Patents Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
  • Patent number: 11889668
    Abstract: A DC/DC converter includes a metal case, a power converter accommodated in the case, a substrate, and a temperature sensor mounted on a surface of the substrate. The case includes a bottom wall, a side wall extending from the bottom wall, a boss, and a coupling portion. The coupling portion couples the side wall to the boss. The coupling portion extends from the bottom wall along an axis of the boss and along a surface of the side wall. The temperature sensor is arranged to face the coupling portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Ryoto Tsuchiya, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Tatsuya Goto, Kazuji Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11888359
    Abstract: A motor-driven compressor includes a compression portion, an electric motor, an inverter, and a metal housing. The inverter includes three-phase switching elements and a plastic holder that retains the three-phase switching elements. The housing includes a thermal radiation surface. The holder includes a metal spring. The holder is fixed to the housing using two fasteners. The three-phase switching elements are laid out between the two fasteners. The switching elements at opposite ends of the three-phase switching elements are pressed toward the thermal radiation surface by only the holder. The switching element at the middle of the three-phase switching elements is pressed toward the thermal radiation surface by the holder and the spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Koki Shinohara, Junya Yano, Yusuke Kinoshita, Kenji Momma
  • Publication number: 20240026921
    Abstract: A foil bearing includes a bearing housing, a top foil, and a bump foil. The bump foil has: a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion disposed at least between the first portion and the second portion and configured to come in contact with the top foil. The top foil applies a load to the second portion with displacement of the top foil in a radially outward direction of the bearing housing. The third portion is not in contact with the top foil when the load is equal to or lower than a predetermined load, and is in contact with the top foil with elastic deformation of the second portion when the load is higher than the predetermined load. The first portion is in surface contact with the inner peripheral surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Fumiya SHINODA, Fumihiro SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240030833
    Abstract: An inverter including two switching elements of an inverter circuit connected in series to each other, drivers configured to respectively drive switching elements, and protection circuits each configured to transmit an output signal of the driver to each of the switching elements via a first resistor element. The protection circuit includes a second resistor element arranged to be electrically connectable in parallel to a first resistor element and a switch configured to switch between a first state in which electrical parallel connection of the second resistor element to the first resistor element is enabled and a second state in which the connection is cancelled. The protection circuit is configured to determine whether a short-circuit current has been generated in a first pattern or a second pattern and switch the switch to the first state in a case of determining that the short-circuit current of the second pattern has been generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Yusuke SHINTANI
  • Publication number: 20240021933
    Abstract: A power storage module includes: a stack including power storage cells stacked in a first direction and having stack side surfaces that extends in the first direction; and a sealing member formed in contact with the stack side surfaces. The power storage cells each includes: a first electrode including a first electrode plate having a first surface and a first active material layer formed on the first surface; a second electrode including a second electrode plate having a second surface and a second active material layer having an electrode polarity different from that of the first active material layer and formed on the second surface; and a spacer. A portion of the sealing member disposed on at least one of the stack side surfaces serves as a low elastic modulus portion that has an elastic modulus lower than that of the spacer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yuki OKAMOTO, Osamu OHMORI, Kayo MIZUNO, Mutsumi TAKAHASHI, Kanae MURASE
  • Publication number: 20240018966
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a rotary shaft, an electric motor, an impeller, a thrust bearing, and a housing having a passage that includes a motor cooling passage and a bearing cooling passage. The housing includes an inner housing and an outer housing. The motor cooling passage is defined by the inner housing and the outer housing. The passage includes a branching passage through which cooling fluid is divided and flows into the motor cooling passage and the bearing cooling passage and a joining passage through which the cooling fluid flowing through the bearing cooling passage joins the cooling fluid flowing through the motor cooling passage. The motor cooling passage includes a guide wall that guides the cooling fluid flowing through the motor cooling passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Takayuki HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20240006666
    Abstract: A power storage device includes power storage cells that includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and an accommodation chamber accommodating a liquid electrolyte in a liquid-tight manner. The power storage device includes a cell stack in which the power storage cells are stacked in series. A side surface of the cell stack is covered with a seal portion made of a plastic. The terminal positive electrode current collector and the terminal negative electrode current collector located in the outermost layer of the cell stack are made of a high thermal conductivity material having a thermal conductivity greater than or equal to 100 W/(m·K). The power storage device includes a positive electrode cooling unit, which cools the terminal positive electrode current collector, and a negative electrode cooling unit, which cools the terminal negative electrode current collector. The liquid electrolyte contains an oxalate compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yushi KONDO, Osamu OHMORI, Tomoyuki KAWAI, Takeshi KATAYAMA, Yusuke YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 11859629
    Abstract: A turbo fluid machine includes a rotary shaft configured to rotate in one rotational direction, and a thrust foil bearing that includes: a plurality of bump foils each having a corrugated shape and a plurality of top foils each having a bearing surface that faces a thrust collar. Each bump foil is divided into an outer peripheral foil and an inner peripheral foil in a radial direction of the rotary shaft. Ridges on the outer peripheral foil are inclined in the other rotational direction of the rotary shaft while extending from an edge of the outer peripheral foil adjacent to an inner peripheral side toward an outer peripheral side, and the ridges on the inner peripheral foil are inclined in the other rotational direction while extending from an edge of the inner peripheral foil adjacent to the outer peripheral side toward the inner peripheral side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Fumiya Shinoda, Fumihiro Suzuki, Ryo Umeyama
  • Publication number: 20230417581
