Patents Assigned to Toyota
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Patent number: 12275330Abstract: A vehicle includes a battery including an all-solid-state battery configured to be externally chargeable with electric power supplied from outside of the vehicle, a heater configured to heat the battery, and a control device configured to control the heater. The control device controls the heater such that when a predetermined condition related to the external charging is satisfied, the temperature of the battery during execution of the external charging is higher than when the predetermined condition is not satisfied. The predetermined condition includes a condition that an elevation of the vehicle during the execution of the external charging is higher than a predetermined height.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsubasa Migita, Hiroshi Nagase, Yoichi Ogura, Daisuke Mukai
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Patent number: 12275425Abstract: An alert apparatus starts alerting a driver of a host vehicle, when an oncoming vehicle, that is an other vehicle traveling in an oncoming lane with respect to a traveling lane in which the host vehicle is traveling so as to approach the host vehicle and that is predicted to pass through on a specific direction side with respect to a current position of the host vehicle, is present, a turn signal indicator of the host vehicle corresponding to the specific direction side is being operated, and it is likely that the host vehicle starts turning to the specific direction side.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2024Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mafune Kakeshita, Chen Xi, Kohei Morotomi, Yuto Shimbo, Tasuku Usui, Kenichi Shimizu, Wataru Ike, Tsunekazu Yasoshima
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Patent number: 12275377Abstract: A defogging device includes a heating wire configured to heat a windshield. The heating wire includes a plurality of parallel arrangement portions generally parallel to each other and provided such that respective intermediate parts, in the longitudinal direction, of the parallel arrangement portions are placed inside a field angle region. The parallel arrangement portions include two adjacent parallel arrangement portions provided such that respective first ends, in the longitudinal direction, of the two adjacent parallel arrangement portions are connected to each other via a connecting portion outside the field angle region, and respective second ends of the two adjacent parallel arrangement portions are separated from each other without being connected to each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Yamamoto, Takahiro Miyadoh
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Patent number: 12275391Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle that includes an engine, an electric motor and a clutch provided between the engine and the electric motor. An engine-start delay control is executed in a case in which a requested drive amount is realized by only a torque of the electric motor and a first starting manner is being selected as an engine starting manner. Then, in a case in which a predetermined time elapses from initiation of the engine-start delay control, the engine-start delay control is terminated and the engine is started in the first starting manner. On the other hand, in a case in which the engine starting manner is switched from the first starting manner to a second starting manner before the predetermined time elapses from the initiation of the engine-start delay control, the engine-start delay control is terminated and the engine is started in the second starting manner.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki Nakanishi, Masato Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 12275353Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor. The processor is configured to control a vehicle including a storage apparatus including one or more compartments configured such that a user deposits baggage. The processor is configured to, when a predetermined event related to storage of the baggage has occurred in the storage apparatus, restrict deposit of the baggage into the storage apparatus by the user until the vehicle including the storage apparatus moves to a predetermined place where the predetermined event is resolvable.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuyuki Inoue, Yurika Tanaka, Satoshi Komamine, Go Tanaka, Hiromitsu Fujii
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Patent number: 12276980Abstract: A remote operation system includes a moving body is a target of a remote operation performed by a remote operator and a remote operator terminal on the remote operator side. The remote operation system determines whether at least one of an abnormality in a communication between the moving body and the remote operator terminal, an abnormality in the moving body, and an abnormality in the remote operator terminal occurs. The remote operation system sets a gain to be larger when the abnormality occurs than when no abnormality occurs. The remote operation system calculates a reaction force control amount by multiplying a base reaction force control amount by the gain. The remote operator terminal applies an operation reaction force according to the reaction force control amount to a remote operation member operated by the remote operator.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuki Suehiro
