Patents Assigned to A-America, Inc.
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Patent number: 12264946Abstract: A position sensor, wherein the position sensor detects the movement of a target relative to a sine receiver coil and a cosine receiver coil and generates a corresponding sine signal and a corresponding cosine signal, and a method for error detection of a position sensor.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Renesas Electronics America Inc.Inventors: Gentjan Qama, Jürgen Peter Kernhof, Angel Karachomakov, Andreas Leo Buchinger, Thomas Oswald
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Patent number: 12263724Abstract: An antireflective switchable laminated glass construction having a switchable functional film formed of a switchable material layer, a first polymer substrate with a first transparent conductive coating, and a second polymer substrate with a second transparent conductive coating. The switchable functional film is sandwiched between first adhesive polymer interlayer and glass substrate and second adhesive polymer interlayer and glass substrate. The switchable laminated glass construction in an ON (transparent) state has a total light transmittance higher than 50% and a reflectance equal to or less than 13%, as measured from at least one side of the switchable laminated glass construction.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: ACR II GLASS AMERICA INC.Inventors: Michael Bard, Olivier Farreyrol, Christina Hill, Yu Matsuda
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Patent number: 12264691Abstract: An artificial muscle includes a housing including an electrode region, an expandable fluid region, a first film layer, and a second film layer. The first film layer and the second film layer each include an inner protective layer having a first elasticity, an outer protective layer having a second elasticity, and a reinforcing layer provided between the inner protective layer and the outer protective layer, the reinforcing layer having a third elasticity greater than the first elasticity of the inner protective layer and the second elasticity of the outer protective layer. The artificial muscle further includes an electrode pair positioned in the electrode region of the housing and between the first film layer and the second film layer, and a dielectric fluid housed within the housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Michael P. Rowe, Maduran Palaniswamy, Shardul Panwar
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Publication number: 20250105324Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for cooling two or more fuel cell systems on a vehicle. The system includes at least two fuel cell systems connected to a common cooling system. The system also includes at least two pumping apparatuses connected, respectively, to the at least two fuel cell systems. The system further includes a processor connected to one or more controllers that are connected to the at least two pumping apparatuses. The processor is configured to determine a target flow rate of a fluid to be received by a first fuel cell system of the at least two fuel cell systems, determine a target pump speed of a first pumping apparatus of the at least two pumping apparatuses, and actuate the first pumping apparatus via a first controller of the one or more controllers based on the determined target pump speed of the first pumping apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Jared M. Farnsworth, Yohei Okamoto
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Publication number: 20250104563Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to aligning rear-sections of grouped vehicles for cooperative control and tracking that deters disturbances from surrounding vehicles. In one embodiment, a method includes connecting a following vehicle and a leading vehicle located in proximity wirelessly for reverse-following with rear-sections, the following vehicle and the leading vehicle forming a group. The method also includes aligning the rear-sections using a position and an orientation of the leading vehicle, the position and the orientation has centers of the rear-sections within a zone. The method also includes tracking a target path of the leading vehicle by the following vehicle automatically for the reverse-following.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Christopher A. Ferone
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Publication number: 20250101725Abstract: An anti-clog assembly for a sink drain, comprising a filter part and a body, the filter part configured to be inserted into the body to place the assembly in an operable position, and to be at least partially withdrawn from the body to place the assembly in a maintenance position, the assembly configured to be positioned in-line in a drain. An anti-clog assembly for a faucet, comprising a filter part and a body, the filter part configured to be coupled to the body to place the assembly in an operable position, the filter part configured to be decoupled from the body to place the assembly in a maintenance position, and the assembly configured to be positioned in-line in an upstream source water line.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: AS America, Inc.Inventors: Walter Pitsch, Xiaojing Ye
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Publication number: 20250100636Abstract: A mounting fixture for holding a braking system master cylinder against a mounting element in a vehicle engine compartment includes a base and an anchor portion secured to the base and structured to secure a portion of the mounting fixture to a wheel well in the engine compartment. A cylinder assembly engagement member is secured to the base opposite the anchor portion. In some arrangements, the mounting element may be a firewall of the engine compartment. Use of the fixture to hold the cylinder in position with respect to the mounting element enables a user to operatively connect a brake pedal to the cylinder without the need to manually secure the cylinder in position during connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Williams Lopez, Dorin Turlea
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Publication number: 20250106883Abstract: 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 communication resources from a next window of the communication channel based on the RSSI values in the current window, excluding a first subset of communication resources from a next window of the communication channel based on the SL-RSRP values from a time-domain, excluding a second subset of communication resources from the next window of the communication channel based on the RSRP values, excluding a second subset of communication resources from the next window of the communication channel based on the SL-RSRP values from a freqType: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Isfar Tariq, Takayuki Shimizu, Chang-Heng Wang, Hongsheng Lu, John Kenney
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Publication number: 20250104091Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of: receiving usage data of a group of vehicles; determining an operator of a vehicle of the group of vehicles with a lowest battery degradation, based on the usage data; and predicting one or more other operators of other vehicles of the group of vehicles, with a highest probability of providing the lowest battery degradation, based on the determining.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
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Publication number: 20250106882Abstract: 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 communication resources from a next window of the communication channel based on the RSSI values in the current window, excluding a first subset of communication resources from a next window of the communication channel based on the SL-RSRP values from a time-domain, excluding a second subset of communication resources from the next window of the communication channel based on the RSRP values, excluding a second subset of communication resources from the next window of the communication channel based on the SL-RSRP values from a freqType: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Isfar Tariq, Takayuki Shimizu, Chang-Heng Wang, Hongsheng Lu, John Kenney
