Patents Assigned to Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki
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Patent number: 11820398Abstract: A learning apparatus configured to be able to communicate with a plurality of equipment in which learning models are mounted, wherein when first equipment among the plurality of equipment in which a learning model trained using training data sets acquired in a predetermined first area is mounted and which is controlled by the same is used in a predetermined second area, the learning apparatus uses training data sets acquired in the second area to relearn the learning model mounted in the first equipment.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Ryo Nakabayashi
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Patent number: 11821562Abstract: A resin piping assembly including a base divisional component having first and second half components having respective first and second interfacial surfaces formed along an oil passage, and first and second divisional components which have respective third and fourth interfacial surfaces formed along the oil passage, and which are bonded to the respective first and second half components. Each of the base divisional component, and the first and second divisional components is formed of a resin material, and the first and second interfacial surfaces are spaced apart from each other, and open in respective opposite directions. The base divisional component further includes a cylindrical connecting pipe portion having a connecting passage portion which is a part of the oil passage and which is provided for communication between the first and second passage portions. Also disclosed is a process of forming the resin piping assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroaki Kiyokami
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Patent number: 11819330Abstract: In an attention ability inspection method, at least one of a central task of unsteadily changing a central graphic at a predetermined speed and a peripheral task of displaying a peripheral graphic in a peripheral region of a display area is randomly presented in a state in which the central graphic is displayed in a central region of the display area of a display, time from presentation of the central task or the peripheral task to reception of a predetermined operation from a subject that has recognized the presentation is measured as reaction time, and an attention ability of the subject is evaluated based on the reaction time.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Kishi, Kentaro Yokoi
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Patent number: 11820376Abstract: A control device for a vehicle includes an electronic control unit configured to: execute driving assistance control for driving the vehicle at least by automatically controlling a speed irrespective of a driving operation of a driver; execute regenerative braking using a rotator at a time of deceleration during travel under the driving assistance control, and to restrict downshift of an automatic transmission when a demanded deceleration amount for the vehicle is equal to or lower than a predetermined deceleration amount; and execute the regenerative braking using the rotator at the time of deceleration during the travel under the driving assistance control, and not to restrict the downshift when the demanded deceleration amount is higher than the predetermined deceleration amount.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Kohno, Yasuhiro Hiasa, Yasutaka Tsuchida, Tooru Matsubara
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Patent number: 11823552Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires information indicating a state of a vehicle from the vehicle; and a notification unit that performs a first notification regarding the state when the information processing device is outside a predetermined range including the vehicle, and that performs a second notification including more information on the state than the first notification when the information processing device is in the predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroki Okada, Ryuta Atsumi, Satoshi Fujisaki, Daisuke Hiroki, Shinpei Asai
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Patent number: 11822314Abstract: A conveyance control system according to the present disclosure is a conveyance control system configured to control a conveyance robot to autonomously move and convey a conveyance object to a destination, the conveyance control system including: a reception unit configured to receive, from a scheduled recipient of the conveyance object, a request signal for requesting a third party to collect the conveyance object halfway through conveyance of the conveyance object; and an issuance unit configured to issue, to a terminal of the third party, a temporary electronic key for enabling the conveyance object to be taken out from the conveyance robot based on a set condition when the reception unit receives the request signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohisa Takai, Yuhei Yamaguchi, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Mikio Honda, Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Nobuhisa Otsuki
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Patent number: 11823812Abstract: A wire end of a wire harness is protected. The wire harness includes a wire bundle and a connector connected therewith. The wire bundle includes the wire end, and the wire end includes a bent portion and faces the connector. First, a sheet member is folded perpendicularly to a wire lead-out surface of the connector, thereby forming, concurrently, counter sides facing the wire lead-out surface, side surface covering portions, and a tip end protection portion. Next, the side surface covering portions are folded along a top protection portion formation portion, thereby forming, concurrently, side surface protection portions, a top protection portion and an extending portion. Next, a wire end protection portion is secured, with a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape or the like, to a wire bundle portion while the relative position of the counter sides with respect to the wire lead-out surface is maintained.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2019Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC., TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yumiko Kasugai, Takuya Fujimura, Tomoya Takeuchi
