INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND VEHICLE
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250029017
The information processing device includes a communication unit that communicates with the vehicle, a control unit that acquires reservation information including a schedule in which the user uses the vehicle and a service option selected as a function in which the user desires to use the vehicle, creates service activation information that is downloaded to the vehicle on the basis of the acquired reservation information to enable a function selected as a service option among one or more…
HANDOFF SEQUENCE FOR CITY NODES
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250030505
An example operation includes one or more of establishing a communication between a first vehicle and a computing node, determining data to be transmitted from the computing node to the first vehicle responsive to a portion of the data being stored on a second vehicle, determining the second vehicle will be in proximity to the first vehicle, and transmitting the portion of the data from the second vehicle to the first vehicle when the vehicles are in proximity and a remaining portion of…
SCANNING CONTROL DEVICE
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250030381
A scanning control device for controlling, in a solar module, a scanning process for scanning an output voltage of a solar panel to search for a maximum power point includes an acquisition unit for acquiring information on travel of a vehicle, and an instruction unit for instructing an execution frequency of the scanning process by a power generation control unit based on the information on travel of the vehicle, and the instruction unit sets a first frequency, which is a frequency of…
CHARGING METHOD AND CHARGING SYSTEM
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250030067
A charging method includes: determining, for charging current of a lithium ion battery, first and a second threshold values each representing a current boundary value at which precipitation of lithium metal becomes likely to occur on an electrode of the lithium ion battery; and controlling the charging current of the lithium ion battery using a difference between the first and second threshold values, and the second threshold value. The first threshold value represents a current boundary…
ELECTRODE UNIT MANUFACTURING DEVICE, AND ELECTRODE UNIT MANUFACTURING METHOD
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250030056
An electrode unit manufacturing device 50 is an electrode unit manufacturing device for manufacturing an electrode unit 11A by welding a resin member 21B to a bipolar electrode 11 including a current collector 15, and an active material layer provided on one surface 15a and the other surface 15b of the current collector 15. The electrode unit manufacturing device includes a robot hand 30 that transports the bipolar electrode 11 in the air while suctioning and holding the bipolar…
POSITIVE ELECTRODE LAYER, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING POSITIVE ELECTRODE LAYER, AND ALL SOLID-STATE BATTERY
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250030043
In the present disclosure, a positive electrode layer used in an all-solid-state battery includes a positive electrode active material, a sulfide solid electrolyte, and a coated sulfide solid electrolyte having a coating layer covering a surface of the sulfide solid electrolyte and containing a metal sulfate, and in an S2p spectrum obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) on the coated sulfide solid electrolyte, a ratio (P2/P1) of an intensity P2 of a peak appearing near 163 eV…
BATTERY CELL AND BATTERY MODULE
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250030033
A battery cell includes: an electrode body including plural layered structures, each including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and a battery cell case that hermetically encloses the electrode body inside the battery cell case. At least one of the current collector in the positive electrode or the current collector in the negative electrode has, on a peripheral portion of a surface thereof, an…
FUEL CELL WITH SERPENTINE WITH-IN SERPENTINE FLOW FIELD CHANNELS
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250030013
An apparatus for a fuel cell may include a plurality of flow field channels, wherein the plurality of flow field channels may include a plurality of ribs connecting an inlet and an outlet in a serpentine flow design. The plurality of flow field channels may further include a plurality of blocking ribs within the plurality of ribs. A method for creating a fuel cell may include creating a fuel cell with a plurality of flow field channels, wherein the plurality of flow field channels may…
EXIT ASSIST DEVICE AND EXIT ASSIST METHOD
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250029497
An exit assist device has a processor configured to estimate a direction of a line of sight of a driver based on an image in which the vicinity of the driving seat is represented, and to decide on an exiting direction in which the vehicle is to exit from a parking space, based on the direction of the line of sight of the driver.
