Abstract:
A vehicle wiper assembly includes a wiper blade having a length, and an active material disposed along the length of the wiper blade and coupled thereto. The active material includes a shape memory alloy material with a crystallographic phase that is changeable between austenite and martensite, and is elastically deformable and operatively applies a spring force against a portion of the wiper blade when the crystallographic phase is martensite.
Abstract:
A system having an annotation module that annotates, using a master ontology, unstructured verbatim regarding a product and related issue, and a customer-observable (CO) construction module determining associations amongst terminology in the annotated output, yielding a group of CO pairs. A CO merging module merges at least one first CO pair into a second CO pair based on similarities. A pointwise mutual-information module determines which CO pairs of the group of merged CO pairs are relatively more-severe or more-relevant, yielding a group of critical CO pairs. An output module initiates activity to implement the results, such as by automated repair of the product or change to product design or manufacturing process. The system in some embodiments identifies, using a subject-matter-expert (SME) database, features of false-positive associations, and in machine-learning implements the features to improve CO formation going forward.
Abstract:
A vehicle wiper assembly includes a wiper blade having a length, and an active material disposed along the length of the wiper blade and coupled thereto. The active material includes a shape memory alloy material with a crystallographic phase that is changeable between austenite and martensite, and is elastically deformable and operatively applies a spring force against a portion of the wiper blade when the crystallographic phase is martensite.
Abstract:
A vehicle including a hybrid battery pack includes a first battery pack and a second battery pack. The first battery pack has a higher energy density than the second battery pack. The second battery pack has a higher power density than the first battery pack. A power inverter module is connected between the hybrid battery pack and a motor generator unit (MGU) that is connected to a powertrain of the vehicle. The power inverter module is configured to regulate power flow between the hybrid battery pack and the MGU. A battery management module is configured to: control switching of the power inverter module; selectively charge and discharge at least one of the first battery pack and the second battery pack; and selectively charge the first battery pack with power from the second battery pack.
Abstract:
A method and system to determine relatedness select a first customer observable from a first source document, the first customer observable being made up of two terms, the two terms being a first term of a first type and a first term of a second type, and select a second customer observable from a second source document, the second customer observable being made up of a second term of the first type and a second term of the second type. The method includes creating a first corpus of all documents that include the first terms, creating a second corpus of all documents that include the second terms, obtaining other first terms in the first corpus and other second in the second corpus, and performing semantic similarity analysis to determine a similarity score between the first customer observable and the second customer observable.
Abstract:
A method and system to determine relatedness select a first customer observable from a first source document, the first customer observable being made up of two terms, the two terms being a first term of a first type and a first term of a second type, and select a second customer observable from a second source document, the second customer observable being made up of a second term of the first type and a second term of the second type. The method includes creating a first corpus of all documents that include the first terms, creating a second corpus of all documents that include the second terms, obtaining other first terms in the first corpus and other second in the second corpus, and performing semantic similarity analysis to determine a similarity score between the first customer observable and the second customer observable.
Abstract:
A method of automatically developing an ontology for product function and failure mode documentation for an apparatus. The apparatus is identified. A function-flow model is generated for the identified apparatus for identifying a composite structure of the apparatus. Functions and failure modes associated with the identified apparatus are enumerated. Failure data is obtained from a plurality of heterogeneous data sources. A semantic similarity module is applied to the enumerated failures by comparing a plurality of documents between the data sources. The semantic similarity module bridges a variety of terms used in the heterogeneous data to describe a respective failure. Failures associated with the enumerated apparatus functions are extracted from the plurality of documents between heterogeneous data sources. A composite of related terminology is generated for each identified failure mode. A failure mode information document is generated utilizing the composite of related terminology for each identified failure mode.
Abstract:
Systems and methods disclosed herein include providing an on-sale vehicle, receiving an access request for the on-sale vehicle from a buyer, approving the access request, transmitting at least one authentication key, confirming an identity of the buyer, initiating a test drive, monitoring the test drive, and completing a transaction upon conclusion of the test drive including revoking the at least one authentication key in response to the buyer not purchasing the on-sale vehicle or revoking an authentication key of a prior titleholder in response to the buyer purchasing the on-sale vehicle.