Patents Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
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Patent number: 11735743Abstract: A power storage device includes: a plurality of bipolar electrodes being stacked, each of the plurality of bipolar electrodes including a collector having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a positive electrode layer provided on the first surface, and a negative electrode layer provided on the second surface; a first resin member provided on at least one surface of the first surface and the second surface in at least a portion of an outer peripheral portion of the collector; and a second resin member provided on the first resin member and supporting the outer peripheral portion of the collector via the first resin member. The respective first resin members for the bipolar electrodes adjacent to each other in a stacking direction of the plurality of bipolar electrodes are connected to each other by a welded portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2017Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Shinya Okuda, Satoshi Endo
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Patent number: 11736054Abstract: There is provided a control device for an electric motor. The control device includes an inverter circuit and a control circuit. In a control cycle of the electric motor, the control cycle includes first to third sections. The control circuit outputs a first modulated wave in accordance with an output of the electric motor and outputs a minimum value or maximum value of a carrier wave as second and third modulated waves in the first section with a peak of first alternate-current voltage, and outputs the second modulated wave in accordance with an output of the electric motor and outputs the minimum value or maximum value of the carrier wave as the first and third modulated waves in the second section with a peak of second alternate-current voltage. The same output is applied in the third section with a peak of third alternate-current voltage.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Kazuki Yamane, Nobuaki Yamada, Masamichi Nawa
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Patent number: 11732714Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a balancer that rotates integrally with a rotary shaft. A bushing includes a cylindrical portion and an auxiliary weight portion. The auxiliary weight portion is arranged on the outer side of the cylindrical portion. The fitting hole is provided at a position where a moment about the eccentric shaft generated by a centrifugal force acting on the movable scroll due to rotation of the rotary shaft and a moment about the eccentric shaft generated by a centrifugal force acting on the auxiliary weight portion due to rotation of the rotary shaft are in the opposite directions. As viewed in the axial direction of the rotary shaft, the center of gravity of the bushing is located on the same side of a straight line including the center of the cylindrical portion and the center of the rotary shaft as the center of the eccentric shaft.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Hirofumi Kuma, Kazuo Murakami, Masashi Wakui
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Publication number: 20230258200Abstract: A turbo fluid machine includes: a housing; an electric motor; an impeller that compresses fluid; and a drive shaft connecting the impeller and the electric motor in the housing. The impeller chamber includes a first impeller chamber and a second impeller chamber distanced from each other in an axial direction of the drive shaft. The impeller includes: a first impeller that compresses the fluid to produce first compressed fluid; and a second impeller that compresses the first compressed fluid to produce second compressed fluid. The turbo fluid machine further includes: a compressed fluid passage through which the first compressed fluid is supplied to the second impeller chamber; and a plurality of flow straightening passages that extends inside the compressed fluid passage in a direction in which the compressed fluid passage extends, and through which the first compressed fluid is straightened and supplied to the second impeller chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Ryo UMEYAMA
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Publication number: 20230258185Abstract: A scroll electric compressor includes a housing, a rotary shaft, an electric motor, a fixed scroll, an orbiting scroll, a compression chamber, a discharge chamber, and an oil storage chamber. The housing has a discharge housing including an end wall, a first peripheral wall, a stepped portion, and a second peripheral wall. The fixed scroll has a flange in contact with the second peripheral wall. The stepped portion, the second peripheral wall, the flange, the outer peripheral wall cooperate to define an annular space around the fixed scroll. The annular space is in communication with the discharge chamber or the oil storage chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Yuya HATTORI, Ami Fujiwara
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Patent number: 11724541Abstract: A cylinder boot for an axle of an industrial vehicle includes a cylinder boot body, a rod-side fixing portion, a cylinder-side fixing portion, and a detection portion. The cylinder boot covers a cylinder rod of a steering hydraulic cylinder. The cylinder boot body has a contractable portion that is contractable in response to a stroke of the cylinder rod. The rod-side fixing portion is disposed at one end portion of the cylinder boot body and fixed to a distal end portion of the cylinder rod. The cylinder-side fixing portion is disposed at the other end portion of the cylinder boot body and fixed to a cylinder body of the steering hydraulic cylinder. The detection portion is displaced in a direction in which the cylinder rod extends or contracts, and is detected by a detection sensor disposed on the beam axle.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Yokei Kawase
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Patent number: 11721805Abstract: Provided is a negative electrode active material that contains silicon clathrate II and that is suitable for a negative electrode of a lithium ion secondary battery. The negative electrode active material includes a silicon material in which silicon clathrate II represented by composition formula NaxSi136 (0?x?10) is contained and a volume of a pore having a diameter of not greater than 100 nm is not less than 0.025 cm3/g.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masanori Harata, Tatsuya Eguchi, Masakazu Murase, Jun Yoshida, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Daichi Kosaka, Shinji Nakanishi
