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…
Resource selection for 5G NR V2X communications
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12193044
One example embodiment provides one or more of: measuring, via a user equipment (UE), sidelink received signal strength indicator (SL-RSSI) values and sidelink reference signal power received (SL-RSRP) values from a current window of a communication channel shared among a plurality of UEs, measuring, via the UE, the SL-RSRP values from a frequency-domain and a time-domain of a current window of a communication channel shared among the plurality of UEs, excluding a first subset of…
Ultrasonic generator
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12192701
An ultrasonic generator has a speaker element having a first resonance frequency and a speaker element having a second resonance frequency. The first resonance frequency and the second resonance frequency are adjacent resonance frequencies in the speaker. The distance between the elements is set so that the sound from the first speaker element and the sound from the second speaker element have a predetermined relationship at a target position. The target position is two or more positions…
Radar end-fire antenna array with expanded detection field
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12191562
A radar device can be configured to provide an expanded detection field. The radar device can include a plurality of end-fire antennas. The plurality of end-fire antennas can be arranged in a fan-shaped array such that the plurality of end-fire antennas extending radially outward from a central region. Each end-fire antenna can have a transmission end oriented in a different direction than the other end-fire antennas. The plurality of end-fire antennas creating a collective detection…
All-solid-state secondary battery
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12191454
The all-solid-state secondary battery of the disclosure comprises a positive electrode collector layer, a positive electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a negative electrode layer and a negative electrode collector layer stacked in that order, wherein the positive electrode layer has a positive electrode active material layer and an insulating layer disposed around the perimeter edges of the positive electrode active material layer, and when the all-solid-state secondary battery is…
Switching device and method for manufacturing the same
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12191150
A switching includes a gallium nitride semiconductor and a gate insulation film. The gate insulation film is made of silicon oxide and disposed above the gallium nitride semiconductor layer. An interface between the gallium nitride insulation film and the gate insulation film is either free of a gallium oxide layer or provided with the gallium oxide layer with a thickness of 1 nanometer or smaller.
Rare earth magnet and production method thereof
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12191059
A Sm—Fe—N-based rare earth magnet more resistant to demagnetization than ever before in an environment where an external magnetic field is applied, particularly at high temperatures, and a production method thereof are provided. The present disclosure presents a production method of a rare earth magnet, including preparing a coated magnetic powder, compression-molding the coated magnetic powder in a magnetic field to obtain a magnetic-field molded body, pressure-sintering the…
Message construction based on potential for collision
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190733
An example operation includes one or more of determining a level of risk of a collision of a transport, wherein the level of risk is related to an occupant of the transport and an environment of the transport, accumulating an amount of data based on the level of risk, preparing the accumulated data for sending to one or more recipients when the level of risk exceeds a risk threshold, and sending the prepared data to the one or more recipients when the collision occurs.
Plan proposal device, system, vehicle, and plan proposal method
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190731
A plan proposal device includes a controller configured to predict, as a user action, an action of a first user in a certain period, including parking a vehicle in a parking lot shared by a plurality of users including the first user, generate proposal data for proposing an action plan in the certain period based on an obtained prediction result and information on the parking lot in the certain period, and output the generated proposal data.
Vehicle data sharing with interested parties
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190650
An example operation may include providing a value to a transport based on sensor data associated the transport.
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…
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…
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…
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…
