Systems and methods for detecting an object in an environment of a vehicle
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12263835
Systems include a controller programmed to instruct a sensor to detect an object in an environment of a vehicle in response to an activation of a fall-on-car prevention function, determine a first value of a parameter pertaining to the object at a first time with the sensor, determine a second value of the parameter pertaining to the object at a second time with the sensor, and automatically cause an action to occur based on a comparison of the first value of the parameter and the second…
Axial gap motor with curved rotor and stator cores
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266990
In an axial gap motor, a rotor includes a plurality of rotor cores fixed in a circumferential direction of a rotor base, and a stator includes a plurality of stator cores fixed in a circumferential direction of a stator base, and coils wound around the stator cores. End faces of each of the rotor cores and end faces of the corresponding stator core are opposed to each other while being exposed to each other.
Negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266784
A negative electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprises a negative electrode core body, and a negative electrode mixture layer. When the range of 40% of the thickness of the negative electrode mixture layer from the surface of the negative electrode mixture layer on the side opposite to the negative electrode core body is defined as a first region and the range of 40% of the thickness of the negative electrode mixture layer from the interface between the negative…
Apparatus and method to display wheelchair information on a bus
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266255
The information processing apparatus outputs specific information, including information related to getting on and off the bus for a specific user who uses the bus using a wheelchair, via a predetermined display device. Here, the information processing apparatus outputs the specific information via the specified display device from a predetermined time before the time when the bus stops for boarding or alighting the bus by the specified user.
Own-position estimating device, moving body, own-position estimating method, and own-position estimating program
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266149
An own-position estimating device for estimating an own-position of a moving body by matching a feature extracted from an acquired image with a database in which position information and the feature are associated with each other in advance, includes an estimating unit estimating the own-position of the moving body by matching the feature extracted by the extracting unit with the database, and a determination threshold value adjusting unit adjusting a determination threshold value for…
System and non-transitory storage medium
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265646
A system includes a server including a controller. The controller is configured to obtain information regarding consent or non-consent of a user of a vehicle to disclosure of history data of the vehicle to a third party, and determine, when determination is made that consent of the user is not obtained, whether to transmit a signal that prompts for obtaining consent of the user, based on at least one of the history data of the vehicle and user activity information of the user.
Centrifugal compressor
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12264682
A centrifugal compressor that includes: a rotary shaft; a compressor impeller mounted on the rotary shaft and configured to rotate together with the rotary shaft to compress a fluid; a housing accommodating the rotary shaft and the compressor impeller; and a thrust bearing supporting the rotary shaft in a thrust direction such that the rotary shaft is rotatable. The housing includes: an impeller chamber in which the compressor impeller is accommodated; a thrust bearing accommodation…
Internal combustion engine and controller for internal combustion engine
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12264632
An internal combustion engine and a controller for the internal combustion engine are provided. A water axis is an injection axis of water from a water injection valve. A fuel axis is an injection axis of gaseous fuel from a fuel injection valve. The internal combustion engine has a specific cross-section that is a plane. The specific cross-section is parallel to a cylinder central axis. The specific cross-section includes a water valve tip and a fuel valve tip. In the specific…
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 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…
Vehicle wheel
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
D1068610
Object detection system for a vehicle
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12263811
Vehicle systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to enhance the situational competency and/or the safe operation of a vehicle by automatically controlling the vehicle in response to a biometric attribute analysis of one or more objects detected within a predetermined threshold distance of the vehicle.
Seatbelt device
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12263806
A seatbelt device, including: a seatbelt formed in a belt shape; a tongue plate through which the seatbelt has been inserted; a buckle that is provided at one side in a seat width direction of a vehicle seat, with the tongue plate being attachably and detachably anchored to the buckle; and a belt-end anchor section that is provided at another side in the seat width direction of the vehicle seat, and that includes a separation operation portion, with an end portion of the seatbelt being…
Control system for showing advantage and disadvantage of energy management request
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12263751
A display device is configured to display a screen showing, on the same graph in which an axis indicates time, a predicted transition of a first parameter relating to a remaining charge of a power storage device and a predicted transition of a second parameter relating to an amount of reward for energy management under an assumption that charge and discharge control is executed on the power storage device in response to a request for the energy management.
Vehicle and charging system
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12263750
A vehicle includes an inlet unit to which a charging connector provided in a charging device is connected, a control unit configured to communicate with the charging device, a power accumulation device charged with power delivered through the charging connector, and an input unit to which a user makes an input. The control unit is configured to, upon determining that a charging stop request is input to the input unit during charging, stop the charging.
Vehicle input device, vehicle input method, and non-transitory storage medium stored with vehicle input program
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12263734
A vehicle input device comprises an operation detection section configured to detect input to an onboard unit allocated to one operation section of plural of operation sections provided in a vicinity of a driving seat due to the one operation section being operated, a preliminary action detection section configured to detect a preliminary action directly prior to the one operation section being operated, and a notification section configured to notify an occupant of information relating…
Control device for vehicle
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12263731
When a required drive force of an engine becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined value that deteriorates the characteristics of an engine mount, torque serving as a required drive amount of a rear electric motor is increased, so that the required drive force of the engine can be reduced. As a result, crushing of the engine mount that supports the engine is reduced, so that engine vibration transmitted to a vehicle body via the engine mount can be reduced.
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…
Handrail disinfection system for vehicle with handrail
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12263265
A handrail disinfection system for vehicle with handrail is mounted on a vehicle having handrail for grasping by an occupant. The handrail disinfection system includes a tank to store disinfectant solution, an exudation part provided on the handrail, an actuator for exuding the disinfectant solution stored in the tank from the exudation part, and a controller for controlling the actuator. At least one processor included in the controller executes upon execution of at least one program,…
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…
