Patents Assigned to Toyota Jidosha
  • Patent number: 11884180
    Abstract: A battery system includes a nickel-metal hydride battery and an ECU that controls charging and discharging of the nickel-metal hydride battery. The ECU calculates a discharge electricity amount showing an integrated value of a current discharged from the nickel-metal hydride battery, and further calculates ?SOC of the nickel-metal hydride battery in a prescribed time period. The ECU calculates a charge reserve capacity of the nickel-metal hydride battery based on a temperature of the nickel-metal hydride battery, the discharge electricity amount, and the ?SOC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PRIMEARTH EV ENERGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Irie, Jun Satoh, Junichi Matsumoto, Daisuke Koba, Yosuke Murota, Kazuki Nakano, Suguru Muraki
  • Patent number: 11888413
    Abstract: An actuator that utilizes a Coulomb force is provided. An actuator (10) includes a base electrode (2), a counter electrode (4) opposing the base electrode (2), a first terminal (31) connected to the base electrode (2), and a second terminal (32) connected to the counter electrode (4). At least a surface (2c) of the base electrode (2) that opposes the counter electrode (4) is covered with an insulating layer (6). The counter electrode (4) includes a flexible electrical conductor being deformable by a Coulomb force acting between the base electrode (2) and the counter electrode (4) when a voltage is applied between the first terminal (31) and the second terminal (32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shuji Nakagawa, Tomoki Yudate
  • Patent number: 11889231
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that acquires images captured by a camera mounted in a vehicle, and a memory that can store the images. The controller acquires travel data on the vehicle for when the image was captured and stores the image in the memory in a case in which the travel data satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Komamine, Toyokazu Nakashima, Koichi Suzuki, Lei Wang, Jun Karashima, Kenichi Yamada, Hiromitsu Fujii, Shota Minami
  • Patent number: 11884222
    Abstract: A vehicle bumper assembly includes an adaptive energy absorption module operatively connected to a vehicle bumper body. The adaptive energy absorption module includes a primary deformable impact absorber member defining a primary impact chamber having a shape that is structurally adaptive or otherwise conforms to an impact force received by the bumper body. A secondary deformable impact absorber member is arranged in the primary impact chamber and defines a secondary impact chamber containing a shear thickening fluid that exhibits a decreasing viscosity responsive to the impact force. A plurality of fluidically connected tertiary deformable impact absorber members are arranged in an array the primary impact chamber and defines a plurality of tertiary impact chambers containing a volume of fluid, and has a shape that is structurally adaptive to the impact force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuyang Song, Umesh Gandhi, Danil Prokhorov, Phouvadol Khouphongsy
  • Patent number: 11885272
    Abstract: An engine control system according to the present disclosure includes an oil temperature sensor and a waste gate valve control unit. The oil temperature sensor detects a temperature of an engine oil. The waste gate valve control unit controls opening and closing of a waste gate valve based on the temperature of the engine oil detected by the oil temperature sensor. More specifically, when the temperature of the engine oil detected by the oil temperature sensor is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold, the waste gate valve control unit controls the waste gate valve so that it opens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeta Kikuchi, Tatsuya Suzuki, Hiroaki Mizoguchi, Toshiaki Otani
  • Patent number: 11888175
    Abstract: Each cell forming a battery stack has a discharge valve configured to discharge gas in the inside to the outside when an internal pressure increases. A case houses the battery stack. A plate member is provided between each discharge valve and an upper case. The plate member is arranged to overlap with each discharge valve when the battery stack and the plate member are planarly viewed from above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Kuruma, Shigeyuki Inoue
  • Patent number: 11888110
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an all solid state battery in which the reversibility of the deposition and dissolution reaction of a metal Li can be improved while inhibiting an occurrence of short circuit. The above object is achieved by providing an all solid state battery utilizing a deposition and dissolution reaction of a metal Li as an anode reaction, the all solid state battery comprising: an anode current collector, a porous layer comprising a resin, a solid electrolyte layer, a cathode active material layer, and a cathode current collector, in this order; wherein an electric resistance of the porous layer is 1? or more and 690? or less; and a thickness of the porous layer is 14 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ximeng Li, Masafumi Nose
  • Patent number: 11888277
    Abstract: A terminal to be coupled to a front end portion of an electric wire. The terminal includes a terminal body and a slider. The terminal body includes a holding section holding a core wire of the electric wire. The slider is movable in a front-rear direction between a first position and a second position that is on a front side with respect to the first position while the slider being fitted on a section of the terminal body including the holding section. The slider includes a pressing portion that presses the holding section toward the electric wire when the slider is at the second position. The slider includes a pressure receiving portion that is pushed from a rear side to move the slider from the first position to the second position. The slider includes a support portion that receives a force applied to the pressure receiving portion that is pushed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LIMITED, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LIMITED, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LIMITED, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nungna Wi, Masaaki Tabata, Hajime Matsui, Shunya Takeuchi, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Takeshi Amakawa
  • Patent number: 11883336
    Abstract: Vehicle (100) having a body (1), the body comprising a door (2R) movable between a closed position and an open position. A piece of equipment (3R, 90R) is mounted at an inner side of the door in such a manner that when the door opens, said piece of equipment moves to take up an open position in which at least part of said piece of equipment is outside the body of the vehicle (100). The piece of equipment (3R, 90R) may comprise a seat cushion (36), a plurality of shelves, or a box. The vehicle further comprises a equipment positioning mechanism (60) capable of moving said piece of equipment relative to the door (2R).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Laurent Bouzige
  • Patent number: 11887024
    Abstract: A vehicle management device includes one or more processors configured to: manage a plurality of vehicles to be provided for users in a car sharing service; manage, as a plurality of first vehicles, a part of the vehicles to be allocated to an on-demand use in which the users use the car sharing service without reservation; manage, as a plurality of second vehicles, a part of the vehicles to be allocated to a reservation use in which the users use the car sharing service with the reservation; and change at least one of the second vehicles to the first vehicles when the number of the first vehicles is less than a first predetermined number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuka Takiguchi, Tetsushi Okamoto, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Minoru Nakadori, Daiki Kaneichi
