GARBAGE COLLECTION TIME NOTIFICATION METHOD
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250053935
A vehicle transmits images in which garbage collection sites appear to a server. The server performs: identifying, among the plurality of images acquired from the vehicle, a yet-to-be-visited collection site image in which a yet-to-be-visited collection site appears that is a collection site by which a garbage truck has not yet passed in a travel route of the garbage truck; based on the identified yet-to-be-visited collection site image, calculating an estimated amount of garbage brought…
MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ELECTRODE, ELECTRODE, AND BATTERY
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250054938
A method of fabricating an electrode includes: fabricating a first electrode layer disposed on a current collector; and fabricating a second electrode layer disposed on the first electrode layer. The first electrode layer is formed by electrostatic deposition, wet deposition, or rolled film formation. The second electrode layer is formed by rolled film formation. When the first electrode layer is fabricated by rolled film formation, at least part of a surface of active material particles…
METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTRODE, ELECTRODE, AND BATTERY
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250054937
A method of manufacturing an electrode used in a battery including an electrolytic solution includes a step of coating at least a part of a surface of carbon particles with a resin, a step of mixing the carbon particles coated with the resin and polytetrafluoroethylene to obtain a mixture, and a step of fiberizing the polytetrafluoroethylene in the mixture.
FASTENER HANDLING TOOLS AND METHODS OF HANDLING FASTENERS
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250054669
A method of picking a predetermined number of fasteners is provided. The method includes placing a fastener handling tool adjacent the predetermined number of fasteners. The fastener handling tool includes a body that includes a holding side, a picking side opposite the holding side, a front wall, a rear wall opposite the front wall and opposite side walls that extend between the holding side and the picking side. The body includes an elongated slot on the picking side that extends…
AUDIO CUES FOR DRIVER TRAINING
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250054410
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to training a vehicle driver using audio cues. In one embodiment, a method includes determining a deviation of a vehicle between an actual path of the vehicle and an ideal path. The ideal path defines a position and a velocity of the vehicle to optimize driving time through a current section of a road. The method includes generating an audible cue within the vehicle to indicate to a driver the deviation from the ideal path.
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250054387
In this management system, the latest time among the expected arrival times at which each of the plurality of moving objects is expected to reach the destination is set as the reference time. Then, for each of the one or more moving objects other than the moving object predicted to arrive at the destination at the reference time among the plurality of moving objects, the traveling route to the destination and the traveling speed are determined so that the estimated arrival time…
SYSTEMS, VEHICLES, AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE ENVIRONMENT DETECTION BASED ON BLOCKED VIEW
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250054318
Embodiments of systems and methods for vehicle environment detection 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 one or more parking spaces and an object removably attached to the vehicle. The one or more processors are operable to identify the object, generate, using a pre-trained depth algorithm, a depth map based on the image, generate a boundary of the…
OBSTACLE DETECTION DEVICE AND OBSTACLE DETECTION METHOD
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250054180
An obstacle detection device includes: a camera; and a detector for detecting an obstacle. A part of the obstacle located on the reference plane serves as a detection object. The detector is configured to: estimate coordinates of the detection object in an image coordinate system of a captured image; convert the coordinates of the detection object in the image coordinate system of the captured image into coordinates of the detection object in an image coordinate system of a developed…
VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250054178
The present disclosure provides a vehicle control system for controlling a vehicle. The vehicle control system comprises processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a video captured by a common camera, calculate a first vehicle position that is a position of the vehicle from the video based on a first position estimation algorithm, calculate a second vehicle position that is a position of the vehicle from the video based on a second position estimation…
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250054017
An information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit of the information processing device acquires the number of times of maintenance performed at a predetermined station during a predetermined period of time for the leased vehicle including the maintenance. The control unit of the information processing device determines a larger amount of reward to be provided to the user of the leased vehicle as the number of times of maintenance performed at a predetermined…
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250053901
