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…
Fuel cell system
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272846
A fuel cell system includes a plurality of fuel cell units each configured to generate lower-voltage DC power. The fuel cell system includes a plurality of DC-DC converters each electrically connected to each of the fuel cell units and configured to convert the lower-voltage DC power to higher-voltage DC power. The fuel cell system includes a primary load power conversion unit electrically connected to the plurality of DC-DC converters and configured to output a primary load. The fuel…
Hydrogen storage alloy for alkaline storage battery, alkaline storage battery using the same as negative electrode, and vehicle
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272819
A hydrogen storage alloy suitable for a negative electrode of an on-board alkaline storage battery, an alkaline storage battery using this hydrogen storage alloy, and a vehicle; wherein a fine-grained hydrogen storage alloy is used for an alkaline storage battery that has a crystal structure of an A2B7-type structure as a main phase and is represented by a general formula: (La1-aSma)1-bMgbNicAldCre (where suffixes a, b, c, d, and e meet the following conditions: 0?a?0.35, 0.15?b?0.30,…
Display control device, display control method, and display control program
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272191
An acquisition unit that acquires vehicle information related to a vehicle state of a vehicle; a determination unit that determines whether the vehicle has traveled in a state in which energy consumption efficiency of the vehicle is poor within a predetermined time from a predetermined driving operation of the vehicle based on the vehicle information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a display control unit that causes a display unit to display the number of times of traveling in the…
Information processing device and information processing method
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272124
In an information processing device (a server device), a first acquirer acquires multiple captured images of the outside of a vehicle. A detector detects, from acquired multiple captured images, multiple images related to unsafe driving using a learned model. An image extractor extracts, from detected multiple images related to unsafe driving, an image to be a candidate for relearning data of the learned model.
Distance estimation device
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272083
A vehicle includes a distance estimation device that estimates the distance from the vehicle to a traffic light. The distance estimation device includes an image acquisition unit that acquires an image captured by a camera for imaging the surroundings of the vehicle, a light size acquisition unit that acquires a light size of a light of the traffic light reflected in the image, and a distance estimation unit that estimates the distance from the vehicle to the traffic light based on the…
Delivery system, control method of delivery system, and storage medium
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271842
A delivery system includes a plurality of delivery vehicles for delivering an article to a delivery destination with power charged in a battery that is able to be charged and discharged. The delivery vehicles are able to be charged with each other. A charging schedule including a combination of a charging vehicle and a vehicle to be charged selected from the delivery vehicles is determined based on a delivery schedule of the article and a remaining charge capacity of the battery for each…
Electric compressor
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12270390
An electric compressor includes: a compression mechanism; a motor mechanism; an inverter; a housing accommodating the compression mechanism, the motor mechanism, and the inverter; and a power supplier. The power supplier includes a connector and a cable extending toward an outside of the housing. The connector includes a first protrusion extending toward the outside of the housing. The first protrusion includes an end surface that has an insertion hole into which the cable is inserted,…
Shape memory material member-based actuator
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12270386
An actuator can include one or more shape memory material members. When an activation input is provided to the one or more shape memory material members, the one or more shape memory material members contract, which causes the actuator to morph into an activated configuration. A height of the actuator increases in the activated configuration. The actuator can include a first outer body member and a second outer body member. The first outer body member can include a first portion and a…
Vehicle notification device, vehicle notification system, and vehicle notification method
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12269499
A vehicle notification device includes: a mode setting unit that sets a mode of a vehicle to either a first mode and a second mode based on mode setting information; an acquisition unit that acquires a driving diagnosis result; a classification unit that classifies the driving diagnosis result into a first diagnosis result or a second diagnosis result based on content of the driving diagnosis result; and a notification device that notifies a target occupant of the vehicle of information…
Front combination lamp for a motor vehicle
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
D1070135
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…
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…
Carwash device, car-washing method, storage medium stored with car-washing program, and car-washing system
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12269442
A carwash device receives vehicle attribute information indicating an attribute of a vehicle that is a car-washing target. The carwash device selects a car-washing mode based on the vehicle attribute information, and the carwash device drives a drive section for washing the vehicle such that the vehicle is washed in the selected car-washing mode.
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…
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…
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…