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Patent number: 12278170Abstract: A semiconductor module includes a resin molded part encapsulating a semiconductor chip, a first terminal having a plate shape, and a second terminal having a plate shape. The first terminal and the second terminal are disposed on top of the other in a thickness direction. The first terminal is exposed from a first surface of the resin molded part, and the second terminal is projected from a second surface of the resin molded part to an outside of the resin molded part, the second surface being different from the first surface from which the first terminal is exposed.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MIRISE Technologies CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Ishino, Hirokazu Sampei, Katsuya Kumagai, Koji Doi
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Patent number: 12275293Abstract: A vehicle door lubricant application system includes a pump connected to a fluid line that is connected to a fluid reservoir. The pump is configured to provide a preselected amount of a lubricant to a spray nozzle assembly. The spray nozzle assembly is configured to dispense the lubricant. A sensing device is configured to detect presence of a vehicle door. The sensing device is configured to provide a signal in response to the presence of the vehicle door that is used to activate the pump.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Michael J. Faulkner, Jarett M. McGeorge, Aquiles N. Elgueta, Logan H. Coomer
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Patent number: 12278404Abstract: A bipolar plate for a fuel cell, a fuel cell, and a method of designing a bipolar plate for a fuel cell having a hybrid flow field structure that includes a plurality of parallel feed flow channels fluidically connected to an inlet bipolar plate region, a plurality of parallel exit flow channels fluidically connected to an outlet bipolar plate region, and an interwoven pattern formed by a plurality of simplified periodic array flow field structure generated based on flow patterns generated by homogenized anisotropic porous media optimization. The flow field structure enhances fuel cell performance by facilitating lower pressure drop via minimized fluid flow resistance, and removal of accumulated water in the oxygen channel and the gas diffusion layer (GDL) under the ribs of the bipolar plate.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Ercan M. Dede, Yuqing Zhou, Danny J. Lohan, Feng Zhou, Tomoki Tambo, Hiroshi Ukegawa
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Patent number: 12277776Abstract: Vehicle communication systems and methods for identifying and classifying objects as relevant to an occupant of a vehicle. A method includes capturing first object data at a first vehicle, classifying the first object data as relevant or non-relevant based on a first user profile associated with the first vehicle, and transmitting a transmission package including the first object data to a server in response to classifying the first object data as relevant.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventor: Masashi Nakagawa
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Patent number: 12276232Abstract: During NA operation, the electronic control unit, which is a control device of the vehicle equipped with the turbocharged engine equipped with the blow-by gas recirculation device that ventilates the crankcase by extrusion of the blow-by gas by the supercharging pressure during the supercharging operation, executes the stagnation elimination control for changing the operating condition of the turbocharged engine to the operating condition in which the driving force of the vehicle is maintained and the stagnation state of the ventilation is eliminated, when the stagnation state in which the intake pipe pressure of the turbocharged engine is in the vicinity of the atmospheric pressure continues.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2024Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takahiro Yatabe
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Publication number: 20250118847Abstract: The vehicle includes a vehicle body including an underbody, and a battery pack attached to the vehicle body below the underbody. The battery pack includes an upper surface portion provided to face the underbody, and a heat insulating material (mounting member) attached to the upper surface portion. The upper surface portion is provided with a projecting portion protruding toward the underbody side. The heat insulating material is formed with a hole portion into which the projecting portion is inserted. The shortest distance between the projecting portion and the underbody is less than the minimum value of the thickness of the insulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koji NAGAI, Shigeyuki MORI, Naofumi NOMURA, Takuma KOMATSU, Yusuke IIDA
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Publication number: 20250119473Abstract: The relay device includes multiple communication ports to which the in-vehicle ECU can be connected, a CPU, and a port storage area for each communication port. CPU can perform a reprogramming process for multiple in-vehicle ECUs in parallel. CPU performs: receiving a list of update data that has not been sent to the in-vehicle ECU and a data volume for each of the update data that has not been sent to the in-vehicle ECU; acquiring a rate of increase in free space for each port storage area during the reprogramming process; determining, as the priority update data, update data to be received out of the update data listed in the list based on the data volume for each of the update data and the rate of increase in free space for each of the port storage areas; and sending, to the providing device, a signal requesting the priority update data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke TSUJI, Madoka Hayashiguchi, Kaho Nakamura, Kei Morizumi
