Patents Assigned to Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 11990794
    Abstract: Provided is a stator including a stator core composed of an annular core back and teeth projecting from the inner circumference side of the core back, and an end plate for clamping and pressing at least one end side of the core back and the teeth in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Junichi Deguchi
  • Patent number: 11990619
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a cathode active material capable of suppressing the reaction with a solid electrolyte. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a coated cathode active material comprising: a cathode active material, and a coating portion coating at least a part of a surface of the cathode active material, and the coating portion includes a scandium lithium phosphate based compound or a lithium borate based compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koutarou Aoyagi, Takuya Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 11991575
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for wireless communications is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives, from a first base station, one or more first messages that include measurement configuration parameters and sidelink parameters associated with a first cell. The UE establishes a sidelink with a second UE based on the sidelink parameters and transmits, to the first base station, a measurement report based on the measurement configuration parameters. Responsive to the measurement report, the UE receives a second message comprising second configuration parameters of a second cell of a second base station. The second configuration parameters do not comprise sidelink parameters. The UE then switches from the first cell of the first base station to the second cell of the second base station. The sidelink of the first cell is handed over to an uplink of the second cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Andreas Falkenberg
  • Patent number: 11988131
    Abstract: An engine includes a cylinder block including a water jacket, a water jacket spacer inserted into the water jacket, and a first gasket and a first cylinder head assembled to the cylinder block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoya Oshima
  • Patent number: 11988905
    Abstract: A phase shifter includes a substrate, waveguides and a wiring portion. The substrate includes optical waveguide regions and contact regions. Each contact region has contact portions. The waveguides are disposed at the substrate, and each of the waveguides accumulates carriers to modulate a phase of light for guiding propagation of the light. The wiring portion electrically connects each of the waveguides and each of the contact portions. Each of the contact portions connecting each of the waveguides to a corresponding one of electrodes to inject the carriers into each of the waveguides. Each of the waveguides has a lengthwise direction defined as a first direction, and a direction that is perpendicular to the first direction and is parallel to a surface of the substrate is defined as a second direction. The optical waveguide regions and the contact regions are disposed to be alternately aligned along the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MIRISE Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Seita Iwahashi
  • Patent number: 11990611
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a method for producing an active material wherein a volume variation due to charge/discharge is reduced. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a method for producing an active material, the method comprising steps of: a preparing step of preparing a LiSi precursor including a Si element and a Li element, and a void forming step of forming a void by extracting the Li element from the LiSi precursor by using a Li extracting solvent, and the LiSi precursor includes a crystal phase of Li22Si5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Uchiyama, Shizuka Masuoka, Tetsuya Waseda
  • Patent number: 11990260
    Abstract: The present invention is a method for producing a rare earth magnet, including preparing a magnetic powder and a modifier powder, mixing them to obtain a mixed powder, compression-molding the mixed powder in a magnetic field to obtain a magnetic-field molded body, and pressure-sintering the magnetic-field molded body to obtain a sintered body, wherein the magnetic powder includes a first particle group and a second particle group, the D50 values of the first particle group and the second particle group are denoted by d1 ?m and d2 ?m, respectively, d1 and d2 satisfy the relationship of 0.350?d2/d1?0.500, and the ratio between the total volume of the first particle group and the total volume of the second particle group is from 9:1 to 4:1; and a rare earth magnet obtained by the production method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Ito, Motoki Hiraoka, Reimi Tabuchi, Hisashi Maehara, Masanori Okanan
  • Patent number: 11987289
    Abstract: A suspension structure for a power unit is configured to suspend a power unit including a motor, a transaxle, and a power control unit. In the suspension structure for a power unit, the transaxle is arranged in a substantially center portion in a vehicle width direction, the motor is arranged at a position on an upper side with respect to the transaxle, and on one side in the vehicle width direction, and the power control unit is arranged at a position on the upper side with respect to the transaxle, and on an opposite side of the motor. In the suspension structure for a power unit, the motor and the power control unit are suspended on a principal axis of inertia substantially parallel with an axis in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignees: SUBARU CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, HINO MOTORS, LTD., MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED, YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kan Saito, Toshiyuki Tsuchiya, Takashi Umezu, Masao Tajima, Hiroyuki Shiraishi, Toshimichi Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11987298
    Abstract: A main power supply having a large capacity and a backup power supply having a small capacity are switchable by a power supply switching determination unit in a system. A motor control device drives a motor by the main power supply or the backup power supply. A drive control unit outputs a drive signal, calculated by feedback control of the current detection value with respect to the current command value, to an inverter circuit. When the power supply switching determination unit switches from the main power supply to the backup power supply, the drive control unit moves from a normal control using the main power supply to a backup control that restricts an electric power consumption and prevents the backup power supply from stopping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Maegawa, Hiroki Tomizawa, Hiroyasu Otake, Yuuta Kajisawa, Yuji Fujita, Tokuaki Hibino, Yosuke Yamashita, Atsushi Satou, Masaharu Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11987121
    Abstract: An information processing device that is able to communicate with a vehicle includes: a control unit; and a communication unit. The control unit acquires driving information of another vehicle traveling around the vehicle via the communication unit, and transmits at least part of the driving information to the vehicle via the communication unit when the driving information indicates content of driving that reduces wear and tear of a component of the other vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keisuke Shoji
