Patents Examined by Ricky Go
  • Patent number: 11609273
    Abstract: Provided are a method and a system for optimizing a BMS model. The method includes: creating a BMS model based on test data of a battery; selecting sample vehicles from real driving data of vehicles equipped with this type of battery through active learning approach, and giving a corresponding weight to each of the selected sample vehicles; optimizing the BMS model based on the data of the selected sample vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU AUTOMOBILE GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiucai Zhang, Jun Wang, Chao Liu, Jin Shang, Qiang Ren, Ao Mei, Dadiao Ning, Sichao Guo, Sheng Hui
  • Patent number: 11598901
    Abstract: A storage unit stores ranking information including an index value relating to past rainfall and a corresponding date-time and damage information including details of damage that occurred due to past rainfall and a corresponding date-time. A real-time data reception unit acquires a spot value and a forecast value of current precipitation. Also, a comparison operation unit computes an index value relating to current rainfall using the acquired spot value and forecast value. The comparison operation unit specifies, with reference to the ranking information, the date-time of an index value relating to past rainfall whose similarity to the computed index value relating to current rainfall is not less than a threshold value. An information output unit presents, with reference to the damage information, details of damage that occurred in a period whose difference from the specified date-time of the index value relating to past rainfall is in a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daiki Michihiro, Naoko Kosaka, Yukiyoshi Ota, Tomohiro Kokogawa
  • Patent number: 11598737
    Abstract: An analyzing apparatus includes a memory unit that stores analysis conditions of each standards specifying analysis conditions for each analytical technique, a control unit, and an analysis unit that performs an analysis in accordance with a predetermined analytical technique. The control unit reads out the analysis conditions of the standard, and the control unit displays analysis conditions in time sequence, the displayed analysis conditions being necessary for the analysis and selected from out of the read-out analysis conditions, or the control unit prompts to input the analysis conditions in time sequence. When the analysis conditions are input, the control unit determines whether or not the input analysis conditions comply with the read-out analysis conditions, and in a case where a result of the determination is positive, the control unit displays a next analysis condition being necessary for the analysis, or the control unit prompts to input the next analysis condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Science Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Umemoto, Shinya Nishimura, Susumu Ito, Nobuaki Okubo
  • Patent number: 11589508
    Abstract: A field map generating system includes: a crop data obtaining unit that obtains crop data over time; a position information obtaining unit that obtains position information, indicating a harvesting position of the crop, over time; polygon constructing units that construct a polygon on the basis of a work width and speed of a harvester, for each piece of crop data obtained by the crop data obtaining unit; data assigning units that assign crop data or crop information based on the crop data to the constructed polygons; a position information assigning unit that assigns position information to the constructed polygons; and field map generating units that generate a field polygon map, which is an aggregate of the polygons, by aggregating the polygons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takahara, Ryuzo Fujita, Mitsuhiro Seki, Mao Kitahara
  • Patent number: 11594766
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for testing a secondary battery. The apparatus includes a test path, test terminals provided at two ends of the test path and electrically connected to a positive terminal and a negative terminal of the secondary battery respectively, a sensor unit provided on the test path and configured to measure a discharge current of the secondary battery, a constant voltage generation unit provided on the test path and configured to maintain a constant voltage between the secondary battery and the sensor unit, and a control unit configured to receive data indicating the discharge current from the sensor unit, measure an inflection point on a profile of the discharge current, measure an intensity of the discharge current on the basis of the inflection point, and test a level of self-discharge of the secondary battery based on the intensity of the discharge current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Inventors: Dong-Sik Yoon, Jin-Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 11592489
    Abstract: A device for interfacing between a battery management system and groups of battery cells including at least one set of local units and at least one global unit that is connected to the local units of the at least one set. Each local unit is configured to compare a parameter related to a group of cells and associated with a first setpoint value, the first setpoint value originating from the at least one global unit, and to generate an output signal representative of the result of the comparison, and the at least one global unit is configured to receive the first setpoint value and includes an electronic module having an operating parameter having a global value that is dependent on the output signals generated by the local units of the at least one set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: FAIVELEY TRANSPORT TOURS
    Inventors: Philippe Aubin, Bruno Colas
  • Patent number: 11586161
    Abstract: A method and a system for fatigue life prediction of additive manufactured components accounting for localized material properties. The method and the system is employed for prediction of fatigue life properties of an additive manufactured element, with a data collection step in which several data points for maximum stress vs. cycles to failure for different given processing steps of the element are collected, with a training step in which a Machine Learning system is trained with the collected data, and with an evaluation step in which the trained Machine Learning system is confronted with actual processing steps and used to predict the fatigue life properties of the element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Industry Software NV
    Inventor: Nicolas Lammens
  • Patent number: 11578588
