Patents Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
  • Publication number: 20250015645
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor including a magnetic body and a shaft member, a stator including a stator core and coils, and a bearing rotatably supporting the shaft member. the stator core includes a yoke and teeth. The following equation is satisfied: La/2?Lb/2=Lc+Ld, wherein a point at a center of the yoke is defined as a center point, La/2 represents a length from the center point to an intersection point, Lb/2 represents a length from the center point to an intersection point, Lc represents a thickness of the yoke, and Ld represents a length of each of the teeth and wherein conditions of 0.15?Lb/La?0.35 and Lc/Ld?0.35 are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hayato ONDA, Tomoyoshi INAGAKI, Yuki OKANO
  • Patent number: 12188474
    Abstract: A roots pump comprising: a rotary shaft; a rotor having a hole-forming surface that forms an insertion hole, and a first bearing and a second bearing. Each of the first bearing and the second bearing includes an inner ring and an outer ring. The rotary shaft is press-fitted in the inner ring of the first bearing, and fitted in the inner ring of the second bearing with a clearance between the rotary shaft and the inner ring of the second bearing. An edge portion of the hole-forming surface adjacent to the first bearing serves as a press-fitting portion in which the rotary shaft is press-fitted, and at least an edge portion of the hole-forming surface adjacent to the second bearing serves as a clearance-fitting portion in which the rotary shaft is fitted with a clearance between the rotary shaft and the clearance-fitting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masaya Yoshida, Daisuke Masaki, Ryosuke Fukuyama, Katsutoshi Shiromaru
  • Publication number: 20250003361
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification apparatus includes: an oxidation reduction catalytic converter; a selective reduction catalytic converter disposed downstream of the oxidation reduction catalytic converter; and a controller configured to perform a first control or a second control based on mixing ratios when a temperature is higher than a predetermined temperature. The first control is performed when the mixing ratio downstream of the selective reduction catalytic converter is greater than the mixing ratio upstream of the selective reduction catalytic converter so that the mixing ratio upstream of the selective reduction catalytic converter is changed from stoichiometric ratio to lean mixture ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takayuki HOMMA, Tadashi TAKEUCHI, Makoto KOIKE, Tetsunori SUZUOKI
  • Publication number: 20250003414
    Abstract: An electric turbo compressor including a housing, an electric motor, and a rotating body driven to rotate by the electric motor. The rotating body includes a rotary shaft, a first impeller, and a second impeller. The first impeller includes a first hub fixed to the rotary shaft, and a plurality of first blades arranged on the first hub, and the second impeller includes a second hub fixed to the rotary shaft, and a plurality of second blades arranged on the second hub. In the rotating body, mass of part of the rotating body from one ends to the other ends of the first blades along the axial direction is greater than mass of part of the rotating body from one ends to the other ends of the second blades along the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yuki OKANO, Hiroshi SAITO, Yuki ENDO, Arata IOKI
  • Publication number: 20250001703
    Abstract: A welding device that welds a resin portion to a workpiece includes a heating member that heats the resin portion to melt the resin portion, a pressing member that presses the resin portion having been melted against the workpiece via a sheet material in a pressing direction to weld the resin portion to the workpiece, a pair of support members that is disposed away from each other in a moving direction of the sheet material that intersects the pressing direction, and supports the sheet material so that the sheet material covers the pressing surface in the pressing direction, a moving mechanism that slides the sheet material supported by the support members in the moving direction, and a control circuit that determines whether the sheet material is to be slid, and controls the moving mechanism so that the sheet material is slid when a determination result is positive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tatsuya KINUGAWA, Kyohei ODA, Yasuyuki OSHIMA
  • Patent number: 12180047
    Abstract: A forklift truck includes a main controller, a driving motor, a drive controller, and an object detector. The drive controller controls the driving motor. The object detector detects the position of an object being present in the backward direction of the forklift truck. The main controller derives an expected trajectory of the forklift truck. The main controller imposes a speed limit on the forklift truck by setting a vehicle speed upper limit when the object detected by the object detector is located within the expected trajectory and the forklift truck is traveling in the direction of approaching the object. The main controller gives commands to the drive controller to prevent the vehicle speed of the forklift truck from exceeding the vehicle speed upper limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takehiro Kubotani, Taku Mizuki, Tomoya Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20240428451
    Abstract: An autonomous traveling vehicle performs data alignment processing, priority order setting processing, identification processing, image matching processing, and own-position estimation processing. The data alignment processing rearranges a plurality of map data into a prescribed order. The identification processing identifies, as an identified group, a group that includes map image data that is most similar to image data when a prescribed condition is satisfied after the data alignment processing. The priority order setting processing further rearranges the plurality of map data rearranged by the data alignment processing, so that the map data belonging to the identified group is used preferentially in the image matching processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Takashi UNO
