Delphi Technologies, Inc.

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Peter James Schubert

Jan Konried Schiffmann

Edward J Wallner

David John Nichols

Chad M Aeschliman

Morgan Daniel Murphy

Bruce Alan Myers

James Frank Patterson

Charles A Gray

Stuart Stites Sullivan

Charles A Cluff

Robert K Constable

David R Little

Royce L Rennaker

Dale Horan

Mariusz Geborek

Brian M Stavroff

Phillip E Kaltenbacher Ii

Brett A Hall

Jeffrey J Conger

John G West

David William Braun

Robert C Van Meter

Michelle Lee Copeland

Benjamin C Wiles

Walter G Fletcher

Bogdan Kowalczyk

A marine specimen capture system for use in capturing a marine specimen alive and intact from an underwater environment includes a specimen capture assembly comprising at least one specimen capture member. The at least one specimen capture member having a capture member inlet and a capture member outlet. A thruster assembly comprising at least one thruster unit is interconnected to the specimen capture assembly. More in particular, the thruster assembly is operative to generate an induced flow along an induced flow path into at least a portion of the at least one specimen capture member through the capture member inlet, wherein the induced flow is sufficient to pull a marine specimen into and through at least the capture member inlet of the at least one specimen capture member.

Marine specimen capture system

A vehicle rollover sensing apparatus and method are provided for predicting a future roll angle and an overturn condition of a vehicle. The apparatus includes an angular accelerometer for sensing angular acceleration of the vehicle and producing an output signal indicative thereof. A first integrator integrates the sensed angular acceleration signal and produces an angular rate. A second integrator integrates the angular rate and generates a current roll angle. A predictor predicts a future roll angle as a function of the sensed angular acceleration, angular rate, and current roll angle. A comparator compares the predicted future roll angle to a threshold value. The apparatus generates a vehicle overturn condition signal based on said comparison, and signals deployment of restraint devices.

Vehicle rollover sensing using angular accelerometer

A rollover warning and detection method for a transport vehicle is adaptively adjustable to take into account the CG height of the vehicle. Measures of the vehicle speed, lateral acceleration and yaw rate are sampled during normal driving conditions and used to estimate the CG height of the vehicle. The centrifugal acceleration acting on the vehicle is calculated as the product of vehicle speed and yaw rate, and the CG height is estimated based on the relationship between the calculated centrifugal acceleration and the measured lateral acceleration. The estimated CG height of the vehicle is used to adjust various calibrated rollover detection thresholds so that algorithm outputs such as rollover warnings automatically take into consideration vehicle loading effects.

Rollover warning and detection method for transport vehicles

A process and apparatus for separating element isotopes in space by imparting a velocity and direction to a body of material along a substantially linear path, heating and vaporizing the body and ionizing the material thereof as it flows along the path to produce a first stream comprising ionized material, and then using at least one aperture to separate a first portion of the ionized material having a velocity transverse to the path that exceeds a predetermined transverse velocity limit while a second portion of the ionized material passes through the aperture and can be subsequently collected.

Isotope separation process and apparatus therefor

Impending rollover events are detected by recognizing a plow phase increase in lateral acceleration, coupled with a significant trip phase roll rate. The plow phase increase is recognized by modeling a typical soil trip lateral acceleration characteristic and computing a cross-correlation between the measured lateral acceleration and the modeled acceleration. The correlation is compared to a threshold that varies with the measured roll rate to reliably discriminate rollover events from near-rollover events while enabling timely deployment of suitable occupant restraints.

Soil trip vehicle rollover detection method

Impending rollover events are detected based on vehicle roll rate, roll angle and lateral acceleration, and an assessment of the relative polarities of vehicle roll rate and lateral acceleration. When the vehicle roll rate and lateral acceleration are opposite in polarity, the roll rate vs. roll angle thresholds used to distinguish between rollover events and non-rollover events are more sensitive than for conditions for which the vehicle roll rate and lateral acceleration are of the same polarity. Additionally, the roll rate vs. roll angle thresholds are adaptively modified based on roll angle and lateral acceleration to provide increased detection sensitivity under conditions that typically precede a rollover event, and reduced detection sensitivity under conditions for which a rollover event is unlikely.

Vehicle rollover detection method

A chip cooling system including a semiconductor device having a bulk region, wherein at least one fluid channel extends at least partially through the bulk region, the fluid channel having an inlet and an outlet, a fluid inlet port in fluid communication with the channel inlet, and a fluid outlet port in fluid communication with the channel outlet, and a cooling fluid flows from the fluid inlet port, through the fluid channel and to the fluid outlet port to cool the bulk region.

Chip cooling system

An event discrimination methodology executes multiple versions of the same or different event discrimination algorithms and logically or arithmetically combines their outputs to distinguish between specified events and non-events. One given algorithm is repeatedly executed with different sets of calibration data, or alternately, a number of different algorithms are executed. In cases where the algorithm results are arithmetically combined, the weights accorded to each algorithm result are dynamically adjusted based on driver input or vehicle dynamic behavior data to accord highest weight to the algorithm(s) calibrated to identify events associated with the detected driver input or vehicle dynamic behavior.

