Parking assist method and parking assist device
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12214777
A parking assist method performs a parking assist control of a host vehicle based on a target travel path when a distance between a self-position and a target parking position is determined to be equal to or less than a first predetermined distance, a parking assist permission condition is satisfied, and a shift operation for switching direction has been detected. The parking assist permission condition is satisfied where either a condition in which a predetermined time or longer has…
Software updating device, software updating method, and software updating program
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217043
A software updating device is provided executes a process for updating software that operate a vehicle-mounted equipment. The software updating device includes a controller and a chargeable onboard battery. The controller acquires the software and applies the software to control the equipment. The chargeable onboard battery supplies electric power to the controller. The controller executes the software update process using the electric power supplied from the onboard battery, when the…
Riding-together vehicle control device and system
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12215983
A vehicle control device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a riding cancel switch and a controller. In a case where a first user in the vehicle permitted a riding-together with a second user, after the vehicle stopped at a riding location where the second user will ride on the vehicle, then, when the riding cancel switch is operated before a door of the vehicle is fully opened, the controller prohibits unlocking of the door or opening of the door.
Transmission, method for controlling transmission, and non-transitory computer- readable medium
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12215784
A transmission comprising: a primary pulley; a secondary pulley; a transmission member wound around the primary pulley and the secondary pulley; an oil pump configured to supply oil; a hydraulic control circuit configured to adjust a pressure of the oil supplied from the oil pump to a line pressure which is a source pressure of a primary pulley pressure supplied to the primary pulley and a secondary pulley pressure supplied to the secondary pulley; a line pressure detection unit…
Composite cylinder block
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12215649
A cylinder block (1) includes a main block body (2) made of a metal material and an outer member (3) made of a resin material and welded to the main block body (2). The main block body (2) has a cylinder wall (13) defining therein a cylinder bore (16) and a second columnar part (14B) formed at a position apart from the cylinder wall (13). The outer member (3) has a second columnar part insertion hole (53) and defines a water jacket between the outer member (3) and the cylinder wall (13).…
Vehicle control method, and vehicle control device
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12215644
An engine controller inhibits a fuel cut when it is predicted that a lockup clutch is released after elapse of a predetermined period of time, at the time of the starting of the fuel cut. Specifically, engine controller is configured to predict (calculate) the vehicle speed after a predetermined period of time, and inhibit the fuel cut when the predicted (calculated) vehicle speed after the predetermined period of time is equal to or less than a lockup release speed. With this, it is…
Chiral azobenzene dopants with increased delta helical twisting power
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12215269
A chiral azobenzene dopant with helical twisting power has a structure represented by the following formula (I): wherein Z and Z? are independently selected from the group consisting of naphthalene and phenanthrene; when Z or Z? is naphthalene, the naphthalene optionally has R3 at the 6 position and R4 at the 6? position; when Z or Z? is phenanthrene, the phenanthrene optionally has R3 at the 7 position and R4 at the 7? position; R1, R2, R3, and R4 are independently selected from the…
Multilayer object and release agent composition
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12215259
The invention provides a laminate having a first substrate formed of a semiconductor substrate; a second substrate formed of a light-transmissive support substrate; and an adhesive layer and a release layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, characterized in that the release layer is a film formed from a releasing agent composition containing a polynuclear phenol derivative represented by formula (P) (wherein Ar represents an arylene group), a cross-linking…
Travel assistance method and travel assistance device
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12214803
A travel assistance method is executed by a processor and comprises: acquiring, from a device for storing map information, information on static traveling path boundaries between a traveling path of a subject vehicle and other than the traveling path; acquiring, from a sensor for detecting surrounding environment of the subject vehicle, information on dynamic traveling path boundaries different from the static traveling path boundaries; generating, based on the information on the static…
Parking assistance method and parking assistance device
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12214778
A parking assistance method including: detecting a target object position that is a relative position with respect to the own vehicle; retrieving a known target object and a relative positional relationship between the known target object and a target parking position from a storage device; based on the detected target object position detected and a relative positional relationship between the known target object and a target parking position, estimating a relative position of the target…
Driving force control method and driving force control device
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12214768
A step corresponding control of adjusting driving force of the front wheel motor and driving force of the rear wheel motor when the vehicle passes through a step is executed. In the step corresponding control, after a front wheel ride-up timing at which the front wheel rides up the step and before a rear wheel ride-up timing at which the rear wheel rides up the step, a first control mode in which the front wheel motor is regenerated and the rear wheel motor is powered is executed. In the…
Vibration dampening engine mount and modular vibration dampening engine mount system
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12214665
A vibration dampening engine mount configured to mount an engine to a vehicle frame includes: a first bolt receiver having a first through hole configured to receive a first bolt; a second bolt receiver having a second through hole configured to receive a second bolt; and a mass damper connector integrally connecting the first bolt receiver and the second bolt receiver, wherein the vibration dampening engine mount has a predetermined mass.
