NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND NAVIGATION METHOD
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240377214
In a navigation system, a data center is connected to a plurality of vehicles via a communication network. The data center receives video data and stores the received video data in a storage device, the received video data being data of a video captured by a drive recorder and provided from a first vehicle among the plurality of vehicles, the first vehicle having a destination that is set such that route guidance until arrival at the destination cannot be accomplished by the navigation…
POWER STORAGE CELL
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240380008
A power storage cell includes an electrode assembly, a cell case, and an electrolytic solution. The electrode assembly includes a plurality of electrodes arranged side by side in one direction, and a separator formed in a zigzag shape and configured to insulate the electrodes from each other. The separator includes a plurality of intervening portions interposed between a pair of electrodes, an upper folded portion, and a lower folded portion. The plurality of electrodes include a…
ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY AND POWER STORAGE CELL
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240379992
An electrode assembly includes a plurality of electrodes arranged side by side in one direction, and a separator formed in a zigzag shape and configured to insulate the plurality of electrodes from each other. The separator includes a plurality of intervening portions, each of which is interposed between a pair of electrodes, an upper folded portion, a lower folded portion, and an outermost covering portion collectively covering the upper folded portion and the lower folded portion. The…
SILICON CLATHRATE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MIXTURE, NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL LAYER, AND SOLID-STATE LITHIUM-ION BATTERY
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240379950
The present disclosure provides a silicon clathrate electrode active material having low expansion during charging and a solid-state lithium-ion battery comprising such a silicon clathrate electrode active material. The silicon clathrate electrode active material of the present disclosure comprises greater than 0% by mass and less than 19.4% by mass of oxygen atoms. The solid-state lithium-ion battery of the present disclosure comprises the negative electrode active material layer of the…
INFORMATION NOTIFICATION DEVICE AND INFORMATION NOTIFICATION METHOD
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240379003
The information notification device includes a failure information detection unit that detects failure information that affects traveling of the host vehicle when the host vehicle is traveling, and a notification control unit that notifies the succeeding vehicle of at least one of the failure information and the behavior information related to the behavior of the host vehicle caused by the failure information via a display provided in the host vehicle so as to be visually recognized from…
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240379001
An information processing device includes a control unit configured to execute: acquiring a parking point of a vehicle; acquiring a first point that is a point where the vehicle first enters within a first predetermined distance from the parking point; acquiring a first distance actually traveled by the vehicle from the first point to the parking point; acquiring a second distance along a predetermined route from the first point to the parking point; and outputting an index according to…
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240378691
A user terminal is communicably connected with at least one module that is detachably mounted to a vehicle or that is detachably mounted to the vehicle and has a function which is able to be, while the at least one module is mounted to the vehicle, activated and deactivated depending on whether or not the at least one module is energized, the user terminal being configured to present, to a user of the vehicle, a service available by the at least one module.
ORDER PLACEMENT/ORDER ACCEPTANCE SYSTEM, ORDER PLACEMENT DEVICE, AND ORDER PLACEMENT METHOD
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240378658
An order placement/order acceptance system includes: an order placement device that places an order of a moving object moved by remote control in manufacturing process; and an order acceptance device that accepts order of the moving object. The order placement device includes display control unit that causes display device to display an order screen for accepting order of moving object, and enables selection of whether to desire delivery of moving object in an enabled state where remote…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE DESIGN
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240378350
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to generating vehicle design using a diffusion model. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a plurality of images based on a textual artistic guidance and a numerical constraint using a diffusion model.
