Lower structure of internal combustion engine
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11187183
To minimize the risk of damaging an internal oil passage for conducting oil, the lower structure of an internal combustion engine includes a bottom wall (6), a side wall (7) provided along a peripheral edge of the bottom wall to define the oil chamber in cooperation with the bottom wall, a device mounting seat (52) provided on the side wall and configure to have a prescribed device (51) attached thereto; and an oil passage portion (57) formed in the side wall to define the oil passage…
Connector and wire harness
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11189978
A connector includes: a housing; and a short-circuit terminal. A deformable portion is configured to deform in a direction of moving away from the terminal during housing of the terminal and to deform in a direction of moving closer to the terminal when the housing of the terminal is finished. The short-circuit terminal has, as different portions, a contact point portion to contact with the two or more terminals and a push target portion to contact with the deformable portion. The…
Fuel cell metal separator and fuel cell
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11189848
An oxygen-containing gas flow field and an inner bead (or a bead seal) are formed on one surface of a first metal separator, and a coolant flow field as a passage of a coolant is formed on the other surface of the first metal separator. Further, a coolant supply passage and a coolant discharge passage extend through the first metal separator in a separator thickness direction. An in-bead channel as a passage of the coolant is formed by a recess on the back side of the inner bead. A…
Method and system for automated reconfiguration of user interface based on product lifecycle
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11188925
A system and method for automatically reconfiguring a user interface based on a product lifecycle that changes a visual appearance of a product image in the user interface to reflect its age or ownership duration is described. In one embodiment, a method includes determining one or more products owned by a user and an ownership period associated with an age or ownership duration of each product. The ownership period is compared to a product lifecycle for the product and, based on the…
System and method for providing context aware road-user importance estimation
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11188766
A system and method for providing context aware road user importance estimation that include receiving at least one image of a vicinity of an ego vehicle. The system and method also include analyzing the at least one image to determine a local context associated with at least one road user located within the vicinity of the ego vehicle. The system and method additionally include determining a global context associated with the ego vehicle. The system and method further include fusing the…
Method and system for privacy compliant data recording
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11188679
The invention regards a method and system for recording observation data without violating privacy. Environment is sensed and observation data including information on the sensed environment is generated. The observation data is processed for determining presence of one or more persons in the sensed environment. Those person(s) amongst the present person(s) that did not agree to store their private data are identified and privacy compliant observation data is generated by obfuscating the…
Human-vehicle interaction
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11188296
According to one or more aspects, systems and methods for human-vehicle interaction are described herein. A touchpad may include a first touchpad zone and a second touchpad zone. A display may include a first display zone and a second display zone, which correspond to the first touchpad zone and the second touchpad zone, respectively. A processor may execute instructions stored on a memory to perform rendering a first application in a first mode within the first display zone of the…
Transportation apparatus
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11187780
A transportation apparatus includes an external detection device configured to detect an object. The external detection device is disposed further on an inner side than an outer surface of the transportation apparatus, on the outer surface, a lid member is attached to be removable and cover an irradiation surface when viewed from a perpendicular direction perpendicular to the irradiation surface of the external detection device, the lid member is formed so as to be removable from an…
Aluminum ceramic composite brake assembly
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11187290
A brake assembly for use in a disc brake mechanism of a vehicle. The brake assembly includes an aluminum ceramic composite rotor connected to a central aluminum hub. The rotor includes projections extending radially inward toward the hub and engaging with through holes in the hub. The projections extend through the through holes to connect the rotor to the hub. The engagement between the projections and the through holes allows for radial movement of the projections relative to the…
Engine generator
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11187195
An engine generator including, in a housing: a generator; an engine; a fuel tank; a canister for collecting evaporated fuel; and pipes for causing the canister and an inside of the fuel tank to communicate with each other. The pipes include the pipe section provided in the fuel tank; the pipe section extends above a liquid surface of the fuel in the fuel tank in a state in which a short-length side of the housing is placed downward; and the pipe section includes a portion that passes…
Electrically powered suspension system
