Patents Assigned to Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
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Publication number: 20240130907Abstract: A wheelchair fixing device includes a support member that is provided on a base member and supports the drive mechanism, a slide shaft, a pair of lock arms that is provided on both sides of the base member, the lock arms being configured to turn toward a downward side and to pin down a fixing bar of the wheelchair due to the slide shaft moving in the backward direction, and being configured to turn toward the upward side and to release pinning down of the fixing bar due to the slide shaft moving in the advancing direction, a pair of switch arm mechanisms configured to turn due to being pressed by the fixing bar of the wheelchair, and lock switches configured to drive the drive mechanism by being pressed by the switch arm mechanisms, such that the slide shaft is moved in the backward direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shigeru NAKAGAWA
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Publication number: 20240137084Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for mobile communications including sidelink transmissions is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives one or more messages comprising configuration parameters of reference signals associated with a plurality of uplink beams and a first downlink beam. The UE identifies a plurality of uplink beams associated with the first downlink beam based on a measurement of the reference signals and a corresponding ranking associated with each of the plurality of uplink beams. The UE determines a first plurality of uplink beams that satisfy maximum permissible exposure (MPE) limits and that are not subject to link failure. The UE then transmits uplink data or control information using the first uplink beam with the highest ranking.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Donald M. GRIECO
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Publication number: 20240136897Abstract: A magnet array method that can improve assemblability of magnets is provided. A magnet array method according to an aspect of the present disclosure is for arraying a plurality of magnetized magnets using a magnet array jig and includes disposing magnetic force parts of the magnet array jig at positions facing magnets to be arrayed, and arraying the magnets. The magnetic force parts are disposed so as to impart, to the magnets to be arrayed, a magnetic force for cancelling a force acting on the magnets to be arrayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuhiro SATO, Kei OHTA
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Publication number: 20240137652Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition section that acquires a satellite image of a ground area captured by an artificial satellite, and a control section that controls onboard equipment installed at a vehicle appearing in the satellite image based on an analysis result of the satellite image that the acquisition section has acquired.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shusuke YAMAMOTO, Chikara OKAZAKI, Kohta WATATSU, Hideyuki TANAKA, Shinya MURASE, Yuki TATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20240136871Abstract: A rotor used for a motor includes a rotor core, and a plurality of permanent magnets embedded in a corresponding plurality of embedding holes in the rotor core configured to include flux barriers at both ends of the plurality of embedding holes in the rotor core and to include a plurality of magnetic poles. The rotor core includes a plurality of grooves on an outer peripheral surface, the plurality of grooves, with the two paired grooves, are away from an axis that becomes the q-axis when the motor is operated, and are arranged symmetrically about the axis, and the rotor core has such a cross-section that a first angle between two lines passing through the two grooves and the center of the rotor core is smaller than a second angle between the axis-side end face of the two flux barriers adjacent to each other across the axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN CORPORTIONInventors: Ken JOZAKI, Toshinori OKOCHI, Yoshizumi KITAHARA, Takahiro ODAGI, Masayuki IKEMOTO
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Publication number: 20240137996Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving latency when establishing peer-to-peer connections between devices. In one embodiment, a method includes, responsive to determining that a connection is to be established with at least one remote vehicle by a subject vehicle, acquiring parameters, from a remote server, that define characteristics of the connection. The method includes performing device discovery and service discovery simultaneously by embedding information about available services within a communication for device discovery. The method includes establishing the connection between the subject vehicle and the at least one remote vehicle according to the parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Manali Sharma, Takamasa Higuchi, Seyhan Ucar, Onur Altintas
