Patents Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
  • Publication number: 20230331527
    Abstract: A control device for an industrial vehicle is a control device for an industrial vehicle for estimating a working state of the industrial vehicle, which includes a working state estimation unit that estimates the working state of the industrial vehicle, and the working state estimation unit receives operation information regarding an operation state with respect to the industrial vehicle and photographing information obtained by photographing a package, performs a determination as to whether or not a packing form of the package is in an abnormal state, and outputs the working state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicants: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Jouh Yeong CHEW, Misuru KAWAMOTO, Takashi OKUMA, Eiichi YOSHIDA, Yukikazu KOIDE, Hironobu OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230335326
    Abstract: A noise filter includes a capacitor and a common mode choke coil. The noise filter is connected between a first power conversion device configured to perform a switching operation at a first frequency and a second power conversion device configured to perform a switching operation at a second frequency higher than the first frequency. The common mode choke coil includes a core, and a first winding wire and a second winding wire wound around the core. The common mode choke coil has an inductance which is set such that a resonant frequency of the noise filter when the core is magnetically saturated is higher than the first frequency and lower than the second frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Yoshifumi AKITA
  • Patent number: 11788545
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor comprises an impeller including a hub and a plurality of blades. Each blade has a positive pressure surface and a negative pressure surface extending from one side of an external radial surface toward the other side of the external radial surface and being of a positive pressure and a negative pressure, respectively, when the impeller rotates. The hub has a lightening hole that opens to the external radial surface between the positive pressure surface and the negative pressure surface of the plurality of blades. The lightening hole is provided closer to the positive pressure surface of the blade than the negative pressure surface of the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Ryo Umeyama, Yoshiyuki Nakane
  • Publication number: 20230321886
    Abstract: A process management system virtually segments an extruded resin sheet into individual areas associated with several resin sheets. The individual areas are further virtually segmented into segmented areas. Curvature related information related to a curvature after completion of a heat press processing is acquired for each segmented area for each individual area. In a coating condition per area setting process, coating conditions are set for each segmented area for each individual area in accordance with a curvature based on curvature related information of each segmented area for each individual area. In a coating implementing process, a coating is applied to each segmented area for each individual area based on the coating condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazumasa OKUMURA, Toshiaki HOTAKA
  • Publication number: 20230324913
    Abstract: An obstacle detection device includes: a trajectory generating unit configured to acquire a scheduled traveling trajectory of a forklift including a plurality of trajectory points; a detection area setting unit configured to set an obstacle detection area for detecting an obstacle which is present in a traveling direction of the forklift by mapping a detection frame surrounding the forklift as a whole on the trajectory points of the scheduled traveling trajectory acquired by the trajectory generating unit; an obstacle sensor configured to detect the obstacle; and an obstacle determining unit configured to determine whether the obstacle is present in the obstacle detection area set by the detection area setting unit based on point group data from the obstacle sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Shingo HATTORI, Tatsuya Mita
  • Publication number: 20230322538
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle remote operation system includes an industrial vehicle including a vehicle communication part that performs wireless communication; a remote operation device including a remote communication part that performs wireless communication with the vehicle communication part, wherein the remote operation device is used to remotely operate the industrial vehicle; and a remote-operation stop control part that, based on a fact that a remote-operation stop operation has been performed on the remote operation device in a situation where operation of the industrial vehicle is being performed through a remote operation by the remote operation device, performs an operation stop control for stopping the operation of the industrial vehicle, and stops the remote operation by the remote operation device after the operation stop control is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Tomonori KAMIYA
  • Patent number: 11780303
    Abstract: A striker mounting structure is configured to mount a striker on a vehicle body. A hook fixed to a door is hooked to the striker. A reinforcement formed with an insertion hole may be attached to the vehicle body. An outer panel covering a reinforcement may include a striker mounting surface spaced from the reinforcement. A reinforcement member may be fixed to the striker and the striker mounting surface. Two or more connecting rods may extend from the reinforcement member. Each of the connecting rods may include locking portions, which are inserted in the insertion hole formed in the reinforcement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shu Nakamura, Hironori Tajima, Kazuhiko Sato, Mikio Nakashima, Hiroki Kawamura, Tsuyoshi Kato, Satoshi Maekawa, Hirokazu Shirouzu, Kanichi Saito
