513 results about "Automotive safety" patented technology

A GPS / IMU safety sensor platform is proposed, consisting of data fusion Processors, GNSS Signal Acquisition and Tracking Processors, MEMS IMU sensors, one or multiple accelerometers able to provide orientation information, optional V2V communication modules, and optional V2I communication modules. The data fusion processors provide interface ports to GNSS / IMU processors, odometers, video (Visual / Infrared) cameras installed in the vehicle, V2V relative positioning sensors (laser, radar or any other distance measuring), and V2V and V2I communication modules. The data fusion processors are interfaced to a driver warning system and optionally to the vehicle controls for providing safety warning messages to drivers, or for automatic control the vehicle for preventing and reducing accidents.

Systems and methods for providing an automobile security monitoring service are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for monitoring the security of a plurality of automobiles includes monitoring, over a network, the security of the plurality of automobiles, receiving, from one of the plurality of automobiles over the network, a message indicating a potential security threat to the automobile, and sending, over a network to a terminal device associated with an owner of the automobile, an alert indicating the potential security threat to the automobile. The method further includes receiving, over the network from the terminal device and responsive to the alert, a request of the owner to stream video from a security camera onboard the automobile, issuing, to the automobile over the network and based on the request, a command to the automobile to stream video from the security camera onboard the automobile. The method further includes receiving, from the automobile over the network, video from the security camera onboard the automobile, and streaming received video over the network to the terminal device.

The invention provides a super highway auxiliary system, and belongs to the field of safe driving of automobiles. The super highway auxiliary system comprises a radar sensor, a camera sensor, a central controller and a vehicle-mounted ECU execution unit, wherein the radar sensor is used for detecting environmental information and vehicle information around a current vehicle; the camera sensor is used for collecting the environmental information around the current vehicle; the central controller is used for receiving the information transmitted from the radar sensor and the camera sensor, collecting the vehicle information of the current vehicle transmitted by an ECU, integrating the information for processing and judgment, and issuing an instruction to the relevant vehicle-mounted ECU execution unit; and the vehicle-mounted ECU execution unit is used for receiving the instruction and controlling the current vehicle to execute the instruction. Through the adoption of the super highway auxiliary system provided by the invention, the hands and feet of a driver are liberated to the greatest extent, so that driver fatigue due to a monotonous driving mode is avoided; the seamless connection between super highway assist and traffic jam assist is realized; and two cases that changing lanes is dangerous and changing lanes is safe are distinguished by the system, and different assists are provided for the driver, so that not only is the lane change security guaranteed, but also the convenience of lane change is provided, and the driving pleasure is improved.

A safety device for motor vehicles is provided having a sensor system for locating objects in the area in front of the vehicle and at least in the lateral surroundings of the vehicle, a prediction unit for detecting a risk of collision with an object coming from the side, a detection unit for detecting an area in front of the vehicle which is clear of potential collision objects, and a control unit which is configured to suppress braking of the host vehicle when a risk of collision with an object coming from the side is detected and when the area in front of the vehicle is recognized as being clear if this would presumably make a collision with the object coming from the side avoidable. A method for intervening in the longitudinal guidance of a motor vehicle is also provided.

A child car seat with a built-in cushion switch that closes when the seat is occupied. Also, push type switches are added to at least one of the vehicle's side passenger doors with signals being routed to a controller unit, which determines when the car seat is occupied AND when one of the doors is open and enables the vehicle's internal beeper alarm, thereby reminding any occupants exiting the vehicle that a child is strapped in the back seat. Additionally, an inside temperature sensor is coupled to the controller unit, which sets off a loud external alarm such as the vehicle's security alarm, when the temperature inside the vehicle goes above or below a safe preprogrammed environmental range. This is an additional safety feature that will get the attention of people outside the vehicle, indicating that a child is trapped in a dangerous environment inside the vehicle and needs help.