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Publication number: 20240131987Abstract: A vehicle object detection system configured to generate a judgement on whether a target object which has been detected to enter the detection area is an alert object, and to output the judgement to a warning which is configured to output a warning to a driver of the subject vehicle that a target object is present in the detection area behind the subject vehicle based on the judgement indicating that the target object is an alert object, wherein the system is configured to delay generating the judgment until a specified period of time has elapsed from a point in time when the target object is detected to enter a detectable area included in a field of view of a sensor, wherein the detectable area overlaps with only a part of the detection area.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicants: Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki HASHIMOTO, Takahiro KOHARA, Tomohiko MOCHIZUKI, Takayoshi NOHARA, Masahiro TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20240131717Abstract: A robot operation system with improved accuracy of a learning model accuracy is provided. Provided is a robot operation system including a composite image generation unit to which CAD data of an object and a workpiece and a feature point of the workpiece are input configured to generate a plurality of composite images under random conditions from the CAD data of the object and the workpiece, an information processing apparatus configured to search for a route using a position of an end effector of a robot and a position of the feature point and move the end effector to the feature point along the searched route, and an imaging apparatus configured to photograph the object and the workpiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shun SATO
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Publication number: 20240131680Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for delivering a work part to an assembly line worker using a dolly assembly in a first configuration and retrieving the work part from the dolly assembly by the assembly line work while the dolly assembly is in a second configuration. According to some embodiments, a dolly assembly is provided comprising a base assembly having a support member and a mobility mechanism, the support member positioned obliquely with respect to a horizontal plane. The dolly assembly also includes a part-carrying member rotationally connected to the support member and having a part-holding structure for receiving a work part. The part-carrying member extends downward at an angle below the horizontal plane when in a first configuration, and extends upward from at an angle above the horizontal plane when in a second configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: LLOYD R. HOLLAND, SCOTTIE L. FOSTER, BRADLEY J. GARCIA, MICHAEL C. GREENLEE, JEFFREY L. JAMES, ANNETTA L. ALLEN, JOHNNY O. BOARMAN 4TH, DAVID A. LAJOICE
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Publication number: 20240131986Abstract: An information processing method by an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a vehicle designated as a delivery destination of a package, the information processing method includes receiving vehicle information from the vehicle upon detecting an occurrence of a predetermined event regarding a delivery person of the package, determining, based on the vehicle information, whether to operate hazard lamps or a horn of the vehicle, and upon determining to operate the hazard lamps or the horn, transmitting, to the vehicle, a control signal that operates the hazard lamps or the horn.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenji ISHIYAMA
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Publication number: 20240131686Abstract: A robot system and a method for driving a robot capable of moving the position of the center of gravity of the robot while minimizing the increase in the footprint thereof are provided. A robot system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a robot. The robot includes a movable moving part, an upper body part disposed above the moving part, and a driving mechanism for tilting the upper body part and moving a lower end of the upper body part in a direction in which the upper body part is tilted.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuta ITOZAWA, Hirotaka KOMURA, Kunihiro IWAMOTO, Yutaro TAKAGI
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Publication number: 20240131571Abstract: To provide a method for manufacturing an outer panel in which takt time is shortened and of high designability. A method for manufacturing an outer panel performing a hemming process according to the present disclosure includes; performing a laser light irradiation process on an inner side of a steel sheet that serves as an outer panel to bend the steel sheet at a first angle, the laser light being irradiated along a ridgeline of a center part of a bend radius of the steel sheet, and performing the hemming process on the steel sheet at a timing that is after the laser irradiation process to bend the steel sheet at a second angle smaller than the first angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi TSUDA, Akito TOJO, Daichi TAJIMA
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Publication number: 20240131731Abstract: A quaternion joint includes a first member, a second member rotatably connected to the first member through links, a plurality of first pulleys provided on the end face of the first member so that the first pulleys are able to swing, a plurality of second pulleys provided on the end face of the second member facing the end face of the first members so that the second pulleys correspond to the first pulleys and so that the second pulleys are able to swing, and a plurality of wires hung between the first pulleys and the second pulleys corresponding to the first pulleys. A rotation shaft of the first pulley is offset from a rotation shaft of the second pulley corresponding to the first pulley in a state in which the rotation shaft of the first pulley is rotated around a direction in which the wire is extended.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazutoshi NISHII
