Patents Assigned to Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 12157488
    Abstract: An onboard display device is installed in a vehicle configured to enable autonomous driving. The onboard display device includes an information acquisition section and a display control section. In a case in which the vehicle attempts to merge from a traveling lane into a merging destination lane during autonomous driving, the information acquisition section acquires information regarding a point at which the attempt will be aborted, before the vehicle arrives at the point. The display control section displays the information regarding the point that is acquired by the information acquisition section, before the arrival at the point, at a display portion that is provided within a vehicle cabin of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoaki Takabatake, Junji Miyazaki, Koji Kimura, Yuki Yoshida, Ryo Ogata, Tadashi Morishita
  • Patent number: 12159542
    Abstract: A control device includes: a communication unit; and a control unit that transmits and receives information via the communication unit. When a flying object flies around a complex housing, the control unit transmits, to the flying object, information on a flight route in which a transported object of the flying object enters a blind spot from inside of the complex housing based on information on the complex housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 12158117
    Abstract: An engine system includes an engine including first and second cylinders, and a control device configured to execute automatic stop of the engine and restart of the engine. The control device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a temperature of the engine and a time during the automatic stop of the engine, a fuel cut control unit configured to execute a specific cylinder fuel cut process for stopping supply of fuel to the first cylinder and for supplying fuel to the second cylinder when there is a request to restart the engine, and an injection amount control unit configured to increase a fuel injection amount in the second cylinder as the time during the automatic stop of the engine is longer and as the temperature of the engine is lower, during execution of the specific cylinder fuel cut process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Susumu Araki
  • Patent number: 12160805
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a plurality of vehicle; and a server that is able to communicate with the plurality of vehicles. Each of the plurality of vehicles performs: generating a moving image in which a person outside the vehicle appears; and transmitting the moving image and an imaging time and an imaging position of the moving image to the server. The server performs: specifying two or more target moving images in which the same person appears out of a plurality of moving images received from the plurality of vehicles; detecting behavior of the person from the two or more target moving images; estimating attribute information of the person based on the detected behavior; and transmitting the estimated attribute information of the person and the imaging time and the imaging position of at least one of the target moving images to a client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Kusama, Masatoshi Hayashi, Hisanori Mitsumoto, Kuniaki Jinnai, Makoto Akahane, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Kato
  • Patent number: 12157386
    Abstract: A control system is configured to control a power adjustment resource including an energy storage device configured to electrically connect to a power network, and a temperature control device configured to perform temperature control of the energy storage device. The control system includes: a first control device configured to control charging and discharging of the energy storage device; a second control device configured to control the temperature control device; and a third control device. The second control device is configured to select either external power or stored power and drives the temperature control device using the selected power. The third control device is configured to determine whether to permit power supply from the power network to the power adjustment resource based on supply and demand information of the power network, and switch between permission and prohibition of the power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 12157459
    Abstract: A manager installed in a vehicle includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to receive, from a plurality of advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) applications, a plurality of kinematic plans and identification information of the ADAS applications. The one or more processors are configured to arbitrate the kinematic plans, and calculate a motion request based on arbitration results. The one or more processors are configured to distribute the motion request to at least one actuator system. The one or more processors are configured to determine, when the kinematic plans include a request relating to stopped state holding of the vehicle, a mode of stopped state holding of the vehicle in accordance with the identification information of the ADAS applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Itoh, Kazuki Miyake, Akitsugu Sakai
  • Patent number: 12157500
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a first prediction unit that predicts a reaching time for a vehicle to reach a cross point in front of the vehicle in a case where a pedestrian who crosses the cross point is detected based on information transmitted from a wearable device attached to the pedestrian, a second prediction unit that predicts a crossing time for the pedestrian to complete crossing the cross point based on information for specifying a walking speed acquired from the wearable device, an estimation unit that estimates whether or not the pedestrian is able to safely cross the cross point based on the predicted reaching time and the predicted crossing time, and an execution controller that executes a safe driving assistance control with respect to the vehicle in a case where the estimation unit estimates that the pedestrian is not able to safely cross the cross point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiyoto Sasaki, Makoto Kawaharada, Satoshi Nakamura, Kenichi Okumura, Naotoshi Kadotani
  • Patent number: 12159490
    Abstract: A vehicle management system is provided with an onboard device, a server, and a remote control unit. The onboard device includes first memory and a first processor coupled to the first memory. The first processor being configured to acquire information regarding a vehicle. The server includes second memory and a second processor coupled to the second memory. The second processor being configured to determine whether or not a vehicle maintenance service is required based on the acquired information, and to propose implementation of the vehicle maintenance service in a cases in which the vehicle maintenance service is required. The remote control unit includes third memory and a third processor coupled to the third memory. The third processor being configured to use remote operation to move the vehicle to a predetermined location for implementation of the vehicle maintenance service in a cases in which the proposed vehicle maintenance service is to be implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miyako Hayashida, Toshinari Ogawa, Kosuke Fujimoto, Hideo Hasegawa, Shintaro Matsutani, Yosuke Nozaki, Tatsuya Matsunami, Takashi Hayashi, Tomoya Makino, Yohei Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 12160347
    Abstract: A system includes: a server; and a moving body wherein, the server is configured to communicate with the moving body, predict occurrence of a loss of communication with the moving body, and send information necessary to execute a first process to the moving body when the loss of communication with the moving body is predicted to occur; and the moving body is configured to receive the information from the server, and execute the first process based on the received information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kanade Kuriyama, Masataka Okuda, Kaoru Yoshida, Toshiki Shinohara, Masatoshi Kakutani
