Patents Assigned to Toyota
  • Publication number: 20240233408
    Abstract: Systems and methods for training multi-view 3D object detection frameworks are disclosed herein. In one example, a method includes the steps of predicting one or more predicted bounding boxes representing one or more objects within multi-view images using a decoder that considers (a) feature embeddings generated from image features from multi-view images, (b) geometric positional encodings that are associated with the feature embeddings, and (c) view-dependent queries, determining a viewpoint equivariance loss based on a comparison of the one or more predicted bounding boxes with one or more ground truth bounding boxes, and adjusting model weights of networks forming the multi-view 3D object detection framework based on the viewpoint equivariance loss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicants: Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Dian Chen, Rares A. Ambrus, Jie Li, Adrien David Gaidon, Vitor Campagnolo Guizilini
  • Publication number: 20240227843
    Abstract: An alarm device includes a unit determining whether state of driver is inappropriate state to generate vibration of predetermined intensity in seat belt based on in-vehicle sensor signal, a unit determining whether situation requiring notification of predetermined warning to the driver occurs, based on out-of-vehicle sensor signal, behavior sensor signal, in-vehicle sensor signal, and current location of vehicle, and a unit notifying driver of predetermined warning by generating vibration of predetermined intensity in seat belt when situation requiring notification of predetermined warning occurs and when state of driver is not an inappropriate one, notifying driver of predetermined warning by generating vibration of intensity weaker than predetermined intensity in seat belt or using notification unit other than seat belt or stopping notification of predetermined warning, when situation requiring notification of predetermined warning occurs and when state of driver is an inappropriate one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiko Kuwabara, Toshiaki Iwasaki, Masato Uehara, Tomoki Miyata
  • Publication number: 20240226988
    Abstract: To provide a method for manufacturing an outer panel in which takt time is shortened and of high designability. A method for manufacturing an outer panel performing a hemming process according to the present disclosure includes; performing a laser light irradiation process on an inner side of a steel sheet that serves as an outer panel to bend the steel sheet at a first angle, the laser light being irradiated along a ridgeline of a center part of a bend radius of the steel sheet, and performing the hemming process on the steel sheet at a timing that is after the laser irradiation process to bend the steel sheet at a second angle smaller than the first angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi TSUDA, Akito TOJO, Daichi TAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20240227806
    Abstract: A vehicle moving apparatus executes an autonomous acceleration/deceleration control including a coasting control and an acceleration control. The apparatus continues executing the coasting control until a predetermined time elapses even when a distance between an own vehicle and a preceding vehicle increases and reaches an upper limit value of a predetermined distance range when a moving speed of the own vehicle becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined speed, the moving speed of the own vehicle is greater than a moving speed of the preceding vehicle, and a difference between the moving speed of the own vehicle and the moving speed of the preceding vehicle is equal to or greater than a predetermined speed difference while the coasting control is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideki KAMATANI
  • Publication number: 20240230443
    Abstract: A wheel-state obtaining system includes: air pressure sensors each provided for a corresponding one of a plurality of wheels to detect an air pressure of a tire of the wheel; and temperature sensors each provided for a corresponding one of the wheels to detect a temperature of an inside of a tire of the wheel; and a controller. The controller obtains a temperature conversion air pressure, which is the air pressure of each tire when the temperature is a set temperature, based on a detected air pressure and a detected temperature. When a reduction amount of the temperature conversion air pressure of one of the wheels is greater than a reduction amount of the temperature conversion air pressure of each of other wheels except the one of the wheels, the controller determines that the air pressure of the tire of the one of the wheels is in an abnormal state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroaki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240227626
    Abstract: A travel control device includes: a switching determination unit configured to determine whether a traveling mode of the fuel cell vehicle is switched from a first traveling mode in which the fuel cell vehicle travels mainly using power generated by a fuel cell to a second traveling mode in which the fuel cell vehicle travels using discharge power of a battery; and a permission determination unit configured to determine whether to permit traveling in the second traveling mode based on a charging rate of the battery when the switching determination unit determines that the traveling mode has been switched from the first traveling mode to the second traveling mode, in which the permission determination unit is configured to permit traveling in the second traveling mode when the charging rate of the battery is greater than or equal to a predetermined charging rate threshold for permission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicants: Hino Motors, Ltd., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichiro TANIGUCHI, Minoru KOWADA, Jun NAMIMA
  • Publication number: 20240229269
    Abstract: Provided is a water electrolysis system that obtains hydrogen by water electrolysis with a water electrolysis cell including a water electrolysis stack having a plurality of the water electrolysis cells, a water supply side passage for supplying water to the water electrolysis stack, a hydrogen side passage for discharging the hydrogen obtained in the water electrolysis stack, a plurality of voltage sensors for measuring voltages for the respective water electrolysis cells or for each group of the water electrolysis cells, and a control device, where the control device is configured to acquire a voltage from each of the voltage sensors, determine whether the voltage is equal to or higher than a predetermined value and notify that an overvoltage has been generated when it is determined that the voltage is equal to or higher than the predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobuyuki KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240227625
    Abstract: A start control device for a fuel cell vehicle includes: a request determination unit configured to determine whether there is a request for starting the fuel cell vehicle in a second traveling mode after a power supply of the fuel cell vehicle is turned ON; and a start control unit configured to perform control to start the fuel cell vehicle in the second traveling mode when the request determination unit determines that there is a request for starting the fuel cell vehicle in the second traveling mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicants: Hino Motors, Ltd., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichiro TANIGUCHI, Minoru KOWADA, Jun NAMIMA
  • Publication number: 20240227790
    Abstract: A driving support apparatus comprises a sensor configured to detect an object, and a controller configured to execute a collision control when the object satisfies a first collision condition. The controller determines whether or not the object satisfies a second collision condition which is more difficult to be satisfied than the first collision condition when both an angle condition and a steering condition are satisfied in a case where the object is a three-dimensional object which is in a roadside or a median strip of a road. The angle condition is a condition that an entry angle formed by a traveling direction of the vehicle and the three-dimensional object is equal to or smaller than a threshold angle. The steering condition is a condition for determining that a driver performs an avoidance steering operation. The controller executes the collision control when the three-dimensional object satisfies the second collision condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20240232923
    Abstract: An information processing method using an information processing device, comprising acquiring temperature information of a battery of a vehicle, estimating a charging period of the vehicle and a charging fee corresponding to the charging period from the temperature information, and raising the temperature of the battery. Calculating the reduction amount of the charging fee when the work is performed, and notifying the user terminal of the work and the reduction amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koki MORIYA, Hiroki TAKEISHI, Ibuki SHIMADA, Koji UEDA, Ai MIYATA
  • Publication number: 20240233539
    Abstract: A controller acquires first information related to a request for a predetermined operation performed before a first vehicle moves, which is required for the first vehicle from outside the first vehicle parked in a parking lot; and transmits, in response to acquiring the first information, second information for causing a user of a second vehicle waiting for parking to recognize a position where the first vehicle is parked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20240234703
    Abstract: An all solid state battery includes a cathode, an anode, an opposing region, a non-opposing region, and a solid electrolyte layer, and an anode active material layer includes an anode active material, and a sulfide solid electrolyte, the anode current collector is a current collector that react with the sulfide solid electrolyte at an open circuit potential of the anode active material, the anode current collector includes a coating layer including lithium titanate, on a surface of the anode active material layer side, in plan view, the coating layer includes one or two or more of an existence portion and non-existence portion respectively, in the region specified by an outer edge of the anode current collector, and in plan view, the coating layer includes the existence portion in at least a part of the opposing region, and includes the non-existence portion in at least a part of the non-opposing region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masato KAMIYA
  • Publication number: 20240231880
    Abstract: An information processing device has: a generating section generating plural virtual machines including a managing virtual machine that manages the plural virtual machines; a non-volatile memory storing, for each of the plural virtual machines, data needed to activate the virtual machine; and a volatile memory. At a time when the managing virtual machine is activated, the managing virtual machine reads-out the respective data of the plural virtual machines from the non-volatile memory and stores the data in the volatile memory. At a time when each virtual machine of the plural virtual machines is activated, the virtual machine reads-out the data of the virtual machine from the volatile memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Taiki MIZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20240227816
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to enhancing operator vigilance without causing an adverse reaction. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a disengagement likelihood; operating a steering system controlling one or more wheels based on a steering signal; selecting a stimulus pattern that if executed causes the steering system to deviate the one or more wheels from the steering signal; and executing the stimulus pattern if the disengagement likelihood is above a first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Woven by Toyota, Inc.
