Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wireless vehicle-trailer interface system
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Application No.: US15474834Application Date: 2017-03-30
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Publication No.: US10168708B2Publication Date: 2019-01-01
- Inventor: Daniel T. Cohen , Nadav Lavi , Kobi Scheim , Andrew R. Camden
- Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Detroit
- Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
- Current Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Detroit
- Agency: Lorenz & Kopf, LLP
- Main IPC: G05D1/00
- IPC: G05D1/00 ; G05D1/02 ; B60W10/04 ; B60W10/20 ; B60W30/18 ; B60W50/14 ; G01S13/76 ; B60W10/184

Abstract:
A wireless vehicle-trailer interface system for communication between a vehicle and a trailer is provided. The vehicle may include a vehicle hitch, a vehicle control system, a vehicle radio frequency system, and a processor, the processor configured to generate a unique data packet for each vehicle radio frequency system, determine, for each received response packet, a distance between a corresponding receiving vehicle radio frequency system and a corresponding transmitting trailer radio frequency systems, determine a relative physical position of each vehicle radio frequency system and trailer radio frequency system, determine dimensions of the trailer, determine a physical position of a vehicle hitch and a trailer coupled, and generate instructions for the vehicle control system to cause the vehicle to move to align the vehicle hitch with a trailer coupler.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180284781A1 WIRELESS VEHICLE-TRAILER INTERFACE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2018-10-04
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