Patents Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
  • Patent number: 12269487
    Abstract: A wheel load estimation device includes an obtaining unit obtaining angular velocities and angular accelerations of a rigid body including an element, accelerations of the rigid body in a front-rear direction and in a lateral direction, a weight of the element, and a position including a height of the element. The element fluctuates a center of gravity of the rigid body. A center-of-gravity inertia value calculation unit calculates information relevant to the center of gravity of the rigid body and an inertia value. A wheel load variation calculation unit calculates variation amounts of wheel loads that each act on a corresponding one of a plurality of wheels supporting the rigid body. A wheel load estimation unit estimates the wheel loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hattori, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Daiki Mori, Yoshikazu Hattori, Noriyoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12270390
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes: a compression mechanism; a motor mechanism; an inverter; a housing accommodating the compression mechanism, the motor mechanism, and the inverter; and a power supplier. The power supplier includes a connector and a cable extending toward an outside of the housing. The connector includes a first protrusion extending toward the outside of the housing. The first protrusion includes an end surface that has an insertion hole into which the cable is inserted, and a side surface that cylindrically extends and is connected to the end surface. A second protrusion is formed integrally with the side surface and extends downward from the side surface in a gravity direction corresponding to a direction in which the gravity is applied to the housing. A water droplet having reached the insertion hole along the cable is guided from the insertion hole to the second protrusion along the end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Akio Fujii, Shumpei Yamakage, Hiroaki Ito
  • Patent number: 12269200
    Abstract: A process management system virtually segments an extruded resin sheet into individual areas associated with several resin sheets. The individual areas are further virtually segmented into segmented areas. Curvature related information related to a curvature after completion of a heat press processing is acquired for each segmented area for each individual area. In a coating condition per area setting process, coating conditions are set for each segmented area for each individual area in accordance with a curvature based on curvature related information of each segmented area for each individual area. In a coating implementing process, a coating is applied to each segmented area for each individual area based on the coating condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazumasa Okumura, Toshiaki Hotaka
  • Publication number: 20250112515
    Abstract: A coil is formed by a winding wound in a concentrated manner over multiple layers around a tooth and an insulator extension. The insulator extension includes an outer end face located on a side opposite to a stator core. A first turn of the winding that forms a first layer of the coil includes a winding start portion that extends through a first innermost part along a first tooth side surface and a portion that is wound around an outer end face of the insulator extension. The outer end face includes a protrusion protruding from a portion of the outer end face that is closer to an insulator base than the first turn and relatively close to the winding start portion. The winding that forms a specific layer of the coil is extended through a second innermost part along a second tooth side surface and then arranged on the protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, AICHI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuji TAKIMOTO, Keisuke ISOBE, Takashi HORI, Yudai SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20250111647
    Abstract: A pallet recognition device that recognizes a position and a state of a pallet includes a memory configured to store pieces of reference data acquired in advance, the pieces of reference data corresponding to a plurality of types of pallets, a detection unit configured to determine a type of the pallet, a selection unit configured to select reference data corresponding to the type of the pallet detected by the detection unit from the pieces of reference data of the plurality of types of pallets stored in the memory, a data acquisition unit configured to acquire detection data of the pallet, and a matching processor configured to calculate estimation values of a position and a state of the pallet by matching the detection data acquired by the data acquisition unit and the reference data selected by the selection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Masahiro KISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250109003
    Abstract: A cargo handling system includes an industrial vehicle, a work site where the industrial vehicle performs cargo handling operation and that has a stopping area where the transport vehicle stops, a monitoring unit that monitors at least one of a loading platform and a surrounding area of the loading platform, a determination unit that determines a state of the loading platform and a state of the surrounding area of the loading platform based on information acquired by the monitoring unit; and an instruction unit that transmits an instruction to the industrial vehicle based on a result of determination by the determination unit. The monitoring unit includes an image acquisition at a position different from the industrial vehicle in the work site, the image acquisition unit acquiring an image of at least one of the loading platform of the transport vehicle and the surrounding area of the loading platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Hirokazu Kishida
  • Patent number: 12264675
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes a compression part configured to compress fluid, an electric motor configured to drive the compression part, a housing accommodating the compression part and the electric motor, a soundproof cover covering the housing, and a nameplate attached to the housing and including a predetermined information. The housing includes a protrusion that is a part of the housing and protrudes out of the soundproof cover through a hole formed in the soundproof cover. The nameplate is provided on the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Toshiharu Awa, Takayuki Kato, Toshiyuki Miyano, Noritaka Nishimori, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Yasuaki Nakano