The invention discloses an automobile omnibearing anti-collision system. The automobile omnibearing anti-collision system mainly comprises a range radar receiving and transmitting module, a data collecting and modulating module, an information processing module, an auxiliary braking module and a sensor sensing module. According to the automobile omnibearing anti-collision system, different automobile safe distance modules are built according to attachment coefficients under different road conditions, the safe distance module corresponding to the road condition is selected, the distance, the speed difference and the like between the automobile and a vehicle in front of the automobile are measured through a millimeter-wave radar during front collision preventing, generally, an alarm display system conducts early warning to remind a driver, and emergency auxiliary braking can be conducted under the state of emergency; during lateral safety protection, pedestrians, vehicles and other barriers in driver visual dead zones on the two sides of the automobile are monitored mainly through an ultrasonic range radar; and a camera installed at the tail of the automobile can collect video signals, and transmits the signals to a mainframe through an information collecting unit, and the signals are processed through the mainframe and transmitted to the alarm display system for early warning.

A system and methods are disclosed for providing integrated software development environment for the design, verification and validation of advanced automotive safety systems. The system allows automotive software to be developed on a host computer using a collection of computer programs running simultaneously as processes and synchronized by a central process. The software disclosed uses separate synchronized processes, permitting signals from disparate sources to be generated by a simulation running on the host computer or from actual sensors and data bus signals coming from and going to actual vehicle hardware which is connected to their bus counterparts in the host computer on a real-time basis. The methods disclosed are for providing an Algorithm Prototyping, Analysis and Test through an integrated framework for dynamic data modeling and application development.

An automotive vehicle safety device for melting ice and snow on roadways and in areas immediately adjacent the vehicle tires includes ductwork extending from a heater mounted adjacent the vehicle engine with the ductwork terminating at front and rear undercarriage mounted v-shaped ducts. Each v-shaped duct includes a pair of heating vents disposed adjacent each vehicle tire that blows heated air onto the roadway for melting the ice and snow. A heating grid is securable to the vehicle undercarriage for providing additional radiant heat to melt ice and snow, and a dashboard-mounted control panel provides for the manual activation of the heater and the heating grid while sensors mounted to the undercarriage and electrically connected to the control panel provide for automatic activation of the heater and heating grid upon sensing a predetermined temperature.

The invention discloses an automobile safe driving early warning method and a vehicle-mounted early warning system. The automobile safe driving early warning method comprises the steps of building a CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) deep learning framework model, and simulating a complex environment of the driving of a driver and state indicators of the driving of the driver; performing detectionon the face of the driver, and judging the face state of the driver in the driving process; detecting a fatigue driving behavior of the driver; detecting a safe driving behavior of the driver; acquiring time information or distance information of continuous driving of a vehicle in real time; monitoring location information and running trajectory of the automobile, and recognizing identity information of the driver at regular time. According to the invention, comparison is performed on acquired driver face images through the CNN deep learning framework model to judge the driving safety state of the driver, the algorithm is high in operating efficiency, the accuracy is high, the hardware configuration requirement is low, the practicability is high, the location information and driving parameters of the vehicle are acquired in real time through a positioning system unit, and driving behavior management for the driver, vehicle driving management and vehicle loss prevention management arerealized.

A GPS / IMU safety sensor platform is proposed, consisting of data fusion Processors, GNSS Signal Acquisition and Tracking Processors, MEMS IMU sensors, one or multiple accelerometers able to provide orientation information, optional V2V communication modules, and optional V2I communication modules. The data fusion processors provide interface ports to GNSS / IMU processors, odometers, video (Visual / Infrared) cameras installed in the vehicle, V2V relative positioning sensors (laser, radar or any other distance measuring), and V2V and V2I communication modules. The data fusion processors are interfaced to a driver warning system and optionally to the vehicle controls for providing safety warning messages to drivers, or for automatic control the vehicle for preventing and reducing accidents.

