17 results about "Contact patch" patented technology

The invention relates to a method for stabilizing a motor vehicle during emergency braking. For this purpose, direction-alternating micro-steering impulses are automatically superimposed on the steering system during the braking process, which cause a lateral micro-migration of the tire-road contact surface. The micro-steering impulses have an amplitude below that of the steering angle change consciously perceived by the driver and are designed to relieve thermally overloaded contact segments and cyclically engage adjacent, adhesive contact areas. This stabilizes the usable coefficient of friction on the tire contact patch. The procedure helps, particularly in dangerous situations during emergency braking on straight stretches or in curves, to compensate for a decrease in lateral grip and to maintain vehicle stability and steerability.

The invention relates to a method and system for stabilising a motor vehicle during emergency braking on straight and curved roads. Small, direction-alternating micro-steering impulses are superimposed on the steering system, causing lateral micro-migration of the tyre-road contact patch in the millimetre range. Thermally overloaded micro-areas are relieved and adjacent high-grip segments are activated, improving usable friction and maintaining steerability. Two modes are provided: a symmetrical impulse pattern for straight-line braking (Mode A) and an asymmetrical pattern with an impulse-time bias for braking in curves (Mode B). A transition mode interpolates between both. Activation is based on TACTOS sensor signals indicating thermal, structural-dynamic or slip-instability conditions. The system is compatible with ABS and ESC and may be used in heavy goods vehicles, trailer combinations and autonomous vehicles. A computer program and an electronic control unit for performing the method are also disclosed.

The invention relates to static tire load estimation. A system is provided that includes a tire disposed on a rim of a wheel, and a light-based sensor array disposed circumferentially around the rim, where each light-based sensor in the light-based sensor array is directed toward the tire. The system includes a computing device that may receive one or more distance readings from a light-based sensor array, generate a parabola that approximates a tire contact area based at least in part on the one or more distance readings, approximate a shape of the contact area based at least in part on the parabola, and generate a plurality of light-based sensors based on the approximate shape of the contact area. And determine a static load estimate based at least in part on the shape of the contact region.

A pneumatic tire includes a tread. The tread includes a pair of shoulder main grooves, and shoulder ribs disposed further outward in the tire axial direction relative to the shoulder main grooves, respectively. Each of the shoulder ribs includes a slit that extends in a direction intersecting the shoulder main grooves and terminates within the shoulder rib. The slit has an inward end in the tire axial direction, and the inward end is disposed further inward in the tire axial direction relative to a contact end of the tread. The tread includes a contact patch having a rectangle ratio A of 0.6 or more and 0.7 or less.

This invention provides a deep learning-based intelligent analysis method and system for multimodal heterogeneous data, relating to the field of multimodal data processing technology. The method includes: acquiring multimodal raw data during urban rail transit train operation; performing timestamp synchronization alignment and dimension normalization on the raw multimodal data to obtain a standardized multimodal data sequence; inputting the standardized multimodal data sequence into corresponding modality-specific feature extraction networks to obtain modality feature vector sets with quality assessment labels; inputting the modality feature vector sets with quality assessment labels into a signal-to-noise ratio adaptive cross-modal feature alignment network; and spatially projecting and mapping the data onto the train's key physical structures to locate three multidimensional sensing anchors: the lateral stiffness node of the bogie side beam, the center of the wheelset tread contact patch, and the traction motor rotor air gap monitoring point. This invention enables accurate identification and graded early warning of bogie faults, wheelset wear, and power supply anomalies.

The present specification provides a sensor unit, computing device, system, and method for monitoring tire performance in a power efficient way. This system uses the sensor unit including a contact patch sensor and a microcontroller, a computing device, and a server to determine the tire wear and tire load of a tire. This method of monitoring tire load and tire wear improves over traditional methods by providing continuous monitoring in a power efficient operation.

