Management device, management method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium recording management program
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12198487
A management device that includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein: the memory is configured to store communication information corresponding to versions of a protocol of a digital key that implements a key operation of a vehicle from a terminal registered at the vehicle; and the processor is configured to, in response to receiving a communication request in accordance with a predetermined version of the communication information from the terminal, delete…
Gate driver
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12199595
A gate driver drives a gate of a semiconductor switching element. The gate driver includes a command signal output circuit, a pre-drive circuit and a drive circuit. The command signal output circuit outputs a current command signal that indicates a command value of a gate current as a current flowing through the gate of the semiconductor switching element. The pre-drive circuit receives the current command signal and generate a drive signal corresponding to the current command signal to…
Artificial muscles including closing aid, artificial muscle assemblies, and methods of using same
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12199528
An artificial muscle including a housing, an electrode pair positioned in an electrode region of the housing, the electrode pair including a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode and the second electrode each including a pair of tab portions and a bridge portion interconnecting the pair of tab portions, and a first closing aid provided exteriorly of the housing opposite the electrode pair and applying a force in a direction toward the electrode region of the…
Artificial muscles, artificial muscle assemblies, and methods of using same
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12199527
An artificial muscle including a housing, an electrode pair positioned in an electrode region of the housing, the electrode pair including a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode and the second electrode each including a pair of tab portions and a bridge portion, the pair of tab portions extending parallel to one another to define a gap portion between the pair of tab portions, the gap portion having a constant gap width extending along a tab length of the pair of…
Vehicle drive device
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12199489
A vehicle drive device includes: a rotary electric machine including a coil end around a rotation shaft on an end face in a rotation shaft direction; a cover that covers the end face; and a plate-shaped member that is fixed to a back surface of the cover and that faces at least a part of the coil end, in which the cover includes one or more first ribs extending outward from the rotation shaft in a front view of the end face, and in which the plate-shaped member extends along a direction…
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…
Notification system, vehicle transportation system, and computer program
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12198537
The notification system is configured to be capable of communicating with the outside, and is configured to notify the surroundings of the fact that the conveyance work is performed by a third party who has obtained permission when the vehicle is conveyed by the vehicle transportation device capable of autonomous traveling based on a notification instruction from the outside.
Heat request arbitration device, heat request arbitration method, non-transitory storage medium, and vehicle
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12196461
A heat request arbitration device includes: a first thermal circuit; a second thermal circuit; a third thermal circuit having path patterns that are selectable as a path that is heat exchangeable with each of the first thermal circuit and the second thermal circuit; and heat source units configured to absorb heat or radiate heat via a heat medium circulating in at least one of the thermal circuits; a derivation unit configured to derive requests related to heat flow control of heat…
System and method for log management in a vehicle
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12198479
A log management apparatus according to the present disclosure comprises a memory storing traveling log data of a vehicle and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute the following first to five processes. The first process is acquiring a remaining capacity of the memory at a current time. The second process is acquiring a traveling plan of the vehicle. The third process is calculating a predicted data size which is a size of the traveling log data…
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and telematics terminal
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12198478
An information processing apparatus receives an activation information from a telematics terminal mounted on a vehicle which is associated with a telematics service contract user. When the information processing apparatus receives the activation information, the information processing apparatus determines whether a predetermined condition is met. If it is determined that the predetermined condition is met, the information processing apparatus transmits a first instruction which causes an…
Systems and methods for providing updatable roadway codes
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12198442
Systems and methods for providing updatable roadway codes are described. One embodiment of a method includes locating a roadway code along a roadway and determining stored data provided by the roadway code. Some embodiments include providing at least a portion of the stored data to the user and capturing environmental data along the roadway, where the environmental data corresponds with the stored data. Still some embodiments include comparing the stored data with the environmental data…
Luggage delivery management system, luggage delivery method, and vehicle
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12198093
A luggage delivery management system manages a service of delivering luggage deposited by a user to a destination specified by the user. The luggage delivery management system acquires payment amount information indicating an amount equivalent to a payment amount paid by the user for the service. When multiple pieces of luggage of a plurality of the users are delivered by one vehicle, the luggage delivery management system determines whether to set priority of the multiple pieces of…
Seat management device, seat management method, and seat management system
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12198078
The seat management device includes a receiving unit for receiving a request regarding the characteristics of the seats of the mobile body in which the passengers can ride on each other, and a seat assigning unit for assigning a seat to the passengers for each region in the room of the mobile body on the basis of the request, to assign the passengers in which the request is common to the same region. The request is transmitted from a passenger terminal.
Server, information processing system and information processing method
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12197210
A vehicle that is an automatic driving vehicle acquires a control program for an ECU from a control center by wireless communication. A server includes a keyboard and mouse to accept handling by a remote monitoring person that monitors the vehicle from the outside of the vehicle, a display to present information to the remote monitoring person, a communication IF configured to communicate with the vehicle, and a processor. The processor controls the display such that the server presents…
Method of producing all-solid-state battery
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12196814
A method of producing an all-solid-state battery includes forming an insulating layer-attached stack unit including an insulating layer and a stack unit that includes a positive electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer and a negative electrode layer; performing a dielectric breakdown test on the insulating layer included in the insulating layer-attached stack unit, and determining that the insulating layer-attached stack unit is a non-defective product if no dielectric breakdown is…
Structure information acquisition method and structure information acquisition apparatus
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12196690
There is provided a technique for non-destructively and relatively easily acquiring orientation information of an anisotropic material even for a large-sized object. An object is irradiated with X-rays in a tangential direction of a curved anisotropic material from a radiation source of a phase-contrast X-ray optical system. A scattering image is then obtained using a detection signal of X-rays having penetrated through the object. Structure information of the anisotropic material is…
Motor temperature estimation system, motor temperature estimation method, and motor temperature estimation program
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12196620
A motor temperature estimation system includes a first temperature time series data generation unit that generates first temperature time series data based on temperature data acquired by a temperature sensor that measures a temperature of a motor, a resistance value time series data generation unit that generates resistance value time series data based on the first temperature time series data, a second temperature time series data generation unit that generates second temperature time…
