Patents Assigned to Toyota
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Publication number: 20240087338Abstract: The image processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a front image obtained by capturing the front of the vehicle with an in-vehicle front camera and acquires an in-vehicle image obtained by capturing the driver with an in-vehicle camera, a line of sight detection unit that detects a line of sight direction of the driver based on the in-vehicle image, a setting unit that sets a clipping area in which a part of the front image is clipped based on the detected line-of-sight direction of the driver, and a recognition processing unit that executes image recognition processing in the set clipping area. The setting unit sets the clipping area in an area deviated from the line of sight direction of the driver in the front image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makoto KAWAHARADA, Kohtaroh Nagaoka
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Publication number: 20240088414Abstract: In a fuel gas system, a fuel supplier controllable at an intermediate opening degree and a pressure sensor at an inlet of a fuel cell are provided. A fuel cell system, comprising: a current quick cut-off circuit; and a drive circuit of the fuel supplier for switching the current quick cut circuit to the current quick cut circuit when it is highly likely that a failure is determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyuki SUGANUMA
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Publication number: 20240088695Abstract: The control device includes a charger to which electric power is distributed from the distribution board, an acquisition unit for acquiring power consumption of one or more electric devices, an instruction unit for instructing suppression of the charging operation of the charger in accordance with the power consumption based on an instruction authority of the charging operation for the charger, and a management unit for giving the instruction authority to the power management device that manages power demand using the charger when the power consumption is equal to or less than a first threshold, and giving the instruction authority to the instruction unit when the power consumption is greater than the first threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tohru NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20240083432Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for activating mitigation strategies to reduce or eliminate the stop-and-go traffic. Mitigation strategies can be applied to reduce stop-and-go traffic or prevent a control vehicle from experiencing stop-and-go traffic. The control vehicle can predict when to apply mitigation strategies based on sensor data that can be applied to generate a trajectory for the control vehicle or a preceding vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: YASHAR ZEIYNALI FARID, Kentaro Oguchi
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Publication number: 20240083498Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to steering a vehicle based on an intended yaw rate during loss of traction. In one arrangement, a method for steering a vehicle during loss of traction is disclosed. The method includes detecting a slipping tire of a vehicle losing traction with a road. The method also includes decoupling control of a pair of front tires of the vehicle by a steering wheel of the vehicle. The method also includes identifying an intended yaw rate for controlling the vehicle by detecting an angle of the steering wheel while the slipping tire does not have traction. The method further includes steering the vehicle separately from an input of a steering wheel of the vehicle to cause intended yaw rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Yasuda, Manuel Ludwig Kuehner, Yan Ming Jonathan Goh
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Publication number: 20240086935Abstract: The information processing system includes: a data acquisition unit that acquires component data of a reusable product related to environmental contribution of the reusable product including at least the number of times of reuse of the reusable product; a selection unit that selects a candidate of the reusable product that is a replacement component candidate when the user replaces the component; a calculation unit that calculates an environmental contribution degree of the candidate of the reusable product selected by the selection unit based on the component data of the reusable product acquired by the data acquisition unit; and a presentation unit that presents, to the user, the environmental contribution degree of the candidate of the reusable product calculated by the calculation unit together with the candidate of the reusable product selected by the selection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masashi MATSUMOTO, Masayuki NAKA, Yasunobu SEKI, Hiroki AWANO, Tsuyoshi KANEKO, Kosuke YONEKAWA
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Publication number: 20240083349Abstract: A sensor and indicator light mounting structure comprising: a single sensor configured to observe an obstacle by emitting an emission wave to an area around a vehicle body of a cargo handling vehicle and receiving a reflection of the emission wave; a single indicator light configured to notify a person around the vehicle body of a presence of the cargo handling vehicle; and a mounting member configured to mount the sensor and the indicator light on the vehicle body, wherein the mounting member is configured to be disposed on an upper surface of the vehicle body, the sensor and the indicator light vertically overlap each other to be mounted on the mounting member, and the indicator light is arranged below the sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Hiroki MORI, Tadayuki YAKUSHI
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Publication number: 20240082934Abstract: A tool shank holder includes a body comprising a shank-receiving end and a bit-receiving end. The shank-receiving end is configured to operably receive a shank of a tool and the bit-receiving end is configured to operably receive a driver bit. A connector is provided at the shank-receiving end that is configured to directly connect the shank-receiving end to the shank of the tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Charles L. Cain, Blair C. Perkins
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Publication number: 20240087151Abstract: A method for controlling a vehicle in an environment includes generating, via a cross-attention model, a cross-attention cost volume based on a current image of the environment and a previous image of the environment in a sequence of images. The method also includes generating combined features by combining cost volume features of the cross-attention cost volume with single-frame features associated with the current image. The single-frame features may be generated via a single-frame encoding model. The method further includes generating a depth estimate of the current image based on the combined features. The method still further includes controlling an action of the vehicle based on the depth estimate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Vitor GUIZILINI
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Publication number: 20240082871Abstract: A coating device includes a backup roll configured to transport a workpiece; a coating die configured to discharge a coating liquid onto the workpiece; a drive section capable configured to drive the backup roll; and a heat dissipation section configured to dissipate heat generated in the drive section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Primearth EV Energy Co., Ltd., Prime Planet Energy & Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Taichi URAKAMI, Seiji ISHIZU, Yu ICHINO, Masakazu UMEHARA, Naohiro ISHIZUKA, Naoya KISHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20240083284Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a station, a first group of transports in need of charge and a second group of transports capable of providing charge, prioritizing, by the station, at least one transport of the second group to come to the station at a time prior to when at least one transport of the first group comes to the station, receiving, at the station, a first amount of charge from the at least one transport of the second group, and providing, from the station, a second amount of charge to the at least one transport of the first group.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
