Patents Assigned to Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki
  • Patent number: 11979046
    Abstract: A vehicle includes: a vehicle main body having an end surface and a compartment; a first electrical component which is arranged within the compartment, and to which a voltage that is more than or equal to a predetermined value is applied during traveling; and a second electrical component which is arranged within the compartment, and to which a voltage that is less than the predetermined value is applied during traveling or no voltage is applied during traveling. A first main body portion of the first electrical component and a second main body portion of the second electrical component are arranged such that a first end surface is located closer to a vehicle center than a second end surface in a vehicle front-back direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenji Murasato
  • Patent number: 11979054
    Abstract: A solar power generation control device controls a solar power generation system storing electric power generated by a solar panel in a battery. The solar power generation control device includes a detection unit configured to detect a state of the battery, and a controller configured to control, based on the state of the battery, a sleep time for temporarily stopping the solar power generation system when a predetermined sleep condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuya Miyoshi, Kazumi Yamada, Koichi Go, Haruki Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 11978872
    Abstract: A temperature measurement device includes a heat transfer member including a temperature measuring portion having a flat shape and extending laterally and a heat transfer portion that extends continuously from the temperature measuring portion and transfers heat of the temperature measuring portion, a clamping member that generates a clamping force with the temperature measuring portion, a temperature sensor that is fixed while being in contact with the heat transfer portion, and a resin member that covers and holds the heat transfer portion and the temperature sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Koga, Masaya Murase
  • Patent number: 11978882
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing an active material mixture, the method including: supplying and dispersing a solid electrolyte in a dispersion medium while circulating the dispersion medium (a first dispersion step); and thereafter supplying and dispersing an active material and a conductive material in the dispersion medium (a second dispersion step), wherein an average rotation speed of the rotor in the second dispersion step is lower than an average rotation speed of the rotor in the first dispersion step. Aggregation of the solid electrolyte can be suppressed by separately performing the first dispersion step and the second dispersion step, and the increase in temperature of the active material mixture can be reduced by lowering the rotation speed of the rotor in the second dispersion step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NIHON SPINDLE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Ishigaki, Keiichiro Onishi, Keiichi Asami
  • Patent number: 11978884
    Abstract: This manufacturing method is a method of manufacturing a compressed strip-shaped electrode plate. The method includes: a preliminary compression step of forming a pre-compressed strip-shaped electrode plate by roll-pressing an uncompressed strip-shaped electrode plate in which an uncompressed active material layer that is not yet compressed is formed on a current collector foil; an attraction and removal step of attracting and removing fine particles of active material particles from near a surface of a pre-compressed active material layer by an attracting magnet that is disposed so as to be separated from the pre-compressed active material layer in a thickness direction; and a main compression step of obtaining the compressed strip-shaped electrode plate by roll-pressing a particle-removed strip-shaped electrode plate from which the fine particles have been removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuro Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 11979012
    Abstract: There are provided an electric connection box and a wire harness including: a body including an accommodating portion inside the body, the accommodating portion being configured to accommodate an electronic component. The body includes an electric wire holding portion inside the body, the electric wire holding portion having a slit-shaped groove configured to radially sandwich and hold an electric wire extending from a connector to be connected to the electronic component. The groove of the electric wire holding portion includes: a groove inlet portion; a groove deepest portion; and a narrow portion between the groove inlet portion and the groove deepest portion. A groove width in the narrow portion is narrower than a groove width in the groove inlet portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akinori Nakashima, Keita Miyahara, Kazuya Kushibiki
  • Patent number: 11978889
    Abstract: A method of producing an electrode mixture paste includes a kneading process in which an electrode active material, a conductive material, a binding material, a dispersant and a non-aqueous solvent are kneaded to obtain an electrode mixture paste and an ultrasonic wave application process in which ultrasonic waves are applied to the electrode mixture paste without evaporating the non-aqueous solvent from the electrode mixture paste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoya Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 11975706
