Vehicle side structure
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12252177
A vehicle side structure includes a side door and a pillar which includes at least a pillar reinforcement. In the vehicle side structure, an end portion, in a vehicle longitudinal direction, of the side door incorporates a digital key sensor and has a protruding region, and the pillar reinforcement includes an outer wall facing outward in the vehicle width direction and having an indented region in which a part of a main surface of the outer wall is curved or bent so as to protrude…
Cooperative-contrastive learning systems and methods
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254691
Systems and methods for multi-view cooperative contrastive self-supervised learning, may include receiving a plurality of video sequences, the video sequences comprising a plurality of image frames; applying selected images of a first and second video sequence of the plurality of video sequences to a plurality of different encoders to derive a plurality of embeddings for different views of the selected images of the first and second video sequences; determining distances of the derived…
System, information processing apparatus, and method for generating mesh data from two-dimensional point cloud data
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254585
A system includes a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus capable of communicating with each other. The first information processing apparatus is configured to acquire three-dimensional point cloud data including multiple vertices each having three parameters of x-, y-, and z-coordinates. A combination of the x- and y-coordinates is different from vertex to vertex. The first or second information processing apparatus is configured to convert…
Vehicle control system and method for confirming software consistency
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254309
A specific on-board device, that is any one of a plurality of on-board devices, is configured to acquire the versions of software included in other on-board devices when the power source of a vehicle is turned on. The specific on-board device determines whether or not the versions of the software of all the on-board devices that constitute a vehicle control system are consistent, by comparing the version of the software of the specific on-board device and the versions of the software…
Input output control device
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12254214
An input output control device between a verification circuit and a semiconductor memory device includes: a first port that receives a read transaction for requesting reading of data in the semiconductor memory device from the verification circuit, and outputs a read response to the verification circuit; a second port that outputs the read transaction to the semiconductor memory device, and receives the read response output from the semiconductor memory device in response to the read…
Electronic control unit, method, and storage medium of setting shared/dedicated area write limit based on life time consumption information
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12253939
By an electronic control unit including a storage that has a shared area shared by a plurality of unspecified applications and a dedicated area used by a predetermined specific application, a use limit notification method performed in the electronic control unit, a use limit notification method, life time consumption information related to life time consumption of the storage is acquired. a shared area write limit and a dedicated area write limit are set, and an application using the…
Information processing device, information processing method, and storage medium
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12253377
An information processing device includes a control unit that performs prediction, from a first movement route including a predetermined number of continuous road links, of one or more road links that are traveled by a first mobile object subsequent to the first movement route, based on movement history information on one or more mobile objects traveling on a road. The control unit performs the prediction by using a machine learning model that, for an input of sequential data, outputs…
Motor-driven compressor
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12253084
A motor-driven compressor includes an inverter that includes a circuit board and an electrical component, and an inverter cover that defines an inverter accommodating chamber together with an end wall of a motor housing member. The inverter accommodating chamber accommodates a first conductive member and a second conductive member. A first end of the first conductive member and a lead of the electrical component extend through the circuit board from a first surface, which faces the end…
Controller for hydrogen engine
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12253039
A controller for a hydrogen engine that includes an in-cylinder pressure sensor and an air-fuel ratio sensor includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to execute a process that calculates a fluctuation amount of a combustion pressure based on an output of the in-cylinder pressure sensor and a process that calculates a correction amount based on the fluctuation amount. The correction amount is used to correct a rich deviation of an output of the air-fuel ratio…
Control device for internal combustion engine
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12253019
The processing device of the control device performs first control of controlling the opening degree of the wastegate valve to an opening degree in which the inner peripheral surface of the insulating portion is positioned on the extension line of the seal surface of the wastegate valve, when the internal combustion engine is started. The processing device determines whether the warm-up of the internal combustion engine is completed. When the warm-up is completed, the processing device…
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…
Manager, electronic control unit, system, control method, storage medium, vehicle, and control apparatus
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12252144
A manager installed in a vehicle includes: a first accepting unit that accepts a plurality of kinematic plans from a plurality of ADAS applications; an arbitration unit that arbitrates the kinematic plans; a calculation unit that calculates a motion request based on an arbitration result by the arbitration unit; and a distribution unit that distributes the motion request to at least one actuator system, wherein the first accepting unit accepts information relating to the actuator system…
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…
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…
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…
Light distribution control apparatus that irradiates different regions with a different illuminances
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12252069
A light distribution control apparatus includes an imaging device capable of capturing an image of a front vehicle existing in front of an own vehicle, a headlight capable of irradiating a front region of the own vehicle, and a control unit capable of executing light distribution control for controlling light distribution of the headlight so that a predetermined first region including the front vehicle and a predetermined second region other than the first region are irradiated with…
Vehicle seat
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12252046
A vehicle seat includes a seat back and a cushion seat. The cushion seat includes a seat frame, a cushion pad portion above the seat frame, a first submarining suppression portion below the cushion pad portion, and a second submarining suppression portion below the cushion pad portion, the second submarining suppression portion arranged on a side of the first submarining suppression portion closer to the seat back.
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…