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle control device for controlling an industrial vehicle includes: a first signal acquisition unit that acquires a first signal; a second signal acquisition unit that acquires a second signal; a data processing unit that performs data processing based on time-series data of the first signal and the second signal; and a state estimation unit that estimates a state of the industrial vehicle by distinguishing results of the data processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Mitsuru KAWAMOTO, Hironobu OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230417245
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a housing, a first scroll, a second scroll being configured to rotate relative to the first scroll about a driving axis of the scroll compressor. The second scroll has an end plate, a spiral element, and an adjustment portion adjusting a center-of-gravity of the second scroll. The adjustment portion has a bottom surface, a peripheral surface enclosing the bottom surface, and a connection surface connecting the bottom surface to the peripheral surface. The peripheral surface has a first peripheral surface and a second peripheral surface. A length of the first peripheral surface in a direction in which the driving axis extends is shorter than a length of the second peripheral surface in the direction in which the driving axis extends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Ken NAMIKI, Takuro Yamashita, Shiori Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11855503
    Abstract: A motor-driven compressor includes a plurality of motor wires and an insulating terminal container. The motor wires include portions covered with an insulating tube and distal ends at which a connection terminal is provided. The terminal container includes a cluster block and a terminal holder. The cluster block accommodates the connection terminal and has an opening. The terminal holder holds the connection terminal and has a lid that closes the opening. The cluster block includes a base portion. The lid has a cutout that receives the tube. The lid is in contact with the base portion such that a part of a hole defined by the cutout is closed by the base portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hiroki Takayama, Shozo Hamana, Taku Adaniya
  • Publication number: 20230407127
    Abstract: A coating agent has: a film-forming component containing an organosilicon compound having a radical polymerizable functional group and an alkoxysilyl group; and a film-curing component composed so that a base and a radical can be generated on irradiation with ultraviolet light. The film-curing component includes a nonionic photobase generator having no ionic bond in the molecular structure. The content of the nonionic photobase generator is 0.1 parts by mass or more and 50 parts by mass or less, based on 100 parts by mass of the organosilicon compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, Tokyo University of Science Foundation
    Inventors: Ayano SASAKI, Sayako SATO, Hidenori MUNEKATA, Motoshige ISOBE, Hisashi MURAMATSU, Koji ARIMITSU
  • Publication number: 20230411812
    Abstract: A power storage device includes power storage cells that includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and an accommodation chamber accommodating a liquid electrolyte in a liquid-tight manner. The power storage device includes a cell stack in which the power storage cells are stacked in series. A side surface of the cell stack is covered with a seal portion made of a plastic. A terminal positive electrode current collector and a terminal negative electrode current collector located in the outermost layer of the cell stack are made of a high thermal conductivity material having a thermal conductivity greater than or equal to 100 W/(m·K). The power storage device includes a positive electrode cooling unit, which cools the terminal positive electrode current collector, and a negative electrode cooling unit, which cools the terminal negative electrode current collector. The liquid electrolyte contains an ester compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yushi KONDO, Osamu OHMORI, Takeshi KATAYAMA, Yusuke YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20230405699
    Abstract: Electric discharge electrodes are disposed at equal intervals along a circumference about a rotary shaft, and provided so as to be capable of being brought into and out of contact with vanes such that one electric discharge electrode corresponds to one vane. The electric discharge electrodes each have an electrode surface along a surface to be machined of a corresponding one of the vanes. After the electric discharge electrodes each move radially inward toward the rotary shaft, the rotary shaft rotates and electrochemical machining is thus performed while the electrode surface and the surface to be machined are close to and thus face each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tatsuya SHIMIZU, Masahiro AONO, Satoshi ENDO
  • Publication number: 20230402698
    Abstract: A power storage device includes: a module stacked body including a plurality of power storage modules stacked in a first direction and having a first side surface extending in the first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and a second side surface adjacent to the first side surface and extending in the first direction and a third direction orthogonal to the first side surface and the second direction; a first restraint plate and a second restraint plate stacked on both sides of the module stacked body in the first direction and applying a restraint load to the module stacked body in the first direction; a wiring connected to the module stacked body; and a guide member coupled to the first restraint plate and the second restraint plate and disposing the wiring on the first side surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihito TSUGE, Hiromi UEDA, Naoto MORISAKU, Shigeru FUKUDA, Satoshi MORIOKA
  • Publication number: 20230402218
    Abstract: A transformer unit includes a primary side coil and a secondary side coil that are disposed to face each other in a winding axis direction. One of the primary side coil and the secondary side coil includes a metal plate winding body. The other of the primary side coil and the secondary side coil includes a first winding and a second winding, which have a greater number of turns than the metal plate winding body. The first winding and the second winding are arranged on opposite sides of the metal plate winding body in a winding axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Kenichi NAGAYOSHI
  • Patent number: 11841091
    Abstract: A directional control valve includes: a housing having a cylindrical spool hole communicating with an inlet port letting a fluid from an external supply source at a predetermined pressure and an outlet port flowing the fluid to a working cylinder; a spool movable in the spool hole axially and changing an amount of flow of the fluid; a first solenoid driving section having a first needle coupled to or integral with a first end portion of the spool and driving the spool; and a second solenoid driving section having a second needle coupled to or integral with a second end portion of the spool and driving the spool, the directional control valve including a pressure equalization circuit equally applying a pressure to the end portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: NISHINA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD., KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Ryo Yazawa, Shigeto Nakajima, Akihito Nibe, Koichi Kinoshita
  • Patent number: D1008948
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Satoshi Morioka, Motoyoshi Okumura, Hiromi Ueda, Naoto Morisaku, Yutaro Okazaki, Shinichi Yanagihara
  • Patent number: D1008963
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Satoshi Morioka, Motoyoshi Okumura, Hiromi Ueda, Naoto Morisaku, Yutaro Okazaki, Shinichi Yanagihara
  • Patent number: D1008964
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Satoshi Morioka, Motoyoshi Okumura, Hiromi Ueda, Naoto Morisaku, Yutaro Okazaki, Shinichi Yanagihara