Patents Assigned to Toyota Jidosha
  • Publication number: 20240372942
    Abstract: A notification system includes a mobile terminal configured to receive, and to perform notification of, notification information regarding a vehicle, and a vehicle control device that is configured to generate the notification information for a driver of the vehicle, and to transmit the notification information to the mobile terminal, in which the vehicle control device includes one or more processors configured to perform control in which notification of the notification information is made to the mobile terminal, while varying a range of the mobile terminal that is controllable by the driver until a predetermined condition is satisfied, in accordance with an urgency of the notification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta MANIWA, Koichi Fujita, Jun Tohyama, Daisuke Akaho, Natsumi Izawa, Shunichiroh Sawai, Masahiko Nakamura, Kenichiro Aoki
  • Publication number: 20240367959
    Abstract: A conveyance robot which contributes to the improvement of the accuracy of detection by a detection sensor is provided. A conveyance robot according to one aspect of the present disclosure is a conveyance robot configured to convey a rigid object to be conveyed, the conveyance robot including: a detection sensor configured to detect an environment in the vicinity of the conveyance robot; a mobile cart; a sensor pole part configured to support the detection sensor, the sensor pole part being vertically disposed on the mobile cart; and a coupling part configured to be coupled to a part to be coupled of the object to be conveyed, the coupling part being provided in the sensor pole part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta ITOZAWA, Kunihiro IWAMOTO, Hirotaka KOMURA, Yutaro TAKAGI, Uori KOIKE
  • Publication number: 20240370249
    Abstract: A center, configured to communicate with an OTA master that controls software updating of a plurality of electronic control units, includes a processor. The processor is configured to receive, from the OTA master, first identification information that identifies the electronic control units, and to store compatibility information that defines a version of software that is compatible with the electronic control units. The processor is configured to identify a version of software that is compatible with a target electronic control unit based on the compatibility information. The target electronic control unit is an electronic control unit that is an object of software updating among the electronic control units identified by the first identification information. The processor is configured to control, by communicating with the OTA master, such that software of the target electronic control unit is updated to the compatible version of the software that is identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshikazu SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20240371350
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to a high-Q resonant state embedded system in a continuous body. In one embodiment, a system includes a longitudinally extending body that is subject to a flexural wave. The longitudinally extending body is attached to a fixed structure at a first end. The system also includes a mechanical resonator coupled to a surface of the longitudinally extending body along a length dimension of the longitudinally extending body. The mechanical resonator is located at a distance away from a second end of the longitudinally extending body to exhibit an infinite Q factor based on physical properties of the mechanical resonator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Xiaopeng Li, Taehwa Lee, Ziqi Yu
  • Publication number: 20240367667
    Abstract: A notification system includes a mobile terminal and a processor. The mobile terminal receives notification information for a driver of a vehicle and notifies the driver of the notification information. The processor generates the notification information and transmits the notification information to the mobile terminal. The processor causes the mobile terminal to notify the driver of the notification information until an ending condition for ending notification is satisfied. The processor changes the ending condition depending on urgency of the notification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta MANIWA, Koichi FUJITA, Jun TOHYAMA, Daisuke AKAHO, Natsumi IZAWA, Shunichiroh SAWAI, Masahiko NAKAMURA, Kenichiro AOKI
  • Publication number: 20240367517
    Abstract: The action schedule item creation ECU creates action schedule items demanded of an ego vehicle capable of switching between autonomous driving and manual driving. The HUD and the meter display are provided inside a cabin of the ego vehicle. The display control ECU displays the action schedule items created by the action schedule item creation ECU on the HUD and the meter display, and emphasizes display of action schedule items to be performed by manual driving compared to display of action schedule items to be performed by autonomous driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoaki TAKABATAKE, Junji MIYAZAKI, Koji KIMURA, Yuki YOSHIDA, Ryo OGATA, Tadashi MORISHITA
  • Publication number: 20240369182
