In-cabin occupant detection
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12189724
An example operation includes one or more of detecting a movement of an object in a vehicle when the vehicle is in motion, and determining that the object is an inanimate object, based on a vertical and horizontal distance of the detected movement.
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.
Processing apparatus for autonomous vehicles undergoing suspension of vehicle operation
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190649
An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire, when a suspension of operation occurs in an autonomous vehicle, positional information, vehicle information, a vehicle internal image, and a vehicle external image of the autonomous vehicle, and determine, in a case in which a suspension of operation occurs in a plurality of autonomous vehicles, an order of priority for a rescue team to go to the plurality of vehicles, based on the positional information,…
Application for the identification of vehicle features
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190610
Systems and methods are provided for determining features in a vehicle. The interior of the vehicle can be scanned with a camera of a mobile device to locate one or more symbols or shapes within the interior. The one or more symbols or shapes can be processed using one or more machine learning models to obtain data associated with the one or more symbols or shapes. The data associated with the one or more symbols or shapes can be displayed to a driver of the vehicle.
Operation management apparatus, system, operation management method, and non-transitory computer readable medium
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190268
An operation management apparatus includes a controller configured to repeatedly determine a delay relative to a standard schedule, with respect to a vehicle operated in accordance with the schedule, the controller suspending determination of the delay for a certain period of time in a case in which the schedule is adjusted according to a result of determination of the delay.
OTA software update based on ECU non-volatile memory type
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190100
An OTA master configured to control a software update on a first electronic control unit mounted on a vehicle and a software update on a second electronic control unit mounted on the vehicle includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to separately receive a first distribution package of update data for the first electronic control unit and a second distribution package of update data for the second electronic control unit from a center. The first…
Robust over the air reprogramming
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190099
An example operation includes one or more of downloading an update of a non-volatile electrically erasable memory storage of a vehicle, determining whether the memory storage is arranged in one of a block of bytes of memory and an individual byte of memory, selecting a programming protocol based on the memory storage arrangement and writing the memory storage based on the selected programming protocol.
Data management system, disclosure server, and method used therein
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12189597
A data management system includes a data management device and an arithmetic device. The data management device is configured to acquire battery data and store, in a distributed ledger, transaction data including information on the acquired battery data. The arithmetic device is configured to acquire the battery data from the data management device and calculate an index using the battery data and a predetermined arithmetic formula. The arithmetic device is configured to offer the index…
Five-layer thin film structures comprising a metallic iron absorber
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12189146
A five-layer thin film structure including a reflector, a high refractive index layer on or encapsulating the reflector, and a metallic iron absorber layer on or encapsulating the high refractive index layer. The reflector has a thickness from 10 nm to 5000 nm, the high refractive index layer has a thickness from 5 nm to 500 nm; and the metallic iron absorber layer has a thickness from greater than 0 nm to 50 nm.
Roots pump
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12188474
A roots pump comprising: a rotary shaft; a rotor having a hole-forming surface that forms an insertion hole, and a first bearing and a second bearing. Each of the first bearing and the second bearing includes an inner ring and an outer ring. The rotary shaft is press-fitted in the inner ring of the first bearing, and fitted in the inner ring of the second bearing with a clearance between the rotary shaft and the inner ring of the second bearing. An edge portion of the hole-forming…
Removal determination device for particulate matter trapping device of vehicle
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12188424
An exhaust gas control apparatus removal determination device that performs an exhaust gas control apparatus removal determination processing based on a change in temperature of exhaust gas flowing into an exhaust gas control apparatus provided in an exhaust path of an engine and a change in temperature of exhaust gas flowing out. The controller determines whether the first state in which the difference between the measured value and the estimated value of the engine output is greater…
Oil quality monitoring
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12188387
To monitor oil quality of an automotive vehicle, a sensor generates a signal indicative of a characteristic of the oil. A processor is configured to determine the oil quality from the signal. A communication component transmits an indication of whether the determined oil quality meets an unacceptability criterion to an external device.
Silicon carbide wafer and method for manufacturing the same
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12188151
A silicon carbide wafer includes a base wafer that is made of silicon carbide and doped with an n-type impurity, and an epitaxial layer that is arranged on a main surface of the base wafer, made of silicon carbide and doped with an n-type impurity. The base wafer has a thickness t1 and an average impurity concentration n1, and the epitaxial layer has a thickness t2 and an average impurity concentration n2. The base wafer and the epitaxial layer are configured so as to satisfy a…
Vehicle front section structure
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12187342
A vehicle front section structure includes: a power unit installed at a front section; a left and right pair of front side frames extending in a vehicle front-rear direction; a left and right pair of front side members extending in the vehicle front-rear direction at a vehicle upper side of the left and right pair of front side frames, with rear end portions of the front side members being respectively joined to the left and right pair of front side frames; a cross member disposed at a…
Control device, method, non-transitory storage medium, and vehicle
Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number:
12179750
A vehicle comprises a plurality of drive assist devices configured to implement a plurality of drive assist functions, respectively. The plurality of drive assist devices includes a first drive assist device, which includes an update information generation device configured to generate update information to update a middle point in steering control performed by at least one of the drive assist devices, and a second drive assist device which does not include the update information…
Vehicle control device
Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number:
12179759
To effectively improve drivability during travel control, provided is a vehicle control device comprising a travel control unit configured to set a target acceleration of the vehicle based on a target vehicle speed and an actual vehicle speed, and execute a travel control for automatically controlling travel of the vehicle by operating the drive device based on the target acceleration; a shift control unit configured to set a target driving force, and execute a shift control for…
Vehicle collision determination apparatus
Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number:
12179753
In a vehicle collision determination apparatus, a position calculation unit calculates a trajectory of a target that is a movement trajectory of the target, and calculates an entrainment trajectory of the vehicle that is a movement trajectory of the vehicle during a turn, and calculate a position of collision where a collision is likely to occur between the vehicle and the target based on the trajectory of the target and the entrainment trajectory of the vehicle. A time calculation unit…
