AIR-COOLED FUEL CELL SYSTEM
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250046836
To provide a fuel cell system capable of suppressing deterioration of a fuel cell. An air-cooled fuel cell system, wherein the fuel cell system comprises a fuel cell, a hydrogen system for supplying hydrogen to the fuel cell, a reaction air system for supplying reaction air to the fuel cell, and a cooling air system for supplying cooling air to the fuel cell; wherein the fuel cell comprises a reaction air flow path and a cooling air flow path and has a flow path structure in which the…
AIR-COOLED FUEL CELL SYSTEM
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250046834
To provide a fuel cell system capable of appropriately recovering the activity of a cathode catalyst is provided. An air-cooled fuel cell system, wherein the fuel cell system comprises a fuel cell, a hydrogen system for supplying hydrogen to the fuel cell, a reaction air system for supplying reaction air to the fuel cell, and a cooling air system for supplying cooling air to the fuel cell; wherein the fuel cell comprises a reaction air flow path and a cooling air flow path and has a flow…
AIR-COOLED FUEL CELL SYSTEM
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250046833
To provide a fuel cell system capable of suppressing generation of an abnormal potential of a fuel cell. An air-cooled fuel cell system, wherein the fuel cell system comprises a fuel cell, a hydrogen system for supplying hydrogen to the fuel cell, a reaction air system for supplying reaction air to the fuel cell, and a cooling air system for supplying cooling air to the fuel cell; wherein the fuel cell comprises a reaction air flow path and a cooling air flow path and has a flow path…
PHOSPHATE-TOLERANT CORE-SHELL NANOPARTICLES FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250046827
A cathode catalyst for a nanoparticle catalyst and method of making the same may include creating a nanoparticle. The nanoparticle catalyst may include a shell, wherein the shell may include platinum (Pt). The nanoparticle catalyst may include a core within the shell, wherein the core may include a platinum alloy (Pt-M), where M is a transition metal.
POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL PARTICLE, POSITIVE ELECTRODE, AND LITHIUM-ION BATTERY
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250046804
A positive electrode active material particle, wherein the positive electrode active material particle has a crystal structure of lamellar rock salt type, the positive electrode active material particle includes a magnesium-containing lithium composite oxide, and a magnesium concentration in an internal portion of the positive electrode active material particle is higher than a magnesium concentration in a surface portion of the positive electrode active material particle.
CATHODE, ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THEM
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250046789
Provided is a cathode that is configured to decrease battery resistance when it is used in an all-solid-state battery, and a method for producing the cathode. Disclosed is a cathode comprising a cathode layer for all-solid-state batteries, wherein the cathode layer contains cathode active material particles and solid electrolyte particles; wherein at least one of the cathode active material particles and the solid electrolyte particles contain a phosphorus element; and wherein, in a…
ELECTRODE MANUFACTURING METHOD
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250046777
An electrode manufacturing method includes an application step of obtaining a coating film by coating a slurry obtained by dispersing an electrode material on a current collecting foil in a solvent to obtain a coating film, and a drying step of drying the coating film while transporting the current collecting foil from which the coating film is formed in the drying furnace interior, wherein the drying step irradiates at least one heat source to the coating film, the irradiation range of…
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250046189
A management system includes a management server capable of wirelessly communicating with a vehicle in a parking lot, and an alarm provided on or near the vehicle and configured to emit sound or light or both in response to an instruction from the management server. The management server executes control for operating the alarm corresponding to the vehicle when detecting occurrence of an event requiring confirmation of a state of the vehicle via wireless communication with the vehicle.
