Toyota Patent Applications

Toyota patent applications that are pending before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240153323
    Abstract: A control device, based on a detection result of first equipment that detects a first state of a vehicle, displays information corresponding to a predetermined event on a display device that displays a detection result of second equipment that detects a second state of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toyokazu NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240154274
    Abstract: A power storage cell comprises an electrode assembly, a cell case, and an external terminal. The cell case has a case body and a lid. The lid has a lid body electrically charged with the same polarity as that of a positive electrode or a negative electrode, an invertible plate capable of short-circuiting between the lid body and the external terminal, and a prevention part connected to the invertible plate. The invertible plate is deformable between a normal shape and an inverted shape. The lid body has a receiving portion that receives the prevention part when the invertible plate is in the inverted shape. The receiving portion allows the prevention part to pass therethrough when the invertible plate is deforming from the normal shape to the inverted shape, and is in contact with the prevention part when the invertible plate is in the inverted shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satomi YAMAMOTO, Masayoshi Haga, Masashi Chihara, Takenori Ikeda, Nana Kurashita
  • Publication number: 20240152824
    Abstract: A management apparatus includes a controller configured to present a power supply service available to a vehicle to be power supplied based on a status of the power supply service, and accept a reservation for use of the power supply service from a user of the vehicle to be power supplied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motofumi KAMIYA, Hiroki TAKEISHI
  • Publication number: 20240154275
    Abstract: A power storage cell includes a cell case and an electrode assembly. The cell case accommodates the electrode assembly. The cell case includes a case main body and a cover. The cover includes a first electrode terminal, an insulating member, an inversion plate, a cover main body, and a second electrode terminal. The cover main body electrically connects the inversion plate and the second electrode terminal to each other. The insulating member electrically insulates the first electrode terminal and the cover main body from each other. The inversion plate has a first surface. The first electrode terminal has a second surface. A groove group is formed in at least one of the first surface and the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiro OBAYASHI, Kota OHATA, Kazuhito KATO, Takaaki GOTO, Shigeki TAKAIWA
  • Publication number: 20240153101
    Abstract: A method for scene synthesis from human motion is described. The method includes computing three-dimensional (3D) human pose trajectories of human motion in a scene. The method also includes generating contact labels of unseen objects in the scene based on the computing of the 3D human pose trajectories. The method further includes estimating contact points between human body vertices of the 3D human pose trajectories and the contact labels of the unseen objects that are in contact with the human body vertices. The method also includes predicting object placements of the unseen objects in the scene based on the estimated contact points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Sifan YE, Yixing WANG, Jiaman LI, Dennis PARK, C. Karen LIU, Huazhe XU, Jiajun WU
  • Publication number: 20240149660
    Abstract: A drive unit for a vehicle may include a motor, a casing accommodating the motor, an electric pump unit attached to a lower part of the casing and configured to circulate heat medium within the casing and a filter unit attached to the lower part of the casing and configured to filter the heat medium. At least a part of the electric pump unit and at least a part of the filter unit each protrude outside the casing. Outside the casing, the filter unit is adjacent to the electric pump unit from a front in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideaki Miyazono, Junya Kobayashi, Junichi Deguchi, Hironori Asaoka, Kei Ohta, Sho Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20240153056
    Abstract: An output device including: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to: acquire a satellite image in which a target region is photographed and event information relating to events that have occurred in the target region; and output, from among roads in the target region, a road for which a safety degree calculated based on the satellite image and the event information is less than a threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shusuke YAMAMOTO, Chikara OKAZAKI, Kohta WATATSU, Hideyuki TANAKA, Shinya MURASE, Yuki TATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240155409
    Abstract: A method of capability signaling for quality of experience (QoE) measurement includes transmitting, by a user equipment (UE) to a base station (BS), a capability message comprising one or more capability information elements (IEs) associated with QoE; based on the one or more transmitted capability IEs, receiving by the UE from the BS, one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages comprising first configuration parameters for QoE measurements and reporting; and transmitting, by the UE to the BS, one or more QoE measurement reports based on the first configuration parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Alireza BABAEI
  • Publication number: 20240153132
