Patents Assigned to Toyota
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Publication number: 20240123937Abstract: An airbag device has an airbag. The airbag has a front-rear chamber and an airbag main body. The front-rear chamber has a left and right pair of front-rear extending portions that pass by respective left and right sides of a head of a passenger seated in a vehicle seat and inflate and deploy toward the seat front side, and a connecting portion connecting front end portions of the pair of front-rear extending portions in a seat left-right direction. The airbag main body inflates and deploys toward a side of the passenger at a seat rear side of the connecting portion, later than the front-rear chamber. At a time when the passenger is restrained, the airbag main body is compressed in a seat front-rear direction while stretching the front-rear chamber in the seat front-rear direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Takeshi YAMAMOTO, Toshiki IWAMA, Yoshito KUSUHARA, Tsutomu ISHII
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Publication number: 20240125392Abstract: A flow rate control valve is configured to adjust a flow rate of blow-by gas drawn into an intake passage from a crankcase of an internal combustion engine that uses hydrogen as fuel. The flow rate control valve includes a flow rate adjuster having a valve member. The flow rate adjuster has a cross-sectional flow area in a section through which the blow-by gas passes. The cross-sectional flow area is changed in accordance with movement of the valve member. The flow rate control valve is configured such that the cross-sectional flow area is maximized when a load on the internal combustion engine is less than or equal to that in an idling operation state.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masami ISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20240128617Abstract: A power storage cell includes an electrode assembly, a cell case, and an external terminal. The cell case has a case main body and a lid. The lid has a lid main body connected to an opening of the case main body and charged positively or negatively in the electrode assembly, and a short-circuit member connected to the lid main body, the short-circuit member being able to short-circuit the lid main body and the external terminal. The external terminal includes a terminal plate. The short-circuit member includes an elastic portion made of a conductive resin. The elastic portion is separated from the terminal plate when an internal pressure of the cell case is less than a predetermined pressure, and is elastically deformed to come into contact with the terminal plate when the internal pressure of the cell case is equal to or more than the predetermined pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satomi YAMAMOTO, Masayoshi Haga, Masashi Chihara, Takenori Ikeda, Nana Kurashita
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Publication number: 20240128600Abstract: A lamination type battery herein disclosed includes a plurality of electrode bodies and a connection terminal. The electrode bodies are formed in a plate shape, and are stacked one on another, with a thickness direction thereof being a lamination direction. The connection terminal electrically connects the first electrode body and second electrode body which are mutually and adjacently stacked. Each of the electrode bodies includes a pair of collector tabs extending outward along the plate surface. One collector tab of the first electrode body and one collector tab of the second electrode body are joined to the connection terminal from mutually opposite directions in the lamination direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: SATOMI YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240123467Abstract: A method for coating a vehicle body on which an electrodeposition coating has been performed includes in this order: applying a first base coating material over an outer surface of the vehicle body to form a first base layer; applying a mixture of a second base coating material and a first curing agent over an inner surface of the vehicle body to form an inner second base layer; applying the second base coating material over the first base layer that has not been baked to form an outer second base layer; applying a clear coating material over the inner second base layer and the outer second base layer to form a clear layer; and baking the first base layer, the inner second base layer, the outer second base layer, and the clear layer for curing thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiji AMBO, Junya OGAWA, Hisao HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20240126280Abstract: An automatic driving system includes a control device that controls automatic driving of a vehicle, and a storage device that contains external environment information indicating an external environment of the vehicle. A driving transition zone is a zone in which a driver of the vehicle takes over at least a part of driving of the vehicle, from the control device. A termination target velocity is a target velocity of the vehicle at an end point of the driving transition zone. The control device variably sets the termination target velocity, depending on the external environment at the end point or the external environment surrounding the end point. Then, the control device controls the velocity of the vehicle in the driving transition zone, such that the velocity of the vehicle at the end point is the termination target velocity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takaaki TANAKA, Kenichiro AOKI, Masayuki KATOH
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Publication number: 20240123794Abstract: An electronic control device of a vehicle including an engine, a motor rotationally driven by the engine, and an air conditioner includes: (a) limiting a power consumption of a motor compressor that drives the air conditioner to be less than a predetermined amount when a state-of-charge value SOC of a main battery that is charged by electric power generated by the motor is less than a determination value SOC in a case where the engine is running in an engine using the engine as a power source and the vehicle is in a predetermined high-altitude environment; (b) the operation of the air conditioner is stopped when the state-of-charge value SOC is less than a determination value SOC that is lower than a determination value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki HAYASHIMA, Yoshiaki TSURUTA, Yoshio HASEGAWA
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Publication number: 20240127395Abstract: A resolution converter includes a processor configured to select a super-resolution model corresponding to a capturing condition under which an image was generated, among a plurality of super-resolution models for improving resolution, the plurality of super-resolution models corresponding to different capturing conditions, and generate a high-resolution image having a higher resolution than the image by inputting the image into the selected super-resolution model.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Eiji Nakatsugawa
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Publication number: 20240128618Abstract: A power storage cell comprises an electrode assembly including a plurality of tabs, a cell case, an external terminal, a connecting member, and an insulating member. The connecting member has a current collector plate connected to the plurality of tabs, and a connecting pin connecting the current collector plate and the external terminal. The insulating member includes an insulator that has a shape surrounding the connecting pin and that insulates the connecting pin from the cell case. The connecting pin has a covered portion covered with the insulator, and the covered portion has a fuse portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satomi YAMAMOTO, Masayoshi Haga, Masashi Chihara, Takenori Ikeda, Nana Kurashita
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Patent number: 11959430Abstract: A vehicle controller includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to perform an intermittent stop of an engine in accordance with a traveling state of a vehicle, cause the engine to restart by self-sustaining resumption when restart of the engine is requested in a state in which the engine is rotating during the intermittent stop, and perform a retarded injection control that retards, in a combustion cycle of the engine, a starting time of a first fuel injection at the time of the restart of the engine by the self-sustaining resumption as compared to a starting time of a second fuel injection.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Fukuda, Eiichiroh Kido, Masanao Idogawa
