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…
BATTERY PACK FRAME ASSEMBLIES
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250038338
A battery pack frame is disclosed. The battery pack frame includes a front wall, a rear wall, and a pair of sidewalls that extend between the front wall and the rear wall. A bottom plate extends beneath the front wall, the rear wall, and the pair of sidewalls, and a plurality of cross members extend between the pair of sidewalls. Each of the plurality of cross members further include an upper member and a base member having a channel that defines a cavity for receiving the upper member.
BATTERY PACK FRAME ASSEMBLIES
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250038332
A battery pack frame is disclosed. A battery pack frame includes a front wall, a rear wall, a pair of sidewalls extending between the front wall and the rear wall, and a bottom plate extending beneath the front wall, the rear wall, and the pair of sidewalls. A plurality of cross members extend between the pair of sidewalls, and each of the plurality of cross members includes an extruded frame having at least one channel that defines a cavity and a reinforcement member positioned within…
LAMINATED BATTERY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LAMINATED BATTERY
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250038327
The laminated battery has an electrode body and a laminate film encapsulating the electrode body, and the laminate film has a fused portion in which end parts are overlapped and an inner surface is fused, and the fused portion has two bent parts bent in an angular shape or an arcuate shape so as to have an angle of 90° or less, and a roll part arranged closer to the front end side of the fused portion than the bent parts at 2 places and rounded in a roll shape.
TRAVEL ROUTE PRESENTATION SYSTEM
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250035456
The travel route presentation system according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires predetermined information about a user; an estimation unit that estimates a health state of the user from the predetermined information about the user; a selection unit that selects at least one travel route from a current location of the vehicle to a destination based on the estimated result; and a presentation unit that presents the selected travel route. Accordingly,…
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…
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
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250034742
A masking member includes a mesh portion, a mask portion provided on front and back sides of the mesh portion and sandwiched between the electrolyte membrane and substrate, and a penetrating portion penetrating the mask portion in accordance with a predetermined pattern to expose the mesh portion. The masking member includes a connecting channel provided in a part of the mask portion sandwiched between the electrolyte membrane and mesh portion, the connecting channel connecting adjacent…
ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR THE OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION IN ACID CONDITIONS
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250034730
An electrocatalyst for the production of hydrogen from water includes a pyrochlore compound with a composition or chemical formula of RE2(Ru)2xM2-2xO7, RE2(Ir)2xM2-2xO7or RE2(Ir,Ru)2xM2-2xO7, where RE is a rare earth element, M is an alkali metal, alkaline carth metal, transition metal, post-transition metal, Ge, or Sb, and x is less than 1.0 and greater than 0.0.
AUTONOMOUS DRIVING KIT
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250033558
ADK includes a computer and a communication module. VP includes a non-redundant control system that performs a non-redundant control function, a first bus, a second bus, a first VCIB that is configured to be communicable with the communication module via the first bus and provides a control instruction to the non-redundant control system in accordance with a non-redundant control command for controlling the non-redundant control system from ADK, a second VCIB that is configured to be…
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…
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…
VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250033612
To effectively improve the accuracy of abnormality determination of a driver, provided is a vehicle control device comprising a stop hold release control unit configured to execute a stop hold control for holding by activating a brake apparatus, and execute a release control for releasing a stop hold by the brake apparatus when a predetermined release condition is satisfied, an operation input acquiring unit for acquire an operation input of a driver, a driver abnormality determining…
INTERIOR COMPONENT OF VEHICLE
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250033576
An interior component of a vehicle includes: a base member; and a skin member that covers at least a part of the base member, in which a rib is provided on a back surface of a terminal of the base member and a terminal portion of the skin member is wrapped to the back surface of the base member, and is welded to the base member so as to contain the rib.
SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETERMINE AWAKENING LEAD TIME FOR WAKING UP SLEEPING DRIVER
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250033559
Systems and methods providing sleep service in a vehicle to wake up a sleeping driver at a wake-up time based on the user profile of the driver are disclosed. In one embodiment, a sleeping service system includes a processor, a data receiver, an alarm, and a non-transitory memory module communicatively coupled to the processor, and a set of machine-readable instructions stored on the memory module that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The…
