CONTROLLER FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250109720
A controller and a control method for an internal combustion engine are provided. The internal combustion engine uses hydrogen as fuel. A base value of a fuel injection amount is calculated based on a requested torque. A smaller one of an upper limit value of the fuel injection amount and the base value is set as a target value. The upper limit value corresponds to an engine load factor. A NOx concentration difference is a difference between a NOx concentration in exhaust gas and a…
SYSTEM TO DISPLAY A VIVID IMAGE ON SOLAR CELLS HAVING FLEXIBLE PROPERTIES
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250112590
Systems herein relate to a device having a lens that directs angles of light toward solar cells and display sections having components that improve image clarity, reflectivity, and vividness. In one embodiment, a system includes a lens that directs incident light within a first angular range for absorption and a second angular range toward viewing material. The system also includes that the viewing material is within sections of the lens and forms an image. The system also includes…
SYSTEM TO DISPLAY A VIVID IMAGE ON SOLAR CELLS
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250112589
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to a device having a lens that directs angles of light toward solar cells and display sections having components that improve image clarity, reflectivity, and vividness. In one embodiment, a system includes a lens that directs incident light within a first angular range for absorption and a second angular range toward viewing material. The system also includes that the viewing material is within sections of the lens and…
STATOR FOR ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE, AND INSULATOR
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250112515
A coil is formed by a winding wound in a concentrated manner over multiple layers around a tooth and an insulator extension. The insulator extension includes an outer end face located on a side opposite to a stator core. A first turn of the winding that forms a first layer of the coil includes a winding start portion that extends through a first innermost part along a first tooth side surface and a portion that is wound around an outer end face of the insulator extension. The outer end…
HIGHLY SCALABLE MULTI-LAYER BURIED-VIA-FREE OPTIMIZED WOVEN COPPER TRACE DESIGN FOR HIGH-POWER EV WIRELESS CHARGING
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250112499
Devices, systems and methods are provided for an electrical coil, for example, a printed circuit board coil. Examples include a substrate, a plurality of conductor layers that include a plurality of trace segments, and a plurality of interlayer connectors electrically interconnecting the plurality of trace segments of different conductor layers to define one or more traces that wind around the substrate. Each of the one or more traces have a density that is based on spacing between each…
POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250112489
A power supply system for controlling power supply to a load using a main equipment battery and an auxiliary equipment battery, the power supply system comprising: an acquisition unit that acquires charge/discharge information of the auxiliary equipment battery at a predetermined timing and accumulates the charge/discharge information as a charge/discharge history; a correction unit that corrects an internal resistance value of the auxiliary equipment battery based on the…
BATTERY PACK
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250112299
A battery pack of the present disclosure includes a lower case and an upper case, wherein the lower case and the upper case face each other in a first direction, and the lower case and the upper case have a joining portion joining the lower case and the upper case, and the joining portion is positioned so as to overlap the energy storage device when viewed from a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and the lower case has a partition wall disposed so as to surround the…
THERMAL MANAGEMENT CIRCUIT
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250112298
The thermal management circuit includes a battery circuit (first circuit), a refrigeration cycle, and a heat dissipation circuit (second circuit). The heat dissipation circuit includes a flow path (first flow path), a flow path (second flow path), and a flow path (third flow path). The flow path connects the port (outlet port) of the condensing portion and the upstream-side HT radiator (upstream-side radiator). The flow path branches from a flow path connecting the upstream-side HT…
BATTERY SYSTEM
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250112295
A case constituting an outer shape of a second cooler disposed between the battery cells and containing a second fluid having a lower thermal conductivity than the first fluid therein is constituted by a buffer member capable of expanding and contracting in accordance with a flow rate of the second fluid in the case, and the control unit increases a flow rate of the second fluid to be supplied to the second cooler when the temperature of the battery cell is equal to or higher than a…
HYDROGEN CHARGING EQUIPMENT, HYDROGEN CHARGING METHOD
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250109825
Suppressing unintentional lowering of the filling volume to the hydrogen tank. Before hydrogen charging to the hydrogen tank, the control of cooling the pipe by circulating a refrigerant to at least a portion of the pipe for hydrogen charging to the hydrogen tank.
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NONCONTACT MONITOR OF CARDIAC ACTIVITIES
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250107770
Systems and methods for contactless monitoring of cardiac activities include a vibration sensor operable to collect audio input signals of a user and a processor. The processor is operable to extract, using an audio model, cardiac sound data from the audio input signals, and transfer, using a trained neural network, the cardiac sound data into the simulated electrocardiogram (ECG) data based on a weak alignment between cardiac sounds and ECG.