The invention discloses an automotive collision avoidance safety protecting device and a protecting method based on infrared image processing. The protecting device disclosed by the invention comprises an infrared camera and camera control subsystem, an infrared camera pickup illuminating subsystem, a central processing unit, an acoustic image and light alarming subsystem, a vehicle speed control subsystem, a signal detecting module and a power module. By an infrared imaging technology, the device and the method disclosed by the invention are suitable for the automotive safety protection under various environmental climate conditions and various road conditions; an obstacle mathematical model based on a virtual lane and an identification space is established, and precise distance measurement on an obstacle is completed; the identification space is established in the virtual lane, the range of images to be processed is limited, the quantity of processing data is effectively reduced, and the real-time performance and the rapidness of the device are guaranteed; and an obstacle distance measuring formula is derived with the obstacle mathematical model, distance measurement is simple and reliable, the practicability is stronger, normal overtaking and steering are not affected, collision accidents and real-end collision can be effectively avoided, and driving safety is guaranteed.

The invention discloses an automobile anti-collision safe protecting method based on image processing. The automobile anti-collision safe protecting method based on image processing comprises an automobile safe automatic protector image identifying system, the automobile safe automatic protector image identifying system comprises a multi-core processor, an automobile-speed collecting module, a plurality of cameras, a displaying module, an alarming device and a positioning device, the automobile-speed collecting module, the cameras, the displaying module, the alarming device and the positioning device are all connected with the multi-core processor, and the multi-core processor is connected with a braking motor for an automobile safe automobile protector. The automobile anti-collision safe protecting method based on image processing is simple and easy to achieve, small in operand and capable of effectively avoiding occurrence of collision accidents, and ensures traveling safety of an automobile. The automobile anti-collision safe protecting method based on image processing can further be applied to transportation tools like airplanes, ships and high-speed trains.

The invention belongs to the field of cross technology of wireless communication technology and vehicle safety technology, and relates to a vehicle burglary protection system, a vehicle-mounted anti-theft device and a burglary protection method. The vehicle burglary protection system comprises a password verification system for verifying whether a password for opening an identity verification device is correct, an identity verification system for verifying whether an identity of a user is legal, a door lock switching system for opening a door lock after the identity verification system verifies the identity of the user is legal, and a central control system for acquiring an order which shows a password is correct and is sent by the password verification system, controlling the identity verification system to open an identity verification program and controlling the door lock switching system to open the door lock after acquiring an order which shows the identity is legal and is sent by the identity verification system. The vehicle burglary protection system, the vehicle-mounted anti-theft device and the burglary protection method have the characteristics of high safety, simple structure, low cost, convenience and practicability.

The invention relates to a high-voltage safety system of a hybrid electric vehicle, belonging to the technical field of vehicle safety. The system solves the problems of high voltage and easy potential safety hazard forming of the traditional hybrid electric vehicles. The high-voltage safety system of the hybrid electric vehicle comprises a CAN (controller area network) bus and a power battery management system with a power battery, wherein a plurality of nodes and a whole vehicle controller are arranged on the CAN bus, and high-voltage nodes in the nodes are connected to both poles of the power battery in parallel; all the high-voltage nodes are respectively provided with an insulated detection module connected with the CAN bus, and the insulated detection module is used for detecting insulated resistance values of the corresponding high-voltage nodes over the ground and transmitting the resistance values to the whole vehicle controller through the CAN bus; and the whole vehicle controller is used for controlling the power battery management system to disconnect or maintain the power supply to the high-voltage nodes according to the magnitude of the insulated resistance values. The high-voltage safety system of the hybrid electric vehicle improves the high-voltage safety of the hybrid electric vehicles through the real-time detection of the insulated detection module and the coordination control of the whole vehicle controller.

The invention discloses a system and method for monitoring and early warning of high-threat vehicles, and belongs to the field of smart vehicle safety early warning. The system comprises an information identification module, a data communication module, an information processing and determining module and an early warning prompting module. The existence of high-threat vehicles is determined by real-time monitoring license plate number information, vehicle speed information and vehicle distance information of front and trailing vehicles to notify the vehicle drivers to decelerate and avoid high-threat vehicles, reducing traffic accidents. Vehicle driving habit information, such as regulation violation historical information, accident processing historical information and vehicle model information, can be obtained according to identified license plate number information. Whether vehicles in the surrounding are high-threat vehicles is comprehensively determined in combination with vehicle speed and vehicle distance information. The determination method is simple and easy to realize, thereby advancing the early-warning time, and lowering accident occurrence probability.

