Dynamic GUI based on enhanced functionality
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208804
Provided is a process that includes one or more of receiving data from sensors on a vehicle, where the data is associated with an internal environment of the vehicle and characteristics of an occupant of the vehicle and modifying functionality of the vehicle based on the received data. Modifying functionality includes updating a graphical user interface (GUI) of the vehicle and a GUI of a device associated with the occupant.
Method for producing electrode sheet
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12211988
A method for producing an electrode sheet includes roll-pressing an uncompressed electrode sheet including a current collecting foil and an uncompressed electrode layer formed thereon and made from composite particles including active material particles and binder particles, by feeding the uncompressed electrode sheet to pass through a gap between first and second rolls to compress, and heating the sheet so that the active material particles are bonded to each other and also to the…
Controller for hybrid electric vehicle and method for controlling hybrid electric vehicle
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12209565
A controller executes a first restarting process when restarting of an engine is requested under a condition where an engine speed is less than a determination speed. In the first restarting process, cranking of the engine is performed by a motor generator in a state in which the motor generator is connected to a crankshaft through engagement of a clutch, and fuel injection and ignition are initiated in the engine when a combustion initiation condition is satisfied in this state. The…
Method of manufacturing semiconductor substrate and epitaxial growth method
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12209328
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a novel method and apparatus of manufacturing a semiconductor substrate. Achieved are a method of manufacturing a semiconductor substrate and a manufacturing apparatus therefor, the method comprising: an installation step for installing a plurality of objects to be processed having semiconductor substrates in a stack; and a heating step for heating each of the plurality of objects to be processed such that a temperature gradient is…
Warehouse system
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208962
A warehouse system includes a first moving unit configured to move articles in an extending direction of a storage rack on the storage rack; a second moving unit configured to be operated independently from the first moving unit and to move selected articles toward an exit side on a transfer rack; and a third moving unit configured to be operated independently from the first moving unit and the second moving unit and to transfer the selected articles from the storage rack to the transfer…
Package supporting device and unmanned package transporter
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208931
A package supporting device including: a base; ground contacting portions that contact a landing surface in a state of having landed; package supporting portions provided at an underside of the base, the package supporting portions supporting a package; a drive portion that is operable in a first state to cause each of the package supporting portions to move toward the package, and is operable in a second state to cause each of the package supporting portions to move away from the…
Vehicle control device
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208835
A vehicle control device includes an offset unit configured to execute offset processing for offsetting the target lateral position such that the target lateral position is separated from the first lane, when a relationship between the first vehicle and the vehicle satisfies an offset condition. The offset unit is configured not to execute the offset processing even if the relationship between the first vehicle and the vehicle satisfies the predetermined offset condition, when a…
Driver assistance method and driver assistance system
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208816
A driver assistance method that is applied to a vehicle includes: reading a speed limit at a position at which the vehicle is traveling, from map information in which the speed limit is registered; displaying the speed limit read from the map information on a display device; and disabling updating of the speed limit to be displayed on the display device based on the map information in a first section in which a temporary speed limit is set, even when the speed limit registered in the map…
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…
Information processing apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for granting an incentive to share vehicle history
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208807
A controller of an information processing apparatus acquires, in a case in which a previous user of a vehicle has not given consent to disclose history data for the vehicle, information indicating whether a current user of the vehicle has given consent to disclose the history data for the vehicle, and determines to grant the current user an incentive in a case in which it is determined, based on the acquired information, that the current user has given consent to disclose the history…
Transient liquid phase bonding compositions and power electronics assemblies incorporating the same
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208448
A transient liquid phase (TLP) composition includes a plurality of first high melting temperature (HMT) particles, a plurality of second HMT particles, and a plurality of low melting temperature (LMT) particles. Each of the plurality of first HMT particles have a core-shell structure with a core formed from a first high HMT material and a shell formed from a second HMT material that is different than the first HMT material. The plurality of second HMT particles are formed from a third…
Vehicle controller and vehicle control method
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208796
A vehicle controller sets an upper limit request value related to an upper limit of a longitudinal acceleration of a vehicle, a lower limit request value related to a lower limit of the longitudinal acceleration, and an acceleration request value related to the longitudinal acceleration that corresponds to an amount of the operation of the vehicle. The vehicle controller sets a first arbitration request value to a greater one of the lower limit request value and the acceleration request…
Vehicle control apparatus
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208794
A vehicle control apparatus determines whether or not a confirmed abnormal state in which it can be confirmed that a driver of a vehicle has fallen into an abnormal state where he/she is unable to drive the vehicle is occurring. When it is determined that the confirmed abnormal state is occurring, the apparatus decelerates the vehicle at a normal deceleration DGnor. However, when it is predicated that a control limit of a lane keeping control will come before the vehicle stops in the…
Travel support control device for hybrid electric vehicle
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208786
A travel support control device: creates a travel support plan in which one of travel modes including a CD mode and a CS mode is assigned to each travel section based on look-ahead information generated for a travel route to allow a hybrid electric vehicle to travel and calculates a total distance of electric traveling on the travel route; creates a travel support plan for travel sections to a travel section immediately before an information non-acquirable area in which information…
Vehicles including an integrated lift bracket
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208775
A vehicle lift assembly includes a vehicle frame, and a lift bracket mounted to the vehicle frame. The lift bracket includes an outboard facing surface defining a lift arm-receiving opening. The vehicle lift assembly further includes a stopper positioned inboard of the lift arm-receiving opening.
In-vehicle network system
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208754
An in-vehicle network system includes a central ECU, which generates a control signal for a plurality of devices, and a plurality of zone ECUs, which relay a control signal from the central ECU. The plurality of devices include a first specific device (power window device, etc.), which is a device unrelated to drive control or the like of a vehicle, and which includes a sub controller (third signal processing unit, etc.) capable of activating an actuator based on an ON signal from at…
Vehicle display device, vehicle display method and recording medium recording vehicle display program
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208689
A vehicle display device, that includes: a first display device provided inside a vehicle cabin; a second display device provided inside the vehicle cabin and separately from the first display device; a memory; and a processor connecting to the memory and being configured to: set a running plan of a vehicle, to display a scheduled action of the vehicle on the first display device based on the running plan, and to display the scheduled action on the second display device in a case in…
Control apparatus for motive power transmission device, vehicle, and method of controlling motive power transmission device
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208679
A control apparatus for a motive power transmission device equipped with a first input shaft, a second input shaft to which a motive power from a motor is input, a rear wheel-side output shaft from which a motive power is output to a first driving wheel, a front wheel-side output shaft from which a motive power is output to a second driving wheel, and a planetary gear device that has, as three rotating elements, a sun gear to which the second input shaft is coupled, a carrier to which…
Vehicle and method for controlling vehicle
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208659
A vehicle includes a battery for traveling; an air conditioner that includes a defroster mode and that is configured to air-condition a vehicle cabin using a refrigeration cycle; a battery cooler configured to cool the battery with a coolant that is cooled by heat exchange with a refrigerant flowing through the air conditioner; and a control unit configured to control the air conditioner and the battery cooler. In a case where a temperature of the battery is higher than a reference…
Lifting robot systems
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208528
Lifting robot systems and methods for operating the same are disclosed. A lifting robot system includes a sensor device and a robot device. The robot device includes a body, a lifting component movably coupled to the body, and a collection tray coupled to the lifting component. Upon receiving a command to lift an object, the sensor device automatically detects the object, the robot device places the object on the collection tray, and the robot device causes the lifting component to lift…
