Patents Examined by Mahmoud Gimie
  • Patent number: 11966219
    Abstract: Preparing actual defective product data and non-defective product data, causing a deep generation model to learn the data and to generate latent variables in which features of the non-defective product data and the actual defective product data are mixed, causing a classification model to learn the latent variables to generate a classified non-defective product and defective product latent variable, deleting the non-defective product latent variable from the classified non-defective product and defective product latent variable to output the defective product latent variable including a gray latent variable, causing a distance learning model to learn the defective product latent variable and the non-defective product latent variable and to delete the gray latent variable, and causing the deep generation model to learn the defective product latent variable that has been obtained and to generate the pseudo defective product data greater in number than the actual defective product data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshikazu Karube
  • Patent number: 11965468
    Abstract: A vehicle control system, a vehicle control method, and a storage medium are provided. A stopping process stops fuel supply to one or more stopping cylinders and supplies fuel to one or more remaining cylinders during a load operation of an engine. During execution of the stopping process, a compensating process compensates for a decrease in output of the one or more stopping cylinders due to the execution of the stopping process by increasing output generated by combustion in the one or more remaining cylinders. The system control circuit causes, when the engine rotation speed of the engine is the same, the output after being increased by the compensating process to decrease as a shaft torque of the crankshaft of the engine increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinnosuke Honda, Yoshinori Fujitake, Suguru Kumazawa, Motohiko Taniyama, Keita Sato, Yuki Iizawa, Yoshiyuki Shogenji, Yasutaka Tsuchida
  • Patent number: 11964563
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes a processor configured to execute computer-readable instructions to perform. The processor is configured to recognizing road markings of a road on which a host vehicle travels based on at least an output of a detection device that detects target objects present in a traveling direction of the host vehicle; causing a display device to display a surrounding situation display image including a host vehicle icon representing the host vehicle and an image of the road markings representing the road; determining positions of the road markings based on information of center positions of a traveling lane obtained by representing the center positions in a point sequence for each prescribed first distance with respect to a first direction; and generating the surrounding situation display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoko Yokochi, Yuta Murayama
  • Patent number: 11945273
    Abstract: A damping force control apparatus for a vehicle in which road surface displacement-related information detected by an in-vehicle detection device is transmitted to a preview reference database control device together with detection position information, a preview reference database including road surface displacement-related values is made, preview damping control that reduces vibration of a sprung of the vehicle is performed using the road surface displacement-related values in the preview reference database, and it is assumed that a road surface displacement-related value in a predetermined adjacent region located in a direction crossing a traveling direction of the vehicle with respect to a point where the road surface displacement-related information was detected by the in-vehicle detection device is the same as the road surface displacement-related value at the above point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroki Furuta
  • Patent number: 11946432
    Abstract: A throttle body for an engine or fuel cell of a vehicle is provided. The throttle body comprises a cylindrical housing comprising a first open end extending to a second open end defining an inner wall having an inner surface. The throttle body further comprises a moveable blade valve movably disposed on the inner wall and arranged to regulate air to the engine during operation of the vehicle. The moveable blade valve has an outer surface. The throttle body further comprises a dual-phase thermal composite coating (TCC) disposed on one of the inner surface of the inner wall and outer surface of the moveable blade valve for enhanced thermal conductivity and reduced deposit accumulation on the inner surface and the outer surface. The dual-phase TCC comprises a first material comprising between 10 wt % and 90 wt %, and a second material comprising between 10 wt % and 90 wt % of the dual-phase TCC. The dual phase TCC has a contact angle of between 100° and 160° and a thermal conductivity of at least 0.3 W/mK.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Seongchan Pack, Dean G. Sorrell
  • Patent number: 11946514