    Abstract: A driving control device that is mounted on a vehicle including an electric motor and an internal combustion engine as power sources includes a processor. The processor is configured to: acquire a destination of the vehicle; acquire a past driving history from a point of departure to the destination; acquire a desired state of charge that is a state of charge of a battery desired when the vehicle arrives at the destination; estimate a predicted amount of regenerative energy based on the driving history; set a first section and a second section based on the predicted amount of regenerative energy and the desired state of charge; and control driving of the vehicle based on the first section and the second section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsumi Kono, Tomoharu Maeda, Takaaki Tokura, Takeshi Yasuda
  • Patent number: 11978871
    Abstract: Provided is a battery that includes a battery module having a battery cell, and a cooler including an inlet part through which refrigerant flows in from outside, and an outlet part through which the refrigerant flows out, and configured to cool the battery module as the refrigerant circulates inside the cooler. The cooler includes an inlet side flow passage that communicates with the inlet part and is provided at a position overlapping a heating region, and an outlet side flow passage that communicates with the inlet side flow passage and the outlet part, and is provided at a position overlapping a non-heating region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoko Tofukuji
  • Patent number: 11978909
    Abstract: An electrode structure includes a positive electrode layer and a positive electrode collector member. The positive electrode collector member includes a positive electrode collector foil, a carbon film, and a hot melt adhesive agent. A positive electrode total specific surface area is more than or equal to 2.2 m2/g and less than or equal to 3.0 m2/g, the positive electrode total specific surface area being represented by a total of a product of weight ratio and specific surface area of a positive electrode active material, a product of weight ratio and specific surface area of a solid electrolyte, and a product of weight ratio and specific surface area of a conductive material. A softening point of the hot melt adhesive agent is more than or equal to 100° C. and less than or equal to 130° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Hagiwara, Ryuto Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11975226
    Abstract: To suppress the influence of gas on other fuel tanks when the gas is discharged from a fuel tank. A fuel storage device includes: a plurality of fuel tanks, each having a fusible plug valve; a support member that supports the plurality of fuel tanks, while making longitudinal directions of the respective fuel tanks parallel to each other; and a blocking member that blocks at least part of the fuel gas discharged from the fusible plug valves. The plurality of fuel tanks includes a tank group including the plurality of fuel tanks aligned along a first direction and a juxtaposed tank thereto. The blocking member is disposed between the tank group and the juxtaposed tank. The orientations of openings of the fusible plug valves included in blocked tanks are directed toward the blocking member, the blocked tanks being two or more fuel tanks that are continuous in the first direction, among the fuel tanks included in the tank group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yutaka Sawada
  • Patent number: 11978343
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus disclosed is provided on a vehicle. The information processing apparatus has a controller configured to execute the processing of obtaining a trajectory record defined as a record of the trajectory along which the vehicle has travelled, detecting an abnormal behavior of the vehicle, generating record information, which is information representing a trajectory record prior to the detection of the abnormal behavior of the vehicle among the obtained trajectory records, and transmitting the record information to other vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11975735
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device installed at a host vehicle configured to travel by drive source, the device includes a memory, a processor coupled to the memory, and a display device. In a case in which predetermined travel assistance function is not in operation, the processor controls the display device such that a first display image is projected onto a display region, the first display image including information indicating drive state of the drive source and information corresponding to a travel state of the host vehicle, and in a case in which the predetermined travel assistance function is in operation, the processor controls the display device such that a second display image is projected onto the display region, the second display image omitting display of the drive information and including a symbol indicating the predetermined travel assistance function and information indicating an operation state of the predetermined travel assistance function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota Hamabe, Keigo Hori, Takahiro Hirota, Yoshinori Murata
  • Patent number: 11975719
    Abstract: A traveling control apparatus that allows lane changing due to a driver's steering intervention while continuing lane maintenance control includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit sets a target trace along a lane in which a vehicle is traveling, determines a target steering angle of the vehicle based on the target trace and a lateral position of the vehicle, applies control torque to a steering shaft of the vehicle based on the target steering angle, resets, in response to a change in the lateral position due to the driver's steering intervention which exceeds the control torque and entrance of the vehicle into an adjacent lane, the target trace to the adjacent lane, and determines, using a gradual changing function, in response to the resetting of the target trace, the target steering angle by changing the target steering angle at the time of the resetting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoji Kunihiro, Takahiro Kojo, Hisaya Akatsuka, Hirotaka Tokoro
  • Patent number: 11975730
