TAILGATE LOCKING/UNLOCKING SYSTEM
Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number:
20240101198
A tailgate locking/unlocking system is adapted to lock or unlock a tailgate of a vehicle. The tillage locking/unlocking system includes a rod shaft, a first lock structure, a second lock structure, at least one handle assembly, a first receiver, and a second receiver. The rod shaft is disposed in the tailgate of the vehicle and extended along a width direction thereof. The rod shaft has a first end and a second end opposite to the first end. The first and second lock structures are…
CONTROL DEVICE FOR AUTOMATIC STOP OF VEHICLE
Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240092322
A control device for automatic stop of a vehicle, wherein the vehicle includes a radar and a sonar, the radar detecting a distance to an obstacle and detecting a height of the obstacle from a road surface, the sonar detecting the distance to the obstacle and detecting a signal level of a reflected wave from the obstacle. The control device includes a control unit having a processor configured to output a signal for triggering the automatic stop of the vehicle when the signal level of the…
INSPECTION DEVICE AND INSPECTION METHOD
Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240098363
An inspection device and an inspection method are provided. The inspection device includes: a main body portion, configured to be held by an inspector; a camera portion, disposed on the main body portion and configured to capture an inspected portion of a vehicle; and a guiding portion, configured to guide a camera direction of the camera portion to the inspector, so that an image obtained through the camera portion becomes a prescribed image suitable for inspection.
BUS BAR UNIT FIXING METHOD
Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240097421
A bus bar unit includes a bus bar including two ends and tending from a first end to a second end, and a connector unit molded to be integrated with the bus bar. A first bolt insertion hole is formed in the first end. A second bolt insertion hole is formed in the connector unit. The bus bar unit is fixed, by fixing the bus bar unit to a fixing-object member, connecting the first end to a connection terminal provided on an electronic component, and connecting a cable to the second end. A…
POWER CONVERSION DEVICE
Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240097380
A power conversion device has at least one electronic component, an accommodating case configured to accommodate the electronic component, and a connector unit provided on the accommodating case. The connector unit includes a connector portion provided with an external terminal electrically connected to outside, and a conductive member extending from the connector portion and electrically connecting the connector portion and the electronic component. A fragile portion is formed in the…
SPEECH RECOGNITION DEVICE, SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM
Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240096330
A speech recognition device includes: an acquisition part, acquiring a speech signal; a speech feature amount calculation part, calculating a speech feature amount; a first speech recognition part, based on the speech feature amount, performing speech recognition using a learned first E2E model, attaching a first tag to a vocabulary portion of a specific class in text that is a recognition result, and outputting the same; a second speech recognition part, based on the speech feature…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPLIER RISK PREDICTION AND INTERACTIVE RISK MITIGATION IN AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING
Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240095853
A method for mitigating effects of a shipment time delay of intermediate products and materials in a manufacturing process comprises, in a training phase, obtaining historical supplier data of the intermediate products and materials, obtaining process parameters of the manufacturing process that are observable for the manufacturing process, and obtaining external data that are independent from the manufacturing process. The method applies a machine learning algorithm to generate a model…
CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE
Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240093781
A control device for a vehicle, the vehicle including: a battery; a first rotary electric machine coupled to an axle; a second rotary electric machine coupled to an internal combustion engine; a first power conversion circuit; a second power conversion circuit; a capacitor connected between the battery and connection portions connecting the first power conversion circuit and the second power conversion circuit in parallel; and a switching unit connected between the battery and the…
SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING OBJECT TO BE TRANSPORTED, METHOD FOR TRANSPORTING OBJECT TO BE TRANSPORTED, PROGRAM FOR TRANSPORTING OBJECT TO BE TRANSPORTED, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND HARMFULNESS DETERMINATION DEVICE
Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240092393
A system (1) for transporting an object (10) to be transported that is loaded on a first mobile unit (20) at a first point P1 comprises a harmfulness determination unit (53) that determines the degree of harmfulness of the object (10) to be transported that is loaded on the first mobile unit (20) to living organisms.
