Method and apparatus for estimating stress on a vehicle base plate
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsStuart C. Salter, David Brian Glickman, Brendan Diamond, William Wurz, Shawn Ferret, William Jackson
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Abstract
A base plate system includes at least one base plate configured to support at least one accessory and at least one sensor that is configured to determine at least one characteristic of the at least one accessory and/or the at least one base plate. A controller uses the at least one characteristic to estimate a stress and/or strain caused by the at least one accessory on the at least one base plate and predicts how the stress and/or strain could change depending on position of the at least one accessory and/or orientation of the at least one base plate within a vehicle.
Claims20
A base plate system, comprising:
- at least one base plate configured to support at least one accessory;
- at least one sensor configured to determine at least one characteristic of the at least one accessory and/or the at least one base plate;
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- a controller that uses the at least one characteristic to estimate a stress and/or strain caused by the at least one accessory on the at least one base plate and predicts how the stress and/or strain could change depending on position of the at least one accessory and/or orientation of the at least one base plate within a vehicle.
A method comprising:
- estimating a stress and/or strain caused by at least one accessory supported on at least one base plate;
- sensing at least one characteristic of the at least one accessory and/or the at least one base plate to provide input data;
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- predicting how the stress and/or strain could change depending on position of the at least one accessory and/or orientation of the at least one base plate within a vehicle based on the input data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.