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Publication number: 20250115128Abstract: A display device for a vehicle that is provided at a vehicle and that, when a detecting device detects a relative moving body, which is positioned at a periphery of the vehicle, in a predetermined detection range, can display a moving image representing the relative moving body by control by a processor, wherein, in a case in which a relative distance of the relative moving body from the vehicle is in a usual range, the processor changes a display condition, which is at least one of a size of and a displayed position of the moving image, in accordance with the relative distance, and, in a case in which the relative distance is outside of the usual range, the processor does not change the display condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Miki TSUJINO, Hironori ITO
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Publication number: 20250114842Abstract: A sintered member according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a single powder compact made of a metal powder and having a stepped part, the powder compact being obtained by sintering. At a surface of a recessed corner part of the stepped part, a brazing material penetrates gaps between sintered metal powder particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki HATSUYAMA, Masaki SUGIYAMA, Yasuhiro KATSUKAWA, Katsumi ICHIJIMA
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Publication number: 20250115122Abstract: Systems and methods related to intoxication detection of one or more vehicle occupants are provided. A system includes a plurality of sensor assemblies disposed at different locations within a vehicle. The system further includes a controller configured to determine which occupant among a plurality of occupants in the vehicle is intoxicated based on an analysis of sensor signals received from the plurality of sensor assemblies. The controller is further configured to output an alert based on determining that a driver of the vehicle is intoxicated. Associated vehicles, controllers, and methods are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2023Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Brian A. Mulrooney, Daniel James Walter, Gustavo Muller Nunes, Joshua D. Yaksich, Stuart Wuerthele, William Fanelli, Naohiro Matsumura, Sergei Gage, Pujitha Gunaratne, Jennifer Cohen Lerman, Mike Kushnerik, Schuyler St. Lawrence, Swathi Manoravi, Aarthi Ranganathan, Dharm Sidhu
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Publication number: 20250115187Abstract: An apparatus, a system, and a method for providing a smart multi-tier power running board (PRB) with ground sensing technologies. The apparatus includes one or more support bars, one or more steps, an actuator connected to one end of each support bar of the one or more support bars, one or more sensors, and a controller coupled to the actuator and the one or more sensors. The controller is configured to: obtain data indicative of a request to move the one or more support bars from a stowed position to a deployed position; determine, based on sensor data detected by the one or more sensors, the deployed position for moving the one or more support bars; and control, based on the determined deployed position, the actuator to move the one or more support bars from the stowed position to the deployed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: John D. Harkleroad, Manish Shah, Aamir U. Warsi
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Publication number: 20250118809Abstract: A method of producing a battery, the method including: a first process of disposing an electrode body at an internal space of an exterior body; a second process of supplying an electrolytic solution to the internal space of the exterior body at which the electrode body has been disposed; and a third process of pressurizing the exterior body, to which the electrolytic solution has been supplied, at a portion corresponding to a periphery of the electrode body, the internal space of the exterior body being greater in volume than the electrode body.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yosuke SHIMURA, Takahiko Nakano, Hirokazu Takeuchi, Masato Noda, Atsushi Sugihara, Jun Izumi, Yuka Yokoi
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Publication number: 20250115265Abstract: The maximum speed informing device includes a camera device that acquires image data by capturing a scene in front of the vehicle, a display unit configured to be able to display the maximum speed, and a controller configured to be able to change the maximum speed displayed on the display unit., the controller acquires a numerical value included in the captured scene as a maximum speed candidate based on the image data, acquires road structure information indicating a structure of a road including a lane on which the vehicle is traveling based on the image data, estimates a range of a maximum speed of the road based on the acquired road structure information, and displays the maximum speed candidate within the estimated maximum speed range as the maximum speed on the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuichi ISHIYAMA
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Publication number: 20250115272Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving the protection of a first vehicle using a second vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes processing sensor data about surroundings of a first vehicle to identify suspicious activity in the surroundings of the first vehicle. The method further includes, in response to identifying the suspicious activity, controlling a second vehicle to perform a reactive maneuver.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2023Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shaurya Panthri