    Abstract: A lubrication device for a power take off coupling for a prime mover, the lubrication device including: a lubrication device shaft having a first end for connecting to an output shaft of the prime mover and a second end for connecting to an input shaft for receiving power from the output shaft; a lubricant chamber surrounding at least part of the lubrication device shaft between the first end and the second end; and a housing enclosing the lubrication device shaft and the lubricant chamber; wherein the lubrication device shaft includes a plurality of internal lubricant passages for conveying lubricant from the lubricant chamber to the first end and the second end of the lubrication device shaft, with the internal lubricant passages comprising fluid passages extending along the axial length of the lubrication device shaft as well as fluid passages extending radially to outer surfaces of the lubrication device shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gael Ducher
  • Patent number: 11946906
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a damaged region determination system of the embodiment includes a plurality of sensors, a position locator, and a determiner. The plurality of sensors detects elastic waves generated in a target object related to a railway which is a determination target of a damaged region. The position locator locates positions of sources of a plurality of elastic waves based on the plurality of elastic waves detected by each of the plurality of sensors. The determiner determines the damaged region in the target object based on the positions of the sources of the plurality of elastic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toshiki Takayasu, Takashi Usui, Kazuo Watabe, Atsuro Oonishi, Hiroshi Takahashi, Takamitsu Sunaoshi
  • Patent number: 11937535
    Abstract: Provided are blades 22R, 22C, 22L rotatably driven about rotational axes XL, XC, XR to be able to cut grass on the ground surface, a housing covering the blades 22R, 22C, 22L and having a lower face thereof opened, a water feeding section provided outside the housing, a water discharging section 54 provided inside the housing for discharging cleaning water fed to the water feeding section, and a water feeding pipe 55 connected to/between the water feeding section and the water discharging section 54. The water discharging section 54 discharges water toward an inner wall face of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Takaoka, Junki Nakao, Akihito Mihara, Yusaku Matsuoka, Yuki Hirotsu
  • Patent number: 11939943
    Abstract: Disclosed is an ignition apparatus for an internal combustion engine. The ignition apparatus includes a spark plug, an ignition coil and a controller. The spark plug has an auxiliary combustion chamber in which a discharge gap is arranged. The ignition coil is configured to apply a voltage to the spark plug. The controller is configured to perform a multiple-discharge mode in which discharge is generated at least twice, with a discharge pause period intervening therebetween, across the discharge gap within a period from a compression stroke to an expansion stroke of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akimitsu Sugiura
  • Patent number: 11938879
    Abstract: A vehicle control device that controls a vehicle, the vehicle control device comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire surrounding information of the vehicle; a recognition unit configured to recognize another vehicle traveling in surroundings of the vehicle, based on the surrounding information; a calculation unit configured to calculate a visual recognition ratio of a steering wheel of the other vehicle to a perfect circle; and a control unit configured to control the vehicle, based on the visual recognition ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Komori
  • Patent number: 11932103
    Abstract: A device fastens a tank for pressurized gas, such as hydrogen, to a frame. The tank comprises a base including a cylindrical seat. The device comprises a fastener able to clamp the cylindrical seat of the base, where the device also comprises at least one mechanical fuse that is able to break in case of impact experienced by the frame, so that the device releases the base from the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: FAURECIA SYSTEMES D'ECHAPPEMENT
    Inventor: Yannick Godard
  • Patent number: 11932106
    Abstract: A work machine according to this invention includes a power source incorporated in a vehicle body, an extended portion extended from the vehicle body to form a grip portion and configured to be folded with respect to the vehicle body, a lock portion provided to lock the extended portion when the extended portion is folded with respect to the vehicle body, and an activation suppressing portion configured to suppress activation of the power source if the extended portion is locked by the lock portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ante Krolo, Mengguang Li, Junichi Eguchi
  • Patent number: 11933250
    Abstract: A gaseous fuel-air mixer includes an outer shell, an inner shell, and a fuel chamber rib. The outer shell includes an air intake and a fuel intake. The air intake is configured to receive air. The air intake has an air outlet. The fuel intake has a fuel inlet that is configured to receive fuel. The inner shell includes an inner shell intake that is configured to separately receive the air from the air outlet and the fuel from the fuel intake and to provide a gaseous fuel-air mixture. The inner shell cooperates with the outer shell to define a fuel intake collecting chamber that is configured to receive the fuel from the fuel inlet and a fuel intake concentrating chamber that is configured to receive the fuel from the fuel intake collecting chamber and provide the fuel to the inner shell intake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: George Martin Tolhurst, Joshua Bradley Bettis, Alan C. Anderson, Jeremy Aaron Lackey
