Patents Assigned to Toyota
  • Publication number: 20250118551
    Abstract: A seed crystal substrate includes: a substrate having a GaN seed crystal on a front surface thereof; an adhesion layer formed on a back surface of the substrate; and a carbon film covering the adhesion layer. The substrate includes a GaN single crystal substrate or a sapphire substrate with a GaN film, and the adhesion layer contains Si. Thus, a carbon film having a high infrared emissivity is disposed on a back surface side of the seed crystal substrate, and heat dissipation by radiation can be sufficiently secured even under a low pressure condition. Therefore, the controllability of the substrate surface temperature can be enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Daisuke NAKAMURA, Kenji Itoh
  • Publication number: 20250119865
    Abstract: A method for positioning in a sidelink communication. The method includes detecting, by an anchor component, a presence of at least one user equipment; and activating, by the anchor component, a transmission of a positioning reference signal to the user equipment responsive to the detected presence of the at least one user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taylan SAHIN, Torsten WILDSCHEK, John KENNEY, Takayuki SHIMIZU, Ling YU, Mikko SAILY
  • Publication number: 20250118845
    Abstract: The power storage device includes a first power storage module and a second power storage module, a case that houses the first power storage module and the second module, a cross member, a mount member fixed to an upper surface of the cross member, and an electronic device. The height of the mount member in the vertical direction is higher than the height of the electronic device, the electronic device is disposed so as to be adjacent to the mount member in the second direction, and includes a first end portion located on the mount member side in the second direction and a second end portion located on the opposite side to the side where the mount member is located in the second direction, the first end portion is fixed to the mount member, the second end portion is fixed to the cross member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuma YAHARA, Shigeyuki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20250118846
    Abstract: A battery pack includes: a plurality of battery modules; a frame-shaped skeleton portion disposed on the battery modules; and an upper surface portion disposed on the skeleton portion. Further, the upper surface portion is fixed to the skeleton portion with a fixing force in a manner that the fixing with skeleton portion is released with a pressure generated when at least one of the battery modules emits smoke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junki SUGIMOTO, Shigeyuki INOUE, Akikazu MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20250119077
    Abstract: An electrostatic clutch includes a pair of electrodes configured to be attached to a base material of the electrostatic clutch. The pair of electrodes individually comprise a high strength substrate fabric configured to be attached to the base material and a dielectric layer coupled to the high strength substrate fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Paul A. Gilmore, Yuyang Song, Umesh N. Gandhi
  • Patent number: 12269344
    Abstract: A vehicular display control device including: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to: detect when an operation region including plural switches provided to a steering wheel has been operated; and in a case in which operation of the operation region has been detected, display, at a display region set in front of a driving seat, an operation region image corresponding to the operation region and a status image indicating a current status of a function allocated to the switch that is being operated among the plural switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keigo Hori, Ryota Hamabe, Takahiro Hirota, Yoshinori Murata
  • Patent number: 12269357
    Abstract: A charging facility includes a movable unit, an ascending and descending device, and a control device that includes a communication device. The movable unit includes a connection device. The ascending and descending device causes the movable unit to ascend and descend between a first state where the movable unit is housed underground and a second state where the movable unit is exposed above the ground and a power storage device mounted on a vehicle is connectable to the connection device. The control device acquires a position of a target vehicle and a remaining capacity of the power storage device and controls, when the remaining capacity is lower than a threshold value and the position is within a first distance from the charging facility, the ascending and descending device such that the movable unit ascends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 12269499
    Abstract: A vehicle notification device includes: a mode setting unit that sets a mode of a vehicle to either a first mode and a second mode based on mode setting information; an acquisition unit that acquires a driving diagnosis result; a classification unit that classifies the driving diagnosis result into a first diagnosis result or a second diagnosis result based on content of the driving diagnosis result; and a notification device that notifies a target occupant of the vehicle of information representing the driving diagnosis result when the vehicle is in the first mode, notifying the target occupant of information representing the first diagnosis result when the vehicle is in the second mode and the first diagnosis result is acquired, and notifying the target occupant of specific information instead of information representing the second diagnosis result when the vehicle is in the second mode and the second diagnosis result is acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Kamezaki
  • Patent number: 12269470
    Abstract: To increase steering angle followability of automatic steering, provided is a driving assistance device for executing collision avoidance control of controlling a steering angle of an own vehicle such that the own vehicle travels along a target trajectory which enables the own vehicle to avoid a collision with an obstacle. The driving assistance device includes: a setting unit configured to set a target steering angle, and to set a target steering torque for matching the steering angle with the target steering angle; a cancellation unit configured to set a cancellation torque which cancels a total steering torque obtained by summing a driver steering torque and a steering assist torque set based on the driver steering torque; and a control unit configured to execute steering control of controlling the steering angle based on a torque control amount obtained by adding the target steering torque to the cancellation torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuaki Fukuchi, Daiki Yasui
  • Patent number: 12269200