  • Patent number: 12173711
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes a housing including a first housing portion made of metal, the first housing portion having a first joint surface and a first pin hole, a second housing portion made of metal, the second housing portion having a second joint surface and a second pin hole, a connecting pin made of metal, the connecting pin having a press-fitting portion and a first insertion portion having a first contact portion and removably inserted into the second pin hole, and a first gasket having an insulation property, the first gasket having a first pin insertion hole, the first gasket being interposed between the first joint surface and the second joint surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Ami Fujiwara, Takuro Yamashita, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Yoichi Takashima
  • Patent number: 12178000
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes an inverter portion that includes a circuit board, a busbar fixed to the inverter housing and connecting an external power supply to the circuit board, a noise reduction circuit mounted on the circuit board, a first fastener fastening the circuit board to the inverter housing, and a second fastener fastening the busbar to the circuit board. The circuit board includes a first fastening hole through which the first fastener is inserted, a second fastening hole that is disposed adjacent to the first fastening hole and through which the second fastener is inserted, and a slit extending between the first fastening hole and the second fastening hole from a peripheral edge of the circuit board. The first fastener electrically connects the circuit board as a ground of the noise reduction circuit to the inverter housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Satoshi Okada, Katsuya Usami, Yoshifumi Tada, Yuta Wato
  • Publication number: 20240418184
    Abstract: A mounting structure for mounting a compressor to a mounting surface of a vehicle is disclosed. The compressor includes a rotating body that includes a rotary shaft and a compression mechanism. The compression mechanism is provided at least at one end of the rotary shaft in an axial direction. The compressor includes a radial bearing that supports the rotary shaft, a thrust bearing that supports the rotary shaft, and a housing that accommodates the rotating body, the radial bearing, and the thrust bearing. The radial bearing and the thrust bearing are gas bearings. The mounting structure includes a mounting foot that is made from an elastic member and fixed to the housing and the mounting surface. The resonance frequency of the mounting foot is lower than the resonance frequency of the radial bearing and lower than the resonance frequency of the thrust bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masafumi TSUZUKI, Satoshi KOUMURA, Satoru EGAWA, Hironao YOKOI, Kenta OWAKI, Naofumi KIMURA
  • Patent number: 12170477
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes two lower arm switching elements connected in parallel to each other and a lower arm driver circuit that drives the two lower arm switching elements. The two lower arm switching elements respectively include gate terminals and detection terminals used to detect counter-electromotive forces. The power conversion device includes a common connection line that connects the two detection terminals to each other and connects the two detection terminals to an addition circuit of the lower arm driver circuit. A combined electromotive force is transmitted via the common connection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Shuhei Aoyama, Yoshiaki Ishihara, Yuichi Noge
  • Patent number: 12168948
    Abstract: A forklift includes a downstream exhaust pipe that releases engine exhaust gas into the atmosphere. The downstream exhaust pipe includes a tail pipe extending in a width direction of a vehicle body. A closure part that closes a tail pipe's opening is provided at the tail pipe's tip end portion. A first exhaust port which discharges the exhaust gas rearward from the vehicle body and a second exhaust port which discharges the exhaust gas rearward from the vehicle body at the tail pipe's tip end side with respect to the first exhaust port are provided in the tail pipe's circumferential surface portion. The first exhaust port and the second exhaust port are disposed in a region where cooling air flows. A throttling part that changes a flow path area for the exhaust gas is disposed between the first exhaust port and the second exhaust port in the tail pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yuhei Ota, Hidehito Kondo
  • Publication number: 20240413504
    Abstract: A power storage device includes a pair of restraint plates configured to sandwich and restrain a stacked body, a pair of current collector plates, and a pair of insulating plates in a first direction; and a terminal base configured to be provided on a side surface of at least one of the restraint plates extending in a third direction intersecting both the first direction and a second direction, and the first direction, and have a terminal bolt fixed thereto. The at least one of the restraint plates is configured to have a pair of projecting portions projecting in the second direction beyond the side surface having the terminal base fixed thereto when viewed in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryuji OIDE, Kazuki Maeda, Satoshi Morioka, Motoyoshi Okumura
  • Patent number: 12162777
    Abstract: Provided is a positive electrode active material in which aluminum is dispersed uniformly. A positive electrode active material is crystalline oxide that contains lithium, nickel, and aluminum, and aluminum is dispersed uniformly in a primary particle in the oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nakagaki, Jun Saida