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus executes a driving force limiting control when a mistaken operation condition is satisfied. The vehicle control apparatus determines that the mistaken operation condition is satisfied when a third condition is satisfied at a point in time when a second condition becomes satisfied, determines that the mistaken operation condition is not satisfied when the third condition is not satisfied at a point in time when the second condition becomes satisfied, the third condition becomes satisfied within a first time threshold since a first condition becomes satisfied, and a pressing condition is satisfied before the third condition becomes satisfied, and determines that the pressing condition is satisfied when an operation amount of an acceleration operator is greater than or equal to a positive second operation amount threshold, and an operation speed of the acceleration operator is greater than or equal to a positive second operation speed threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Takenaka, Takashi Unigame, Masaki Ikai
  • Patent number: 11975715
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus includes an estimator and a controller. The estimator estimates a first estimated vehicle speed and a second estimated vehicle speed when there are a first deceleration target and a second deceleration target in a course ahead of a vehicle, and when a driver of the vehicle releases an accelerator pedal. Wherein the first estimated vehicle speed is an estimated vehicle speed of the vehicle at a first target position corresponding to the first deceleration target, and the second estimated vehicle speed is an estimated vehicle speed of the vehicle at a second target position corresponding to the second deceleration target. The controller controls the vehicle to automatically decelerate toward the second target position when the first estimated vehicle speed is greater than a first predetermined value, and when the second estimated vehicle speed is less than a second predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shogo Ito, Kohei Tochigi, Kumiko Kondo
  • Patent number: 11975716
    Abstract: A device for setting a target vehicle that sets a target vehicle to be subjected to driving assistance control of a host vehicle includes: a detection signal acquisition device capable of acquiring a first detection signal representing an object by an image, and a second detection signal representing the object by a reflection point; and setting control unit, which determines whether to set a forward object as a target vehicle, wherein if a movement history is not associated with the forward object, and a combination history is associated with the forward object, then as a selection threshold of a first determination parameter for determining whether to set the forward object as the target vehicle, a selection threshold is used such that the forward object is less likely to be selected as the target vehicle than with the selection threshold which would be used if a movement history is associated with the forward object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohei Masui, Ryo Mizuno, Takashi Maeda, Naoki Kusumoto, Yuki Tezuka
  • Patent number: 11975609
    Abstract: Embodiments herein are directed to a transparent steering wheel system for a vehicle that includes a sensor system, a projection system, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to determine when a plurality of display data displayed on a display device behind a steering wheel is blocked by the steering wheel from a field of view of a driver, determine when a desirable notification is included in the plurality of display data, and when the desirable notification is included and the field of view of the desirable notification for the driver is blocked by the steering wheel, control the projection system to project the desirable notification onto the projection surface of the steering wheel that fully covers the steering wheel such that the steering wheel appears to be transparent when the desirable notification is displayed onto the projection surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Benjamin Piya Austin, John K. Lenneman, George M. Evans, Takeshi Yoshida, William Patrick Garrett, Rebecca L Kirschweng
  • Patent number: 11976615
    Abstract: A fuel supplying device for an internal combustion engine includes a tank configured to store a gaseous fuel, a fuel injection valve configured to supply the gaseous fuel to a cylinder of the internal combustion engine, a fuel passage configured to supply the gaseous fuel in the tank to the fuel injection valve, and a pressure reduction valve provided in the fuel passage. The fuel passage has a double-walled pipe structure including an inner pipe through which the gaseous fuel flows and an outer pipe that has an inner diameter larger than the inner pipe and covers the inner pipe. The fuel passage is configured such that a coolant is supplied to a space between the outer pipe and the inner pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Suzuki, Tomihisa Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 11978292
    Abstract: A storage device of a noise inspection apparatus is configured to store a neural network machine-learned to receive, as inputs, an original sound characteristic value indicating a characteristic of sound generated by a transmission and an evaluation sound characteristic value indicating a characteristic of sound that reaches a vehicle cabin, and output a route part characteristic value that is a value indicating a characteristic of a vibration transfer of a vehicle part positioned on a vibration transfer route from the transmission to the vehicle cabin. An execution device of the noise inspection apparatus is configured to calculate, as an estimated value of the route part characteristic value, an output of the neural network that has received, as inputs, measured values of the original sound characteristic value and the evaluation sound characteristic value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Nakano, Daiki Sato, Hiroki Onuma