ASSEMBLIES FOR PROTECTING BATTERY PACKS OF A VEHICLE
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250038326
Disclosed herein are assemblies for protecting the battery pack of a vehicle. The vehicle includes a pair of side frame members. A battery pack is located between the side frame members. A battery protection plate has an upper surface, an opposite lower surface, a plurality of mounting bosses, and a plurality of openings. The plurality of mounting bosses are coupled to the battery protection plate to the pair of side frame members, and the plurality of openings extend between the upper…
MOTOR CONTROL SYSTEM, MOTOR CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250038688
A motor control system includes: an inverter circuit that includes switching elements; an inverter drive circuit configured to switch the switching elements between an on state and an off state; and a power source configured to supply power to the inverter drive circuit. The power source is switched from a first power source to a second power source that is different from the first power source when short-circuit braking is applied to a motor, the first power source being configured to…
STATOR OF ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250038608
A stator of a rotating electric machine includes: a stator core including a yoke; an insulator having a plurality of insulator extension portions and a plurality of insulator inner walls each extending from the corresponding insulator extension portion; and a cover. The cover has an insertion plate extending in an axial direction of the yoke. The insulator inner walls adjacent to each other cooperate to have a pair of space-forming walls. One of the pair of space-forming walls is spaced…
STATOR OF ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250038602
A stator of a rotating electric machine includes: a stator core including a yoke; an insulator having a plurality of insulator inner walls; a cover; a first insulating member; and a second insulating member. The cover has an insertion plate extending in an axial direction of the yoke. The insertion plate has a support surface that is located in a space between the insulator inner walls adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction of the yoke and located inward of the second…
POWER SOURCE APPARATUS
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250038558
A power source apparatus includes: an auxiliary power source; and a control circuit configured to control charging and discharging of the auxiliary power source. The control circuit is configured to, after completion of the initial check, charge the auxiliary power source after waiting for traveling preparation of the vehicle to be completed. The control circuit is configured to, after the completion of the initial check, charge the auxiliary power source when both of a first condition…
POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250038535
In the plan control, the control right of HEMS is held by the energy management server 2, and HEMS is controlled based on a power supply and demand plan developed in advance. The edge-control is such that HEMS controllers has a control right of HEMS and control HEMS based on the actual status of HEMS surplus power and power demand. HEMS includes an electrified vehicle (storage battery). The energy management server 2 switches the power management control from the edge control to the…
BATTERY PACK AND BATTERY SYSTEM
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250038377
A cell is a sulfide-based all-solid-state cell. The bus bar of the battery module composed of cells electrically connected in series is connected to the voltage detecting circuit via a printed circuit board including a first conductive trace, a second conductive trace, and a third conductive trace. A portion of the third conductive trace is exposed from the insulating coating film by a cutout portion (missing portion) of the insulating coating film. When the difference between the cell…
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.
STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING MAP CURATION EFFICIENTLY
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250035464
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to implementing map curation management strategies. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving map data, using an auto-curation predictive model to update the map data with auto-curated data, and using a manual-curation time predictive model to estimate a manual-curation time and generate a manual-curation heat map based on the map data.
BATTERY MODULE
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250038292
A battery module includes a battery cell and a heat dissipation member that is in contact with a battery cell case. The battery cell includes an electrode body including plural layered structures layered one on another, each including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and the battery cell case that hermetically encloses the electrode body inside the battery cell case. The battery cell case…
SYSTEMS FOR REMOVING DISCHARGE PRODUCTS FROM METAL-AIR BATTERY CATHODES AND METAL-AIR BATTERIES CONTAINING THE SAME
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250038286
A metal-air battery includes an anode, a porous cathode, a separator between the anode and the porous cathode, a liquid electrolyte, and at least one acoustic device. The acoustic device produces acoustic waves at a frequency that pumps the liquid electrolyte through and into flowing contact with the porous cathode such that a discharge product is removed from the porous cathode. An accumulation compartment where the discharged product is collected after being removed from the porous…
SILICON-CLATHRATE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL PARTICLES, ELECTRODE COMPOSITE MATERIAL, AND LITHIUM-ION BATTERY
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250038187
Silicon-clathrate electrode active material particles of this disclosure meet the following relational expression: 0<surface oxygen ratio (wt %)/specific surface area (m2/g)<0.3. An electrode composite material of this disclosure includes the electrode active material particles of this disclosure. Further, a lithium-ion battery of this disclosure has an electrode active material layer, and the electrode active material layer contains the electrode composite material of this…
ELECTRODE COMPOSITE MATERIAL, LITHIUM-ION BATTERY, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERY
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250038175
An electrode composite material in the present disclosure includes a silicon clathrate particle and an amorphous silicon particle, and satisfies the following relational expression: 0 atom %<the number of silicon atoms in the amorphous silicon particle/(the number of silicon atoms in the amorphous silicon particle+the number of silicon atoms in the silicon clathrate particle)<50 atom %. A lithium-ion battery in the present disclosure includes an electrode active material layer, and…
DIRECTING A DRIVERS GAZE BASED ON DIRECTIONAL MAGNETS
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250037603
A method for training a driver to operate a vehicle includes identifying a first head pose direction of a driver, at a first time period, in accordance with monitoring the driver. The method also includes activating one or more first magnets of a first set of magnets to interact with one or more second magnets of a second set of magnets in accordance with a difference between the first head pose direction of the driver and an expected head pose direction. The first set of magnets may be…
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250036500
An information processing device includes a processor configured to: determine, by using an anomaly detection model, whether an anomaly has occurred in a first system; when determination is made that the anomaly has occurred in the first system, presume whether the anomaly is influenced by a failure in an external system connected to the first system; and when presumption is made that the determined anomaly is influenced by the failure in the external system, update the anomaly detection…
SOFTWARE UPDATE APPARATUS, UPDATE CONTROL METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING UPDATE CONTROL PROGRAM, SERVER, OTA MASTER, AND CENTER
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250036393
A software update apparatus controls software update of an electronic control unit. The software update apparatus includes a control unit configured to, when a software update process of the electronic control unit is executed, control a timing for executing an approval request process for requesting an approval for the software update process according to the type of non-volatile memory included in an electronic control unit to be updated.
DISPLAY DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250036342
A display control device for a vehicle is provided. The display control device includes a processor configured to display a primary plan on a first display and a secondary plan on a second display. The primary plan is to be performed next after a vehicle action currently being performed, and the secondary plan is to be performed subsequently to the primary plan. The first display may be provided on an upper side of the second display. The first display may be a head-up display, and the…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING DYNAMIC CLOSED-CAPTIONING CONTENT
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250036199
Systems and methods for displaying dynamic closed-captioning content are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a user monitoring device for monitoring one or more characteristics of at least one user viewing display content produced by a display device, one or more processors, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more instructions to receive user data from the user monitoring…
