METHOD OF RESISTANCE SPOT WELDING
Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number:
20240391032
A method of resistance spot welding comprises: preparing a machine learning model having learned a relation between a feature of a test data and a quality of a welding state of a test welding, the test data recording a time series change in an expansion amount of a workpiece in the test welding; and determining the quality of the welding state of a main welding using a main welding data and the machine learning model, the main welding data recording a time series change in an expansion…
STATOR FOR ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE AND MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR
Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number:
20240396393
A stator includes a stator core and coils. The stator core includes slots each located between two teeth that are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction of a yoke. Each tooth includes a tooth extension extending from the inner circumferential surface of the yoke, and two flanges projecting from a distal end of the tooth extension toward opposite sides in the circumferential direction. An insulating member is disposed in each slot between the coils adjacent to each other…
EVALUATION JIG AND EVALUATION METHOD
Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number:
20240396244
An evaluation jig comprises a pair of female terminals connectable to a pair of male terminals of a charging connector, and an adjustment member that can adjust contact resistance of the female terminal and the male terminal. The female terminal is reducible in diameter. The adjustment member can apply an external force to the female terminal to reduce the female terminal in diameter.
POWER STORAGE CELL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME
Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number:
20240396172
A power storage cell includes an electrode assembly constructed as a wound body in which a positive electrode sheet and a negative electrode sheet are wound with a separator interposed therebetween. The separator includes a separator layer, and an adhesion layer provided on at least one of an inner surface and an outer surface of the separator layer in a radial direction of the electrode assembly. A termination end portion of the electrode assembly is affixed via the adhesion layer to a…
POWER STORAGE CELL
Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number:
20240396007
A power storage cell includes an electrode body in which a sheet member is wound surrounding a winding axis, and a housing case in which the electrode body is housed. The electrode body includes a starting terminal portion in a winding direction, and an ending terminal portion located on an opposite side from the starting terminal portion. The sheet member includes an electrode sheet and a separator. The electrode sheet includes a current collector plate and an electrode composite…
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number:
20240394666
The control unit of the information processing device acquires the travel start date and time when the vehicle is scheduled to start moving, and the scheduled route of the vehicle. In addition, if the travel distance or travel time of the vehicle on the scheduled route is equal to or greater than the threshold, the control unit of the information processing device determines the items that the vehicle user should check in the vehicle by the travel start date and time. Decide on a…
GREASING DEVICE AND GREASING METHOD
Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number:
20240392833
A greasing device that feeds grease to a portion requiring greasing that is housed inside a housing, and includes a jig and a greasing pipe fixed to the jig. The housing includes a though-hole that extends through the housing. The jig includes an insertion part that is inserted into the through-hole of the housing. A side surface of the insertion part bear a marking-off line at a position a predetermined distance away from a leading end side of the insertion part. A position of the…
BICYCLE MOUNT
Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number:
20240391393
Embodiments described herein relate to mounting bicycles to vehicles. In one arrangement, a bicycle mount is disclosed. The bicycle mount includes shafts forming a spatial arrangement around a central bicycle mount axis. The shafts define shaft axes, shaft lengths, and one or more bores extending axially along the shaft length. The one or more bores are sized to receive a front wheel axle of a bicycle, such that when the front wheel axle is installed to one of the bores, the bicycle is…
POWER STORAGE SYSTEM AND VEHICLE
Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number:
20240391356
The power storage system includes a power storage device, a first heater and a second heater, and a control device. The first heater is disposed more away from the power storage device than the second heater. The control device is configured to be capable of executing first heating control for heating the power storage device using both the first heater and the second heater, and second heating control for heating the power storage device using only the second heater, among the first…
VEHICLE
Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number:
20240391342
A vehicle is configured to perform external charging for charging a battery using feed power that is supplied from a power facility provided outside the vehicle. The vehicle includes a heating device and an ECU. The heating device is configured to heat the battery. The ECU performs temperature adjustment control for adjusting a temperature of the battery by controlling the heating device in each of a first period and a second period, the first period being a period during which the…
SERVER APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING TRAVEL MAAS
Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240386516
