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Patent No.:

US 12594945 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2026

Filed:

Aug. 28, 2023

Detection and remediation of an instability condition in a vehicle-trailer system

Applicant:

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);

Inventors:

Christopher James Smalley, Canton, MI (US);

Patrick David Jordan, Austin, TX (US);

Nicholas Earl Merkel, Canton, MI (US);

Brian James Haugen, Plano, TX (US);

Steven William Marion, Canton, MI (US);

Assignees:

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;

Attorneys:

Christopher G. Darrow

Darrow Mustafa PC

Primary Examiner:

Jason Holloway

Assistant Examiner:

Madison B Emmett

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/08 (2020.01); B60W 30/12 (2020.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/082 (2013.01); B60W 30/12 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 2300/14 (2013.01); B60W 2520/125 (2013.01); B60W 2520/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

A stability monitoring system for detecting an instability condition in a moving vehicle-trailer system includes a processor and a memory communicably coupled to the processor. The memory may store a stability evaluation module configured to determine if a measured value of at least one stability evaluation parameter satisfies an associated predetermined condition. The stability evaluation module may be configured to, if the measured value of the stability evaluation parameter satisfies the associated predetermined condition, determine a total amount of time within a predetermined time period that the measured value of the stability evaluation parameter satisfied the associated predetermined condition. The stability evaluation module may be configured to, if the total amount of time that the measured value of the stability evaluation parameter satisfied the associated predetermined condition exceeds a significant proportion of the predetermined time period, control operation of the vehicle to generate a stability alert.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Smalley, Christopher. (2026). Detection and remediation of an instability condition in a vehicle-trailer system (U.S. Patent No. 12594945). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12594945

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