    Abstract: An obstacle detection apparatus configured to compute a position of an obstacle from point clouds acquired by one or more sensors, the obstacle detection apparatus performing the processing of: plotting point clouds acquired by one or more sensors on a plane; extracting, from the point clouds plotted on the plane, a point cloud whose degree of density is equal to or larger than a predetermined degree of density; and computing a position of an obstacle from the extracted point cloud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobuyuki MATSUNO
  • Publication number: 20240155671
    Abstract: The invention includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a configuration message indicating one or more frequency bands for transmitting a radio signal and determining, by the UE, a subset of the one or more frequency bands; the UE then performs a listen before talk (LET) operation on each frequency band of the subset of the one or more frequency bands and the UE transmits a radio signal in at least one of the frequency bands of the subset. The transmitting can include transmitting at least one of a random access request, an information data signal or a control signal. The determining can includes determining a bandwidth part (BWP) in the frequency bands of the subset, wherein the BWP spans across at least one of the frequency bands of the subset. The UE can select the BWP for the transmission of the radio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Reza KALBASI
  • Publication number: 20240155002
    Abstract: A first controller of a first device monitors communication to a first vehicle connected to the network. Further, when it is detected that an attack on the first vehicle is being carried out from the attack source device, the first controller transmits a first command for activating a honeypot server simulating a vehicle system of the first vehicle to the second device and transmits a second command for transferring packets transmitted from the attacking device to the first vehicle to the second device to a communication device that relays communication to the first vehicle in the network. Further, a second controller of a second device processes packets transmitted from the attack source device to the first vehicle and transferred to the second device by the communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuya OKADA
  • Publication number: 20240149940
    Abstract: A steering control device includes a processor configured to execute a reaction force control process. The reaction force control process includes a reaction force torque calculation process of calculating a reaction force torque operation amount. The reaction force torque calculation process includes a deviation compensation calculation process of calculating a deviation-compensating component. The deviation compensation calculation process includes a process of calculating a positional deviation, a process of calculating the deviation-compensating component based on the positional deviation, and a process of switching among a plurality of calculation states for calculating the deviation-compensating component. The process of switching among the calculation states is a process of permitting switching among the calculation states on the condition that a permission condition is met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi MATSUDA, Isao NAMIKAWA, Koji ANRAKU, Tomoyuki IIDA, Kenji SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20240154160
    Abstract: A solid-state battery including a cathode layer, a solid electrolyte layer and an anode layer in this order. The solid electrolyte layer includes a first solid electrolyte layer and a second solid electrolyte layer. The first solid electrolyte layer is disposed adjacent to the cathode layer or the anode layer. The second solid electrolyte layer is disposed adjacent to the first solid electrolyte layer. The first solid electrolyte layer includes a solid electrolyte. The second solid electrolyte layer includes a support with pores and the solid electrolyte, and the second solid electrolyte layer is a sheet in which the solid electrolyte is fixed on a surface of and in the pores of the support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ippei GOTO
  • Publication number: 20240149260
    Abstract: The exhaust gas purification device includes a substrate, a first catalyst layer, and a second catalyst layer. The substrate includes an upstream end and a downstream end. The first catalyst layer contains first catalyst particles and lies on the substrate across a first region extending between the upstream end and a first position. The first position is at a first distance from the upstream end toward the downstream end. The second catalyst layer contains second catalyst particles and lies on the first catalyst layer across the first region. The second catalyst layer is provided with pores. Pore connectivity of the second catalyst layer is 5% to 35%. A mean value of areas of the pores of the second catalyst layer in a cross-sectional backscattered electron image of the second catalyst layer may be 0.7 ?m2 to 9.0 ?m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO, CATALER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobusuke KABASHIMA, Toshio YAMAMOTO, Miho HATANAKA, Tetsuya SHINOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20240153387
    Abstract: A parking lot includes a plurality of parking spaces monitored by a single camera. A parking lot management method for managing the parking lot includes a parking space allocation process that allocates an available parking space having a highest entry priority among the plurality of parking spaces to an entry vehicle entering the parking lot. The plurality of parking spaces include a first parking space and a second parking space that is closer to an installation position of the single camera than the first parking space is. An entry priority of the first parking space is higher than an entry priority of the second parking space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroya CHIBA