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11186134
An electrically powered suspension system includes: an electromagnetic actuator generating a driving force for vibration damping of the vehicle; an information acquisition part acquiring information on a stroke velocity of the electromagnetic actuator; a damping force calculator calculating a target damping force of the electromagnetic actuator, based on the information on the stroke velocity acquired by the information acquisition part; and a drive controller based on the target damping…
Rotation speed calculation apparatus
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11187170
A rotation-speed-calculation-apparatus includes: a detector configured to detect a rotation-angle of an engine; and a CPU and a memory coupled to the CPU. The CPU is configured to perform: calculating an engine-speed each time the detector detects a predetermined-angle based on a time-period required for the engine to rotate the predetermined-angle; and determining whether the engine-speed calculated is in a low-rotation range equal to or lower than a threshold-value or in a…
Work machine
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11187147
A pressure variation in a fuel tank can be prevented, and leakage of liquid fuel can be prevented even if the fuel tank is inclined in a predetermined direction, without operation for opening and closing a breather passage. An engine generator includes: a first breather passage having an opening at a position above a liquid fuel in a tank bulge section when the engine generator is inclined to the right (corresponding to a first direction); and a second breather passage having an opening…
Vehicle body frame structure for saddle riding vehicle
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11186339
In a vehicle body frame structure for a saddle riding vehicle, including an engine, a vehicle body frame that supports the engine, and a swing arm that supports a rear wheel. The vehicle body frame includes a head pipe, a main frame that extends from the head pipe toward a rear of the vehicle along a path superior to the engine, a down frame that extends from the head pipe downwardly along a path anterior to the engine, a lower frame that extends from a lower portion of the down frame…
Vehicle control system, vehicle control method, and vehicle control program
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11186297
A vehicle control system includes an automated driving control unit that executes automated driving for autonomously controlling at least one of steering or acceleration and deceleration of a vehicle, an occupant state determination unit that determines a state of an occupant of the vehicle, and a learning unit that learns automated driving control executed by the automated driving control unit so that the state of the occupant determined by the occupant state determination unit…
Emotion inference device and emotion inference system
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11186290
An emotion inference device and an emotion inference system that are capable of inferring a user's emotion with higher precision. A motorcycle includes an individual personality that is configured on the basis of information on a user from a plurality of products associated with the user, connected to a communication network, and including the motorcycle, an automobile, a rice cooker, a vacuum cleaner, a television receiver, and a refrigerator, the individual personality forms a base…
Method and device for collecting and supplying brake fluid
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11186265
This device for collecting and supplying brake fluid has a gas-liquid separation tank divided into a lower chamber and an upper chamber with a partition wall interposed therebetween. Connected to the gas-liquid separation tank are: a collection line for collecting brake fluid from the brake system of a vehicle in the gas-liquid separation tank; a circulation line for extraction of brake fluid from the lower chamber and the return thereof to the lower chamber; and a replenishment line for…
Energy absorption member and energy absorption structure
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11186242
Provided is an energy absorption member including a plate shaped rear wall portion which extends in a vehicle width direction; and an extension wall portion that extends in the vehicle width direction and extends forward from an intermediate part in a height direction of the rear wall portion; wherein the rear wall portion takes on an arch shape that projects forward in a plan view, and the extension wall portion is inclined downward or upward from its rear end part toward its front end…
Mobility as a service (MaaS) with modular interiors
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11186217
Delivery of a modularly reconfigurable vehicle may include receiving a request for the modularly reconfigurable vehicle, including a desired configuration associated with the modularly reconfigurable vehicle and a location associated with the request. Delivery of a modularly reconfigurable vehicle may include identifying the modularly reconfigurable vehicle from a plurality of candidate modularly reconfigurable vehicles and a target reconfiguration station from a plurality of candidate…
Heat distribution device for hybrid vehicle
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11186165
A heat distribution device for hybrid vehicle is provided, including: an engine cooling circuit through which cooling water for cooling an internal combustion engine circulates; a MG cooling circuit through which a refrigerant for cooling a motor generator circulates; and a heat exchanger which performs heat exchange between the cooling water and the refrigerant. When it is determined based on a charging rate SOC of a battery that the battery can be charged, charging control is performed…
