Patents Assigned to Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki
  • Battery capacity estimation method and battery capacity estimation system
    Patent number: 12105152
    Abstract: A battery capacity estimation system executes a charging and discharging process (S1), an alternating current impedance acquiring process (S2 and S3), and a battery capacity estimating process (S4 to S6). The charging and discharging process involves charging and discharging a target secondary battery. The alternating current impedance acquiring process involves acquiring a measurement result of an alternating current impedance of a target secondary battery, by applying an alternating current signal within a specific frequency range to the target secondary battery after completion of the charging and discharging in the charging and discharging process and before a predetermined maximum waiting time elapses. The battery capacity estimating step involves estimating a battery capacity of the target secondary battery based on the measurement result of the alternating current impedance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiko Mitsui, Junta Izumi, Juni Yasoshima
  • Vehicle
    Patent number: 12103363
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an instrument panel reinforcement that extends in a vehicle width direction inside an instrument panel, a steering wheel located behind the instrument panel reinforcement, and an air duct that is disposed inside the instrument panel and passes between the instrument panel reinforcement and the steering wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Marie Sakata, Masashi Kawamoto, Ken Tanaka
  • Parking assist apparatus
    Patent number: 12103518
    Abstract: A parking assist apparatus sets a target position on a traffic lane, based on vehicle surrounding information, calculates a moving route, and executes a parking assist control of moving an own vehicle along the moving route. The parking assist control includes a steering angle control, a driving force control, and a braking force control. The parking assist apparatus changes the stopping number of stopping the own vehicle, based on the vehicle surrounding information while moving the own vehicle along the moving route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuya Nakagawa, Tsutomu Mochida, Naoya Matsunaga
  • Information processing apparatus and method
    Patent number: 12105530
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a first unmanned aircraft having a first camera to be used for detecting an obstacle and a second unmanned aircraft having a second camera to be used for detecting an obstacle with higher detection accuracy than the first camera, and a controller configured to, in a case in which a predetermined event relating to the first unmanned aircraft has occurred, detect, using the second unmanned aircraft, an obstacle at a target point on a flight path along which the first unmanned aircraft travels to a destination, and control the first unmanned aircraft to navigate around the detected obstacle using information regarding the detected obstacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ai Miyata, Yurika Tanaka, Hideo Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Katsuhiro Ohara, Tomoya Makino
  • Vehicle display device
    Patent number: 12103394
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes: a display unit in a shape of a rectangular film, the display unit being configured to be advanced from and withdrawn into a ceiling of a vehicle cabin; a lower edge reinforcing portion located at a lower edge of the display unit, the lower edge reinforcing portion reinforcing the lower edge of the display unit; and a support mechanism configured to be extended and retracted according to an amount by which the display unit protrudes beyond the ceiling, and configured to support the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Maeda, Tatsuya Shimizu, Takanobu Tabata, Yasuyuki Andou, Takahiro Suzuki, Fumihiro Onogi
  • Drive assist device
    Patent number: 12103529
    Abstract: In a drive assist device, a first condition that an inter-vehicle distance between a preceding vehicle and an own vehicle is smaller than a first threshold, a second condition that a speed of the preceding vehicle relative to the own vehicle is lower than a second threshold, a third condition that a speed of an adjacent vehicle that travels on an adjacent lane to the own vehicle is lower than a third threshold, and a fourth condition that an acceleration rate of the adjacent vehicle is lower than a fourth threshold are defined. When at least one of the first condition and the second condition and at least one of the third condition and the fourth condition are satisfied, the drive assist ECU executes acceleration restraint control of a driving device and/or a braking device such that an acceleration rate of the own vehicle is “0” or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Tezuka, Koki Suwabe, Tomoaki Igarashi
  • Vehicle control device, vehicle control system, vehicle control method, and storage medium
    Patent number: 12104427
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: an acquisition section configured to acquire a determination result as to whether a predetermined communication terminal is in a vehicle cabin interior area, and acquire another determination result as to whether or not the communication terminal is in a vehicle cabin exterior area; and a control section configured to, based on the determination results of the acquisition section, initiate a closing operation of a vehicle door in cases in which a determination is made that the communication terminal is in the vehicle cabin exterior area, and stop the closing operation in cases in which a determination is made that the communication terminal is in the vehicle cabin interior area after the closing operation was initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiya Sugita, Shutaro Tokunaga, Ryusuke Ishikawa
