Patents Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
  • Patent number: 11242627
    Abstract: A water injection apparatus for a water jet loom, includes a weft insertion nozzle for weft insertion of a weft yarn by injection water, a weft insertion pump pumping water into the weft insertion nozzle, a water storage tank storing water introduced into the weft insertion pump, and a suction pipe passing water from the water storage tank into the weft insertion pump. The water injection apparatus includes an auxiliary water supply unit that is provided separately from the weft insertion pump and can supply water to the suction pipe. At least when the weft insertion pump sucks water, the auxiliary water supply unit supplies water to the suction pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yasushi Yamauchi, Koichi Tsujimoto, Kouichi Hattori, Kenji Sumiya, Taijirou Okuda
  • Patent number: 11239713
    Abstract: A rotor structure of a motor includes a rotor core formed by laminating a plurality of laminated steel plates, a permanent magnet, and end plates. First holes and second holes are perforated alternately in a circumferential direction at equal intervals. The end plates have holes. The end plates are respectively fixed to end portions of the rotor core by fastening members inserted to the holes and the first holes. When the rotor core is divided into first laminated portions and a second laminated portion, in the second laminated portion, the plurality of the laminated steel plates adjacent to the first laminated portions are rotationally laminated in such a manner that the second holes are connected to the first holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Naotaka Toida
  • Patent number: 11237568
    Abstract: An autonomous travel cart includes a control device controlling the autonomous travel cart to travel autonomously based on detection information from an obstacle detection device. The control device includes a wall length detection unit that detects wall lengths of wall portions from the autonomous travel cart to an exit end of the narrow path, a wall length determination unit that determines whether or not the wall lengths are greater than a predetermined wall length threshold, and a narrow path travel control unit that controls the autonomous travel cart to travel at a normal speed when the wall lengths are greater than the predetermined wall length threshold, and to decelerate and travel at a predetermined reduced speed when at least one of the wall lengths detected by the wall length detection unit is equal to or less than the predetermined wall length threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takashi Nakashima, Taro Kassai
  • Patent number: 11231047
    Abstract: A turbocharger includes a turbine housing that is a cast component, a turbine scroll passage, a discharge port, and a discharge port defining member. The turbine scroll passage surrounds the circumference of a turbine chamber defined in the turbine housing and the circumference of the turbine chamber. Exhaust gas that has passed through the turbine chamber is conducted to the discharge port. The discharge port defining member constitutes a wall surface of the discharge port. The discharge port defining member includes a tubular main body wall and an outer circumferential edge. The main body wall constitutes a wall surface of the discharge port. The outer circumferential edge extends from the distal end of the main body wall and outward in the radial direction of the impeller shaft. The outer circumferential edge is fixed between the turbine housing and a downstream exhaust pipe, which is connected to the discharge port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Akihito Uemura, Toshiya Kato, Shuichi Fujita, Katsumi Okayama
  • Patent number: 11231208
    Abstract: A solar heat collector tube in which at least an infrared reflective layer, a sunlight-heat conversion layer and an anti-reflection layer are provided on the outer surface of a tube through the interior of which a heat medium can flow, wherein the infrared reflective layer in the solar heat collector tube is an Ag layer having Nb dispersed therein, the content of Nb being 0.1 at % to 31.8 at %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, JAPAN FINE CERAMICS CENTER
    Inventors: Takuhito Tsutsui, Toru Sasatani, Kazuto Noritake, Yoshiki Okuhara, Tomohiro Kuroyama, Daisuke Igimi
  • Publication number: 20220018258
    Abstract: An impeller including a hub surface and a plurality of blades protruding from the hub surface. Each of the plurality of blades has a pressure surface located on a leading side of the rotation direction and a suction surface located on a trailing side of the rotation direction. Each of the plurality of blades is provided with a plurality of first concave surfaces at a boundary between the pressure surface and the hub surface, and one second concave surface at a boundary between the suction surface and the hub surface. At least two different first concave surfaces having different concave radii in cross section are included in the plurality of first concave surfaces. A first concave radius that is the largest among the different concave radii is identical to a second concave radius that is a concave radius of the second concave surface in cross section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Kenta AKIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220021018
    Abstract: A power storage device includes a pair of holding plates, several ribs and thin-walled portions. The ribs includes first ribs inclined to an extending direction of a first edge and an extending direction of a second edge and extending along straight lines connecting first engaging portions and second engaging portions, and second ribs extending along a facing direction in which the first edge and the second edge face each other. At least first ribs extend in different directions from each other and form an intersection where the at least two first ribs intersect with each other. At least one of the second ribs has opposite ends connected to the first ribs intersecting with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Naoto MORISAKU, Hirokazu KOTAKE
