Patents Assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufactuing North America, Inc.
  • Patent number: 10682931
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a body and a furniture module. The body defines a passenger compartment, and the furniture module includes a framing system mounted to the body in the passenger compartment and a surfacing system mounted to the framing system. The furniture module is operable to shift between a body-like form factor and a furniture form factor. In the body-like form factor, the furniture module is flattened along the body, with the framing system collapsed along the body, and the surfacing system spatially arranged along the body with the framing system. In the furniture form factor, the furniture module extends beyond the body to render on-demand furniture including a furniture frame and an overlying furniture surface, with the framing system expanded beyond the body to establish the furniture frame, and the surfacing system spatially arranged beyond the body to establish the overlying furniture surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufactuing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Paul Rowe, Danil V. Prokhorov