Trailer hitching assistance system with contact mitigation measures

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11358639
APP PUB NO 20210284238A1
SERIAL NO

16815080

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A system for assisting in aligning a vehicle for hitching with a trailer includes a controller that receives the scene data and identifying the trailer within the area to the rear of the vehicle, derives a backing path to align a hitch ball mounted on the vehicle to a coupler of the trailer, outputting a powertrain control signal to the vehicle powertrain control system, and a brake control signal to the vehicle brake system to maneuver the vehicle, including reversing along the backing path and stopping the vehicle at an endpoint of the path, and outputs a video image to the vehicle human-machine interface including a graphical overlay on the image data. The graphical overlay indicates potential movement of the hitch ball past the coupler and being positioned in the image data between a bumper of the vehicle and the hitch ball.

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  • FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Mattern, Donald Jacob Canton, US 31 507
Niewiadomski, Luke Dearborn, US 85 209
Raeis, Hosseiny Seyed Armin Canton, US 26 30
Schmatz, Craig Birmingham, US 1 1
Sharma, Arnav Canton, US 14 18
Trombley, Roger Arnold Ann Arbor, US 90 4989
Xu, Li Northville, US 379 6790

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