POSITION INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM, POSITION INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD, AND PROGRAM
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250029271
Provided is a position information acquisition system including: a position information acquisition unit configured to acquire position information from a plurality of sensors or devices operating on an object; and a switching unit configured to switch the sensor or the device for acquiring the position information according to a divided area, the divided area being a divided peripheral area of the object.
HANDOFF SEQUENCE FOR CITY NODES
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250030505
An example operation includes one or more of establishing a communication between a first vehicle and a computing node, determining data to be transmitted from the computing node to the first vehicle responsive to a portion of the data being stored on a second vehicle, determining the second vehicle will be in proximity to the first vehicle, and transmitting the portion of the data from the second vehicle to the first vehicle when the vehicles are in proximity and a remaining portion of…
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.…
ELECTRODE UNIT MANUFACTURING DEVICE, AND ELECTRODE UNIT MANUFACTURING METHOD
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250030056
An electrode unit manufacturing device 50 is an electrode unit manufacturing device for manufacturing an electrode unit 11A by welding a resin member 21B to a bipolar electrode 11 including a current collector 15, and an active material layer provided on one surface 15a and the other surface 15b of the current collector 15. The electrode unit manufacturing device includes a robot hand 30 that transports the bipolar electrode 11 in the air while suctioning and holding the bipolar…
POSITIVE ELECTRODE LAYER, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING POSITIVE ELECTRODE LAYER, AND ALL SOLID-STATE BATTERY
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250030043
In the present disclosure, a positive electrode layer used in an all-solid-state battery includes a positive electrode active material, a sulfide solid electrolyte, and a coated sulfide solid electrolyte having a coating layer covering a surface of the sulfide solid electrolyte and containing a metal sulfate, and in an S2p spectrum obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) on the coated sulfide solid electrolyte, a ratio (P2/P1) of an intensity P2 of a peak appearing near 163 eV…
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…
VEHICLE OCCUPANT HEALTH MONITORING APPLICATION
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250029488
An example operation includes one or more of accessing, by an application providing assistance to a vehicle, sensor data associated with an environment inside and outside of a vehicle and profile data associated with a vehicle occupant, determining, by the application, an initial condition of the vehicle occupant based on the sensor data and the profile data, responsive to the initial condition being above a health condition threshold, accessing, by the application, health data…
DENSITY DESIGN FOR CITY NODES
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250029482
An example operation includes one or more of receiving information at a vehicle in proximity to a first node from the first node, sending information from the vehicle to the first node, analyzing the sent information by the first node, determining by the first node that the vehicle will be in proximity to an adjacent node to the first node, after the vehicle is no longer in proximity to the first node, receiving the analyzed information from the first node at the adjacent node,…
DETECTION SYSTEM, DETECTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250029422
A detection system according to the present disclosure includes: a foot detection unit that detects a position of a foot of a detection target person; an upper body detection unit that detects a position of at least part of an upper body of the detection target person; and an estimation unit that estimates the state of the detection target person based on the moving distance of the foot calculated by using the detected position of the foot and based on the moving distance of the at least…
DROWSINESS SIGN NOTIFICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR NOTIFICATION OF SIGN OF DROWSINESS
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250029404
A drowsiness sign notification device detects an eye-closed state of a driver of a vehicle from each of face images; determines whether a first eye closure ratio of the number of face images with the eye-closed state to the number of the face images generated in a first period exceeds a first threshold; determines whether a second eye closure ratio of the number of face images with the eye-closed state to the number of the face images generated in a second period longer than the first…
SWITCHING DEVICE AND THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250026172
The switching device includes a first five-way switching unit, a second five-way switching unit, and a drive unit. The first five-way switching unit includes a first switching plate, and the second five-way switching unit includes a second switching plate. The drive unit includes a first gear part capable of driving the first switching plate, a second gear part capable of driving the second switching plate, and a drive portion for driving the first gear part and the second gear part. The…
METHOD EXECUTED BY TERMINAL DEVICE
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250029142
A method executed by a terminal device of a user, the method comprising: determining whether a vehicle has parked in a target area based on position information of a vehicle of the user; and displaying an image linked to content related to the target area on a screen of the terminal device of the user when it is determined that the vehicle has parked in the target area and the target area is within business hours.
VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE AND VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250026353
A vehicle control device has a processor configured to determine whether a difficult traveling zone exists between a lane change completion location and a current location of the vehicle, to calculate a first distance between an end point of the difficult traveling zone in the traveling direction of the vehicle and the lane change completion location when the difficult traveling zone exists, to determine whether the first distance is at least a reference distance, and to decide to…
SYSTEM FOR MECHANICALLY SWAPPING A BATTERY PACK
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250026318
An electric vehicle (EV) battery pack replacement system includes a replacement pack ramp structure having a replacement pack ramp, a vehicle-mountable battery pack receptacle, and a vehicle-mountable replacement pack coupling system structured to be operable to connect a vehicle to a replacement pack positioned on the ramp during movement of the vehicle over the ramp. Further movement of the vehicle over the ramp after connection to the replacement pack to the vehicle moves the…
DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE, DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250026288
A driving assistance device includes an acquisition unit which acquires a voice question about ADAS accepted from a driver driving a vehicle, a voice recognition unit which recognizes the voice question about the ADAS acquired by the acquisition unit, and a response generation unit which uses LLM and generates a voice response corresponding to the voice question about the ADAS recognized by the voice recognition unit.
ELECTRICAL CONNECTION UNIT
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250026287
Provided is an electrical connection unit disposed in an automobile and performing relay in supplying electrical power from a first power source to a load apparatus. An electrical connection unit includes: a first electrical power path and a second electrical power path connected to a load apparatus; a third electrical power path connected to a first power source; a power source connection part which can be connected to a second power source; a first fuse attachment part which can attach…
APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE CENTER CONSOLE INSIDE WALL STORAGE
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250026275
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a vehicle include a compartment having an edge surrounding a cavity and an inside wall at least partially defining the cavity, a lid coupled to the compartment, and a retainer sized and configured to removably couple to the inside wall. A plurality of wall apertures can be disposed in the inside wall. The wall apertures can be configured to receive an attachment feature for securing the retainer to the inside wall. The retainer can be selectively…
APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE CENTER CONSOLE LID STORAGE
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250026274
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a vehicle include a compartment having an edge surrounding a cavity, a lid pivotally coupled to the compartment, the lid including an inner surface sized to span over the cavity and enclose the compartment, and a retainer sized and configured to removably couple to the inner surface. A plurality of attachment features can be used to selectively couple the retainer to the interior surface of the lid for retaining one or more items at the underside of…
CONTROL DEVICE FOR ELECTRIFIED VEHICLE, ELECTRIFIED VEHICLE, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250026235
In an electrified vehicle of traveling using a battery, it is determined whether the driving mode of the vehicle is a first driving mode in which the driver's involvement in the traveling of the vehicle is low, or a second driving mode in which the driver's involvement is higher than the first driving mode. When it is determined that the driving mode is the first driving mode, the upper limit of the amount of electricity per unit time of entering and leaving the battery is set to the…
VEHICLE DOOR LUBRICANT APPLICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF APPLYING LUBRICANT TO VEHICLE DOORS
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250026186
A vehicle door lubricant application system includes a pump connected to a fluid line that is connected to a fluid reservoir. The pump is configured to provide a preselected amount of a lubricant to a spray nozzle assembly. The spray nozzle assembly is configured to dispense the lubricant. A sensing device is configured to detect presence of a vehicle door. The sensing device is configured to provide a signal in response to the presence of the vehicle door that is used to activate the…