  • Patent number: 11987292
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a body including a front compartment and a subframe configured to support an installed part disposed in the front compartment. The body includes a first counterface that inclines downward in a rearward direction of the vehicle. The subframe is attached to the body from below. The subframe includes a second counterface facing the first counterface of the body. The second counterface is inclined downward in the rearward direction of the vehicle. At least one of the first counterface and the second counterface includes a portion inclined rearward toward an inner side in a right-left direction of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigenori Hashida, Shintaro Kosaka, Satoshi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11989761
    Abstract: A vehicle usage fee determination system includes a reception unit that receives a usage application by a user who has an intention to drive a vehicle, a wakefulness level estimation unit that estimates a wakefulness level of the user, and a fee determination unit that sets a usage fee of the vehicle when a target wakefulness level that is the wakefulness level at a time a first predetermined time before a scheduled driving start time of the vehicle by the user is a predetermined value to be equal to or less than a usage fee of the vehicle when the target wakefulness level is lower than the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Reiko Yamamoto, Gen Fukuyama, Masao Tajima, Mikio Inoue
  • Patent number: 11987175
    Abstract: A control device for controlling a vehicle provided with a power supply function for a user includes a control unit that causes a light of the vehicle to blink under a certain condition when a power outage is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Satoru Sakuma, Genshi Kuno, Shota Minami
  • Patent number: 11987453
    Abstract: A method of automatically moving a dolly apparatus from an initial location to a downstream location is provided. The method includes engaging a component being carried along an elevated conveyor with a synchronization arm of a dolly apparatus such that the dolly apparatus moves with the component. The dolly apparatus includes a base frame and an actuation member movably mounted to the base frame. A synchronization arm is movably mounted to a top of the base frame. The actuation member is operatively connected to the synchronization arm such that actuating the actuation member lowers the synchronization arm to a disengaged position. The actuation member is actuated thereby lowering the synchronization arm to a disengaged position and releasing the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Scottie L. Foster, Bradley J. Garcia, Lloyd R. Holland, Michael C. Greenlee, Annetta L. Allen, Johnny O. Boarman, IV, Jeffrey L. James
  • Patent number: 11987146
    Abstract: A power management system includes a plurality of power storages and a server. The server includes a selector that selects at least one of the plurality of power storages, a scheduler that makes a schedule for the selected power storage, and a request processor that requests a user of the selected power storage to control at least one of external charging and external power feed in accordance with the made schedule. The server obtains desire information that indicates a desire level (priority on battery life/priority on an incentive) and carries out at least one of selection of the power storage and making of the schedule based on the obtained desire information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tsuchiya, Toru Nakamura, Shigeki Kinomura, Hidetoshi Kusumi, Hironobu Kitaoka
  • Patent number: 11987243
    Abstract: A control mode of speed control includes a first control mode in which an actual speed is caused to follow a target speed through active use of a brake and a second control mode in which the actual speed is caused to follow the target speed while use of the brake is suppressed. An autonomous driving system changes a threshold value to a value larger than a value in the first control mode when the control mode is switched from the first control mode to the second control mode, and changes the threshold value to a value smaller than a value in the second control mode when the control mode is switched from the second control mode to the first control mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomotaka Asano, Hiroki Shizuhata, Yutaka Aoki, Satoshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11987238
    Abstract: A driving support apparatus according to the invention estimates the position of a moving body by controlling a position estimation unit when the tracking-target moving body leaves a first area or a second area to enter a blind spot area and detects the position of the moving body by controlling a position detection unit when the moving body leaves the blind spot area to enter the first area or the second area. In this manner, the trajectory of the tracking-target moving body is calculated so that the trajectory of the moving body detected in the first area or the second area and the trajectory of the moving body estimated in the blind spot area are continuous to each other and driving support is executed based on the calculated trajectory of the tracking-target moving body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Quy Hung Nguyen Van, Shoichi Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 11987248
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is configured to: execute vehicle speed maintaining control for causing the vehicle speed to coincide with a set vehicle speed; start first control, for causing the acceleration to coincide with target acceleration for keeping maintaining acceleration no higher than limit acceleration, or second control, for controlling the acceleration such that the vehicle speed is kept no higher than a limit vehicle speed lower than the set vehicle speed, as limit control when a traffic signal correlated distance correlated with a traffic signal distance to a stop instructing traffic signal is determined to become a first threshold or less during execution of the vehicle speed maintaining control; and suspend the vehicle speed maintaining control and the limit control when a driver operates a deceleration operator during execution of the limit control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota Kuroki, Toshihiro Maruyama, Tomohiko Inoue, Norio Tsuchida
  • Patent number: 11987258
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device, includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to cause a display unit provided in a vehicle cabin to display an inducement image requesting that an occupant grip a steering wheel in a case in which it is necessary for the occupant to grip the steering wheel, and cause the display unit to display the inducement image more prominently in a case of requesting that the occupant grip the steering wheel before the vehicle switches from an autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode as the vehicle is continuing to drive autonomously, than in a case of requesting that the occupant continue to grip the steering wheel as the vehicle is continuing to drive autonomously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoaki Takabatake, Koji Kimura, Junji Miyazaki, Ryo Ogata, Yuki Yoshida, Tadashi Morishita
  • Patent number: D1027758
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Nakajima, Yuta Nozaki, Tsuyoshi Oba