Patents Assigned to Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Publication number: 20240088695
    Abstract: The control device includes a charger to which electric power is distributed from the distribution board, an acquisition unit for acquiring power consumption of one or more electric devices, an instruction unit for instructing suppression of the charging operation of the charger in accordance with the power consumption based on an instruction authority of the charging operation for the charger, and a management unit for giving the instruction authority to the power management device that manages power demand using the charger when the power consumption is equal to or less than a first threshold, and giving the instruction authority to the instruction unit when the power consumption is greater than the first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tohru NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240082934
    Abstract: A tool shank holder includes a body comprising a shank-receiving end and a bit-receiving end. The shank-receiving end is configured to operably receive a shank of a tool and the bit-receiving end is configured to operably receive a driver bit. A connector is provided at the shank-receiving end that is configured to directly connect the shank-receiving end to the shank of the tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Charles L. Cain, Blair C. Perkins
  • Publication number: 20240083215
    Abstract: An anti-fogging system according to the present disclosure includes an anti-fogging device that suppresses fogging of glass of a vehicle, and a control device that controls the anti-fogging device. The control device is configured to execute a process of operating an anti-fogging device when a predetermined condition is satisfied, a process of acquiring information on a conversation situation including at least whether or not a vehicle occupant is talking, and a process of changing a predetermined condition based on information on a conversation situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Tatesumi, Taiki Iida
  • Publication number: 20240088816
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine control device shifts a control system to synchronous five-pulse control when an operating point crosses a second boundary from a state in which asynchronous pulse-width modulation control is being executed, and shifts the control system to the asynchronous pulse-width modulation control when the operating point crosses a first boundary from a state in which the synchronous five-pulse control is being executed. The first boundary is set such that the number of switching pulses per unit rotational speed by the synchronous five-pulse control immediately before the operating point crosses the first boundary is smaller than the number of the switching pulses per unit rotational speed by the asynchronous pulse-width modulation control immediately after the operating point crosses the first boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: AISIN CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Subrata SAHA, Keisuke NISHIMURA, Kyohei KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240088471
    Abstract: A battery cooling device, including a plurality of coolers to cool a battery using insulating oil, includes: a communication pipe to connect the plurality of coolers to each other, the communication pipe allowing the insulating oil to flow therethrough; a water level sensor provided in a vertical portion of the communication pipe, the vertical portion extending in a vertical direction, and detects a water level in the vertical portion; a shutdown valve provided in the communication pipe; and a control device configured to control the shutdown valve. Further, the control device closes the shutdown valve when the water level sensor detects a water level rise equal to or greater than a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hajime SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20240082871
    Abstract: A coating device includes a backup roll configured to transport a workpiece; a coating die configured to discharge a coating liquid onto the workpiece; a drive section capable configured to drive the backup roll; and a heat dissipation section configured to dissipate heat generated in the drive section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Primearth EV Energy Co., Ltd., Prime Planet Energy & Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Taichi URAKAMI, Seiji ISHIZU, Yu ICHINO, Masakazu UMEHARA, Naohiro ISHIZUKA, Naoya KISHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240083454
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle control system for controlling a vehicle that performs autonomous driving. A first lane is a traffic lane in which the vehicle travels. A second lane is a traffic lane adjacent to the first lane in a lane change section of less than a predetermined distance. A lane change between the first lane and the second lane is permitted in the lane change section. The vehicle control system decelerates the vehicle before the lane change section when the lane change section is present in front of the vehicle and a deceleration condition is satisfied during the autonomous driving of the vehicle. The deceleration condition includes at least a terrain condition that a target-invisible section in which the second lane is invisible from the vehicle is present before the lane change section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20240083296
    Abstract: Disclosed is a control device that executes display control for causing a display device to display information on a vehicle capable of traveling using electric power of a battery. Further, the control device, while the vehicle travels toward a predetermined destination, causes the display device to display a transition of a travelable distance corresponding to an SOC of the battery and a transition of a distance to the destination, and causes the display device to display a predicted remaining SOC of the battery when the vehicle arrives at the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sui KURIHASHI, Tomohiko INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240083246
    Abstract: A display control device installed in a vehicle and forming an AR image corresponding to a display target object at a position in front of the vehicle in a hypothetical display area set in front of the vehicle. The display control device causes the AR image to disappear from the hypothetical display area while being faded out when a first specific condition has been satisfied after the AR image was formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki TSUDA, Toshinori AOKI
  • Publication number: 20240088704
    Abstract: A charge support system including: a detection unit configured to detect that a vehicle is scheduled to be parked for a predetermined period or longer; an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a charging of a storage battery when the detection unit detects that the vehicle is scheduled to be parked for a predetermined period or longer; a determination unit configured to determine, based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit, whether or not it is necessary to keep storing electricity generated by a solar cell panel in the storage battery; and a notification unit configured to, when the determination unit determines that it is not necessary to keep storing the electricity generated by the solar cell panel in the storage battery, send a notification prompting a driver to connect a charging cable to a storage apparatus outside the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taizo MASUDA, Yasunobu SEKI, Hiroki AWANO, Tomoko NAKAMURA, Tsuyoshi KANEKO, Kosuke YONEKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240088434
