ALTERNATOR
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250035036
An alternator includes a body portion, a rotating shaft, a pulley, a belt, and a retaining member fixed to the body portion and reducing or eliminating the possibility of the pulley coming off the rotating shaft, wherein the retaining member is located away from the rotating shaft and the pulley in an axial direction of the rotating shaft and opposed to the rotating shaft and the pulley, and a width of the belt in the axial direction is smaller than a width of the pulley in the axial…
VIDEO TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND VIDEO TRANSMISSION METHOD
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250039331
A video transmission system transmits a video from a moving body that is a target of remote driving by a remote driver to a terminal on a side of the remote driver. The video transmission system executes an active operation determining process to detect or predict an active operation in which a degree of intensity of a driving operation by the remote driver exceeds a first threshold value, and a video quality increase process to increase quality of a video transmitted to the terminal…
STATOR OF ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250038608
A stator of a rotating electric machine includes: a stator core including a yoke; an insulator having a plurality of insulator extension portions and a plurality of insulator inner walls each extending from the corresponding insulator extension portion; and a cover. The cover has an insertion plate extending in an axial direction of the yoke. The insulator inner walls adjacent to each other cooperate to have a pair of space-forming walls. One of the pair of space-forming walls is spaced…
BATTERY PACK FRAME ASSEMBLIES
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250038332
A battery pack frame is disclosed. A battery pack frame includes a front wall, a rear wall, a pair of sidewalls extending between the front wall and the rear wall, and a bottom plate extending beneath the front wall, the rear wall, and the pair of sidewalls. A plurality of cross members extend between the pair of sidewalls, and each of the plurality of cross members includes an extruded frame having at least one channel that defines a cavity and a reinforcement member positioned within…
SYSTEMS FOR REMOVING DISCHARGE PRODUCTS FROM METAL-AIR BATTERY CATHODES AND METAL-AIR BATTERIES CONTAINING THE SAME
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250038286
A metal-air battery includes an anode, a porous cathode, a separator between the anode and the porous cathode, a liquid electrolyte, and at least one acoustic device. The acoustic device produces acoustic waves at a frequency that pumps the liquid electrolyte through and into flowing contact with the porous cathode such that a discharge product is removed from the porous cathode. An accumulation compartment where the discharged product is collected after being removed from the porous…
ELECTRODE COMPOSITE MATERIAL, LITHIUM-ION BATTERY, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERY
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250038175
An electrode composite material in the present disclosure includes a silicon clathrate particle and an amorphous silicon particle, and satisfies the following relational expression: 0 atom %<the number of silicon atoms in the amorphous silicon particle/(the number of silicon atoms in the amorphous silicon particle+the number of silicon atoms in the silicon clathrate particle)<50 atom %. A lithium-ion battery in the present disclosure includes an electrode active material layer, and…
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250036500
An information processing device includes a processor configured to: determine, by using an anomaly detection model, whether an anomaly has occurred in a first system; when determination is made that the anomaly has occurred in the first system, presume whether the anomaly is influenced by a failure in an external system connected to the first system; and when presumption is made that the determined anomaly is influenced by the failure in the external system, update the anomaly detection…
SOFTWARE UPDATE APPARATUS, UPDATE CONTROL METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING UPDATE CONTROL PROGRAM, SERVER, OTA MASTER, AND CENTER
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250036393
A software update apparatus controls software update of an electronic control unit. The software update apparatus includes a control unit configured to, when a software update process of the electronic control unit is executed, control a timing for executing an approval request process for requesting an approval for the software update process according to the type of non-volatile memory included in an electronic control unit to be updated.
