Electric charge management system and method for a vehicle
Granted: December 7, 2021
Patent Number:
11192466
An electric charge management device for a vehicle includes a display screen and circuitry. The circuitry sets a first threshold value for a first discharge level of a battery of the vehicle. The first discharge level is greater than a zero state of charge (SOC) of the battery. The circuitry sets a second threshold value for a second discharge level of the battery based on first information associated with the vehicle and/or a user of the vehicle. The circuitry determines a first energy…
Variable stiffness bushing
Granted: December 7, 2021
Patent Number:
11193532
A variable stiffness bushing includes: inner and outer tubular members; an elastic member connecting these tubular members. At least one pair of circumferentially separated liquid chambers is defined in the elastic member such that first axial ends and second axial ends of the liquid chambers are defined by first and second end walls of the elastic member, respectively. The liquid chambers of each pair communicate with each other by a corresponding communication passage including a…
Air cleaner
Granted: December 7, 2021
Patent Number:
11193462
In an air cleaner, an air cleaner case having an upper opening which opens upward is formed. The air cleaner case is formed of a front wall, a rear fender, and right and left side covers. The upper opening is closed by a seat. A sound absorbing member is bonded to a bottom plate of the seat and housed in an air cleaner space. The intake noise in the air cleaner is absorbed by the sound absorbing member.
General engine throttle apparatus
Granted: December 7, 2021
Patent Number:
11193430
A throttle apparatus includes a throttle body (12), a throttle valve (13), a throttle shaft (14), an electrically driven motor (15), a drive gear (23), a driven gear (24), a middle gear (25), and a sensor block (19). The middle gear (25) is held by the throttle body (12) such that a gear shaft is displaced from an imaginary straight line (V) connecting together a motor shaft and the throttle shaft (14). A gear arrangement projection part (34) that projects outward by a displacement…
Multi-material assembly and methods of making there of
Granted: December 7, 2021
Patent Number:
11193045
A multi-material assembly is provided, as well as methods of making a multi-material assembly. The multi-material assembly includes a first coated structural component and a second structural component. The first coated structural component includes a first uncoated portion, and an adhesive is positioned between the second structural component and the first uncoated portion that secures the first coated structural component to the second structural component.
Vehicle control system, vehicle control method, and vehicle control program
Granted: December 7, 2021
Patent Number:
11192554
A vehicle control system includes a nearby information acquirer that acquires nearby information of an own vehicle, an automated driving controller that automatically selects and executes a first automated driving mode in which lane change is at least partially automatically performed and a second automated driving mode in which lane change is not automatically performed on the basis of the nearby information of the own vehicle acquired by the nearby information acquirer, and a…
Brake torque distribution system using all-wheel-drive mode of powertrain, vehicle including same, and method
Granted: December 7, 2021
Patent Number:
11192536
A brake torque distribution system for a vehicle can include a braking system and a controller. The controller can be configured to signal a clutch of the vehicle powertrain to move to the engaged position such that the front wheels are rotationally coupled to the rear wheels and the brake torque applied to the front wheels by the braking system is transmitted to the rear wheels. The controller can be configured to signal the clutch to move to the engaged position based on an inclination…
Determination device, determination system, and determination method
Granted: December 7, 2021
Patent Number:
11192511
Determination related to an occupant of a moving body is performed in more detail. A determination device includes: a first acquisition unit that acquires facility-side access information that includes specific information of each terminal that accesses a network in a facility; a second acquisition unit that acquires moving body-side access information that includes specific information of each terminal that accesses a network in a moving body; and a determination unit that compares the…
Receptacle storage structure
Granted: December 7, 2021
Patent Number:
11192488
A receptacle storage structure formed in an interior member of a sliding door movable in a front-and-rear direction of a vehicle, includes a bottom wall part and a peripheral wall part forming a storage space with an upward opening. The peripheral wall part includes a displacement wall part forming at least an upper part of a front-side wall part in the front-and-rear direction and displaceable to a front side in the front-and-rear direction. The displacement wall part is tiltable to the…
Vehicle control system, vehicle control method, and storage medium
Granted: December 7, 2021
Patent Number:
11192485
A vehicle control system includes an object placement portion in which an object can be placed, an automated driving controller configured to execute automated driving for automatically controlling at least one of acceleration or deceleration and steering of a vehicle, and an object placement controller configured to change the object placement portion from a first mode to a second mode in which the object placement portion is more easily used by an occupant of the vehicle than in the…
