Invention Publication
- Patent Title: METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR AND PREVENT TRAILER SWAY OF A VEHICLE AND TRAILER
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Application No.: US17970277Application Date: 2022-10-20
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Publication No.: US20240227782A9Publication Date: 2024-07-11
- Inventor: Keith Weston , Andrew Denis Lewandowski , Matthew Johnson , Brendan Diamond , Jordan Barrett , Andrew Niedert , Lars Niklas Pettersson
- Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Main IPC: B60W30/045
- IPC: B60W30/045 ; B60W40/13 ; B60W50/00

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus to prevent trailer sway are disclosed. An example apparatus to prevent trailer sway of a trailer coupled to a vehicle includes prediction circuitry to predict, based on sensor data from one or more sensors of the vehicle, whether a trailer sway condition associated with the vehicle is likely to occur, and control activation circuitry to, in response to the prediction that the trailer sway is likely to occur, activate at least one vehicle control of the vehicle to prevent the trailer sway condition from occurring, the at least one vehicle control to include applying torque to at least one of one or more trailer wheels of the trailer or one or more vehicle wheels of the vehicle.
Public/Granted literature
- US12233853B2 Methods and apparatus to monitor and prevent trailer sway of a vehicle and trailer Public/Granted day:2025-02-25
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