Method for generating smoke in cell pack
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12261273
A method for generating smoke in a cell pack by which a very small amount of smoke can be generated from a specific single unit cell among unit cells constituting the cell pack. The method causes smoke generation in a cell pack in which unit cells are connected and which includes a positive electrode output terminal for electrically connecting the positive electrode terminal of the unit cell and an external device, and a negative electrode output terminal for electrically connecting the…
In-vehicle system and control device
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12260209
A plurality of control devices include a master control device and a slave control device. The master control device transmits, when software stored in a storage area different from the start storage area is updated in the slave control device, to the slave control device, a switching instruction for setting the storage area that stores the updated software as the start storage area. The slave control device implements, when receiving the switching instruction, setting of the storage…
Mounting structure of tank
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12259091
The discharge direction when the gas in the high-pressure tank is released by the opening of the plug, the high-pressure tank is arranged so as not to overlap with the position of the plug of the other adjacent high-pressure tank, or one end side of the band for fixing the high-pressure tank to the frame is a first connecting portion fixed to the frame via an elastic body, in the adjacent high-pressure tank, the first connecting portions are arranged so as to face each other, the first…
Engine system
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12258917
An engine system includes: a combustor including an ignition unit configured to ignite the fuel gas and configured to generate combustion gas that heats a catalyst; an outside air temperature detection unit configured to detect an outside air temperature; a catalyst temperature detection unit configured to detect a temperature of the catalyst; an operating environment detection unit configured to detect an operating environment of the combustor; a combustion time determination unit…
Conveyance system, conveying method, and program
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12258213
A conveyance system includes a conveyance robot that conveys a carried item adjacent to an obstacle, by approaching the carried item in a predetermined control target direction, getting into under the carried item, and moving when the carried item is lifted by an elevating device. The conveyance system obtains information on a control error indicating deflection in a yawing direction of a moving direction of the conveyance robot relative to the control target direction, when the…
Systems and methods for vehicular-network-assisted federated machine learning
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12258045
Systems and methods for vehicular-network-assisted federated machine learning are disclosed herein. One embodiment transmits first metadata from a connected vehicle to at least one other connected vehicle; receives, at the connected vehicle, second metadata from the at least one other connected vehicle; receives, at the connected vehicle based on analysis of the first and second metadata, a notification that the connected vehicle has been elected to participate in the current training…
In-vehicle system, method, and non-transitory storage medium
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12257924
An in-vehicle system includes a first battery and a second battery respectively connected to a first load and a second load, a relay that connects the two batteries in parallel, and a processor configured to control turn-on and turn-off of the relay to control a state of electric power supply from the first and second batteries to the first and second loads, detect an abnormality in the first and second batteries, and determine a difference between physical quantities of the two…
Method for manufacturing joined body
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12257789
A method for manufacturing a joined body according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a method for manufacturing a joined body in which composite materials in which fibers are impregnated with resins are heated and joined to each other. The method includes: a step of aligning the composite material with each of a plurality of molding dies, heating the molding dies, and semi-curing the resins of the composite materials; and a step of joining the composite materials to each…
Traveling-speed control device and vehicle equipped with the same
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12252122
A traveling-speed control device restricts a traveling speed such that the traveling speed falls within an allowable range from a spot reference speed for a current spot, the spot reference speed being acquired from a spot reference speed storage area in which spot reference speeds at respective spots are stored, the spot reference speeds being set based on respective pieces of traveling speed data at the respective spots. Hereby, a vehicle can travel at a more appropriate traveling…
Driving diagnostic device, driving diagnostic method, and storage medium
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12252129
A driving diagnostic device includes a processor. The processor acquires vehicle operation information including a direction indicator signal indicating an operation of a direction indicator of a vehicle and a yaw rate of the vehicle from a sensor mounted on the vehicle, determines that an event indicates a lane change by the vehicle when the vehicle operation information satisfies a predetermined condition, and performs evaluation of a driving operation of the vehicle during a period of…
Transport system with protruding portions
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12251819
A transport system is a transport system in which an autonomous mobile robot transports an object. The autonomous mobile robot includes a mounting portion on which the object is mounted. The mounting portion includes a guide that engages with the object and regulates a moving direction of the object on a surface of the mounting portion to a predetermined direction.