Cooperative automotive mobile charging infrastructure
Granted: December 7, 2021
Patent Number:
11192463
A method and system for providing a cooperative automotive mobile charging infrastructure are described. In one embodiment, a method for providing a cooperative automotive mobile charging infrastructure includes receiving a notification indicating an availability for providing mobile charging to electric personal transport devices. Each notification includes an identification of an electrified vehicle to provide the mobile charging and a location of the electrified vehicle. The method…
Air intake grille and vehicle
Granted: December 7, 2021
Patent Number:
11192445
An air intake grille through which air in a passenger compartment of a vehicle V is taken in includes a frame body, a plurality of first grille forming portions and second grille forming portions arranged in a lattice shape inside the frame body, and a flow rate adjusting plate disposed inside the frame body so as to be perpendicular to the first grille forming portions and the second grille forming portions. The flow rate adjusting plate has a flow rate adjusting window having an…
Embedded metal transition for joining fiber reinforced polymers and metallic structures
Granted: December 7, 2021
Patent Number:
11192333
A method for making a joint structure including embedding a portion of at least two layers of a third component into a first component and interleaving at least one layer of a second component with an unembedded portion of the at least two layers of the third component, wherein the third component inhibits galvanic corrosion between the first and second components, the first component has a first CTE, the second component has a second CTE that is different from the first CTE, the third…
Manufacturing apparatus and manufacturing method for shaft-shaped composite member
Granted: December 7, 2021
Patent Number:
11192291
A core metal includes, on an outer circumference thereof, a plurality of attachment surfaces to which a plurality of strings are attached, and a plurality of guided portions are formed along an axial direction of the core metal and disposed between two of the attachment surfaces. A string supply device includes a string supply unit that supplies the strings to the outer circumference of the core metal, an attaching unit that arranges and attaches the strings on the attachment surfaces of…
Retainer removal tool
Granted: December 7, 2021
Patent Number:
11192225
A retainer removal tool for a carpet retainer of a vehicle includes a shaft portion and a handle portion. The shaft portion has a cylindrical shape and includes an engagement tip has a hollow cylindrical shape and is configured to depress a tab of the retainer in a radially inward direction to decouple an upper retainer from a lower retainer. Further, a method for removing a carpet retainer of a vehicle includes centering a retainer removal tool over the retainer, depressing the retainer…
Method of flattening powder surface and powder resin coating device
Granted: December 7, 2021
Patent Number:
11192136
To provide a powder resin coating method and powder resin coating device which can maintain a powder surface as flat irrespective of changes in the average particle size of powder resin. A powder resin coating device (1) includes a powder fluidizing bed (2) storing powder resin, a vibration mechanism (5) connected to the powder fluidizing bed (2), and a control device (8) controlling the frequency of the vibration mechanism (5). The control device (8) includes an average particle size…
Ultrasonic image construction method, ultrasonic image construction apparatus, ultrasonic image construction program, and skin evaluation method
Granted: December 7, 2021
Patent Number:
11191523
An ultrasonic-image-construction apparatus can construct an ultrasonic-tomographic image of a thin, layer-structured target object to be measured relatively easily and highly accurately in a manner in which such layered structure is easily understood. An ultrasonic transducer of an ultrasonic-image-constructing apparatus transmits ultrasonic waves to the target object. A reference substance makes contact with a base substrate, with such ultrasonic waves being incident on the target…
Rear combination lamp for an automobile
Granted: December 7, 2021
Patent Number:
D938078
Insulating member, stator of rotary electric machine, and rotary electric machine
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11190074
An insulating paper (40) is inserted into a slot (13) of a stator core (10) of a rotary electric machine and insulates between the stator core (10) and a stator coil (20) disposed in the slot (13). An insulating member (40) comprises a sheet-shaped insulating base material (50), and a first adhesive layer (60A) which is provided on a first surface (50a) of the insulating base material (50) and which is formed of an adhesive. The first adhesive layer (60A) is provided with an exposed…
Control system, vehicle system, and control method
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11190125
A control system includes a power inverter configured to convert direct current (DC) power into alternating current (AC) power, an electric motor configured to be driven using the AC power output by the power inverter, and a controller configured to control the AC power by performing switching between multi-pulse control and one-pulse control on the basis of electric power loss of the electric motor and the power inverter and noise of the electric motor, the controller being a control…