  • Patent number: 12266149
    Abstract: An own-position estimating device for estimating an own-position of a moving body by matching a feature extracted from an acquired image with a database in which position information and the feature are associated with each other in advance, includes an estimating unit estimating the own-position of the moving body by matching the feature extracted by the extracting unit with the database, and a determination threshold value adjusting unit adjusting a determination threshold value for extracting the feature, in which the determination threshold value adjusting unit acquires the database in a state in which the determination threshold value is adjusted, and adjusts the determination threshold value on the basis of the determination threshold value linked to each of the position information items in the database, and the extracting unit extracts the feature from the image by using the determination threshold value adjusted by the determination threshold value adjusting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tatsuya Komuro, Norihiko Kato
  • Patent number: 12264682
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor that includes: a rotary shaft; a compressor impeller mounted on the rotary shaft and configured to rotate together with the rotary shaft to compress a fluid; a housing accommodating the rotary shaft and the compressor impeller; and a thrust bearing supporting the rotary shaft in a thrust direction such that the rotary shaft is rotatable. The housing includes: an impeller chamber in which the compressor impeller is accommodated; a thrust bearing accommodation chamber in which the thrust bearing is accommodated; and a partition wall separating the impeller chamber from the thrust bearing accommodation chamber. The partition wall has therein a cooling gas passage through which cooling gas flows to cool the thrust bearing and a cooling water passage through which cooling water flows to cool the partition wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yoshiki Ishihara, Hiroaki Kato, Junya Suzuki, Takayuki Hirano
  • Publication number: 20250101988
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes a rotary shaft, a compression part, a motor, an inverter, an inverter housing, a motor housing arranged next to the inverter housing in a radial direction of the rotary shaft, a compression part housing, a shaft support member, a conductive pin that is electrically connected to the motor, an inverter terminal, and an electrical connecting member. The electrical connecting member has a busbar, a first terminal, a second terminal, and a case. The busbar is bent such that the first terminal is engaged with the conductive pin and the second terminal is engaged with the inverter terminal by moving the electrical connecting member in an axial direction of the rotary shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Junya YANO, Yusuke Kinoshita, Yoshihiro Fukaya, Harutaka Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20250104267
    Abstract: A loaded attitude state detecting device is configured to detect loaded attitude states of pallets and cargos when a forklift performs loading/unloading of at least one stage of the pallets with cargos placed thereon, and includes: a detecting unit configured to acquire loaded attitude detection data of the pallets and the cargos by detecting loaded attitudes of the pallets and the cargos; an area extracting unit configured to extract areas of the pallets and the cargos in the loaded attitude detection data acquired by the detecting unit; and a protrusion determining unit configured to determine whether or not a cargo disposed on a holding target pallet held by the forklift or another pallet protrudes from the holding target pallet by a prescribed amount or more in a lateral direction based on the areas of the pallets and the cargos.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shinichi MAE, Yukikazu KOIDE, Hirokatsu KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20250101996
    Abstract: A hydraulic oil supply device for an industrial vehicle includes: a first hydraulic oil tank; a second hydraulic oil tank; an upper communication pipe; a lower communication pipe; a first hydraulic oil pipe configured to communicate the first hydraulic oil tank with a hydraulic oil supply target and to be provided with a suction port; a second hydraulic oil pipe configured to communicate the hydraulic oil supply target with the second hydraulic oil tank and to be provided with a discharge port; and a hydraulic oil pump. The second hydraulic oil tank is an airtight tank sealed hermetically against outside air. The upper communication pipe has a first open-end portion and a second open-end portion. The first open-end portion has an opening height higher than an opening height of the suction port. The second open-end portion has an opening height higher than an opening height of the discharge port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Eisuke KONDO
  • Publication number: 20250105458
    Abstract: In a power storage device, an outer edge portion protruding farther outward than the edge portion of the current collector in each of the spacers and an outer edge portion protruding farther outward than the edge portion of the current collector in each of the seal members adjacent to each of the spacers in the lamination direction are welded to each other to form an outer surface of the sealing body, and a melt mass flow rate of a resin material constituting the spacer is larger than a melt mass flow rate of a resin material constituting the seal member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tomohiro NAKAMURA, Takayuki HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20250105452
    Abstract: An electric power storage module includes a stacked body having an outer surface, and a sheet member provided in close contact with the stacked body to cover the outer surface in a cross section in a stacking direction of the stacked body, wherein the stacked body includes a plurality of electrodes and a sealing part, the electrode includes a current collector having one surface and the other surface on a side opposite to the one surface, the plurality of electrodes are stacked so that the one surface of each of the current collectors faces the same direction, the sealing part defines a space which accommodates an electrolyte together with the current collector adjacent in the stacking direction, and the sheet member includes a metal layer, and a first insulating layer stacked on the metal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki OKAMOTO, Kodai SHINTANI