  • Publication number: 20240149345
    Abstract: There are provided a microwave irradiation apparatus and a production method of metal nanoparticles for producing the metal nanoparticles that allow efficiently preparing the metal nanoparticles having small and uniform particle sizes. The present disclosure relates to the microwave irradiation apparatus that includes two microwave irradiation sources, two waveguides, and one reaction portion. The two microwave irradiation sources are disposed such that respective microwave emission units thereof face one another. The two microwave irradiation sources, the two waveguides, and the one reaction portion are disposed such that respective microwaves emitted from the two microwave irradiation sources pass through the two waveguides and contact an entire surface of the one reaction portion. Furthermore, the reaction portion is adjusted to have a specific size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Reimi YAMADA, Jyunya MURAI
  • Publication number: 20240149797
    Abstract: A strap mount assembly includes a board member, a strap holding portion, and a stopper member. The board member has a first surface and a second surface that is an opposite surface of the first surface and includes a first insertion hole that is through the board member in a thickness direction and through which a first end portion of a strap is inserted to the second surface. The strap holding portion is on the first surface and configured to hold a second end portion of the strap and includes a second insertion hole in which the second end portion is inserted and that opens in a direction along the first surface. The stopper member is coupled to the second end portion and stops at a hole edge of the second insertion hole from an opposite side from the first insertion hole with respect to the second insertion hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shosho CHO, Mutsuto MORIOKA
  • Publication number: 20240149802
    Abstract: To effectively suppress deterioration in performance of the radar caused by the ice column, provided is a structure for prevent the performance degradation of a radar, the radar is provided below a plate member disposed on an outer surface of a vehicle and irradiating a radio wave toward an outside of the vehicle. The structure is comprising an ice column suppressing part configured to suppressing the formation of the ice column depending from the lower end of the plate member toward an irradiation area of the radio wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takayuki MASHIMO
  • Publication number: 20240149869
    Abstract: The control device according to the present disclosure is configured to execute, in a process of stopping a vehicle in an emergency, acquiring occupant information including information on at least one of a state or an attribute of an occupant of the vehicle, acquiring traveling environment information of the vehicle, calculating an in-vehicle risk indicating a risk of damage to the occupant when the vehicle is decelerated by the first braking control based on the occupant information, calculating an out-of-vehicle risk indicating a risk of damage caused by the vehicle based on the traveling environment information, braking the vehicle by the second braking control with less deceleration than the first braking control while the in-vehicle risk is higher than the out-of-vehicle risk, and braking the vehicle by the first braking control when the out-of-vehicle risk is higher than the in-vehicle risk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sho HASHIMOTO, Noriaki Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20240144699
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an object sensor configured to detect an object around the vehicle; a warning device configured to alert a driver when an object is detected by the object sensor at a position at which a distance from the vehicle is less than or equal to a threshold; a receiver; and a controller configured to reduce the threshold when the receiver receives a signal transmitted from a vehicle washer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaaki SATO, Takeru SHIRASAWA, Teruaki HAIBARA, Kenji HOSHI
  • Publication number: 20240147289
    Abstract: A method of controlling an SDN system, an SDN sub-controller, and an SDN system is provided. The SDN controller sends a keepalive notification to the SDN switch and the SDN sub-controller. The SDN switch sends a switching request to the SDN sub-controller on condition that the keepalive notification cannot be received during a predetermined specific period. The SDN sub-controller starts to control a communication setting of the SDN switch on condition that the keepalive notification cannot be received during the specific period and that the switching request has been received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro YAMASAKI, Hideki GOTO, Ikuyoshi OTAKE
  • Publication number: 20240146140
    Abstract: In this stator, lead wire extended portions and a power wire extended portion are extended from a resin portion by an extended portion separating portion such that the lead wire extended portions are separated from the power wire extended portion by distances that are greater than a maximum value of the width of clearance between an end-side portion of the lead wire extended portion and a facing portion located next to the end-side portion, the resin portion being provided so as to cover lead wire portions and a power wire portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicants: AISIN CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya SUGIYAMA, Munehiro TAKAHASHI, Keisuke KIMURA, Ken TAKEDA, Takahito NOZAWA, Takashi MATSUMOTO, Yoshitada YAMAGISHI, Katsuhide KITAGAWA, Hajime KATO
