US 12,168,492 B2
Vehicle corner modules and vehicles comprising them
Ahishay Sardes, Tel Aviv (IL); Tomer Segev, Tel Aviv (IL); Ran Dekel, Nofit (IL); Shmuel Chioclea, Tel Aviv (IL); and Neta Doron, Tel Aviv (IL)
Assigned to REE AUTOMOTIVE LTD, Kibbutz Glil Yam (IL)
Appl. No. 17/789,216
Filed by REE AUTOMOTIVE LTD., Kibbutz Glil-Yam (IL)
PCT Filed Dec. 31, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/062598
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 27, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/137194, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 8, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/956,358, filed on Jan. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0037230 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B60K 7/00 (2006.01); B60K 23/00 (2006.01); B60K 26/00 (2006.01); B60W 10/08 (2006.01); B60W 10/18 (2012.01); B60W 10/20 (2006.01); B60W 10/22 (2006.01); B60W 50/02 (2012.01); B60W 50/029 (2012.01); B62D 65/04 (2006.01); H04L 12/40 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 65/04 (2013.01) [B60K 7/0007 (2013.01); B60K 23/00 (2013.01); B60K 26/00 (2013.01); B60W 10/08 (2013.01); B60W 10/18 (2013.01); B60W 10/20 (2013.01); B60W 10/22 (2013.01); B60W 50/0205 (2013.01); B60W 50/029 (2013.01); H04L 12/40 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0292 (2013.01); B60W 2556/10 (2020.02); H04L 2012/40273 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A vehicle corner module (VCM) mountable to a vehicle for regulating motion thereof, the vehicle comprising a vehicle-controller onboard the vehicle, the VCM comprising:
a. a wheel-hub for coupling a wheel to the VCM;
b. a plurality of sub-systems comprising at least two of a drive subsystem, a steering subsystem, a suspension subsystem and a braking subsystem; and
c. a VCM-controller onboard the VCM, comprising one or more processors and a computer-readable medium storing program instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
i. establish a communication link with a vehicle-controller, wherein the establishing includes electronically transferring information about the VCM from the VCM-controller to the vehicle-controller, and
ii. perform, in response to an installation of the VCM on a vehicle, a post-installation validation-process that includes validating the plurality of subsystems and communicating a result of the validating to the vehicle-controller.