided within a portable electronic data storage and display device to replace and replicate the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080140268 - Total engine smart indicator for an aircraft, and application thereof: A smart indicator for an engine, and applications thereof. In an embodiment, the indicator includes a processing module and a display. The processing module receives a plurality of input parameter signals from various engine sensors. The input parameter signals are transformed by the processing module into values that can be... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080140269 - Aircraft ground maneuvering monitoring system: A monitoring system for alerting pilots of aircraft or operators of vehicles when the aircraft or vehicle is approaching a geographical feature of interest, such as a runway, includes a database including at least one geo-referenced chart; a processor; a positioning system configured to identify at least one of the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080140270 - Integrated approach navigation system, method, and computer program product: Systems, computer program products, and methods for displaying navigation performance based flight path deviation information during the final approach segment to a runway and during landing of non-precision flight modes are provided. Improved graphical depictions of navigation performance based flight path deviation information provide pilots and flight crew members with... Agent: Alston & Bird, LLP

20080140271 - Geospatial image change detecting system and associated methods: An image change detecting system may include an image processor cooperating with a geospatial scene model database for generating a reference geospatial image corresponding to the collected geospatial image, and a change detector cooperating with the image processor for detecting a change between the collected geospatial image and the reference... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080140273 - Method and a system for monitoring the following of a reference trajectory by an aircraft: The present invention relates to a method and a system for monitoring the following of a reference trajectory by an aircraft. The values that flight parameters of the aircraft will have on completion of a time interval ΔT are extrapolated, the time interval ΔT corresponding to a duration less than... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080140272 - Method and device for aiding the piloting of an airplane during an approach phase: The device (1) comprises means (3) for determining the current values of flight parameters of the airplane, means (4) for determining, at least with the aid of said current values, an approach distance which corresponds to a distance in a horizontal plane between the current position of the airplane and... Agent: Stevens Davis LLP

20080140274 - Method for controlling regenerative braking of electric vehicle: A method for controlling regenerative braking of an electric vehicle includes steps of detecting a pedal stroke generated as a brake pedal is pushed down in a regenerative braking mode, detecting a hydraulic pressure in a master cylinder of a brake system, comparing a detected value of the pedal stroke... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20080140275 - Power-down control method of fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle: A power-down control method of a fuel cell hybrid vehicle includes determining an operation mode when a key-off command is input. If the mode is a fuel cell mode, the method includes: converting a low voltage DC-DC converter connected to an auxiliary battery to a boost mode; maintaining a driving... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20080140276 - Method for indirect tire pressure monitoring: Disclosed is a method of indirect tire pressure monitoring. The method includes: learning test variables (DIAG, SIDE, AXLE), which describe the rotational movements of the wheels; determining rolling circumference differences (ΔDIAG, ΔSIDE, ΔAXLE) from actually determined test variables and the learnt test variables; learning at least one torsion natural frequency... Agent: Continental Teves, Inc.

20080140277 - System and method for adaptable mobile user interface: A system, method, and computer program product for automatically adjusting the output of presentation content based upon vehicle conditions. The method determines whether one of a plurality of vehicle conditions exists, such as conditions related to vehicle speed, rate of change in vehicle speed, rate of change in vehicle direction,... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, Pllc

20080140278 - Vehicle software upgrade techniques: System and method for maintaining functionality of software includes initially providing the vehicle with software resident on computer-readable medium to enable it to operate and interact with components thereof and updating the vehicle software by receiving a wireless transmission from one or more remote locations, e.g., a location maintained by... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20080140280 - Method for monitoring the functional software of control devices in a control device system: The invention relates to a monitoring method for a control device system with several electronic control devices for driving an internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle, whereby operating variables of the individual control devices are compared with each other, in order to detect a malfunction of the control devices.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080140279 - Monitoring the functional reliability of an internal combustion engine: An internal combustion engine is controlled by a plurality of partially reliability-relevant functional units. Every reliability-relevant functional unit comprises at least one functional module and at least one monitoring module. The monitoring module is separate from the functional module associated therewith and monitors the functioning of the functional module. The... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080140281 - Automatic system and method for vehicle diagnostic data retrieval using multiple data sources: An exemplary scan tool according to this disclosure receives diagnostic information, such as DTCs, from an on-board diagnostic system. The scan tool automatically generates a search query using the received diagnostic information, and initiates data search on multiple pre-identified data sources.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080140283 - Control apparatus for vehicle: An ECU executes a program that includes the steps of: sensing an accelerator position (S100); calculating a target engine torque of a manipulating system “a” from the accelerator position (S200); holding the target engine torque of the manipulating system “a” (S300); calculating a target driving force of the manipulating system... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080140282 - Vehicle accessory touch switch: A touch switch for controlling accessory equipment of a vehicle avoids a malfunction which is caused due to an environmental change such as a change in a state of air, arrival of unnecessary electromagnetic waves, or the like. Conductor plates 20-1 to 20-3 are disposed in an arrangement isolated from... Agent: Ganz Law, P.c.

