Patents Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
  • Publication number: 20250038602
    Abstract: A stator of a rotating electric machine includes: a stator core including a yoke; an insulator having a plurality of insulator inner walls; a cover; a first insulating member; and a second insulating member. The cover has an insertion plate extending in an axial direction of the yoke. The insertion plate has a support surface that is located in a space between the insulator inner walls adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction of the yoke and located inward of the second insulating member to support the second insulating member in a radial direction of the yoke. The support surface is located outward of a slot opening in the radial direction of the yoke when viewed in the axial direction of the yoke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tomoaki MIYATA, Taku ADANIYA, Shozo HAMANA, Shuji TAKIMOTO, Keisuke ISOBE
  • Patent number: 12208962
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Hideo Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 12212211
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a compressor impeller, a motor, an inverter, a housing including a motor chamber and an inverter chamber, a conductive member, an insertion hole, and a resin member sealing the insertion hole. A pressure in the motor chamber is higher than that in the inverter chamber. The resin member includes a first resin portion fixed to the housing and a second resin portion which is covered with the first resin portion and which covers the conductive member, the second resin portion having a Young's modulus smaller than that of the first resin portion. The first resin portion and the second resin portion, and the second resin portion and the conductive member are coupled by insert-molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Taito Okuma
  • Patent number: 12209583
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Ken Namiki, Takuro Yamashita, Shiori Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12209588
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes a compression member compressing fluid drawn from a suction chamber and discharging the compressed fluid to a discharge chamber, an electric motor driving the compression member, an inverter driving the electric motor, a housing in which the suction chamber and the discharge chamber are formed and that accommodates the compression member, the electric motor, and the inverter, the housing including an inverter accommodation portion, a soundproof cover covering an outer surface of the housing, and a nameplate including predetermined information. The nameplate is provided on at least one of a first outer surface of the outer surface corresponding to the inverter accommodation portion and a second outer surface of the outer surface corresponding to the discharge portion. The soundproof cover has a window through the nameplate is viewed and which is formed in a part of the soundproof cover corresponding to the nameplate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Noritaka Nishimori, Toshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20250030056
    Abstract: An electrode unit manufacturing device 50 is an electrode unit manufacturing device for manufacturing an electrode unit 11A by welding a resin member 21B to a bipolar electrode 11 including a current collector 15, and an active material layer provided on one surface 15a and the other surface 15b of the current collector 15. The electrode unit manufacturing device includes a robot hand 30 that transports the bipolar electrode 11 in the air while suctioning and holding the bipolar electrode 11, and a welding device 40 including a welding unit 45 that welds the resin member 21B to the bipolar electrode 11 in a state of being suctioned and held in the air by the robot hand 30.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tatsuya KINUGAWA, Tetsuya KOYAMA, Noriyuki MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 12206122
    Abstract: In a power storage module, a side surface of an electrode laminate body has a welded layer where first sealing portions adjacent in a lamination direction are welded. A sealing body has: a side surface (opening wall) provided with a through hole communicating with an internal space; and side surfaces (non-opening walls) lacking the through hole. When viewed from the lamination direction, a width of the welded layer at the opening wall is smaller than a width of the welded layer at the non-opening wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Kojiro Tamaru, Takashi Sakai, Masahiro Yamada, Sho Kishine, Hiroki Maeda
  • Patent number: 12203480
    Abstract: A motor-driven compressor includes a rotary shaft, an electric motor, a compression unit, an inverter, a housing, and an inverter case. The housing includes a housing end wall and a housing circumferential wall, which extends from a housing end wall in an axial direction of the rotary shaft. The inverter case includes a case end wall, which extends in the axial direction from the case end wall. The seal circumferential wall includes a proximal end connected to the case end wall and an end face located at a distal end. The housing circumferential wall includes an opposed surface that is opposed to the end face. An annular seal member is provided between the seal circumferential wall and the housing circumferential wall. The seal member extends in a radial direction of the rotary shaft between the end face and the opposed surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takeshi Okochi, Yusuke Kinoshita, Junya Yano, Shogo Urabe
  • Publication number: 20250019214
    Abstract: A cargo handling control device includes a target detector detecting a cargo handling target, a position calculator calculating a position of the cargo handling target relative to a forklift truck, an approach controller control the forklift truck based on the position of the cargo handling so that the forklift truck approaches a cargo handling position corresponding to the cargo handling target, an approach determiner determining whether an approach of the forklift truck to the cargo handling position is successful based on the position of the cargo handling target, a cargo handling controller controlling the forklift truck so that the forklift truck performs cargo handling, and a re-approach controller controlling the forklift truck so that the forklift truck re-approaches the cargo handling position when the approach determiner determines that the approach of the forklift truck to the cargo handling position is unsuccessful.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Kenjiro NAGAI, Shingo HATTORI, Koki TAKEUE
  • Publication number: 20250020123
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes a rotary shaft, a compression part, a motor including a stator, and a housing. The stator includes a stator core, coils corresponding to a plurality of phases, an insulator, coil ends, first leads of the winding wires, a neutral connection portion, and a cover member. The cover member has a cover end surface opposite from the coil ends. The cover end surface has an accommodation portion in which the neutral connection portion is accommodated. The first leads each include a covered portion, and a non-covered portion. The non-covered portion includes an extension portion continuous with the neutral connection portion extending out from the accommodation portion by a predetermined length. The cover end surface includes a first surface, and a second surface. At least the first surface has a through hole. The first surface is positioned farther from the coil ends than the second surface is.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tomoaki MIYATA, Taku Adaniya, Shozo Hamana, Shuji Takimoto, Keisuke Isobe
  • Publication number: 20250019215
    Abstract: A cargo handling system includes: a first detection unit configured to detect a cargo on a pallet held by a fork of a forklift as a loaded state together with the pallet using at least one type of sensor before cargo handling work is started; a first abnormality determination unit configured to determine whether the loaded state detected by the first detection unit is abnormal; a second detection unit configured to detect a work situation using a plurality of types of sensors after the cargo handling work is started; and a second abnormality determination unit configured to determine whether the work situation detected by the second detection unit is abnormal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yukikazu KOIDE, Hironobu OKAMOTO, Shinichi MAE, Naoya YOKOMACHI, Koji FUJII, Takashi OKUMA, Hirokatsu KATAOKA, Mitsuru KAWAMOTO, Ryusuke SAGAWA, Eiichi YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 12196217
    Abstract: A turbo fluid machine includes a housing having a motor chamber, a turbine chamber, a first shaft hole, and a second shaft hole; a drive shaft; and a sealing member that seals a gap between the motor chamber and the turbine chamber. The sealing member includes a first sealing member and a second sealing member that is located away from the first sealing member and between the first sealing member and the turbine chamber in an axial direction of the drive shaft. The drive shaft, the second shaft hole, the first sealing member, and the second sealing member cooperate to form a reservoir in which water contained in exhaust from a fuel cell is stored. The housing has a water discharge passage which is communicated with the reservoir and through which the water is discharged from the reservoir to an outside of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Junya Suzuki, Hidefumi Mori
  • 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: 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
  • 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
  • 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: 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