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for processing broadband acoustic signals acquired by a plurality of acoustic sensors, using an array-signal-processing technique to compute fused-signal maps in the frequency domain for a plurality of frequency bins. In accordance with various embodiments, the fused-signal maps are combined across the frequency bins, with respective weightings that are based on eigenvalues of covariance matrices computed for the plurality of frequency bins. The combined maps can be used to locate an acoustic source in a wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Nam Nguyen, Yi Yang Ang, Rebecca Corina Jachmann, Yinghui Lu, Srinivasan Jagannanthan, Avinash Vinayak Taware
  • Patent number: 11579176
    Abstract: A sensing system and a sensing signal measuring method thereof are provided. The sensing system includes a signal source, a connecting device, a frequency sweep circuit, and a controller. In the method, the signal source is activated to generate a specific signal. The controller controls the frequency sweep circuit to switch a frequency band of a frequency sweep signal to a first frequency band corresponding to each of a plurality of types of multi-point sensors. The controller receives a sensor signal of each multi-point sensor through the connecting device, where the sensor signal is a variation of a measurement signal output by each multi-point sensor in response to the specific signal and the frequency sweep signal. The controller executes an adaptive algorithm on the sensor signal to construct a correspondence between an eigenvalue of each multi-point sensor and a location of the first frequency band, and records the correspondence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventor: Hsuan-Yu Lin
  • Patent number: 11579201
    Abstract: A method and a system for identifying third-order model parameters of a lithium battery based on a likelihood function are provided, which relates to a method for estimating battery model parameters of a lithium battery under different temperatures, different system-on-chips (SOCs), and charge-discharge currents. The method includes the following steps. A third-order battery model of the lithium battery is established. A battery model output voltage Ud and a total battery current I under different temperatures, different SOCs, and charge-discharge currents are collected. The likelihood function is adopted to construct an identification model, and the collected data is substituted into the identification model to calculate the battery model parameters. Identified parameters are substituted into the third-order battery model to obtain a battery terminal voltage to be compared with a measured terminal voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: WUHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yigang He, Yuan Chen, Zhong Li, Guolong Shi, Liulu He, Chaolong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11555858
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage media for generating a predicted discharge profile of a vehicle battery pack are disclosed. A method includes receiving, by a processing device, data pertaining to cells within a battery pack installed in each vehicle of a fleet of vehicles operating under a plurality of conditions, the data received from at least one of each vehicle in the fleet of vehicles, providing, by the processing device, the data to a machine learning server, directing, by the processing device, the machine learning server to generate a predictive model, the predictive model based on machine learning of the data, generating, by the processing device, the predicted discharge profile of the vehicle battery pack from the predictive model, and providing the discharge profile to an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick K. Herring, Muratahan Aykol, Abraham Anapolsky
  • Patent number: 11550010
    Abstract: A spectrum y includes a waveform-of-interest component and a baseline component serving as a wide-band component. An optimum solution of a signal model x is determined according to a first condition to fit a corresponding portion SIFx of a baseline model Fx with respect to a representative portion yI of the baseline component, and a second condition to minimize an Lp norm (wherein p?1) of the signal model x. An estimated baseline component determined from the optimum solution of the signal model x is subtracted from the spectrum y.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoki Nakao
  • Patent number: 11537957
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a system for estimating capacity and usage pattern of behind-the-meter energy storage in electric networks. Conventional techniques on estimating an effective capacity of behind-the-meter energy storage of a consumer, in presence of distributed energy generation units is limited, computationally intensive and provide inaccurate prediction. The present disclosure provides an accurate estimate of the effective capacity and usage pattern of behind-the-meter energy storage of a target consumer utilizing data samples received from a utility in presence of one or more distributed energy generation units, using an energy balance equation with less computation and accurate prediction. Based on accurate estimation of the effective capacity and usage pattern, the utility may plan for proper infrastructure to meet power demands of the consumers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Venkata Ramakrishna Padullaparthi, Venkatesh Sarangan, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Anindya Pradhan
  • Patent number: 11536763
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for determining electrical characteristics of a transistor, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method for determining electrical characteristics of a transistor includes: determining mobility characteristics of carriers in channels of the transistor at a transistor operating temperature condition; and determining electrical characteristics of the transistor based on the mobility characteristics of the carriers, semiconductor material properties of the transistor, and structural features of the transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiangnan Lu, Hongge Li
  • Patent number: 11525728
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining an estimated weight of a vehicle are provided. The system includes at least one data storage and at least one processor. The at least one data storage is configured to store vehicle data associated with the vehicle. The at least one processor is configured to: identify a plurality of vehicle maneuvers based on the vehicle data, each vehicle maneuver being associated with a portion of the vehicle data, each portion of the vehicle data comprising a measured torque profile; generate a plurality of simulated torque profiles for each vehicle maneuver; generate a plurality of error profiles, an error profile being generated for each vehicle maneuver based on differences between the plurality of simulated torque profiles and the measured torque profile corresponding to that vehicle maneuver; and determine the estimated weight of the vehicle based on the plurality of error profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Geotab Inc.
