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…
Systems and methods for mitigating lane-change disturbance based on cooperative maneuvering
Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number:
12293657
A method for mitigating lane-change disturbance based on cooperative maneuvering includes obtaining traffic data from a target lane, determining whether a traffic in the target lane becomes string unstable in response to an ego vehicle moving to the target lane based on learned car-following models and the traffic data, identifying a connected vehicle in the target lane in response to determining that the traffic in the target lane becomes string unstable in response to an ego vehicle…
Information processing device for selecting notification to prompt safety action performed by user in accordance with user behavior
Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number:
12293656
Provided is an information processing device including a control unit that: stores a plurality of first notifications for prompting a safety action in association with the safety action to be taken by a user; selects one first notification from among the plurality of the first notifications when a determination is made to prompt the user to take the safety action in accordance with a behavior of the user; and outputs a presentation instruction for the selected one first notification.
Information processing apparatus and information processing method
Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number:
12292735
An information processing apparatus for controlling wireless communication performed by a vehicle, the information processing apparatus comprises a controller comprising at least one processor configured to perform, when detecting a predetermined access point, establish wireless connection with the predetermined access point, wherein the controller prevents wireless connection to the predetermined access point at least during a first period from when the vehicle stops until a…
Motor-driven compressor
Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number:
12292217
A noise reducing unit includes a common mode choke coil and a first damping portion that is made of a nonmagnetic material. The common mode choke coil includes an annular core, a first winding wound around the core, and a second winding wound around the core and spaced apart from the first winding. The first damping portion surrounds the first winding and the second winding. The first damping portion is configured such that an induced current flows in the first damping portion to…
Gasket
Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number:
12292113
A first plate portion abuts against a cylinder head and has a substantially constant plate thickness. A second plate portion abuts against a cylinder block and has a substantially constant plate thickness. An intermediate plate portion is sandwiched between the first plate portion and the second plate portion and has a substantially constant plate thickness. A shim is sandwiched between the first plate portion and the intermediate plate portion and is disposed over an entire periphery of…
Control device of exhaust sensor
Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number:
12291985
The control device of an exhaust sensor includes a processor. The processor is configured to control supply of power to the heater. The processor is configured to start the supply of power to the heater at a predetermined timing before a starter for cranking the internal combustion engine is turned on and increase power supplied to the heater when the starter is turned on.
Information processing device, method, non-transitory storage medium, and vehicle
Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number:
12291213
An information processing device to be mounted on a vehicle includes a processor. The processor is configured to determine, in response to a request for the vehicle, one mode out of a plurality of modes defining behavior of the vehicle, make transition of a status of the vehicle among a plurality of statuses that is based on a state and a sub-mode, and control the vehicle based on the status of the vehicle that has been achieved by the transition. The state and the sub-mode are permitted…
Driving force control device
Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number:
12291212
In a driving force control device, a driving force is controlled based on an override driving force characteristic specifying a target acceleration according to a vehicle speed, an accelerator pedal position, and a traveling resistance to a vehicle, a longitudinal acceleration at a fully closed accelerator pedal position is higher in an override driving force characteristic than in a manual-driving-mode driving force characteristic, and a graph representing a relation between the…
Vehicle speed limiting device, vehicle speed limiting method, and vehicle speed limiting program
Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number:
12291208
A vehicle speed limiting device includes a control device with first and second speed limiting functions, and a first cancel function for disabling the first speed limiting function when a first condition is satisfied and the vehicle speed matches a first speed. The control device has a first cancel function canceling the second speed limiting function when an elapsed time from a first time at which the first speed limiting function is disabled by the first cancel function to a second…
Front bumper for an automobile
Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number:
D1073547
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…
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.
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…
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…
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 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…
Front bumper for an automobile
Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number:
D1073551
Rear bumper for an automobile
Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number:
D1073549
