36results about "Registering/indicating working of vehicles" patented technology

Aspects of the disclosure provide a computer-implemented method and system for the assignment of roadside assistance service providers such as tow trucks to distressed vehicles/drivers requiring roadside assistance. The methods and systems may include a roadside assistance service provider system with a collection module, an assignment module, and a feedback module. The collection module collects roadside assistance service provider information and historical statistics from real-world information and stores the information in a database that may then be analyzed using particular rules and formulas. The assignment module assigns particular roadside assistance service providers to particular distressed vehicles/drivers based on one or more characteristics. The feedback module may provide near real-time cues to the tow truck driver's mobile device, such as alerting when the amount of time spent on a task exceeds a predefined threshold, flagging high priority tasks/assignments, providing a step-by-step checklist for the repair.

A method of monitoring operation of a vehicle detects an application of force to the vehicle and a change of momentum of the vehicle is calculated. If the change of momentum and the application of force are determined to occur within a predetermined time period of one another, an impact signal is generated.

A method is provided for a control system. The method may include obtaining data records associated one or more input variables and one or more output parameters, and selecting one or more input parameters from the one or more input variables. The method may also include generating a computational model indicative of interrelationships between the one or more input parameters and the one or more output parameters based on the data records, and determining desired respective statistical distributions of the one or more input parameters of the computational model.

The invention belongs to the technical field of vehicle maintenance and relates to a vehicle maintenance reminding system which includes a system hardware terminal that is arranged on the body of a vehicle and used for collecting parameter information relevant to the vehicle maintenance and storing the collected parameter information; a central information processing center which receives the parameter information relevant to the vehicle maintenance and stores the parameter information into a database, checks the change process of the received parameter information relevant to the vehicle maintenance, generates the information of the items and the dates of the vehicle maintenance and transmits the information by the Internet; and a system software terminal; the central information processing center transfers the information of the items and the dates of the vehicle maintenance generated by central information processing center to the system software terminal by the Internet and the system software terminal reminds a vehicle owner to carry out maintenance. The vehicle maintenance reminding system of the invention solves the existing technical problem that the actual maintenance time of the vehicle is misplaced with the time actually needed by the vehicle maintenance, namely, the forward maintenance or the hysteretic maintenance of the vehicle.

The existing information center produces less effects of promoting driver driving habit improvement to realize vehicle oil consumption reduction. Aiming at solving the above problem, the invention provides a vehicle economical-driving evaluation server. The vehicle economical-driving evaluation server comprises an information acquisition unit, an information memory unit, a coupling unit, an economical-driving evaluation unit and a publishing unit. Vehicle economical-driving evaluation given by the vehicle economical-driving evaluation server comprehensively according to driving environment factors has high credibility and a high reference value and can truly show economical-driving conditions of a monitored vehicle reporting driving data at present, and according to the vehicle economical-driving evaluation, the driver can industriously find and improve undesirable driving habit and thus the vehicle economical-driving evaluation server has obvious effects of promoting driver driving habit improvement to realize vehicle oil consumption reduction. The invention also provides a vehicle driving management method.

In a method and an apparatus for identifying through traffic, entry into and exit from a predefined area are ascertained and the transit time is used to determine whether unauthorized transit through the area has occurred.

A method and system are described for enhancing ground situational awareness to an aircrew via an alphanumeric display of an air traffic control ground clearance, including displaying a symbol for each stage of the clearance. A crewmember may accept or change each stage via a graphical user interface within the alphanumeric display.

A system and method for providing remote access to an on-board aircraft system provides establishing communication between an aircraft server that is located within the aircraft and a remote computer that is located outside of the aircraft. In the aircraft, a request is received to establish a remote session between the remote computer and the aircraft server. A passcode is generated in the aircraft, and is transmitted from a first communication device that is collocated with the aircraft to a second communication device that is collocated with the remote computer. The passcode is then transmitted from the remote computer to the aircraft server and, upon receipt of the passcode by the aircraft server, the remote computer is provided with remote access to the on-board aircraft system.