20080140285 - Control device for a variable damper: In a control device for controlling a variable damper of a vehicle suspension system, when a stroke speed of the damper is within a range including a zero stroke speed, the target damping force is determined as a force opposing a current movement of the damper without regards to the... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080140284 - Vehicle roll control system: A vehicle roll control system, comprising a front torsion bar, a front hydraulic actuator (34) attached to the front torsion bar; a rear torsion bar, a rear hydraulic actuator (34) attached to the rear torsion bar; and control means (70-99) connected to the front and rear hydraulic actuators and controlling... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080140286 - Parking trace recognition apparatus and automatic parking system: A parking trace recognition apparatus. A parking space border line extracting unit receives a signal corresponding to an image of a rear of the vehicle from a camera mounted on the vehicle, and determines a parking space border line. A mapping unit obtains a first equation of the parking space... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20080140288 - Hardware independent mapping of multiple sensor configurations for classification of persons: Sensors are mounted within a seat structure for measuring seat occupant weight. The sensors can be mounted in any one of various sensor configurations. So that common hardware can be used for each different sensor configuration, a virtual matrix is created and output from the sensors is mapped into the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080140287 - System and method for informing vehicle accident using telematics device: Provided are a system and method for informing a vehicle accident using a telematics device. In an emergency, such as vehicle collision, etc., the system and method propagate information on the accident to vehicles around the accident scene, thereby informing the vehicles of traffic congestion. Since the vehicles continuously inform... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080140289 - System arrangement of a lifting device, in particular for a container crane for the lifting of loads and moving for the operation of the system arrangement: The lifting gear comprises two motors (1, 1′) that are connected to a transmission (6) via respective drive shafts (2, 2′), couplings (3, 3′), with fitted brake disks (4, 4′) or brake drums, brakes (14, 14′) and transmission input shafts (5, 5′). The transmission (6) drives cable drums (9, 9′)... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.c.

20080140290 - Driving force control device of vehicle: A powertrain manager executes a program including the steps of: reading an instruction gear ratio kgear(1) for transmission control; calculating an actual gear ratio kgear(2); determining that failure of an automatic transmission has occurred on a low gear side if relation of kgear(1)<{kgear(2)/α} or kgear(1)<{kgear(2)−β} is satisfied; and substituting larger... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080140292 - Acceleration detection device and acceleration detection method: An acceleration detection device for detecting acceleration of a vehicle is provided with a calculation unit and a correcting unit. The calculation unit calculates an averaged acceleration sensor output value every time the vehicle travels a prescribed distance based on detected acceleration sensor output values. The correcting unit corrects a... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP

20080140291 - Acceleration detection device, acceleration detection method, and neutral control device employing same: An acceleration detection device for detecting detected acceleration of a vehicle is provided with a stopped acceleration detector, an acceleration change detector, an acceleration estimating unit and a correcting unit. The stopped acceleration detector detects a detected stationary acceleration value when the vehicle is stopped on a sloping road based... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP

20080140293 - Motor speed control for thermal protection: The speed of an ABS pump motor is increased during an ABS braking cycle upon determining that an extended ABS braking cycle duration is required.... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, Llc

20080140294 - Accelerator pedal system: A reaction force of an accelerator pedal is controlled by an accelerator pedal system comprising: a vehicle speed sensor; an accelerator pedal; a switch that generates a signal corresponding to a speed limit and a selected mode; an engine management system that receives a signal from the vehicle speed sensor... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080140295 - Glow plug learn and control system: A system and method for controlling a temperature of a combustion chamber heater of an engine includes a calculation module that determines a temperature of the combustion chamber heater based on an effective resistance of the combustion chamber heater, and a control module that controls the temperature of the combustion... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080140296 - Diesel engine control method: The invention relates to a method of controlling a diesel engine that is equipped with a particle filter which is disposed on an exhaust gas line of said engine. The inventive method comprises the following steps, namely: an operation consisting in measuring at least one of the engine operating parameters... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080140298 - Engine torque control apparatus and method for adjusting engine torque control apparatus: An engine torque control apparatus is applied to an engine control system comprising an engine for rotating an output shaft by using torque generated through combustion in cylinders. In the apparatus, exhaust gas passing through an exhaust passage of the engine is partially recirculated into an intake passage of the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080140297 - Internal combustion engine: According to the invention, noise of an internal combustion engine is reduced by dynamically correcting the moment of injection when the engine is in the transient mode.... Agent: Dykema Gossett Pllc