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Patent number: 11718513Abstract: Provided is a position and posture estimation system including: a laser sensor that detects a distance to a pallet; a plane equation calculation unit that calculates a plane equation of a front surface of the pallet on the basis of detection data of the laser sensor; and an estimation computation unit that estimates the position and the posture of the pallet by using the plane equation of the front surface of the pallet which is calculated by the plane equation calculation unit. The estimation computation unit calculates a yaw angle, a pitch angle, and a roll angle of the pallet as the posture of the pallet.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Shingo Hattori
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Publication number: 20230242386Abstract: A controlling device of a forklift executes a stopping process of stopping lowering of a fork by a lift device when a detection sensor is separated from a first facing surface while the fork is being lowered by the lift device in a placing operation, a forward tilting process executed after execution of the stopping process, the forward tilting process controlling the tilt device to tilt the fork forward until the tilt angle reaches a limit value, and a returning process of sequentially obtaining values of the tilt angle during execution of the forward tilting process and tilting the fork rearward when the value of the tilt angle stops changing before the tilt angle reaches the limit value. The returning process is not executed in a case in which the tilt angle reaches the limit value.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Takuro Kato, Yukikazu Koide, Hironobu Okamoto
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Publication number: 20230242148Abstract: A vehicle controller is configured to execute a recognition process of recognizing a state of an object in a recognizable area set on a front side of a host vehicle, and a driving control process of performing a vehicle control of causing the host vehicle to travel based on a recognition result of the recognition process. The recognizable area includes a regular recognition area and a quasi-recognition area when a band-shaped scheduled traveling area along a travel route on which the host vehicle travels is curved. The driving control process includes performing the vehicle control according to a first driving mode when the recognition result of the recognition process indicates that an obstacle exists in the regular recognition area, and performing the vehicle control according to a second driving mode when the recognition result of the recognition process indicates that an obstacle exists in the quasi-recognition area.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Genta SUZUKI
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Patent number: 11715843Abstract: A power storage device includes a power storage module, a conductive plate, and a sealing member. The power storage module includes an electrode laminate and a sealing body. The sealing body includes a plurality of resin portions. Metal plates at laminate ends of the electrode laminate each have an exposed surface exposed from the resin portion. The exposed surface includes a contact region and a non-contact region. The sealing member includes a first sealing portion. The first sealing portion is provided along an inner edge of the resin portion to be in contact with the resin portion. The first sealing portion adheres to the conductive plate and the non-contact region and fills a portion between the conductive plate and the non-contact region. The first sealing portion seals a portion between the conductive plate and the exposed surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Hamaoka, Taku Inoue, Shimpei Mune, Hiromi Ueda, Junichi Iida, Satoshi Morioka, Motoyoshi Okumura
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Patent number: 11713727Abstract: An engine system includes an engine having a combustion chamber, an intake gas passage through which air to be supplied to the combustion chamber flows, an exhaust gas passage through which exhaust gas generated from the combustion chamber flows, a reformer configured to reform the fuel to generate a reformed gas containing hydrogen, a gas supply passage through which air to be supplied to the reformer flows, a bypass passage connected to the gas supply passage and the exhaust gas passage so as to bypass the reformer and through which the fuel having passed through the reformer is circulated to an upstream of the reformer, and a switching valve switched between a normal position that does not allow the fuel having passed through the reformer to flow to the bypass passage and a circulating position that allows the fuel having passed through the reformer to flow to the bypass passage.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Takayuki Homma, Yoshitaka Takeuchi
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Patent number: 11715993Abstract: A motor-driven compressor includes a compression unit, an electric motor, a drive circuit, a first housing, a second housing, and a soundproofing material. The second housing covers at least part of an outer surface of the first housing. The soundproofing material is arranged between the outer surface of the first housing and an area that includes an inner surface and a wall surface of the second housing. The soundproofing material has sound insulating properties. The soundproofing material includes a sound absorbing layer and a sound insulating layer. A first region and a second region are formed between the outer surface of the first housing and the area that includes the inner surface and the wall surface of the second housing. An air layer is formed in the second region.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Noritaka Nishimori, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Takayuki Kato
