Vehicle display device and vehicle including vehicle display device
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12269393
A vehicle display device includes a first display unit disposed in front of and above a driver's seat and including a display screen configured to be deployed from an interior member into the vehicle cabin and be withdrawn from the vehicle cabin into an inside of the interior member, a drive unit configured to drive the display screen, and a control unit configured to control the first display unit and the drive unit. The control unit includes a driving status acquisition unit configured…
Systems for cooler devices and cooling manifolds
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12274026
Disclosed herein are apparatus for a cooler device includes a manifold constructed at least partially of silicon oxide. The manifold includes an array of inlet channels and an array of outlet channels. Each inlet channel has a first depth. The array of outlet channels are interlaced with the array of inlet channels, Each outlet channel has a second depth that is larger than the first depth. Each of the array of outlet channels has a pair of sidewalls separating each outlet channel from…
Wheel load estimation device
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12269487
A wheel load estimation device includes an obtaining unit obtaining angular velocities and angular accelerations of a rigid body including an element, accelerations of the rigid body in a front-rear direction and in a lateral direction, a weight of the element, and a position including a height of the element. The element fluctuates a center of gravity of the rigid body. A center-of-gravity inertia value calculation unit calculates information relevant to the center of gravity of the…
Automated driving method, automated driving system, and storage medium
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12269474
An indication of an intention of making a lane change to an adjacent lane that is issued from a preceding vehicle that travels in the same lane as an own vehicle is sensed while causing the own vehicle to travel while following the preceding vehicle. When the indication of the intention of making the lane change is sensed, deviation of the preceding vehicle toward the adjacent lane from an occupied region that is occupied by the own vehicle in traveling in the lane is sensed. Then, when…
Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and program
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12269470
To increase steering angle followability of automatic steering, provided is a driving assistance device for executing collision avoidance control of controlling a steering angle of an own vehicle such that the own vehicle travels along a target trajectory which enables the own vehicle to avoid a collision with an obstacle. The driving assistance device includes: a setting unit configured to set a target steering angle, and to set a target steering torque for matching the steering angle…
Driving assistance apparatus
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12269466
A driving assistance apparatus performs a deployment control including at least a control to deploy an air-bag of a vehicle when an collision indicating value satisfies a predetermined collision condition, and performs a brake-and-drive control to make a driving force of the vehicle smaller than a required driving force of a driver of the vehicle or to apply a brake force to the vehicle when the collision indicating value does not satisfy the collision condition and/but satisfies a…
Vehicle control apparatus
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12269465
A vehicle control apparatus starts driving trouble tackling control designed to decelerate and stop an own vehicle when it is determined that a driver is in a driving trouble state where the driver has trouble driving the own vehicle, then start a deceleration process at a predetermined timing as a process of driving trouble tackling control, and then start a hazard lighting process at a predetermined timing as another process of driving trouble tackling control. The vehicle control…
Controller and control method for hybrid electric vehicle
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12269460
A controller is employed in a vehicle including an engine, a motor generator, and a hydraulically-driven clutch. The controller includes a CPU that executes: a first starting process that starts, when starting the engine under a condition in which a system shaft torque is less than a shaft torque determination value, combustion in the engine after increasing an engine rotation speed to a motor rotation speed by engaging the clutch; a second starting process that starts, when starting the…
Hybrid electric vehicle
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12269459
A hybrid electric vehicle including: (a) an engagement device disposed between an engine and an electric motor; (b) a transmission disposed between the electric motor and drive wheels; (c) an electric storage device configured to supply an electric power to the electric motor; and (d) a control apparatus. When the engine is to be started, the engagement device is engaged to transmit a torque from the electric motor to the engine, for thereby starting the engine. The control apparatus is…
Airbag device and passenger protection device
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12269408
An airbag device includes an airbag that is supplied with gas generated by an inflator during a vehicle collision and that inflates and deploys from a rear side of a vehicle seat toward a front side via an upper side. In an inflated and deployed state, the airbag includes a pair of front-rear chambers extending in a seat front-rear direction via left and right sides of a head of a passenger, an airbag body that is in communication with the pair of front-rear chambers and that is disposed…
Front combination lamp for a motor vehicle
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
D1070135
Seat back
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12269385
A seat back includes a back board serving as a decorative plate on a rear side of the seat back, a back frame that is configured to support a seated person, a back pad that is disposed at a front side the back frame, is configured to supports the seated person, and has elasticity, an intermediate board that is interposed between a peripheral edge of the back pad and a peripheral edge of the back board, and a back cover that is disposed over the back pad and the intermediate board.
In-cabin detection framework
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12269371
An example operation includes one or more of receiving a scan of a cabin of a vehicle, wherein the scan includes a spatial region inside the vehicle and outside the vehicle proximate at least one vehicle door, determining at least one occupant characteristic based on the scan, including a classification detection and a presence detection of at least one seat inside the vehicle, determining a cabin status based on the at least one occupant characteristic and communicating the cabin status…
Determining vehicle charging locations
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12269363
An example operation includes one or more of determining a plurality of vehicles and a first charge level of the vehicles utilizing a first charging location, determining a portion of the plurality of vehicles and a second charge level of the portion of the plurality of vehicles utilizing a second charging location, and determining a new charging location based on the plurality of vehicles, the first charge level, the portion of the plurality of vehicles, and the second charge level.
Charging facility and management device thereof
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12269357
A charging facility includes a movable unit, an ascending and descending device, and a control device that includes a communication device. The movable unit includes a connection device. The ascending and descending device causes the movable unit to ascend and descend between a first state where the movable unit is housed underground and a second state where the movable unit is exposed above the ground and a power storage device mounted on a vehicle is connectable to the connection…
Display device for displaying other vehicles and display method for displaying other vehicles
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12269345
A display device displays a host vehicle and other vehicles running in driving lanes together with the driving lanes on an information display screen. When the other vehicles are present at a far region at a front side in a direction of vehicle advance outside a display range of the screen, the display device displays marks showing that the other vehicles are present at a far region at a front side in a direction of vehicle advance outside a display range of the screen at fixed positions…
Vehicular display control device, vehicular display system, vehicle, display method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12269344
A vehicular display control device including: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to: detect when an operation region including plural switches provided to a steering wheel has been operated; and in a case in which operation of the operation region has been detected, display, at a display region set in front of a driving seat, an operation region image corresponding to the operation region and a status image indicating a current status of a…
Suspension stroke related value estimation device and method
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12269309
A control unit that controls control currents supplied to shock absorbers that generate damping forces according to the control currents determines coefficients of two functions that functionally identify an equivalent damping coefficient and an equivalent spring constant of each suspension based on relationships between the control current supplied to each shock absorber and the coefficients of the two functions that change according to the control current and a frequency of a relative…
In-wheel motor unit with speed reducer and electromagnetic brake
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12269292
An in-wheel motor unit provided in a wheel of a wheel unit, includes: a motor having a rotor disposed on a radially outer side of a stator; a brake disposed on an inner side of the motor; and a housing that accommodates the motor and the brake. Further, the housing has a cylindrical partition that radially partitions a space for accommodating the motor and a space for accommodating the brake, the stator is fixed to an outer peripheral surface of the partition, and the brake is disposed…
Intermediate processing method of extruded resin sheet
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12269200
A process management system virtually segments an extruded resin sheet into individual areas associated with several resin sheets. The individual areas are further virtually segmented into segmented areas. Curvature related information related to a curvature after completion of a heat press processing is acquired for each segmented area for each individual area. In a coating condition per area setting process, coating conditions are set for each segmented area for each individual area in…