20080140299 - Fuel injection control apparatus of internal combustion engine: A fuel injection control apparatus of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. This apparatus is provided with a crank angle detector that includes a signal rotor having a number of tooth portions and a toothless portion. The crank angle detector outputs a first signal corresponding to each tooth portion and... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080140300 - Engine warm-up of a homogeneous charge compression ignition engine: Cold start and warm-up operations of an HCCI engine are improved through coordinated control of engine valves, fuel injection and spark timing.... Agent: Cichosz & Cichosz, Pllc

20080140302 - Control system for a vehicle system with a continously variable transmission: The control system 10 of the first preferred embodiment includes a user interface 12 with a first control 14 that designates a maximum bound of a sub-range of engine speeds and a second control 16 that designates a minimum bound of a sub-range of engine speeds. The control system 10... Agent: Cnh America Llc Intellectual Property Law Department

20080140301 - System and method for improving accuracy of a gas sensor: A method of operating an electrochemical gas sensor is disclosed, wherein the method includes applying a voltage pulse across a measuring electrode pair, and detecting a current through the measuring electrode pair during the voltage pulse before the current decays to a steady state level.... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20080140303 - Incident resolution judgment system: The present invention reduces the incident resolution judgment processing load on a traffic information center included in an incident detection system. When an incident occurs, the traffic information center generates an incident resolution judgment condition, which is to be used by each vehicle to judge whether the incident is resolved,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080140305 - System and method for information supplying service: Disclosed is a system and a method for collecting various road traffic information, road image information, and position information of a position information generation device carried by an object, the position of which is to be tracked, by interworking with an information provision means and using the collected information to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080140304 - Systems and methods for monitoring and/or controlling traffic: Systems and methods are disclosed for reducing the amount of traffic on the road. These include a communication device in each of a plurality of automobiles sending signals to a central server of each automobile's position and status. The central server then places an icon for each automobile on an... Agent: Moazzam & Associates, Llc Matters For Cingular Wireless Ii, Llc

20080140307 - Method and apparatus for keyboard arrangement for efficient data entry for navigation system: A method and apparatus for entering an address for a navigation system allows a user to easily and quickly select a key indicating the next character of the address. At the start of operation, the navigation system shows a full alpha-numeric keyboard. Once the next candidate characters are narrowed down... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20080140308 - Traffic information providing system and car navigation system: A traffic information providing system externally acquires traffic information including information relating to the travel time of a link, calculates a travel time for a non-provision link to which no travel time is provided through estimate/complement operation. The estimate/complement operation is carried out with use of travel times, emergencies, travel... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080140306 - Voice recognition method and system for displaying charts and maps: An aircraft information retrieval system comprises a digital audio panel operable to receive an analog voice signal representing a request for the display of graphical information and convert the analog voice signal to a digital voice signal. The system further comprises a remote audio processor coupled to the digital audio... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080140309 - Dynamic routing: An apparatus and method for providing navigation information via electronic equipment includes dynamically displaying a first route from a current location to a desired location; and dynamically displaying a second route to at least one point of interest. The first route is automatically displayed at a first zoom level, and... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080140310 - Systems and methods for preparing directional instructions: Various systems and methods for preparing directional instructions are disclosed herein. For example, a method for preparing directional instructions is discussed that includes receiving two route end points and identifying a route between the two end points. The route between the two end points may include, for example, at least... Agent: Hamilton And Desanctis