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Publication number: 20240088434Abstract: An all-solid-state battery includes a case, a battery element, and a restraint component. The case accommodates the battery element. The battery element includes an electrode part and a resin part. The resin part covers at least a part of a side face of the electrode part. The restraint component applies a first pressure to the electrode part. The restraint component applies a second pressure to the resin part. The ratio of the second pressure to the first pressure is from 1.5 to 18.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Motoshi ISONO, Masato ONO, Keiichi MINAMI, Kazuhito KATO, Katsuaki ODAGI
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Publication number: 20240086618Abstract: A method for labeling a data set by a coding model includes generating multiple sets of related initial labels based on processing a data set with a group of initial labels. The method also includes determining a quantity of occurrences, within the data set, of each one of the group of initial labels and each related initial label of the multiple sets of related initial labels. The method further includes determining, for each initial label of the group of initial labels, a breadth score based on the number of occurrences of each related initial label. The method still further includes updating one or more of the group of initial labels based on respective breadth scores satisfying a label updating condition. The method also includes labeling the data set based on the group of initial labels and the multiple sets of related initial labels.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Monica PhuongThao VAN, Yin-Ying CHEN, Kenton Michael LYONS, Francine CHEN
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Publication number: 20240083454Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle control system for controlling a vehicle that performs autonomous driving. A first lane is a traffic lane in which the vehicle travels. A second lane is a traffic lane adjacent to the first lane in a lane change section of less than a predetermined distance. A lane change between the first lane and the second lane is permitted in the lane change section. The vehicle control system decelerates the vehicle before the lane change section when the lane change section is present in front of the vehicle and a deceleration condition is satisfied during the autonomous driving of the vehicle. The deceleration condition includes at least a terrain condition that a target-invisible section in which the second lane is invisible from the vehicle is present before the lane change section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshiyuki Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20240087336Abstract: A vanishing point calculator includes a controller connected to an imaging device configured to image in a vehicle traveling direction; and a storage device connected to the controller, wherein the controller is configured to: input an image imaged by the imaging device; extract positions of feature points from the image; store the positions of feature points related to a stationary object including a line segment parallel to road among the extracted feature points in the storage device for each image; overlap the feature points in a predetermined number of the images stored in the storage device based on the positions of the feature points; and calculate the position of vanishing point in the image imaged by the imaging device based on a line segment obtained by the overlapped feature points.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kohtaroh NAGAOKA
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Publication number: 20240083457Abstract: Systems and methods of trajectory planning for an autonomous vehicle are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: determine a first trajectory plan for the vehicle traveling along a first spatial location at a first point in time, the first trajectory plan being a reference trajectory plan; compute an optimal sequence for the vehicle traveling along a second spatial location at a second point in time subsequent the first point in time; and calculate a second trajectory plan for the vehicle by updating the first trajectory plan with information from the computed optimal sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: James A. DALLAS, Michael THOMPSON, Yan Ming GOH, Avinash BALACHANDRAN
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Publication number: 20240088413Abstract: A fuel cell system includes, in the fuel gas system, a first fuel supplier of an external valve opening type, an inner valve opening type second fuel supplier, and a fuel gas supply pressure sensor, and when the fuel gas supply pressure is excessive, the fuel cell is operated by the first fuel supplier, and when the fuel gas supply pressure is normal, the fuel cell is operated by using the first fuel supplier and the second fuel supplier in combination.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyuki SUGANUMA
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Publication number: 20240088441Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte rechargeable battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode has a sodium concentration of greater than 532 ppm and less than 71100 ppm. The non-aqueous electrolyte rechargeable battery includes a LiBOB equivalent. The LiBOB equivalent is lithium bis(oxalato)borate in the non-aqueous electrolyte or a substance formed when the lithium bis(oxalato)borate reacts with another substance. The non-aqueous electrolyte has a hypothetical concentration of the LiBOB equivalent of 0.35 wt % or greater and 0.56 wt % or less when an amount of the LiBOB equivalent is converted into a weight of the lithium bis(oxalato)borate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: PRIMEARTH EV ENERGY CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Gaku OGURA, Katsuya TANAKA
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Publication number: 20240087372Abstract: A wheel state obtaining system configured to obtain a wheel state that is a state of at least one of a plurality of wheels of a vehicle includes: a wheel speed detection device configured to detect a wheel speed of each of the plurality of wheels; a traveling state detection device configured to detect a traveling state of the vehicle; and a controller. When the traveling state of the vehicle detected by the traveling state detection device is a predetermined set state, the controller obtains a wheel speed difference of two of the plurality of wheels based on the wheel speeds of the plurality of wheels detected by the wheel speed detection device. The controller determines whether at least one of the two wheels is in an abnormal state based on the wheel speed difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yosuke KIMURA, Yoshihisa Yamada
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Patent number: 11926222Abstract: An electric vehicle is configured to be able to perform running by an MT mode that controls an electric motor with a torque characteristic like an MT vehicle having a manual transmission and an internal combustion engine, and running by an EV mode that controls the electric motor with a normal torque characteristic. The electric vehicle includes a mode changeover switch for switching to the running by the MT mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoichiro Isami, Yoshio Itou, Hiroyuki Amano, Tatsuya Imamura, Akiko Nishimine, Hiroaki Ebuchi, Hiroaki Kodera