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Patent number: 11821399Abstract: In a case where an engine is started based on a remote operation, a limitation condition for limiting an engine start is tightened or a stop condition after the engine is started is relaxed, as compared to a case where the engine is started based on a switch operation in an occupant cabin. That is, it is difficult to start the engine when the engine is started based on the remote operation, and it is easy to stop the engine when the engine is started based on the remote operation. As a result, it is possible to take more appropriate measures when the engine is started based on the remote operation.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takaaki Inokuchi, Tatsunori Katoh, Tsutomu Miyazaki
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Patent number: 11820388Abstract: An information processing device to be mounted on a vehicle includes a processor. The processor is configured to determine, in response to a request for the vehicle, one mode out of a plurality of modes defining behavior of the vehicle that is related to usage and operation of the vehicle, make transition of a status of the vehicle among a plurality of statuses that is based on a state and a sub-mode, and control the vehicle based on the status of the vehicle that has been achieved by the transition. The state and the sub-mode are permitted in the determined mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Noritake Mitsutani
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Patent number: 11820331Abstract: A system is mounted on a vehicle and includes a sensor configured to perform a detection process that detects a fingerprint of a finger touching the sensor in order to perform a fingerprint authentication process, and a controller. The controller is configured to: (i) control a power supply of the vehicle to be ON when a predetermined authentication process through a predetermined communication with another device other than the sensor is successful, the predetermined authentication process being different from the fingerprint authentication process, and (ii) suppress the detection process that detects the fingerprint in response to the power supply of the vehicle being ON and the predetermined authentication process being successful.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHOInventors: Yasuhisa Ohta, Yuya Goto, Naoyuki Takada, Takahiko Ando, Yosuke Ohashi, Rijin Owaki, Daisuke Ogawa
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Patent number: 11822338Abstract: The transportation vehicle determines whether the calculated distance is equal to or less than the predetermined distance (step S14). If the determination result of step S14 is positive, the transportation vehicle searches for the closest stoppable location to the current location (step S15). The transportation vehicle also performs the pause task at the closest stoppable location. The transportation vehicle performs visualization processing of the surrounding circumstances of the drop-off location, and displays the processed image on touch-screen. The user specifies the detailed drop-off location while looking at the touch-screen (step S16).Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makoto Morita, Koji Taguchi
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Publication number: 20230369615Abstract: In a fuel cell stack, a separator includes, in a region adjacent to a coolant manifold of the unit cell in a planar direction, a sacrificial electrolytic corrosion region that is not adhered to an insulating sheet adjacent in a laminating direction, and a sealing region that is adjacent to the sacrificial electrolytic corrosion region in the planar direction and is adhered to the insulating sheet. The sacrificial electrolytic corrosion region includes a coolant lead-in or lead-out region and a region other than the coolant lead-in or lead-out region. A shape of the separator in the coolant lead-in or lead-out region is a flat plate shape that is in contact with the insulating sheet, and a shape of the separator in the region other than the coolant lead-in or lead-out region of is an uneven shape that is at least partially out of contact with the insulating sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Naoki TAKEHIRO
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Publication number: 20230368674Abstract: An information processing apparatus encourages passengers to practice distributed boarding to enable smooth operation of vehicles. The information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to acquire information indicating a boarding status of passengers at a stop when it is judged that a preceding vehicle has arrived at the stop, generate notification information to encourage passengers who have not boarded the preceding vehicle to practice distributed boarding onto a subsequent vehicle when it is judged that the boarding status satisfies a predetermined condition based on the acquired information, and provide the generated notification information to the preceding vehicle and/or the stop.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi HIGASHIDE, Keiichi UNO
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Publication number: 20230366688Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method includes receiving, by a processor, a current location of a vehicle, a destination location, and a routing plan having a routing factor and a reward arrangement, planning, by the processor, a planned route from the current location to the destination location based on the routing factor of the routing plan, providing a direction to travel from the current location to the destination location via the planned route, determining a level of adherence based on a comparison of the planned route and an actual route on which the vehicle actually travels, and providing a reward based on the level of adherence and the reward arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2022Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicants: Toyota Motor North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Joshua Batie, Imad Zahid, Siva Sivalingam, Steve Basra