SYNTHESIZING COMPLEMENTARY PROBE DATA USING IMAGING DATA
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240377221
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving the generation multiple vehicle traces for a roadway. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring sensor data about a roadway, including at least imaging data of an overhead view of the roadway. The method includes generating complementary traces of the roadway using a trace model that iteratively generates the complementary traces according to learned perturbations that imitate information acquired from…
DRIVE DEVICE
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240375523
An art configured to suppress a temperature difference between two drive motors while charging a battery is provided. A drive device for an electric vehicle having a battery may comprise a first motor and a second motor electrically connected to the battery and configured to drive at least one driving wheel of the electric vehicle, and a controller configured to respectively control a current that flows in the first motor and a current that flows in the second motor. The controller may…
VEHICLE LOWER STRUCTURE
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240375722
A vehicle lower structure includes an electricity storage device, a rocker, a front suspension member, a torque box, a floor panel, and a protector. The front suspension member is disposed on a front side of the electricity storage device. The torque box lies side-by-side with the electricity storage device in a horizontal direction. The torque box connects the rocker and the front suspension member to each other. The floor panel is disposed on an upper side of the electricity storage…
AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEM, AND MOBILE DEVICE CASE FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEM
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240375680
An autonomous driving system connected communicably to a mobile device of a driver or to a mobile device case attached to the mobile device, and configured to perform autonomous driving control. the autonomous driving system comprises a display cover of the mobile device case, capable of switching a display of the mobile device between a visible state and a shielded state. The display of the mobile device is switched from the visible state to the shielded state by controlling the mobile…
DISTRACTION JUDGMENT DEVICE, DISTRACTION JUDGMENT METHOD, AND NONTRANSITORY COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240375665
A distraction judgment device detecting an object present in a front direction of a vehicle based on surrounding data showing a situation around that vehicle, detecting a gaze origin and gaze direction of the driver based on driver data showing a state of the driver, changing an up-down direction viewing judgment range for judging whether the driver is looking at inside equipment arranged inside at the front in accordance with a positional relationship with the object, judging that the…
VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240375662
A vehicle control device is a vehicle control device that is connected between an automated driving system and a vehicle platform that performs automated driving according to commands from the automated driving system, and includes: a memory that stores a program and a memory that executes the program; and a processor that interfaces between the autonomous driving system and the vehicle platform. When the processor receives a manual startup command in the unknown state, it transitions to…
VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240375660
A vehicle control apparatus executes a lane change control of providing a driver of an own vehicle with a proposal of changing lanes and automatically changes lanes when the driver approves of the proposal. When the driver performs an acceleration operation when the vehicle control apparatus provides the driver with a proposal of changing lanes to move the own vehicle to a next lane for overtaking a preceding vehicle, the vehicle control apparatus determines that the driver approves of…
CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE, CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICLE, AND NONTRANSITORY COMPUTER RECORDING MEDIUM
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240375641
A control device is configured to: detect an object present around a vehicle to which attention should be paid based on surrounding data showing a situation around the vehicle; detect a gaze origin and gaze direction of the driver based on driver data showing a state of a driver of the vehicle; set a field of vision of the driver toward the gaze direction of the driver based on a speed of the vehicle, a type of road, or a shape of road, set a virtual plane on which the object is…
SIDE MIRROR CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SIDE MIRROR CONTROL DEVICE
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240375588
A side mirror control device for controlling side mirrors of a vehicle includes a mobile object detection unit that detects entry of a mobile object into a side warning area set on left and right sides of the vehicle, and a side mirror control unit that rapidly retracts the side mirror on the side corresponding to the side warning area when the entry of the mobile object into the side warning area is detected when a vehicle speed of the vehicle is lower than a side mirror retraction…
CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240375542
An ECU includes a nonvolatile memory. An SOC acquisition unit acquires SOCc, which is a current SOC of a battery. A ?SOC calculation unit calculates a difference ?SOC (=|SOCm?SOCc|) between an SOCm (memory SOC) stored in the nonvolatile memory and the SOCc. A rewriting unit rewrites the SOCm stored in the nonvolatile memory to the SOCc, on the condition: ?SOC>threshold value S1 during charging, ?SOC>threshold value S2 during discharging, or ?SOC>predetermined value ? when an…
METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS
Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number:
20240375527
An information processing apparatus acquires information indicating a route for a going and/or return trip of a power supply vehicle to supply power to a first vehicle at a first destination. The information processing apparatus then acquires positional information for and SOCs of a plurality of second vehicles. The information processing apparatus then identifies, from among the plurality of second vehicles, one or more second vehicles that are present in a vicinity of the first…