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Publication number: 20230237809Abstract: An image processing device of a person detection system mounted on a moving body is configured to: detect, in image data obtained from a camera, an area of the image data in which an obstacle appears; perform a center-of-gravity area-width adjustment process in which a position of center of gravity of the obstacle in the area of the image data is estimated and a width of the area of the image data is adjusted based on the position of center of gravity; and determine whether the obstacle in the area is a person by comparing a post-adjustment area obtained after the center-of-gravity area-width adjustment process is performed with dictionary data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota JidoshokkiInventors: Masataka ISHIZAKI, Takuto MIHOICHI
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Publication number: 20230237830Abstract: An image processing device of a person detection system mounted on a moving body is configured to: detect, in image data obtained from a camera, an area in which an obstacle appears; determine whether the area meets an upper body detection process condition that the obstacle in the area is distanced from a road surface within a predetermined range from the camera; perform an upper body detection process in which the area of the image data is compared with upper body comparison data to determine whether the obstacle in the area is a person, for the area that meets the upper body detection process condition; and perform a whole-body detection process in which the area of the image data is compared with whole-body comparison data to determine whether the obstacle in the area is a person, for the area that does not meet the upper body detection process condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Masataka ISHIZAKI, Takuto MIHOICHI
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Publication number: 20230240038Abstract: A cooling device includes an upper flat plate-shaped member and a lower flat plate-shaped member disposed with a predetermined interval therebetween, a heat radiation fin configured to extend from the upper flat plate-shaped member toward the lower flat plate-shaped member and to form a flow path through which air flows between the upper flat plate-shaped member and the lower flat plate-shaped member, and a centrifugal fan having an inlet as an opening and an outlet configured to be open in a direction intersecting an opening direction of the inlet, wherein the centrifugal fan is disposed at a position separated from the upper flat plate-shaped member by a predetermined interval so that the outlet is open toward the flow path, and a protruding part that protrudes toward the centrifugal fan is provided on the upper flat plate-shaped member.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Takashi TAKEUCHI, Masahiro ICHIGO, Koki NAGAE, Akihiko NAGAE, Takamitsu KOZAWA, Yoshiaki OSHITA
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Patent number: 11708764Abstract: A method of manufacturing a TiAl alloy impeller includes a blank preparation step in which a blank of the TiAl alloy impeller is prepared, wherein the blank has a shaft portion and a plurality of blades, and a thickness of an outer edge of each of the blades of the blank is set so as to be larger than a thickness of an outer edge of a blade of the TiAl alloy impeller, and an additional work step in which an additional work is performed on each of the blades of the blank. In the additional work step, the additional work is performed on a first surface of a portion that includes at least the outer edge of each of the blades or the first surface and a second surface of the portion thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Tatsuya Shimizu
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Publication number: 20230227298Abstract: A side shift control device for a forklift truck, which is configured to cause a side shift unit to move a pair of forks holding a pallet in a right-left direction so that the pallet comes in contact with an object when the pallet is placed beside the object, includes: a side shift control unit configured to control the side shift unit so that the pair of forks begin to move toward the object after the pair of forks are inserted into a pair of fork holes formed in the pallet; a detecting unit configured to detect a movement of the pallet with the forks inserted in the fork holes; and a determining unit configured to determine, based on the movement of the pallet detected by the detecting unit, whether the pallet is in contact with the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Yoshiki KAKITA, Tatsuya MITA, Shunsuke OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20230227299Abstract: An engine-type industrial vehicle includes: an engine; a power transmission configured to transmit a driving force of the engine to a driving wheel; a controller configured to adjust the driving force; a travel direction determiner configured to determine a travel direction of the engine-type industrial vehicle; and an object detector configured to detect a position of an object in the travel direction of the engine-type industrial vehicle. The power transmission is switchable between a driving force transmission state and a driving force non-transmission state. The controller causes a state of the engine-type industrial vehicle to be in a travel start prohibition state, when the object detector detects the object and a detection direction of the object matches the travel direction, in a case where a vehicle speed of the engine-type industrial vehicle is equal to or less than a stop determination threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Keisuke AKATSUKA
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Patent number: 11699557Abstract: An electricity-storage module includes an electrode stacked body and a sealing body. A negative terminal electrode is disposed at one end of the electrode stacked body in a stacking direction such that a second surface is an inner side of the electrode stacked body. The sealing body includes first resin portions 21 which are joined to edge portions, and a second resin portion that is joined to the first resin portions 21 so as to surround the first resin portions from an outer side.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2018Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Tomohiro Nakamura, Yuki Chujo, Masahiro Yamada, Takayuki Hirose