System and method for defining a specification of a vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11840247-B2
Application number	US-202217992013-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 22, 2022
Priority date	Apr 11, 2021
Publication date	Dec 12, 2023
Grant date	Dec 12, 2023

Abstract

Methods, systems, and networks for controlling design and manufacture of mechanically and electrically compliant VCM-based vehicles, in which a user manually and explicitly defines at least one vehicle characteristic and at least one VCM characteristic. User selection of one or more vehicle characteristics ensures that the selection of VCM characteristics will be that of VCM characteristics compatible with the selected vehicle characteristics. Similarly, user selection of one or more VCMs or VCM characteristics ensures that the selection of vehicle characteristics will be that of vehicle characteristics compatible with the selected VCM or VCM characteristics.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of controlling manufacture of a mechanically and electrically compliant Vehicle-Corner-Module (VCM) based vehicle, the method comprising:
a. providing to a display device, associated with a user-operated device, one or more user interface components for manual and explicit selection of one or more initial vehicle characteristics of the vehicle for display thereon;
b. receiving manual and explicit selection of one or more selected initial vehicle characteristics;
c. for the one or more selected initial vehicle characteristics, computing VCM-related mechanical and electrical constraints on a plurality of VCM characteristics, which mechanical and electrical constraints are required for the VCM-based vehicle having the one or more selected initial vehicle characteristics to be compliant;
d. computing a first subset of the plurality of VCM characteristics which are compatible with the VCM-related mechanical and electrical constraints, the first subset being a proper subset of the VCM characteristics;
e. for each VCM characteristic in the first subset, providing to the display device one or more respective user interface components for manual and explicit selection of the VCM characteristic for display thereon, wherein, for each said VCM characteristic, the one or more respective user interface components are provided for display in a specific order;
f. responsive to manual and explicit selection of one or more VCM characteristics in the first subset defining one or more selected VCMs, generating a specification of a mechanically and electrically compliant VCM-based vehicle including the selected initial vehicle characteristics and the one or more selected VCMs.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
g. at least for the one or more selected initial vehicle characteristics, computing additional mechanical and electrical constraints on a plurality of additional vehicle characteristics of the vehicle, which mechanical and electrical constraints are required for the VCM-based vehicle to be compliant;
h. computing a second subset of the plurality of additional vehicle characteristics which are compatible with the additional VCM-based mechanical and electrical constraints, the second subset being a proper subset of the additional vehicle characteristics; and
i. for each additional vehicle characteristic in the second subset, providing to the display device one or more respective user interface components for manual and explicit selection of the additional vehicle characteristic for display thereon, wherein, for each said additional vehicle characteristic, the one or more respective user interface components are provided for display in a second specific order; and
wherein the generating of the specification of the mechanically and electrically compliant VCM-based vehicle is also responsive to manual and explicit selection of one or more additional vehicle characteristics in the second subset.

3. A method of controlling manufacture of a mechanically and electrically compliant Vehicle-Corner-Module (VCM) based vehicle, the method comprising:
a. providing to a display device, one or more user interface components for manual and explicit selection of one or more VCM characteristics of one or more VCMs for display thereon;
b. receiving manual and explicit selection of one or more VCM characteristics of one or more VCMs, to define one or more selected VCMs;
c. for the one or more selected VCMs, computing VCM-based mechanical and electrical constraints on a plurality of vehicle characteristics of the vehicle, which VCM-based mechanical and electrical constraints are required for the vehicle including the one or more selected VCMs to be compliant;
d. computing a subset of the plurality of vehicle characteristics which are compatible with the VCM-based mechanical and electrical constraints, the subset being a proper subset of the plurality of vehicle characteristics;
e. for each vehicle characteristic in the subset, providing to the display device one or more respective user interface components for manual and explicit selection of the vehicle characteristic for display thereon, wherein, for each said vehicle characteristic, the one or more respective user interface components are provided for display in a specific order; and
f. responsive to manual and explicit selection of one or more vehicle characteristics in the subset, generating a specification of a mechanically and electrically compliant VCM-based vehicle including the one or more selected VCMs and the selected one or more vehicle characteristics.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more selected VCMs include at least two VCMs, a first of the at least two VCMs being of a first type, and a second of the at least two VCMs being of a second type, the second type being different from the first type.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein at least one of the first and second types being selected from the group of a VCM having a steering function, a VCM devoid of a steering function, a VCM having a drive function, and a VCM devoid of a drive function.

Assignees

• Ree Automotive Ltd

Inventors

• Barel Daniel
• Shemesh Keren
• Dekel Ran
• Harty Damian Andrew
• Berger Ami
• Mathers Kimberly

Classifications

• B60W50/085 Primary

  Changing the parameters of the control units, e.g. changing limit values, working points by control input · CPC title

• B62D63/025

  Modular vehicles (superstructures for busses having modular sections B62D31/025) · CPC title

• B60W2050/0063

  Manual parameter input, manual setting means, manual initialising or calibrating means · CPC title

• G06F30/15 Primary

  Vehicle, aircraft or watercraft design · CPC title

• B60K7/0007

  the motor being electric · CPC title