VEHICLE SYSTEM AND VEHICLE
    21.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240182057A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-06

    申请号:US18396185

    申请日:2023-12-26

    发明人: Kenji Kimura

    IPC分类号: B60W50/14 B60W40/08 B60W50/16

    摘要: A vehicle system includes a warning device and at least one electronic control unit. The at least one electronic control unit is configured to present a light stimulus to a driver, and determine whether the driver is facing forward, determine whether the driver holds a steering wheel, and cause the warning device to perform a first warning when it is determined that the driver is not facing forward while the light stimulus is being presented. The first warning is either the vibration or the sound. The at least one electronic control unit is configured to perform a second warning when it is determined that the driver does not hold the steering wheel before a predetermined time elapses after the first warning is started. The second warning includes the vibration and the sound.

    Management apparatus for battery of electric vehicle

    公开(公告)号:US11780344B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-10

    申请号:US17396858

    申请日:2021-08-09

    IPC分类号: B60L53/62 B60L58/12

    CPC分类号: B60L53/62 B60L58/12

    摘要: A management apparatus is configured to adjust an upper limit amount of electric power for charging. The management apparatus may be provided in an electric vehicle or a charging apparatus. The management apparatus may include a dial for adjusting the upper limit amount of electric power, and a user may be able to adjust the upper limit amount of electric power by operating the dial. A user who drives 300 km per week for commute may set the amount of electric power corresponding to 300 km (plus extra travel distance) for the upper limit amount of electric power. The user may connect a battery to the charging apparatus on weekends. When the battery has a capacity to store the amount of electric power corresponding to, for example, 500 km, the management apparatus may stop charging when the battery is charged with the set upper limit amount of electric power.

    Power supply device
    25.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11349156B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-31

    申请号:US16656736

    申请日:2019-10-18

    IPC分类号: H01M10/42 H03K17/567

    摘要: In a power supply device including a plurality of battery modules each including a secondary battery, in which the battery modules are connected in series to one another according to a gate driving signal from a controller and in each of the battery modules, the gate driving signal is delayed in a gate driving signal processing circuit included in the battery module and then transmitted from upstream to downstream of the series connection, an ID is provided for each of the battery modules by transmitting an ID setting signal for providing an ID unique to the battery module using a gate signal line for transmitting the gate driving signal.

    Vehicle system and vehicle
    29.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10800429B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-13

    申请号:US15800806

    申请日:2017-11-01

    发明人: Kenji Kimura

    IPC分类号: B60W50/14 B60W40/08 B60W50/16

    摘要: A vehicle system includes a warning device and at least one electronic control unit. The at least one electronic control unit is configured to present a light stimulus to a driver, and determine whether the driver is facing forward, determine whether the driver holds a steering wheel, and cause the warning device to perform a first warning when it is determined that the driver is not facing forward while the light stimulus is being presented. The first warning is either the vibration or the sound. The at least one electronic control unit is configured to perform a second warning when it is determined that the driver does not hold the steering wheel before a predetermined time elapses after the first warning is started. The second warning includes the vibration and the sound.

    Display device
    30.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10086757B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-02

    申请号:US15436059

    申请日:2017-02-17

    发明人: Kenji Kimura

    摘要: A display device includes: a display unit configured to display an image on a windshield of a host vehicle; and an electronic control unit configured to: recognize other vehicles; determine whether a squeezing candidate vehicle having a possibility to squeeze before the host vehicle presents; calculate, when the squeezing candidate vehicle is determined to present, a first appearance interval that increases according to a time elapsed from a time when the squeezing candidate vehicle is last determined to present; and cause the display unit to display a first blinking display when the squeezing candidate vehicle is determined to present. The electronic control unit is configured to reduce a number of blinks of the first blinking display when the first appearance interval is smaller than a first threshold as compared with a case when the first appearance interval is equal to or larger than the first threshold.