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Publication number: 20230369613Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes a cell stack in which a plurality of unit cells each including a pair of separators is stacked together. The fuel cell stack includes a seal sheet configured to seal between adjacent unit cells. The pair of separators each include a seal line rib on a seal sheet side of the separator, the seal line rib serving as a seal line with the seal sheet. Among two facing separators that are a first facing separator and a second facing separator facing each other while sandwiching the seal sheet between the adjacent unit cells, the first facing separator includes a protruding portion on at least one part of the seal line rib, and the second facing separator includes a recessed portion in the seal line rib that is configured to fit the protruding portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazunori SHIBATA, Hitoshi HAMADA, Takashi KAJIWARA
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Publication number: 20230367329Abstract: An area recognition system, an area recognition method, and a program that simplify a control logic for recognizing a movement between travel areas are provided. An area recognition system recognizes a travel area of a robot. A magnetic member having a first magnetic pole and a magnetic member having a second magnetic pole different from the first pole are disposed between different travel areas. The robot includes a first magnetic sensor, a second magnetic sensor provided at a position different from a position where the first magnetic sensor is provided along a traveling direction of the robot, and a recognition unit configured to recognize a movement of the robot between the different travel areas by the first magnetic sensor detecting the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic sensor detecting the second magnetic pole.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuta ITOZAWA, Kunihiro IWAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230364784Abstract: A control system according to the present embodiment includes: a feature extraction unit that extracts a feature of a person in a captured image captured by a camera; a first determination unit that determines, based on a feature extraction result, whether the person included in the captured image is a device user who uses an assistive device for assisting movement; a second determination unit that determines, based on the feature extraction result, whether an assistant who assists movement of the device user is present; and a control unit that switches between a first mode and a second mode that executes a process with a lower load than a processing load in the first mode depending on whether the assistant is present.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kei Yoshikawa, Shiro Oda, Susumu Shimizu, Takeshi Matsui
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Publication number: 20230364718Abstract: A laser processing machine includes: a lens for condensing a laser beam; an actuator changing a relative position between the lens and a workpiece to change a focal position of the laser beam with respect to the workpiece; a protective glass disposed between the lens and the workpiece; a detector detecting a focal position of the laser beam; and a controller configured to control the actuator, the controller configured to obtain a current deviation amount of the focal position from a target position using the detector, the controller configured to obtain a relationship data, wherein the relationship data indicates relationship between a deviation amount of the focal position from the target position and a spot diameter of the laser beam on a surface of the workpiece when contaminant adheres the protective glass, the controller configured to estimate a current spot diameter of the laser beam on the surface using the current deviation amount and the relationship data, the controller configured to control the acType: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryuta Matsuo, Takashi Motoyoshi
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING MULTICAST BROADCAST SERVICE CONTINUITY IN IDLE AND INACTIVE STATES
Publication number: 20230370905Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for mobile communications are provided. A user equipment (UE) in a radio resource control state receives a broadcast message that includes measurement configuration parameters. The UE determines, based on the measurement configuration parameters, a service continuity trigger for one or more multicast broadcast services (MBS) services. Responsive to the determined service continuity trigger, a random access process (RAP) is initiated, wherein initiating the RAP includes transmitting a first message indicating a request for MBS configuration parameters associated with the one or more MBS services. The UE receives the one or more MBS configuration parameters in response to transmitting the first message. The UE then receives data associated with the one or more MBS services via the target cell based on the MBS configuration parameters and while remaining in the RRC state.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2021Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Alireza BABAEI -
Publication number: 20230367013Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to cooperative perception. In one embodiment, a method includes computing, at a first timestep, a base relative pose between an ego vehicle and a remote vehicle based upon respective point clouds of the ego vehicle and the remote vehicle. The method includes computing, at a second timestep, a relative pose between the ego vehicle and the remote vehicle based upon the base relative pose, a first temporal relative pose of the ego vehicle, and a second temporal relative pose received from the remote vehicle. The method includes generating a combined point cloud based upon a first point cloud of the ego vehicle, a second point cloud received from the remote vehicle, and the relative pose.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2022Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Xuewei Qi, Qi Chen