  • Publication number: 20230313798
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes a compression member compressing fluid drawn from a suction chamber and discharging the compressed fluid to a discharge chamber, an electric motor driving the compression member, an inverter driving the electric motor, a housing in which the suction chamber and the discharge chamber are formed and that accommodates the compression member, the electric motor, and the inverter, the housing including an inverter accommodation portion, a soundproof cover covering an outer surface of the housing, and a nameplate including predetermined information. The nameplate is provided on at least one of a first outer surface of the outer surface corresponding to the inverter accommodation portion and a second outer surface of the outer surface corresponding to the discharge portion. The soundproof cover has a window through the nameplate is viewed and which is formed in a part of the soundproof cover corresponding to the nameplate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Noritaka NISHIMORI, Toshiyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230313799
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes a compression member configured to compress fluid, an electric motor configured to drive the compression member, an inverter configured to drive the electric motor, a housing accommodating the compression member, the electric motor, and the inverter, and a soundproof cover covering the housing. The housing includes a plurality of housing elements. The soundproof cover has a facing portion facing the housing. The facing portion has a groove that surrounds a boundary between two of the housing elements that are adjacent to each other and is distant from the boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takahiro KATO, Ryuji WATANABE, Noritaka NISHIMORI, Takahiro HOSHIDA, Takayuki KATO
  • Publication number: 20230312315
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle includes an object detector configured to detect a position of an object, a notification unit configured to perform notification, a controller configured to control the notification unit according to the position of the object, and an intention-of-starting detector configured to detect whether an operator of the industrial vehicle has an intention of starting the industrial vehicle. The controller stops the notification by the notification unit when the intention-of-starting detector does not detect the intention of starting. The controller permits the notification by the notification unit when the intention-of-starting detector detects the intention of starting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Keisuke AKATSUKA
  • Publication number: 20230318487
    Abstract: In discharging of electric power in a smoothing capacitor arranged between a battery and an inverter provided with three-phase power modules, a control circuit alternately and periodically switches between all-phase upper on control and all-phase lower on control. With a power module in which a current flows in a direction from a motor toward the inverter among the three-phase power modules being defined as a negative current module and a power module in which a current flows in a direction from the inverter toward the motor being defined as a positive current module, during a period during which switching between all-phase lower on control and all-phase upper on control is made, the control circuit performs, for a prescribed time period, discharging processing for setting the negative current module to the lower on state and for setting the positive current module to the upper on state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Daiki Mizuguchi
  • Publication number: 20230318500
    Abstract: A controller uses a differential pressure between a discharge pressure and a suction pressure to estimate an execution time of braking control needed to fix a position of a rotor at a specific angle. Further, the controller executes the braking control by the estimated execution time. This prevents the controller from unnecessarily continuing to execute the braking control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Keita TATEMATSU, Takashi Kawashima, Takuya Naruse
  • Patent number: 11772946
    Abstract: A center of gravity estimation device includes a tilt cylinder pressure sensor detecting a pressure on a rod side of the tilt cylinder, a tilt cylinder pressure sensor detecting a pressure on a bottom side of the tilt cylinder, a lift cylinder pressure sensor detecting a pressure of a lift cylinder, and an electronic control unit performing estimation calculation of a center of gravity of a cargo W loaded on a fork using the pressure on the rod side of the tilt cylinder, the pressure on the bottom side of the tilt cylinder, the pressure of the lift cylinder, and data on a structure of a cargo handling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Tatsuya Hattori
  • Patent number: 11773850
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes a housing including a compression part housing, a shaft support housing, and a motor housing fastened by a plurality of fastening members. A peripheral wall has a plurality of thick-walled portions that protrudes inwardly in a radial direction and through which their associated fastening members are inserted. The fixed scroll base plate has a plurality of protruded portions each protruding outwardly in the radial direction and disposed between the thick-walled portions in a circumferential direction. The fixed scroll base plate has a plurality of pillar portions each extending from the protruded portions toward the shaft support housing in the axial direction and spaced from each other in the circumferential direction. The elastic plate is held at a plurality of spots by the plurality of pillar portions and the shaft support housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Shiori Yamamoto, Yuya Hattori, Takumi Maeda, Shinji Koike, Takafumi Konishi, Keita Jinno, Ami Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20230303851