A control unit configured to execute: accepting a designation of a desired work that is a work for a vehicle desired by a user; determining whether a first facility associated with the user is capable of corresponding to a desired work; outputting information for recommending a first facility as a facility for performing a desired work to a terminal associated with the user in response to determining that the first facility is capable of corresponding to a desired work; and outputting…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING PRESENCE OF OBJECTS USING DECENTRALIZED DATA COLLECTION AND MAP DATA-BASED INFORMATION COMPRESSION
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250053785
A method for predicting presence of objects in an area is provided. The method includes obtaining a 2-dimensional matrix representing presence of objects in an area, each of values of the 2-dimensional matrix representing presence of objects in corresponding sub-region of the area, filtering the 2-dimensional matrix based on map information, converting the filtered 2-dimensional matrix to 1-dimensional data, inputting a series of the 1-dimensional data to a trained prediction machine…
SERVER DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND OPERATION METHOD OF SYSTEM
Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250052584
A server device includes one or more communication interfaces and one or more processors that perform communication by the one or more communication interfaces. Based on information regarding a remaining charge in a battery of a power-feed-receiving vehicle, and information regarding a travel route, the one or more processors send, to the power-feed-receiving vehicle, either one or both of first information indicating a power feed facility near the travel route, and second information…
PERSONALIZED TAKEOVER PREDICTION WITH DRIVER TACTILE INPUTS
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250042444
Systems and methods of transitioning a vehicle from being autonomously controlled by an autonomous vehicle control system to being controlled by a driver upon the driver taking over driving of the vehicle are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain tactile information corresponding to the driver of the vehicle while the vehicle is being autonomously controlled by the autonomous vehicle control system; predict, using the tactile information, when the driver will be ready to take…
BATTERY STATE-OF-HEALTH PREDICTION
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250044359
A system for determining a future state-of-health (SOH) of a battery includes a memory communicably coupled to a processor and storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to acquire battery data of a battery for which a future SOH is to be predicted. The instructions also cause the processor to identify a selected model from an ensemble of models according to at least a time to the future SOH and a time length of the battery data. The instructions…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF ELECTROCATALYST-LOADED DISK ELECTRODES
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250044255
Systems and methods described herein relate to assessing the quality of electrocatalyst-loaded disk electrodes. In one embodiment, a system that assesses the quality of electrocatalyst-loaded disk electrodes receives one or more images of a disk electrode on which an electrocatalyst has been deposited to produce an electrocatalyst-loaded disk electrode. The system also processes the one or more images using a machine-learning-based model trained to generate a prediction of a…
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250044112
In the information processing device, the control unit acquires the current position of the vehicle and the living area of the user of the vehicle. In response to the current position of the vehicle being out of the living area of the user, the control unit specifies a genre for proposal that is a genre in which the number of visits is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value among genres of the facilities that the user has visited in the vehicle in the past. The control…
SWITCHING DEVICE
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250043872
The switching device includes a ten-way valve. The ten-way valve includes a lower body (first valve body), an upper body (second valve body), and a drive plate (third valve body). The switching device rotates each of the upper body and the drive plate relative to the lower body to switch an overlapping state in the Z direction (axial direction) between an opening (first opening) of each of the plurality of grooves (first grooves) of the lower body, a groove (second groove) of the upper…
GUIDE JIG
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250043825
There is provided a guide jig including a guide jig body and an engagement portion provided on the guide jig body and configured to be engaged with an engagement partner with the guide jig body positioned with respect to the engagement partner. The guide jig body includes a guide through hole provided as a through hole extending toward a relevant portion with the engagement portion engaged with the engagement partner and configured to guide the direction of insertion of an insertion…
CAB MOUNT
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250042477
A cab mount including: an upper mount and a lower mount configured to be assembled as sandwiching a first vehicle member; a fixing shaft inserted through the upper mount and the lower mount so as to fix the cab mount to a second vehicle member; an elastic body constituting the upper mount; an insertion rubber part provided at a lower end of the elastic body and configured to extend between the first vehicle member and the fixing shaft in a radial direction; and a reinforcement member…