  • Patent number: 12163746
    Abstract: A heatsink is used with a fluid flow generator that rotates about a central axis extending vertically. The heatsink includes a main body section having a top surface facing the fluid flow generator in a vertical direction, and fins that extend upward from the top surface so as to define a plurality of flow passages. The plurality of flow passages form a plurality of fluid paths, each of which has an inlet for the fluid discharged from the fluid flow generator to flow in, and an outlet for discharging to outside the fluid that has entered through the inlet. At least one of the plurality of fluid paths has a first branch section for branching from a first fluid path on downstream of the inlet, and a first joining section for joining a second fluid path having another inlet, on downstream of the first branch section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: NIDEC CORPORATION, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hidehiko Hidaka, Shigeyuki Moriya, Takashi Takeuchi, Masahiro Ichigo, Toshiaki Ito, Yoshiaki Oshita
  • Patent number: 12165953
    Abstract: A heatsink, which is used with a fluid flow generator that rotates about a central axis extending vertically to generate a flow of fluid, includes a main body section having a top surface facing the fluid flow generator in a vertical direction, and fins that extend upward from the top surface so as to define a plurality of flow passages. Four regions defined by an X axis and a Y axis, which cross each other at an intersection between the central axis and the top surface and extend in an extending direction of the top surface, are referred to as a first region, a second region, a third region, and a fourth region, in order in a direction opposite to a rotation direction of the fluid flow generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: NIDEC CORPORATION, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hidehiko Hidaka, Shigeyuki Moriya, Takashi Takeuchi, Masahiro Ichigo, Toshiaki Ito, Yoshiaki Oshita
  • Publication number: 20240405696
    Abstract: A vehicle on-board power conversion device includes an inverter configured to convert power output from a power supply of a vehicle and processing circuitry configured to control the inverter. The inverter includes a first inverter circuit configured to convert power, output from the power supply, into single-phase two-wire alternating-current power and supply the single-phase two-wire alternating-current power to the one or more interior power supply ports, and a second inverter circuit configured to convert power, output from the power supply, into single-phase two-wire alternating-current power and supply the single-phase two-wire alternating-current power to the one or more exterior power supply ports. The processing circuitry is configured to determine whether the vehicle is traveling, and, when determining that the vehicle is traveling, stop or limit supply of power to at least one exterior power supply port of the one or more exterior power supply ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Kazuya OKABE, Masato MORIKAWA, Masahiro ICHIGO, Takashi TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240399985
    Abstract: A back wall that defines a recess of an outlet box includes a first cover portion and a second cover portion that respectively include a first through-hole and a second through-hole. The first through-hole and the second through-hole are configured to open a first terminal insertion port of a first outlet member and a second terminal insertion port of a second outlet member in the back wall, respectively. Each of the first cover portion and the second cover portion is inclined with respect to an opening surface of the recess. The second cover portion projects toward the opening surface with respect to the first cover portion. The first cover portion and the second cover portion are arranged in that order in a direction along the opening surface and in which a depth from the opening surface to the first cover portion increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Atsuhito KIMURA, Takashi TAKEUCHI, Yoshiaki OSHITA
  • Publication number: 20240405695
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes an inverter and a controller that controls the inverter. The inverter includes a first inverter circuit and a second inverter circuit that are connected in parallel to a power source. A first output terminal of a full-bridge inverter unit and a first terminal are connected to each other. A second output terminal of the full-bridge inverter unit and a second terminal are connected to each other. The second output terminal of the full-bridge inverter unit and the first output terminal of the full-bridge inverter unit are connected to each other at a connecting point. The connecting point and a neutral point terminal are connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Kazuya OKABE, Keiji YOSHIDA, Masahiro ICHIGO
  • Publication number: 20240405697
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes an inverter, a state detector, a distribution board configured to distribute power output from the inverter such that single-phase three-wire alternating-current power is supplied to a first power supply port and single-phase two-wire alternating-current power is supplied to a second power supply port and a third power supply port, and processing circuitry configured to control the inverter and the distribution board. The processing circuitry is configured to determine whether there is an anomaly in one of a first inverter circuit and a second inverter circuit based on a detection result of the state detector, and when determining that there is an anomaly in one of the first inverter circuit and the second inverter circuit, stop the inverter circuit determined to have the anomaly and switch the first switch of the distribution board to an open state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Kazuya OKABE, Masato MORIKAWA, Masahiro ICHIGO, Takashi TAKEUCHI