BATTERY AND MODULE
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250055037
A battery of the present disclosure has: an electrode body that is flat and is configured by a positive electrode and negative electrode layered alternately via a separator; an exterior body; a positive electrode tab projecting from the exterior body in a first direction that is orthogonal; and a negative electrode tab projecting from the exterior body in the first direction or in an opposite direction to the first direction. The exterior body has at least one laminate sheet. The…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF 3D-PRINTING A CIRCUIT BOARD ON A HEAT SINK ASSEMBLY HAVING POWER DEVICES BONDED THERETO
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250056732
A method of forming integrated power electronics packages by 3D-printing the PCB on and around power devices includes bonding a power device to a first surface of a cold plate and printing, using a 3D-printer, a circuit board on and around the power devices such that the circuit board includes one or more insulating portions and one or more conductive portions.
SERVER, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250056076
A server includes a communication unit and a control unit. The control unit obtains, as a target time, a time when a predetermined trigger is detected for a visitor moving to an event venue. When the target time is later than a start time of an event held at the event venue, by controlling the communication unit such that the communication unit transmits a first shortened moving image obtained by shortening a first moving image of the event shot from the start time to the target time,…
BATTERY CELL AND BATTERY CELL STACK
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250055167
A battery cell includes an electrode body in which a plurality of laminated structures having a cathode, an anode, and a separator interposed between the cathode and the anode are further laminated, and a tape wound around the outer periphery of the electrode body over one circumference, wherein the tape has an overlapping portion in which one side and the other end side in an outer peripheral direction overlap each other, and a direction in which a plurality of laminated structures are…
BATTERY MODULE
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250055150
The battery module includes a plurality of battery cells stacked on each other, an electrode lead protruding from the battery cell, and a bus bar electrically joined to the electrode lead via a welded portion, the welded portion being formed so as to straddle the end portions of the plurality of electrode leads on a surface where the end portions of the plurality of electrode leads approach each other.
POWER STORAGE CELL
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250055141
A power storage cell comprises a case, an electrode assembly, an insulating film, and an electrolyte solution. The case accommodates the electrode assembly, the insulating film, and the electrolyte solution. The electrode assembly has an upper surface, a lower surface, and a peripheral surface. A liquid inlet hole is provided on a side of the case facing the upper surface. The peripheral surface connects the upper surface with the lower surface. The peripheral surface includes a first…
POWER STORAGE DEVICE
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250055101
A power storage device includes an electrode stack including a plurality of electrodes, a separator, and a resin sealing portion. The plurality of electrodes include a bipolar electrode. The bipolar electrode includes a current collector, a positive electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode active material layer. The sealing portion includes a first adhesive portion adhered to the current collector, a second adhesive portion adhered to the current collector, a first…
BATTERY AND BATTERY MODULE
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250055094
The battery cell includes an electrode body in which electrodes and separators are alternately stacked, a battery case in which the electrode body is accommodated, and an electrode lead in which one end is connected to the electrode body inside the battery case and the other end protrudes from an end portion in the width direction of the battery case and is folded back toward the battery case.
