Patents Assigned to Toyota Jidosha
  • Patent number: 12204327
    Abstract: A remote driving taxi system provides a mobility service using remote driving taxis that are driven by remote drivers. Management information indicates assignment states between the remote driving taxis and the remote drivers. The remote driving taxi system executes an assignment process based on the management information, in response to a request from a user. Specifically, the remote driving taxi system selects one of unassigned taxis to each of which the remote driver has not been assigned, as a first remote driving taxi that provides the service to the user. Further, the remote driving taxi system selects one of remote drivers each of which has not been assigned to the remote driving taxi, as a first remote driver that provides the service to the user. Then, the remote driving taxi system assigns the first remote driver to the first remote driving taxi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Nishitani, Rio Suda, Hiroshi Yonenaga, Hidekazu Sasaki, Tatsushi Takenaka, Shun Ota, Akihiro Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 12202509
    Abstract: On the basis of a target completion position as a position for completing an ON operation of a brake in front of a corner of a predetermined traveling course in a predetermined traveling course, a target completion vehicle speed as a target completion position in the target traveling pattern, a target deceleration as a deceleration at the target completion position in the target traveling pattern, and a vehicle speed of the vehicle, a start timing for starting an ON operation of the brake so that the vehicle speed is reduced to the target completion position at the target deceleration and becomes the target completion vehicle speed at the target completion position is set, and the notification device controls the notification device to perform a brake ON notification which is a notification for prompting the ON operation of the brake at the set start timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuhei Kamei, Tsutomu Miyazaki, Hideaki Otsubo
  • Patent number: 12206335
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus includes a transformer including a first winding, a second winding, and a third winding, a first switching circuit connected between an external power supply and the first winding, a second switching circuit connected between a main battery and the second winding, and a third switching circuit connected between an auxiliary battery and the third winding. The first switching circuit includes a power factor correction circuit, a smoothing capacitor configured to smooth a voltage of direct-current power output from the power factor correction circuit, and a relay provided in a power line between the smoothing capacitor and the first winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Ichida, Kazuhiro Sugimoto, Manabu Handa
  • Patent number: 12205069
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller, the controller being configured to select a first mobile body to deliver baggage to a delivery destination existing in a predetermined facility from among a plurality of types of delivery mobile bodies, wherein the controller selects the first mobile body, based on required time necessary to deliver the baggage to the delivery destination in a site of the predetermined facility, for each delivery mobile body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kotaro Okabe, Mayuko Abe, Satoshi Komamine, Takeaki Dohda, Ken Matsushita, Yosuke Takada
  • Patent number: 12205067
    Abstract: An information processing device is configured to perform an operation of a delivery service in which an inside of a vehicle, a building, or a facility used by a user is designated as a delivery destination of a package, or perform a support of the operation. The information processing device includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on an accommodation situation of an object accommodated inside the vehicle, the building, or the facility, and an accommodation situation notification unit configured to notify the user of the accommodation situation based on the information acquired by the information acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Endo, Yuichiro Haruna
  • Patent number: 12206075
    Abstract: An all-solid-state battery including a cell laminate including two or more unit cells, and a resin layer covering a side surface of the cell laminate, wherein each unit cell includes a positive electrode current collector layer, a positive electrode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a negative electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode current collector layer laminated in this order, at least one of the positive electrode current collector layer, positive electrode active material layer, solid electrolyte layer, negative electrode active material layer, and negative electrode current collector layer includes extending parts which extend more outwardly from the side surface of the cell laminate than the other layers, and gaps are formed between the extending parts, and the ratio of the compressive modulus of the resin layer to the compressive modulus of the cell laminate is 0.4 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuya Waseda
  • Patent number: 12202337