    Abstract: A holding member configured to hold an injection portion and an imaging unit of an insertion portion in a state in which the injection portion and the imaging unit are arranged side by side includes an injection-portion insertion portion configured such that the injection portion is press-fitted into the injection-portion insertion portion and an imaging-unit insertion portion configured such that the imaging unit is press-fitted into the imaging-unit insertion portion. The insertion portion is configured to be inserted toward a corresponding portion in a narrow space while being gripped by an operator. The injection portion has a cylindrical shape and is provided with a fluid substance injection port at a tip end portion. The imaging unit has a cylindrical shape and is configured to capture an image including the tip end portion of the injection portion and its surrounding environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro TAKENAKA
  • Publication number: 20240372082
    Abstract: A silicon clathrate electrode active material having low expansion during charging and a solid-state lithium-ion battery including such a silicon clathrate electrode active material. The silicon clathrate electrode active material includes a sodium compound. In the silicon clathrate electrode active material, a ratio of a mass of the sodium compound relative to a total mass of the silicon clathrate electrode active material and the sodium compound is 0.1% by mass or greater and 5.0% by mass or less. The solid-state lithium-ion battery includes the negative electrode active material layer. The negative electrode active material layer contains the negative electrode mixture. The negative electrode mixture includes a silicon clathrate electrode active material and a solid electrolyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsutoshi Otaki, Jun Yoshida, Yasuhiro Yamaguchi, Tatsuya Eguchi, Masanori Harata, Tomohiro Niimi, Kayoko Yukawa, Kota Urabe
  • Patent number: 12135220
    Abstract: A power supply system includes a plurality of power transmission coils, a display layer, and a controller. The power transmission coils are arranged in a predetermined direction on a road and configured to transmit electric power in a non-contact manner to a power receiving coil mounted on a vehicle. The display layer is provided above the power transmission coils. The controller controls a display mode of the display layer so as to guide the vehicle in accordance with a traveling state of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Ito, Akihiro Kusumoto, Takahiro Hirano, Ryunosuke Yamashita, Daiki Tajima, Katsuya Kobayashi, Toshihiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12135960
    Abstract: A center configured to communicate with an OTA master configured to control software update for an electronic control unit mounted on a vehicle, the center comprising includes one or more processors configured to generate a distribution package including update data of software of a target electronic control unit, first information, and second information. The first information is referenced by an external device connected to the vehicle by wire when the external device updates the software of the target electronic control unit via an in-vehicle network. The second information is referenced by the OTA master wirelessly connected to the center when the OTA master updates the software of the target electronic control unit via the in-vehicle network. The one or more processors are configured to transmit the distribution package to the OTA master based on a request from the OTA master.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Ishikawa, Shunsuke Tanimori
  • Patent number: 12134328
    Abstract: A charging apparatus installed at a bottom of a hollow in a ground and configured to charge a power storage device mounted on a vehicle includes a movable unit, an ascending and descending device, and a control device. The movable unit includes a connection device connectable to the power storage device. The ascending and descending device causes the movable unit to ascend or descend between a first state and a second state. The control device controls the ascending and descending device to set the movable unit into the first state when a current time is within a first time frame. The control device controls the ascending and descending device to set the movable unit into the second state when the current time is within a second time frame different from the first time frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 12136119
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to manage a stock quantity of products purchased and stored in a predetermined storage place that is associated with a user, based on information about a first product acquired from an electronic tag attached to the first product. The processor acquires information about the first product from the electronic tag of the first product stored in the predetermined storage place and acquires a quantity of the first product, detects that a second product to which the electronic tag is not attached is to get mixed in the predetermined storage place, based on purchase information indicating a purchase action of the user, and manages, in a case where the second product is present in a mixed manner in the predetermined storage place, the stock quantity of products stored in the predetermined storage place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Komamine
  • Patent number: 12134291
    Abstract: A system for checking or verifying an electrical connection of a trailer with a vehicle. The system includes a first connector integrated with the vehicle, one or more light sources on the vehicle each configured to emit a light ray of one or more colors, and a controller. The first connector includes a plurality of first wires configured for providing power for one or more electrical components on or within the trailer when the first connector integrated with the vehicle is connected to a second connector integrated with the trailer. The controller is configured to determine whether each one of the one or more electrical components on or within the trailer is working and control, based on the determination, the one or more light sources such that each one of the one or more light sources emits a light ray of one of the one or more colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Alexander L Paradis, Frank A Richards
