Patents Assigned to Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki
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Patent number: 11984909Abstract: A system of an interconnected inverter includes an inverter that converts DC power from a DC power supply into AC power and provides AC power to an AC power line, an RDC that converts a voltage value obtained by a voltage sensor into electrical angle information that shows a phase angle of an output voltage, the voltage sensor obtaining a voltage value of an output voltage from the inverter to a power grid, and an ECU that controls the inverter to provide an alternating current in synchronization with an alternating current that flows through the AC power line by using timing at which an angle shown in the electrical angle information given from the RDC attains to a prescribed angle. Extra cost for diversion can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kojiro Asakawa, Kazuhito Hayashi, Ikuhiro Nakamura
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Patent number: 11985532Abstract: A communication system includes: a communication device configured to communicate with a server external to a vehicle; and a control device. The control device is configured to: control the communication device to receive predetermined data from the server while the vehicle is traveling along a travel route to a destination; acquire first and second sections among the travel route; control the communication device to receive the data while the vehicle is traveling in the first section; and control the communication device in such a way that an interruption process is completed before the vehicle travels in the second section. The first section is a section where the data is received. The second section is a section where the data is not received. The interruption process is a process of interrupting the reception of the data in a resumable state.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kosuke Ohashi
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Patent number: 11984602Abstract: Provided is an all-solid-state battery capable of suppressing a rise in the resistance increase ratio thereof. The all-solid-state battery includes an anode active material layer containing an alloy-based active material, a first fibrous carbon, and a second fibrous carbon, wherein when a fiber diameter of the first fibrous carbon is defined as A, and a fiber diameter of the second fibrous carbon is defined as B, the ratio of A to B is 10 to 300, and when the proportion (wt %) of the first fibrous carbon to the alloy-based active material is defined as X, and the proportion (wt %) of the second fibrous carbon to the alloy-based active material is defined as Y, the proportion ({Y/(X+Y)}×100%) of the contained second fibrous carbon to a total of the first fibrous carbon and the second fibrous carbon is 0.5% to 10%.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shohei Kawashima
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Patent number: 11984002Abstract: A control device comprising a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire a warning level indicating a warning measure related to an abnormality that has occurred in a vehicle, from a device installed externally to the vehicle; detect an abnormality that has occurred in the vehicle, from equipment mounted to the vehicle; perform thinning control on a detection result of the abnormality detected according to the warning level; and transmit the detection result resulting from thinning to the device.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Sugashima, Tokuya Inagaki
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Patent number: 11984618Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode including a positive electrode collector, a positive electrode active material layer on part of the surface of the positive electrode collector, and an insulating layer on another part of the surface of the positive electrode collector; a negative electrode including a negative electrode collector; and a negative electrode active material layer on part of the surface of the negative electrode collector; a separator that insulates the positive and negative electrodes; and a nonaqueous electrolyte. A width of the negative electrode active material layer is wider than the positive electrode active material layer. The insulating layer protrudes from the negative electrode active material layer; and exhibits a thermal shrinkage factor of 13% or less in a direction parallel to the surface of a square insulating layer sample having a side length of 5 cm and heated at 150° C. for 1 hour.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takanobu Yamada, Tetsuya Kaneko
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Patent number: 11985583Abstract: A communication control apparatus is configured to store communicability information, configured to control an update of the communicability information, configured to acquire a first route as a scheduled route along which the communication control apparatus moves, configured to control communication with the external device during moving of the communication control apparatus to control the update of the communicability information, based on the first route, the communicability information, and a communication detail requested by the communication control apparatus and the external device, configured to perform communication with the external device, configured to collect data required for the update of the communicability information through communication with the external device, and configured to control the update of the communicability information based on the collected data.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Ninagawa, Satoshi Niwa
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Patent number: 11984585Abstract: An all solid state battery includes a cathode, an anode, an opposing region, a non-opposing region, and a solid electrolyte layer, and an anode active material layer includes an anode active material, and a sulfide solid electrolyte, the anode current collector is a current collector that react with the sulfide solid electrolyte at an open circuit potential of the anode active material, the anode current collector includes a coating layer including lithium titanate, on a surface of the anode active material layer side, in plan view, the coating layer includes one or two or more of an existence portion and non-existence portion respectively, in the region specified by an outer edge of the anode current collector, and in plan view, the coating layer includes the existence portion in at least a part of the opposing region, and includes the non-existence portion in at least a part of the non-opposing region.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masato Kamiya
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Patent number: 11984746Abstract: A power supply system includes an alternating current sweep unit and a first power supply circuit, and each of a first U-phase battery string, a first V-phase battery string, a first W-phase battery string, and a first battery string includes a plurality of battery circuit modules connected in series, and each of the battery circuit modules includes a battery, output terminals, a first switch, and a second switch.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junta Izumi, Kenji Kimura
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Patent number: 11984597Abstract: A sodium ion secondary battery includes a cyclic organic compound as an active material and a complex hydride as a solid electrolyte, wherein the cyclic organic compound has at least two carbonyl groups —C(?O)—, the at least two carbonyl groups are bonded via a single bond or at least one conjugated double bond, and the complex hydride includes a Na cation and a complex ion containing H.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keita Niitani, Shin Ushiroda, Hiroko Kuwata, Masato Hozumi
