Therapeutic motion devices including artificial muscle drive units
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12263130
A therapeutic motion device includes a support structure including a first support portion and a second support portion. The first support portion rotatably coupled to the second support portion and at least one of the first support portion and the second support portion is movable relative to the other of the first support potion and the second support portion. First and second actuation arms extend from the first and second support portions, respectively. An artificial muscle drive…
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.
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…
Transport system, transport method, and non-transitory storage medium
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12264010
A transport system includes a transport robot configured to transport an item picked up from a shelving unit or to be stored into the shelving unit, wherein: the transport robot includes a placing table on which the item is to be placed, and a lifting mechanism configured to lift and lower the placing table; and the placing table includes an engaging portion configured to engage with the shelving unit.
Vehicle management system
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12263866
A management server executes a process including: a step of acquiring operation information when an execution condition is established; a step of setting a traveling route; a step of calculating an accumulated amount of load when there is a vehicle set on the forwarding route; a step of setting the details of canceling the travel restriction according to the accumulated amount of the load of the vehicle on the forwarding route when there is a vehicle in a high accumulated state; a step…
Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle, acceleration-and-deceleration control method, and vehicle control program
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12263845
A vehicle control apparatus performs an acceleration suppressing control to suppress an acceleration of a vehicle, when a distracted state detected based on a driver's seat image continues for a predetermined first time. The distracted state is a state in which an attentiveness for driving of the driver is impaired. The vehicle control apparatus performs a deceleration control to decelerate the vehicle to stop the vehicle, when the distracted state continues for a predetermined second…
Control device for vehicle
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12263843
The vehicle includes a prime mover, a propeller shaft that transmits a rotational output, a first drive wheel that transmits a rotational output without passing through the propeller shaft, a second drive wheel transmitted through the propeller shaft, a torque distribution unit, and a transmission device. The control device of the vehicle has an autonomous driving mode and a manual driving mode, when changing a gear ratio of the transmission device, the control device controls the torque…
Press apparatus and method for manufacturing different-thickness metal plate
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12263517
A press apparatus according to an embodiment includes an upper die and a lower die, and configured to manufacture a different-thickness metal plate, in which: the lower die includes: a wall surface facing a cavity; a fixing part configured to fix both ends of the metal plate, the both ends of the metal plate being placed so that its plate surface faces upward; and a rotating mechanism configured to rotate the metal plate so that the metal plate is brought into an upright position along…
Mobility service management system
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12258019
A mobility service management system manages a mobility service utilizing a mobility service vehicle that runs via a stop position. A stop position reservation database indicates a reservation status of each stop position. A reservation request includes a target stop position and a target stop time specified by a user. The mobility service management system determines, based on the stop position reservation database, whether the target stop position is available in a target stop period…
Device and method
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12259830
A device includes a first interface unit connected to a first controller area network (CAN) bus, a second interface unit connected to a second CAN bus, and a control unit configured to identify, in a case where transmission of a CAN frame is started, a CAN bus detected to be in a dominant state first after end of arbitration from the first CAN bus or the second CAN bus, as a CAN bus to which a transmission source device of the CAN frame is connected.
Mounting structure of tank
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12259091
The discharge direction when the gas in the high-pressure tank is released by the opening of the plug, the high-pressure tank is arranged so as not to overlap with the position of the plug of the other adjacent high-pressure tank, or one end side of the band for fixing the high-pressure tank to the frame is a first connecting portion fixed to the frame via an elastic body, in the adjacent high-pressure tank, the first connecting portions are arranged so as to face each other, the first…
Extension-retraction device
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12259024
A telescopic device includes a telescopic tubular structure and an inner guide member. The outer belt and the inner belt of the tubular structure are provided with a plurality of protrusions and holes provided in two rows in the longitudinal direction. The inner guide member has a first helical groove and a second helical groove extending along a plurality of projections respectively provided in one row on the tip side and the base side of the tubular structure. The first straight line…
Spiral advance/retreat actuation device
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12259023
The spiral advance/retreat actuation device includes a first strip material, a second strip material, an inner guide member as a strip material guide unit, an outer cylindrical wall, and a strip material storage container. The strip material storage container includes a first storage chamber that spirally stores a first strip material that has transitioned from a cylindrical configuration state to a separated state, and a second storage chamber that spirally stores a second strip…
Systems and methods for vehicular-network-assisted federated machine learning
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12258045
Systems and methods for vehicular-network-assisted federated machine learning are disclosed herein. One embodiment transmits first metadata from a connected vehicle to at least one other connected vehicle; receives, at the connected vehicle, second metadata from the at least one other connected vehicle; receives, at the connected vehicle based on analysis of the first and second metadata, a notification that the connected vehicle has been elected to participate in the current training…
Vehicle control system and vehicle control device for autonomous vehicle
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12258042
A vehicle control system for an autonomous vehicle includes: a first control device configured to generate a first driving plan including desired lateral lane driving positions or desired lateral lane driving position ranges; a plurality of first sensors configured to obtain information on motion of the vehicle and information on surroundings of the vehicle; and a second control device configured to communicate with the first control device, generate, based on the first driving plan…
Device, method, and computer program for proposing autonomous driving
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12258035
A device for proposing autonomous driving includes a processor configured to identify an autonomously travelable section in which a vehicle is capable of traveling under autonomous driving control, make a proposal for travel under autonomous driving control to a driver of the vehicle via a notification device when a proposal determination value corresponding to the length of the identified autonomously travelable section satisfies a first proposal criterion, stop proposing travel through…
Methods and systems for autonomous path planning triggered by freeway rubbernecking
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12258023
A method for autonomous path planning triggered by freeway rubbernecking includes obtaining gaze directions of drivers of a plurality of connected vehicles in a region of a road. The method also includes determining whether an average speed of the plurality of connected vehicles in the region is less than a predetermined speed. The method further includes controlling mobility of one or more of the plurality of connected vehicles in response to determining that the gaze directions of one…
Vehicle control device, vehicle, and vehicle control method
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12258022
A vehicle control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to receive a first requested value of acceleration acting on a vehicle from a first system configured to request holding a stopped state of the vehicle. The processor is configured to receive a second requested value of the acceleration from a second system. The processor is configured to select one of the first requested value and the second requested value as an arbitration result. The processor is configured to…