    Abstract: A display device for a vehicle includes: a display unit including a display surface that is configured to display information to an occupant of a vehicle; a display control unit that is configured to set the information displayed at the display surface and a display area in which the information is displayed at the display surface; a drive unit that is configured to drive the display unit in and out of an interior member that is disposed in a vehicle cabin; and a drive control unit that is configured to control the drive unit such that the display area and an exposed area, of the display surface, which is exposed from the interior member are proportional to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KOJIMA PRESS INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Maeda, Tatsuya Shimizu, Takanobu Tabata, Yasuyuki Andou, Takahiro Suzuki, Norifumi Suzuki, Fumihiro Onogi
  • Patent number: 12204894
    Abstract: A software update apparatus includes a communication unit that sends a request for downloading update data to a center, a storage unit that stores the downloaded update data, and a control unit that executes, based on the update data, a control for installing, or installing and activating update software on one or more target electronic control units from among a plurality of electronic control units connected to each other via an in-vehicle network. The control unit acquires software versions of the electronic control units, determines whether there is a consistency in a combination of the acquired software versions, and executes, upon determining that there is an inconsistency in the combination of the acquired software versions, a process for attaining the consistency in the combination of the software versions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru Fukuyo, Tomoyasu Ishikawa, Yusuke Satoh
  • Patent number: 12202339
    Abstract: A remote control an automotive vehicle, the remote control including a 3-D shaped object, stretch sensors connecting the 3-D shaped object to a structure of the vehicle and a control unit configured to collect information from the stretch sensors, the remote control being configured to control a display of the automotive vehicle, the remote control being configured to be integrated in a stretchable fabric part of an interior of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Aurélien Badoil
  • Patent number: 12202480
    Abstract: A control system includes a plurality of request generation devices each of which outputs first and second requests based on a request generated by at least one application, an arbitrator that arbitrates the first and second requests and that outputs a single first request and a single second request, and a control apparatus that controls an actuator based on a final request obtained by arbitrating the first and second requests from the arbitrator and a request made by a driver. The arbitrator specifies the request generation device that has output a request corresponding to the final request based on the final request, the self-output first request, and the self-output second request. The request generation device specified by the arbitrator specifies the application that has generated the request corresponding to the final request based on the self-output first request, the self-output second request, and the request made by the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Ayabe, Takeshi Yasuda, Akihiro Kitao
  • Patent number: 12202494
    Abstract: A control unit of an information processing apparatus acquires the number of times of operations or an operation time of an operation unit provided in a vehicle at a time at which the operation unit has operated, acquires surroundings information around the vehicle at the time at which the operation unit has operated, and calculates a wear degree of the operation unit by multiplying a wear coefficient which corresponds to surroundings indicated by the acquired surroundings information by the acquired number of times of operations or operation time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yu Nagata
  • Patent number: 12202515
    Abstract: A vehicle travel control device executes vehicle travel control such that a vehicle follows a target trajectory. An automated driving control device generates a first target trajectory that is the target trajectory for automated driving of the vehicle. The vehicle travel control device further determines whether or not an activation condition of travel assist control is satisfied. When the activation condition is satisfied, the vehicle travel control device generates a second target trajectory that is the target trajectory for the travel assist control. Even when the second target trajectory is generated during the automated driving, or when the second target trajectory is generated during the automated driving and a priority condition for giving priority to the first target trajectory is satisfied, the vehicle travel control device executes the vehicle travel control by giving more weight to the first target trajectory than to the second target trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Goto, Yoshinori Watanabe, Nobuhide Kamata, Kazuyuki Fujita, Masahiro Harada
  • Patent number: 12202410
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to a system for facilitating reverse travel of a vehicle convoy. In one embodiment, a system includes a processor and a memory storing machine-readable instructions. The machine-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to detect a rotational position of a steering wheel of a lead vehicle of a convoy when the lead vehicle is in a reverse mode. The machine-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, also cause the processor to select a camera of a following vehicle of the convoy based on the rotational position of the steering wheel. The machine-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, also cause the processor to display an image captured by the camera of the following vehicle on a display device of the lead vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Christopher A Ferone
