ELECTRIC POWER STORAGE MODULE
Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250105452
An electric power storage module includes a stacked body having an outer surface, and a sheet member provided in close contact with the stacked body to cover the outer surface in a cross section in a stacking direction of the stacked body, wherein the stacked body includes a plurality of electrodes and a sealing part, the electrode includes a current collector having one surface and the other surface on a side opposite to the one surface, the plurality of electrodes are stacked so that…
BATTERY SYSTEM
Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250105375
When the battery is externally charged, the maximum value of the voltage change amount of the unit cell is detected. For each unit cell, the current cumulative value for equalization is integrated during a period from when the maximum value is detected until the last unit cell detects the maximum value. Based on the current value for equalization of each unit cell, equalization processing for discharging from each unit cell is executed.
SECONDARY BATTERY
Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250105332
The secondary battery includes a cathode plate in which a cathode active material layer is formed except a cathode current collector foil exposed portion along one long side of the positive current collecting foil, an anode plate in which an anode active material layer is formed except an anode current collector foil exposed portion along one long side of the anode current collector foil, a battery case for accommodating the wound electrode body and an electrolytic solution, a cathode…
APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MULTIPLE INTEGRATED FUEL CELL SYSTEMS HAVING A COMMON COOLING SYSTEM
Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250105324
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for cooling two or more fuel cell systems on a vehicle. The system includes at least two fuel cell systems connected to a common cooling system. The system also includes at least two pumping apparatuses connected, respectively, to the at least two fuel cell systems. The system further includes a processor connected to one or more controllers that are connected to the at least two pumping apparatuses. The processor is configured to determine a target flow…
POWER STORAGE CELL
Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250105302
A power storage cell according to the present disclosure includes a wound electrode body and a cell case. The wound electrode body includes a cathode and an anode. The cell case accommodates the wound electrode body. The cell case includes a case body and a lid. The case body opens in one direction. The lid closes the case body. The lid includes a cathode external terminal, an anode external terminal, and an insulating member. The cathode external terminal is directly joined to the case…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COORDINATING AND ALIGNING GROUPED VEHICLES BY REAR-SECTIONS
Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250104563
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to aligning rear-sections of grouped vehicles for cooperative control and tracking that deters disturbances from surrounding vehicles. In one embodiment, a method includes connecting a following vehicle and a leading vehicle located in proximity wirelessly for reverse-following with rear-sections, the following vehicle and the leading vehicle forming a group. The method also includes aligning the rear-sections using a…
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250104483
A controller is provided which is configured to perform: acquiring user identification information that is identification information of a user of a vehicle and an authentication face image that is an image of a face of the user for authentication; acquiring vehicle identification information that is identification information of the vehicle associated with the user identification information; acquiring information on an attribute of the vehicle associated with the vehicle identification…
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250104472
A controller is provided which acquires user identification information that is identification information of a user of a vehicle; acquires an authentication face image that is an image associated with the user identification information and is an image of a face for authentication of the user of the vehicle; acquires a user's face image that is an image generated by photographing the user of the vehicle with a camera disposed outside the vehicle; performs face authentication based on a…
DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250093879
A display control device includes one of a mounting acquisition unit and an image quality acquisition unit, and a display controller, in which the display controller is configured to display a mounted camera image on a display screen in one of a case where a mounted camera is mounted in a moving object and a case where an image quality is equal to or more than a criterion, and display an external camera image on the display screen in one of a case where the mounted camera is not mounted…
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND MOVING OBJECT
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250093880
The information processing device includes: a manual command generation unit that generates a manual control command that defines a traveling motion of the moving object in response to an operation by an operator of the operator input device; an information acquisition unit that acquires detection information generated when the control of the remote manual driving mode in which the moving object travels in accordance with the manual control command is performed by the moving object in a…
VEHICLE OPERATION DIAGNOSIS DEVICE
