Patents Examined by B. M. M Hannan
  • Patent number: 12170216
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a transfer device has a first holding part configured to contact an edge part of a substrate when holding the substrate, and a second holding part formed with an elastic member and configured to contact only a back surface of the substrate when holding the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventor: Shinya Okano
  • Patent number: 12163793
    Abstract: A method for predicting travel of a vehicle includes determining a prediction starting location and a plurality of prediction destinations including a plurality of possible intersections within a boundary at a predefined distance from the starting location. The method also includes determining, for each destination, at least one route to the destination, resulting in a plurality of routes at least one of which corresponds to each destination, including determining a statistical likelihood of the vehicle remaining on an intersection-exit that is along a potential route and selecting at least one route to each destination with the highest statistical likelihood. Responsive to the vehicle no longer being on a selected route, selecting at least one new route to the at least one destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Christian Winge Vigild, Eduardo Perez Guzman, Frederik De Smet, Daniel Roettger
  • Patent number: 12162491
    Abstract: A braking/driving force control method includes detecting an accelerator stroke amount being the stroke amount of an accelerator pedal, calculating a driving force to be generated by a vehicle driving force source when the accelerator stroke amount is larger than a predetermined first stroke amount, calculating a deceleration driving force to be generated by the vehicle driving force source when the accelerator stroke amount is smaller than a second stroke amount set to a value smaller than or equal to the first stroke amount, controlling the vehicle driving force source to generate the calculated driving force and deceleration driving force, and generating a braking force on wheels according to a depressing operation of a brake pedal by a driver and controlling a brake stroke amount being the stroke amount of the brake pedal according to the calculated deceleration driving force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ken Sugo
  • Patent number: 12162152
    Abstract: Provided is a machine-learning device which can efficiently perform machine learning. The machine-learning device comprises: a vision execution unit which captures an image of an object W by means of a visual sensor by executing a vision execution command from a robot program, and detects or determines the object W from the captured image; a result acquisition unit which acquires the detection result or the determination result for the object W by executing a result acquisition command from the robot program; an additional annotation unit which gives a label to the captured image on the basis of the detection result or the determination result for the image of the object W by executing an annotation command from the robot program, and acquires new training data; and a learning unit which performs machine learning by using the new training data by executing a learning command from the robot program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuta Namiki
  • Patent number: 12157465
    Abstract: Techniques for determining unified futures of objects in an environment are discussed herein. Techniques may include determining a first feature associated with an object in an environment and a second feature associated with the environment and based on a position of the object in the environment, updating a graph neural network (GNN) to encode the first feature and second feature into a graph node representing the object and encode relative positions of additional objects in the environment into one or more edges attached to the node. The GNN may be decoded to determine a first predicted position of the object. The first predicted position may be determined to be outside of a bounded area of the environment. Based on this determination, a second predicted position of the object may be determined using map data associated with the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventor: Ethan Miller Pronovost
  • Patent number: 12157454
    Abstract: The braking control device includes a control amount derivation unit that derives a target vehicle braking force representing a target value of a vehicle braking force applied, and a braking control unit that controls a regenerative braking device and a frictional braking device based on the target vehicle braking force. When the target vehicle braking force is increased, the braking control unit executes a braking force application process of increasing the frictional braking force applied to the wheel so that such frictional braking force becomes larger than the regenerative braking force applied to the wheel. When the target vehicle braking force is increased, the braking control unit executes a switching process of switching at least a part of the frictional braking force applied to the wheel to the regenerative braking force to increase the regenerative braking force applied to the wheel after execution of the braking force application process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yusaku Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12130132
    Abstract: A method of avoiding collision between mechanical equipment (10) and obstacles, and a device and controller for this, by detecting whether an external conductor is approaching the device (10); when detecting that the external conductor is approaching the mechanical equipment (10), generating an electrical signal representing a distance between the external conductor and the housing of the mechanical equipment (10) or a change of the distance between the external conductor and the housing of the mechanical equipment (10); controlling the mechanical equipment (10) based on electrical signal so as to avoid the mechanical equipment (10) from collision with the external conductor or to reduce a strength of the collision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN YUEJIANG TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peichao Liu, Rui Huang, Xulin Lang, Linpan Cao