The invention relates to a method and a system for stabilizing a motor vehicle during an acceleration maneuver. A slip condition of one or more wheels is detected on the basis of vehicle dynamics variables, including wheel speeds, yaw rate and lateral acceleration. Depending on the detected slip, alternating micro-steering impulses or micro-steering torque impulses are automatically applied to a steering system, the impulses having sub-degree steering angle variations and generating a lateral micro-movement of the tire contact patch. The micro-impulses serve to stabilize lateral forces and are executed in two operating modes: a symmetric mode for acceleration in substantially straight- line travel and an asymmetric mode with an impulse-time bias for acceleration in cornering. The impulse parameters are adapted to steering angle, yaw rate and lateral acceleration. The invention further comprises a system with sensors, a control unit and an actuator for generating the micro-steering impulses.

A control system (300) for controlling an actuator arrangement (104) of a vehicle (100), the actuator arrangement being capable of modifying a camber angle of at least one wheel of the vehicle, the control system comprising one or more controller (301), wherein the control system is configured to: receive (1004) surface information indicative of a low-traction surface over which the vehicle is travelling; and independence on receiving the surface information, control (1012) the actuator arrangement of the vehicle such that a wheel-to-surface contact patch of the at least one wheel is laterally moved relative to the vehicle as a result of camber modification.

To provide a method for accurately estimating the wear of a tire during driving, independent of its wear pattern, the wear is estimated using an index of deformation rate at or near the tire contact patch, a contact time ratio, and deflection. The deformation rate index is calculated based on the magnitude of either or both of the positive and negative peaks in the radial acceleration waveform obtained by differentiating the time-series waveform of the tire's radial acceleration detected by an accelerometer mounted on the tire. The contact time ratio is the ratio of the contact time (the time interval between the positive and negative peaks) to the tire's rotation time (the time interval between either the positive or negative peaks). The deflection is the difference between the tire radius (the radius of the tire when unloaded) and the effective radius (the radius of the tire when in motion).

A damper wedge for a railroad car truck includes a friction member that rides on the wear plate of the side frame column of the railroad car truck and a non-metallic wear surface; and a spring seat that, in use, engages a spring of the railroad car truck. The inclined damper wedge surface has a primary angle alpha, and a secondary angle beta. The spring seat has an axial centerline. The inclined damper wedge surface has a curvature. The curvature has a working point. The damper wedge has a datum plane that is normal to the non-metallic wear surface and that contains the axial centerline. The axial centerline meets the inclined damper wedge surface at an intersection point that is the center of a contact patch. The working point is located in a central region of the contact patch, or working surface patch, downslope of the intersection point.

The utility model discloses a contact structure of a toggle switch, which comprises a shell, a pair of static contacts arranged on the inner bottom wall of the shell, a contact piece capable of doing seesaw motion arranged at the inner bottom of the shell, movable contacts arranged at the bottoms of two ends of the contact piece, and compensation springs arranged between the movable contacts and the contact piece. The contact piece does the seesaw motion to enable the movable contact to be in contact with the static contact; an operation handle capable of swinging left and right penetrates through the top end of the shell, an action wheel is arranged at the bottom end of the operation handle, an action spring is assembled at the bottom in the operation handle and pushes the action wheel to make elastic contact with the contact piece, and the operation handle swings to drive the action wheel to roll along the contact piece and enable the contact piece to make warping movement. The circuit breaker has a contact compensation effect, and can effectively avoid the phenomenon of circuit failure caused by poor contact due to frequent touch and abrasion of contacts.

Systems and methods of tire monitor auto location are disclosed. A tire pressure monitoring system generates output signals to communicate with tire monitors mounted on tires of a vehicle. Times associated with return signals responsive to the output signals are used to determine a distance of the tire monitors and / or an angular displacement of the tire monitors. Using these techniques, monitors may be located without the need for vehicle operation. In other examples, accelerometers and / or contact patch measurements can be used to auto-locate tire monitors, e.g., while the vehicle is in operation.