  • Publication number: 20220018356
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor comprises an impeller including a hub and a plurality of blades. The hub is provided with a through hole. The hub has an external radial surface having an inner external radial surface and an outer external radial surface. The outer external radial surface is formed closer to a back surface than an imaginary curved surface having as a radius a radius of curvature of the inner external radial surface at a radially outer edge thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Ryo UMEYAMA, Yoshiyuki NAKANE
  • Publication number: 20220018364
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor comprises a rotation shaft, an impeller, and a casing. The impeller has a hub and a plurality of blades. The casing has an opposite surface facing a back surface of the hub, and a projection projecting from the opposite surface toward the impeller. The hub is provided with an accommodation space that accommodates the projection. The accommodation space includes a through hole penetrating the hub from the back surface toward an external radial surface. The through hole opens while avoiding the blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Ryo UMEYAMA, Yoshiyuki NAKANE
  • Publication number: 20220009282
    Abstract: A cylinder boot for an axle of an industrial vehicle includes a cylinder boot body, a rod-side fixing portion, a cylinder-side fixing portion, and a detection portion. The cylinder boot covers a cylinder rod of a steering hydraulic cylinder. The cylinder boot body has a contractable portion that is contractable in response to a stroke of the cylinder rod. The rod-side fixing portion is disposed at one end portion of the cylinder boot body and fixed to a distal end portion of the cylinder rod. The cylinder-side fixing portion is disposed at the other end portion of the cylinder boot body and fixed to a cylinder body of the steering hydraulic cylinder. The detection portion is displaced in a direction in which the cylinder rod extends or contracts, and is detected by a detection sensor disposed on the beam axle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Yokei KAWASE
  • Patent number: 11221008
    Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided. An orbiting angle of the orbiting scroll when the compression chamber is formed and compression of fluid is initiated is referred to as an orbiting initiation angle. An orbiting angle of the orbiting scroll when the compression of the fluid is completed is referred to as an orbiting termination angle. An orbiting angle of the orbiting scroll when an end of the orbiting spiral wall initiates contact with the arcuate portion of the fixed spiral wall before compression is completed is referred to as a distal end contact initiation angle. The formation point distance reaches a minimum value at least at one of a first orbiting angle or a second orbiting angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takumi Maeda, Takayuki Ota, Takuro Yamashita, Yuya Hattori, Tatsunori Tomota, Yasuhiro Kondoh, Ryou Masuda, Etsuko Hori, Yu Nozawa
  • Patent number: 11221012
    Abstract: A turbo fluid machine includes a housing, a rotating member, and a motor. Part of fluid compressed by a compressor impeller is introduced into a motor accommodation space through an inlet-side flow passage that has an inlet-side fixed throttle, and is discharged from the motor accommodation space through an outlet-side flow passage that has an outlet-side fixed throttle. The outlet-side flow passage includes a connection part connecting to the motor accommodation space. The connection part is formed separately from a clearance between a second partition wall and a shaft, and is located opposite to a connection part of the inlet-side flow passage connecting to the motor accommodation space across the motor in an axial direction of the shaft. The inlet-side fixed throttle and the outlet-side fixed throttle are configured such that pressure in the motor accommodation space is higher than pressure in a turbine-wheel back pressure region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hidefumi Mori, Junya Suzuki, Kazuki Okazaki
  • Patent number: 11221013
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a low-speed shaft, an impeller, a speed increaser, a housing, a separation wall, a shaft insertion hole, a seal member, an oil pan, an oil supply passage, an oil return passage, and a pressure reduction passage. The impeller is integrally rotated with a high-speed shaft. The housing has therein an impeller chamber accommodating the impeller and a speed increaser chamber accommodating the speed increaser. The centrifugal compressor includes a bypass passage having a first end communicating with the speed increaser chamber and a second end communicating with the oil pan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Nakane, Takahito Kunieda, Kaho Takeuchi, Ryo Umeyama, Satoru Mitsuda, Ryosuke Fukuyama
  • Publication number: 20220003122
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a TiAl alloy impeller includes a blank preparation step in which a blank of the TiAl alloy impeller is prepared, wherein the blank has a shaft portion and a plurality of blades, and a thickness of an outer edge of each of the blades of the blank is set so as to be larger than a thickness of an outer edge of a blade of the TiAl alloy impeller, and an additional work step in which an additional work is performed on each of the blades of the blank. In the additional work step, the additional work is performed on a first surface of a portion that includes at least the outer edge of each of the blades or the first surface and a second surface of the portion thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Tatsuya SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11217800