CONTROLLER FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250109719
Processing circuitry controls a fuel injection amount of a direct injection valve provided in an internal combustion engine that uses hydrogen as fuel. An amount of combustion gas that flows back into the direct injection valve due to occurrence of pre-ignition is defined as a backflow amount. A single combustion cycle starting from a cylinder where fuel injection is performed subsequent to a cylinder where the pre-ignition has occurred is referred to as a subsequent cycle. The…
CARGO HANDLING SYSTEM
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250109003
A cargo handling system includes an industrial vehicle, a work site where the industrial vehicle performs cargo handling operation and that has a stopping area where the transport vehicle stops, a monitoring unit that monitors at least one of a loading platform and a surrounding area of the loading platform, a determination unit that determines a state of the loading platform and a state of the surrounding area of the loading platform based on information acquired by the monitoring unit;…
CUSTOMIZABLE CAR SETUP OPTIMIZATION AND STRATEGY BASED ON INDIVIDUAL DRIVING STYLE AND PREFERENCES
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250108819
Systems and methods are provided for determining vehicle configurations. The system can receive simulation data or actual driving data of a driving track corresponding to a driver and associate the simulation data or actual driving data with one or more driving parameters. A driver style can be determined based on the one or more driving parameters. A vehicle configuration can be determined for a vehicle of the driver based on the determined driver style. The system can display one or…
OUTPUTTING AIR USING COMBINATION OF AIR AND SPRAY NOZZLES ON WIPERS TO PREVENT WINDSHIELD WIPER RUNOFF AND CLEAR RAIN
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250108777
Systems and methods are provided for operating a windshield wiper comprising a one or more nozzles for outputting a gas. Examples include a windshield wiper system that comprises a wiper blade, a windshield wiper arm configured to couple to the wiper blade at a distal end and couple to a vehicle at a proximal end, one or more nozzles disposed at the distal end of the windshield wiper arm, and a processor communicatively coupled to the one or more nozzles. The processor is configured to…
LIGHT CONTROL DEVICE AND A NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250108750
A light control device having a processor, wherein the processor is configured to execute following processes, controlling amount of light of a light unit provided in the vehicle, in response to detection results of the detection unit for monitoring the environment around the vehicle, and the monitoring result of the power balance of the power supply unit provided in the vehicle, based on the monitoring result of the power balance, in case of determining the power consumption of the…
APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE CUP HOLDER WITH INTEGRATED GRATE AND DRIP TRAY
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250108746
Apparatuses, systems, and methods include a container receptacle configured to receive a beverage container. The container receptacle includes a perforated bottom surface configured to allow a spilled liquid and/or debris to pass therethrough. A drip tray extends beneath the container receptacle so as to collect the spilled liquid from the container receptacle. A bottom surface of the drip tray can be inclined so that liquid and/or debris is directed to a low point of the drip tray for…
SEAT ASSEMBLIES HAVING FIXED FRAMES AND MOVABLE SEAT CUSHIONS AND MOVABLE SEAT BACKS WITH UPPER PIVOT MECHANISMS AND RIGID LINKAGE ASSEMBLIES
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250108741
A kinetic seat assembly includes a primary seat back frame, a secondary seat back frame, and an upper pivot mechanism coupling the secondary seat back frame to the primary seat back frame. The upper pivot mechanism includes a bracket, and a pivotable link extending from a pair of opposite sides of the bracket and interconnecting the bracket and the primary seat back frame. A first end of each of the pivotable links is pivotally attached to the bracket, which is coupled to the secondary…
VEHICLE SEAT
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250108731
One aspect of the present disclosure provides a vehicle seat including an electric motor, a movable portion, an operation switch, and a controller. The movable portion receives a driving force from the electric motor to thereby move in a direction corresponding to a rotation direction of the electric motor. The controller rotates the electric motor in a first rotation direction in response to the operation switch outputting an ON signal. The controller performs a rotation inverting…
PRESS DIE ASSEMBLY
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250108428
A press die assembly includes a lower die, an upper die, a stripper plate provided between the lower die and the upper die, and a coupling member that couples the upper die and the stripper plate to each other such that the upper die and the stripper plate are movable relative to each other. The upper die includes a punch, an upper die main body, and an elastic member. The punch includes a first large-diameter portion and a second large-diameter portion. The upper die main body includes…
