CONTROL DEVICE AND VEHICLE
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250075554
The control device is mounted on a vehicle having a remotely controllable tailgate. The control unit of the control device executes the opening control of the tailgate when a predetermined condition is satisfied when the opening control command of the tailgate is received from the external device. The predetermined condition includes that the driving of the power source of the vehicle is stopped and the inclination angle in the front-rear direction with respect to the horizontal plane of…
CASE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING POWER STORAGE CELL
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250079670
A case is used for accommodating an electrode assembly and an electrolyte solution of a power storage cell. The case has a rectangular parallelepiped outer shape. The case includes a first bottom wall, a peripheral wall, and a second bottom wall. The second bottom wall faces the first bottom wall. The peripheral wall connects the first bottom wall and the second bottom wall. The first bottom wall has a rectangular planar shape. The first bottom wall has a long-side direction and a…
POWER STORAGE CELL
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250079636
A power storage cell includes the following configuration. The power storage cell includes a case, an electrode assembly, and an electrolyte solution. The case accommodates the electrode assembly and the electrolyte solution. The electrode assembly includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator. The separator includes a mountain-fold portion and a valley-fold portion. The mountain-fold portions and the valley-fold portions are alternately arranged in a length direction…
METHOD FOR PRODUCING BATTERY PACK AND BATTERY PACK
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250079607
A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a method for producing a battery pack capable of efficiently curing an adhesive while suppressing a single battery from being heated. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a method for producing a battery pack, the method comprising steps of: a preparing step; a storage step; and a filling step, wherein the preparing step is a step of preparing a laminated battery having a plurality of single batteries laminated in a…
POWER STORAGE MODULE
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250079603
The power storage module includes a plurality of electricity storage cells (cylindrical power storage cells), a column portion arranged so as to be surrounded by the plurality of electricity storage cells, and a case accommodating the plurality of electricity storage cells. The column portion extends along the Z direction. The length of the column portion in the Z direction (axial direction) is larger than the length of each of the plurality of power storage cells in the Z direction.
BATTERY PACK
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250079602
A battery pack includes an upper cover and a lower case. The upper cover is disposed to face a floor panel of a vehicle. The lower case is combined with the upper cover. In the width direction of the vehicle, the open edges of the lower cases are combined with the left end portion and the right end portion of the upper cover to form a left flange and a right flange, respectively. In the width direction of the vehicle, each of the upper surfaces of the left flange and the right flange is…
POWER STORAGE CELL
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250079589
The power storage cell includes a wound electrode body, a case, an internal gasket (a seal member), a positive electrode terminal (an external terminal), and a positive electrode connecting portion (a connecting member). The case includes a peripheral wall portion, a lower lid (first lid portion), and an upper lid (second lid portion). The lower lid has an exhaust valve for exhausting the gas in the case. A through hole (second through hole) is formed in the upper lid (second lid). The…
HYDROPHOBIC TWISTED AND COILED POLYMER ACTUATORS
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250075686
An actuator includes a twisted and coiled polymer fishing line and an untwisted resistance heating wire (TCPFLRHW) actuator and a coating on the TCPFLHRW actuator. The coating includes a mixture of carbon nanotubes, metal nanoparticles, and mesoporous carbon nanoparticles, and in some variations, the coating includes a polymer matrix with the carbon nanotubes, metal nanoparticles, and mesoporous carbon nanoparticles disposed in the polymer matrix. And the actuator exhibits enhanced…
CANNULA TCP ACTUATOR
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250075685
Technology disclosed herein provides a cannula TCP actuator comprising an annealed microtube assembly including a polymer microtube having inserted therein a resistive heating wire such that the resistive heating wire extends through the length of the polymer microtube, wherein the microtube assembly is arranged in a twisted and coiled tube. The cannula TCP actuator is fabricated by inserting a resistive heating wire into the polymer microtube, forming a microtube assembly by applying a…
ENGINE CONTROL DEVICE
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250075669
An engine control device includes that controls an air excess rate of each of N (an integer of 2 or more) cylinders by controlling an intake air amount and a fuel injection amount of each of the N cylinders; and a determination unit for determining whether or not there is a request to switch the air excess rate controlled by ?1 to ?2 different from ?1. When an affirmative determination is made by the determination unit, the control unit controls the air excess rate such that a proportion…