  • Patent number: 11884262
    Abstract: Provided is a parking assist apparatus for a vehicle, the parking assist apparatus including a first module configured to set, as a movement path, a path along which the vehicle is movable to a target position, and determine movement assist information for moving the vehicle along the movement path; and a second module configured to execute parking assist control such that the vehicle moves in accordance with the determined movement assist information, the second module being further configured to, when an occupant performs a first operation before the vehicle has reached the target position, stop the vehicle, and execute pause processing for maintaining the movement assist information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Minase, Kota Inoue, Takuya Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Tachibana, Norio Imai, Nozomu Maeda
  • Patent number: 11886871
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a plurality of devices, a first device included in the devices including: a storage configured to store consistency information including a permitted combination of versions of software installed on each of one or more devices in association with each of the control functions; a determination unit configured to determine whether the consistency information consistent with versions of software installed on a part of the devices exists when consistency does not exist in the versions of all software installed on each of the devices; and a performance control unit configured to permit performance of a part of control functions associated with the consistency information consistent with the versions of software installed on the part of the devices when the consistency information consistent with the versions of software installed on the part of the devices exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Miyake, Teppei Fukuzawa, Shuji Matsuno
  • Patent number: 11888193
    Abstract: The fuel cell system is a fuel cell system wherein, when the amount of power generated by a fuel cell is determined to be equal to or less than a predetermined threshold, a controller issues an intermittent supply command to intermittently supply fuel gas to the fuel cell; wherein the intermittent supply command includes a first intermittent supply command and a second intermittent supply command; wherein the first intermittent supply command increases the flow rate of the fuel gas by setting the opening degree during pressure rise of a linear solenoid valve to relatively more than the second intermittent supply command; and wherein, after the first intermittent supply command, the second intermittent supply command decreases the flow rate of the fuel gas for a predetermined time by setting the opening degree during pressure rise of the linear solenoid valve to relatively less than the first intermittent supply command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masaaki Matsusue
  • Patent number: 11887334
    Abstract: The in-vehicle device transfers the selected image selected by the user from the photographed images stored in the storage device and the selected vehicle state, which is the vehicle state when the selected image is captured, to the form terminal. The portable device transmits the selected image and the selected vehicle state to the image management server only when the transmission is permitted by the user. The image management server determines whether or not the selected image is a rare image using the selected image and the selected vehicle state, and stores the selected image in the image storage device when the selected image is determined to be a rare image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Yu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11884340
    Abstract: A steering control device includes: a first calculator configured to calculate, according to a turning state, a first control amount for causing a motor to generate an assistance force; a second calculator configured to calculate a second control amount for adapting an actual angle to a target angle that is convertible into a turning angle of a steering wheel and generated when a host control device intervenes in steering control; and a third calculator configured to calculate, according to the turning state, a third control amount for offsetting the second control amount when the host control device intervenes in steering control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Nitta, Takahiro Toko, Yoji Kunihiro, Takahiro Kojo, Hisaya Akatsuka
  • Patent number: 11884120
    Abstract: A vibration damping control apparatus of a vehicle executes preview vibration damping control for controlling a control force generating apparatus on the basis of a final target control force including a first target control force computed by using preview information. When the vibration damping control apparatus determines that the probability that a road surface condition has changed after a past point in time is high, the vibration damping control apparatus executes particular control for setting the magnitude of the first target control force to become smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroki Furuta
  • Patent number: 11884118
    Abstract: A damping control apparatus has a control unit that controls an active actuator that generates a control force for damping a sprung, and the control unit determines a predicted wheel passage position where a wheel is predicted to pass, performs a high-pass filtering on a first road surface displacement-related value, performs a low-pass filtering on a second road surface displacement-related value, calculates a target control force for damping the sprung when the wheel passes through the predicted wheel passage position based on a sum of the first road surface displacement-related value after high-pass filtering and the second road surface displacement-related value after low-pass filtering, and the second road surface displacement-related value has a higher possibility that a position where a control force corresponding to the target control force is generated misaligns with the predicted wheel passage position as compared with the first road surface displacement-related value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroki Furuta
  • Patent number: 11884260
    Abstract: The vehicle control device includes an arbitration unit configured to arbitrate between a plurality of control commands acquired from a plurality of driving support applications that respectively implements driving support functions, configured to output instructions based on a control command after arbitration to a first control unit that is able to control a steering actuator and a second control unit that is able to control at least one of a brake actuator or a drive actuator, and configured to acquire a steering angle and a yaw rate as the control commands from the driving support applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masumi Dakemoto, Kaiji Itabashi, Yoshihisa Yamada
  • Patent number: 11884280
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a speech acquiring section that acquires speech data related to a speech of a speaker; a state acquiring section that acquires information indicating whether or not a driver attempting to start driving a vehicle is in an intoxicated state based on the speech data; and a control section configured to limit a start operation of the vehicle in a case in which the information indicates that the driver is in the intoxicated state, the start operation being an operation performed by the driver with respect to the vehicle to start driving the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Kobayashi, Akihiro Muguruma, Yukiya Sugiyama, Shota Higashihara, Riho Matsuo, Naoki Yamamuro
  • Patent number: D1012794
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Robert Seiji Mochizuki, Chung Woo Lee, Scott Matthew Roller, Ferenc Tobak, IV