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…
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…
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…
Method and system for personalized car following with transformers and RNNs
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12187279
A method may include receiving training data comprising a time series of gaps between an ego vehicle and one or more lead vehicles at a plurality of time steps, embedding the training data into a fixed-length sequence, inputting the fixed-length sequence into a Transformer-RNN model comprising a Transformer component and an RNN component, wherein the transformer component applies attention to each data point of the fixed-length sequence based on a fixed number of previous inputs, and…
Wet particle storage tank
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12187531
A wet particle storage tank includes a tank body capable of storing wet particles containing particles and solvent. The tank body has an upper storage section having a supply port through which the wet particles are supplied, a lower storage section located below the upper storage section and having a discharge port through which the wet particles are discharged, and a bridge forming section provided between the upper storage section and the lower storage section. The bridge forming…
Conveyance system and conveyance method
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12187337
A conveyance system and a conveyance method capable of efficiently delivering/receiving containers between an AGV and a cart are provided. A conveyance system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes an AGV configured to convey a plurality of containers, a cart configured to support the containers, and two platforms each of which includes a ramp on which the cart travels. The cart is further configured to, by a force applied from the AGV, climb up the ramp, and lift and…
Stationary vehicle on a shoulder of a road notification
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12187309
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to assisting vehicles approaching a target vehicle that is stationary on a shoulder of a road. In one embodiment, a method includes determining one or more characteristics of the target vehicle that is a stationary vehicle on the shoulder of the road, predicting how much time the target vehicle will be on the shoulder based on at least the one or more characteristics of the target vehicle, and determining whether to generate…
Erroneous start suppression device for a vehicle
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12187303
An erroneous start suppression device equipped with an electronic control unit that controls a drive device that generates a driving force of a vehicle, and the electronic control unit determines whether or not an accelerator operation of a driver is an erroneous operation based on whether or not a predetermined determination condition is satisfied; limits a driving force generated by the drive device when the electronic control unit determines that the accelerator operation of the…
Control device for vehicle, control method for vehicle, and control program for vehicle
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12187291
A control device executes: a process of calculating a boundary line based on information on an environment around the vehicle such that the boundary line is set at a predetermined position distanced from a recognized object around the vehicle; a process of determining whether the vehicle is traveling in a direction to approach the boundary line, based on information on a running state of the vehicle; and a process of generating a reaction force to an operation on a steering device of the…
Rear combination lamp for an automobile
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
D1057237
Object measurement system for a vehicle
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12187275
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 executing measurable attribute data analysis that includes a comparison of the relative height of a detected road infrastructure element with a predetermined threshold height value.
Vehicle drive assist device, vehicle drive assist method, and non-transitory storage medium
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12187273
A vehicle drive assist device includes an ECU. The ECU determines whether an object recognition condition meets a predetermined condition, which means that a driver of the vehicle recognizes the presence of an object ahead of the vehicle, based on the state of an operation of an operator of the vehicle by the driver. The ECU executes deceleration control when the collision index value is smaller than a second index value smaller than a first index value and the ECU determines the object…
Autonomous driving system for communicating with and controlling a vehicle via a vehicle control interface
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12187272
A vehicle comprises an autonomous driving system and a vehicle platform that controls the vehicle in response to a command received from the autonomous driving system. In the present vehicle, when the autonomous driving system issues a first command to request the vehicle platform to provide deceleration to stop the vehicle and a first signal indicates 0 km/h or a prescribed velocity or less, the autonomous driving system issues a second command to request the vehicle platform to…
Control device for controlling safety device in vehicle
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12187271
A control device to be applied to a vehicle equipped with an imaging device and a safety device is configured to, based on moving-object detection information detected from images captured by the imaging device, actuate the safety device for a moving object. In the control device, a control unit is configured to, in response to any of certain information that it is certain that the object is a moving object and uncertain information indicating that it is not certain whether the object is…
Optical sense-compute solution for real-time navigation involving multiple vehicles
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12187269
A real-time machine perception system and vehicles with real-time perception systems can be adapted for navigation in conflict zone environments and include an optical sensor and an optical processing component coupled to the optical sensor. The optical processing component can be configured to solve a non-linear control problem comprising solving a multi-vehicle merging or multi-vehicle synchronization problem. The optical processing component can perform optical processing on a signal…
Control apparatus for vehicle
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12187264
A control apparatus for a vehicle that includes an engine as a drive power source, a rotating machine as an electric power generator, and an electric storage device. The control apparatus executes an automatic drive control for automatically controlling a torque of the drive power source in accordance with a requested drive torque without requiring an acceleration/deceleration operation by a driver of the vehicle. During an engine running of the vehicle, the rotating machine is rotated…
Control device for hybrid vehicle
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12187261
In a control device for a hybrid vehicle including a motor and an internal combustion engine as power sources, the control device includes a diagnosis unit configured to diagnose a component of the hybrid vehicle during fuel cut of the internal combustion engine, an estimation unit configured to estimate a time required for diagnosis by the diagnosis unit, an upper limit setting unit configured to set an upper limit of a time during which the fuel cut is executed, and a motor control…
Walking training system with increased walking state accuracy, control method thereof, and control program
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12186629
A walking training system according to the present embodiment includes: a treadmill; a load distribution sensor that is provided on a lower side of a belt of the treadmill so as not to move together with the belt and that detects a distribution of a load received from a sole of a trainee riding on the belt of the treadmill; an extraction unit that extracts a load distribution in a region corresponding to a position of the sole of the trainee during walking training, out of a load…
Dipeptidyl peptidase-IV inhibitor and food with function claims
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12186302
A DPP-IV inhibitor and a food with functional claims, which comprises methylated catechin as a novel active ingredient, are provided.