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250046127
An information processing device for a vehicle includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire vehicle location information that is information indicating a location of the vehicle, periodically transmit the acquired vehicle location information to a server, and change a transmission interval at which the vehicle location information is transmitted to the server in accordance with a speed range in which a speed of the vehicle is. The speed range is one of…
ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250035110
An electric compressor includes a housing, a rotary shaft rotatably supported in the housing, a motor that rotates the rotary shaft, and a compression part that compresses fluid. The housing includes a boss protruding toward the motor, and the boss has an inner peripheral surface in which a bearing that supports the rotary shaft is provided. The boss has an asymmetrical shape and has an outer peripheral surface that varies in distance from the inner peripheral surface in a radial…
VEHICLE COMPRISING VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250033632
A vehicle comprises a vehicle control apparatus which has a safety assistance function and a driving assistance function on condition that the safety assistance function is working. The safety assistance function is configured to work in one of first and second modes. The first mode is a mode of assisting safety of the vehicle based on first information detected by at least one first sensor, and the second mode is a mode of assisting the safety of the vehicle based on the first…
FUEL SUPPLY DEVICE
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250035063
A fuel supply device for a four-cycle internal combustion engine using hydrogen as fuel and including cylinders, comprising: an intake passage including a branch portion branching from an upstream side toward a downstream side so as to correspond to the number of cylinders, a single pipe portion on an upstream side of the branch portion, and intake port portions on a downstream side of the branch portion; and a plurality of first fuel injection valves provided in each of the intake port…
ALTERNATOR
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250035036
An alternator includes a body portion, a rotating shaft, a pulley, a belt, and a retaining member fixed to the body portion and reducing or eliminating the possibility of the pulley coming off the rotating shaft, wherein the retaining member is located away from the rotating shaft and the pulley in an axial direction of the rotating shaft and opposed to the rotating shaft and the pulley, and a width of the belt in the axial direction is smaller than a width of the pulley in the axial…
MASKING MEMBER AND FILM FORMING APPARATUS FOR METAL FILM USING SAME
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250034743
A masking member is for forming, by electroplating, a metal film in a predetermined pattern on the surface of the substrate on which a metal layer is formed. The masking member includes a mask portion in which a penetrating portion corresponding to the predetermined pattern is formed and a metal mesh as a conductive member that contacts the metal layer. The mask portion is made of an elastic material. The metal mesh is embedded in the mask portion such that a part of the metal mesh is…
ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL PARTICLE, ELECTRODE COMPOSITE MATERIAL, AND LITHIUM-ION BATTERY
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250033979
An electrode active material particle in the present disclosure includes a silicon clathrate portion and an amorphous silicon portion, and satisfies the following relational expression: 0 atom %<the number of silicon atoms in the amorphous silicon portion/(the number of silicon atoms in the amorphous silicon portion+the number of silicon atoms in the silicon clathrate portion)<50 atom %. An electrode composite material in the present disclosure includes the electrode active…
APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR TIRE CATCHERS FOR FRAME BASED VEHICLE
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250033707
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for accommodating relative movement between a vehicle body and a vehicle frame. An apparatus includes a flexible member attaching a tire catcher cover to a fender liner. The flexible member surrounds a perimeter of the tire catcher cover. The flexible member can seal a gap between the tire catcher cover and the fender liner. The flexible member can temporarily deform in response to relative movement between the vehicle frame and the vehicle body. The…
VEHICLE FRONT STRUCTURE
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250033706
The vehicle front structure is a part of a front fender panel, and includes a fender flange extending inward in the vehicle-width direction from an upper edge of a aesthetic surface of the front fender panel, a lamp unit disposed on the vehicle-downward side of the fender flange, and a bracket connecting the fender flange and the lamp unit. The bracket has a bent portion that extends in a direction toward one side in the vehicle-width direction toward the vehicle-upward side, and then…
AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEM
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250033664
Processing for autonomous driving control of a vehicle, processing to store log data related to the autonomous driving control in one or more memory devices during an execution of the autonomous driving control, and processing to predict a mileage of the vehicle is executed. In the processing to predict the mileage, a free space of the one or more memory devices in which log data is stored is acquired. In addition, the mileage is set according to the acquired free space. The mileage is…
CONTROL DEVICE
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250033655
In the control device, the identifying unit specifies, as the first vehicle function, a vehicle function having a relatively high use frequency among the vehicle functions assigned to each of the plurality of operation units mounted in the vehicle. The suggesting unit proposes to the user of the vehicle that the identified first vehicle function is assigned to a second operation unit different from the first operation unit to which the first vehicle function is assigned in advance.
ACCELERATION CONTROL TO PREVENT COLLISIONS
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250033642
A method for controlling the acceleration rate of a vehicle based on the vehicle's location includes determining, via one or more sensors, that the vehicle is at a first location and reducing the vehicle's initial target acceleration rate to a first adjusted target acceleration rate in response to the location satisfying a first location condition. Subsequently, the method includes determining that the vehicle has reached a second location and increasing the first adjusted target…
