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https://drivepatents.com/patents/1111450 · 25 Jul 2001
An insulated window system for a vehicle includes a first wall of plastic material disposed in a window opening of the vehicle and a second wall of plastic material disposed in the window opening and spaced a predetermined distance from the first wall to f...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1111407 · 25 Jul 2001
A fuel injector (10), including a housing (12), an armature assembly (14), an injector needle (16), a needle seat (18), a needle guide (20), and a orifice disc (22) containing one or more orifice metering pathways (24). The needle guide (20) contains a cen...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1111564 · 18 Jul 2001
A multiple zone electronic control system and method are provided to control a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system (10) for a vehicle. The control system (36) includes a plurality of sensors (58) to provide inputs relating to multiple z...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1111832 · 4 Jul 2001
A method is provided of determining the windshield fog boundary humidity for automatically controlling a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system of a vehicle. The method includes the steps of determining a windshield parameter for the vehic...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1111830 · 4 Jul 2001
A method of optimized design of an HVAC air-handling assembly for a climate control system on a vehicle includes the steps of generating a basic design of the HVAC air-handling assembly and analyzing a performance of the basic design of the HVAC air-handli...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1111801 · 4 Jul 2001
This invention relates to a method and system for providing a headway function to an activation switch for an adaptive speed control system for a vehicle. The method includes determining whether the adaptive speed control activation switch has been actuate...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1112081 · 27 Jun 2001
A method is provided of preventing windshield fogging for automatically controlling a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system of a vehicle. The method includes the steps of determining whether rain is occurring on a windshield of a vehicle,...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1112077 · 27 Jun 2001
This invention relates to a method and system for continued vehicle control in an adaptive speed control system at a vehicle speed below a minimum operating speed threshold when a sensed target disappears, based on a phantom target generated to compensate ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1112055 · 27 Jun 2001
This invention relates to a method and system, in an adaptive vehicle speed control system, for controlling vehicle speed on a curved path based on the vehicle yaw rate and yaw acceleration. The method includes sensing a yaw rate of the vehicle, determinin...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1112056 · 27 Jun 2001
This invention relates to a method and system for adjusting the following interval of a vehicle equipped with an adaptive speed control system based on the driving surface coefficient of friction. The method includes determining a driving surface coefficie...