    Abstract: A process management system virtually segments an extruded resin sheet into individual areas associated with several resin sheets. The individual areas are further virtually segmented into segmented areas. Curvature related information related to a curvature after completion of a heat press processing is acquired for each segmented area for each individual area. In a coating condition per area setting process, coating conditions are set for each segmented area for each individual area in accordance with a curvature based on curvature related information of each segmented area for each individual area. In a coating implementing process, a coating is applied to each segmented area for each individual area based on the coating condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazumasa Okumura, Toshiaki Hotaka
  • Patent number: 12269385
    Abstract: A seat back includes a back board serving as a decorative plate on a rear side of the seat back, a back frame that is configured to support a seated person, a back pad that is disposed at a front side the back frame, is configured to supports the seated person, and has elasticity, an intermediate board that is interposed between a peripheral edge of the back pad and a peripheral edge of the back board, and a back cover that is disposed over the back pad and the intermediate board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Michitaka Maeda, Tsubasa Kuno, Makoto Esaki
  • Patent number: 12269474
    Abstract: An indication of an intention of making a lane change to an adjacent lane that is issued from a preceding vehicle that travels in the same lane as an own vehicle is sensed while causing the own vehicle to travel while following the preceding vehicle. When the indication of the intention of making the lane change is sensed, deviation of the preceding vehicle toward the adjacent lane from an occupied region that is occupied by the own vehicle in traveling in the lane is sensed. Then, when deviation of the preceding vehicle from the occupied region is sensed, acceleration suppression for causing the own vehicle to travel while following the preceding vehicle is canceled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Daiki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12269408
    Abstract: An airbag device includes an airbag that is supplied with gas generated by an inflator during a vehicle collision and that inflates and deploys from a rear side of a vehicle seat toward a front side via an upper side. In an inflated and deployed state, the airbag includes a pair of front-rear chambers extending in a seat front-rear direction via left and right sides of a head of a passenger, an airbag body that is in communication with the pair of front-rear chambers and that is disposed at a front side of the passenger between the pair of front-rear chambers, and a pair of rear tethers including one-end portions attached to the airbag body and other-end portions attached to a seatback of the vehicle seat. At least a rear tether on a side door side is configured so as to be releasable after a collision of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Takeshi Yamamoto, Toshiki Iwama, Yoshito Kusuhara, Tsutomu Ishii
  • Patent number: 12272147
    Abstract: A server includes a control unit. The control unit determines whether a parked vehicle is used as a shelter based on a first image which is included in an image captured by a camera and which is obtained by imaging the vehicle and surroundings of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yui Sugie, Koichi Suzuki, Naoki Uenoyama, Hiroki Takeda, Hirohiko Morikawa, Genshi Kuno
  • Patent number: 12269393
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a first display unit disposed in front of and above a driver's seat and including a display screen configured to be deployed from an interior member into the vehicle cabin and be withdrawn from the vehicle cabin into an inside of the interior member, a drive unit configured to drive the display screen, and a control unit configured to control the first display unit and the drive unit. The control unit includes a driving status acquisition unit configured to acquire a driving status of a vehicle, a drive control unit configured to change a deployment amount of the display screen based on the acquired driving status, and a display control unit configured to cause the display screen to display a rear seat image captured by an in-vehicle camera for a rear seat to fit with the deployment amount of the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Maeda, Tatsuya Shimizu, Takanobu Tabata, Yasuyuki Andou, Takahiro Suzuki, Fumihiro Onogi
  • Patent number: 12269487
    Abstract: A wheel load estimation device includes an obtaining unit obtaining angular velocities and angular accelerations of a rigid body including an element, accelerations of the rigid body in a front-rear direction and in a lateral direction, a weight of the element, and a position including a height of the element. The element fluctuates a center of gravity of the rigid body. A center-of-gravity inertia value calculation unit calculates information relevant to the center of gravity of the rigid body and an inertia value. A wheel load variation calculation unit calculates variation amounts of wheel loads that each act on a corresponding one of a plurality of wheels supporting the rigid body. A wheel load estimation unit estimates the wheel loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hattori, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Daiki Mori, Yoshikazu Hattori, Noriyoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12269363
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining a plurality of vehicles and a first charge level of the vehicles utilizing a first charging location, determining a portion of the plurality of vehicles and a second charge level of the portion of the plurality of vehicles utilizing a second charging location, and determining a new charging location based on the plurality of vehicles, the first charge level, the portion of the plurality of vehicles, and the second charge level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignees: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
  • Patent number: 12269442
    Abstract: A carwash device receives vehicle attribute information indicating an attribute of a vehicle that is a car-washing target. The carwash device selects a car-washing mode based on the vehicle attribute information, and the carwash device drives a drive section for washing the vehicle such that the vehicle is washed in the selected car-washing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Teruaki Haibara, Kenji Hoshi, Masaaki Sato
  • Patent number: 12271842
    Abstract: A delivery system includes a plurality of delivery vehicles for delivering an article to a delivery destination with power charged in a battery that is able to be charged and discharged. The delivery vehicles are able to be charged with each other. A charging schedule including a combination of a charging vehicle and a vehicle to be charged selected from the delivery vehicles is determined based on a delivery schedule of the article and a remaining charge capacity of the battery for each of the delivery vehicles, and the delivery schedule for the charging vehicle and the vehicle to be charged is updated based on the charging schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiro Iwamoto, Yuta Itozawa, Hirotaka Komura
  • Patent number: D1070135
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Isogai, Takuya Ishibashi