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250091598
The vehicle operation diagnosis device includes a processor and a memory, wherein the processor is configured to detect a predetermined operation scene of the vehicle based on data detected by the vehicle, acquire at least one of the number of retries of the vehicle operation in the operation scene and the time required for the vehicle operation in the operation scene as an evaluation index, and notify a pre-registered user of the evaluation result of the evaluation index or the…
POSITIONING SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250093520
In the positioning system, a computing device obtains a first position measured by a first positioning antenna, a second position measured by a second positioning antenna, and a third position measured by a third positioning antenna. The computing device calculates the current attitude of the oscillating body at the first position from a first vector from the first position to the second position and the acquired second vector from the first position to the third position. The computing…
CALCULATION DEVICE, CALCULATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND FACTORY
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250093508
A calculation device includes a sensor information acquisition unit configured to acquire first sensor information acquired by a first sensor that detects a moving object classified into a first state from an outside of the moving object, and acquire second sensor information acquired by a second sensor that detects the moving object classified into a second state from the outside, and a calculation unit configured to calculate at least one of a position and an orientation of the moving…
DATA COLLECTING DEVICE AND DATA COLLECTING SYSTEM
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250093178
A data collecting device has a processor configured to generate probe data representing a road feature based on information representing an environment around a vehicle, generate lane information representing a position of a lane in a road in which the vehicle was traveling when the road feature represented by the probe data was detected, based on information representing a lane marking line around the vehicle, transmit the lane information via a communication unit and receive a…
FIXING METHOD
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250092901
A fixing method capable of preventing first and second members from being damaged when the first and second member are fixed to each other with pins is provided. A fixing method includes an alignment step of aligning a plurality of holes formed in the first member with a plurality of corresponding holes formed in the second member, an insertion step of inserting an expandable pin into each of a plurality of pairs of holes each of which consists of one of the holes of the first member and…
CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSOR
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250092883
A centrifugal compressor includes a compressor housing accommodating an impeller, and a casing treatment. The compressor housing include an air introduction hole through which air is introduced toward the impeller, an annular portion disposed inside the air introduction hole, and spoke portions. Each of the spoke portions connects an inner circumferential wall surface of the air introduction hole and the annular portion. The casing treatment includes a tubular portion provided on an…
SHAPE MEMORY MATERIAL MEMBER ANCHOR
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250092862
A system described herein relates to a shape memory material (SMM) wire anchor device. The system includes an eyelet including a surface and defining an aperture, a housing, and a shape memory material (SMM) member. An end portion of the SMM member extends through the housing, on the surface of the eyelet in a loop about the aperture, and back through the housing. The housing is deformed around the SMM member extending through the housing. The system also includes a fastener received in…
PRE-IGNITION DETERMINING APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250092840
A pre-ignition determining apparatus for an internal combustion engine using hydrogen as fuel is configured to determine an occurrence of pre-ignition based on an output value of a vibration sensor provided in the internal combustion engine. The pre-ignition determining apparatus includes processing circuitry that is configured to execute an accumulation process of calculating an accumulated value of the output value within a prescribed period prior to an ignition timing of an air-fuel…
ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR THE OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION IN ACID CONDITIONS
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250092543
An oxygen evolution reduction electrocatalyst includes a pyrochlore compound with the chemical formula Sm2Ru2xM2-2xO7, where M is selected from the group consisting of Ir, Sc, Fe, Cu, Pd, Cr, and Rh, and x is less than 1.0 and greater than or equal to 0.5. Also, a water electrolysis cell includes an anode, a cathode, an electrolyte, and the oxygen evolution reduction electrocatalyst.
CONTROL DEVICE, MOBILE OBJECT, MOBILE OBJECT CONTROL SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND TRAILER
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250091671
A control device is configured to control movement of a mobile object that can travel by driverless driving and that is transported in a process of manufacturing the mobile object. The control device includes a control command section configured to generate and output a control command to cause the mobile object to move. The control command section is configured to generate the control command by using vehicle state information that is information related to at least one of: magnitude of…
