Patents Assigned to Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
  • Omni-wheel brake devices and methods for braking an omni-wheel
    Patent number: 11884101
    Abstract: An omni-wheel may include a shaft, a plurality of rollers, and a braking device. The plurality of rollers may be circumferentially arranged about the shaft and arranged radially outward from the shaft. The braking device may include a fluid-filled bladder and a plurality of braking pads. The fluid-filled bladder may be circumferentially arranged about the shaft. The plurality of braking pads may be arranged between the fluid-filled bladder and the plurality of rollers. The fluid-filled bladder may expand radially outward when pressurized, displacing the plurality of braking pads radially outward to contact the plurality of rollers, preventing rotation of the rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas A. Moore
  • Transport-related contact notification
    Patent number: 11887460
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving a first health characteristic of an occupant from a first device affixed to a transport, responsive to the first health characteristic being at or outside a threshold, receiving a second health characteristic of the occupant from a second device affixed to the occupant, and sending a notification to other devices that were proximate the second device when the second health characteristic is outside the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Simon P. Roberts, Yang Ding, Daniel Warren Reaser, Christopher J. Macpherson, Keaton Khonsari, Derek A. Thompson, Sergei Gage
  • Variable transport data retention and deletion
    Patent number: 11886615
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of encrypting, by a transport, received data based on a first biometric associated with an occupant, unencrypting, by the transport, the encrypted data, based on a verification of a second biometric, wherein the second biometric is a continuum of the first biometric, and providing, by the transport, the unencrypted data to the occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Stephen Paul McFarland, Jr.
  • Transport-related efficiency management
    Patent number: 11885627
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining a transport, in a group of transports associated with a date of disposition, is operating below an efficiency threshold of the group of transports, and limiting transports, in the group of transports, that are operating most above the efficiency threshold, from performing functionality until the group of transports is at the efficiency threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
  • MULTIPLE TRANSPORT CHARGING SOURCES
    Publication number: 20240025299
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving a first energy, at a target transport, from a charging station at a first value during a first amount of time, and the target transport and the charging station are physically connected, and receiving a second energy, at the target transport, from a providing transport at a second value greater than the first value during a second amount of time less than the first amount of time, and the target transport and the providing transport are wirelessly connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Norman Lu
  • ANALYSIS OF TRANSPORT DAMAGE
    Publication number: 20240029165
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a server, a video file from a transport, the video file reflecting an accident, requesting a permission to access video files from a plurality of transports within a pre-defined range from the transport, analyzing the video file from the transport and the video files from the plurality of the transports to determine a damage to the transport, and storing the video files from the plurality of the transports that correlate with the video file from the transport on a remote storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Neil Dutta, Anil Nagpal
  • SHARING OF TRANSPORT USER PROFILE
    Publication number: 20240027216
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a transport, a request for a service from a transport occupant, determining, by the transport, a profile of the transport occupant, identifying, by the transport, at least one profile shared with the transport occupant based on the profile of the transport occupant, and providing the service to the transport occupant based on the at least one profile shared with the transport occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Anil Nagpal, Randall M. Harris
  • TRANSPORT BATTERY HEALTH
    Publication number: 20240025293
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of sensing that a transport in a group is performing at an efficiency below a threshold and modifying at least one other transport in the group to perform at an efficiency above the threshold, wherein the efficiency above the threshold is similar to efficiency below the threshold, wherein the modification occurs at a final portion of a route of the at least one other transport.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
  • Vehicle adaptive crawl control
    Patent number: 11880198
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using autonomous vehicle assistance for freeing a vehicle from a stuck condition may include: receiving sensor data from a vehicle sensor indicating a condition of the vehicle; determining from the sensor data that the vehicle is in a stuck condition; obtaining a solution for freeing the vehicle from the stuck condition, wherein the technique is a learned solution developed based on collected data related to vehicle operator techniques for extrication; and taking over at least partial control of the vehicle from its operator and applying the learned technique to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Ethan William Pomish
  • Execution of transport software update
    Patent number: 11880670
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving an authorization code for a software update by a transport component, executing the software update on the transport component, responsive to a successful execution of the software update, generating a validation code by the transport component, and running the software update on other transport components based on the validation code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Stephen Paul McFarland, Jr.
