Patents Assigned to Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
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Patent number: 11903885Abstract: A wheelchair armrest storage system may include a housing for a wheelchair, where: the housing includes a proximal portion, a distal portion, a first lateral side, and a second lateral side, the housing extends longitudinally between the proximal portion and the distal portion, and at least one cover receiving cavity is defined in each of the first lateral side and the second lateral side. The wheelchair armrest storage system may further include a storage area defined within the housing, and a cover configured to translate within each of the at least one cover receiving cavity defined in each of the first lateral side and the second lateral side.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Christopher Paul Lee, Douglas A. Moore
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Publication number: 20240054823Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining a usage of an internal combustible engine (ICE) vehicle and a usage of an electric vehicle over a period of time, where the vehicles are associated with an entity, determining an impact of carbon output, based on the usage determination, determining a usage amount of the electric vehicle to offset the impact, when the impact is greater than a first threshold, and sending a notification to a device associated with the entity, where the notification includes the amount of usage of the electric vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2022Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
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Patent number: 11896536Abstract: Systems and methods of wheelchair systems having a companion control mode are disclosed. The wheelchair system includes a companion and a wheelchair. The wheelchair includes one or more wheels, at least one actuator coupled to the one or more wheels, a processing device, and a non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium in communication with the processing device. The non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium includes one or more programming instructions that, when executed, cause the processing device to determine the companion, generate a companion profile based on the determined companion, determine a movement of the companion, and actuate the at least one actuator to drive the one or more wheels to follow the movement of the companion. The actuation of the at least one actuator to drive the one or more wheels to follow the movement of the companion is an autonomous control.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.Inventors: Dario Jose Villarreal Suarez, Sarah Darrow, Douglas A. Moore, Christopher Lee
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Patent number: 11897450Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining, by sensors on a transport, a slope of a road and a surface condition of the road and engaging one or more wheels of the transport, based on the slope, the surface condition, and a characteristic of the one or more wheels. Engaging includes braking to the one or more wheels at a different rate as the transport is moving on the road.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Satyajit P. Patne, Edward Allen Cain, Jr.
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Publication number: 20240046797Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining an issue exists with a resource delivery to an electricity provider, determining an electric impact, based on the issue, determining an area that will be affected by the electric impact, and dispatching vehicles to provide electricity to locations within the area.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2022Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
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Patent number: 11893527Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to a delivery system for returning a property item left in a transportation environment to a passenger of the transportation environment. A method can include determining a first waypoint based on a location of the property item, determining a second waypoint based on a pickup location identified by the passenger, constructing a delivery route between the first waypoint and the second waypoint in which the delivery route has at least one segment that corresponds with at least a portion of at least one selected trip from a plurality of trips to be carried out in the transportation environment, obtaining confirmation of acceptance of the delivery route from at least one participant of the at least one selected trip, and obtaining confirmation of delivery of the property item by the at least one participant and/or the passenger in accordance with the delivery route.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.Inventors: Lucas D. Smith, Jay N. Bartholomew
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Patent number: 11894136Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of collecting, by the transport, data from a device associated with an occupant containing an amount of movement of the device and an amount of time elapsed during the movement, and determining an injury level of the occupant based on the data after a collision.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignees: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA CONNECTED NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Simon P. Roberts, Yang Ding, Daniel Warren Reaser, Christopher J. Macpherson, Keaton Khonsari, Derek A. Thompson, Sergei Gage
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Patent number: 11890901Abstract: A system for providing tire change information is provided. The system includes a processor, and a memory module storing one or more processor-readable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to: determine a number of vehicles within a first region that requested a tire change, determine whether the number of vehicles is greater than a first threshold number, and provide information about a first tire change group discount to the vehicles that requested the tire change in response to determining that the number of vehicles is greater than the first threshold number.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.Inventor: Equan Tompkins
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Patent number: 11884101Abstract: An omni-wheel may include a shaft, a plurality of rollers, and a braking device. The plurality of rollers may be circumferentially arranged about the shaft and arranged radially outward from the shaft. The braking device may include a fluid-filled bladder and a plurality of braking pads. The fluid-filled bladder may be circumferentially arranged about the shaft. The plurality of braking pads may be arranged between the fluid-filled bladder and the plurality of rollers. The fluid-filled bladder may expand radially outward when pressurized, displacing the plurality of braking pads radially outward to contact the plurality of rollers, preventing rotation of the rollers.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.Inventor: Douglas A. Moore
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Patent number: 11887460Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving a first health characteristic of an occupant from a first device affixed to a transport, responsive to the first health characteristic being at or outside a threshold, receiving a second health characteristic of the occupant from a second device affixed to the occupant, and sending a notification to other devices that were proximate the second device when the second health characteristic is outside the threshold.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Simon P. Roberts, Yang Ding, Daniel Warren Reaser, Christopher J. Macpherson, Keaton Khonsari, Derek A. Thompson, Sergei Gage
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Patent number: 11886615Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of encrypting, by a transport, received data based on a first biometric associated with an occupant, unencrypting, by the transport, the encrypted data, based on a verification of a second biometric, wherein the second biometric is a continuum of the first biometric, and providing, by the transport, the unencrypted data to the occupant.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Stephen Paul McFarland, Jr.
