SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING A NEGOTIATION PROTOCOL FOR CONNECTED VEHICLES
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250095410
An ego vehicle includes a controller configured to determine a degree of conflict in a conflict zone between the ego vehicle and a remote vehicle based on a position and a velocity of the ego vehicle, and driving information of the remote vehicle, select a negotiation protocol based on the degree of conflict, initiate a negotiation with the remote vehicle based on the selected negotiation protocol, and operate the ego vehicle based on the negotiation.
FUEL CELL SYSTEM
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250096293
A fuel cell system capable of maintaining the output of the fuel cell system. A fuel cell system, wherein the fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell stack, a cooling flow path configured to circulate cooling water for cooling the fuel cell stack in and out of the fuel cell stack, a radiator disposed on the cooling flow path, a bypass flow path branching from the cooling flow path upstream of the radiator of the cooling flow path, bypassing the radiator, and merging with the cooling flow…
METAL FOAM GAS DIFFUSION LAYERS WITH HYDROPHILIC SURFACES AND POLYMER-ELECTROLYTE-MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS WITH METAL FOAM GAS DIFFUSION LAYERS
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250096282
A bipolar plate-gas diffusion layer (GDL) assembly for a polymer-electrolyte-membrane (PEM) fuel cell includes a flat metallic bipolar plate and a porous metal GDL with superhydrophilic surfaces adjacent to and in direct contact with the flat metallic bipolar plate. The porous metal GDL includes flow channels defined by flow channels walls with flow channel surfaces. The flow channel walls and flow channel surfaces have an average porosity generally equal to an average porosity of an…
LITHIUM METAL SECONDARY BATTERY
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250096274
It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a lithium metal secondary battery capable of improving cycle property. A lithium metal secondary battery, wherein the lithium metal secondary battery comprises a negative electrode current collector layer, an alloy layer, an electrolyte layer, a positive electrode active material layer, and a positive electrode current collector layer in this order, and wherein the alloy layer comprises an alloy having indium and tin.
BATTERY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250096230
In the present disclosure, a battery utilizing a deposition dissolution reaction of metallic lithium as a negative electrode reaction, wherein an anode current collector, a metal layer, an electrolyte layer, and a cathode active material layer are provided in this order in the thickness direction. The above-described metal layer contains a Li?Mg alloy phase and a Li?Ga alloy phase, thereby solving the above-described problem.
RARE EARTH MAGNET, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND MOTOR INCLUDING THE SAME
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250095916
Provided is an R-T-B-based rare earth magnet with an excellent magnetic property while ensuring a dimensional accuracy. The present disclosure relates to an R-T-B-based rare earth magnet in which R is a rare earth element, T is Fe and/or Co, and B is boron. The R-T-B-based rare earth magnet includes a magnet region layer and a surface layer covering a C-plane of the magnet region layer. The magnet region layer includes a main phase having an R2T14B-type crystal structure and a grain…
METHODS OF DESIGNING POLYMERS AND POLYMERS DESIGNED THEREFROM
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250095796
A method for designing polymers includes translating polymer representations of a training dataset and a test dataset into a format comprehensible by a generative pretraining transformer (GPT)-based model, training the GPT-based model with the translated polymer representations, generating new polymer representations, in a predefined format, using the trained GPT-based model, predicting at least one property of the generated new polymer representations using a machine learning (ML)…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESPONDING TO A NEGOTIATION REQUEST FOR COOPERATIVE MANEUVERING AMONG CONNECTED VEHICLES
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250095491
An ego vehicle includes a controller configured to obtain a maneuver message from a first remote vehicle, which includes a negotiation request related to a maneuver to be performed by the first remote vehicle, determine a degree of conflict based on a position and a velocity of the ego vehicle, and driving information of the first remote vehicle, determine whether to accept the negotiation request based on the degree of conflict, send a maneuver message including an alternative…
COMPONENT STATUS ESTIMATION SYSTEM, COMPONENT STATUS ESTIMATION METHODS, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250095420
A component status estimation system includes: a recording unit in which is recorded a component status determination map representing relationships between sizes of input loads that are loads input to a vehicle, input parts, and a status of each part of a constituent component of the vehicle; and a processor, the processor estimating the sizes of the input loads and the input parts based on driving data of the vehicle and estimating the status of each part of the constituent component…
DRIVING DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250095418
By executing the program, the processor realizes an acquisition unit, a diagnosis unit, and a message application providing unit. The acquisition unit acquires the driving data of the watching target person from the vehicle. The diagnosis unit performs a driving diagnosis based on the driving data. The message application providing unit displays a message input by the watching target person and the watcher on the chat screen. The message application providing unit includes a display…