20080140311 - Reverse geocoding system using combined street segment and point datasets: A reverse geocoding system and method processes a point level dataset and a street segment dataset to determine an address for a particular latitude and longitude of an input point entered into the system. A determination is made if the point level dataset contains a point level data address match... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080140312 - Apparatus and program for navigation: A navigation apparatus displays a trend of house number increase or house number decrease when a vehicle is traveling on a street from one intersection to another intersection. By displaying the trend of the house number increase or the house number decrease as a clue of currently traveling position of... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20080140313 - Map-based guide system and method: Provided is a computer system and methods for a map-based guide. A method includes but is not limited to receiving a request for the map-based guide; determining a location associated with the request; preparing a route in accordance with the location associated with the request and in accordance with at... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20080140314 - Device orientation navigation system for mobile electronic device: A mobile electronic device and methods therefor convey direction to a location through output of audible or tactile signals in response to the spatial orientation of the mobile electronic device. A mobile electronic device in one embodiment comprises an input/output system, a navigation system and a processor operatively coupled with... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20080140315 - System and method for estimating inertial acceleration bias errors: A method for estimating inertial acceleration bias errors including obtaining uncorrected acceleration measurements on board a vehicle; obtaining independent position and independent velocity data of the vehicle; transforming the uncorrected acceleration measurements into a reference frame of the independent position and independent velocity data; blending the transformed acceleration measurements with... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20080140316 - Systems and methods for shock compensation utilizing an adaptive control technique algorithm: A method for providing dynamic disturbance compensation to an inertial system is described. The method includes determining estimated correction factors based on received acceleration components, and dynamically determining filter coefficients for a filter configured to receive velocity and position signals and output a prediction error. The method further includes combining... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080133066 - Control device for vehicle: A control device for a vehicle is equipped with a vehicle model motion determining device for determining a motion of a vehicle (a vehicle model motion) on a vehicle model expressing the dynamic characteristics of a vehicle on the basis of drive manipulated variables, such as an angle of steering... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080133068 - Program rewriting system and program rewriting method: Program data stored in the recording medium of a general control apparatus coupled to a network is stored in the recording medium of a control apparatus as a rewritten subject of program data in the following manner. First, program data stored in a recording medium contained within the general control... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080133067 - Vehicle monitoring system: A vehicle monitoring system including a computer with a main database, and a vehicle monitoring module, including a first processor and a local database. The computer being configured to execute a software application or the equivalent configured to accept a criteria from at least one input; analyze the criteria to... Agent: Dianoosh Salehi Snell & Wilmer L.l.p.

20080133069 - Method for controlling control parameters in an air vehicle and system of controlling an air vehicle: According to the method of the invention, control parameters V indicating speed, R indicating turn characteristics and γ indicating a path angle are determined such that these parameters are maintained between limits, and such that one of them deviates as little as possible from a corresponding control input parameter Ri.... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt , Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.l.p.

20080133070 - Survivability system: A system determines a course of action for a vehicle. The system includes an altitude module, a threat detection module, a route module, and a threat avoidance module. The altitude module contains a list of types of threats. The list includes a predetermined threshold time for maximum safe visibility by... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino LLP

20080133071 - Method and device for active control of the roll of an aircraft: The control device (1) comprises means (2) for determining a roll objective, and means (6) for calculating, on the basis of this roll objective, a deflection order which is applied exclusively to ailerons (11) of the aircraft.... Agent: Stevens Davis LLP

20080133072 - Brake status indicator control for an electric brake system of a vehicle: A system and procedures for controlling a brake status indicator for an aircraft having an electric brake system are disclosed. Electric activation and deactivation of the brake status indicator mimics that of legacy hydraulic brake systems. The control methodology obtains brake force data that indicates actual clamping force of the... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20080133073 - Parking brake control for an aircraft having an electric brake system: A system and procedures for setting a parking brake for an aircraft having an electric brake system are disclosed. Electric activation of a parking brake as described herein mimics the sequence of events that is performed to engage the parking brake of legacy hydraulic brake systems. The electric activation process... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20080133074 - Autonomous rollout control of air vehicle: A real time reconfigurable, fully integrated, fault tolerant guidance and control system to act in a coordinated fashion to bring a re-entry air vehicle or a UAV to a stop, while keeping it within runway bounds after a high-speed landing.... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20080133075 - Automatic trim system for a jet propulsion watercraft: An automatic trim system for a jet propulsion watercraft is provided. Control electronics are in communication with a steering angle sensor to monitor the steering angle of the watercraft, and evaluate a target setting for the trim taking the steering angle into consideration. Control signals are sent to an appropriate... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20080133076 - Efficiency optimized hybrid operation strategy: A propulsion system for a fuel cell hybrid vehicle that includes a fuel cell system and an EESS, where the propulsion system employs an algorithm for increasing system efficiency. A power limit value is defined as the maximum system efficiency times the charge/discharge efficiency of the EESS. If the vehicle... Agent: Miller Ip Group, Plc General Motors Corporation

