Coil spring jig, coil spring manufacturing method, and coil spring testing method
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12173767
A coil spring jig includes a spring support portion where one end of a coil spring is capable of being placed, a plurality of displacement regulating portions extending along an axis of the coil spring from the spring support portion with the coil spring supported by the spring support portion as a reference, capable of abutting against an outer peripheral surface of the coil spring, and regulating displacement of the coil spring in a radial direction of the coil spring, and a lid…
Communication control device, mobile object, communication control method, and computer-readable storage medium to control, communication path using direct communication between mobile objects
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12177750
A communication control device controls wireless communication of a mobile object. The wireless communication includes: a cost information obtaining unit for obtaining from another mobile object being in surroundings of the mobile object, cost information representing a cost for the other mobile object to perform direct wireless communication between mobile objects; a connection information obtaining unit for obtaining communication connection information available for the other mobile…
Speaker arrangement structure
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12177628
A speaker arrangement structure includes: a speaker device provided in an A-pillar (front pillar) of a vehicle and configured to turn and transmit sound, produced upward, toward a vehicle compartment; a curtain airbag extending in an up-down direction along an extending direction of the A-pillar and attached to the front pillar; and a bracket configured to attach a lower end of the curtain airbag to the front pillar. The speaker device is arranged below the bracket.
Power control device
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12176724
A power control device includes a power receiving device, a second power converting device, and a control device. The power receiving device receives electric power transmitted from a power transmitting device in a non-contact manner and outputs DC electric power. The second power converting device includes an element module including transistors forming a pair in two phases and a pair of reactors that are magnetically coupled. The second power converting device outputs arbitrary DC…
Control apparatus, moving object, control method, and computer-readable storage medium
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12175768
There is provided a control apparatus that includes at least one processor to: identify an unrecognizable area not possible to be recognized from a moving object; calculate an arrival time taken by the moving object to arrive at a location in the unrecognizable area; set a first region and a second region in the unrecognizable area based on the arrival time; set an alerting level for the first region and an alerting level for the second region different from each other; control…
Information processing apparatus, vehicle, and storage medium
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12175766
An information processing apparatus includes a processing unit configured to execute an inference operation in an execution cycle. The inference operation is executed by inputting input data including time series data to a neural network. An interval of acquiring constituting data of the time series data to be input in a single time of the inference operation is longer than the execution cycle.
Operation management device and operation management method
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12175236
An operation management device for managing operation of a plurality of electronic control devices installed on a vehicle includes: an update management unit configured to: receive a download instruction to download updated data from an external device; and deliver the received updated data to an electronic control device and instruct the electronic control device to write the updated data, the updated data including an updated program for the electronic control device, the electronic…
Information processing device, computer-readable storage medium, and information processing method
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12174678
An information processing device comprises a prediction unit configured to predict a first user who uses a storage apparatus that stores a power storage device in a first time period subsequent to a current time point. The prediction unit may predict the first user based on usage information that indicates usage history of a second user who used storage apparatus in a second time period prior to the first time period. The usage information may include information related to a time frame…
Vehicle vibration device
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12174088
In a vehicle vibration device including a first shaft and a second shaft extending in a left-right direction at such a spacing that each of wheels of a vehicle to be inspected is sandwiched therebetween in a front-rear direction and a movement mechanism that moves the first shaft, the first shaft being moved in a front-rear and horizontal direction by the movement mechanism to excite the wheel to vibration in front-rear and up-down directions, a support member that supports the wheel…
Planetary gear mechanism
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12173785
A planetary gear mechanism includes: a case; a first shaft having a connecting shaft; a second shaft having a receiving hole to rotatably receive the connecting shaft; a sun gear joined to the first shaft; a planetary carrier joined to the second shaft; planetary gears rotatably supported by the planetary carrier; and a ring gear provided on an inner surface of the case. The connecting shaft or the receiving hole is formed with a helical groove extending vertically and connected to a gap…
Electrochemical compressor
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12173699
The present disclosure is intended to prevent blockage of a path that allows a fluid to flow to a predetermined position where a pressure of the fluid is applied to a cell unit. An electrochemical compressor according to an embodiment includes first and second members, an elastic body, a fluid chamber, and a fluid path. The elastic body exerts an elastic force in a direction in which the first member and the second member are pushed apart from each other, and thereby presses a stack of…
Internal combustion engine
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12173636
An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder, a piston, a crankshaft, a cylinder igniter, an intake passage, a fuel supplier, an exhaust passage, a catalytic converter disposed in the exhaust passage, an exhaust igniter that is disposed upstream of the catalytic converter in the exhaust passage and s generates a spark in the interior of the exhaust passage, and a controller that controls a preheating process for heating the catalytic converter by controlling supply of the air-fuel…
Flying object control device, flying object control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12172768
A flying object control device includes: a determination unit that determines, based on a remaining capacity of a battery, whether or not to restrict supply of surplus electric power to the battery, the surplus electric power being a surplus of electric power generated by a generator; and a control unit that, when the determination unit determines to restrict the supply of the surplus electric power to the battery, causes the surplus electric power to be consumed by a motor by increasing…
Electric power assist device for bicycles and bicycle
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12172731
An electric power assist device includes a housing for attaching to a frame structure of a bicycle; an electric motor provided in the housing; a rotating member rotatably supported by the housing, rotationally driven by the electric motor, and connected to a crankshaft/crankarm of the bicycle in a torque transmitting relationship; a rotational angle sensor provided in the housing and configured to detect a rotational angle of the electric motor or the rotating member; and a control unit…
Control device, storage medium and control method
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12172626
A control device executes: controlling a voltage in a d-axis direction and a voltage in a q-axis direction applied to a rotating electric machine driven by an electric power supplied from an inverter, to which a magnetic pole position detector for detecting a magnetic pole position of the rotor is attached, and which includes a stator for generating a magnetic field using a winding; acquiring q-axis current data indicating a component in the q-axis direction of a current flowing through…
Multiple side component mount on casting for sensor packaging
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12172582
An autonomous vehicle and related method include, at each corner of the vehicle, a sensor module including a cast frame configured to mount on a corner component of the vehicle, and a plurality of sensors mounted on the cast frame. The plurality of sensors are configured to sense an environment around the autonomous vehicle and to communicate data about the environment to a navigation system of the autonomous vehicle for navigating the autonomous vehicle.
Illumination control device
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12172573
An illumination control device that controls an illumination device illuminating inside of a vehicle includes: an action detecting unit that detects an action pattern that is a body motion of a driver and/or a fellow passenger of the vehicle; and a determination unit that determines whether or not a current situation needs illumination control of the illumination device on the basis of the action pattern, and the illumination device is controlled on the basis of the determination of the…
Motor driving apparatus
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12172531
A motor driving apparatus includes: a power storage device; a motor; a first inverter; a second inverter; an external AC terminal; a third inverter including a DC terminal and an AC terminal; a transformer connected to the AC terminal of the third inverter; a first switch capable of switching the AC terminal of the first inverter to a state of being connected to either the first winding connection portion or the external AC terminal; a second switch capable of switching the AC terminal…
System and method
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12172529
A system comprises an acceleration information acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating an acceleration of a vehicle; a shaft output information acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a shaft output of a rotating electrical machine; a position information acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a position of the vehicle; and a determination unit configured to determine a state of a road on which the vehicle has run, based…
Chair tent
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
D1054222