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a target pressure value for the pressure in a fuel cell is set depending on a demand output value to the fuel cell. A turbine retains a set pressure line representing a relationship between an airflow rate supplied to the turbine and a pressure ratio corresponding to a ratio of a pressure upstream of the turbine and a pressure downstream of the turbine. A controller executes a first control when the target pressure value for the fuel cell is lower than the set pressure line and executes a second control when the target pressure value for the fuel cell is higher than the set pressure line. The controller controls an outlet valve so as not to be fully opened when a turbine bypass valve is fully closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hidefumi Mori, Junya Suzuki, Kazuki Okazaki
  • Patent number: 11215206
    Abstract: A hydraulic system of an industrial vehicle includes an oil tank in which hydraulic oil is retained; a hydraulic pump that draws in the hydraulic oil from the tank and supply the oil to a loading actuator and a brake unit; a brake valve that controls the hydraulic oil to be supplied to the brake unit according to an operation of a brake operation tool; a hydraulic oil cooler that cools the hydraulic oil; a cooling passage that allows the hydraulic oil to flow toward the cooler and further allows the oil cooled in the cooler to flow toward the brake unit; and a switching valve that switches between a first oil passage that cuts off a supply of the hydraulic oil from the hydraulic pump to the cooling passage and a second oil passage that allows the supply of the hydraulic oil from the hydraulic pump to the cooling passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Daisuke Maruyama, Tomoya Sato
  • Patent number: 11214419
    Abstract: A sealing cap for a compressor is made of an elastically-deformable material and includes a plug portion, a bolt insertion portion, a tab portion, and a plate-like body portion. The plug portion is to be inserted into a fluid port of a compressor to plug the fluid port. The plate-like body portion integrally joins the plug portion, the bolt insertion portion, and the tab portion. The bolt insertion portion extends from a front surface of the body portion. The tab portion is formed on the front surface of the body portion. The plug portion is projectingly formed on a rear surface of the body portion. The tab portion includes a ring having an annular shape, and is located opposite to the bolt insertion portion across the plug portion. The ring has an opening that extends through the ring in a direction that crosses insertion direction of the plug portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yuki Morikage, Atsushi Shibata, Koji Ishii, Hiromichi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11214093
    Abstract: An omnidirectional wheel includes a plurality of first and second rollers, a plurality of roller support parts, a wheel hub, and a fixing member. The wheel hub has a shaft portion and an extension. The fixing member and an elastic body are disposed to surround the shaft portion. Spaces are provided between the elastic body and the shaft portion, or between the elastic body and the roller support parts. A plurality of first pins and second pins are formed to protrude from the extension and the fixing member, respectively. The elastic body has a plurality of first holes and second holes. The first holes and the second holes are shifted from each other in a circumferential direction of the elastic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Makoto Murai
  • Publication number: 20210402964
    Abstract: A parking brake device includes a toggle mechanism including a base member, a connecting member, a brake lever, a junction member that connects an intermediate position of the brake lever with the connecting member. The junction member includes two junction parts that are connected to each other and are rotatable relative to each other. During a process of an operation of the braking lever from a non-operating state of the parking brake device to an operating state of the parking brake device, the two junction parts integrally rotate when an operation angle of the brake lever is equal to or less than a predetermined angle, and one of the two junction parts connected to the intermediate position of the brake lever is rotatable about a connecting portion where the two junction parts are connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Kenichi WADA, Satoru MASUDA, Tomoya SUGIYAMA, Koichi KUBONIWA
  • Publication number: 20210403236
    Abstract: A warehouse system includes a first moving unit configured to move articles in an extending direction of a storage rack on the storage rack; a second moving unit configured to be operated independently from the first moving unit and to move selected articles toward an exit side on a transfer rack; and a third moving unit configured to be operated independently from the first moving unit and the second moving unit and to transfer the selected articles from the storage rack to the transfer rack. The third moving unit includes a pushing device configured to push the selected articles toward the transfer rack; a guide device configured to guide the pushing device in the extending direction of the storage rack; and a control device configured to control the pushing device and the guide device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Hideo YANAGISAWA