Vehicle
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246662
The vehicle body disclosed herein includes an electrical component disposed at a rear portion of the vehicle body, a base bracket that covers a lower portion of the electrical component, and a cover that is attached to the base bracket and covers an upper portion of the electrical component. The cover has a cover upper wall located above the electrical component and a pair of cover side walls extending from the cover upper wall to the base bracket on both sides of the electrical…
Vehicle controller, and method and computer program for distance notification
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246741
A vehicle controller includes a memory configured to store map information including information on a predetermined area used in autonomous driving control of a vehicle; and a processor configured to: refer to the map information to identify an autonomous-driving practicable point at which a planned travel route from the current position of the vehicle outside the predetermined area to a destination of the vehicle enters the predetermined area, calculate a manual-driving section length…
Driving support device for vehicle, driving support method for vehicle, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246719
A driving support ECU (21) of a driving support device (11a) executes automatic deceleration control for decelerating a vehicle (10) without a driver operating a brake pedal (105) when it is determined that a specific condition indicating that the driver intends to turn the vehicle (10) to the right or left at an intersection present in front of the vehicle (10) is satisfied. When a direction indicator (34, 35) stops operating during execution of the automatic deceleration control, the…
Control device of vehicle, control method, and storage medium
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246716
The control device according to the present disclosure executes a process of acquiring an image captured by a camera provided in a vehicle and estimating an vehicle-to-vehicle distance and a relative speed with the preceding vehicle based on an image, a process of calculating a time to collision with respect to the preceding vehicle from the vehicle-to-vehicle distance and the relative speed, a deceleration process of decelerating the vehicle based on the vehicle-to-vehicle distance, the…
Driving support device
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246711
A driving support device including: an in-vehicle sensor configured to acquire and output each of position information relating to a position of an own vehicle, target information relating to a target positioned around the own vehicle, and operation information relating to an operation of an operating element of the own vehicle; and a control device having a lane departure prevention function for preventing the own vehicle from departing from a lane in which the own vehicle is traveling…
Control device for collision avoidance assistance, and collision avoidance assistance method
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246707
A control device for collision avoidance assistance includes a processor. The processor is configured to execute region setting processing for setting an assistance determination region indicating a particular region forward of a vehicle, and to execute accumulation processing in which the processor gives an object a determination value and accumulates the determination value. The object is located in the assistance determination region. The determination value is decided according to…
Hybrid vehicle controller that executes switching control for travel sections on a travel route according to the assigned control mode
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246696
A navigation ECU executes processing including the following steps. The steps include: a step of acquiring information on travel sections to destination; a step of setting a starting point travel section and an nth travel section; a step of setting an n+1th travel section as an nth travel section when the starting point travel section and the nth travel section are identical in regulation information and road type, and difference in load is equal to or less than a threshold A; and a step…
Controller for hybrid electric vehicle
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246695
During BEV running that a vehicle is caused to run by using power of an electric motor, a determination threshold for determining whether to start an engine is corrected by estimating a shortage of driving force in advance based on a gear stage of an automatic transmission and a turbine rotation speed (that is, an AT input shaft rotation speed of the automatic transmission). Therefore, the engine is started at appropriate timing for a change in required MG torque, with the result that…
Portable device, driving assistance system, control method, and storage medium storing a control program
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246675
A portable device, including: an unlocking portion configured to enable an operation for unlocking a door of a vehicle; and a processor, wherein, when the unlocking portion is operated in a case in which a reception sensitivity of a predetermined signal that is transmitted by wireless communication from the vehicle is a first sensitivity, the processor is configured to change the reception sensitivity to a second sensitivity that is a higher reception sensitivity than the first…
Airbag device and passenger protection device
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246670
An airbag device including an airbag that inflates and deploys from a seat rear side of a vehicle seat toward a seat front side via a seat upper side. In an inflated and deployed state, the airbag includes a pair of front-rear chambers extending in a 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 at a seat front side of the passenger between the pair of front-rear…
Front portion for an automobile
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
D1066122
Control system, control method, and non-transitory storage medium
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246643
A control system controls a system including an autonomously movable mobile robot configured to transport a transport object. The mobile robot includes at least one light-emitting unit. The control system is configured to change a light emission pattern of the light-emitting unit according to transport object information indicating whether the mobile robot is transporting the transport object.
Vehicular front structure
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246642
A vehicular front structure includes: a left front pillar disposed at a left front face of a body of a vehicle; a right front pillar disposed at a right front face of the body; an upper front crossing member extending along a lateral direction of the vehicle, the upper front crossing member having respective ends coupled one-to-one with the left front pillar and the right front pillar; a lower front crossing member extending along the lateral direction of the vehicle, the lower front…
Frame structure of vehicle seat
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246624
A frame structure of the vehicle seat includes: a seat frame that constitutes a seat surface part of the vehicle seat; a pinion that is rotatably attached to the seat frame, and protrudes from an outer side to an inner side in a vehicle width direction; a drive input gear that is disposed on the inner side in the vehicle width direction with respect to the seat frame, is rotatable about a rotary shaft at a position different from the pinion, and enmeshes with the pinion; a reinforcement…
Configurable dynamic wireless power transfer transmission system
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246605
A dynamic wireless power transfer system can include a dynamic wireless power transfer transmission system and a dynamic wireless power transfer reception system. The dynamic wireless power transfer transmission system can include a signal receiver, an array of coils of conductors, an array of switches, and a controller. The dynamic wireless power transfer reception system can include a signal transmitter and an array of coils of conductors. The signal transmitter can be configured to…
Vehicle display control device, vehicle display control method, and vehicle storage medium
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246598
A vehicle display control device includes at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: recognize an object ahead of a host vehicle; and cause display of respective superimposed images, having lengths in a vehicle vertical direction, at each side of the recognized object in a vehicle width direction, at a display area so as to be superimposed on a view ahead of the host vehicle, the superimposed images being spaced apart from each other in the vehicle width…
Variable viewing angle displays for vehicles
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246595
Systems and methods of distracted driving reduction are provided which respond to vehicle display-related driver distraction by adjusting the viewing angle of the vehicle display so that the driver's visual perception of the vehicle display is reduced. In other words, the driver may no longer be able to view the vehicle display with acceptable visual performance. Accordingly, examples can reduce driver distraction, thus increasing roadway safety. In certain examples, the adjusted viewing…
Fiber-reinforced resin material, method for manufacturing same, and fiber-reinforced resin article
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246521
A fiber-reinforced resin material includes: a first fiber-reinforced resin layer; a second fiber-reinforced resin layer having higher ductility and lower elasticity than those of the first fiber-reinforced resin layer; and a third fiber-reinforced resin layer having higher ductility and lower elasticity than those of the second fiber-reinforced resin layer. The first layer, the second layer, and the third layer are laminated and integrated in this order, wherein the laminate is made of…
Paint mist collection device
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246335
A paint mist collection device includes: a housing configured such that an air flow containing paint mist discharged form a painting chamber flows into the housing; a collection filter disposed in the housing to collect the paint mist and configured to be taken out of the housing to be replaced; and a spacer member. The spacer member is held in a clearance between an in-flow opening portion of the collection filter and the inner surface of the housing.
Instrument panel for an automobile
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
D1066181
