Server, vehicle detection system, and vehicle detection method
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272147
A server includes a control unit. The control unit determines whether a parked vehicle is used as a shelter based on a first image which is included in an image captured by a camera and which is obtained by imaging the vehicle and surroundings of the vehicle.
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…
Front combination lamp for a motor vehicle
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
D1070135
Remote image display method and remote image display system
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266035
A sensor image generated based on data obtained from a remote sensor is displayed on a display of a terminal communicating with the remote sensor. The remote sensor includes a sensor mounted on a moving body. The sensor image includes a moving body image representing an image generated based on data obtained from the sensor mounted on the moving body. In the moving body image, right and left regions are set with respect to front of the moving body. Right and left recognition assistances…
Polymer electrolyte for a solid state battery
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266758
Provided is a composition containing a redox charge-transfer complex of an electron donor polymer and an electron acceptor compound where the anionic form of the electron acceptor has a reduction potential higher than the reduction potential of the electron donor polymer; at least one metal salt and at least one additive compound having a dielectric constant of 10 or greater. The composition is a free-flowing, substantially amorphous powder and is useful as a metal ion conducting…
Apparatus for manufacturing electrode body and method for manufacturing electrode body
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266754
An apparatus for manufacturing an electrode body includes a coater and an attraction magnet. The coater applies a mixture paste including an electrode active material to a substrate that is configured to be a current collector. The attraction magnet is opposed to an applied layer of the mixture paste formed on the substrate so that when the mixture paste contains a metal object, the attraction magnet attracts the metal object so as to change a shape of a surface of the applied layer.
Apparatus and method to display wheelchair information on a bus
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266255
The information processing apparatus outputs specific information, including information related to getting on and off the bus for a specific user who uses the bus using a wheelchair, via a predetermined display device. Here, the information processing apparatus outputs the specific information via the specified display device from a predetermined time before the time when the bus stops for boarding or alighting the bus by the specified user.
Vehicle with oil insulation performance detection
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266227
A vehicle includes: (a) drive wheels; (b) an electric motor serving as a power source for driving the vehicle; (c) a power transmission apparatus configured to transmit a power of the electric motor toward the drive wheels; (d) an electric-insulation-performance determining portion configured to determine an electric insulation performance of an oil supplied to the electric motor and a lubrication required portion of the power transmission apparatus; and (e) a notification portion…
Vehicle occupant detection system
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266194
A vehicle occupant detection system includes a processor that extracts, using an occupant detection area position information stored in a memory, an occupant detection area within a captured image of an in-vehicle camera, and detects any occupant in that area. The processor executes a correction mode using a correction-purpose image obtained by capturing, using the camera, a linearly-extending metal frame exposed when a vehicle door is open. In the correction mode, the processor detects…
Own-position estimating device, moving body, own-position estimating method, and own-position estimating program
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266149
An own-position estimating device for estimating an own-position of a moving body by matching a feature extracted from an acquired image with a database in which position information and the feature are associated with each other in advance, includes an estimating unit estimating the own-position of the moving body by matching the feature extracted by the extracting unit with the database, and a determination threshold value adjusting unit adjusting a determination threshold value for…
Human-machine interface control system
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12263867
A system includes a processor and a memory in communication with the processor. The memory has a human-machine interface module having instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to identify, influenced by sensor data regarding a vehicle and an environment in which the vehicle operates, an event in which the vehicle should perform an autonomous steering maneuver determined by an autonomous driving system. The instructions further cause the processor to, in…
Physical distribution system, physical distribution control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing physical distribution control program
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265940
In a physical distribution system, a delivery controller is configured to acquire package information; generate a delivery schedule; calculate tentative delivery time of a package estimated based on the delivery schedule; send a delivery confirmation request notification requesting confirmation of the tentative delivery time to a consignee linked to the package; receive a response to the delivery confirmation request notification; control the autonomous mobile robot based on the delivery…
System and non-transitory storage medium
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265646
A system includes a server including a controller. The controller is configured to obtain information regarding consent or non-consent of a user of a vehicle to disclosure of history data of the vehicle to a third party, and determine, when determination is made that consent of the user is not obtained, whether to transmit a signal that prompts for obtaining consent of the user, based on at least one of the history data of the vehicle and user activity information of the user.
Method for inspecting nonaqueous electrolyte rechargeable battery
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265133
An inspecting step includes a first period after a cooling step ends and a second period after the first period ends. Variations in a voltage drop value per unit time in a nonaqueous electrolyte rechargeable battery are smaller in the second period than in the first period. The cooling step cools the battery in a state where the electrode body is directly or indirectly pressurized and restrained in a thickness direction with a smaller pressure than that in the inspecting step or in a…
Route determination device and vehicle dispatch system
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12264925
A server includes a communication device and a processor. From a user terminal, the communication device acquires a vehicle dispatch request including information indicating a vehicle dispatch location and a destination of a vehicle. When the communication device acquires the vehicle dispatch request, the processor determines a traveling route of the vehicle from a current location of the vehicle to the destination via the vehicle dispatch location in accordance with the vehicle dispatch…
Power transmission device and power unit equipped with same
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12264735
A power transmission device includes a first gear, a second gear meshing with the first gear, a third gear that rotates integrally with the second gear, a fourth gear meshing with the third gear, a housing accommodating the first gear, the second gear, the third gear, and the fourth gear, and a plate member mounted in the housing. A lubricating liquid is stored in the housing so that a part of the second gear and a part of the fourth gear are immersed therein. The plate member includes a…
Artificial muscle assemblies comprising a reinforced housing
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12264691
An artificial muscle includes a housing including an electrode region, an expandable fluid region, a first film layer, and a second film layer. The first film layer and the second film layer each include an inner protective layer having a first elasticity, an outer protective layer having a second elasticity, and a reinforcing layer provided between the inner protective layer and the outer protective layer, the reinforcing layer having a third elasticity greater than the first elasticity…
Internal combustion engine and controller for internal combustion engine
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12264632
An internal combustion engine and a controller for the internal combustion engine are provided. A water axis is an injection axis of water from a water injection valve. A fuel axis is an injection axis of gaseous fuel from a fuel injection valve. The internal combustion engine has a specific cross-section that is a plane. The specific cross-section is parallel to a cylinder central axis. The specific cross-section includes a water valve tip and a fuel valve tip. In the specific…
Steering control system and steering control method
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12263897
A steering control system that controls a steering device of a vehicle includes a storage unit, and a control unit configured to make a state transition to a normal control state via a start-up state after a power source system of the vehicle is started. In the start-up state, the control unit executes a correction information storing process of acquiring correction element information using a state variable obtained from the steering device and writing correction information obtained…
Vehicle front section structure
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12263884
A vehicle front section structure including left and right front side frames, and left and right front side members. The left and right front side frames extend along a vehicle front-rear direction at respective sides in a vehicle width direction with respect to the power unit. A lower kick section sloping with a downward gradient on progression toward a vehicle rear side is formed at a rear section of each of the front side frames. The left and right front side members extend along the…