    Abstract: A coating agent includes: a film forming component including a component A consisting of a urethane (meth)acrylate having an isocyanuric ring skeleton, a component B consisting of a tri(meth)acrylate having an isocyanuric ring skeleton and having no urethane bond, a component C consisting of a polymerizable urethane which has a polycarbonate skeleton derived from a polycarbonate diol having an alicyclic structure, 3 or more polymerizable unsaturated groups per molecule, a weight average molecular weight of 10,000 to 40,000, and a content ratio of the alicyclic structure of 10 mass% to 25 mass%, and a component D consisting of colloidal silica having a (meth)acryloyl group; and a component E consisting of a photoradical polymerization initiator. The content of the component E is 0.1 to 10 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the total film forming component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, KANSAI PAINT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidenori MUNEKATA, Motoshige ISOBE, Sayako SATO, Ken NODA, Kota GOTO, Naoko AGARI
  • Publication number: 20230307984
    Abstract: An inverter-integrated electric motor includes: a motor housing; an inverter housing, and a metallic terminal. The motor housing and the inverter housing each have a projection having a terminal insertion hole through which the metallic terminal is inserted. The projections project while approaching each other, and each have a seal structure that surrounds the terminal insertion hole. One of the housings has a main projected-guide portion projecting more than the projection of the one of the housings and surrounding a part of the projection of the one of the housings. The other of the housings has an auxiliary projected-guide portion surrounding a part of the main projected-guide portion. The main projected-guide portion and the auxiliary projected-guide portion guide moisture intruded into a gap between the housings to suppress moisture retention around the seal structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Atsushi DOJIRI
  • Publication number: 20230307977
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a slot insulation member arranged in a slot between adjacent ones of coils in a circumferential direction of a yoke. The slot insulation member is a wedge-shaped spacer and includes a main body and projections. The projections are arranged in the slot and projected from the main body. The coil includes a main coil portion, a coil end, and a bent coil portion. The main coil portion is arranged in the slot and sandwiched between a corresponding one of the projections and a corresponding tooth. The coil end is arranged outside the slot and contacts the main body. The coil end is wider than the main coil portion. The bent coil portion connects the main coil portion and the coil end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Noriyuki SUZUKI, Yoshiyuki NAKANE
  • Publication number: 20230304497
    Abstract: A roots pump includes a housing, a rotor chamber, a pair of rotary shafts, and a pair of rotors. The rotor chamber includes a rotor chamber peripheral surface facing a pair of distal end portions of each of the rotors. Each of the pair of the distal end portions includes: a pair of rotor peripheral surfaces facing the rotor chamber peripheral surface with a first radial clearance; and a distal end peripheral surface that is formed between the pair of the rotor peripheral surfaces in the rotational direction and faces the rotor chamber peripheral surface with a second radial clearance greater than the first radial clearance. A width of the rotor chamber peripheral surface facing the distal end peripheral surface in the rotational direction is greater than a sum of a pair of predetermined widths of the rotor chamber peripheral surface facing the pair of the rotor peripheral surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masaya YOSHIDA, Daisuke MASAKI, Ryosuke FUKUYAMA, Katsutoshi SHIROMARU
  • Publication number: 20230304493
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a housing, a rotary shaft rotatably supported by the housing, a fixed scroll accommodated in the housing and fixed to the housing, an orbiting scroll that orbits as the rotary shaft rotates, a compression chamber defined between the fixed scroll and the orbiting scroll, a discharge chamber, and an oil passage. A refrigerant taken in from the outside is compressed in the compression chamber. The refrigerant compressed in the compression chamber is discharged into the discharge chamber. An outer peripheral space connected to the compression chamber is defined between the outer peripheral surface of the fixed scroll and the inner peripheral surface of the housing. Oil separated from the refrigerant discharged into the discharge chamber is guided to the outer peripheral space through the oil passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takumi MAEDA, Yuya HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20230305162
    Abstract: An obstacle sensor inspection device that performs an inspection of an obstacle sensor detecting an obstacle present in the vicinity of a mobile body, the obstacle sensor inspection device including; and a detection area setting unit configured to set a detection area of the obstacle sensor to a second area larger than a first area that is used at the time of normal running when the inspection process for the obstacle sensor is performed using the inspection processing unit, in which the inspection processing unit determines that the obstacle sensor is normal when the still object for inspection is detected by the obstacle sensor and determines that the obstacle sensor is abnormal when the still object for inspection is not detected by the obstacle sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Kenya SUMIDA