公开(公告)号：US12099387B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-24

申请号：US16691565

申请日：2019-11-21

Applicant: Zoox, Inc.

Inventor： Carter William McEathron ,  Laura Rose Plaxico ,  Anubhav Thakur ,  Jaime Andres Ocampo Villegas ,  Nicholas John Swatko ,  Silas Kogure Wilkinson

IPC: G06F1/20 ,  B60H1/00 ,  H05K7/20

CPC classification number: G06F1/206 ,  B60H1/00271 ,  H05K7/20854 ,  H05K7/20872 ,  H05K7/20881

Abstract: A thermal management assembly may implement cooling techniques to cool at least a portion of a computer system with one or more cooling systems. The techniques may include using a thermal management assembly in fluid communication with the cooling system(s) to supply fluid from at least one of the cooling systems to at least a portion of the computer system. The techniques may also or instead include using a first thermal coupling to transfer thermal energy between the first cooling system and the computer system and a second thermal coupling to transfer thermal energy between the second cooling system and the computer system. Cooling a computer system using the cooling techniques described herein lowers an operating temperature of the computer system thereby mitigating heat related computer failure.

公开(公告)号：US11861857B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-02

申请号：US17115254

申请日：2020-12-08

Applicant: Zoox, Inc.

Inventor： Subasingha Shaminda Subasingha ,  Yongzhe Chen ,  Mehran Ferdowsi ,  Samuel Holladay ,  Turhan Karadeniz ,  Robert Nicholas Moor ,  Joseph Patrick Warga ,  Harrison Thomas Waschura ,  Silas Kogure Wilkinson

IPC: G06T7/521 ,  G01S17/894 ,  G01B11/22 ,  B60W60/00 ,  G01S17/931

CPC classification number: G06T7/521 ,  B60W60/00272 ,  G01B11/22 ,  G01S17/894 ,  G01S17/931 ,  G06T2207/10028 ,  G06T2207/30241 ,  G06T2207/30252

Abstract: Sensors, including time-of-flight sensors, may be used to detect objects in an environment. In an example, a vehicle may include a time-of-flight sensor that images objects around the vehicle, e.g., so the vehicle can navigate relative to the objects. The sensor may generate first image data at a first configuration and second image data at a second configuration. A disambiguated depth of a surface may be determined from the first image data and the second image data. If the disambiguated depth is greater than a nominal maximum depth of the sensor in the first configuration, an intensity of the surface may be determined from the first image data. If the intensity meets or exceeds a threshold intensity, the surface may be determined to be beyond the nominal maximum depth. If the intensity is less than the threshold intensity, an actual depth of the surface may be determined form the second image data as a distance less than the nominal maximum depth.

公开(公告)号：US20220180538A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-09

申请号：US17115254

申请日：2020-12-08

Applicant: Zoox, Inc.

Inventor： Subasingha Shaminda Subasingha ,  Yongzhe Chen ,  Mehran Ferdowsi ,  Samuel Holladay ,  Turhan Karadeniz ,  Robert Nicholas Moor ,  Joseph Patrick Warga ,  Harrison Thomas Waschura ,  Silas Kogure Wilkinson

IPC: G06T7/521 ,  G01S17/894 ,  G01B11/22 ,  G01S17/931 ,  B60W60/00

Abstract: Sensors, including time-of-flight sensors, may be used to detect objects in an environment. In an example, a vehicle may include a time-of-flight sensor that images objects around the vehicle, e.g., so the vehicle can navigate relative to the objects. The sensor may generate first image data at a first configuration and second image data at a second configuration. A disambiguated depth of a surface may be determined from the first image data and the second image data. If the disambiguated depth is greater than a nominal maximum depth of the sensor in the first configuration, an intensity of the surface may be determined from the first image data. If the intensity meets or exceeds a threshold intensity, the surface may be determined to be beyond the nominal maximum depth. If the intensity is less than the threshold intensity, an actual depth of the surface may be determined form the second image data as a distance less than the nominal maximum depth.

公开(公告)号：US20210157376A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-27

申请号：US16691565

申请日：2019-11-21

Applicant: Zoox, Inc.

Inventor： Carter William McEathron ,  Laura Rose Plaxico ,  Anubhav Thakur ,  Jaime Andres Ocampo Villegas ,  Nicholas John Swatko ,  Silas Kogure Wilkinson

IPC: G06F1/20 ,  H05K7/20 ,  B60H1/00

Abstract: A thermal management assembly may implement cooling techniques to cool at least a portion of a computer system with one or more cooling systems. The techniques may include using a thermal management assembly in fluid communication with the cooling system(s) to supply fluid from at least one of the cooling systems to at least a portion of the computer system. The techniques may also or instead include using a first thermal coupling to transfer thermal energy between the first cooling system and the computer system and a second thermal coupling to transfer thermal energy between the second cooling system and the computer system. Cooling a computer system using the cooling techniques described herein lowers an operating temperature of the computer system thereby mitigating heat related computer failure.