DATA COLLECTING DEVICE AND DATA COLLECTING SYSTEM
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250093178
A data collecting device has a processor configured to generate probe data representing a road feature based on information representing an environment around a vehicle, generate lane information representing a position of a lane in a road in which the vehicle was traveling when the road feature represented by the probe data was detected, based on information representing a lane marking line around the vehicle, transmit the lane information via a communication unit and receive a…
SELF EXTRINSIC SELF-CALIBRATION VIA GEOMETRICALLY CONSISTENT SELF-SUPERVISED DEPTH AND EGO-MOTION LEARNING
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250095380
Systems and methods described herein relate to self-supervised scale-aware learning of camera extrinsic parameters. One embodiment processes instantaneous velocity between a target image and a context image captured by a first camera; jointly training a depth network and pose network based on scaling by the instantaneous velocity; produce depth map using the depth network; produce ego-motion of the first camera using the pose network; generate synthesized image from the target image…
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250094917
A control unit configured to execute: acquiring a past processing result of each of a plurality of companies constituting a supply chain that manufactures a product by a plurality of processes using a recycled material, a current load state, an inventory amount, and a required amount of recycled material; generating a combination of companies in which the load of each company corresponding to each process is equal to or less than a predetermined load in accordance with a past processing…
PRIVACY-RELATED ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250094622
An example operation includes one or more of: determining, by a charging station, that a vehicle requests approval to receive a charge; accessing, by the charging station, personal information related to the vehicle and related to an occupant of the vehicle; analyzing, by the charging station, the personal information related to the vehicle and related to the occupant of the vehicle; determining, by the charging station, to grant the approval, based on the analyzing; and, responsive to…
SOFTWARE UPDATE APPARATUS, SOFTWARE UPDATE METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, VEHICLE, AND OTA MASTER
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250094169
A software update apparatus includes a communication unit that sends a request for downloading update data to a center, a storage unit that stores the downloaded update data, and a control unit that executes, based on the update data, a control for installing, or installing and activating update software on one or more target electronic control units from among a plurality of electronic control units connected to each other via an in-vehicle network. The control unit acquires software…
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND MOVING OBJECT
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250093880
The information processing device includes: a manual command generation unit that generates a manual control command that defines a traveling motion of the moving object in response to an operation by an operator of the operator input device; an information acquisition unit that acquires detection information generated when the control of the remote manual driving mode in which the moving object travels in accordance with the manual control command is performed by the moving object in a…
DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250093879
A display control device includes one of a mounting acquisition unit and an image quality acquisition unit, and a display controller, in which the display controller is configured to display a mounted camera image on a display screen in one of a case where a mounted camera is mounted in a moving object and a case where an image quality is equal to or more than a criterion, and display an external camera image on the display screen in one of a case where the mounted camera is not mounted…
POSITIONING SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250093520
In the positioning system, a computing device obtains a first position measured by a first positioning antenna, a second position measured by a second positioning antenna, and a third position measured by a third positioning antenna. The computing device calculates the current attitude of the oscillating body at the first position from a first vector from the first position to the second position and the acquired second vector from the first position to the third position. The computing…
CALCULATION DEVICE, CALCULATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND FACTORY
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250093508
A calculation device includes a sensor information acquisition unit configured to acquire first sensor information acquired by a first sensor that detects a moving object classified into a first state from an outside of the moving object, and acquire second sensor information acquired by a second sensor that detects the moving object classified into a second state from the outside, and a calculation unit configured to calculate at least one of a position and an orientation of the moving…
POSITIONING SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250093457
A first computing device calculates a current attitude of a first oscillating body at a first position from a first vector from the first position to a second position and a second vector from the first position to a third position. The first computing device modifies a first reference vector from the first positioning antenna to a first predetermined point in the attitude of the first oscillating body, according to the current attitude. The first computing device calculates the position…
