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US 11,001,201 B2Granted
Haptic feedback for transmission shifter
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsKeith Weston, Ryan Orourke, Enzo Campagnolo, Edwin Ho, Trystan Magnuson, Nikhil Subramaniam
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Abstract
A system includes a vehicle transmission shifter input device; and a computer. The computer includes a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions such that the processor is programmed to detect, via the shifter input device, a user input to shift the vehicle transmission; and generate, a haptic feedback via the shifter input device.
Claims17
A system comprising:
- a transmission shifter input device on a vehicle;
- and
- a computer comprising a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions such that the processor is programmed to:
- detect, via the shifter input device, a user input to shift the vehicle transmission;
- and
- generate, via the shifter input device, a haptic feedback by a haptic feedback device located on or in the shifter input device;
- wherein the transmission shifter input device is one of a paddle shifter mounted on a steering wheel of the vehicle or a console shifter mounted on a console of the vehicle;
- and
- wherein detecting the user input includes, for an amount of time greater than a predetermined amount of time, detecting one of a displacement of the transmission shifter input device greater than a predetermined displacement or a force applied to the transmission shifter input device greater than a predetermined force.
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A system comprising:
- a transmission shifter input device on a vehicle;
- and
- a computer comprising a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions such that the processor is programmed to:
- detect, via the shifter input device, a user input to shift the vehicle transmission;
- and
- generate, via the shifter input device, a haptic feedback, wherein a characteristic of the haptic feedback is based on an engine speed or motor speed at a time of detecting the user input to shift the vehicle transmission, wherein the haptic feedback is a sequence with a first amplitude for a first duration followed by a second amplitude for a second duration.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.