WHEELED PLATFORM AND WHEELED PLATFORM SYSTEM
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250074492
The wheeled platform of the present disclosure includes a base on which an object is placed; wheels attached to the base; a lock device having a latch that is lockable to a striker that is fixed; a guide member configured to guide the striker to a position where the striker is lockable to the latch; and a wheeled platform side terminal contactable with a fixed side terminal disposed on a member to which the striker is fixed, the wheeled platform side terminal being disposed at a position…
OPERATION LOGIC FOR A POWER HOOD SYSTEM
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250075537
Methods, systems, and apparatus for a power hood system. The power hood system includes a powered hood rotatable between a closed position and an open position, at least one hood latch (e.g., a primary hood latch and/or a secondary hood latch) configured to secure the powered hood in the closed position (or a half latch position). The power hood system further includes an electronic control unit electrically coupled to the power hood. The electronic control unit is configured to…
METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRET MATERIAL
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250075310
A method for manufacturing an electret material includes: an ion implantation step of implanting ions into an insulator; a heat treatment step of, after the ion implantation step, performing a heat treatment on the insulator by supplying energy from the outside; and a charging step of charging the ions in the insulator after the heat treatment step.
INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250074755
An industrial vehicle includes a side shift mechanism, a distance sensor provided on a side surface of at least one of the pair of forks in the horizontal direction and configured to detect a distance from the side surface to a detection object; and a control unit configured to control a side shift operation by the side shift mechanism based on a detection result of the distance sensor. The control unit stores an initial value of a distance between a side surface of the fork and an inner…
ELECTRODE STACKING APPARATUS
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250074736
An electrode stacking apparatus includes a stator with a horizontally installed main surface and multiple coils arranged under the main surface. A movable unit for stacking work includes a first mover that is movable above the main surface by magnetic levitation, an electrode holding unit, and a driving mechanism. The electrode holding unit is configured to press, from above, the base on top of the first mover and the sheet-type electrodes fed on the base's top surface. The driving…
CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250074571
The control device includes a control unit. The control unit sets the first intermediate target point within the range of waters when the ship is located outside the range of waters capable of starting the automatic steering to the target docking point. When the distance of the vector connecting the position of the ship and the first intermediate target point and the angle between the bow direction of the ship and the direction of the vector satisfy a predetermined criterion, the control…
CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250074557
A control device mounted on a ship includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to set a first water area in which automatic pilot for berthing the ship at a berthing location for the ship is able to start when the berthing location is selected. The control unit is configured to display the berthing location and the first water area on a display screen provided in the ship together with map information.
ELECTRIC CRAWLER VEHICLE
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250074518
An electric crawler vehicle comprising a pair of left and right traveling crawlers, each having a drive wheel, a traveling electric motor that generates traveling power to be transmitted to the pair of left and right traveling crawlers, a turning electric motor that generates turning power to be transmitted to the pair of left and right traveling crawlers, and a differential mechanism disposed in a power transmission path between the turning electric motor and each drive wheel of the…
DETACHABLE UNDERBODY PROTECTION PLATES AND METHODS OF PROVIDING DETACHABLE UNDERBODY PROTECTION PLATES
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250074515
A vehicle includes a protection plate that is releasably mounted to an underside of the vehicle. The protection plate has a slot having a first opening portion and a second opening portion. A bolt extends through the second opening portion and connects to a cross member that extends between longitudinally extending side members of a frame of the vehicle. The second opening portion is sized and configured to allow the bolt to slide out of the second opening portion and toward the first…
ELECTRIC CRAWLER VEHICLE
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250074508
An electric crawler vehicle includes a pair of left and right traveling crawlers, a traveling electric motor that generates traveling power to be transmitted to the pair of left and right traveling crawlers, and a turning electric motor that generates turning power to be transmitted to the pair of left and right traveling crawlers. The traveling electric motor and the turning electric motor are disposed on one lateral side of the vehicle.