  • Patent number: 12131529
    Abstract: A method for performing a task by a robotic device includes mapping a group of task image pixel descriptors associated with a first group of pixels in a task image of a task environment to a group of teaching image pixel descriptors associated with a second group of pixels in a teaching image based on positioning the robotic device within the task environment. The method also includes determining a relative transform between the task image and the teaching image based on mapping the plurality of task image pixel descriptors. The relative transform indicates a change in one or more of points of 3D space between the task image and the teaching image. The method also includes performing the task associated with the set of parameterized behaviors based on updating one or more parameters of a set of parameterized behaviors associated with the teaching image based on determining the relative transform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Jeremy Ma, Josh Petersen, Umashankar Nagarajan, Michael Laskey, Daniel Helmick, James Borders, Krishna Shankar, Kevin Stone, Max Bajracharya
  • Patent number: 12122380
    Abstract: An apparatus for preventing rolling of a vehicle operating in an automatic vehicle hold mode includes a reset determination unit configured to determine whether an automatic hold controller controlling an operation of the automatic vehicle hold mode has been reset, a mode determination unit configured to determine whether a mode of the vehicle is the automatic vehicle hold mode when it is determined that the automatic hold controller has been reset, and a vehicle control unit configured to brake the vehicle, based on at least one of a gear position, an opening degree of an accelerator pedal, and whether a brake pedal is operated, when it is determined that the mode of the vehicle is the automatic vehicle hold mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Don Kee Lee
  • Patent number: 12115965
    Abstract: A heavy-duty vehicle includes a chassis, a wheel supporting the chassis, a drive system, a service brake, a drive system controller, and a service brake controller. The drive system includes a motor associated with the wheel. The motor is configured to propel the wheel and to apply a dynamic brake torque to the wheel. The service brake is associated with the wheel and configured to apply a service brake torque to the wheel. The drive system controller controls operation of the motor. The drive system controller selectively modulates the dynamic brake torque to the wheel based on traction conditions. The service brake controller controls operation of the service brake. The service brake controller may selectively modulate the service brake torque to the wheel based on the traction conditions. Modulation of the dynamic brake torque may be disabled during modulation of the service brake torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Komatsu America Corp.
    Inventors: Nick Sturm, Yong Deng, Kory Leesman, Joshua Rohman, John Osborne
  • Patent number: 12115686
    Abstract: An operation system and an operation method that may improve operability are provided. The operation system includes a circuitry configured to determine a predicted value of an operator motion after a predetermined prediction latency from a current time based on a bio-signal using a prescribed machine learning model, the bio-signal captured from the operator and a controller configured to control a motion of a robot based on the predicted value. The operation method includes a step of determining a predicted value of an operator motion after a predetermined latency from the current time based on a bio-signal using a prescribed machine learning model, the bio-signal captured from the operator, and a step of controlling a motion of a robot on the predicted value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
    Inventors: Takahide Yoshiike, Christopher Garry, Frank Charles Sup, IV, Soumitra P. Sitole, Mark A. Price
  • Patent number: 12112494
    Abstract: Implementations relate to training a point cloud prediction model that can be utilized to process a single-view two-and-a-half-dimensional (2.5D) observation of an object, to generate a domain-invariant three-dimensional (3D) representation of the object. Implementations additionally or alternatively relate to utilizing the domain-invariant 3D representation to train a robotic manipulation policy model using, as at least part of the input to the robotic manipulation policy model during training, the domain-invariant 3D representations of simulated objects to be manipulated. Implementations additionally or alternatively relate to utilizing the trained robotic manipulation policy model in control of a robot based on output generated by processing generated domain-invariant 3D representations utilizing the robotic manipulation policy model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Honglak Lee, Xinchen Yan, Soeren Pirk, Yunfei Bai, Seyed Mohammad Khansari Zadeh, Yuanzheng Gong, Jasmine Hsu
  • Patent number: 12111167
    Abstract: A server device includes a communication unit and a control unit that send and receives information to and from another device via the communication unit. The control unit receives, from a plurality of terminal devices, information indicating a boarding point at which a user of each of the terminal devices desires to board a vehicle, sends, to the vehicle, information for causing the vehicle to travel along a route via a nearby region of each of a plurality of the boarding points while satisfying a predetermined condition, and notifies the terminal devices of the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Nagata, Kazutaka Kimura, Tomokazu Maya, Tsuyoshi Nishioka, Takaharu Tateishi, Yuki Yamashita