Vehicle driving assistance apparatus, vehicle driving assistance method, and computer-readable storage medium storing vehicle driving assistance program
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12252117
The vehicle driving assistance apparatus determines whether an own vehicle departs from an own vehicle moving lane while executing a steering avoidance control. When determining that the own vehicle departs from the own vehicle moving lane while executing the steering avoidance control, the vehicle driving assistance apparatus acquires a steering angle determined by a steering angle control pattern, changes the acquired steering angle to be a value to move the own vehicle toward a center…
Information processing device, route information providing method, and route information providing system
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12252112
An information processing device includes: an acquirer configured to acquire movement information on movement of a vehicle where a user is not on board, the movement information including position information of a movement destination; a storage configured to store the movement information of the vehicle that is acquired by the acquirer; and a controller configured to: generate route information indicating time-series positions of the vehicle based on the movement information stored in…
In-vehicle component protection structure
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12252082
An in-vehicle component protection structure includes a first in-vehicle component, a second in-vehicle component that is an object to be protected from collision with the first in-vehicle component, and a protector disposed between the first in-vehicle component and the second in-vehicle component so as to face the first in-vehicle component. When the first in-vehicle component collides with the protector, the protector allows the first in-vehicle component to slide on the protector…
Electronic control component bracket
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12252080
An object is to provide an electronic control component bracket that is less likely to cause a high acceleration (high-speed vibration). An electronic control component bracket 1 includes a bottom portion on which a plurality of elastic pieces configured to press a lower surface of an electronic control component upward are provided, and abutting stop portions configured to abut, from above, against the electronic control component that is pressed upward. The plurality of elastic pieces…
Vehicular interior component
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12252076
A vehicular interior component includes an interior component body and a mounting member mounted on the interior component body and having a contact surface that is touched by an occupant's hand. The mounting member includes a base member including a body that is held by the occupant and a mounting portion extending from the body, and an electrically conductive layer made of electrically conductive elastomer and disposed on the base member. The electrically conductive layer includes a…
Vehicle and vehicle control method
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12252038
An ECU of a vehicle executes a regeneration process to control an electric motor so as to generate regenerative torque during deceleration caused by an accelerator OFF. The ECU executes a torque gradual decrease process to decrease the regenerative torque in a wheel slip detection state more gradually at a time when a brake pedal is depressed after a start of the deceleration and ABS control is not activated than a time when the brake pedal is not depressed after the start of the…
Dual battery fuel cell system
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12252037
A dual-battery fuel cell system is provided, including two supplemental batteries, each battery supporting/supplementing operation of a fuel cell stack in the system. Driving conditions associated with a fuel cell vehicle can be obtained. Based on the driving conditions, power sources of the fuel cell vehicle to provide power to fuel cell vehicle system can be determined, the power sources comprising the fuel cell stack and the two supplemental batteries. Operating conditions of each of…
Multiple transport charging sources
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12252034
An example operation includes one or more of receiving a first energy, at a target transport, from a charging station at a first value during a first amount of time, and the target transport and the charging station are physically connected, and receiving a second energy, at the target transport, from a providing transport at a second value greater than the first value during a second amount of time less than the first amount of time, and the target transport and the providing transport…
Driving device for energy replenishment port visor member
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12252006
This driving device for energy replenishment port visor member includes: a visor member which advances/retracts between an advanced position for covering, from above, a replenishment port exposed at a vehicle-body-side opening and used for replenishing a vehicle with energy, and a retracted position where the visor member is retracted from above the replenishment port; a visor driving unit which advances/retracts the visor member between the advanced position and the retracted position;…