The invention relates to an automotive safety system, in particular to an omni-directional automotive active safety system with an integrated five-channel video detection function. The omni-directional automotive active safety system comprises a sensing subsystem, an analysis and decision subsystem and an early warning subsystem; the sensing subsystem comprises a video acquisition module, a body information acquisition module and a system setting input module; the analysis and decision subsystem comprises a lane departure module, a front automobile detection module, a pedestrian detection module, a blind zone detection module, a rear automobile detection module and a driver monitoring module; and the early warning subsystem comprises a video early warning unit and an audible alarm unit. The omni-directional automotive active safety system has the advantages that a lane departure condition of an automobile with the omni-directional automotive active safety system, distances from the automobile to automobiles in front of the automobile, distances from the automobile to pedestrians, a blind zone condition, distances from the automobile to automobiles at the rear of the automobile and a driving state of a driver are monitored in real time by realizing the integrated five-channel video detection function for the automobile, the driver is timely reminded when risks are sensed, and shortcomings of a simple single-channel video function and incomprehensive detection environments are overcome.

The invention provides an auxiliary prompting system for motor vehicle safety and oil-saving manipulation and an auxiliary prompting method thereof, the system is composed of a data detecting part, acentral processing part, an output displaying part and a sound alarm part, the purpose is to provide the intuitive, visual and real-time display of manipulating status to a driver, a steering angle ofa motor vehicle, a manipulating stroke of a clutch pedal, a manipulating stroke of an accelerator pedal and a manipulating stroke of a brake pedal are displayed to assist the driver to drive accurately and safely; a reasonable oil-saving gear and a gear shifting prompt which correspond to the running status of the motor vehicle are provided to assist the driver to correctly shift the gear to reduce fuel consumption; the display of the manipulating safe state and the manipulating safety range of the motor vehicle is provided, the safety range of the steering angle and the safety range of accelerator manipulating are displayed, thereby leading the driver to notice possible dangers and carry out correct operation to eliminate hidden dangers.

This invention provides a child safety seat with an integral seat belt tensioner for properly securing the seat to the passenger seat of an automotive vehicle by taking up the slack in the seat belt after it has been fastened through the child seat. The tensioner pulls or pushes the seat belt so that the few inches of slack that usually exist are eliminated by the tensioner. The safety seat is adapted to have internal space, either in its back and / or below the seat, to accommodate the tensioner and the belt movement so that the controls, tensioner, and / or other moving parts are out of the reach of the a child in the seat. A preferred version of the tensioner includes motor and gearing to move a belt holder up and down generally along the rear of the safety seat, for tightening and loosening the belt, respectively.

A device for removing or inserting a fuse, in particular an automotive safety fuse from or into a fuse base in a fuse strip. The device has a first and a second elongate arm each of which has a distal end and a proximal end whereby an engaging section that may be brought into engagement with the fuse is provided in the distal end portion of the first and the second arm. The device further includes a first connecting section connecting the first and the second arm to each other and provided proximally to the engaging section. The device has a second connecting section to connect the arms at a distance proximally to the first connecting sections and the first and second arms are articulated in such a way that reducing the distance between the two arms in the portion between the two connecting sections causes the distance between the distal ends of the two arms to increase, and that reducing the distance of the two arms in the portion proximal to the second connecting section causes the distance between the distal ends of the two arms to decrease.

A car safety control system includes at least a car DVR, a GPS receiver and some other components such as image sensors, a speaker and a car display monitor to monitor vehicular safety. By way of a time zone setting unit, the value of the time difference between the GMT and each of 24 the time zones on earth is provided according to the GPS location information. A microprocessor calculates the value of the time difference and determines the current time data such as the values of year / month / day / hour / minute / second in accordance with the car location. The current time data and / or location information such as the latitude and longitude of vehicles are / is recorded and displayed synchronously in the digital image data of the car DVR or displayed on a display unit of the car DVR.