    Abstract: An all-solid-state battery includes a case, a battery element, and a restraint component. The case accommodates the battery element. The battery element includes an electrode part and a resin part. The resin part covers at least a part of a side face of the electrode part. The restraint component applies a first pressure to the electrode part. The restraint component applies a second pressure to the resin part. The ratio of the second pressure to the first pressure is from 1.5 to 18.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motoshi ISONO, Masato ONO, Keiichi MINAMI, Kazuhito KATO, Katsuaki ODAGI
  • Publication number: 20240083248
    Abstract: Given that an intersection point of a straight line, which connects a relatively moving body and an eyeball reference position of a driver of a vehicle, and a virtual surface, which includes a virtual display region and is wider than the virtual display region, is defined as a first intersection point, and an intersection point between the virtual display region and a straight line, which connects the eyeball reference position and an AR image, is defined as a second intersection point, a position of the second intersection point is controlled such that a second distance, which is a distance between the first intersection point and the second intersection point, is longer when a first distance, which is a distance between the relatively moving body and the vehicle, is longer than a predetermined value, than when the first distance is the predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki TSUDA, Toshinori AOKI
  • Publication number: 20240083449
    Abstract: A display control device configured to include a processor coupled to a memory, the processor calculating, based on sets of sensing information acquired from plural sensors that sense objects in front of a vehicle, a position of a detection object in front of the vehicle and, when displaying a position image representing the position of the detection object so as to overlay the position image on a foreground in a display area in front of a driver's seat, deciding whether or not to display the position image based on reliabilities of the sets of sensing information acquired from the plural sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki TSUDA, Toshinori AOKI
  • Publication number: 20240085201
    Abstract: A server has a controller. The controller obtains first information that identifies a facility that is the destination of a user's travel by a vehicle. The controller obtains second information related to the location of an entrance of the facility for vehicles based on the first information it has obtained. The controller transmits a first command to set a route to the facility according to the second information to a first terminal associated with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Taiki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240083453
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of: determining, by a server, a time when a vehicle at a charging bay of a charging station has completed charging, sending, by the server, an authorization to autonomously move the vehicle after the time, and providing, by the server, a location to move the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Derek S. Caveney
  • Publication number: 20240083297
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that creates an electrical energy consumption map, for an autonomous vehicle, indicating electrical energy consumption of links in an operation route defined by an operation plan, calculates, based on the map, a first predicted value of total electrical energy consumption required for traveling the operation route, and compares the total electrical energy consumption indicated by the first predicted value with a SOC prior to operation of the vehicle, and when the SOC prior to operation does not satisfy the total electrical energy consumption, extracts links satisfying a predetermined condition as candidate links for switching to a manual driving section from among links designated as an autonomous driving section and changes the operation plan so that the SOC prior to operation satisfies the total electrical energy consumption by switching at least one of the extracted candidate links to the manual driving section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Ibuki SHIMADA, Toshihiro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240083396
    Abstract: The vehicle includes a SBW actuator capable of switching between a locked state in which the drive wheels of the vehicle are restrained from rotating and an unlocked state in which the rotation of the drive wheels is not restrained by the actuator, a parking lock releasing operation unit for switching the locked state of SBW actuator to an unlocked state by manual operation, and an undercover covering a lower portion of the parking lock releasing operation unit, and the undercover is provided with a through hole, and the parking lock releasing operation unit is exposed downward from the through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yukihiro TANIGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240083497
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to steering a vehicle based during loss of traction. In one arrangement, a method for steering a vehicle during loss of traction is disclosed. The method includes, responsive to detecting a slipping tire of a vehicle losing traction with a road, automatically steering the vehicle separately from an input of a steering wheel of the vehicle to cause the vehicle to follow a path. The method also includes decoupling control of a pair of front tires of the vehicle by the steering wheel. The method further includes rotating, independently of an input to the steering wheel and in parallel with steering the vehicle, the steering wheel to match an actual yaw of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yasuda, Manuel Ludwig Kuehner, Yan Ming Jonathan Goh
  • Publication number: 20240083457
    Abstract: Systems and methods of trajectory planning for an autonomous vehicle are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: determine a first trajectory plan for the vehicle traveling along a first spatial location at a first point in time, the first trajectory plan being a reference trajectory plan; compute an optimal sequence for the vehicle traveling along a second spatial location at a second point in time subsequent the first point in time; and calculate a second trajectory plan for the vehicle by updating the first trajectory plan with information from the computed optimal sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: James A. DALLAS, Michael THOMPSON, Yan Ming GOH, Avinash BALACHANDRAN
  • Publication number: 20240083498
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to steering a vehicle based on an intended yaw rate during loss of traction. In one arrangement, a method for steering a vehicle during loss of traction is disclosed. The method includes detecting a slipping tire of a vehicle losing traction with a road. The method also includes decoupling control of a pair of front tires of the vehicle by a steering wheel of the vehicle. The method also includes identifying an intended yaw rate for controlling the vehicle by detecting an angle of the steering wheel while the slipping tire does not have traction. The method further includes steering the vehicle separately from an input of a steering wheel of the vehicle to cause intended yaw rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yasuda, Manuel Ludwig Kuehner, Yan Ming Jonathan Goh