The invention relates to a method and a system for stabilizing a motor vehicle during acceleration. Here, a slip condition of one or more wheels is detected based on vehicle dynamics measurements, including wheel speeds, yaw rate, and lateral acceleration. Depending on this, direction-alternating micro-steering impulses or micro-steering torque impulses are automatically applied to a steering system. These impulses exhibit steering angle changes in the sub-degree range and generate a lateral micro-movement of the tire contact patch. The micro-impulses serve to stabilize lateral forces and are executed in two operating modes: a symmetrical mode for acceleration in nearly straight-line driving and an asymmetrical mode with impulse time bias for acceleration in cornering. The impulse parameters are adaptively adjusted to the steering angle, yaw rate, and lateral acceleration.The invention further comprises a corresponding system with sensors, a control unit and an actuator for generating the micro steering impulses.

In this tire for a heavy load 1: tread rubber 7 includes a cap layer 7c and a base layer 7b that is disposed on the tire inner circumferential side relative to the cap layer 7c; the cap layer 7c includes a cap surface layer 7c1 and a cap intermediate layer 7c2 that is disposed on the tire inner circumferential side relative to the cap surface layer 7c1 and is formed from a type of rubber different from the rubber that forms the cap surface layer 7c1; and in at least one tire half Q relative to the tire equatorial plane CL, the thickness of the cap intermediate layer 7c2 between a prescribed tire width direction position X that is a prescribed distance from the tire equatorial plane CL and a tire width direction position D at a contact patch edge TE is thinner than the thickness of the cap intermediate layer 7c2 inward in the tire width direction relative to the prescribed tire width direction position X.

This invention discloses a method for predicting the macroscopic friction coefficient of tires based on the microscopic friction properties of tread rubber, belonging to the field of tire friction coefficient prediction technology. The method first obtains the shape and pressure distribution of the tire contact patch through experiments or simulations, establishing a three-dimensional complex contact patch model considering longitudinal grooves. Then, by conducting friction tests on tread rubber blocks, a microscopic friction model is established to show how the friction coefficient varies with contact pressure and slip velocity. Next, the slip velocity distribution within the contact patch is calculated, and combined with the contact pressure and the microscopic friction model, the friction coefficient at each point within the patch is determined. Finally, by integrating the stress over the entire contact patch area, the longitudinal dynamic friction coefficient of the tire is obtained, achieving accurate prediction from the microscopic properties of the tread rubber material to the overall macroscopic friction coefficient of the tire. This invention improves prediction accuracy, shortens the development cycle, and provides an effective tool for tire design and virtual vehicle matching.

The utility model discloses a control switch rotation structure and control switch belong to the technical field of automobile accessories, the rotation structure includes casing, handle assembly and steering support, and the both sides of steering support are equipped with the rotation groove of integrated molding, and the ball support structure is arranged in the groove. The convex block is equipped with in the casing inner wall corresponding rotation groove, and the convex block extends into the rotation groove and contacts and cooperates with the top of ball support structure. The axis of ball support structure coincides with the rotation groove axis, and the surface is smooth curved surface, and adopts wear -resisting material to make. Control switch still includes circuit board and contact patch assembly, and steering support is driven contact patch to slide on the circuit board through the lever, realizes signal switching, and the utility model discloses the linkage of steering support and casing is realized through the cooperation mode of ball support structure and convex block, has improved the rotation precision and service life of part significantly, has reduced the friction and abrasion, has reduced the maintenance cost.

The invention discloses a gear howling evaluation method and system based on contact spot unbalance loading quantification, and relates to the technical field of gear transmission NVH performance evaluation. The objective of the invention is to solve the problems of high subjectivity, inaccurate quantification and absence of actual perception of a user of an existing gear howling evaluation method. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring tooth surface contact characteristic data of a gear pair under a plurality of load working conditions; dividing the working conditions into intervals according to howling sensitivity and distributing different weights; for each working condition, quantitative unbalance loading parameters representing contact spot position offset and form divergence are calculated and integrated into single-working-condition load offset measurement; and finally, performing weighted collection on the offset measurement of each working condition to obtain a comprehensive performance evaluation index. According to the method, by establishing a quantitative unbalance loading and sensitivity weighting evaluation system, objective, accurate and practical evaluation on the gear howling performance is realized, and the evaluation efficiency and the accuracy of optimization guidance are remarkably improved.