A life-saving child car seat / carrier safety system that protects a child from injury or death due to passenger compartment temperature extremes is described herein. Each year, children and infants die tragically as a result of overheating in automobile passenger compartments when they are mistakenly left unattended by their caregivers. The present invention provides a system and method for child safety comprising an automatically closing child car seat compartment that detects dangerous temperatures; notifies caregivers via an auto-dialing cell phone; alerts passersby via emergency lighting, audible alarms, vocal alerts, and electronic messaging; contacts emergency services with GPS location information; provides breathable air; and provides temperature regulation as needed to cool or warm a child. A distinguishing feature of the invention is lifesaving temperature regulation provided by a thermally insulating enclosable seating compartment, a temperature sensor, and a Peltier junction thermoelectric device, or other means of cooling and heating.

The invention relates to steel with 1,300MPa-level tensile strength for an automobile safety piece and a production method thereof. The steel comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 0.12 to 0.22 percent of C, 0.10 to 0.40 percent of Si, 1.00 to 1.60 percent of Mn, 0.10 to 0.45 percent of Cr, 0.01 to 0.10 percent of Ti, 0.0005 to 0.005 percent of B, 0.01 to 0.06 percent of Als,less than or equal to 0.025 percent of P, less than or equal to 0.010 percent of S and less than or equal to 0.008 percent of N. The production method comprises the following steps of: smelting by using a converter; alloying; performing vacuum treatment and component fine turning; continuously casting; heating a casting blank to the temperature of between 1,220 and 1,280 DEG C; performing rough rolling; performing fine rolling; performing laminar flow cooling; reeling; performing acid-washing; performing cold rolling; annealing; smoothing; finishing; cutting; heating and austenitizing under the protective atmosphere of nitrogen; forming a mold; quenching; tempering; and taking a member out for later use. The steel has ultrahigh intensity, meets the requirements of an automobile industry on the intensity and the rigidity of the safety piece of a vehicle body, can be complicatedly deformed without resilience, has high dimensional accuracy of parts and can be industrially produced on common large production equipment.

An automatic time adjusting device of a GPS of car safety control systems is disclosed. The car safety control system includes at least a car DVR, a GPS receiver and some other components such as a plurality of image sensors, a speaker and a car display monitor so as to achieve monitoring for vehicular safety. The GPS receiver receives the location information, clock signals of the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and standard second signal from a GPS satellite. By means of a time zone setting unit, the value of the time difference between the GMT and each of 24 the time zones on earth is provided according to the GPS location information. Then a microprocessor calculates the value of the time difference and determines the current time data such as the values of year / month / day / hour / minute / second in accordance with the car location. Due to connections between the car DVR, the GPS receiver, the time zone setting unit and the microprocessor, the current time data and / or location information such as the latitude and longitude of vehicles are / is recorded and displayed synchronously in the digital image data of the car DVR or displayed on a display unit of the car DVR. Therefore, performance of the car safety control system is improved.

Methods and systems for gauging vehicle movement for use in facilitating automotive safety. In an example embodiment, a determination is made whether or not one or more objects (e.g., a car, a truck, a motorcycle, a bicycle, a pedestrian, etc) are in motion with respect to a vehicle in which a user / occupant of a vehicle is located, in response to identifying such objects with respect to the vehicle in which the user of the vehicle is located. The speed and trajectory of the identified object and the environmental condition surrounding the vehicle can be estimated, if it is determined that the identified object or objects are in motion. The speed and trajectory of the identified object can be then correlated with the environmental condition (e.g., whether it is raining, snowing, etc) and the type of identified object (e.g., a car or a particular make and model of the car, a pedestrian, etc) to generate data indicative of the speed and the trajectory of the identified object, which takes into account the environmental conditions (e.g., weather, rain, wind, temperature, pressure, etc) surrounding the vehicle and the type of identified object. An alert can be then generated that is indicative of safety factors such as as the speed and trajectory of the identified object or objects.

