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US 2026/0260567 A1Published application
SURVIVAL SPACE™ Vehicle-to-Vehicle Repulsion System
OwnerPankaj Kumarinventor
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A cooperative vehicle safety system mitigates collision severity in mixed-mass traffic by reallocating braking decision timing earlier than human reaction capability. Vehicles broadcast motion and mass data to an edge computing system that performs mass-weighted conflict assessments. When a Time-to-Collision threshold of 1.5 seconds is met, the system transmits mass-aware coordinated braking commands that prioritize earlier deceleration for heavier vehicles. The system creates an expanded Survival Space by reclaiming up to 293 feet of reaction distance at highway speeds, improving survivability without exceeding mechanical braking limits. The architecture includes on-vehicle repeller nodes with 5G-V2X transceivers operating in the 5.895-5.925 GHz band, integrated load cells for real-time mass profiling, and Gateway ECUs with cryptographic authentication capabilities for secure remote intervention.
A cooperative vehicle safety system, comprising at least one on-vehicle repeller node (100) installed on a vehicle, including a 5G-V2X transceiver (102) and a suite of load cells and occupancy sensors (101), said sensors (101) configured to generate a real-time kinetic mass profile of the vehicle, an edge computing system (200) configured to receive state data from multiple vehicles via a PC5 Sidelink interface, the edge computing system (200) configured to calculate a time-to-collision (TTC) value and a mass-weighted collision severity metric, and the edge computing system (200) configured, upon determination that the TTC satisfies a critical threshold, to transmit coordinated braking or deceleration commands to a Gateway ECU (103).
A method for cooperative collision mitigation in mixed-mass traffic, comprising continuously broadcasting vehicle state data including a velocity vector and a hashed mass class at a rate of at least 20 Hz, predicting a threat envelope by calculating a mass-weighted impact severity score at an edge orchestration layer, initiating a cryptographically authenticated Safety Handshake when a trajectory overlap probability exceeds a safe threshold, executing a coordinated brake pre-charge of Brake-by-Wire (401) actuators to recover reaction distance, and performing controlled deceleration in a mass-aware priority order to create a Survival Space of reclaimed reaction distance.
A vehicle gateway apparatus for remote safety intervention, comprising a secure interface configured to receive encrypted intervention commands from a 5G edge node, a logic processor configured to compare remote intervention commands against local manual driver inputs, a command override module configured to lock out manual inputs upon validation of an intervention command, and a haptic feedback module configured to signal control restoration to a driver via a manual driver interface.
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