  • Publication number: 20250105459
    Abstract: A power storage module includes an electrode stack and a seal. The electrode stack includes a first end surface and a second end surface and a side surface. The seal includes: a side surface part; a first projecting part projecting onto the first end surface; a second projecting part projecting onto the second end surface; an overhang extending outward of the electrode stack; and a rib provided on the overhang. The side surface part includes a connecting portion to which the overhang is connected, a first side surface portion positioned between the connecting portion and the 10 first projecting part, and a second side surface portion positioned between the connecting portion and the second projecting part. The rib connects the overhang and the first side surface portion, and wherein the second side surface portion is thicker than the first side surface portion in a direction orthogonal to the side surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takahito NAKANO, Kazuki Maeda, Kojiro Tamaru, Takahiro Inakuma
  • Patent number: 12258917
    Abstract: An engine system includes: a combustor including an ignition unit configured to ignite the fuel gas and configured to generate combustion gas that heats a catalyst; an outside air temperature detection unit configured to detect an outside air temperature; a catalyst temperature detection unit configured to detect a temperature of the catalyst; an operating environment detection unit configured to detect an operating environment of the combustor; a combustion time determination unit configured to determine combustion time of the combustor; and a start control unit configured to, at a time of starting the engine, perform ON control on a starter and the ignition unit and control a third fuel supply valve, a first flow rate control valve, and a second flow rate control valve to open, and thereafter when the combustion time elapses, perform OFF control on the ignition unit and control the third fuel supply valve to close.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Norinosuke Nakatani, Hideaki Suzuki, Hiroyasu Kawauchi, Tadashi Takeuchi, Yoshitaka Takeuchi, Takayuki Homma, Shohei Matsumoto, Hidehito Kubo
  • Publication number: 20250091453
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes two input terminals, a first converter, and two first output terminals configured to output power converted by the first converter. The first converter includes a switching circuit, a flying capacitor, and a reactor. The power conversion device includes a second converter configured to perform power conversion on a voltage across the flying capacitor as an input voltage, two second converter input terminals electrically connected to two ends of the flying capacitor, and two second output terminals configured to output power converted by the second converter. The second converter includes a primary-side circuit and a secondary-side circuit. The second converter is an isolated DC/DC converter in which the primary-side circuit and the secondary-side circuit are electrically isolated from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kenichi NAGAYOSHI, Takehiko SUMIDA, Junichi ITOH, Hiroki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 12255547
    Abstract: In discharging of electric power in a smoothing capacitor arranged between a battery and an inverter provided with three-phase power modules, a control circuit alternately and periodically switches between all-phase upper on control and all-phase lower on control. With a power module in which a current flows in a direction from a motor toward the inverter among the three-phase power modules being defined as a negative current module and a power module in which a current flows in a direction from the inverter toward the motor being defined as a positive current module, during a period during which switching between all-phase lower on control and all-phase upper on control is made, the control circuit performs, for a prescribed time period, discharging processing for setting the negative current module to the lower on state and for setting the positive current module to the upper on state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Daiki Mizuguchi
  • Patent number: 12253084
    Abstract: A motor-driven compressor includes an inverter that includes a circuit board and an electrical component, and an inverter cover that defines an inverter accommodating chamber together with an end wall of a motor housing member. The inverter accommodating chamber accommodates a first conductive member and a second conductive member. A first end of the first conductive member and a lead of the electrical component extend through the circuit board from a first surface, which faces the end wall, and are soldered to the circuit board on a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface. A first end of the second conductive member is electrically connected to a power supply connector. Second ends of the first conductive member and the second conductive member are mated to each other so as to be electrically connected to each other when the inverter cover is joined to the motor housing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Shogo Urabe
  • Publication number: 20250088099
    Abstract: A converter includes a core around which a primary winding and a secondary winding of a transformer, as well as a smoothing coil, are wound. A core includes a first base; a second base; an intermediate portion located between the first base and the second base, a first middle leg which is located between the first base and a third core component and around which the primary winding and the secondary winding are wound, a second middle leg which is located between the second base and the intermediate portion and around which the smoothing coil is wound. A winding direction of the primary winding from a first end toward a second end, a winding direction of the secondary winding from a third end toward a fourth end, and a winding direction of the smoothing coil from a fifth end toward a sixth end are identical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Daisuke TAKEUCHI