  • Patent number: 11935341
    Abstract: A data storage device in a mobile body defines a normal world and a secure world and stores a data acquired in the mobile body using a blockchain. The data storage device includes: a normal storage processing unit that stores an acquired data in a storage area of the normal world; a block generator that generates a new block including a hash value based on a last block coupled at last to the blockchain, and a hash value based on the acquired data; and a secure storage processing unit that stores a hash value based on the new block as a block hash value in a storage area of the secure world.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Mitani, Xin Xu
  • Patent number: 11920546
    Abstract: Internal combustion engine and method for buffering of combustion gases and fresh air in a storage tank and producing power, torque and other functions by consuming buffered gases from storage tank for improved efficiency, improved power and torque, reduced emissions, immediate response to increase or decrease power and torque requests, new and improved functionality, kinetic energy recovery, thermal energy recovery and increased ECM flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventor: Jaime Ruvalcaba
  • Patent number: 11919385
    Abstract: A fuel inlet structure of a vehicle, including a vehicle body panel, an inlet box, and a seal portion. The seal portion includes: an inner seal portion provided in correspondence with the whole circumference of the flange portion; an outer seal portion provided in correspondence with the whole circumference of the flange portion; and a water catching portion, the water catching portion, in a portion of the whole circumference of the seal portion that is a lower portion in the vehicle vertical direction, projecting from a region between a proximal end portion of the inner seal portion and a proximal end portion of the outer seal portion to a region encompassing an area between the drain portion and the inner seal portion, the water-catching portion being configured to stop water that passes through the drain portion from a vehicle outer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Izuhara
  • Patent number: 11920549
    Abstract: The control device (50) operates to: calculate the ignition timing of each cylinder (101) of an engine (100) based on whether or not knocking is occurring; set, as a reference ignition timing, the ignition timing of any of the cylinders (101) for which the ignition timing is on the advanced angle side relative to the most retarded angle ignition timing on the most retarded angle side and on the retarded angle side relative to the most advanced angle ignition timing on the most advanced angle side; set an allowable timing difference range that is a range of an allowable timing difference with reference to the reference ignition timing; and when determining that the ignition timing of a cylinder (101) falls outside the allowable timing difference range, correct the ignition timing so that the timing difference with respect to the reference ignition timing falls within the allowable timing difference range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Shikata, Kazuki Tanzawa, Isei Matsuzaki
  • Patent number: 11913417
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes an engine block, a crankshaft configured to rotate about a crankshaft axis, a flywheel coupled to the crankshaft and positioned above the engine block, an outer housing positioned above the engine block and the flywheel, and an electric starting system. The electric starting system includes an electric motor and an energy storage device positioned above the flywheel and below the outer housing. The energy storage device is electrically coupled to the electric motor to power the electric motor. When the electric starting system is configured to rotate the crankshaft to start the engine when the electric starting system is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Briggs & Stratton, LLC
    Inventors: David W. Procknow, Mark Meyer
  • Patent number: 11913397
    Abstract: An engine includes an engine stop switch for stopping the engine, and a cooling part included in a holding portion or passage of a cooling liquid. The engine stop switch is placed at the cooling part or at a peripheral part of the cooling part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: YANMAR HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Hirao, Yuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11913264
    Abstract: An actuation assembly for a refueling port or charging port flip cover assembly is rotatably mounted on a base and includes a locking means, a flip cover rotating shaft, a transmission gear, a drive gear and a drive member. The locking means is movably disposed on the base and configured to lock or release a flip cover. The flip cover rotating shaft is configured to rotate the flip cover and includes a fitting portion. The transmission gear includes a receiving portion and is installed around the fitting portion. The drive gear and the drive member are configured to synchronously rotate. The drive gear is meshed with the transmission gear and the drive member is configured to drive the locking means. In moving the locking means from a release position to a locking position, the drive gear blocks the rotation of the transmission gear and prevents the flip cover from opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Yuan Sun