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Patent number: 11984025Abstract: A control device included in each vehicle composing a vehicle group predicts a vehicle state of a subject vehicle before a traveling regulation point based on speed information of the subject vehicle, light color information of a traffic signal, and distance information between the subject vehicle and an entrance of the traveling regulation point. Based on the vehicle state, it is determined whether a vehicle of which the vehicle state corresponds to an unenterable state is included in the vehicle group. The unenterable state indicates a state where the subject vehicle cannot enter the traveling regulation point before the traffic signal is changed to the yellow light when its speed is maintained at a current speed. When it is determined that the vehicle in the unenterable state is included in the vehicle group, the subject vehicle is controlled such that it does not enter the traveling regulation point.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akihide Tachibana
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Patent number: 11983941Abstract: A driver monitor detects, based on face images obtained by capturing the face of a driver of a vehicle at different times, a color of the face of the driver and a face orientation angle of the driver in each face image; stores, when a face orientation angle detected from a first face image captured at a first time is included in a predetermined range of face orientation angles, the color detected from the first face image in a memory; and determines that the color of the face is abnormal, when a face orientation angle detected from a second face image captured at a second time later than the first time is included in the range of face orientation angles and a difference between the color detected from the second face image and the color stored in the memory exceeds a variance threshold.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenichiroh Hara
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Patent number: 11984555Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a sulfide-based solid electrolyte with a balance between the ion conductivity of the sulfide-based solid electrolyte and the heat generation amount of an electrode layer containing the sulfide-based solid electrolyte during an electrode reaction. Disclosed is a method for producing a sulfide-based solid electrolyte comprising a sulfide glass-based material that contains at least one lithium halide compound selected from the group consisting of LiI, LiBr and LiCl, the method comprising immersing the sulfide glass-based material, which is at least one sulfide glass-based material selected from the group consisting of a sulfide glass and a glass ceramic, in an organic solvent having a solubility parameter of 7.0 or more and 8.8 or less, for 1 hour to 100 hours.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki Osada, Ayano Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11981260Abstract: A vehicle warning device causes a buzzer to generate a warning sound and vibrates a steering wheel using a steering vibration actuator when a monitoring target object for a right monitor range is present with a right turn signal changed from off to on, that is, generates a warning. The vehicle warning device does not generate the warning even though the monitoring target object for the right monitor range is present when any of cases where a lane change by one lane from an original lane to a first right adjacent lane is completed during an on state of the right turn signal, a distance between a right side surface of the host vehicle and a right lane marking of the first right adjacent lane is a threshold distance or less, and a time to enter a second right adjacent lane is a threshold time or less does not occur.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takaya Yamashita
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Patent number: 11980559Abstract: The present disclosure can provide a leg brace capable of reducing a pain in a knee while both enhancing its convenience and reducing the burden on an ankle. the leg brace including: a first pushing part that pushes a leg of the wearer outward so that an ankle bone is positioned above a heel bone; a second pushing part that pushes the leg of the wearer inward so that the ankle bone is positioned above the heel bone; a restraint part that restrains a positional relation between the first and the second pushing parts in which they face each other across the leg of the wearer; and a placement part on which a foot of the wearer is placed, the placement part being connected to the first pushing part or the second pushing part.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eisuke Aoki, Takahiro Takeda, Seiichi Tanabe, Tomio Ikeda, Tadashi Odashima
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Patent number: 11982226Abstract: An exhaust pipe is fixed to an internal combustion engine. A proximal end of a sensor guide is fixed to the exhaust pipe. A lead extends from an exhaust gas temperature sensor through the inside of the sensor guide to the outside of the sensor guide. The lead is fixed to a body of a vehicle outside the sensor guide. A distal end of the sensor guide is located forward of the proximal end.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Daisuke Torii
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Patent number: 11982349Abstract: A control method for a power train system that includes a clutch position sensor, a processor, and a manual transmission includes converting a gear stage selected by a shift lever of the manual transmission to a control shift range of an automatic transmission, sending specific information that enables identification of the converted control shift range to the control device configured to control motion of a vehicle in cooperation with the power train system, and holding, when operation of a clutch is detected by the clutch position sensor configured to detect operation of the clutch, specific information that enables identification of the control shift range at a time at which operation of the clutch is started, as the specific information to be sent to the control device.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuki Miyake, Wataru Kanda
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Patent number: 11983021Abstract: A controller includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to detect a state of at least one point, and determine depending on the detected state whether or not to include, in a flight route of a flying object transporting a package, a position above the at least one point as a passing point for the flying object to pass.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
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Patent number: 11981342Abstract: A display and voice output control system of a vehicle on which automated driving is performed includes a display device, a voice output device and a controller. The controller controls a notification of a recommended behavior by the display device and the voice output device. In the notification control, it is judged whether or not a notification condition of the recommended behavior is satisfied. If it is judged that the notification condition is satisfied, it is judged whether a notification relaxation condition of the recommended behavior is satisfied based on a status of a driver and a driving status of the vehicle. If it is judged that the notification relaxation conditions is satisfied, relaxation notification processing is executed. Otherwise, normal notification processing is executed. In the relaxation notification processing, an output status of the recommended behavior in the voice output device is controlled to an inactive state.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kiyotoshi Sekine, Takahiko Kuwabara, Ko Igarashi
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Patent number: D1026765Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hisato Sawada
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Patent number: D1027230Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ferenc Tobak, IV