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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2017
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Joseph M. Raad, Farmington, MI (US);
Tyler Daavettila, Howell, MI (US);
Brian George Buss, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Donald Jacob Mattern, Canton, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 13/06 (2006.01); B62D 15/02 (2006.01); B62D 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 13/06 (2013.01); B62D 13/005 (2013.01); B62D 15/024 (2013.01); B62D 15/025 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system for assisting in reversing of a vehicle-trailer combination includes a vehicle steering system and a controller. The controller outputs a steering signal to the steering system to maintain the vehicle-trailer combination along a straight backing path and determines a straight-backing offset of a hitch angle in the vehicle-trailer combination as a proportion of an integral of a measured characteristic of the vehicle-trailer combination that varies from a desired zero value.