Composition for forming polyvinylidene fluoride film
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12213382
The present invention provides a composition for forming a polyvinylidene fluoride film, which contains: a polyvinylidene fluoride; at least one surfactant that is selected from among sulfuric acid-based surfactants, sulfonic acid-based surfactants and quaternary ammonium salt type surfactants; and a solvent.
Hybrid vehicle control method and hybrid vehicle control device
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208788
A hybrid vehicle control method for a hybrid vehicle having a drive motor, a battery supplying electric power to the drive motor, and an engine for power generation configured to supply electric power to the battery and the drive motor includes operating the engine at a higher engine rotation speed in an operating state in which a fuel consumption device that contributes to improved fuel consumption performance does not operate than in an operating state in which the fuel consumption…
Vehicle door structure
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208665
A vehicle door structure includes an inner door panel and an impact pad. The inner door panel has an access opening that extends from an inboard surface to an outboard surface of the inner door panel. The access opening is defined by an upper edge, a lower edge, a forward edge and a rearward edge. The impact pad has a main portion and a block portion. The main portion has a lower attachment section and an upper attachment section that are both located along an inboard side of the upper…
Catalyst composition and carbon material having nitrogen-containing group
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208374
When a metal catalyst is used as a catalyst in a catalyst layer of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, improvement in catalytic activity and improvement in durability of the metal catalyst are intended. The catalyst composition of the present invention comprises a metal catalyst, a carbon material having a nitrogen-containing group on which the metal catalyst is carried, and an ionomer.
Vehicle control method and vehicle control device
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12202482
A vehicle control method causes a controller to execute: processing of determining whether or not a first other vehicle traveling on a second lane, the second lane merging with a first lane on which an own vehicle travels in front of the own vehicle, is traveling diagonally in front of the own vehicle; and processing of, when determining that the first other vehicle is traveling diagonally in front of the own vehicle, controlling vehicle speed of the own vehicle in such a way that a…
Fuel cell system
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12206145
A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell unit including a fuel cell, an anode flow path, a cathode flow path, and a heat exchanger configured to heat the cathode gas to be supplied to the fuel cell; and a manifold attached to the fuel cell unit and configured to distribute and supply the cathode gas to the cathode flow path. The cathode flow path includes a main flow path passing through the heat exchanger, a bypass flow path bypassing the heat exchanger and connected to the main flow…
Self-location estimation method and self-location estimation device
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12204342
A self-location estimation method includes detecting a traffic sign in a vicinity of a vehicle; determining a current location of the vehicle; acquiring height information of the detected traffic sign from map data in which two-dimensional coordinate information and height information of a traffic sign existing in a vicinity of a road are recorded, based on a relative location of the detected traffic sign with respect to the vehicle and the current location; and estimating a height at…
Dispersion of surface-treated silica-containing inorganic oxide particles and method for producing same
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12203026
A dispersion includes silane-bonded inorganic oxide particles having surfaces modified with a hydrolyzable silane, and a liquid dispersion medium which contains a hydrolysate of the hydrolyzable silane; the ratio of (the number of moles of silicon atoms of the hydrolysate of the hydrolyzable silane in the dispersion medium)/(the number of moles of silicon atoms of the silane bonded to the surfaces of the particles) is 0.2 to 30; and Q4 is greater than that before the surface modification…
