Patent classifications
B60B27/0068
AUTOMATIC WHEEL CONFIGURING DEVICE
The disclosure provides an automatic wheel configuring device that configures a wheel according to the inclination of a hub of a vehicle. The automatic wheel configuring device includes a detection device. The detection device takes an image of the hub or the wheel of the vehicle, and detects the positions of the hub bolts or the positions of the bolt holes of the wheel. The detection device includes an acquisition portion and a circle extraction portion. The acquisition portion acquires basic position information on the positions of the hub bolts or the positions of the bolt holes of the wheel. The circle extraction portion extracts a plurality of circles present in the captured image. Among the combinations of a plurality of circles, the circle extraction portion extracts a combination that matches the basic position information as a combination of hub bolts or a combination of bolt holes.
FAULT TOLERANCE DECISION-MAKING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SENSOR FAILURE OF VEHICULAR WHEEL HUB DRIVING SYSTEM
The present invention belongs to the technical field of electric automobiles and particularly relates to a fault tolerance decision-making method and system for sensor failure of a vehicular wheel hub driving system. The method comprises a current sensor failure diagnostic process, a position/velocity sensor failure diagnostic process and a selection process for a wheel hub motor fault tolerance control method. The system comprises a current sensor failure diagnostic module, a position/velocity sensor failure diagnostic module and a selection module for a wheel hub motor fault tolerance control method. The position/velocity sensor failure diagnostic module further comprises a fault tolerance control switching module. The present invention has the characteristics of establishing a control strategy decision-making mechanism oriented to random complicated current and position sensor failure conditions and designing a multivariable decision-making model according to a vehicular velocity range and a sensor fault condition to realize a fault tolerance control process compatible with a full velocity range.
SENSORIZED SUSPENSION ASSEMBLY FOR VEHICLES, INCLUDING A WHEEL HUB UNIT AND A SUSPENSION UPRIGHT OR KNUCKLE, AND AN ASSOCIATED METHOD AND WHEEL HUB UNIT
In a vehicle suspension assembly a sensorized system applied to a wheel hub unit, in which radially outer cylindrical surface of an outer ring of the wheel hub unit configured for coupling to a suspension upright or knuckle has four circumferential flats formed to be angularly spaced from each other on the radially outer lateral cylindrical surface, each flat delimiting a plane surface which extends axially over a pair of annular tracks for rolling bodies of the outer ring; each flat carries integrally a sensor module including a pair of extensometers positioned parallel to each other and each at the position of a respective annular track, orientated in a circumferential direction so as to extend along a circumferential development of the annular track; an electrical circuit picks up a signal from each sensor module and sends it to a data socket carried by the suspension upright or knuckle.
Detection device for wheel hub assembly
Detection device for a wheel hub assembly provided with a rolling bearing, the detection device having a phonic wheel made of magnetized material and mounted on a rotating ring of the bearing, a shaped support element angularly constrained to the rotating ring of the bearing arranged directly between the phonic wheel and the rotating ring so as to angularly lock together the phonic ring and the rotating ring, and a sensor facing the phonic wheel; a protection device being integral with the rotating ring of the bearing so as to protect simultaneously both the phonic wheel and the sensor from external contaminants.
Wheel hub assembly with internal load sensors
A hub assembly includes an inner rotatable hub having inboard and outboard axial ends, a radial flange extending outwardly from the outboard axial end and connectable with the wheel, an inner circumferential surface, and an opposing outer circumferential surface providing inboard and outboard inner races. An outer hub is disposed about the inner hub, connectable with the chassis and has inboard and outboard axial ends, an outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface. The inner surface provides inboard and outboard outer races and a central surface section extending between the two outer races. First and second sets of rolling elements are disposed between the inner and outer races. One or more sensors are each disposed on the central surface section of the outer hub and are each configured to sense strain within the outer hub generated by the rolling elements.
Driveline disconnect assembly
A driveline disconnect assembly disconnects a wheel hub from a drive shaft supported by a grounding component, such as a suspension knuckle. The driveline disconnect assembly includes a support frame that is fixedly secured to the grounding component. The support frame extends around at least a portion of the drive shaft and extends between first and second support frame sides. The support frame defines a central axis. A linear actuator is fixedly secured to the support frame and extends around at least a portion of the drive shaft. The linear actuator includes a shift sleeve moving axially relative to the support frame. The shift sleeve extends around at least a portion of the drive shaft to selectively engage and disengage the wheel hub to connect and disconnect the wheel hub from the drive shaft, respectively.