20080133077 - Industrial vehicle and power control method for the same: The present invention provides an industrial vehicle having a hybrid system capable of readily controlling a distribution of power generated by an engine and power generated by an electric motor, and a method of controlling; the power of the same. A hybrid industrial vehicle includes an engine for supplying power... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080133078 - Engine overrate detection method and apparatus: A method is provided for determining variance of actual engine torque from reported engine torque, including configuring a controller with an algorithm to calculate the ratios of current and maximum engine torque to reported torque upon the initiation of high-throttle 1-2 shift, high-throttle 2-3 shift, high-throttle torque converter lockup, and... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080133079 - Method and device for determining the rotary state of a vehicle wheel fitted with an active motion sensor suitable for delivering an oscillatory output signal during a rotation of said wheel: A method of determining the rotary, rotationally immobile or mobile, state of a vehicle wheel, according to which the signal delivered by an active motion sensor fitted to the wheel is analyzed instantly according to a procedure consists, firstly, at time t1, in connecting the motion sensor to an analog... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080133080 - Systems and methods for remote monitoring of vehicle inspections: Systems and methods for remote monitoring of vehicle inspections are provided. Using a wireless, network-enabled device, an inspection monitor may access a centralized vehicle inspection database, such as a motor vehicle administration and/or transportation department computer system tied into all the vehicle inspection stations in a jurisdiction. The inspection monitor... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080133081 - Integrated tire pressure diagnostic system and method: A computer-based vehicle service system, such as a wheel alignment system, is configured to acquire and utilize measurements of the air pressure in the tires of a vehicle undergoing a service procedure.... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20080133084 - Connection of personal terminals to the communication system of a motor vehicle: A communication system of a motor vehicle is provided. The communication system includes a vehicle operating unit, a vehicle output unit, and an interface computer. The interface computer is connected to the vehicle operating unit and the vehicle output unit. The interface computer is implemented for the purpose of connecting... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080133085 - Display system, in-vehicle display system, operation control system, and operator specification method: A seat sensor is arranged for each of a plurality of seats. A pulse-signal supplying unit supplies a pulse signal with a different timing to the seat sensor. An operator identifying unit detects, when a first operator sit on any one of the seats operates an operating unit, the pulse... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080133086 - Driving operation device: A driving operation device includes an input portion, an output portion and a form modifying portion that transmits an amount of operation of the input portion to the output portion. The form modifying portion can modify an orientation of the input portion depending on a position of the output portion.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080133083 - In-vehicle electronic system and in-vehicle electronic apparatus: The present invention provides an in-vehicle electronic system including: an in-vehicle electronic apparatus mounted in a vehicles and a portable electronic apparatus detachably provided to the in-vehicle electronic apparatus, and the in-vehicle electronic apparatus includes: a detecting portion detecting a connection of the portable electronic apparatus; and a first controller... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080133082 - User interface system for a vehicle: A user interface system and method for a vehicle enables access to an electronic device. The electronic device is configured to transmit a first data set wherein the first data set indicates at least one of appearance and a function requirement. A user interface module is included having a second... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c./fgtl

20080133087 - Systems and methods for controlling a vehicle steering system: Systems and methods for controlling a vehicle steering system are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, the method includes receiving a desired front road wheel angle signal at a controller. The desired front road wheel angle signal is indicative of a desired front road wheel angle of vehicle wheels. The method... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080133088 - Vehicle data recorder with video display: A vehicle data recorder according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a processor, a power supply, a program memory for storing directions to be executed by the processor, a video camera for recording video data, a random-access memory for storing video data received from the video camera in... Agent: Mayer Brown LLP

