VEHICLE ON-BOARD NETWORK SYSTEM, GATEWAY, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD
Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number:
20250023923
A vehicle on-board network system includes networks, each including electronic control units and a communication bus connecting the electronic control units, and a gateway connected to the networks and configured to allow the electronic control units to communicate with each other in compliance with a CAN protocol. The gateway device includes a processing device configured to refer to a frame included in an activation request message identifying an electronic control unit that needs to…
PRESSURE TANK UNIT
Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number:
20250020277
A pressure tank unit may include: a tank including a container space which contains compressed gas; and a plurality of protectors bonded to a surface of the tank, wherein the tank may include: a body part having a cylindrical shape; and a dome part provided at an end of the body part and having a hemispherical shape, the plurality of protectors may be arranged along a boundary between the body part and the dome part in a circumferential direction of the tank, each of the plurality of…
ROOF STRENGTH MOMENT CANCELLING BULKHEAD
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250010920
A vehicle roof support structure on a vehicle. The vehicle roof support structure includes a roof rail member extending in a lengthwise direction of the vehicle. The vehicle roof support structure also includes a side pillar member disposed at least partially below the roof rail member on a lateral side of the vehicle and extending substantially in a vertical direction of the vehicle. The vehicle roof support structure further includes a load force transfer member. The load force…
DEFORMABLE SENSORS HAVING AN INTERNAL STEREO DEPTH SENSOR AND AN INFRARED SENSOR
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250012634
Deformable sensors having a stereo depth sensor and an infrared sensor and methods of their use are disclosed. In one embodiment, a deformable sensor includes an enclosure having a housing and a deformable membrane, wherein the deformable membrane is transparent to a wavelength band in the infrared spectrum, a stereo depth sensor that is disposed within the enclosure and is configured to view an underside of the deformable membrane, and output a deformation region of the deformable…
NAVIGATION SYSTEM
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250012588
When the second mobile terminal is brought close to the first mobile terminal, the installation information of the passenger application is transmitted to the second mobile terminal. When the installation is confirmed, the passenger application is installed. After that, when the operation of designating the destination is performed in the second mobile terminal, the destination information is transferred from the destination setting application to the passenger application. The user is…
NAVIGATION SYSTEM
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250012586
In a navigation system, a data center and a plurality of vehicles are connected via a communication network. The data center accepts specific section information, which can identify a specific section for which the capturing of road conditions is requested, from a capturing requester. The data center proposes capturing-requested routes, each of which goes through a specific section, to a user who performed a route search with a destination set using a navigation device, based on the…
ROUTE GUIDANCE DEVICE AND MaaS PROVIDING METHOD
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250012580
The route guidance device guides the route to the user based on the destination information and the departure point information. The route guidance device determines, based on the location information of the vehicle associated with the route selected by the user and the location information of the user, whether the user has ridden on the vehicle associated with the route selected by the user.
COATED DISCRETE METALLIC PARTICLES AND MULTILAYER STRUCTURES COMPRISING REFLECTIVE CORE LAYERS
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250011965
A discrete metallic particle having a metallic material, and a coating covering at least a portion of the metallic component. The discrete metallic particle has a thickness from 50 nm to 1000 nm, and the discrete metallic particle has a skin depth ? of greater than or equal to 1.0 ?m in a frequency range from 20-40 GHz. The skin depth ? is calculated by: ? = 2 ? ? ( 2 ? ? ? f ) ? ( ? 0 ? ? r ) ? 503 ? ? ? r ? f Where ? is skin depth in meters (m);…
ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION METHODS FOR MAKING OMNIDIRECTIONAL STRUCTURAL COLOR MULTILAYER STRUCTURES
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250011928
A method of forming a multilayer structure that reflects an omnidirectional structural color by atomic layer deposition (ALD) includes introducing at least one reflective core particle into a reaction chamber and depositing a conformal dielectric layer encapsulating the at least one reflective core particle in a dielectric-layer ALD cycle. Subsequently, a conformal barrier layer encapsulating the conformal dielectric layer is deposited in a barrier-layer ALD cycle, and a conformal…
VEHICLE
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250010923
A vehicle includes: a floor panel; a first crossmember that extends in a vehicle left-right direction along the floor panel; a second crossmember that extends in the vehicle left-right direction along the floor panel and is positioned rearward of the first crossmember in a vehicle front-rear direction; a joining member that extends in the vehicle front-rear direction along the floor panel and joins the first crossmember and the second crossmember to each other; and a seat bracket which…
APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A DEVICE BY DETERMINING A REFERENCE POINT
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250010477
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for calibrating a device by determining a reference point for working on an object. An apparatus includes a pin member, a shell member, an elastic member, and a base member. The pin member includes a tip, a protrusion, a first mark, and a distal end. The shell member includes a second mark and an opening and receives at least a first portion of the pin member therethrough. The opening exposes the first mark when the first mark is aligned with the second…
VEHICLE-BODY LOWER STRUCTURE
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250010917
A vehicle-body lower structure includes: a front suspension member, a lower arm supported by the front suspension member; and a battery case that is disposed on the rear side of the front suspension member and houses a battery. The battery case includes: a front plate; and a frame extending in the left-right direction on a lower portion of the front plate. A block is attached to a front portion of the frame so as to be positioned on the rear side of the lower arm.