ROUTE INTELLIGENCE FOR CITY NODES
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250029491
An example operation includes one or more of determining by a primary computing node that an en route vehicle will be delayed for a time-sensitive event, coordinating by the primary computing node with a secondary computing node at an event location and the en route vehicle to provide a real-time event experience to at least one device in the en route vehicle, managing by the primary computing node the real-time event experience between the secondary computing node and the at least one…
RECOMMENDATION METHOD
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250027783
The recommendation method is a recommendation method of recommending a stop location to a user based on a predetermined rule. The recommendation method includes a receiving step of receiving input of feedback information indicating whether or not recommendation of a stop location is appropriate by a user, a determination step of determining whether or not feedback information satisfies an improvement condition related to a predetermined rule, and an updating step of updating a…
SPECIALIZED AND SELF-LEARNING NODES
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250029003
An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a first node, that an event has occurred in a geographic area, predicting, by the first node, a severity of the event, a duration of the event, and at least one vehicle associated with the event, sending, by the first node, the prediction to a second node and a time the at least one vehicle will be proximate the second node, and sending by the second node, notifications to other vehicles proximate the second node to maneuver…
COMPARATIVE FEEDBACK METRIC FOR DRIVER TRAINING
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250028875
Systems and methods are provided for optimizing a driver's trajectory around a race track. The system can receive driver data representing driver inputs to a vehicle. A vehicle state can be determined for at least one location on the race track based on the received driver data. Expert driver data can be determined representing inputs of an expert driver at the determined vehicle state for the at least one location. The system can predict how the expert driver would proceed from each…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING DESIGN ALTERNATIVES BASED ON RESPONSES TO SEMANTIC PROMPTS
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250028867
A method for a physical design tool to recommend design alternatives based on responses to semantic prompts is described. The method includes identifying first design action patterns elicited by a specific semantic prompt that differ across individual designers based on historical data. The method also includes generating sequences of actions with varying similarity to the individual designers to present alternatives to new designers. The method further includes identifying second design…
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250028860
An information processing device acquires consent to collection of first data from a first vehicle from a first user via an in-vehicle device provided in the first vehicle at a first timing, and when re-consent from the first user is required to use of the first data collected from the first vehicle, issues a re-consent request to the in-vehicle device on condition that an owner of the first vehicle has not changed since the first timing.
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNING EVALUATION PIPELINE
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250028713
Provided are a method, system, and device for a neural architecture search (NAS) pipeline for performing an optimized neural architecture search (NAS). The method may include obtaining a first search space comprising a plurality of candidate layers for a neural network architecture; performing a training-free NAS in the first search space to obtain a first set of architectures; obtaining a second search space based on the first set of architectures; performing a gradient-based search in…
PROGRAM UPDATE SYSTEM AND VEHICLE MANAGEMENT SERVER
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250028522
A vehicle management server is configured to transmit, to a vehicle, an update program for updating an existing program of an electronic device mounted on the vehicle. The vehicle management server includes a communicator and a controller. The communicator is configured to communicate with the vehicle. The controller is configured to control an update process. The controller is configured to determine, depending on a type of the update program, whether to present, to a vehicle user, an…
SCANNING CONTROL DEVICE
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250028345
In a solar module including a solar panel and a power generation control unit, a scanning control device includes an acquisition unit that acquires information on power generation of the solar panel, a setting unit that sets a target power that is a target value of power generated by the solar panel based on information on power generation of the solar panel, and an instruction unit that permits execution of a scanning process by the power generation control unit when a difference…
REMOTE SUPPORT SYSTEM
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250028325
A remote support system includes a moving body and a remote support terminal operated by a remote supporter. The remote support terminal includes a display device configured to display a support image transmitted from the moving body. The display device displays an auxiliary display being a combination of a first indicator and a second indicator, together with the support image. The first indicator is displayed with a continuous positional change according to an elapsed time from a start…
VALIDATING APPLICATION RESPONSE WITH VEHICLE OPERATION
Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number:
20250027789
An example operation includes one or more of receiving a first response, from an application associated with a vehicle, including one or more factual statements determined by the application based on a set of data, retrieving vehicle data from the vehicle related to the factual statements, parsing the first response into one or more portions of the one or more factual statements, comparing the one or more portions to other portions of other factual statements included in a first…