  • Patent number: 12157355
    Abstract: A guide rail includes: a first rail that has a bottom wall on which a load roller rolls and supports the weight of a sliding door; a second rail that has side walls on which two guide rollers roll and defines a moving direction of the sliding door; and a first restriction part that restricts the motion of the load roller in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: AISIN CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA SHATAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohito Kiryu, Koichi Morita, Hideaki Kanasugi, Shunsuke Kanagai, Nobuo Hayama, Yusuke Kato, Nobuaki Sakai
  • Patent number: 12158847
    Abstract: A control device receives data output from plural applications. The control device arbitrates, based on predetermined conditions, the order in which the plural sets of data output from the plural applications are stored in a storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takayuki Osajima
  • Patent number: 12157466
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to detect a lane on which a vehicle is traveling, determine whether the position of the detected lane relative to an edge of a road being traveled by the vehicle may differ from an actual position, identify first control of the vehicle required to execute on the detected lane and second control of the vehicle required to execute on an adjoining lane adjoining the detected lane, omit to execute the first control when the position of the detected lane may differ from the actual position and the first control is prohibited on the adjoining lane, and execute the second control when the position of the detected lane may differ from the actual position and the second control exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Seta, Ryuta Hashimoto, Kota Harada, Soichi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 12157483
    Abstract: Systems and methods for use of operator state conditions to generate, adapt or otherwise produce visual signals relaying information to the operator are disclosed. A monitoring system may observe and analyze a vehicle operator to determine an operator state. The monitoring system may transmit the observed driver state to an operator alert system that generates, conditions and controls the transmission of signals to the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Simon A. I. Stent
  • Patent number: 12158237
    Abstract: An insertion amount grasping device includes: a first jig fixed to a fixation target in a state where the first jig is positioned against the fixation target, the first jig having a guide through-hole extending toward an application portion in a state where the first jig is fixed to the fixation target; an insertion portion inserted into the guide through-hole such that the insertion portion is introduced toward the application portion in a state where an operator grips the insertion portion; and a protruding portion as a protruding portion provided in the insertion portion, the protruding portion inserted into the guide through-hole and cause friction between the protruding portion and the guide through-hole when a predetermined positional relationship is established between a distal end part of the insertion portion and the application portion along with an introduction operation to introduce the insertion portion toward the application portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Takenaka
  • Patent number: 12158100
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an engine, a turbocharger that supercharges intake air to the engine, an exhaust passage connected to the engine, a turbine of the turbocharger being disposed in the exhaust passage, a bypass passage that bypasses the turbine and is connected to the exhaust passage, a waste gate valve that opens and closes the bypass passage; and an abnormality determination device configured to include a determination unit configured to determine an abnormality of the waste gate valve when an operation state of the engine is a supercharging state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Isamu Tojo
  • Patent number: 12157436
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided which includes a controller configured to control a vehicle that is equipped with a storage device in which baggage can be deposited by a user, and a storing section for storing cushioning material that can be used by the user when the user deposits the baggage in the storage device, wherein the controller performs to generate a command for replenishment of the cushioning material in the storing section when a remaining amount of the cushioning material in the storing section is less than a predetermined amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Inoue, Yurika Tanaka, Satoshi Komamine, Go Tanaka, Hiromitsu Fujii
  • Patent number: 12157186
    Abstract: Provided is an electrode sheet manufacturing method including preparing a sheet stack including an electrode composite material layer and a separator provided on the electrode composite material layer, irradiating the separator of the sheet stack with a first laser beam having a wavelength to be absorbed by the separator, and moving an irradiation position of the first laser beam relative to the sheet stack. The method further includes irradiating the sheet stack having been irradiated with the first laser beam with a second laser beam having a wavelength to be absorbed by the electrode composite material layer, and moving an irradiation position of the second laser beam relative to the sheet stack, wherein the irradiation position of the second laser beam moves so as to follow a track of the irradiation position of the first laser beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takahiro Sakurai
  • Patent number: 12157400
    Abstract: A display control device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to acquire a momentary power generation amount of a solar power generation device mounted at a vehicle and, in accordance with the acquired momentary power generation amount, change an area of a display region displayed at a display part of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ayaka Takezawa
  • Patent number: 12157364
    Abstract: A driving apparatus includes: a first power source; a fluid transmission device; a first output shaft for receiving a power transmitted from the fluid transmission device through a first power transmission path and outputting the power to drive wheels of a vehicle; a rotary electric machine connected to the first output shaft and/or the drive wheels, through a second power transmission path; and a control device. When the vehicle is stopped or running at an extremely low speed, with a rotary-electric-machine driving mode being established, the control device is configured, upon determination that a drive request amount is larger than a threshold amount value, to place a direct clutch of the fluid transmission device into an engaged state and to place the first power transmission path into a power transmittable state so as to cause the power of the first power source to be outputted to the first output shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Tabata, Koichi Okuda, Koji Takaira, Tatsuya Imamura, Yohei Habata
  • Patent number: 12157485
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for a monitoring system to monitor and detect a vehicle load. The monitoring system includes a first camera configured to capture first image data including a load in the vehicle, a memory configured to store image data, and an electronic control unit coupled to the first camera and the memory. The electronic control unit is configured to obtain, from the first camera, the first image data including the load, determine a movement of the load based on the first image data, and provide a notification when the movement of the load exceeds a first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Thomas S. Hawley