Vehicle power supply device and vehicle power supply method
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12257906
When the voltage value of the capacitor included in the PCU is equal to or higher than a predetermined value, the vehicle power supply device turns on both the positive switching element and the negative switching element corresponding to one of a plurality of resistors so as to activate the one resistor connected to the initially disabled PCU. In addition, the vehicle power supply device turns on both the positive switching element and the negative switching element corresponding the…
Active material
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12261296
A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein an expansion upon intercalation of a metal ion such as a Li ion is suppressed. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising a silicon clathrate type crystal phase, and the active material includes a Na element, a Si element and a M element that is a metal element with an ion radius larger than the Si element, and a proportion of the M element to a total of the Si…
Method for generating smoke in cell pack
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12261273
A method for generating smoke in a cell pack by which a very small amount of smoke can be generated from a specific single unit cell among unit cells constituting the cell pack. The method causes smoke generation in a cell pack in which unit cells are connected and which includes a positive electrode output terminal for electrically connecting the positive electrode terminal of the unit cell and an external device, and a negative electrode output terminal for electrically connecting the…
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.
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…
Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle control method, and non-transitory storage medium
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12258028
A vehicle control apparatus includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to set a second required value of a second state quantity to request an operation to a controlled object by using a first required value of a first state quantity on an operation of a vehicle from an in-vehicle system configured to set the first required value. The one or more processors are configured to set a feedback term of the second required value in feedback control by using a…
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…
In-vehicle system, method, and non-transitory storage medium
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12257924
An in-vehicle system includes a first battery and a second battery respectively connected to a first load and a second load, a relay that connects the two batteries in parallel, and a processor configured to control turn-on and turn-off of the relay to control a state of electric power supply from the first and second batteries to the first and second loads, detect an abnormality in the first and second batteries, and determine a difference between physical quantities of the two…
Electromechanical integration unit
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12257909
The electromechanical integration unit includes a motor housed in a first chamber of the housing, and a first electrical unit and a second electrical unit housed in a second chamber of the housing. The housing includes multiple motor terminals arranged in the second chamber. The first electrical unit includes multiple first terminals arranged together with the motor terminals. The second electrical unit includes multiple motor terminals and multiple second terminals connected to the…
Method for manufacturing joined body
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12257789
A method for manufacturing a joined body according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a method for manufacturing a joined body in which composite materials in which fibers are impregnated with resins are heated and joined to each other. The method includes: a step of aligning the composite material with each of a plurality of molding dies, heating the molding dies, and semi-curing the resins of the composite materials; and a step of joining the composite materials to each…
Motor-driven compressor
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12253084
A motor-driven compressor includes an inverter that includes a circuit board and an electrical component, and an inverter cover that defines an inverter accommodating chamber together with an end wall of a motor housing member. The inverter accommodating chamber accommodates a first conductive member and a second conductive member. A first end of the first conductive member and a lead of the electrical component extend through the circuit board from a first surface, which faces the end…
Server, system, and information processing method
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254774
A server includes: a communication device configured to acquire information on a user who is to receive a physical exam, the information including a residence of the user and an examination item of the user; and one or more processors configured to determine a travel schedule of a plurality of vehicles each configured to perform one or more of a plurality of the examination items of the physical exam, the travel schedule being a schedule for the vehicles that offer the examination items…
Vehicle periphery monitoring device and vehicle periphery monitoring method
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254701
A vehicle periphery monitoring device is configured to: specify positions of detection points of an obstacle with respect to a vehicle based on detection results of multiple periphery monitoring sensors equipped to the vehicle; update the positions of the detected detection points corresponding to a position change of the vehicle; storing the updated positions of the detection points in a memory that maintains stored information during a parked state of the vehicle; and estimate, at a…
Cooperative-contrastive learning systems and methods
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254691
Systems and methods for multi-view cooperative contrastive self-supervised learning, may include receiving a plurality of video sequences, the video sequences comprising a plurality of image frames; applying selected images of a first and second video sequence of the plurality of video sequences to a plurality of different encoders to derive a plurality of embeddings for different views of the selected images of the first and second video sequences; determining distances of the derived…
System, information processing apparatus, and method for generating mesh data from two-dimensional point cloud data
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254585
A system includes a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus capable of communicating with each other. The first information processing apparatus is configured to acquire three-dimensional point cloud data including multiple vertices each having three parameters of x-, y-, and z-coordinates. A combination of the x- and y-coordinates is different from vertex to vertex. The first or second information processing apparatus is configured to convert…
Vehicle control system and method for confirming software consistency
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254309
A specific on-board device, that is any one of a plurality of on-board devices, is configured to acquire the versions of software included in other on-board devices when the power source of a vehicle is turned on. The specific on-board device determines whether or not the versions of the software of all the on-board devices that constitute a vehicle control system are consistent, by comparing the version of the software of the specific on-board device and the versions of the software…
Input output control device
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254214
An input output control device between a verification circuit and a semiconductor memory device includes: a first port that receives a read transaction for requesting reading of data in the semiconductor memory device from the verification circuit, and outputs a read response to the verification circuit; a second port that outputs the read transaction to the semiconductor memory device, and receives the read response output from the semiconductor memory device in response to the read…
Electronic control unit, method, and storage medium of setting shared/dedicated area write limit based on life time consumption information
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12253939
By an electronic control unit including a storage that has a shared area shared by a plurality of unspecified applications and a dedicated area used by a predetermined specific application, a use limit notification method performed in the electronic control unit, a use limit notification method, life time consumption information related to life time consumption of the storage is acquired. a shared area write limit and a dedicated area write limit are set, and an application using the…
Information processing device, information processing method, and storage medium
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12253377
An information processing device includes a control unit that performs prediction, from a first movement route including a predetermined number of continuous road links, of one or more road links that are traveled by a first mobile object subsequent to the first movement route, based on movement history information on one or more mobile objects traveling on a road. The control unit performs the prediction by using a machine learning model that, for an input of sequential data, outputs…
