US 11,840,247 B2
System and method for defining a specification of a vehicle
Daniel Barel, Herzliya (IL); Keren Shemesh, Herzliya (IL); Ran Dekel, Nofit (IL); Damian Andrew Harty, Staffordshire (GB); Ami Berger, Tel Aviv (IL); and Kimberly Mathers, Windsor (CA)
Assigned to REE Automotive Ltd., Kibbutz Glil-Yam (IL)
Filed by REE AUTOMOTIVE LTD., Kibbutz Glil Yam (IL)
Filed on Nov. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/992,013.
Application 17/992,013 is a continuation of application No. PCT/IB2022/053092, filed on Apr. 3, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/173,460, filed on Apr. 11, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0099914 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. B62D 63/02 (2006.01); B60W 50/08 (2020.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 50/085 (2013.01) [B62D 63/025 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0063 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
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.