VEHICLE
Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240092343
A vehicle including: a first drive unit for driving wheels; a temperature control circuit for the first drive unit; and a control device, in which, when controlling the first drive unit under a first drive mode and executing a temperature increase control, the control device determines, based on a state of the vehicle, whether the drive mode of the first drive unit is changeable to a second drive mode in which an output from a first drive motor of the first drive unit is reduced, on…
SENSOR ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURE
Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240092297
A sensor arrangement structure that makes a sensor tube easy to arrange is disclosed. The sensor arrangement structure includes a bumper beam; a shock absorber disposed in front of the bumper beam and having a groove; and a contact sensor including a sensor tube, in which the sensor tube is disposed between the bumper beam and the shock absorber, the groove is configured to arrange the sensor tube, the groove includes an expansion groove portion, and the expansion groove portion has a…
SENSOR ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURE
Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240092294
A sensor arrangement structure that may improve sensing accuracy of a sensor tube and may make a sensor cover easy to install is disclosed. The sensor arrangement structure includes a bumper beam; a shock absorber disposed in front of the bumper beam; a contact sensor including a sensor tube, in which the sensor tube is disposed between the bumper beam and the shock absorber; and a sensor cover covering the shock absorber from a rear surface of the shock absorber, in which the sensor…
VEHICLE POWER CONVERSION DEVICE
Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240092200
A vehicle power conversion device is mounted in a front room of a vehicle. The vehicle power conversion device has a DCDC converter, an accommodating case configured to accommodate the DCDC converter, and a connector unit provided on the accommodating case. First and second protruding portions are provided in a front region of the accommodating case. The connector unit is provided such that, as viewed in an upper-lower direction, the connector unit is located behind a first virtual line…
LEARNING TYPE-GENERALIZED SKILLS FOR SYMBOLIC PLANNING FOR AUTONOMOUS DEVICES
Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240091932
The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for learning operators for planning a behavior of an autonomous device. The method includes obtaining a set of training data including observations of a plurality of skills executable by the autonomous device in an interaction with at least one entity for addressing a first task, obtaining a predetermined set of data defining a hierarchy of entities including the at least one entity, learning a set of individual skills based…
VEHICLE
Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240083409
A vehicle including: a battery; a voltage control unit that boosts an output voltage of the battery; a main drive unit, including an engine and a main drive motor driven by electric power with a boosted voltage, that outputs a main driving force for driving one of a front wheel and a rear wheel by at least one of the engine and the main drive motor; a sub drive unit, including a sub drive motor driven by the electric power with the boosted voltage, that outputs a sub driving force for…
VEHICLE
Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240083258
A vehicle including: a battery; a voltage control unit that boosts an output voltage of the battery; a main drive unit, including a main drive motor driven by electric power with a boosted voltage, that outputs a main driving force for driving one of a front wheel and a rear wheel; a sub drive unit, including a sub drive motor driven by the electric power with the boosted voltage, that outputs a sub driving force for driving another of the front wheel and the rear wheel; and a control…
DIVISION LINE RECOGNITION APPARATUS
Granted: March 7, 2024
Application Number:
20240077585
A division line recognition apparatus including: a microprocessor and a memory coupled to the microprocessor; and an in-vehicle detection unit irradiating a surrounding of a subject vehicle with an electromagnetic wave to detect an exterior environment situation in the surrounding. The microprocessor is configured to perform recognizing information indicating a division line in a first area separated from the subject vehicle on a road by a predetermined distance based on information…
JOINT DEVICE
Granted: February 29, 2024
Application Number:
20240065860
A joint device includes a control unit configured to control the power source, the first connection and disconnection mechanism, and the second connection and disconnection mechanism, and an applied weight acquisition unit which acquires an applied weight applied to the joint device. The control unit controls at least one of the first connection and disconnection mechanism and the second connection and disconnection mechanism based on the applied weight acquired by the applied weight…
MOVING BODY CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: February 29, 2024
Application Number:
20240067176
A control device for a moving body is configured to execute following movement control under which a movement speed of a moving body is controlled to follow a preceding moving body moving ahead of the moving body, and constant speed movement control under which the movement speed of the moving body is controlled to be a predetermined target. The control device is configured to execute, when the preceding moving body is detected, the following movement control, and execute, when the…
HEATING CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICLE
Granted: February 29, 2024
Application Number:
20240066954
A vehicle has a battery and an air conditioner heating a vehicle compartment. The vehicle travels by electric power of the battery. An operation mode in which heating of the vehicle compartment is performed includes an outside-air-heat absorption mode in which the vehicle compartment is heated by absorbing heat from outside air without absorbing heat from the battery, and a battery-heat absorption mode in which the vehicle compartment is heated by absorbing heat from at least the…