The invention relates to a method pertaining to an SCR system for exhaust cleaning, whereby reducing agent is supplied to a feed device (230) which supplies it to a dosing unit (250) for batched supply of reducing agent by means of a valve arrangement (350, 360) at a consumption point in the SCR system. The method comprises the steps of - continuously determining (s410) the cumulative number of doses injected (N) by said dosing unit (250), - continuously comparing (s420, s430) said cumulative number of doses injected (N) with a predetermined numerical value (TH), and - delivering an indication (s440) when said cumulative number of doses injected (N) exceeds said predetermined numerical value (TH). The invention relates also to a computer programme product comprising programme code (P) for a computer (200; 210; 500) for implementing a method according to the invention. The invention relates also to an SCR system and a motor vehicle (100; 110) equipped with the SCR system.

A driver-state detection system and method with an accelerator pedal control function detects a driver's state and controlling an accelerator pedal to prevent an accident. The driver-state detection system with an accelerator pedal control function includes a driver-state detector detecting a driving state of a driver and determining whether the driver is carelessly driving a vehicle or not, a pedal controller receiving an operation signal from the driver-state detector, a vehicle state detector determining whether the vehicle is driven or stopped, based on ambient signals of the vehicle, an operation pedal installed to receive operation signals from the pedal controller and the vehicle state detector, and a vibration generator installed on the operation pedal and provided to generate or cancel a vibration of a motor.

The invention relates to an urban rail transit operation control operation and maintenance cooperation system and method. The system comprises an intelligent operation and maintenance subsystem and anintelligent operation and control subsystem, the intelligent operation and maintenance subsystem and the intelligent operation and control subsystem respectively comprise a cooperative linkage enginemodule, and the intelligent operation and maintenance subsystem synchronizes a fault handling plan to the intelligent operation and control subsystem through the cooperative linkage engine module. Compared with the prior art, the method has the advantages of scientific and reasonable scheduling decision, high efficiency, high intelligent degree and the like.

The invention provides a vehicle abnormity lane change determination method. The method comprises the following steps: comparing the angular velocity gz of a vehicle around a vertical direction with -5.8DEG/sec; determining whether the change tend of the angular velocity gz of a vehicle around a vertical direction is opposite to the change tend of the angular velocity gx of the vehicle around a headstock tailstock direction; comparing the change value deltagz of the angular velocity of the vehicle around the vertical direction with -5.1DEG/sec, and comparing the change value deltagx of the angular velocity of the vehicle around the headstock tailstock direction with -4.1DEG/sec; and determining that the lane change of the vehicle is abnormal when above conditions are satisfied. The invention also provides a vehicle abnormity lane change determination apparatus. The hexa-axial acceleration value and the angular acceleration value of the vehicle during running exceed the threshold making people in the vehicle uncomfortable or not can be determined through the method and the apparatus in order to determine whether the lane change of the vehicle is abnormal or not.

A method for diagnosing a fault mode in a system includes recording a hierarchical precedence rule assigning a priority level to fault modes of the system, and recording, in a fault report matrix, fault reports indicative of a corresponding one or more of the fault modes. The method also includes using the hierarchical precedence rule to determine the assigned relative priority level for the fault reports in response to a predetermined condition, e.g., a requested engine starting event, and identifying a root cause subsystem as a subsystem having the highest assigned priority level. A control action executed via the controller identifies the root cause subsystem by recording a diagnostic code and/or transmitting a message. The system is also disclosed, as is a computer-readable medium programmed with instructions embodying the method.

A method for determining the driving state of a vehicle comprises the following steps:

• • detecting (21) first measurement signals of a first inertial measurement sensor system (1, 100), wherein the first inertial measurement sensor system is arranged in a first region of the vehicle so that it does not execute a relative movement in relation to the first region of the vehicle, and wherein the first measurement signals correspond to at least one acceleration component in three-dimensional space and/or at least one rotation rate component of the first inertial measurement sensor system (1, 100) in the first region of the vehicle in three-dimensional space;
  • detecting (21) second measurement signals of a second inertial measurement sensor system (2, 100), wherein the second inertial measurement sensor system is arranged in a second region of the vehicle, which is movable in relation to the first region of the vehicle, wherein it is arranged so that it does not execute a relative movement in relation to the second region of the vehicle, and wherein the second measurement signals correspond to at least one acceleration component in three-dimensional space and/or at least one rotation rate component of the second inertial measurement system (2, 100) in the second region of the vehicle in three-dimensional space;
  • analyzing (22, 23, 24, 25) the first and second measurement signals based on the functional relationship between the movement of the first inertial measurement system and the movement of the second inertial measurement sensor system; and
  • based on the result of the analysis of the first and second measurement signals, determining (26) the relative orientation of the two inertial measurement sensor systems to one another.

