Paccar Inc.

Ian Ramsay Hunt

Jonathan S Duncan

Jon Forrest Acton

Steven Karl Jahns

Jacob Michael White

Nicole Johnson

Ryan Anthony Reed

Anna-Magdalena Schatz

Marc George Wilczak

Christina Nenke

Hervé Jen Raymond Cecchi

Raeef Hesham Wahib Barsoum

Brett Grant Kellerstedt

Jeremy David Walker

Systems and methods for providing opportunistic vehicle air brake system pressurization are disclosed. Vehicle air tanks used within an air brake system are pressurized during a time a battery charging status is satisfied. For example, such air tanks may be pressurized via an air compressor at a time during which the vehicle is electrically connected to a power source other than a battery of the vehicle. An example of such a power source may include an electrical charger, such as an electric vehicle charging station, or an electric generator during a regenerative braking event. The air tanks may also be pressurized by using a battery to energize the air compressor, based on the battery being charged above a predetermined threshold.

Opportunistic vehicle air brake system pressurization systems and methods

Systems, methods and computer readable storage media provide flexible vehicle status notifications via an instrument cluster displayed on an in-vehicle screen. In some examples, when a non-displayed gauge goes into an out-of-parameter or warning range, the gauge may be dynamically shown in the out-of-parameter or warning state in a container position assigned to the gauge in another display or in a dynamic container position in the instrument cluster. In some examples, a popup notification may be provided to inform the driver of a condition. When there are multiple notifications, they may be grouped into definable severity classifications and prioritized so that a notification determined to be a most important message at the time is presented to the driver in a notification zone central to a driver's field of vision on the instrument cluster that allows for reusing screen space for providing warning and information from a range of data sources.

Flexible notifications via an instrument cluster

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Denton, TX, United States of America

Ian Ramsay Hunt