STEERING CONTROL DEVICE AND STEERING CONTROL METHOD
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250010910
A steering control device is applied to a vehicle steering system for steering traveling of a vehicle. The steering control device includes a rudder angle control unit that executes a control in which a rudder angle variable obtained about the steering is referred to. The rudder angle control unit executes a control information setting process of setting control information that is a value indicating straight movement of the vehicle and that is a reference of the rudder angle variable.…
STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250010889
The vehicle control program is executed in a VCIB connected between DS and VP that performs autonomous driving in accordance with a command from DS. VCIB includes a memory in which a program including a predetermined API defined for each signal is stored, and a processor that controls VP in response to an instruction from DS by executing the program. VCIB has a manual/automatic mode. VP can accept a manual driving operation in the manual mode, and can accept a command from DS in the…
CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250010886
A vehicle includes an autonomous driving device and a navigation device. A control device for the vehicle is configured to display on the navigation device an evaluation window for evaluating a driver assistance function performed by the autonomous driving device. The control device is configured to adjust a parameter that is used when the autonomous driving device performs the driver assistance function, based on an input operation from a driver to the evaluation window.
VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250010874
A vehicle control apparatus performs an alert notification of alerting an operator of at least one of an own vehicle and an oncoming vehicle of a collision probability. The vehicle control apparatus performs the alert notification when a predicted lane departure period of time is equal to or longer than a second threshold period of time at a point of time when a predicted collision period of time becomes shorter than a first threshold period of time, and performs the alert notification…
VEHICLE SEAT
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250010766
A vehicle seat includes: a recliner plate with a recliner attached thereto, the recliner plate being fixed to a cushion frame; a hinge pin configured to cause the recliner to perform a release operation; and a bushing forming a plain bearing that rotatably supports the hinge pin, and being fixed to the recliner plate. The bushing has a block shape with a through hole which the hinge pin passes through, and is directly fixed to the recliner plate.
VEHICLE
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250010762
Vehicles include a main battery, an auxiliary battery, charging relays, a DC/DC converter, and an ECU. The charging relay is used to perform external charging for charging the main battery by the power equipment. The DC/DC converter is configured to step down the discharging power of the main battery and to provide the stepped-down power to the auxiliary battery. ECU controls the DC/DC converter. ECU lowers the charging state of the auxiliary battery from the first state to the second…
ANIMATION TO VISUALIZE WHEEL SLIP
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250010712
A 3D animation of the response of a vehicle to forces imparted to the vehicle during conveyance thereof over a course. Sensor data are accepted by a processor that defines an instantaneous state of the vehicle. Forces imparted to the vehicle are computed from temporal changes in the state. Wheel slip is determined by the processor from the computed forces. A 3D graphical representation of the vehicle is rendered on a display as being in motion under influence of the wheel slip.
VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250010710
A vehicle control device mounted on a vehicle capable of external charging, the vehicle control device being configured to: control to cause a state of the vehicle to a first state, in which a movement of the vehicle is prohibited, when receiving an instruction signal from an automatic charging device, which automatically connects a charging connector to a charging port; and release the first state under all of the following conditions are satisfied: a) there is a request for releasing…