    Inventors: Manuel Ludwig Kuehner, Xabier Carrera Akutain, Hiroshi Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20240235981
    Abstract: An information processing system comprises a master apparatus configured to instruct generation and destruction of a plurality of application containers that operate in a plurality of node apparatuses, respectively, and a route control apparatus configured to control routing among the plurality of node apparatuses, wherein the master apparatus comprises a first processor configured to execute: receiving a first message requesting generation or destruction of an application container among the application containers that is in a first node apparatus among the plurality of node apparatuses; and transmitting, when receiving the first message, a second message showing that a configuration of the plurality of application containers has changed, to the route control apparatus; and the route control apparatus comprises a second processor configured to, when receiving the second message, execute generating route information about routes among the plurality of node apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Chunghan LEE
  • Publication number: 20240227923
    Abstract: A vehicle power supply system includes a power source control device that executes a process of switching a connection state of a driving circuit to the main power source and an auxiliary power source including; a process of switching the connection state so as to transition to a backup state as a voltage decrease of the main power source occurs, and a process of switching the connection state so as to transition to a normal state as the voltage decrease of the main power source is resolved. After a voltage decrease of the main power source occurs, a turning-side control device of a steering control unit sets an output-limited state for a turning-side motor. The output-limited state is canceled upon the power source control device completing switching of the connection state so as to transition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuta KAJISAWA, Yuji FUJITA, Yugo NAGASHIMA, Kazuma HASEGAWA, Takashi KOUDAI, Kaishi MONOBE, Kenichi ABE, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Shintaro TAKAYAMA, Kazuaki IIDA, Yasushi HORA, Yosuke YAMASHITA, Hiroki TOMIZAWA, Nobuyori NAKAJIMA, Hayaki TANABE, Toyohiro HAYASHI, Takeshi IWANA
  • Publication number: 20240227472
    Abstract: A tow hook assembly coupled to the cross member of a vehicle. The tow hook assembly includes a housing, a tow hook, and a biasing member. The tow hook is pivotally coupled to the housing and positionable between an extended position and a retracted position. The biasing member is coupled to the tow hook and the housing to bias the tow hook towards the extended position. The tow hook is configured to pivot from the extended position towards the retracted position upon application of a force exceeding a threshold applied to the tow hook.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Paxton S. Williams, Adam D. Holmstrom
  • Publication number: 20240232720
    Abstract: A learning device is configured to generate from time-series data a state vector including a first component including a difference between data at a target time and data at a time earlier than the target time and a second component including a power of the data at the target time, and perform learning using the state vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Vinh Long PHAN
  • Publication number: 20240233524
    Abstract: The in-vehicle device mounted on the vehicle includes a control unit having a function of acquiring traffic congestion information for each lane on a road having a plurality of lanes and guiding the vehicle to another lane based on the acquired traffic congestion information, and when the vehicle travels in a predetermined section from the exit in a first lane connected to the exit from the road, the control unit cancels the function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshinori YOKOYAMA, Yoshikazu TOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240227865
    Abstract: An operation management apparatus includes a controller configured to receive, via a communication interface, first data to be transmitted at first time intervals and second data to be transmitted at second time intervals longer than the first time intervals from the vehicle, the first data indicating an operational state of the vehicle at a time of transmission of the first data, the second data indicating operational states of the vehicle at multiple times up to a time of transmission of the second data, generate, with reference to the received first data, third data indicating a time at which the vehicle has transitioned to each of a series of operational states, and complement the third data with reference to the received second data upon determining that the received first data has missing data indicating at least one of the series of operational states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Nagata, Ibuki Shimada