  • Publication number: 20240140022
    Abstract: A sensor includes a grayscale digital light processing (g-DLP) 3D printed monolithic substrate with at least one microfluid channel. The monolithic substrate is formed from a resin configured to form a solid polymer using g-DLP 3D printing with a Young's modulus ranging from 0.1 MPa to 100 MPa. The resin includes a donor moiety, an acceptor moiety different than the donor moiety, a rigid moiety, a photoinitiator, and a photoabsorber. The donor moiety is in the form of an acrylate monomer with a side group, the acceptor moiety is in the form of an acrylate monomer with a side group, and the rigid moiety is in the form of an acrylate monomer with a side group. Also, the sensor can include a sensor fluid disposed within the at least one microfluid channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuyang Song, Masato Tanaka, Liang Yue, Hang Qi
  • Publication number: 20240140343
    Abstract: An occupant protection device includes a first side airbag disposed at an outer side in a width direction of a first seat, a second side airbag disposed at an outer side in the width direction of a second seat, and a far-side airbag disposed at an inner side in the width direction of the first seat and near the first seat, wherein when a side collision toward the first seat is detected, deployment of the far-side airbag is started after a first delay time has elapsed after deployment of the first side airbag is started, when a side collision toward the second seat is detected, deployment of the far-side airbag is started after a second delay time has elapsed after deployment of the second side airbag is started, and the first delay time is greater than the second delay time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Isao KOBAYASHI, Masato KUNISADA, Kazushi FURUMAYA
  • Publication number: 20240140203
    Abstract: The controller is installed in the vehicle together with a motor for driving, an air conditioning unit for air conditioning the passenger compartment, auxiliary equipment, and a battery that supplies power to the motor, air conditioning unit, and auxiliary equipment. The controller is programmed to calculate the driving electricity cost based on the battery energy consumption integrated value, the integrated distance traveled, the air conditioning energy consumption integrated value, the auxiliary equipment energy consumption integrated value, and the positional energy variation of the vehicle during the trip, at the end of the trip. And then the controller is programmed to learn the driving learning electricity cost using the driving electricity cost, when the driving electricity cost is less than the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shingo ETO, Noritaka TAKUDA
  • Publication number: 20240140266
    Abstract: A management method for a power storage device includes: when a discharging request for energy management is received, determining (S172) whether or not a degree of deterioration of a power storage device is larger than a first reference value with regard to a battery lease vehicle (vehicle including a power storage device having been lent); and based on a result of the determination, instructing (S18) the battery lease vehicle in which the degree of deterioration of the power storage device is smaller than the first reference value, to perform discharging to outside of the vehicle in accordance with the discharging request, and not instructing the battery lease vehicle in which the degree of deterioration of the power storage device is larger than the first reference value, to perform discharging in accordance with the discharging request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuko TERASAWA, Makoto Kakuchi, Toshiaki Karasawa, Takeshi Higashi, Yoshihiko Endo
  • Publication number: 20240144241
    Abstract: An entity server includes a communication apparatus and a processor. The communication apparatus is configured to receive a temporary use request that requests temporary use of a vehicle by a user, the vehicle being associated with an NFT. When the communication apparatus receives the temporary use request, the processor performs locking processing for locking the NFT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuya OWASHI, Kuniaki Murakami, Koji Hetsugi, Tomokazu Ishii, Naoki Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20240140416
    Abstract: A driving support apparatus including a processor, where the processor acquires operation information for an own vehicle by a driver at the time of a driving assistance intervention for keeping a lane of the own vehicle, environmental information including another vehicle around the own vehicle, and biometric information of the driver, estimates emotion of the driver based on the operation information, the environmental information, and the biometric information, estimates control parameters related to an amount of intervention at the time of driving assistance intervention based on the estimation result of emotion of the driver, and controls the own vehicle based on the control parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirokazu ITO, Hiroshi Oyagi, Shinya Shiratori, Norimi Asahara
  • Publication number: 20240144825
    Abstract: A parking lot includes a plurality of parking spaces monitored by a single camera. A parking lot management method includes a parking space allocation process that allocates an available parking space among the plurality of parking spaces to an entry vehicle entering the parking lot. The plurality of parking spaces include a priority parking space depending on a size of the entry vehicle. Even when the entry vehicle is parked in the priority parking space, a predetermined percentage or more of a parking space adjacent to the priority parking space is not hidden by the entry vehicle when viewed from the single camera. The parking space allocation process includes: acquiring information on the size of the entry vehicle; recognizing the priority parking space among the plurality of parking spaces based on the size of the entry vehicle; and preferentially allocating the priority parking space to the entry vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroya CHIBA
  • Publication number: 20240140420
    Abstract: The driving assistance apparatus includes an entrance width acquisition unit configured to acquire an entrance width of a roundabout in front of the vehicle based on an image captured by a front camera of the vehicle, or position information and map information of the vehicle, an other vehicle passage time calculation unit configured to calculate a passage time when another vehicle traveling in the roundabout passes the entrance width based on the image captured by the front camera of the vehicle, a vehicle speed estimation unit configured to estimate a vehicle speed of the other vehicle based on the entrance width and the passage time, and a vehicle speed setting unit configured to set a set vehicle speed for roundabout traveling based on the vehicle speed of the other vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuko YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240144739
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a management server includes a controller configured to execute operations, the operations including acquiring sensor information from a sensor installed in a vehicle, and upon detecting, from the sensor information, an abnormality in the vehicle, notifying the management server of the content of the abnormality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Tomoyuki KOZUKA
  • Publication number: 20240140421
    Abstract: A deceleration support device is applied to a vehicle provided with a steering assist device that requests a driver to perform hands-on when a vehicle speed or a lateral acceleration of the vehicle exceeds a corresponding control reference value in a situation where a steering mode is a hands-off mode, and includes a control unit that calculates a target deceleration based on a traveling situation of the vehicle when the vehicle needs to be decelerated, and decelerates the vehicle based on the target deceleration. The control unit calculates the target deceleration so that neither the vehicle speed nor the lateral acceleration of the vehicle exceeds the corresponding control reference value when the vehicle needs to be decelerated in a situation where the steering mode is the hands-off mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koki SUWABE, Yuki TEZUKA
  • Publication number: 20240144752
    Abstract: A vehicle inspection system acquires a first camera image captured by a first camera and a second camera image captured by a second camera, calculates a first optical axis coordinate value from the first camera image and a second optical axis coordinate value from the second camera image, determines whether there is an abnormality in each of the first optical axis coordinate value and the second optical axis coordinate value, and identifies an abnormality factor portion causing an abnormality in one or both of the first optical axis coordinate value and the second optical axis coordinate value from among the first camera, the second camera, and the vehicle body of the vehicle, based on a combination of the presence or absence of the abnormality in the first optical axis coordinate value and the presence or absence of the abnormality in the second optical axis coordinate value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yusuke TATESUMI
  • Publication number: 20240140454
    Abstract: An on-vehicle system includes: a control device; a monitoring device that monitors whether each of a plurality of occupants in a vehicle has grasped a behavior of the vehicle; and a storage device that stores a learned model for feeling estimation. Further, the control device determines whether there is an occupant who has not grasped a behavior of the vehicle among the plurality of occupants based on a monitoring result of the monitoring device, specifies a target occupant whose feeling is to be estimated from the plurality of occupants based on the determination result, estimates feeling of the target occupant who has been specified by using the learned model, and executes vehicle control in accordance with a result of estimating the feeling of the target occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kaneko, Shigeki Nakayama, Kotoru Sato
  • Publication number: 20240144758
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a receiving section receiving, from a user, setting processing for setting a time period in which control of a vehicle by using an information processing device is suppressed; a detecting section detecting a predetermined user operation for control of the vehicle; and a control permitting section that, in a case in which the predetermined user operation is detected in a time period that is different than the time period in which control of the vehicle is suppressed, permits control of the vehicle in accordance with the information processing device vibrating or moving, and, in a case in which the predetermined user operation is detected within the time period in which control of the vehicle is suppressed, does not permit control of the vehicle regardless of whether or not the information processing device is vibrating or moving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Jumpei FUKE
  • Publication number: 20240140467
    Abstract: A cabin management apparatus according to the present disclosure is a cabin management apparatus configured to manage a cabin of a vehicle, the cabin management apparatus including an acquisition interface, a communication interface, an output interface, and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to acquire, by the acquisition interface, passenger information including a characteristic and/or a boarding position of a passenger in the cabin, receive, by the communication interface, travel event information regarding a travel event that can occur during travel of the vehicle, and provide, by the output interface based on the travel event information, a notification that is different depending on the passenger information, in the cabin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Tomoyuki KOZUKA
  • Publication number: 20240145814
    Abstract: A battery unit which achieves both thermal performance and repairability, and which efficiently ensures insulation between a battery cell and a cooler. The battery unit according to the present disclosure comprises a battery cell, a heat dissipation sheet, a cured resin heat dissipation member, and a cooler in this order so as to be in contact with each other, the battery cell and the heat dissipation sheet being in contact with each other in an interface separable manner, the cured resin heat dissipation member being bonded to the heat dissipation sheet and the cooler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koji Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20240140490
    Abstract: An operation management apparatus operates a plurality of vehicles by autonomous driving. The operation management apparatus includes a controller configured to determine, upon identifying that a reservation holder who has reserved a route on which a plurality of vehicles are operated is a hearing-impaired person, based on reservation data including an attribute of the reservation holder, whether there is a sign language operator capable of sign language among one or more remote operators who perform remote monitoring operations for each vehicle, based on operator data including an attribute of each of the one or more remote operators, and select, according to a result of determination, a dispatch vehicle to dispatch to the route reserved by the reservation holder, from among the plurality of vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Tomoyuki KOZUKA
  • Publication number: 20240147193
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for wireless communications is provided. A user equipment (UE) transmits to a base station, a first message comprising a first field and a second field. The first field corresponds to information associated with receiving data of at least one MBS service. The second field associated with receiving data of the at least one MBS service via at least one first beam. The UE then receives data of the at least one MBS service via the at least one first beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Alireza Babaei
  • Publication number: 20240140493
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle control system for controlling a vehicle capable of autonomous driving. When an operation condition is satisfied, the vehicle control system performs driving support control that controls at least one of steering, acceleration, and deceleration of the vehicle for improving travel safety of the vehicle or for stabilizing behavior of the vehicle. When receiving an autonomous driving start request to start the autonomous driving during operation of the driving support control, the vehicle control system unexceptionally prohibits starting the autonomous driving or permits starting the autonomous driving only when a permission condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi NAKAMURA, Sho HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240140186
    Abstract: A power storage device is a power storage device provided on a lower surface of a floor panel of a vehicle, the power storage device including: a housing case; a power storage module housed in the housing case; and a cooler housed in the housing case to cool the power storage module, wherein the housing case includes a bottom plate, a refrigerant passage through which a refrigerant flows is formed in a portion of the housing case, the portion being located above the bottom plate, and the refrigerant passage is connected to the cooler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yutaroh Gotoh, Yukinari Tanabe, Yugo Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20240140238
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a vehicle at a charging location, an electric grid intensity at a time period; responsive to the intensity being below a threshold, charging a battery of the vehicle; and responsive to the intensity being above the threshold, ceasing the charging of the battery; wherein the charging and the ceasing of the charging achieve a set state of charge of the battery by a set time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jaret W. Villarreal, Dallas K. Fox, Matthew Hill, Brian Vitale, Rebecca L. Kemph, Shaurya Panthri
  • Publication number: 20240140455
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a data set including a requested acceleration as information representing movement of a vehicle in a front-rear direction and any one of a steering angle, a yaw rate, and a rotation radius as information representing movement of the vehicle in a lateral direction from each of a plurality of applications, an arbitration unit configured to perform arbitration of information representing the movement of the vehicle in the front-rear direction and arbitration of information representing the movement of the vehicle in the lateral direction based on a plurality of the data sets received by the receiver, and a first output unit configured to output instruction information for driving an actuator based on an arbitration result of the arbitration unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ikuma SUZUKI, Wataru KANDA, Kaiji ITABASHI, Yoshihisa YAMADA, Kazuki MIYAKE, Tamotsu KONDOH
