Information recording and reproduction device, a non-transitory storage medium, and information recording and reproduction system
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12195008
An information recording and reproduction device includes a processor including hardware and configured to: acquire first information indicating information relating to a behavior of a driver from a first device mounted in a vehicle; acquire second information indicating information relating to a behavior of the vehicle from a second device mounted in the vehicle; and accumulate the first information and the second information in a memory in a synchronously reproducible manner.
Support members for fuel cell fluid flow networks
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12199320
A fuel cell may include a first fuel cell bipolar plate defining an air layer, a second fuel cell bipolar plate defining a hydrogen layer, and a coolant layer defined by the air layer and the hydrogen layer. The coolant layer includes a plurality of coolant microchannels that facilitate flow of a coolant. One or more support members are to extend between the air layer and the hydrogen layer to define one or more additional coolant flow paths between the air layer and the hydrogen layer.
Compounds for the application of thick coating layer in Li metal battery and solid electrolyte in all-solid-state lithium batteries
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12199278
Lithium antimony sulfide compounds having crystal structure of a space group selected from P4/mmm, P21, P212121, Pmma, P2/c and Pnma and having a lithium ion conductivity of at least 10?5 S/cm are described. The materials are useful as coatings of lithium metal anodes to prevent dendrite formation and to provide solid-state lithium batteries having high energy density.
Method for generating learned model, non-transitory storage medium, and traffic jam predicting device
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12198542
A method includes, by a processor, acquiring number of persons information that indicates a number of users, including users who ride in vehicles, who depart from a facility at each of a predetermined time period, weather information for each predetermined time period, and vehicle information relating to vehicles traveling in a periphery of the facility, determining traffic jam status that indicates absence/presence of a traffic jam on a road located in a vicinity of the facility in the…
Information processing server, processing method of information processing server, and storage media
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12198539
The information processing server includes an unstable behavior position recognition unit configured to recognize an unstable behavior position being a position on a map, at which the target vehicle has performed an unstable behavior, based on the target vehicle data, a support target vehicle determination unit configured to, when the unstable behavior position recognition unit recognizes the unstable behavior position, determine whether or not there is a support target vehicle, based on…
Delivery rack and delivery vehicle
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12196008
A rack includes: a casing; M pairs of supports that are provided inside the casing so as to extend in a depth direction and arrayed at regular intervals in a predetermined direction; and a lock mechanism that locks returnable containers housed while being supported so as to be slidable along the respective M pairs of supports. The lock mechanism has M rotary lock main bodies that are respectively provided at the M pairs of supports and each unlock at a predetermined rotation angle, and a…
Building
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12195988
A staircase area at which a staircase is installed across a first floor and a second floor is provided in a building. A part of the staircase area is a non-installation space in which a staircase is not installed, and a lifting space through which a transport robot moves up and down between the first floor and the second floor is provided using the non-installation space. The lifting space and a staircase hall having a spandrel wall there between are adjacent to each other the second…
Compositions for facilitating biological stain removal
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12195704
A liquid bioactive composition is provided that includes an enzyme with enzymatic activity toward a component of a biological stain. Also provided is a process for facilitating the removal of a biological stain is provided wherein the enzyme in the liquid bioactive coating material is capable of enzymatically degrading of one or more components of the biological stain to facilitate biological stain removal from a substrate.