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Publication number: 20250100583Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to providing vehicle guidance based on a classification of an unsafe driving behavior. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting an unsafe driving behavior of a vehicle in a vicinity of an ego vehicle and classifying the unsafe driving behavior based on characteristics of the unsafe driving behavior. The method also includes simulating candidate ego vehicle responses to the unsafe driving behavior based on 1) a classification of the unsafe driving behavior and 2) a profile of an ego vehicle driver. The method also includes generating guidance for the ego vehicle based on a selected vehicle response.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Seyhan Ucar, Sachin Sharma, Yongkang Liu, Emrah Akin Sisbot
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Publication number: 20250102708Abstract: An optical article comprises a coating system which provides antireflective and hydrophobic properties to the optical article. The coating system includes a hard coating on the lens substrate and alternating layers of low refractive index metal oxides and high refractive index metal oxides or alternately, mid-refractive index metal oxides and high refractive index metal oxides are deposited on the hard coating as an antireflective coating layer. A non-fluorinated hydrophobic coating compositions is deposited on the antireflective coating layer to reduce the surface free energy of the antireflective surface of the optical article and improve the overall cleanability of the lens surface by making the lens surface hydrophobic.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: HOYA Optical Labs of America, Inc.Inventor: Theodore Ryan Knutson
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Publication number: 20250105646Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a battery charger are described. A controller can operate a battery charger under a charging mode to use an adapter power to support a system power of the battery charger. The controller can detect the adapter power reaches a maximum, transition the battery charger into a discharging mode to decrease a battery charging current in the battery charger to support the system power and decrease a system voltage at the output of the battery charger. The controller can detect the system voltage is less than a battery voltage of the battery by an offset and transition the battery charger from the discharging mode to a pass-through mode that continues to discharge the battery, where the PTM can cause the battery charger to discharge the battery without performing switching.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Renesas Electronics America Inc.Inventors: Sungkeun LIM, Yen-Mo CHEN, Chong HAN, Dongwoo HAN
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Publication number: 20250104409Abstract: A method of fusing multi-modal sensor data is provided. The method includes obtaining features for 3D data captured by a first sensor of an ego vehicle, obtaining features for images captured by second sensors of the ego vehicle, flattening the features for 3D data to first features in bird eye view, transforming the features for images into second features in bird eye view, concatenating the first features and the second features to obtain first concatenated multi-sensor features, and fusing the first concatenated multi-sensor features with second concatenated multi-sensor features received from another vehicle to obtain fused multi-sensor features.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Qi Chen, Hongsheng Lu
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Publication number: 20250102834Abstract: An electronic device, such as an electrochromic ophthalmic lens, having at least one iridium tin oxide layer, at least one polycarbonate layer, and one or more additional layers between the iridium tin oxide and polycarbonate layers to act as an antireflective or index matching layer. The one or more additional layers may include one or more of silicone dioxide, zirconium dioxide, and/or iridium tin oxide.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: HOYA Optical Labs Of America, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Brown, Michael Marshall
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Patent number: 12258152Abstract: A drone delivery system hub and method for sending for take-off and receiving for landing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The drone delivery system hub includes a center shaft frame, a parcel-conveying system supported by the center shaft frame, structural arms coupled to and extending outward from the center shaft frame in a spoke-like configuration, drone-conveying systems each supported by one of the structural arms, and a linking conveyor span. The drone-conveying system conveys the UAVs along a length of a correspond one of the structural arms toward and away from the center shaft frame. The linking conveyor span selectably rotates to different orientations between different pairs of the structural arms, selectively conveying a UAV thereon between any two of the structural arms. The linking conveyor span is located above the parcel-conveying system such for the UAV thereon to deposit and retrieve parcels from the parcel-conveying system.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: United Parcel Service of America, Inc.Inventors: Julio Gil, Thomas Ramsager, Jeff Walp
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Patent number: 12259441Abstract: A health monitor circuit for an electric machine includes a plurality of sensors, a rectifier, a memory device, and a microprocessor. The plurality of sensors includes a current transformer configured to be electromagnetically coupled to an electrical conductor that feeds a stator winding of the electric machine. The rectifier is coupled to the current transformer and is configured to convert an AC signal generated by the current transformer to a DC signal to supply power for the health monitor circuit. The microprocessor is coupled to the memory device and the plurality of sensors. The microprocessor is configured to periodically collect a stator current measurement from the current transformer and write the stator current measurement to the memory device.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Edwin Eugene Propp, Paul Steven Mullin, Norman Carl Golm, Jr., Daniel Edward Phillips
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Patent number: 12259802Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for providing data monitoring and analysis of a data center using an Entity-Component-System (ECS) architecture. Embodiments of the disclosure provide mechanisms for initializing the ECS architecture by associating devices and data metrics relating to the data center as entities and components. During runtime, the components are continuously updated with collected data metrics and the state of the entities are analyzed by the systems to determine if an event has occurred that requires a remedial action be performed. The events correspond to events occurring on the data center as they relate to the devices associated with the entities. Actions correspond to steps that are taken to rectify the event.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: United Parcel Service of America, Inc.Inventors: Peter Podolski, Steffen Chirichiello
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Patent number: 12259523Abstract: A hydrophobic and/or oleophobic coating system for an ophthalmic lens having increased effective thickness and water contact angle. In one embodiment, the hydrophobic and/or oleophobic coating system comprises an anti-reflective coating applied to an ophthalmic lens, the anti-reflective coating comprising alternating layers of high and low index materials with an outer layer of silicon dioxide having exposed hydroxyl groups. A hydrophobic coating is applied to the anti-reflective coating, the hydrophobic coating comprising a silane with a hydrophobic group and fewer than three reactive groups capable of bonding to the exposed hydroxyl groups of the anti-reflective coating.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Essilor Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventor: Prashant Santan
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Patent number: D1069054Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: AS America, Inc.Inventors: Robert M. Jensen, Antonio Esposito