20080133091 - Apparatus and method for adjusting position of side mirror camera for vehicle: An apparatus for adjusting a position of a side mirror camera of a vehicle includes a light source at the rear of the vehicle, emitting light toward the front of the vehicle. An image processing unit matches an image obtained by the camera with a reference image. A control unit... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20080133089 - Height-adjusting wheelchair: Height-adjusting wheelchairs allow an occupant of the wheelchair to adjust the height of the wheelchair seat above the ground. A height-adjusting manually propelled wheelchair may include a base frame supported by two rear wheels, and a vertically movable seat assembly is positioned above the base frame. A height adjustment system... Agent: David A. Divine Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20080133090 - Reversibly opening and closing a grille using active materials: An active grille comprises a plurality of blades and an active material in operative communication with the blades. The active material is in operative communication with the blades and is operative to change at least one attribute in response to an activation signal, wherein fluid flow through the grille changes... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080133092 - Seat apparatus for vehicle: A seat apparatus for a vehicle includes a side support portion moved in first and second directions, a driving device moving the side support portion in the first direction and in the second direction, a vehicle location obtaining means for obtaining vehicle location information including a present location of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080133095 - Agricultural harvesting machine with transfer device: An agricultural harvesting machine, in particular a self-propelled forage harvester for picking up and processing crop material has a transfer device—which is located downstream from feeder and chopping devices and is swivelable around a horizontal and vertical axis—for transferring the crop material, and at least one dampening device—which is located... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080133093 - Preparation for machine repositioning in an excavating operation: A method of controlling a machine during an excavating operation is provided. Stabilizers are deployed to ground contact to stabilize the machine at a first set-up position. Excavating is performed with an excavating assemblage during a first excavating phase while the machine is stabilized at the first set-up position. An... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080133094 - Repositioning assist for an excavating operation: A method is provided for enhancing the repositioning of an excavating machine, including an excavating assemblage, from one set-up position to a next, subsequent set-up position. A joystick is controlled in implement control mode to operate at least one of a boom, a stick, and a bucket of the excavating... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080133096 - Electronically servo-assisted bicycle gearshift and related method: An electronically servo-assisted bicycle gearshift and method for electronically shifting the gears of a bicycle involves the steps of: receiving a signal requesting a displacement of a chain of a bicycle gearshift from a first sprocket to a second adjacent sprocket of a gearshift group comprising at least two sprockets;... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080133097 - Method for controlling an automotive hydraulic pump: A method for controlling an automotive hydraulic pump, wherein the hydraulic pump is activated to increase the pressure in a hydraulic accumulator associated therewith once the pressure falls below a predetermined lower pressure threshold, and the hydraulic pump is switched off once the pressure exceeds a predetermined upper pressure threshold... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080133098 - Braking control system for vehicle: A braking control system and method for a vehicle improves vehicle stability and steerability. When a braking torque is being applied and a road disturbance is detected, the braking torque may be reduced as the vehicle traverses the road disturbance. Subsequently, when the road disturbance has been traversed, the braking... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c./fgtl

20080133099 - Method and device for ensuring the standstill of a motor vehicle: A method ensures the standstill of a motor vehicle. Before reaching the standstill, an electronic control unit checks whether a predefined inclination threshold is exceeded, whether the velocity has fallen below a predefined travel velocity threshold, and whether there is a negative vehicle acceleration. If all three conditions exist simultaneously,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080133100 - Rotation detecting device and anti-skid braking system using the same: A rotation detecting device that includes an electric power generator having a stator and a rotor, said rotor having a plurality of alternating opposite magnetic poles in a circumferential direction of the rotor, at least a first magnetic sensor mounted on either the stator or a support member for supporting... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080133101 - Method and device for suppressing a lateral rollover tendency of a vehicle: A method for suppressing a lateral rollover tendency of an at least two-axle and at least two-track vehicle, wherein when a first threshold value of a dynamic and/or static quantity correlating with a vehicle lateral acceleration is exceeded, maximum brake pressures are introduced into the wheel brakes of the vehicle... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080133102 - Running carriage, method of controlling the same, and running carriage system: A running distance is obtained from the number of rotation of running wheels of a running carriage by encoders, and an absolute position of the carriage is obtained by linear sensors. A difference between a change in an encoder value per a predetermined time and a change in a linear... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080133103 - Method for deactivating an automatic starting function of a distance-related speed control system: A method is provided for deactivating an automatic starting function of a distance-related speed control system in a motor vehicle. The speed control system performs a distance-related control in relation to a detected target object, and the motor vehicle is also held at a standstill owing to the stationary target... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080133104 - Turbine engine noise reduction: A method for determining how well configurations for a gas turbine propulsion system attain selected acoustic wave energy emissions criteria based on acquiring a plurality of acoustic frequency spectra representations of a noise representation therefor over an operating duration. Relative peaks in the acoustic frequency spectra representations are then located... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.a.