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Publication number: 20240136896Abstract: A magnet arrangement method in which magnetized magnets arranged in a Halbach array can be arranged at preset positions with a high accuracy is provided. The method includes an arrangement process of arranging a plurality of magnetized magnets in an arrangement jig made of a magnetic body, in which, in the arrangement process, a size of an area that the arrangement jig contacts a preset magnetized magnet is made different from a size of an area that the arrangement jig contacts another magnetized magnet.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yushi TAKEUCHI
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Publication number: 20240132090Abstract: A vehicle controller for a vehicle includes a processor to: detect a driving state of the vehicle; determine whether a predetermined dangerous driving is included in the detected driving state; determine, when determining that the predetermined dangerous driving is included in the detected driving state, whether a mood of a driver of the vehicle is elevated; and perform, when determining that the mood of the driver is elevated, vehicle control to settle the mood of the driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shigeki Nakayama, Tomohiro Kaneko, Kotoru Sato
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Publication number: 20240131884Abstract: A vehicle including a cross member and a tow hook assembly. The tow hook assembly is coupled to the cross member and includes a housing, a tow hook, and a shear pin. The housing includes an arcuate interior. The tow hook is moveable between an extended position and a retracted position. The tow hook includes a retaining block and a receiving member having a distal portion extending from the retaining block and a leading portion extending from the distal portion. The shear pin is positionable to extend through the housing. When the tow hook is in the extended position and a force exceeding a predetermined threshold is applied to the leading portion of the receiving member, the shear pin shears to permit the retaining block of the tow hook to move along the arcuate interior of the housing and position the tow hook into the retracted position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryan C. Harris, Scott L. Frederick
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Publication number: 20240131989Abstract: A display control device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: acquire information of a moving body in surroundings of a vehicle; and display a specific image on a display area provided to the vehicle according to a position of the moving body based on the acquired information of the moving body, the specific image being displayed either overlaid on or adjacent to the moving body; and in a case in which the moving body inside the display area has exited from the display area, continue to display the specific image until a specific period of time has elapsed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hideki TSUDA
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Publication number: 20240131885Abstract: A tow hook assembly including a crush box and a tow hook. The crush box includes a support section having a first end and an opposite second end, the tubular support section extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction, and a connector section provided at the first end of the tubular support section, the connector section including a face plate extending in a vehicle vertical direction perpendicular to the vehicle longitudinal direction, and an upper plate extending from an upper end of the face plate in the vehicle longitudinal direction. The tow hook includes a body having a first portion provided on an upper surface of the upper plate and extending parallel to the upper plate, and an attachment member extending at an oblique angle from the first portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: George DeWitt, Jeremiah T. Hammer
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Publication number: 20240132045Abstract: The in-vehicle controller of the present disclosure is installed in a vehicle together an engine, a motor capable of generating electricity connected to a crankshaft of the engine, a high voltage battery connected to the motor by a high voltage power line, a low voltage battery, a DC/DC converter connected to the high voltage power line and a low voltage power line connected to the low voltage battery, and a relay attached to the high voltage battery side of the high voltage power line from the DC/DC converter. The in-vehicle controller of the present disclosure stops driving the DC/DC converter after driving off the motor when completing the batteryless driving by disconnecting the high voltage battery with the relay turned off.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takahisa MIURA
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Publication number: 20240131921Abstract: The plurality of movable fins includes at least a first movable fin coupled to the actuator and a second movable fin coupled to the first movable fin via a time difference link. The time difference link does not interlock the second movable fin with respect to the first movable fin while the first movable fin rotates from the closed position to the predetermined intermediate position, and interlocks the second movable fin with respect to the first movable fin while the first movable fin rotates from the intermediate position to the open position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideo NISHIOKA, Hiroki SAWADA