    Inventors: Willem Petersen, Harjot Singh Parmar, Muhammad Junaid Gill
  • Patent number: 11520081
    Abstract: A flood detection device includes a detection result acquisition section, a weather information acquisition section and an identification section. The detection result acquisition section acquires a detection result that, on the basis of a plurality of kinds of running state data relating to running of a vehicle, detects flooding of a road on which the vehicle is running. The weather information acquisition section acquires weather information including at least one of rainfall information representing a measured rainfall amount in a region in which the vehicle is running or rainfall estimation information representing an estimated rainfall amount. The identification section uses the respective acquisition results of the detection result acquisition section and the weather information acquisition section to identify flooding of the road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Ishihara, Hideki Kawai, Takayuki Yamabe, Yuichiro Nishi, Hiroyuki Yano
  • Patent number: 11520040
    Abstract: To provide a precipitation particle classification apparatus for obtaining a proper classification result of precipitation particles based on information from a plurality of radar devices. The precipitation particle classification apparatus includes a data processing part, a fuzzy processing part, a coordinate conversion part, an interpolation part, and a classification part. The data processing part acquires polarization parameters obtained by reflection on the precipitation particles from each of the plurality of radar devices which are arranged at different positions and have a part of a scanning area overlapping with each other. The fuzzy processing part obtains a polar coordinate distribution evaluation value indicating the distribution in polar coordinates of an evaluation value indicating the degree of attribution to each type of precipitation particles from polarization parameters by using a fuzzy inference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: FURUNO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mariko Hayano
  • Patent number: 11510376
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices related to the study of ecological processes. In one aspect, a device includes a base, a substrate, and an enclosure. The substrate is in contact with a first surface of the base. The substrate and the base define a root chamber. The enclosure is in contact with a second surface of the base. The base and the enclosure define a growth chamber. The base defines a stem port connecting the root chamber and the growth chamber. The base further defines a first port in fluid communication with the root chamber and a second port in fluid communication with the root chamber. The device is operable to contain a plant, roots of the plant being in the root chamber, a stem of the plant passing through the stem port, and leaves of the plant being in the growth chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Peter Andeer, Trent Northen, Lloyd Cornmesser
  • Patent number: 11504730
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for calculating instantaneous sprinkler strength comprising: ensuring that a translational sprinkler (1) maintains a stable operating state, placing b rain barrels (3) at a distance of a metres from the translational sprinkler (1), and moving the translational sprinkler (1) to obtain measurement data; calculating movement time, and the average sprayed water depth received by the rain barrels (3); assuming the distribution form of the amount of water of the translational sprinkler (1), establishing a function relationship between an instantaneous sprinkler strength ht and the movement time t, and calculating a variable in the function relationship; and substituting into the established function relationship a specific numerical value of an instantaneous point in time t of the movement of the translational sprinkler (1), so that the value of ht obtained is a numerical value of the instantaneous sprinkler strength of the translational sprinkler (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Jiangsu University
    Inventors: Xingye Zhu, Junping Liu, Shouqi Yuan, Kun Tian, Jinghong Wan
  • Patent number: 11504068
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and method for predicting sensor measurement quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Yojan Patel, Melissa Frank