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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2012
Matt Y. Rupp, Canton, MI (US);
Taehyun Shim, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
David Dean Smit, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Erick Michael Lavoie, Dearborn, MI (US);
Roger Amold Trombley, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Thomas Edward Pilutti, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Matt Y. Rupp, Canton, MI (US);
Taehyun Shim, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
David Dean Smit, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Erick Michael Lavoie, Dearborn, MI (US);
Roger Amold Trombley, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Thomas Edward Pilutti, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, Dearborn, MI (US);
The Regents of The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle comprises a trailer angle detection apparatus and a trailer backup control system coupled to the trailer angle detection apparatus. The trailer angle detection apparatus is configured for outputting a signal generated as a function of an angle between the vehicle and a trailer towably attached to the vehicle. The trailer backup control system includes a jackknife enabling condition detector and a jackknife counter-measures controller. The jackknife counter-measures controller alters a setting of at least one vehicle operating parameter for alleviating an adverse jackknife condition during backing of the trailer by the vehicle when the jackknife enabling condition detector determines that a jackknife enabling condition has been attained at a particular point in time during backing of the trailer by the vehicle.