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Patent number: 11958469Abstract: A control device for a vehicle including an internal combustion engine and an electric rotary machine connected to the internal combustion engine in a power-transmittable manner is able to perform torque-down through ignition delay control for delaying an ignition timing of the internal combustion engine and regeneration control for performing regeneration using the electric rotary machine when there is a torque-down request based on a vehicle state. The control device is configured to perform torque-down corresponding to a deficiency by delaying the ignition timing of the internal combustion engine when an actual torque of the electric rotary machine through the regeneration control is deficient for the torque-down request.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuta Ochi
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Vehicle control device, vehicle control system, vehicle learning device, and vehicle learning method
Patent number: 11959545Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a processor and memory. The memory stores relation-defining data for defining a relation between a state of a vehicle and an action variable that is a variable relating to operations of a transmission installed in the vehicle. The processor is configured to execute acquisition processing, operation processing, reward calculation processing, updating processing, counting processing, and limiting processing. The processor is configured to output the relation-defining data updated so that an expected income is increased when the transmission is operated following the relation-defining data, based on an updating map.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideaki Bunazawa, Atsushi Tabata, Koichi Okuda, Ken Imamura, Kota Fujii, Keita Sasaki -
Patent number: 11961351Abstract: A vehicle includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to determine whether or not a communication interface is malfunctioning, the communication interface being configured to perform communication for confirming that a device, which holds a digital key for activation, is inside a vehicle cabin, and in a case in which it is determined that the communication interface is malfunctioning, perform processing that enables activation based on a result of authentication of the device.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Jumpei Fuke
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Patent number: 11958541Abstract: An outrigger coupled to a cab frame. The outrigger including a base wall, a first side wall, an opposite second side wall, a reinforcement flange, and a reinforcement bracket. The first side wall and the opposite second side wall extend from the base wall. Each of the first side wall and the second side wall include an interior edge, an opposite exterior edge, and an inner surface. The reinforcement flange extends along the exterior edge of the first side wall, the second edge, and the exterior edge of the second side wall. The reinforcement bracket is coupled to the interior edge of the first side wall and the interior edge of the second side wall.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Jacob M. Kemppainen, Scott B. Smith
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Patent number: 11962472Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for forming remote vehicular micro clouds at one or more remote locations. According to some embodiments, the methods and systems comprise responsive to receiving a request to form a vehicular micro cloud from a client device, communicating with a plurality of vehicles within an area of a geographic location to collectively form a vehicular micro cloud at the geographic location, where client device is remote from the area of the geographic location. The methods and systems further include receiving resource data from the plurality of vehicles, the resource data comprising detection results of an environment surrounding the geographic location based on sensor sets of the plurality of vehicles, and transmitting the resource data to the client device.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Kentaro Oguchi
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Patent number: 11958329Abstract: A roll vibration damping control system includes an electronic control unit configured to: compute a sum of a product of a roll moment of inertia and a roll angular acceleration of a vehicle body, a product of a roll damping coefficient and a first-order integral of the roll angular acceleration, and a product of an equivalent roll stiffness of the vehicle and a second-order integral of the roll angular acceleration, as a controlled roll moment to be applied to the vehicle body; compute a roll moment around a center of gravity of a sprung mass as a correction roll moment, the roll moment being generated by lateral force on wheels due to roll motion; and compute a target roll moment based on a value obtained by correcting the controlled roll moment with the correction roll moment.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shota Tanzan, Etsuo Katsuyama
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Patent number: 11959416Abstract: An engine includes a cylinder head, a wire assembly including multiple wire harnesses and a protector that holds the wire harnesses together, a sound absorber, and an engine cover. The engine cover is attached to the cylinder head in a state in which the wire assembly and the sound absorber are held between the cylinder head and the engine cover to elastically deform the sound absorber. The protector is held in a state of being pressed against the cylinder head by a restoring force of the sound absorber. The sound absorber includes a contact region pressed against the protector. The sound absorber includes an engagement portion located at an edge of the contact region. The engagement portion is thicker than the thickness of the contact region. The engagement portion is adjacent to a side surface of the protector.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuto Yoshizaki
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Patent number: 11960646Abstract: A display control device includes a processor. The processor identifies an attraction target that guides a line of sight of an occupant, acquires the line of sight of the occupant, and causes a display unit attached to an eyeball of the occupant to display a guidance display that guides the line of sight of the occupant to the attraction target based on positional relationship between the line of sight of the occupant and the attraction target.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasuhiro Miura
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Patent number: 11958466Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for presenting in a hybrid electric vehicle display, proximate to or in some relation to each other, engine power usage, motor-generator power usage, and battery state of charge information. By combining the display of engine power usage, motor-generator power, and battery state of charge information, power distribution and related information may be presented to the operator of a vehicle to explain the vehicle's performance from a power split output and usage perspective. This can provide reassurance or confirmation that the vehicle is operating as it should, identify a problematic condition, etc.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Craig D. Herring, Aaron M. France
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Patent number: 11958409Abstract: An ECU of a vehicle monitors a charging state when charging is started. When a charging power supplied from a multi-outlet charger has changed without detecting and receiving an abnormality, the ECU causes a notification device to notify the changed charging power and a charging time based on the changed charging power. The ECU notifies a communication terminal which is owned by a user of the changed charging power and the charging time based on the changed charging power.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hidetoshi Kusumi