  • Energy storage device comprising current collector plate with spring portion
    Patent number: 12107300
    Abstract: The extraction portion of a current collector plate is configured to include a first piece portion extending in a direction orthogonal to the first direction from an outer edge portion provided on an edge of the flat plate portion when viewed from the first direction, a second piece portion extending in the first direction and having an attachment portion that attaches the extraction portion, and a bent portion being where a plate material configuring the extraction portion bends, and connecting the first piece portion and the second piece portion. A spring portion that is configured to relieve a stress acting on the extraction portion is provided between the connection portion to the outer edge portion and the attachment portion in the extraction portion. The spring portion includes at least a first bent portion being where the plate material bends other than at the bent portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryuji Oide, Naoto Morisaku, Hiromi Ueda, Satoshi Morioka, Motoyoshi Okumura
  • Information processing device, vehicle, and information processing method
    Patent number: 12106012
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a first speaker, a data communications device, and an information processing device. The information processing device executes the followings: receiving a user operation to make a volume change of audio output from a first speaker provided in a vehicle, the user operation being input into a volume adjustment portion; and while the data communications device outputs audio from a second speaker, notifying the data communications device of the volume change made by the user operation input into a volume adjustment portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koki Mori
  • Lane departure avoidance device
    Patent number: 12103525
    Abstract: A lane departure avoidance device includes a control unit that executes a lane departure prevention control by at least one of automatically turning a turning wheel and issuing an alarm, when it is determined that there is a possibility that a vehicle crosses a lane border and a driver has no intention of performing a lane departure, and that suspends executing the lane departure prevention control, when it is determined that there is a possibility that the vehicle crosses the lane border and the driver intentions to perform the lane departure. The control unit continues to suspend executing the lane departure prevention control, when it is determined that there is another lane border on a side that the vehicle approaches and that a distance from the vehicle to the other lane border is a reference distance or more, in a situation where executing the lane departure prevention control is suspended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuki Itazuri
  • Controller, method, and computer program for vehicle control
    Patent number: 12103556
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to: determine a driving plan when a lane change from a host vehicle lane to another lane is requested. The driving plan represents travel behavior of a vehicle until completion of the lane change and satisfies a safety condition that the vehicle will collide with none of objects around the vehicle detected from a sensor signal obtained by a sensor mounted on the vehicle. The processor is further configured to: set a completion condition indicating a position or time at which the completion of the lane change is required, determine whether the completion condition is satisfied when the vehicle is driven according to the driving plan, control the vehicle to make the lane change according to the driving plan when the completion condition is satisfied, and restrict execution of the lane change when the completion condition is not satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Suzuka Kondo, Eiki Kitagawa, Shota Fujii, Yu Okada, Takuo Kaneko, Soichi Yoshino
  • Vehicle control device
    Patent number: 12103436
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a sleep depth estimation unit that estimates a sleep depth of an occupant seated in a seat provided in a vehicle, and a control unit that controls the vehicle such that a magnitude of the external force to be applied to at least one of a plurality of the occupants is equal to or less than a first threshold value when the estimated sleep depth of the occupant is equal to or lower than a predetermined reference depth or when the occupant is awake, and that controls the vehicle such that the magnitude of the external force to be applied to each of all the occupants is equal to or less than a second threshold value larger than the first threshold value when the sleep depth of each of the occupants is greater than the reference depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Gen Fukuyama, Mikio Inoue, Reiko Yamamoto, Masao Tajima
  • Vehicle controller
    Patent number: 12103513