A server apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus configured to request a service to dispatch a service staff or a service vehicle to a location in which a user vehicle is parked and supply an energy source to the user vehicle, and a controller configured to acquire status data indicating a status of the service staff or the service vehicle, adjust a fee for the service according to the status indicated by the acquired status data,…
BATTERY AND ELECTRODE
Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240387885
A battery according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes an electrode layer having a groove structure and a current collector including the electrode layer having the groove structure on at least one surface thereof. The current collector includes two plate-like members and a column. Each of the two plate-like members has an electrode layer on one surface thereof and opposes each other on the other surface thereof. The column is arranged along the groove structure and…
POWER STORAGE CELL
Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240387856
A power storage cell includes a wound electrode assembly which includes: a positive plate (a first electrode); a negative plate (a second electrode); and a separator. The positive plate includes a positive current collector (a first current collector) and a positive electrode mixture layer (a first electrode material layer). The positive uncoated portion of the positive current collector is not coated with the positive electrode mixture layer and is bent in the radial direction of the…
POWER STORAGE CELL
Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240387855
A power storage cell includes: a wound electrode assembly which includes a positive plate (a first electrode) and a negative plate (a second electrode); and a case accommodating the wound electrode assembly. The positive plate includes: a positive current collector (a current collector); a positive electrode mixture layer (an electrode material) with which a portion of the positive current collector is coated; and a positive electrode tab lead (a tab lead). The positive current collector…
CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL COMPOSITE PARTICLES, CATHODE COMPOSITE MATERIAL, LITHIUM-ION BATTERY, AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL COMPOSITE PARTICLES
Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240387823
The cathode active material composite particles of the present disclosure include surface-modified cathode active material particles and a binder resin. In addition, the surface-modified cathode active material particles included in the cathode active material composite particles of the present disclosure have a silicon particle and an organic group that modifies the surface of the silicon particle. The ratio of the mass of the binder resin contained in the cathode active material…
METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON CLATHRATE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LITHIUM-ION BATTERY
Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240387809
The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a silicon clathrate electrode active material capable of improving the treatment efficiency of a sodium-containing silicon clathrate in a sodium removal step and capable of reducing the amount of sodium remaining in the obtained silicon clathrate electrode active material, and a method for manufacturing a lithium-ion battery comprising manufacturing such a silicon clathrate electrode active material. The method of the present…
METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON CLATHRATE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LITHIUM-ION BATTERY
Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240387808
The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a silicon clathrate positive electrode active material capable of removing at least a portion of a type I silicon clathrate, and a method for manufacturing a lithium-ion battery comprising manufacturing such a silicon clathrate electrode active material. Disclosed methods of making silicon clathrate electrode active material, comprising the following steps: (a) providing silicon clathrate particle that contain a type I silicon…
ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES AND LITHIUM-ION BATTERY
Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240387807
The present disclosure provides an active material for lithium-ion batteries, having low expansion during initial charging and a high non-expansion region retention rate even with repeated charging-discharging, and a lithium-ion battery comprising such an active material for batteries. The active material for lithium-ion batteries of the present disclosure comprises silicon clathrate comprising type I silicon clathrate and type II silicon clathrate. In the active material for lithium-ion…
LEARNING SYSTEM, WALKING TRAINING SYSTEM, SYSTEM, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND TRAINED MODEL
Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240387056
A learning apparatus, a walking training apparatus, a method, a system, a program, and a trained model for performing walking training at appropriate setting parameters are provided. A learning apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a data acquisition unit configured to acquire rehabilitation data from a walking training apparatus including an actuator configured to assist a walking motion of a trainee and a control unit configured to control the actuator in accordance with a…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING DRIVERS VIA VEHICLE LIGHT CONTROL
Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number:
20240386814
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to training a vehicle driver based on in-cabin or external light triggers. In one embodiment, a system includes a processor and a memory storing machine-readable instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to monitor a vehicle location along a roadway. A map of the roadway indicates a target location for a driving maneuver to be performed. When the vehicle location is within a…