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING DYNAMIC CLOSED-CAPTIONING CONTENT
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250036199
Systems and methods for displaying dynamic closed-captioning content are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a user monitoring device for monitoring one or more characteristics of at least one user viewing display content produced by a display device, one or more processors, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more instructions to receive user data from the user monitoring…
ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250035110
An electric compressor includes a housing, a rotary shaft rotatably supported in the housing, a motor that rotates the rotary shaft, and a compression part that compresses fluid. The housing includes a boss protruding toward the motor, and the boss has an inner peripheral surface in which a bearing that supports the rotary shaft is provided. The boss has an asymmetrical shape and has an outer peripheral surface that varies in distance from the inner peripheral surface in a radial…
VEHICLE FRONT STRUCTURE
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250033706
The vehicle front structure is a part of a front fender panel, and includes a fender flange extending inward in the vehicle-width direction from an upper edge of a aesthetic surface of the front fender panel, a lamp unit disposed on the vehicle-downward side of the fender flange, and a bracket connecting the fender flange and the lamp unit. The bracket has a bent portion that extends in a direction toward one side in the vehicle-width direction toward the vehicle-upward side, and then…
AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEM
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250033664
Processing for autonomous driving control of a vehicle, processing to store log data related to the autonomous driving control in one or more memory devices during an execution of the autonomous driving control, and processing to predict a mileage of the vehicle is executed. In the processing to predict the mileage, a free space of the one or more memory devices in which log data is stored is acquired. In addition, the mileage is set according to the acquired free space. The mileage is…
AUTONOMOUS DRIVING KIT
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250033558
ADK includes a computer and a communication module. VP includes a non-redundant control system that performs a non-redundant control function, a first bus, a second bus, a first VCIB that is configured to be communicable with the communication module via the first bus and provides a control instruction to the non-redundant control system in accordance with a non-redundant control command for controlling the non-redundant control system from ADK, a second VCIB that is configured to be…
DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250033477
A display control device includes a drive device for driving a drive shaft connected to an axle, and a display device for displaying information, and is used in a vehicle that is mounted on the vehicle and travels with at least one of fuel and electricity as an energy source, and displays an estimated consumption rate estimated as an energy consumption rate of a vehicle in the future on a display device, wherein an average vehicle speed of the vehicle is estimated based on a…
BATTERY MOUNTING STRUCTURE IN FRAME VEHICLE
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250033456
The battery mounting structure of the frame vehicle includes a pair of left and right side rails extending in the vehicle front-rear direction and a plurality of cross members extending in the vehicle width direction and connecting the side rails, and includes a frame to which the vehicle body is attached, a battery disposed on the vehicle upper side of the frame, and a cover member disposed on the vehicle width direction outer side of the battery and configured to be detachable from the…
BATTERY MOUNTING STRUCTURE
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250033455
In a vehicle, an elastic member is interposed between a first joining member joined to a body side and a second joining member joined to a battery case side in a joining portion between a body constituting a framework of the vehicle and a battery case mounted below a floor panel of the vehicle. Thus, the battery case that is a heavy object functions as a dynamic damper and suppresses vibration of the body. In addition, a protruding portion protruding from the second joining member is…
BATTERY CELL AND BATTERY MODULE
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250030033
A battery cell includes: an electrode body including plural layered structures, each including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and a battery cell case that hermetically encloses the electrode body inside the battery cell case. At least one of the current collector in the positive electrode or the current collector in the negative electrode has, on a peripheral portion of a surface thereof, an…
BATTERY PLACEMENT RACK AND FIRE EXTINGUISHING DEVICE
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250030119
The battery placement rack includes a plurality of support portions arranged so as to be spaced apart from each other in the up-down direction, and a plurality of lateral guide plates arranged below each support portion and laterally guiding the flow of the fire extinguishing agent. Each of the support portions includes a placement portion on which the battery unit can be mounted, and an opening formed on a side of the placement portion to allow the fire extinguishing agent to flow down.…
POWER STORAGE CELL
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250030095
In the cell case of the power storage cell according to the present disclosure, the cylindrical main body portion is formed by forming a film into a cylindrical shape, and the first opening portion and the second opening portion are formed at both ends thereof, respectively. The first sealing body closes the first opening portion. The second sealing body closes the second opening portion. The first sealing body includes an outer peripheral face that is in contact with an inner peripheral…
CHARGING METHOD AND CHARGING SYSTEM
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250030067
A charging method includes: determining, for charging current of a lithium ion battery, first and a second threshold values each representing a current boundary value at which precipitation of lithium metal becomes likely to occur on an electrode of the lithium ion battery; and controlling the charging current of the lithium ion battery using a difference between the first and second threshold values, and the second threshold value. The first threshold value represents a current boundary…