  • VEHICLE DATA SERVICES CONFIGURABLE DEPLOYMENT
    Publication number: 20240019262
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of linking a mobile device and a vehicle, configuring, on the mobile device, a data service request, receiving at a controller area network of the vehicle the data service request from the mobile device, and displaying within the vehicle a data set responsive to the configuring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Randall M. Harris
  • Motion-based transport assessment
    Patent number: 11875613
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of obtaining, by a moving vehicle, a first data including one or more of at least one first video and at least one first image of a moving transport, analyzing the first data, by the moving vehicle, to determine an initial issue, querying, by the moving vehicle, a server for a second data based on the analyzing, wherein the second data is one or more of at least one second video and at least one second image of the moving transport at a previous time, verifying, by the moving vehicle, an issue exists based on a delta above a threshold between the first data and the second data, and sending, by the moving vehicle, the verified issue to the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Joshua V. Marasigan, Robert D. Slater, Felipe G. Salles, Jaya Bharath R. Goluguri
  • Systems and methods for optimizing a radio metric within a mesh network by waking up nodes
    Patent number: 11877239
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein optimize radio metrics between nodes within a mesh network by waking up nodes not actively connected to a mesh network. A mesh network system includes a computing device configured to determine that a radio metric between a first node and a second node in a mesh network is above a predetermined threshold, identify a third node operating in sleep mode, when the radio metric is above the predetermined threshold, and cause the third node to wake and connect to the mesh network, the third node is configured to relay communication between the first node and the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Shingo Sugimoto, Walter Accessor
  • Gesture detection for transport control
    Patent number: 11873000
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of detecting a movement in a transport, determining whether the movement includes a gesture definition, when the movement includes a gesture definition, identifying a gesture associated with the gesture definition, and performing an action, via the transport, corresponding to the identified gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Sachin J. Ahire, Manoj Kalamkar, Christopher J. Risberg
  • Modification of transport functionality based on carbon footprint
    Patent number: 11872891
    Abstract: To encourage users to improve their carbon footprint, a transport may be provided with an enhanced operating manner in response to external events that lower the carbon footprint of one or more occupants of the transport. Events, such as lowering the energy consumption of a person's home dwelling, may be communicated to the transport and trigger an enhanced mode in the transport, such as an enhanced driving mode (e.g. sport mode) or an enhanced charging mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Trent B. Bennett
  • DETERMINING ENERGY SOURCES TO A LOCATION
    Publication number: 20240014660
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a vehicle, an amount of energy to provide to a location, the energy located in one or more energy sources including the vehicle, an energy storage device, and an electric grid, the determining based on an ambient temperature of the vehicle, an ambient temperature of the energy storage device, a capacity of a battery in the vehicle, a capacity of the energy storage device, a demand of the electric grid, and an internal temperature of the location; and directing, by the vehicle, at least one of the energy sources to provide the amount of energy, based on determining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES HAVING BATTERY AND RESERVE ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20240010166
    Abstract: A method for a vehicle having a main battery and a reserve energy storage device is provided. The method includes determining occurrence of a triggering event associated with the vehicle, and transferring power from the main battery to the reserve energy storage device in response to the triggering event to render the vehicle not drivable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicants: Toyota Motor North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Roger Akira Kyle, Timothy Wang, Bryan Else Yamasaki, Justin K. Shen, Prince Ramos Remegio
  • ENHANCED PAIRING TO FACILITATE SEAMLESS BLUETOOTH / WIFI CONNECTIVITY
    Publication number: 20240010217
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of: detecting that a plurality of wireless devices are located in a vehicle; pairing a wireless device of the plurality of wireless devices and a head unit of the vehicle, when the wireless device is receiving or transmitting audio; and transmitting the audio through the head unit of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sergei I. Gage
  • Management of transport software updates
    Patent number: 11868757
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a software update at a transport of a subset of transports, validating the software update based on one or more of: a period of time when the software update is in use, and a number of utilizations of the software update by the subset of the transports, propagating the software update based on the validating, to a further subset of transports, wherein the further subset of the transports is larger than the subset of the transports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Wilson-Boon Siang Khoo
  • Situation-specific transport power allocation
    Patent number: 11866038
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of detecting, by a transport, an environment via a first sensor, determining, by the transport, an event related to the environment is imminent, powering, by the transport, a second sensor associated with the imminent event, and detecting, by the transport, the event as it is occurring via the second sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness