Autonomous vehicles and methods of using same

US11458981B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Motherson Innovations Company Limited · GB

Inventors

• Romeo Wieczorek · Eßlingen, DE
• Reinhold Langbein · Eßlingen, DE
• Matthias Koller · Stuttgart, DE
• Yijun Zhao · Stuttgart, DE
• Thomas A. Nugraha · Tokyo, JP
• Gianluca Caretta · Regensburg, DE
• David-Kenneth Jaeger · Stuttgart, DE
• Ilka Rötzer · Köngen, DE
• Andreas Herrmann · Stuttgart, DE
• Mukesh Patel · Coppell, US
• Jan Dormanns · Waldkirch, DE
• Torsten Weingärtner · Göttingen, DE
• Yann Buchet · Strasbourg, FR
• Alf Liesener · Bruchköbel, DE
• Stefanie Göttlicher · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 9, 2019
• Grant date: Oct 4, 2022
• Expiry date: Sep 18, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60W2540/225
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicle includes one or more sensors arranged on at least one of a dashboard, a roof, and a center console of the vehicle, or one or more image capturing devices for capturing one or more images from a left side and a right side of the vehicle, an electronic control unit (ECU) configured to communicate with the one or more sensors or the one or more image capturing devices, and at least one of a morphing surface, a windshield display, and one or more displays configured to be controlled by the ECU, where the one or more sensors are arranged under a black panel surface.