  • Patent number: 12097528
    Abstract: A repaired area on a work surface is presented. The repaired area includes a repairboundary. Within the repairboundary, the work surface has a repair texture and, outside of the repair boundary, the work surface has a work surface texture. The repaired area also includes a repair depth distribution within the repair boundary and a concealing feature. The repaired area is a result of a robotic repair executed on the work surface to remove a defect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Brett R. Hemes, Mark W. Orlando, Daniel M. Bodily, Jonathan B. Arthur, Nathan J. Herbst, Thomas J. Strey, Aaron K. Nienaber
  • Patent number: 12097615
    Abstract: An information processor calculates, for a robot hand including a plurality of fingers, a gripping pose at which the robot hand grips a target object. The information processor includes a candidate single-finger placement position detector that detects, based on three-dimensional measurement data obtained through three-dimensional measurement of the target object and hand shape data about a shape of the robot hand, candidate placement positions for each of the plurality of fingers of the robot hand, a multi-finger combination searcher that searches for, among the candidate placement positions for each of the plurality of fingers, a combination of candidate placement positions to allow gripping of the target object, and a gripping pose calculator that calculates, based on the combination of candidate placement positions for each of the plurality of fingers, a gripping pose at which the robot hand grips the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Nishina
  • Patent number: 12097757
    Abstract: A control unit is presented for controlling a driving unit arranged for adjustment of one or more first air guiding flaps of a motorised vehicle between a first outer position and a second outer position. The control unit comprises a communication module for communicating with a vehicle control network for receiving first adjustment instructions for adjusting the first flap, a power supply module comprising an input power terminal for receiving power from a vehicle power network and a first output power terminal for supplying a first current to the driving unit. The control unit further comprises a current sensor module for sensing variations in the first supply current and a control module arranged to control the first supply current in accordance with the adjustment instructions and the sensed variations. By separating the control module from the driving unit, functionality of the control module may be shared over multiple driving units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: MCI (MIRROR CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL) NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Marius Brand, Bastiaan Huijzers, Jinku Hu
  • Patent number: 12098516
    Abstract: A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper turning body turnably mounted on the lower traveling body, a link unit attached to the upper turning body, and a processing circuitry configured to align an end of the link unit with an end attachment to be attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Onodera, Takumi Itoh
  • Patent number: 12091027
    Abstract: A temperature estimation system and method for an electric motor of a vehicle include a set of sensors configured to measure a set of operating parameters of the electric motor including at least (i) phase current, (ii) speed, and (iii) coolant temperature and a controller configured to access a trained artificial neural network (ANN) temperature estimation model, using the trained ANN temperature estimation model with the set of electric motor operating parameters as inputs, estimate temperatures of a stator and a rotor of the electric motor, and control operation of the electric motor based on the estimated stator and rotor temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Daniel R Luedtke, Mustafa Mohamadian
  • Patent number: 12087106
    Abstract: A battery abnormality warning method involves detecting an abnormality in a vehicle-mounted battery and warning an occupant in the vehicle. The battery abnormality warning method determines whether a pressure abnormality has occurred in the battery based on an air pressure inside a battery pack of the battery. The battery abnormality warning method further determines whether a voltage abnormality has occurred in the battery based on a cell voltage of the battery. An abnormality is determined to have occurred in the battery when both a pressure abnormality in the battery and a voltage abnormality in the battery are determined to have occurred within a prescribed time period. A warning is outputted to the occupant in the vehicle upon determining that an abnormality has occurred in the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Mitsugi
  • Patent number: 12076860
    Abstract: A control method for a robot includes: determining a desired zero moment point (ZMP) of the robot; obtaining a position of a left foot and a position of a right foot of the robot, and calculating desired support forces of the left foot and the right foot according to the desired ZMP, the positions of the left foot and the right foot; obtaining measured support forces of the left foot and the right foot, and calculating an amount of change in length of the left leg and an amount of change in length of the right leg according to the desired support forces of the left foot and the right foot, the measured support forces of the left foot and the right foot; and controlling the robot to walk according to the amount of change in length of the left leg and the right leg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD
    Inventors: Ligang Ge, Yizhang Liu, Chunyu Chen, Zheng Xie, Youjun Xiong