DECELERATION ASSISTANCE APPARATUS, DECELERATION ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250065870
A deceleration assistance apparatus executes deceleration control that decelerates a vehicle when a vehicle speed of the vehicle is greater than a target vehicle speed set as a target value of a vehicle speed of the vehicle when the vehicle travels on a curved road. The deceleration assistance apparatus is configured to cause the target vehicle speed to be greater by a predetermined value or is configured to not execute the deceleration control even when the vehicle speed of the vehicle…
STEERING CONTROL DEVICE
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250065943
The steering control device includes a software processing device. The software processing device is configured to execute assist amount setting processing, axial force setting processing, and reaction force application processing. In the assist amount setting processing, an assist amount is set while an output value of first damping processing that outputs a first damping correction amount having a correlation with a steering angular velocity is used. In the axial force setting…
VEHICLE SAFETY OPERATION MANAGER FOR DRIVER ASSISTANCE FUNCTIONS
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250065926
A method for managing operation of a vehicle includes detecting, while the vehicle is operating, an assistance condition that triggers activation of one or more assistance components of a set of assistance components associated with a driver assistance system, the vehicle having been retrofitted to include an autonomous driving system. The method also includes determining whether the autonomous driving system satisfies a respective safety condition associated with each of the one or more…
VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250065923
When the driving mode is the automatic driving mode, the vehicle control device executes the first hard protection control according to the component-related parameter representing the state or the operating environment of the in-vehicle component, and when the driving mode is the manual driving mode, the vehicle control device executes the second hard protection control having a higher protection performance of the in-vehicle component than the first hard protection control according to…
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COLLISION CONTROL OF MOVING VEHICLES SURROUNDED BY VEHICLES
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250065916
Embodiments of methods and systems include determining a driving maneuver to be performed by an ego vehicle based on a road geometry and a lane geometry, the ego vehicle surrounded by one or more surrounding vehicles, retrieving a trajectory model corresponding to the driving maneuver, encoding kinematic data of the surrounding vehicles relative to the ego vehicle to generate spatial relationships between the surrounding vehicles and the ego vehicle, predicting future trajectories of the…
VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250065897
An ECU of a vehicle control apparatus determines that an erroneous operation to an accelerator pedal has been performed, when both a prerequisite condition and an additional condition are satisfied. The prerequisite condition: an operation amount of the accelerator pedal becomes greater than a high threshold after an increasing rate of the accelerator pedal operation amount becomes great at a driving range. The additional condition is satisfied when at least one of three conditions…
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250065886
In the information processing device, the control unit acquires, from the vehicle, vehicle data including traveling data of the vehicle and driver information of the vehicle. The control unit verifies the identity of the driver of the vehicle with a predetermined user associated with the vehicle based on the driver information included in the vehicle data. The control unit determines the validity of the traveling data included in the vehicle data according to the verification result of…
DRIVE UNIT
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250065883
A drive unit mounted on a vehicle includes: a motor; a motor-side shaft having a first spline on an outer peripheral surface thereof and rotated by torque from the motor; a gear-side shaft having a second spline on the outer peripheral surface thereof and disposed coaxially with the motor-side shaft; and a coupling sleeve disposed from the motor-side shaft to the gear-side shaft and having a third spline on the inner peripheral surface thereof that engages with the first spline and the…
CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250065880
The vehicle includes a prime mover, a propeller shaft that transmits a rotational output, a first drive wheel that transmits a rotational output without passing through the propeller shaft, a second drive wheel transmitted through the propeller shaft, a torque distribution unit, and a transmission device. The control device of the vehicle has an autonomous driving mode and a manual driving mode, when changing a gear ratio of the transmission device, the control device controls the torque…
VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250065875