The invention relates to a new method and a system for predicting intersection vehicle collision risk based on vehicle and road synergy. The method and the system predict motion state parameters of adjacent vehicles which have travelling intention conflicts in adjacent area range, and through predicting whether a vehicle in neighbourhood would get into a conflict area of a tested vehicle, and closeness degree of the vehicle and the tested vehicle in the conflict area, the method and the system can determine current travelling safety state of the tested vehicle and predict conflict risk degreeof vehicles. The method and the system give full consideration to travelling intentions of drivers of adjacent vehicles and vehicle relative motion states, to predict relative motion trends of the adjacent vehicles. The method and the system improve accuracy of vehicle conflict risk identification under complex road traffic environment, and are easy to implement. The method is low in complexity, and can be widely used in driving simulator, vehicle collision risk early warning, and vehicle safety auxiliary driving system. The method and the system are used to evaluate and predict track crossingof moving vehicles and collision risk.

A blanket is placed upon an infant in a car seat. The blanket has contoured sleeves and an open back construction of the blanket, as well as stabilization means for securing the base section of the blanket onto an outer, exterior bottom portion of the seat. With these features, the blanket can be readily donned upon an infant that is buckled within a car safety seat without the need to adjust safety straps. The travel blanket includes a base section constructed with a base periphery integrated with the base stabilization means. Lateral sections of the travel blanket further include lateral perimeters appointed for aiding in securing the lateral sections over the infant, without wrapping the torso of the infant. Contoured arm sleeves provide enhanced safety to infants. The sleeves snuggly fit over the infant's wrists and do not have loose flowing material about the arms and wrists, which could present a suffocation risk. Construction of the travel blanket ensures a significant amount of coverage over the entire body of the infant that does not contribute to shifting, zero wrapping of the infant's body / torso, and minimal jostling of the infant when applied.

The invention belongs to the field of automobile safety and discloses a method and a system for preventing asphyxia in an automobile. The method comprises the following steps: detecting whether windows of an automobile are opened in a parking state or not; if the windows are not opened, respectively detecting the concentration of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and oxygen in the automobile and the temperature in the automobile according to a first preset period; judging whether people or pets are in the automobile according to the change of the concentration and the temperature; if the people or the pets are in the automobile, when the concentration of the carbon monoxide or the carbon dioxide is larger than a default concentration threshold value of the carbon monoxide or the carbon dioxide, controlling an automotive air conditioner to keep in or enter an outer loop working mode and controlling a preset skylight to open for a preset range; if the people or the pets are not in the automobile, stopping detecting the concentration of the carbon monoxide, the carbon dioxide and the oxygen in the automobile. The method for preventing the asphyxia in the automobile provided by the embodiment of the invention has the benefit that when the people or the pets are in the sealed automobile, no asphyxia can be generated.

A safety device for motor vehicles, having a sensor system for locating objects at least on one adjacent lane next to one's own lane, and having a prediction module for predicting a degree of blocking of at least one adjacent lane, the prediction module being configured for predicting a degree of blocking of the adjacent lane by hitherto non-located objects as a function of information about located objects. Also described is a method including the operations of locating an object on the adjacent lane next to one's own lane of a motor vehicle, predicting a degree of blocking of the adjacent lane by hitherto non-located objects as a function of the performed object location.

A car seat includes a seat member on which the child is transported and a separable base member that is mounted to the vehicle seat via the vehicle seat belt which is passed through side openings in the base member and trapped in a belt latch apparatus to secure the base member to the vehicle seat. The seat member is mounted on the base member in either a forward-facing orientation or a rear-facing orientation. The base member includes a pair of upper and lower recline slots that receive latch pins securing the seat member to the base member. A recline apparatus carried by the seat member engages a central control rack on the base member to lock the seat member in a selected recline position. In the rear-facing position, the seat member is positionable in different orientations to compensate for the angle at which the vehicle seat is formed.