Wheel bearing having improved structures of tone wheel and tone wheel mounting part
There is provided a wheel bearing for rotatably mounting and supporting a wheel of a vehicle to a vehicle body. The wheel bearing includes a rotary element on which the wheel of the vehicle is mounted and which rotates together with the wheel; a non-rotary element mounted on a chassis component of the vehicle and fixed to the vehicle body; and one or more rolling elements provided between the rotary element and the non-rotary element and configured to rotatably support the rotary element relative to the non-rotary element. The rotary element includes a wheel mounting flange used for mounting the wheel, and a tone wheel or an encoder configured to measure a rotational speed of the wheel may be mounted on a vehicle-body-side end surface of the wheel mounting flange.
SENSORISED WHEEL HUB UNIT FOR VEHICLES, ASSOCIATED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING FINAL LOADS ON WHEELS
Sensorised wheel hub unit and a method for detecting, in real time, forces and moments applied to an outer ring of the wheel hub unit in which piezoresistive ceramic plates are made of one piece with welded metal plates housed within respective recesses formed in an outer surface of the outer ring over respective races for rolling elements that there is a gap between the plates and a base wall of each recess; the temperature of the outer ring and the amplitude and frequency of first electrical signals (S1) associated with the sensors relating to the same race are analysed to determine a frequency value equal to the frequency of the first signal having the maximum amplitude and as many amplitude values (D1-Dn) as there are sensors associated with that race and each equal to the maximum amplitude of the first signal from each sensor, corrected according to temperature.
MONITORING DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE, WARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A MONITORING DEVICE
The present invention relates to a monitoring device (100) comprising at least one measuring device with a temperature sensor unit (110) for wheel hub temperature and/or with a tire-pressure sensor unit (1501) and comprising a transmitting unit (115). The tire-pressure sensor unit (1501) is designed to sense a tire pressure of at least one wheel tire of a wheel of the vehicle; more particularly, the tire-pressure sensor unit (1501) is designed to draw electrical energy from the transmitting unit (115), which is external to the tire-pressure sensor unit (1501) and/or is fastened such that the transmitting unit can be spontaneously detached, or to output sensed data to the transmitting unit, and the tire-pressure sensor unit (1501) has a fastening apparatus, which is designed to detachably frictionally attach the tire-pressure sensor unit (1501), in a fastening position, to one or more portions of a wheel hub (120) of the wheel, a hub sleeve (130) of the wheel, a wheel rim (122) and/or a wheel nut (200) of the vehicle. Furthermore, the monitoring device (100) comprises the transmitting unit (115), which can be frictionally attached or fitted onto the wheel hub (120) of the wheel or onto the wheel rim (122) such that the transmitting unit can be spontaneously detached; more particularly, the transmitting unit (115) is designed to wirelessly transmit a sensor signal representing the tire pressure and/or the wheel hub temperature, so that the tire pressure and/or the wheel hub temperature can be monitored.
DYNAMIC TORQUE SENSING DEVICE OF THREAD-ON FREEWHEEL STRUCTURE
A dynamic torque sensing device of a thread-on freewheel structure includes a thread-on freewheel sensing body (1), a stationary housing (2) and a sensor (12). The thread-on freewheel sensing body and the stationary housing are rotatable relative to each other, and the sensor is configured to sense a torque of the thread-on freewheel sensing body. The thread-on freewheel sensing body includes a thread-on freewheel sensing body relatively stationary portion (101), a thread-on freewheel sensing body relatively rotating portion (102) and a thread-on freewheel sensing body intermediary portion (103). The thread-on freewheel sensing body relatively stationary portion, the thread-on freewheel sensing body intermediary portion and the thread-on freewheel sensing body relatively rotating portion are sequentially arranged along an axial direction of the thread-on freewheel sensing body. The thread-on freewheel sensing body intermediary portion is configured to connect the thread-on freewheel sensing body relatively stationary portion to the thread-on freewheel sensing body relatively rotating portion.