Patents Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota
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Patent number: 11859629Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Fumiya Shinoda, Fumihiro Suzuki, Ryo Umeyama
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Publication number: 20230417245Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Ken NAMIKI, Takuro Yamashita, Shiori Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20230417581Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Mitsuru KAWAMOTO, Hironobu OKAMOTO
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Patent number: 11855503Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Hiroki Takayama, Shozo Hamana, Taku Adaniya
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Publication number: 20230406720Abstract: Porous oxide semiconductor particles have a connected structure in which porous primary particles having an aggregate of crystallites composed of an oxide semiconductor are connected to each other and have a specific surface area of 60 m2/g or more. The porous oxide semiconductor particles have preferably a pore diameter of 1 nm or more and 20 nm or less. The porous oxide semiconductor particles have preferably a tap density of 0.005 g/cm3 or more and 1.0 g/cm3 or less. The oxide semiconductor is preferably SnO2 or SnO2 doped with at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nb, Sb, W, Ta, and Al.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masanori INABA, Kazuhisa YANO, Tomohiro TAKESHITA, Kensaku KODAMA, Toshiyuki SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20230411812Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Yushi KONDO, Osamu OHMORI, Takeshi KATAYAMA, Yusuke YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20230407127Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, Tokyo University of Science FoundationInventors: Ayano SASAKI, Sayako SATO, Hidenori MUNEKATA, Motoshige ISOBE, Hisashi MURAMATSU, Koji ARIMITSU
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Publication number: 20230405699Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Tatsuya SHIMIZU, Masahiro AONO, Satoshi ENDO
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Publication number: 20230402698Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihito TSUGE, Hiromi UEDA, Naoto MORISAKU, Shigeru FUKUDA, Satoshi MORIOKA
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Publication number: 20230402218Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2021Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Kenichi NAGAYOSHI
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Patent number: 11841091Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignees: NISHINA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD., KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Ryo Yazawa, Shigeto Nakajima, Akihito Nibe, Koichi Kinoshita
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Patent number: 11843332Abstract: A control device for an electric motor includes a control circuit that controls an operation of an inverter circuit on the basis of a voltage command value corresponding to a difference between a current command value calculated on the basis of the position of a rotor of the electric motor, and a current flowing through the electric motor. A current estimation unit estimates the current flowing through the electric motor by substituting the voltage command value, a parameter unique to the electric motor, and a rotational speed calculated on the basis of the position of the rotor into a voltage equation serving as a model of the electric motor. An LR estimation unit estimates an inductance and a resistance of the electric motor serving as parameters on the basis of the difference between the current obtained by a current acquisition unit and the current estimated by the current estimation unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Keigo Nomura, Daisuke Matsuoka, Masamichi Nawa
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Publication number: 20230396178Abstract: A capacitive isolation type power conversion device includes a primary side circuit, which includes switching elements, a first connection line and a second connection line, which are connected to the primary side circuit, a first capacitor provided on the first connection line, a second capacitor provided on the second connection line, a third connection line, an excitation inductor provided on the third connection line, a secondary side circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit controls a switching frequency, thereby controlling an output voltage, which is a voltage of DC power output from the secondary side circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Kazuto HIRAI, Kenichi WATANABE
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Publication number: 20230393585Abstract: An anomaly detection device includes processing circuitry and a memory. The memory stores map data and association data. The map data defines a map. The map receives, as input data, manipulation value data and the image data of the vehicle, thereby outputting, as output data, a state ID corresponding to an anomaly state related to the vehicle. The association data associates an anomaly state related to the vehicle with the state ID. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire the manipulation value data, acquire the image data from a camera mounted in the vehicle, input, as the input data, the manipulation value data and the image data, to the map, thereby acquiring, as the output data, the state ID from the map, and identify the anomaly state related to the vehicle based on the state ID acquired from the map and the association data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Shinichi MAE, Yukikazu KOIDE, Hironobu OKAMOTO, Ryusuke SAGAWA
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Publication number: 20230392599Abstract: A motor-driven scroll type compressor that includes: a housing; a rotary shaft; an electric motor; and a compression part including a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll. The housing includes a separation wall separating a back pressure chamber from a motor chamber. The separation wall includes a bearing and a seal member having an inner circumference seal portion and an outer circumference seal portion. The seal member seals the back pressure chamber and the motor chamber. An end of the inner circumference seal portion is provided closer to the bearing than an end of the outer circumference seal portion is. The separation wall includes a holding portion being in contact with the end of the outer circumference seal portion to restrict movement of the seal member toward the bearing. The end of the inner circumference seal portion is provided closer to the bearing than the holding portion is.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Yuya HATTORI, Takumi MAEDA
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Publication number: 20230382704Abstract: An obstacle notification device includes an obstacle detection unit configured to detect a positional relationship between an industrial vehicle and an obstacle, a display unit, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry displays an image for notifying an operator of the presence of the obstacle on the display unit, and executes at least one of restriction of traveling of the industrial vehicle and warning when the obstacle is a causal obstacle meeting a specific condition. The processing circuitry displays a first image on the display unit when notifying the operator of the presence of an obstacle different from the causal obstacle, and displays a second image that is different from the first image on the display unit when notifying the operator of the presence of the causal obstacle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Keisuke AKATSUKA
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Publication number: 20230382703Abstract: A control system configured to control a forklift to unload a transport pallet onto an unloading place includes a control device configured to control at least one of movement of the forklift and horizontal movement of a fork, the forklift including a load sensor configured to detect load of an item placed on the fork, and a lift height sensor configured to detect a lift height of the fork, control raising and lowering of the fork, acquire load information of the transport pallet placed on the fork and lift height range information, the lift height range information indicating a lift height range, the lift height range being a range of height in which the fork is able to be inserted when unloading onto the unloading place is successful, and determine whether an abnormality is present.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SHINMEI INDUSTRY CO., LTD., KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Takumi SHIGEMASA, Daisuke ASAMI, Yoshiaki SATO, Yutaka OSHIMA, Tatsuya MITA
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Patent number: D1008948Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Satoshi Morioka, Motoyoshi Okumura, Hiromi Ueda, Naoto Morisaku, Yutaro Okazaki, Shinichi Yanagihara
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Patent number: D1008963Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Satoshi Morioka, Motoyoshi Okumura, Hiromi Ueda, Naoto Morisaku, Yutaro Okazaki, Shinichi Yanagihara
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Patent number: D1008964Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Satoshi Morioka, Motoyoshi Okumura, Hiromi Ueda, Naoto Morisaku, Yutaro Okazaki, Shinichi Yanagihara