  • Patent number: 12202427
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicle occupant restraint structure including a vehicle seat that includes a cushion pan configuring a bottom portion of a seat cushion and supporting a seat pad, and that is provided at a floor of a vehicle cabin, and an airbag that is provided at a lower surface of a front end portion of the cushion pan, and that inflates and deploys toward the floor when a front collision of a vehicle occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshiki Takahira
  • Patent number: 12202526
    Abstract: A processor of a vehicle determines whether remote assistance from a remote facility is necessary during autonomous driving control. When determination is made that the remote assistance is necessary, the processor generates a target trajectory of the vehicle that includes an expected waiting position. The expected waiting position is a position where the vehicle is expected to wait for reception of an assistance signal from the remote facility. The processor calculates a traveling efficiency level indicating a level of traveling efficiency required in the vehicle, and calculates, based on the traveling efficiency level, a request timing to transmit a request signal for the remote assistance to the remote facility. When the traveling efficiency level is low in calculation of the request timing, the processor outputs a late timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daichi Hotta, Taichi Kawanai, Yusuke Hayashi
  • Patent number: 12202483
    Abstract: A driving assistance device includes a determination unit configured to, in a case where a preceding vehicle located in front of a vehicle in a stopped state starts, determine whether an object is located inside a specified area that is a predetermined area in front of the vehicle, and a driving assistance unit configured to maintain the stopped state of the vehicle in a case where an object is located inside the specified area in a case where the preceding vehicle starts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: ASSIGNEEDENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norio Tsuchida, Naoki Kusumoto, Yuki Tezuka
  • Patent number: 12203603
    Abstract: A hydrogen gas supply system comprises a storing unit that stores hydrogen, a communication unit that receives at least either of burden information indicative of an environmental burden exerted during manufacturing of hydrogen externally received by the storing unit and quality information indicative of quality with respect to the hydrogen externally received by the storing unit, a user interface unit that provides an output in accordance with the at least either of the burden information and the quality information with respect to the hydrogen supplied from the storing unit to the user, and a controller that controls the user interface unit based on an amount of the hydrogen received by the storing unit and the at least either of the burden information and the quality information, which is received by the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiko Hasegawa, Shunji Inoue, Kenji Tsubosaka, Kimihiko Teshima, Takanori Kito
  • Patent number: 12202327
    Abstract: A vehicle lower structure, including: a base member provided under a floor of a vehicle; a pair of reinforcement members; a slope device accommodated above the base member and between the pair of reinforcement members; and a vehicle body floor, both the slope device and the vehicle body floor being fastened to each of a rear flange of a front reinforcement member and a front flange of a rear reinforcement member of respective pairs of the flanges of each of the pair of reinforcement members, and a first fastening portion being disposed so as not to contact the vehicle body floor, and a second fastening portion at which the vehicle body floor is fastened to the rear flange of the front reinforcement member and to the front flange of the rear reinforcement member being disposed so as not to contact the slope device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Soshiro Murata, Kazuki Ohtake
  • Patent number: 12202552
    Abstract: A vehicle exterior member having a self-neutralizing function which can improve running characteristics and steering stability of a vehicle without impairing the design property has a fiber molded member containing a needle-punched nonwoven fabric or knitted fabric. The fibers constituting the fiber molded member contain a conductive fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: HAYASHI TELEMPU CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kensaku Sakai, Hiroshi Suzuki, Koushi Yamada, Motoi Iida, Masaru Shirota
  • Patent number: 12203506
    Abstract: A greasing device that feeds grease to a portion requiring greasing that is housed inside a housing, and includes a jig and a greasing pipe fixed to the jig. The housing includes a though-hole that extends through the housing. The jig includes an insertion part that is inserted into the through-hole of the housing. A side surface of the insertion part bear a marking-off line at a position a predetermined distance away from a leading end side of the insertion part. A positon of the marking-off line is a height position that the greasing pipe does not come into contact with inner components of the housing when the jig is inserted into the through-hole up to the positon of the marking-off line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Takenaka