To enable appropriate execution of a deceleration control, provided is a control device comprising a setting unit configured to sets a first vehicle ahead of an own vehicle in an adjacent, as a target that has a sign of lane change, when a state of the first vehicle and a second vehicle ahead of the first vehicle satisfy a predetermined condition, a control unit configured to executes a deceleration control, when the setting unit set the first vehicle as the target, and an acquisition…
VEHICLE BEHAVIOR CONTROL APPARATUS
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250065682
A vehicle behavior control apparatus includes: a variable roll stiffness device configured to change roll stiffness of a first axle being one of a front axle and a rear axle and roll stiffness of a second axle being another of the front axle and the rear axle; and a controller. The controller is configured to control the variable roll stiffness device so as to increase the roll stiffness of the first axle in accordance with a lateral acceleration in at least a low acceleration range. The…
FINGERPRINT AUTHENTICATION DEVICE
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250065845
A system is mounted on a vehicle and includes a sensor configured to perform a detection process that detects a fingerprint of a finger touching the sensor in order to perform a fingerprint authentication process, and a controller. The controller is configured to: (i) control a power supply of the vehicle to be ON when a predetermined authentication process through a predetermined communication with another device other than the sensor is successful, the predetermined authentication…
VEHICLE APPROACH NOTIFICATION DEVICE
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250065805
A vehicle approach notification device includes a sound emitter configured to output a notification sound. The sound emitter includes a vibration plate that generates sound, and sound guide tubes that outputs the notification sound toward an outside of the vehicle. The sound guide tubes include a first sound guide tube directed to a front area in front of the vehicle, and a second sound guide tube directed in a direction different from a direction in which the first sound guide tube is…
SEAT ACTUATOR CONTROL FOR LUMBAR SUPPORT
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250065787
One or more actuators can be used to provide a substantially continuous level of lumbar support to a seat occupant. An actuator can be operatively positioned relative to a lumbar region of a seat. The actuator can be caused to morph into an activated configuration to support a lumbar region of a seat occupant. The activated configuration of the actuator can be maintained to provide a substantially continuous level of lumbar support.
VEHICLE CONTENT BASED ON CHARGING STATION
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250065767
An example operation includes one or more of determining, via a server, an energy transfer rate at a charging point, and providing content, via the server, to a vehicle at the charging point when the energy transfer rate is below a threshold.
PROVIDING CONTENT RELATED TO AN AMOUNT RECEIVED ENERGY
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250065755
An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a charging point, energy from a vehicle connected to the charging point; and providing content to the vehicle related to an amount of the energy received from the vehicle.
SERVER
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250065747
A server includes a communication unit (acquisition unit) that acquires temperature information about a battery of an electrified vehicle, and a processor. The processor predicts the temperature transition of the battery in a meeting period during which an electric power supply-demand adjustment request from an electric power grid (electric power network) can be met, based on at least the temperature information. The processor estimates an hour zone in the meeting period during which the…
ELECTRIFIED VEHICLE
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250065735
Electrified vehicle includes a motor, a battery, an inverter, and a control device. The inverter is provided between the battery and the motor, and converts DC power from the battery into AC power. AC power is supplied to the motor. The control device can execute a specified operation while electrified vehicle is stopped. The specific operation includes determining a target electrical angle based on an initial value of the electrical angle of the motor, controlling the operation of the…
SUSPENSION CONTROL SYSTEM
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250065684
In a suspension control system, an actuator adjusts a suspension stroke. An acquisition unit acquires, from a road surface data map in which a road surface displacement-associated value associated with vertical displacement of a road surface is associated with a position, a road surface displacement-associated value at a predicted passing position of a control target wheel a predetermined time after a present time. A calculation unit calculates a target control force based on the…
SUSPENSION CONTROL SYSTEM
Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250065683
An actuator of a suspension control system is controlled by a control device to adjust a suspension stroke of a controlled wheel of a vehicle. In the control device, a first acquisition unit repeatedly acquires a road surface displacement-related value from a road surface data map. A second acquisition unit acquires a change amount of the road surface displacement-related value per unit time. A control unit controls the actuator so that a control force generated by the actuator when the…