20080133105 - Engine state-based control of software functions: Systems and methods provide engine state-based control of software functions. In one implementation, a system is provided that includes an engine and an engine control module. The engine control module determines a state of the engine and stores the determined state as an engine state variable. The engine state variable... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080133106 - Variable valve apparatus of internal combustion engine: A variable valve apparatus uses a camshaft provided rotatably in an internal combustion engine, and has a cam, a rocking cam driven by a cam, a intake valve or an exhaust valve driven by the rocking cam, a control shaft rotatably provided side by side with the camshaft in the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080133109 - Addition of fuel cell system into motor vehicle: Apparatus and methods to retrofit a pre-existing vehicle with a fuel cell system. The fuel cell system incorporates a fuel cell for powering an electric motor that has its rotor or armature constructed as part of a driveshaft such that the driveshaft can be turned via the electric motor or... Agent: Brown & Michaels, Pc 400 M & T Bank Building

20080133108 - Apparatus for controlling timings of intervals in which combustion chamber pressure data are acquired from output signals of cylinder pressure sensors of multi-cylinder internal combustion engine: A control apparatus for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine includes pressure sensors used for acquiring combustion chamber pressure data for each engine cylinder, during each of a series of selection intervals respectively corresponding to that cylinder, with each selection interval corresponding to a specific angular displacement of the crankshaft and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080133107 - Method for switching between operating modes of an internal combustion engine having a plurality of control units: A method for switching between operating modes of an internal combustion engine having a plurality of control units, in particular a switchover between full-engine operation and half-engine operation, the control units being able to exchange data via a data link. The method includes a step in which it is checked... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080133111 - Cylinder torque balancing for internal combustion engines: An engine torque control module comprises a derivative module and a cylinder torque module. The derivative module determines a derivative term for a first cylinder of an internal combustion engine based on rotation of a crankshaft and determines an average derivative term for the first cylinder based upon the derivative... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080133110 - Turbocharged internal combustion engine system: The present invention relates to a turbocharged internal combustion engine (ICE) system having fast response to increased power demand and reduced response time lag. The system includes a vortex tube for delivering cold air into the turbocharger compressor where it may be used to cool the impeller, and/or accelerate the... Agent: Jan Vetrovec

20080133113 - Plant control system: In a system for controlling an engine having an input u, there are provided with applying means (vibration signal) for applying a component p that changes at a predetermined cycle to the plant, a Washout Filter for calculating a parameter h based on an output y of the plant, a... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080133112 - Spark advance for engine idle speed control: An engine idle speed control system for regulating an idle speed of an internal combustion engine includes a first module that determines an indicated torque of the engine based on a current spark timing and a second module that determines a desired indicated torque based on the indicated torque. A... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080133114 - System and method for controlling an operating temperature of a catalyst of a vehicle exhuast system: If a demanded power exceeds a predetermined threshold, where the threshold is based on a catalyst temperature, power from a power storage unit is supplied to a wheel.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c./fgtl

20080133115 - Fuel control device and fuel control method: Right after an engine has started and until a pilot burner is created in the heat spot of the catalyst, the ignition retard control is mainly executed, and at the time when it is determined that a pilot burner has been created in the catalyst's heat spot, the lean air-fuel... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080133116 - System, method, and computer software code for controlling engine warm-up of a diesel powered system: A system for warming up an engine at an accelerated rate, the system including a control system configured to regulate at least one of a rotational speed and a horsepower load of the engine, a processor configured to evaluate a reading from the control system, and wherein the processor is... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.a.

20080133117 - Automatic configuration for a secondary engine electronic governor: A control system for a machine having an engine is disclosed. The engine has a first electronic governor. The first electronic governor is operable to control the engine. The engine also has a memory including predetermined configuration data. The engine also has a second electronic governor. The second electronic governor... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080133118 - Device and method for reducing the contamination of a sensor: The invention relates to devices and methods for reducing the contamination of a sensor with which a sensor or sensor element—preferably a hot film air-mass meter—is deactivated when a software function integrated in the electronic control unit detects a possible contamination or a media carry-in. The sensor is deactivated using... Agent: Michael J Strike Striker Striker & Stenby