    Abstract: A vehicle controller controls a power train of a vehicle and is configured to switch control of the power train between first control and second control. The second control reduces operating noise of the power train by a greater degree than the first control. The vehicle controller is configured to based on sounds in a passenger compartment, perform mood determination in order to determine whether an occupant of the vehicle is in a state of high tolerance for the operating noise or in a state of low tolerance for the operating noise; control the power train through the first control when determining that the occupant is in the state of high tolerance through the mood determination; and control the power train through the second control when determining that the occupant is in the state of low tolerance through the mood determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiji Kaita, Takahiko Hirasawa, Kentaro Otokubo, Hirotaka Omisha, Kimihiro Nakayama
  • Damping control device and damping control method for vehicle
    Patent number: 12103347
    Abstract: A damping control device for a vehicle includes a control force generating device configured to generate vertical control force between a vehicle body of the vehicle and at least one wheel suspended from the vehicle body by a suspension, and an electronic control unit configured to reduce, by controlling the control force generating device to change the control force, vibration of the vehicle body that is caused by vertical vibration occurring in the wheel in response to vertical road surface displacements while the vehicle is traveling, the vertical vibration being transmitted to the vibration of the vehicle body via the suspension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroki Furuta
  • Security system, security method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing security program
    Patent number: 12106643
    Abstract: A security system monitors a behavior of a person included in a plurality of camera images captured continuously in time series by a surveillance camera. The security system performs tracking processing of detecting each person region of a person included in a plurality of camera images, and identifying a person included in the plurality of camera images in time series based on person image data included in the person region. When the identification by the tracking processing transitions to failure in the middle, it is determined that a person having suspicious behavior is included in the camera image. When it is determined that the suspicious behavior is included, alert information may be notified from an output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Norimasa Kobori
  • Vehicle transporting device
    Patent number: 12103454
    Abstract: A vehicle transporting device includes a bogie frame, a device main body, and an upright frame. The upright frame connects a tip portion of the bogie frame and the device main body. The bogie frame includes two frame members and at least two pipes, which are disposed parallel to a longitudinal direction of the bogie frame. The two frame members are disposed parallel to the at least two pipes at a position outside the at least two pipes in a width direction of the bogie frame. The at least two pipes include two pipes facing each other in the width direction. A reinforcing member extending in the width direction is provided at the tip portion of the bogie frame and between the two facing pipes. The two frame members, the reinforcing member, and the upright frame are connected to each other at the tip portion of the bogie frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiki Kitajima, Norinao Watanabe, Yutaka Nakamura, Naoya Kajita, Kenji Nakano, Takafumi Sannomiya, Yasutada Shimizu, Kohei Yasuda
  • Garbage box, garbage collection system, and garbage collection method
    Patent number: 12103181
    Abstract: A garbage box includes an opening-closing unit and a switch on a predetermined surface, the switch being a switch by which the opening-closing unit is opened. The garbage box is installed such that the predetermined surface faces a base surface with a predetermined interval from the base surface, the base surface being a floor surface or a ground surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiro Iwamoto, Yutaro Takagi, Yuta Itozawa, Hirotaka Komura
  • Synchronizing neighboring tiles in a high definition map
    Patent number: 12104922
    Abstract: A method for synchronizing neighboring tiles in an electronic map is described. The method includes grouping neighboring tiles of the electronic map into a plurality of tile groups. The method also includes selecting a first tile group and a second tile group that border one another on at least a first tile in the first tile group and a second tile in the second tile group. The method further includes independently optimizing the first tile group and the second tile group if a feature crosses between the first tile group and the second tile group. The method also includes shifting a border of the first tile group and a border of the second tile group to join the first tile and the second tile in the second tile group or the first tile group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hai Jin, Federico Boniardi, Xipeng Wang, Paul Ozog, Chong Zhang
  • Method of producing electrode and electrode production apparatus
    Patent number: 12103037
    Abstract: (a) An aerosol including an active material, a binder, and a gas is made. (b) A film-like flow of the aerosol is formed. (c) An electrically-charged region is formed by corona discharge. (d) The film-like flow passes through the electrically-charged region. (e) The film-like flow is introduced into an electric field after passing through the electrically-charged region. In the electric field, an active material layer is formed by adhering a solid component of the film-like flow onto a surface of a substrate by electrostatic force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Uezono, Momoka Oda
  • Motor vehicle and/or toy replica thereof
    Patent number: D1044600
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Byung Hyun Yoo, Daisuke Iguchi