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Headlight adjustment system with measuring assembly including optical beam extending past an articulating reference

Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number: 12291141
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to vehicle headlight calibration. In one embodiment, a headlight adjustment system includes a headlight positioned in a vehicle with a measuring assembly attached to the headlight. An adjust system is connected to the moving assembly and a moving mechanism. In response to an optical beam of the measuring assembly extending past an articulating reference member of the measuring assembly to an optical receptor of the measuring…

Wireless communication system, wireless communication method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium

Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number: 12295067
A wireless communication system including: a memory; a wireless communication unit provided at a vehicle that wirelessly communicates with an external communication device positioned externally to the vehicle; and a processor that is provided at the vehicle and is coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to: cause the wireless communication unit to notify a communication terminal positioned externally to the vehicle, based on an instruction received from an occupant of the…

Downhill target acceleration control

Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number: 12291204
A downhill target acceleration control system for a vehicle is provided, which includes the vehicle, a road grade sensor, an acceleration sensor, and a processor. The processor stores an acceleration target value, determines the mass of the vehicle, and detects whether a downhill acceleration of the vehicle exceeds the target value by more than a threshold amount. If so, the processor is configured to receive and implement a driver-initiated change to the downhill target acceleration…

Vehicle driving support device

Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number: 12291203
A vehicle driving support device executes lane deviation suppression control when there is a possibility that an own vehicle deviates from a lane and when an execution prohibition condition is not satisfied, and executes the lane deviation suppression control so as to steer the own vehicle such that a behavior parameter representing a behavior of the own vehicle during the execution of the lane deviation suppression control does not exceed a behavior parameter upper limit value. The…

Real-time vehicle accident prediction, warning, and prevention

Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number: 12291197
A vehicle, method, and machine-readable storage medium for detecting a vehicle accident are provided. For example, the method includes accessing an accident profile associated with a second vehicle by a first vehicle, wherein the accident profile contains data indicating vehicle operating parameters during a prior vehicle accident; collecting current vehicle operating parameters from the first vehicle and the second vehicle, the current vehicle operating parameters being collected in…

Consensus-based transport event severity

Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number: 12291196
An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a server, an event associated with a transport, receiving, by the server, atypical data related to the transport from a plurality of devices over various times prior to the event, analyzing, by the server, the atypical data, forming, by the server, a consensus based on the analyzed atypical data to determine a severity of the event, and determining, by the server, an action to take based on the severity.

Automated valet parking system

Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number: 12291195
Provided is an automated valet parking system that automatically moves an autonomous driving vehicle to a pick-up space of a parking place by issuing an instruction to the autonomous driving vehicle parked in the parking place according to a pick-up request from a user. The system includes a user position determination unit configured to determine whether or not a user frontend of the user is located in a preset pick-up area or a preset near-pick-up area including the pick-up space, a…

Control apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer readable media encoded with computer program

Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number: 12291192
A control apparatus for an object moving in a specific zone while recognizing one or more markers deployed in the specific zone by a camera. The control apparatus is configured to execute detecting whether or not that the specific zone or surroundings of the object is darker than a specified brightness, and when detecting that the specific zone or the surroundings of the object is darker than the specified brightness, operating a lighting device installed in the object to illuminate the…

Vehicle passenger restraint device and far side airbag folding method

Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number: 12291162
A vehicle passenger restraint device includes a left seat and a right seat provided in a vehicle cabin so as to be capable of moving in a vehicle front-rear direction, and a far side airbag that is provided to a vehicle width direction inside portion of a seatback of the right seat and that is configured so as to be inflated and deployed to a vehicle width direction inside of a passenger seated in the right seat by being supplied with gas from an inflator. The far side airbag includes a…

Airbag device

Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number: 12291161
An airbag device includes: an inflator generating gas at a time of a collision of a vehicle; and an airbag to which the gas is supplied, and that inflates and expands from a seat rear side of an upper portion of a vehicle seat toward a seat front side, and slips-through between a ceiling of a vehicle cabin and a head of a passenger seated in the vehicle seat. The airbag has at least one gas supply path that is provided so as to be directed toward the seat front side and whose angle of…

Front portion for an automobile

Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number: D1073546

Charging apparatus and management device

Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number: 12291116
A charging apparatus is installed in an area in which entry of a vehicle is restricted. The charging apparatus includes: a movable portion including a connection device connectable to an energy storage device; a raising device configured to raise and lower the movable portion between a first state and a second state; a communication device; and a control device. The first state is a state in which the movable portion is housed in the ground, and the second state is a state in which the…

Vehicle allocation apparatus and vehicle allocation method

Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number: 12291113
A processor obtains power reception information including information on a power reception form of a power reception apparatus of each of a plurality of vehicles. The processor obtains power transmission information including information on a power transmission form of a power transmission apparatus available on a travel path through which each of the plurality of vehicles can travel. The processor selects as a vehicle to be dispatched from among the plurality of vehicles, a vehicle that…

Vehicle display control device, vehicle display device, vehicle, vehicle display control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium in which vehicle display control program is recorded

Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number: 12291097
A vehicle display control device that is configured to: change, in accordance with a type of shift range that has been selected, display proportions of a first display region for displaying a shift range of a vehicle and a second display region for displaying a vehicle speed of the vehicle; and display the first display region and the second display region on a display.

Power storage device

Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number: 12291092
A power storage device is a power storage device provided on a lower surface of a floor panel of a vehicle, the power storage device including: a housing case; a power storage module housed in the housing case; and a cooler housed in the housing case to cool the power storage module, wherein the housing case includes a bottom plate, a refrigerant passage through which a refrigerant flows is formed in a portion of the housing case, the portion being located above the bottom plate, and the…

Vehicle control device, vehicle control system, vehicle control method, and storage medium

Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number: 12291090
A vehicle control device includes: an acquisition section configured to acquire a determination result for a first area indicating whether or not a predetermined communication terminal is in a predetermined first area outside a cabin of a vehicle, and to acquire a determination result for a second area indicating whether or not the communication terminal is in a second area that is further away from the vehicle than the first area; and a control section configured to perform a closing…

Air mattress with automatic pitch adjustment

Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number: 12290180
An adjustable air mattress includes a plurality of air chambers having a sleeping surface, an electronic control unit, and an air pump communicatively coupled to the electronic control unit and fluidly coupled to the plurality of air chambers. A plurality of air valves are communicatively coupled to the electronic control unit and are configured to permit or inhibit a release of air within each respective air chambers. A plurality of level sensors are communicatively coupled to the…