System and method for adjusting one or more properties of a deformable lens
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12216267
Systems and methods for adjusting one or more properties of a deformable lens are described herein. The deformable lens includes a photoswitch material that, when irradiated by a radiation, causes a curvature of a surface of the deformable lens to change from a first curvature to a second curvature based on the intensity of the radiation.
Method of predicting liquid regions and vapor regions in bipolar plates of a fuel cell
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12218392
A method of designing a fuel cell includes executing one or more programs on one or more computing devices having one or more processors to predict a location of one or more liquid regions and one or more vapor regions in microchannels at an air layer of a plate of the fuel cell. Based on the prediction, fluid flow networks for the air layer, a hydrogen layer, and a coolant layer of the fuel cell are simultaneously optimized via homogenized flow optimization. In response to the results…
Battery module and battery module manufacturing method
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12218373
A battery module includes a box shaped housing case that is open at an upper side, a battery stack in which plural battery cells are stacked along a horizontal direction, and that is housed inside the housing case, and plural types of shim that are made of different materials and that are disposed between the battery stack and the housing case in a state in which the battery stack is pressed along the stacking direction of the battery cells.
Method for producing electrode
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12218336
According to the present disclosure, an electrode having an electrode mixture layer with a desired film thickness can be stably produced. A producing method disclosed herein includes detecting the surface position of a mixture coated film by a first sensor; detecting the surface position of a second roll by a second sensor; detecting the film thickness of the mixture coated film based on detection results of the first sensor and the second sensor; and adjusting a relatively rotation…
Rare-earth magnet and method of manufacturing the same
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217907
A rare-earth magnet and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The method includes: preparing Sm—Fe—N magnetic powder; preparing reforming material powder containing metallic zinc; mixing the magnetic powder and the reforming material powder to obtain mixed powder; subjecting the mixed powder to compression molding in a magnetic field to obtain a magnetic-field molded body; subjecting the magnetic-field molded body to pressure sintering to obtain a sintered body; and…
Information processing device, information processing method, storage medium, and information processing system
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217556
An information processing device includes at least one processor. The processor communicates with a vehicle and receives deterioration information that is involved in deterioration of a part provided within a cabin of the vehicle; stores the received deterioration information; and estimates a deterioration degree of the part on the basis of the stored deterioration information.
Systems and methods for uncertainty aware monocular 3D object detection
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217519
A method for 3D object detection is described. The method includes predicting, using a trained monocular depth network, an estimated monocular input depth map of a monocular image of a video stream and an estimated depth uncertainty map associated with the estimated monocular input depth map. The method also includes feeding back a depth uncertainty regression loss associated with the estimated monocular input depth map during training of the trained monocular depth network to update the…
Parked car classification based on a velocity estimation
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217514
A method controlling an ego vehicle in an environment includes determining, via a flow model of a parked vehicle recognition system, a flow between a first representation of the environment and a second representation of the environment. The method also includes determining, via a velocity model of the parked vehicle recognition system, a velocity of a vehicle in the environment based on the flow. The method further includes determining, via a parked vehicle classification model of the…
Mobile computing network programming for queried content capture
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12216672
Mobile computing network programming for queried content capture is performed by receiving, from a client device, a query for a target content of data capturable by a fleet of mobile computing networks, the query including a target content identifier that identifies the target content, programming a task to capture the target content, the task programmed to be executed by each mobile computing network using available resources of the mobile computing network, transmitting the task to…
Systems and methods for machine learning evaluation pipeline
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12216647
Provided are a method, system, and device for a neural architecture search (NAS) pipeline for performing an optimized neural architecture search (NAS). The method may include obtaining a first search space comprising a plurality of candidate layers for a neural network architecture; performing a training-free NAS in the first search space to obtain a first set of architectures; obtaining a second search space based on the first set of architectures; performing a gradient-based search in…
Map data output device
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12215987
A map data output device includes: a map storage that stores map data that represents lane network information; a position determination portion that determines a current position of a vehicle; a read processing portion that reads the map data of an area established based on the current position; a control map generation portion that generates control map data obtained by adding information to the map; and an output portion that outputs the control map data to a vehicle control device.
Centrifugal compressor
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12215710
A centrifugal compressor includes: a compressor impeller; a motor including a stator and a rotor; and a housing. The rotor includes a tubular member, a magnetic body, a first shaft member and a second shaft member, an axial passage, and a plurality of radial passages. A dimension of each of the radial passages in a circumferential direction of the second shaft member gradually increases toward a radially outward side of the second shaft member. Each of the radial passages includes an…
Abnormality diagnosis device for internal combustion engine
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12215646
A setting unit which is connected to an intake passage and defines a reference value for a pressure in a passage through which gas flows, an accumulating unit which integrates a difference between the reference value and the pressure from a point in time when the pressure falls below the reference value and acquires an cumulative value, and a diagnosis unit which diagnoses an abnormality of the passage based on the cumulative value, wherein when there is no peak in the pressure, the…
Exhaust gas purification apparatus and exhaust gas purification method
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12215617
An exhaust gas purification apparatus includes: an oxidation reduction catalytic converter; a selective reduction catalytic converter disposed downstream of the oxidation reduction catalytic converter; and a controller configured to perform a first control or a second control based on mixing ratios when a temperature is higher than a predetermined temperature. The first control is performed when the mixing ratio downstream of the selective reduction catalytic converter is greater than…
Forklift and control method for forklift
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12215012
A forklift includes a vehicle body, a fork that mounts a pallet, and a sensor provided in an insertion portion of the fork. The forklift inserts the insertion portion into an insertion opening, while moving the fork. When the sensor detects a proximity state, in which the insertion portion has approached a facing surface to such an extent that a distance between the insertion portion and the facing surface is less than or equal to a specified value, the forklift executes a stopping…
Steering control device
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12214834
A steering control device controls a turning motor that generates a turning force for causing turning wheels of which power transmission to and from a steering wheel is cut off to turn. The steering control device includes a first processor configured to change a steering angle ratio which is a ratio of a turning angle of the turning wheels to a steering angle of the steering wheel according to a vehicle speed through control of the turning motor and a second processor configured to…
Steer-by wire steering system
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12214833
A steer-by-wire steering system for a vehicle, comprising: an operation member operable by a vehicle driver; an urging device configured to generate an urging force to urge the operation member; a steering device configured to steer a wheel; and a controller configured to control the urging device and the steering device. In a normal operation, the controller enables the wheel to be steered in accordance with an operation of the operation member and causes the urging force to function as…
Vehicle, method of controlling vehicle, and vehicle control interface box
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12214832
An ADS performs processing including setting an initial value of a wheel steer angle command when an autonomous state has been set to an autonomous mode, obtaining a limitation of a rate, setting a wheel steer angle limitation as the wheel steer angle command when magnitude of the initial value is larger than the wheel steer angle limitation, and transmitting the wheel steer angle command.
Turning control device
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12214831
A turning control device includes a precursor detection circuit configured to detect a precursor of an abnormality by which a smooth operation of a turning device is impaired. The precursor detection circuit is configured to start measurement of a total running time of a vehicle when the precursor is detected, and is configured to execute a process of reporting the precursor, based on the measured total running time. The precursor detection circuit is configured to perform the…
Systems and methods for automatically generating solver code for nonlinear model predictive control solvers
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208809
Systems and methods for automatically generating solver code for a nonlinear model predictive controller are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of automatically generating solver code for a nonlinear model predictive control solver includes receiving an optimal control problem code, wherein the optimal control problem code represents an optimal control problem comprising a cost function, one or more constraints, and a continuous time model representing dynamics of a system. The…