A vehicle control device that is applied to a vehicle including a driving support device that executes driving support based on an instruction for use or nonuse of a user includes an electronic control unit, the electronic control unit is configured to execute a destination information acquisition process, a path information acquisition process of acquiring path information, a section setting process of setting a notification available section, an operation information acquisition process of acquiring information on the presence or absence of a user operation, and a notification process of performing a notification to request the user to operate an information providing device and use the driving support device.

A vehicle monitoring system monitors a vehicle characteristic and, from the monitoring, determines the state of a vehicle component. The system may set an alert and may communicate that alert to a user or supervisory authority. The state of the vehicle component may relate to a vehicle tire and to the potential delamination of a tire.

Data recording systems (100) and methods (400) for synchronizing data of a plurality of different data types on a single packet (300). The methods involve: receiving the data and an audio frame containing voice data and timing data communicated over a plurality of channels; generating, in response to the reception of the audio frame, a combined packet on which the audio frame and at least a portion of the data are time synchronized to each other; and substantially simultaneously storing the combined packet in a primary data store and a secondary data store of a data recorder for subsequent use in reconstructing events leading up to a crash of a land vehicle, aircraft or vessel. The portion of data may include data link data, flight data and/or image/video data. The channels may include a cockpit channel and a plurality of pilot channels.

Systems and methods for data acquisition utilizing spare or unused databus capacity are provided. In one example aspect, the system includes a vehicle that includes an engine and a controller. The controller generates a data file indicative of Continuous Engine Operation Data (CEOD). The data file is transmitted over a serial databus to a bus recorder. Particularly, the data file is continuously generated by the controller and stored in a buffer. The available bandwidth of a transmission frame for the serial databus is determined. A portion of the data file is retrieved from the buffer based at least in part on the determined bandwidth. The portion of the data file is divided into relatively small transmission payloads and packed into the available bandwidth of the transmission frame. This process is repeated on a continuous basis and the bus recorder records the data. The data file is then reconstituted and decoded.

The invention provides a vehicle anomaly detection system and method, and the system comprises an anomaly detection module which carries out the detection of the abnormal state of a vehicle through the information monitoring of vehicle equipment, determines whether the vehicle is abnormal or not, stops the operation of the vehicle if so, and continuously carries out the anomaly detection if not; and a data acquisition module which is used for acquiring vehicle operation data in real time and sending the data to the anomaly detection module. By monitoring the vehicle equipment information and detecting the abnormal state of the vehicle, the running safety of the vehicle is improved; by means of abnormal sound detection, false detection caused by data fluctuation of normal operation of the vehicle is prevented; through online vehicle operation, data acquisition and data analysis and learning are performed, the anomaly detection method is improved, the detection accuracy is improved, false detection is prevented, and the stability of vehicle operation is improved.

The invention relates to the technical field of application of near-panoramic digital images, in particular to a close-range image traffic violation and road condition photogrammetry system based on Wifi signals, which comprises an automobile, a base station and an automobile administration office, the base station is laid at a position with more traffic flows, and a data bus for transmitting bigdata is laid between the base station and the automobile administration office, the vehicle administration office is built in each city, a vehicle-mounted wifi router is installed on the vehicle, multiple adjustable transmitting antennas are movably arranged on the outer walls of the four corners of the top of the vehicle-mounted wifi router, and a data line interface is formed in the outer wall of one side of the vehicle-mounted wifi router. The beneficial effects of the invention are that the system achieves the real-time detection of the automobile through the panoramic look-around system of the automobile, transmits the data obtained through the central computer database and the data obtained through the control center to the base station at the same time, determines a violation detection result through comparison, is more accurate, and brings convenience to related workers and drivers.

A sensing module for monitoring a cabin of a vehicle includes an environmental sensor configured to sense organic compounds in ambient air of the cabin and a particle sensor configured to detect particulate matter in the ambient air. The sensing module further includes a controller operably connected to the environmental sensor and the particle sensor and configured to receive sensor signals from the environmental sensor and the particle sensor and to transmit data to a remote server via the Internet. The sensing module has a housing configured to mount to a windshield of the vehicle. The housing supports the environmental sensor, the particle sensor, and the controller.