Multiple algorithm event discrimination method

A reconfigurable rollover event detection methodology utilizes an existing body of vehicle sensor data. A number of different algorithms or look-up modules develop rollover detection outputs based on different sets of sensor data, and a meta-algorithm combines the various rollover detection outputs to form a single rollover detection output. The number of individual rollover detection outputs is configurable depending on the extent of the available sensor data in a given vehicle and changes in sensor availability that occur due to sensor and communication failures.

Reconfigurable methodology for event detection in a motor vehicle

A rollover detection apparatus and method are provided for anticipating a potential vehicle rollover event. The apparatus includes an input for receiving a plurality of input signals including sensed parameters of the vehicle. A first memory buffer stores data representative of one or more predetermined driving scenarios that represent possible rollover scenarios. A second memory buffer stores data representative of a history of recent conditions of the vehicle based on the plurality of sensed vehicle parameters. The apparatus further includes a processor for comparing the data representative of a history of recent driving events to the data representative of one or more predetermined driving scenarios. The processor further determines a possible rollover event of the vehicle based on the comparison and generates an output signal indicative thereof.

Vehicle rollover detection and method of anticipating vehicle rollover

The present invention involves a vehicle for passengers having a passenger safety system. The system has a crash sensor, a vehicle seat with a weight sensor assembly, an air bag and an air bag controller. The crash sensor is capable of providing a signal when the vehicle experiences an impact force of a predetermined magnitude. The vehicle seat is capable of supporting a vehicle occupant, with a seat frame member attached to a vehicle floor pan. The seat frame member has a rigid end and a resiliently flexible end, the resiliently flexible end able to resiliently deflect with respect to the vehicle floor pan upon experiencing a force due to the weight of the vehicle occupant. The sensor assembly has a cantilevered beam, a fulcrum, and a sensing device. The cantilevered beam has only one point of fixed attachment for connecting to the vehicle floor pan and the seat frame member, and is capable of resiliently deflecting upon experiencing a load force and capable of returning to its pre-load orientation after said load force is removed. The fulcrum is located beneath the free end of the cantilevered beam so as to prevent the beam from permanently deforming under extreme loading conditions. The sensing device is located beneath the cantilevered beam and is adapted to provide a signal when said beam is subjected to a load force of a predetermined magnitude. The airbag is suited to rapidly deploy and provide protection to the passengers when the vehicle experiences an impact force of a predetermined magnitude. The airbag controller is capable of interpreting signals from the crash sensor and sensing device to determine whether to deploy the airbag when the vehicle experiences an impact force of a predetermined magnitude.

Deflection plate weight sensor for vehicle seat

A system and method for supplying thrust to a structure, such as a satellite or spacecraft, for the purposes of station keeping and attitude control of the structure in low-gravity (orbital) and zero-gravity environments. The system includes devices for emitting energy beams and targets impacted by the energy beams to cause ablation of the targets. The beam-emitting devices and targets are adapted to cooperate and cause the structure to selectively undergo translational and/or rotational motion in reaction to the motion of material ablated from the targets. The position, alignment, and/or attitude of the structure can thereby be controlled in a zero or low-gravity environment by selectively emitting the energy beams at the targets.

System and method for attitude control and station keeping

An elastomeric seat bladder for a vehicle occupant weight estimation system includes a plurality of elastomeric tethers defined by bands or sheets of elastomeric material coupling upper and lower layers of the bladder within a peripheral weld in order to reduce fluid pooling and distention or bulging of the bladder due to localized loading. The elastomeric tethers are spot or seam welded to upper and lower sheets of the bladder; they extend to limit distension where required, and otherwise partially or fully collapse to minimize vertical shunting of occupant weight through the bladder.

Internally tethered seat bladder for occupant weight estimation

An apparatus and method that make use of electromagnetic energy to maneuver an object, such as stop, slow, and/or divert a vessel or projectile in low and zero-gravity environments. The apparatus comprises an element capable of generating a magnetic field in the zero or low-gravity environment, and an object capable of electromagnetically interacting with the magnetic field so that the object's speed and/or trajectory is altered when moving in proximity to the magnetic-field generating element. As such, the method entails maneuvering an object in a zero or low-gravity environment by generating a magnetic field in the zero or low-gravity environment, and then moving the object in proximity to the magnetic field such that the magnetic field alters the trajectory and/or speed of the object.

Apparatus and method for maneuvering objects in low/zero gravity environments

A process and apparatus for separating element isotopes in a microgravity or low-gravity environment using electromagnetic radiation, e.g., sunlight, to heat and ionize a stream of raw materials, followed by electromagnetic separation, and collection of the desired isotopes in or on one or more collection surfaces or receptacles, such as a rotating surface. A cylindrical mirror can serve to collect and concentrate the electromagnetic radiation, permitting the stream of material to be heated and ionized while the path of the stream of material is oriented other than parallel to the direction of the radiation.

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Carmel, IN, United States of America

Peter James Schubert