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Patent number: 11885627Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining a transport, in a group of transports associated with a date of disposition, is operating below an efficiency threshold of the group of transports, and limiting transports, in the group of transports, that are operating most above the efficiency threshold, from performing functionality until the group of transports is at the efficiency threshold.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
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Publication number: 20240025299Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving a first energy, at a target transport, from a charging station at a first value during a first amount of time, and the target transport and the charging station are physically connected, and receiving a second energy, at the target transport, from a providing transport at a second value greater than the first value during a second amount of time less than the first amount of time, and the target transport and the providing transport are wirelessly connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Norman Lu
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Publication number: 20240029165Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a server, a video file from a transport, the video file reflecting an accident, requesting a permission to access video files from a plurality of transports within a pre-defined range from the transport, analyzing the video file from the transport and the video files from the plurality of the transports to determine a damage to the transport, and storing the video files from the plurality of the transports that correlate with the video file from the transport on a remote storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Neil Dutta, Anil Nagpal
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Publication number: 20240027216Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a transport, a request for a service from a transport occupant, determining, by the transport, a profile of the transport occupant, identifying, by the transport, at least one profile shared with the transport occupant based on the profile of the transport occupant, and providing the service to the transport occupant based on the at least one profile shared with the transport occupant.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Anil Nagpal, Randall M. Harris
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Publication number: 20240025293Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of sensing that a transport in a group is performing at an efficiency below a threshold and modifying at least one other transport in the group to perform at an efficiency above the threshold, wherein the efficiency above the threshold is similar to efficiency below the threshold, wherein the modification occurs at a final portion of a route of the at least one other transport.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
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Patent number: 11880198Abstract: Systems and methods for using autonomous vehicle assistance for freeing a vehicle from a stuck condition may include: receiving sensor data from a vehicle sensor indicating a condition of the vehicle; determining from the sensor data that the vehicle is in a stuck condition; obtaining a solution for freeing the vehicle from the stuck condition, wherein the technique is a learned solution developed based on collected data related to vehicle operator techniques for extrication; and taking over at least partial control of the vehicle from its operator and applying the learned technique to the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Ethan William Pomish
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Patent number: 11880670Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving an authorization code for a software update by a transport component, executing the software update on the transport component, responsive to a successful execution of the software update, generating a validation code by the transport component, and running the software update on other transport components based on the validation code.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Stephen Paul McFarland, Jr.
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Publication number: 20240019262Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of linking a mobile device and a vehicle, configuring, on the mobile device, a data service request, receiving at a controller area network of the vehicle the data service request from the mobile device, and displaying within the vehicle a data set responsive to the configuring.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2022Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Randall M. Harris
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Patent number: 11875613Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of obtaining, by a moving vehicle, a first data including one or more of at least one first video and at least one first image of a moving transport, analyzing the first data, by the moving vehicle, to determine an initial issue, querying, by the moving vehicle, a server for a second data based on the analyzing, wherein the second data is one or more of at least one second video and at least one second image of the moving transport at a previous time, verifying, by the moving vehicle, an issue exists based on a delta above a threshold between the first data and the second data, and sending, by the moving vehicle, the verified issue to the server.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Joshua V. Marasigan, Robert D. Slater, Felipe G. Salles, Jaya Bharath R. Goluguri