Parking assist apparatus
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12195084
Provided is a steering assist apparatus configured to perform a steering assist control for changing a steering angle of a vehicle in such a manner that the vehicle moves along a target path; determine whether a newly-detected object is a stationary object or a moving object; cancel the steering assist control and inform a driver that the steering assist control is cancelled when the newly-detected object is the stationary object and a cancel condition is satisfied; pause the steering…
Apparatus and method for displaying lane information and non-transitory computer-readable medium containing computer program for displaying lane information
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12195009
An apparatus for displaying lane information detects a lane change section in an adjoining lane adjoining a travel lane of a vehicle from an image representing surroundings of the vehicle. The lane change section has a length in a travel direction greater than a lane change threshold indicating a length required for a lane change and includes no other vehicles. The apparatus presents an entry position on a display as a position indicating the lane change section when the entry position…
Seat assemblies having fixed frames and movable seat cushions and movable seat backs with upper pivot mechanisms and rigid linkage assemblies
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12194903
A kinetic seat assembly includes a primary seat back frame, a secondary seat back frame, and an upper pivot mechanism coupling the secondary seat back frame to the primary seat back frame. The upper pivot mechanism includes a bracket, and a pivotable link extending from a pair of opposite sides of the bracket and interconnecting the bracket and the primary seat back frame. A first end of each of the pivotable links is pivotally attached to the bracket, which is coupled to the secondary…
Collision avoidance support device
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12194993
A collision avoidance support device comprises target detection unit, target type determination unit, relative position determination unit, target track prediction unit, and vehicle track prediction unit, obstacle determination unit. The vehicle track prediction unit is configured to enlarge said width of a vehicle predicted track compared with a case where an enlargement condition is not satisfied when the enlargement condition is satisfied. The enlargement condition is satisfied when…
Hybrid electric vehicle propulsion start control
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12194983
In start control for controlling an engine, a motor, and a clutch, a target throttle valve opening degree is set based on a rotational speed of the motor and a coolant temperature of the engine to control the engine such that the clutch is half-engaged to crank the engine by the motor, and fuel injection and ignition of the engine are started after a rotational speed difference between the rotational speed of the motor and a rotational speed of the engine becomes smaller than a threshold…
Information processing device and vehicle system
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12194957
An information processing device comprises a controller configured to detect, in relation to an area associated with a predetermined facility, entry or exit of a predetermined vehicle, transmit, to a facility device corresponding to the facility, in a case where the vehicle enters the area, an electronic key for enabling movement of the vehicle, and invalidate the electronic key transmitted to the facility device in a case where the vehicle exits the area.
Vehicle occupant restraint device
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12194947
A vehicle occupant restraint device includes: a center airbag that is provided at a side portion at a vehicle width direction inner side of a seatback of the vehicle seat, and that inflates and deploys toward a vehicle width direction inner side of an occupant seated at the vehicle seat due to gas ejected from an inflator being supplied to an interior of the center airbag; and a string-like member, one end portion of the string-like member being attached to a seat front side end portion…
Vehicle center airbag device
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12194946
A vehicle center airbag device, including: an inflator that is provided at a driver's seat, and that ejects gas due to being actuated; and a center airbag that is provided at a side portion, at a vehicle width direction inner side, of a seatback of the driver's seat, and that inflates and deploys toward a vehicle width direction inner side of an occupant seated in the driver's seat due to the gas being supplied to an interior thereof, wherein the center airbag includes, at a head…
Vehicle center airbag device
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12194943
A vehicle center airbag device includes: an inflator that is provided at a vehicle seat, and that is configured to eject gas due to being actuated; and a center airbag that is provided at a side portion at a vehicle width direction inner side of a seatback of the vehicle seat, and that is configured to inflate and deploy toward a vehicle width direction inner side of an occupant seated in the vehicle seat due to the gas being supplied to an interior thereof; and an introduction path that…
Vehicle and vehicular static eliminator
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12194935
During traveling of a vehicle body, a vehicle is provided with a vehicular static eliminator including a self-discharge static eliminating device that is attached to an outer surface of a lid of a fuse box mounted to a front compartment with a front grill, and a coversheet overlapped with an external surface of the self-discharge static eliminating device, in which the fuse box is disposed close to a hood and the coversheet includes Japanese paper.
Vehicle interior lighting device
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12194918
A vehicle interior lighting device includes a plurality of front light-emitting sections that are provided at a front side of a passenger compartment and illuminate front portions of front interior components disposed on right and left sides at the front side of the passenger compartment, and a plurality of rear light-emitting sections that are provided at a rear side of the passenger compartment and illuminate rear portions of rear interior members disposed on right and left sides at…
Vehicle
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12194914
When a first driver setting mode indicates an “OFF mode” or an “AUTO mode,” a VP accepts a light operation mode request from an ADK. When an operation is performed by a user, the VP changes an operation mode of a headlight in accordance with the operation by the user. When the operation by the user has not been performed, the VP changes the operation mode of the headlight in accordance with the light operation mode request.