  • Publication number: 20240140246
    Abstract: A method for informing of a battery station (battery replacement facility) includes acquiring information (condition information) about a condition emphasized by a user of an electric vehicle, out of a plurality of conditions for a plurality of battery stations for replacement of a battery (secondary battery) mounted on the electric vehicle. The method for informing of the battery station includes determining at least one battery station, which is recommended to the user out of the plurality of battery stations, by evaluating each of the plurality of battery stations based on the information. The method for informing of the battery station includes notifying the user of information about the at least one battery station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Soshiro MURATA, Hiroshi UMENO, Takahiro NOMURA, Yuya ONOZUKA
  • Publication number: 20240140345
    Abstract: A lower limb restraint airbag device, including: an airbag that is configured to be inflated and deployed toward a knee and a shin of a passenger seated in a vehicle seat by gas ejected from an inflator, and to make contact with at least the knee; a reaction force plate that is configured to be pulled out to a seat front side of the airbag in conjunction with inflation and deployment of the airbag; and a lock mechanism that is configured to block movement toward a seat front side of the pulled out reaction force plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mitsuyoshi OHNO
  • Publication number: 20240142976
    Abstract: An information processing device for controlling a mobile object, the information processing device comprising: a communication unit that performs communication with the mobile object; a function control unit that controls a function necessary for causing the mobile object to autonomously travel; and a switching control unit that switches whether to control at least a part of the necessary functions by the information processing device or by the mobile object based on a communication state between the information processing device and the mobile object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki WAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240140394
    Abstract: A hybrid electric vehicle comprising: an engine; a filter for collecting particulate matter from the engine; a motor provided on a power transmission path between the engine and the drive wheels; a torque converter having a lock-up clutch provided on the power transmission path between the motor and the drive wheels; and a control device, wherein the control device includes: a first determination unit that determines whether there is a request for regeneration control of the filter by a fuel cut in the engine; a second determination unit that determines whether the lock-up clutch cannot be engaged; and a regeneration control unit that, when an affirmative determination is made in the first determination unit and a negative determination is made in the second determination unit, executes auxiliary regeneration control that assists the rotation of the engine by the motor while releasing the lock-up clutch and executing the fuel cut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takehiro KOMATSU, Akihito HAYASAKA
  • Publication number: 20240140300
    Abstract: A light illumination control device that controls light emission of front lamps based on results of sensing an object present at a front side of an own vehicle, including a processor coupled to a memory, wherein: when the object is a target of light adjustment, the processor computes a light adjustment area that is an area including the object that is a target of light adjustment and when an amount of light that is illuminated is made to be different than that of illuminated regions other than the light adjustment area, and when the object that is a target of light adjustment is an approaching object that advances in a direction of approaching the own vehicle, and a distance between the own vehicle and the approaching object is less than or equal to a predetermined value, the processor enlarges a range of the computed light adjustment area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisayoshi TACHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240140408
    Abstract: A cabin management apparatus according to the present disclosure is a cabin management apparatus configured to manage a cabin of a vehicle, the cabin management apparatus including a communication interface, an output interface, and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to receive, by the communication interface, emergency stop information for the vehicle, receive, by the communication interface, the degree of automated controllability over a door of the vehicle, and provide, by the output interface based on the emergency stop information, a different notification depending on the degree of automated controllability over the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Tomoyuki KOZUKA
  • Publication number: 20240141817
    Abstract: In a fastening structure that fastens an exhaust manifold to a cylinder head of an engine, a bolt that extends through a flange is inserted into and fixed to a bolt hole of the cylinder head. The flange includes a contact surface that contacts a coupling surface of the cylinder head, and an inclined surface that is inclined with respect to the contact surface. A clearance is provided between the bolt and the cylinder head inside the bolt hole in a range extending from the coupling surface of the cylinder head to a specified length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya OSHIMA, Kohei KODAMA, Futoshi YANAI