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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2017
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Luke Niewiadomski, Hamtramck, MI (US);
Chen Zhang, Canton, MI (US);
Joseph F. Stanek, Northville, MI (US);
George Edmund Walley, III, Novi, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60D 1/36 (2006.01); B60D 1/06 (2006.01); B60R 1/00 (2006.01); B62D 15/02 (2006.01); B60D 1/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60D 1/366 (2013.01); B60D 1/06 (2013.01); B60D 1/36 (2013.01); B60D 1/62 (2013.01); B60R 1/00 (2013.01); B60R 1/003 (2013.01); B62D 15/026 (2013.01); B62D 15/028 (2013.01); B62D 15/0285 (2013.01); B60R 2300/808 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vehicle hitch assistance system includes a controller acquiring position data of a coupler of a trailer and deriving a vehicle path to align a hitch ball of the vehicle with the coupler including compensating for a determined change in the position of the coupler in a driving direction related to a difference between a vertical position of the coupler in the position data and a height of the hitch ball.