  • Patent number: 12134930
    Abstract: A vehicle door opening/closing control system that sets a communication range inside a vehicle cabin of a vehicle, and detects whether or not a specific mobile terminal is positioned within the communication range; opens and closes a door of the vehicle; and transitions the door to either an open state or a closed state in a case in which the mobile terminal has been detected as being positioned within the communication range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuma Uchibori, Hiroshi Mizobata
  • Patent number: 12134335
    Abstract: A power control system includes: an ECU configured to control (i) charging from a power facility to a vehicle and (ii) discharging from the vehicle to the power facility; and a user terminal configured to allow a user to separately set a charging power setting value and a discharging power setting value. When the charging from the power facility to the vehicle is performed, the ECU is configured to control power charged to the vehicle per unit time to correspond to the charging power setting value set by the user using the user terminal. When the discharging from the vehicle to the power facility is performed, the ECU is configured to control power discharged from the vehicle per unit time to correspond to the discharging power setting value set by the user using the user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinji Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 12135548
    Abstract: A remote operating device including a steering unit configured to steer a mobile body, a display unit configured to display steering information, and a control unit. The control unit includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to receive actual steering information regarding the mobile body, acquire steering information for steering the steering unit, determine a difference between the actual steering information regarding the mobile body and the steering information for steering the steering unit, and cause the steering information for steering the steering unit and the actual steering information regarding the mobile body to be displayed on the display unit based on the difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shuichi Tamagawa
  • Patent number: 12134324
    Abstract: An electric vehicle includes a rotating electrical machine; a motor case that accommodates the rotating electrical machine; a cooling mechanism that supplies oil to the rotating electrical machine and cools the rotating electrical machine; an inverter that drives the rotating electrical machine; and a connecting member that electrically connects the inverter and the rotating electrical machine, wherein the electric vehicle is of a structure in which the inverter is integrated with the motor case, the cooling mechanism includes a supply port provided inside the motor case at a position upward from the rotating electrical machine to discharge the oil to the connecting member, and the connecting member includes a portion provided inwardly in a radial direction from an outer periphery of the rotating electrical machine inside the motor case, at a position upward from a rotation center of the rotating electrical machine and downward from the supply port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoyuki Kishimoto, Fumiki Tanahashi
  • Patent number: 12136230
    Abstract: A method for training a first neural network to detect the viewpoint of an object visible on an image and belonging to a given category of object when this image is inputted to the first neural network, including: providing a dataset of pairs of images under different viewpoints, providing a second neural network configured to be able to deliver appearance information of an object, providing a third neural network configured to be able to deliver a synthetic image of an object of the category using appearance information and a viewpoint, jointly training the first neural network, the second neural network, and the third neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
    Inventors: Sven Meier, Octave Mariotti, Hakan Bilen, Oisin MacAodha
  • Patent number: 12134432
    Abstract: A steer-by-wire steering system, including: a pair of wheel steering devices respectively provided for right and left wheels of a vehicle, each of the pair of wheel steering devices including an actuator and configured to steer a corresponding one of the right and left wheels independently of the other of the right and left wheels; and a controller configured to control the pair of wheel steering devices such that steering amounts of the respective right and left wheels are equal to respective amounts based on a steering request, wherein the controller executes a steering-amount stabilizing control to reduce a change in the steering amounts in an external-force-dependent steering situation in which the right and left wheels are steered or likely to be steered by an external force applied to the right and left wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takuya Kuribayashi
  • Patent number: D1049977
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunori Numaoka, Yasukazu Honda