LAMINATED BATTERY
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250055081
A laminated battery, a battery element, and a laminate film enclosing the battery element, wherein the laminate film has a fused portion in which end portions are overlapped and an inner surface is fused, and the laminate film has a fused portion side surface in which a fused portion is formed, an opposite side surface opposed to the fused portion side surface, and a pair of main surfaces orthogonal to the fused portion side surface and the opposite side surface and having an area larger…
BATTERY MODULE
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250055060
A battery module capable of improving the cooling efficiency between a battery cell and a cooler while ensuring the electrical insulation between the battery cell and the cooler is provided. A battery module according to the present disclosure includes a battery cell, a cooler configured to cool the battery cell, an insulator disposed between the battery cell and the cooler, and a thermal conductor disposed between the battery cell and the cooler. The insulator includes a hollowed part,…
CONVEYANCE CART
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250050931
A conveyance cart capable of traveling with a conveyed object placed on the conveyance cart, the conveyance cart includes a traveling portion configured to travel along a traveling surface, and an engaging portion configured to be engaged with an engaged portion protruding from the traveling surface by movement in a cart forward direction. The engaging portion includes a first engaging portion and a second engaging portion, which are disposed on a bottom portion of a cart body so as to…
FUEL CELL STACK
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250055002
A fuel cell stack includes stacked single cells. The single cells each include a power generation portion and a pair of a first separator and a second separator. The first separator includes first passages. The first passages each include first reversal portions and first general portions. The second separator includes second passages. The second passages each include second reversal portions and second general portions. The first reversal portions of the first passages each extend to…
METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRODE, ELECTRODE, AND BATTERY
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250054985
A method for manufacturing an electrode includes the steps of: kneading active material particles, an electrically conductive material, and an adhesive to fix the electrically conductive material to at least part of a surface of the active material particles; mixing the active material particles having the electrically conductive material fixed to the active material particles by the adhesive with polytetrafluoroethylene to obtain a mixture; and causing the polytetrafluoroethylene in the…
SOC ESTIMATION DEVICE
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250052829
In SOC estimation device, the first estimation unit 36 estimates a reference value of SOC of the battery based on the voltage of the chargeable/dischargeable battery (auxiliary battery). The second estimation unit 38 estimates the estimated value of SOC of the battery based on the estimated reference value and the integrated value of the current of the battery. When the first estimation unit is not performing the process of estimating the reference value, the voltage of the battery is…
METHOD FOR REDUCING STACKING FAULTS IN SILICON CARBIDE, AND STRUCTURE CREATED BY MEANS OF SAID METHOD
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250051962
An object of the present invention is to provide a novel technique for reducing stacking faults SF in silicon carbide. Another object of the present invention is to provide a novel technique capable of reducing the stacking faults SF under a small number of growth conditions. The present invention is a method for reducing stacking faults in silicon carbide including a growth step S10 of growing an epitaxial layer 20 on a bulk layer 10 of silicon carbide having stacking faults SF under a…
VEHICLE TIRE GUARD DEVICE
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250050952
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to a vehicle tire guard that retracts in response to a force. In one embodiment, the vehicle tire guard device includes a tire guard extending downward from a vehicle frame and a retraction system attached to the vehicle frame. The retraction system includes a spring-loaded wheel with circumferential interface elements to engage with and retract the tire guard responsive to a vertical force applied to the tire guard, a…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF VISUAL SONAR FOR ADAPTED VEHICLE GEOMETRY
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250050946
Embodiments of systems and methods for adapted vehicle geometry include a vehicle and one or more processors. The vehicle includes a camera operable to generate an image of an environment surrounding the vehicle. The environment includes a parking space and an object removably attached to the vehicle. The one or more processors operable to identify the object as attached to the vehicle, generate, using a pre-trained depth algorithm, a depth map based on the image, generate a boundary of…
CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE, CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICLE, AND NONTRANSITORY COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250050944
A control device for a vehicle is configured to detect road markings on a road based on outside environment data relating to an environment around the vehicle, perform driver's assistance for warning of or avoiding departure of the vehicle from a running lane based on results of detection of road markings, and, if the road markings include markings indicating a neutral zone in which running of the vehicle is not recommended, change the conditions for actuation of driver's assistance so…
SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PREVENT LATERAL CONTROL BY LIMITING TURNING BY A STEERING WHEEL
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250050943
A system is provided for implementing steering wheel controls, namely steering wheel rotation locking. In accordance with embodiments of the disclosed technology, a system may comprise a steering wheel rotation locking device; and a controller communicatively connected to the steering wheel rotation locking device to determine a presence and location of one or more objects or conditions surrounding a vehicle, and produce steering wheel control feedback to physically prevent rotational…
VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250050942
When the driver performs a steering operation when the scene in which the host vehicle is traveling is a predetermined learning scene, the vehicle control device stores a value corresponding to the steering operation in association with the learning scene. Thereafter, when the scene specified by the peripheral information changes to the learning scene during the execution of the driving support control, and/or when the scene specified by the peripheral information at the time when the…