20080133119 - System and method for filling available airspace with airplanes: A system and method for determining a minimum spacing requirement for each of a plurality of aircraft landings, determining an actual spacing for each of the plurality of aircraft landings, calculating an efficiency score based on the actual spacing and the minimum spacing requirements for the plurality of aircraft landings... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080133121 - Driving evaluation apparatus, driving evaluation program, and driving evaluation method: There are provided a driving evaluation method for evaluating a fuel consumption rate of driving a vehicle in certain driving interval on the basis of driving data acquired at time of driving in the driving interval, including: calculating an energy consumption efficiency in the driving interval; calculating a driving environment... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080133120 - Method for determining and outputting travel instructions for most fuel-efficient route: A method provides a sequence of travel instructions that reports fuel-efficient routes calculated with regard to vehicle specifications, geography of terrain, and complexity of travel route. An operator selects the desired starting and ending location via a client interface of a software application. When the user selects “most fuel efficient... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20080133122 - Multiple visual display device and vehicle-mounted navigation system: In a vehicle-mounted navigation system, an operating unit that operates the driver's seat side image and an operating unit that operates the passenger's seat side image had to be provided separately, which increased the number of operation buttons and the size of the navigation system device. In a vehicle-mounted navigation... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080133123 - Navigation apparatus: A navigation apparatus allows an input of either a formal street name text string or only a body street name text string as an input of a street name from a touch panel when a destination address search is performed by using a house number, a street name and a... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20080133124 - Location codes for destination routing: The invention provides for a method to identify particular geographic locations by means other than the postal address for use in navigation system and navigation, routing and mapping programs. The method may be the assignment of a series of numbers, symbols or characters, or a combination thereof, to a particular... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20080133125 - Weather information notification apparatus and program for same: A navigation apparatus acquires weather information along a navigation route to a destination from an information center and calculates an importance that is assigned to the weather information based on a predetermined criterion as well as a determination mode and a travel purpose inputted from a user. The importance of... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20080133126 - Wireless location routing applications and archectiture therefor: A system for wirelessly locating mobile station/units (MS) and using resulting location determinations for providing a product or service is disclosed. The system is useful for routing an MS user to a plurality of desired locations, alerting an MS user to a nearby desired product or service based on satisfaction... Agent: Dennis Dupray

20080133127 - Apparatus and methods for tracking movement of persons: A system and method for tracking movements of an object of interest using an contact or contactless tag, having a writable memory. A plurality of scanners are dispersed throughout an environment in which movement of the object is to be tracked, wherein when a scanner detects the tag an entry... Agent: Hand Held Products, Inc.

20080133129 - Customized location tracking service: Provided is a method in which a tracker configures a notification condition on the basis of an authorization policy predetermined by a trackee so that a location information server provides a customized location tracking service according to the notification condition. The method includes: (a) registering an authorization policy of a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080133128 - Excavation control system providing machine placement recommendation: A control system for a machine operating at a excavation site is disclosed. The control system may have a positioning device configured to determine a position of the machine, and a controller in communication with the positioning device. The controller may be configured to receive information regarding a predetermined task... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080133130 - Navigation system: Disclosed are a navigation system and/or a point information display method and a program. The navigation system consists mainly of: a stream receiver that receives broadcast streams; a data decoder that samples a data signal from the received streams and decodes the data signal into character string information; a matching... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080133131 - Route-planning interactive navigation system and method: Provided is a system and method for route planning and evaluation. The system includes a host object location device operable to provide the location of a host object over the passage of time. A sensor is also provided, operable to sense objects and data from an environment proximate to the... Agent: Kutak Rock, LLP

20080133132 - Method for displaying map information: A method for displaying map information for a navigation system in which the map information includes areas representing a top view of a map detail, and lines representing a grid of traffic routes. In order to improve the display of the area information using additional background information, the display of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080133134 - Personal situational analysis system: A personal situational analysis system provides an enhanced situational awareness through a display of the location and environmental aspects of a network of similar units. It senses the local environment and provides time-stamped environmental data to a common processing unit. It is compact enough for use as a mobile device... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080133133 - System and method of enabling features based on geographic imposed rules: A dual-view display system and method are provided for use on a vehicle to display first and second viewing windows to a driver and a passenger in a vehicle. The display system stores acquired regulations for operating a display based on geographic location, and employs a position determining device to... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080133135 - Ultra-tightly coupled global navigation satellite system space borne receiver system: A GNSS ultra-tight coupling (UTC) receiver architecture applicable to space borne orbit platforms is described. A receiver in accordance with this architecture retains the rotational motion sensors typically found in an inertial measurement unit (IMU) of a conventional UTC receiver, but replaces the IMU accelerometer sensors with precise orbital dynamics... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, Llc - (boeing)

20080133136 - Intersection collision avoidance techniques: System and method for preventing accidents between first and second vehicles at intersections in which the absolute position and velocity of the first vehicle are determined, map data relating to edges of lanes of roadways, edges of roadways and the location of traffic control devices is stored in a map... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq