Toyota Patent Applications

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

  • Publication number: 20240159311
    Abstract: A control system for preventing a drop in driving force in a vehicle having a momentary type shifting device. In the shifting device, the N position corresponding to the N range and the default position are located between the D position corresponding to the D range and B position corresponding to the B range. The controller is configured to establish the neutral range in a case that the shift lever which is moved to the N position is maintained thereto for the threshold, and the neutral range maintaining action is executed after the lapse of the threshold time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuhiro OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240161623
    Abstract: The driving support device includes a control unit that acquires target information indicating a target on a road intersecting the intersection from the roadside device, determines a possibility of collision between the target and the vehicle at the intersection based on the target information and the own vehicle information indicating the state of the vehicle, determines to perform driving assistance to the driver of the vehicle based on the result of the determination, acquires vehicle operation information indicating a driving operation by the driver with respect to the driving assistance, and diagnoses a driving tendency of the driver based on the vehicle operation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Norikazu Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20240161389
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein support enhanced computer vision capabilities which may be applicable to, for example, autonomous vehicle operation. An example method includes generating a latent space and a decoder based on image data that includes multiple images, where each image has a different viewing frame of a scene. The method also includes generating a volumetric embedding that is representative of a novel viewing frame of the scene. The method includes decoding, with the decoder, the latent space using cross-attention with the volumetric embedding, and generating a novel viewing frame of the scene based on an output of the decoder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicants: Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Vitor Guizilini, Rares A. Ambrus, Jiading Fang, Sergey Zakharov, Vincent Sitzmann, Igor Vasiljevic, Adrien Gaidon
  • Publication number: 20240162765
    Abstract: A motor may include a rotor; a stator comprising a stator core and a coil; a housing that houses the rotor and the stator; and a first annular member that provides a seal between a first end face of the stator core in an axial direction of the stator core and an inner wall surface of the housing. The first annular member may include a plurality of first holes through which refrigerant is injected toward a first coil end of the coil protruding from the first end face of the stator core. The plurality of first holes may include a first large hole and a first small hole, and the first small hole may have an opening area smaller than an opening area of the first large hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukio TSUCHIYA, Yasuhiro Makido, Yuichiro Kanada, Shogo Kajimoto, Hideyuki Higashi
  • Publication number: 20240162766
    Abstract: An electric motor disclosed herein may include a stator, a supply hole, a first flow passage, and second flow passages. The first flow passage and the second flow passages may be provided in the stator. The first flow passage may extend along a circumferential direction of the stator. The second flow passages may extend along an axis of the stator and cross the first flow passage. A plurality of guides may be provided in the first flow passage to disturb a flow of refrigerant. The refrigerant is supplied from the supply hole to the first flow passage and disturbed by the guides. A part of the refrigerant of which flow is disturbed flows into the second flow passages. The refrigerant is distributed, thus, the refrigerant flows evenly into the second flow passages. The entire stator is thus effectively cooled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideaki MIYAZONO, Junichi DEGUCHI, Hironori ASAOKA, Kei OHTA, Sho OKAZAKI, Junya KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240162793
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rotor capable of efficiently cooling down a magnet inserted into a magnet insertion hole of a rotor core is provided. The method for manufacturing the rotor includes: fixing a first end plate in which a slit is formed to one end part of the rotor core in an axial direction and causing a magnet insertion hole of the rotor core and the slit of the first end plate to be continuous; fixing a second end plate to another end part of the rotor core in the axial direction; and holding the magnet inserted into the magnet insertion hole of the rotor core by a convex part that is formed in a position of the first end plate overlapping the magnet in the axial direction of the rotor core and the second end plate and fixing the magnet therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noriko OGAWA, Hiroshi KIMPARA
  • Publication number: 20240162569
    Abstract: A lithium-ion secondary battery includes: an electrode body in which a positive electrode having a positive electrode active material layer and a positive electrode current collector, and a negative electrode having a negative electrode active material layer and a negative electrode current collector, are laminated with a separator therebetween, the separator having a conductive layer, wherein: the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer contact the separator, at least one of the positive electrode active material layer or the negative electrode active material layer has a groove in a thickness direction, and a surface of the separator, which faces a surface of the at least one of the positive electrode active material layer or the negative electrode active material layer which has the groove, includes the conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masato KAMIYA
  • Publication number: 20240162582
    Abstract: A power storage cell comprises an electrode assembly, a cell case accommodating the electrode assembly, and an external terminal secured to an upper surface of the cell case. The external terminal has a terminal plate located above the cell case, and an insulating plate interposed between the cell case and the terminal plate. The insulating plate supports the terminal plate in such a manner that a gap is formed between the insulating plate and the terminal plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato ONO, Kosuke SUZUKI, Shinya ISHIKAWA, Kenichi KAKISHITA, Hiroki AWANO
  • Publication number: 20240162585
    Abstract: 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 charged positively or negatively, an inversion plate that is able to short-circuit the lid main body and the external terminal, and a protrusion protruding from the inversion plate toward the external terminal. The inversion plate is deformable between a steady-state shape and an inversion shape, the steady-state shape being a shape curved to project in a direction away from the external terminal, the inversion shape being a shape curved to project toward the external terminal with the inversion plate being in contact with the external terminal. The external terminal has a holding portion that holds the protrusion when the inversion plate is in the inversion shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satomi YAMAMOTO, Masayoshi HAGA, Masashi CHIHARA, Takenori IKEDA, Nana KURASHITA
  • Publication number: 20240162475
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a method for producing a power storage device wherein a molding failure hardly occurs when molding a resin member. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a method for producing a power storage device, the method comprising: a preparing step of preparing a predetermined stacked member; a first placing step of placing a predetermined first mold; a first molding step of obtaining a predetermined nest B; a second placing step of placing a predetermined second mold; and a second molding step of molding a predetermined resin member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshiro OBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240162482
    Abstract: There is provided a positive electrode material that can be used to manufacture a solid-state battery whose initial resistance is kept low and at which it is difficult for resistance to increase even if charging/discharging are repeated. The positive electrode material of the present disclosure contains a positive electrode active material complex and a sulfide solid electrolyte. The positive electrode active material complex contains: a positive electrode active material, a conductive additive covering at least a portion of a surface of the positive electrode active material, and a solid electrolyte covering at least a portion of the conductive additive. The solid electrolyte contains Li, Ti, X and F. The X is at least one selected from the group consisting of Ca, Mg, Al, Y and Zr.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro IWASAKI, Masaki HIRASE, Hiroki YABE, Yusuke ITO
  • Publication number: 20240162497
    Abstract: A solid-state battery according to this disclosure is a solid-state battery including a first current collector layer, a first active material layer, a separator layer, a second active material layer, a second current collector layer, and an insulating layer that are laminated in this order. The first current collector layer is wound on a laminated body including the first active material layer, the separator layer, the second active material layer, the second current collector layer, and the insulating layer to surround the laminated body. The first current collector layer forms an outer packaging body such that overlapped parts of the first current collector are joined to each other at a position overlapping with a surface of the laminated body in its lamination direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yushi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240162537
    Abstract: A power storage cell includes: an electrode assembly constituted of a wound body in which a plurality of positive electrode tabs and a plurality of negative electrode tabs are wound to protrude upward; a cell case; and an insulating member. The cell case has a case main body and a lid. The insulating member has a covering portion that covers an upper surface of the electrode assembly, and the covering portion has a holding portion that holds an electrolyte solution leaked from the electrode assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satomi YAMAMOTO, Masayoshi Haga, Masashi Chihara, Takenori Ikeda, Nana Kurashita
  • Publication number: 20240162543
    Abstract: A laminated battery has a battery element and a laminate exterior body that seals the battery element. The laminate exterior body includes at least a resin layer and a metal layer that are laminated. The battery element includes substantially right-angled portions, and horizontal portions that are horizontal shaped. At 80% or more of areas of the metal layer that face the substantially right-angled portions of the battery element, a thickness T1 of the metal layer, with respect to a thickness T2 of the metal layer of the laminate exterior body that faces the horizontal portions of the battery element, satisfies a relationship of formula |T1?T2|/T2×100(%)?10%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi CHIHARA, Yutaka HIDAKA, Kenichi KAKISHITA
  • Publication number: 20240162969
    Abstract: A method of uplink beam selection that includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), one or more messages comprising configuration parameters of reference signals associated with a plurality of downlink beams comprising a first downlink beam; first determining, based on a beam sweeping process comprising measurement, of the reference signals, a plurality of uplink beams associated with the first downlink beam; second determining a first subset of uplink beams, of the plurality of uplink beams, that satisfy maximum permissible exposure (MPE) limits and that are not subject to link failure; first transmitting, to a base station (BS), a configuration message including configuration parameters of the first subset of the uplink beams; and second transmitting, by the UE, uplink data or control information using one or more beams of the first subset of the uplink beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Reza KALBASI
  • Publication number: 20240163662
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving a request into a transport network comprising at least one transport for a proposed use of personal data associated with the at least one transport prior to the at least one transport entering an area; receiving into the transport network a deletion time of the personal data, prior to the at least one transport entering the area; providing, from the transport network an acknowledgement of the deletion time; and providing, from the transport network, the personal data when the at least one transport is in the area based on the received acknowledgement. This enables an occupant of a transport to share personal data relating to the transport with confidence that the data will be deleted by an agreed time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Ryan N. Wilson, Edward Allen Cain, JR.
  • Publication number: 20240157822
    Abstract: A charging system includes: a vehicle including an inlet, a vehicle controller, a battery for traveling of the vehicle, and an auxiliary battery for supplying power to the vehicle controller; and a charging device including a connector configured to be connected to the inlet of the vehicle, a charging controller, and a power source, the auxiliary battery of the vehicle and the power source of the charging device being configured to be electrically connected to each other when the inlet of the vehicle and the connector of the charging device is connected to each other, the charging controller of the charging device being configured to supply power from the power source to the auxiliary battery to charge the auxiliary battery when communication between the vehicle controller and the charging controller is not established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shota TSUKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240161554
    Abstract: The controller is installed in the vehicle along with the motor for driving, the auxiliary equipment, and the battery that supplies power to the motor and the auxiliary equipment. After the vehicle's system starts up, the controller is programmed to (A) calculate the power consumption of the auxiliary equipment using the power output from the battery; (B) estimate the auxiliary equipment electricity cost using the power consumption of the auxiliary equipment, the estimated driving time, and the estimated driving distance; and (C) predict the driving electricity cost for the estimated driving distance using the auxiliary electricity cost and the driving learning electricity cost from the learning results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shingo ETO, Noritaka TAKUDA
  • Publication number: 20240149875
    Abstract: A vehicle control system controls a vehicle. A meter vehicle speed presented to a user of the vehicle is higher than an actual vehicle speed of the vehicle. The vehicle control system acquires, as a first vehicle speed, a vehicle speed designated by the user or a speed limit of a road on which the vehicle travels. The vehicle control system sets a set vehicle speed to be higher than the first vehicle speed, controls a speed of the vehicle such that the meter vehicle speed does not exceed the set vehicle speed. A difference between the set vehicle speed and the first vehicle speed is equal to or less than a difference between the meter vehicle speed and the actual vehicle speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihide NAKANE
  • Publication number: 20240149813
    Abstract: A vehicle electric power supply device includes an electric power storage device, a relay device, an electric current sensor, and a control device. The control device instructs an external electric power supply to stop outputting supplied electric power when an abnormality in the electric current value is detected during charging of the electric power storage device. The control device also controls a timing of cutting off a switch of the relay device, based on a state of the electric current value and a state of an amount of electric power charged to the electric power storage device, after the instruction to stop output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20240149820
    Abstract: A vehicular shock absorber to be mounted on a vehicular exterior side with respect to a vehicular interior component includes a low rigidity portion, a high rigidity portion having higher rigidity than the low rigidity portion, and a first connection portion. The low rigidity portion includes a first plate portion that has a first vehicular interior side surface, and a first mount portion that extends from the first vehicular interior side surface and is to be fixed to the vehicular interior component. The high rigidity portion includes a second plate portion that has a second vehicular interior side surface, and a second mount portion that extends from the second vehicular interior side surface and is to be fixed to the vehicular interior component. The first connection portion extends between and connects the first plate portion of the low rigidity portion and the second plate portion of the high rigidity portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daizo MORITA, Katsuhiko USAMI, Shogo KOJIMA, Yuta SUGIURA, Takahiro SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240149865
    Abstract: The hybrid vehicle includes an engine coupled to a drive shaft, a first motor that rotates the engine a second motor coupled to the drive shaft, a transmission interposed between the engine and the first motor, and the second motor, and a control device configured to execute a decrease process and an increase process. The decrease process is a process for decreasing deceleration of the hybrid vehicle by restricting fuel cut in the engine. The increase process is a process for increasing a rotational speed of the engine to a target rotational speed by power running torque of the first motor during deceleration by downshift of the transmission. The target rotational speed in the increase process is set to a lower value during execution of the decrease process than during stop of the decrease process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihisa UMEMURA, Suguru KUMAZAWA, Yasutaka TSUCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240149867
    Abstract: A parking assistance device 1 assisting an operation to park an own vehicle in a parking spot PS, and/or an operation to exit the own vehicle from the parking spot PS, comprises a surrounding sensor 20 to acquire information about objects existing around the own vehicle and a processor capable of executing parking assistance control to assist driving operation by the driver, by setting a target position TP based on the information acquired by the surrounding sensor 20, further setting a target route TR to reach the target position, and controlling the own vehicle to automatically move along the target route TR and reach the target position TP. The processor is configured to set the target route as a route that can reach the target position without making contact with all the first objects, which are determined to obstruct the progress of the own vehicle, and all the second objects, which are determined to be unclear whether or not they obstruct the progress of the own vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuya NAKAGAWA, Yohei SUZUKI, Yoshiki HAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240149870
    Abstract: To effectively suppress collision with an oncoming vehicle while reducing a processing load of a processor, provided is a control device for a vehicle comprising an object detection unit configured to detect a object; and a processor. The the processor is configured to execute an estimation process for estimating whether an adjacent lane is an opposite lane, and a avoidance process which executes a steering control for avoiding a collision, when the object detected by the object detection unit satisfies a collision condition, wherein the estimation process, if it is estimated that the adjacent lane is the opposite lane, maintain an estimation result until a cancellation condition is satisfied, and wherein the avoidance process, when the collision condition is satisfied, if the adjacent lane is estimated to be the opposite lane, executes the steering control without causing the own vehicle to enter the adjacent lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yumi SHIMANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240149874
    Abstract: A driving support apparatus includes a processor configured to: obtain biometric information for at least one occupant on a vehicle; estimate emotion of the occupant based on the biological information; control acceleration of the vehicle based on the estimated emotion of the occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi OYAGI, Hirokazu ITO, Shinya SHIRATORI, Norimi ASAHARA
  • Publication number: 20240149108
    Abstract: A rowing exercise device includes: a pair of pedals; and a device body that guides the pair of pedals in such a way that the pair of pedals repeatedly move along a predetermined trajectory. A user performs a lower limb exercise by putting his/her feet on the pair of respective pedals. Each pedal is configured in such a way that a relative roll turn of a forefoot part relative to the device body is prevented while a relative roll turn of a rearfoot part relative to the forefoot part is allowed, whereby a relative roll turn of the forefoot part relative to the rearfoot part occurs during the lower limb exercise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eisuke AOKI, Tomio IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20240149636
    Abstract: Provided is a controller configured to provide a restriction on the start or stop of remote air conditioning in response to the fact that a battery of a vehicle is in a predetermined state of deterioration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinichi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240149638
    Abstract: An air cooling unit disclosed in the present specification includes an electrical apparatus, a duct having an outlet for blowing air along a surface of the electrical apparatus, a temperature sensor disposed in the electrical apparatus, and a controller configured to limit operation of the electrical apparatus when a temperature detected by the temperature sensor exceeds a threshold temperature. The inner surface of the air outlet has thereon a projecting portion. The projecting portion and the temperature sensor are located on a same straight line parallel to an air blowing direction at the air outlet when the projecting portion and the temperature sensor are viewed along a direction perpendicular to the surface of the electrical apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noriyuki YAMANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240149512
    Abstract: A multi-stage helical gear manufacturing apparatus includes a first mold member, a second mold member, a large gear rotation core, a sleeve pin, a small gear rotation insert, and an insert pin. The second mold member moves the insert pin and the small gear rotation insert after the insert pin is caused to retreat in relation to the small gear rotation insert at the time of mold opening. The first mold member prohibits rotation of the large gear rotation core at the time of mold clamping, permits rotation of the large gear rotation core when the insert pin and the small gear rotation insert of the second mold member are moved at the time of mold opening, and causes the sleeve pin to advance toward the second mold member in relation to the plastic after the insert pin and the small gear rotation insert are separated from the plastic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki WAKIMOTO, Yuta SAKAGUCHI, Rikiya SUENAGA
  • Publication number: 20240149886
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted device for providing multimedia information to an occupant in a vehicle transmits, to a server device, an operation log of the vehicle-mounted device for a predetermined period of time including a time point of acquisition of a voice uttered by the occupant during operation of the vehicle-mounted device by the occupant, in a case where a first voice expressing discomfort of the occupant is included in the voice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi AGARI
  • Publication number: 20240149891
    Abstract: A vehicle includes: a travel state sensor configured to acquire information about a travel state of the vehicle; one or more processors; and a memory connected to the one or more processors and storing a plurality of instructions to be executed by the one or more processors. The instructions are configured to cause the one or more processors to: communicate with an autonomous driving device configured to calculate a target track for the vehicle; subject the vehicle to automated travel in accordance with the target track received from the autonomous driving device; and calculate an evaluation value of performance of the autonomous driving device based on the information acquired by the travel state sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sei MIYAZAKI, Sho HASHIMOTO, Kazunori NAKANO, Satoshi NAKAMURA, Noriaki HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240149919
    Abstract: A vehicle selection device includes a processor. The processor is configured to execute a selection process of selecting, as a target vehicle to be followed by a specific vehicle, a preceding vehicle candidate that satisfies one or more selection conditions based on surrounding vehicle information being information on one or more preceding vehicle candidates around the specific vehicle. In the selection process, the processor is configured to change the one or more selection conditions in accordance with traveling environment information around the specific vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki TERASHITA, Hayato SHIRAI, Naoyuki KURAKE
  • Publication number: 20240149924
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a hybrid electric vehicle includes an engine, an electric motor, and a battery that supplies and receives an electric power to and from the electric motor. The control apparatus includes (a) a driving control portion configured to execute an manual driving control for driving the vehicle based on a driving operation by a driver of the vehicle and an autonomous driving control for driving the vehicle by automatically performing steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle; and (b) a charging control portion configured to perform an NV suppression control in which a required charging power for charging the battery with the electric power generated by the electric motor using a power of the engine, is set to a larger value during an unmanned driving in the autonomous driving control than during a manned driving in the autonomous driving control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takanori IGARASHI
  • 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: 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: 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: 20240149707
    Abstract: The vehicle includes a pair of side members; a rear cross member; a battery; a first power converter connected to the battery; a first relay switching the battery and the first power converter between an energized state and a non-energized state; a second power converter connected to the battery in parallel with the first power converter; a second relay switching the battery and the second power converter between an energized state and a non-energized state. The first relay switches the battery and the first power converter to an energized state while the vehicle is traveling, the second relay switches the battery and the second power converter to the non-energized state. The first power converter is forward of the rear cross member in the vehicle and disposed between the side members in the vehicle width direction. A second power converter is disposed behind the rear cross member in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noriyuki YAMANAKA
  • 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: 20240149737
    Abstract: There is provided a controller configured to: determine, among a plurality of charging stations, a second charging station which is a charging station in which the process requested from a vehicle is completed during a charging period of the vehicle, and in which an excess power in a plurality of power generation facilities is smaller than that in a case where a process requested from the vehicle is performed in a first charging station, based on information related to the process requested from the vehicle, information related to an amount of power generation, and information related to a delay of the network; and instruct the first charging station to transmit information related to the process requested from the vehicle to the second charging station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi ABE
  • 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: 20240149206
    Abstract: A dust collector that collects welding fumes includes: a tank that stores water in a non-full state; a first tower that stands upright from an upper surface of the tank, and is configured to receive air containing the welding fumes from an upper part of the first tower and to guide the air to the tank; a second tower that stands upright from the upper surface of the tank, and is configured such that air discharged from the tank passes through the second tower; a bottleneck structure portion in which a vertically intermediate part of the first tower is narrowed; a mist generator configured to generate mist in the first tower; and a filter housed in the second tower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicants: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Xu WANG, Shoji KURAMOTO, Seishiro UENO, Takashi HASHIMOTO, Shingo KURUMATANI, Shigeki FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20240149893
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle that includes a drive wheel, an engine and an electric motor as power sources for driving the vehicle, and an automatic transmission which is provided in a power transmission path between the power sources and the drive wheel and which is configured to selectively establish a plurality of gear positions providing respective different gear ratios. The control apparatus includes a limp-home-running control portion configured, in event of a failure of the engine, to cause the vehicle to perform a limp-home running, by operating the electric motor with a power supplied from a power storage device. The limp-home-running control portion is configured, when causing the vehicle to perform the limp-home running, to restrict shifting of the automatic transmission for changing the gear positions of the automatic transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yukimasa NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20240149324
    Abstract: A technique disclosed herein relates to a method for producing a plate piece including a partial outline and a remaining outline continuous from the partial outline. The method disclosed herein may comprise removing an outer region external to the partial outline from a plate workpiece by a first punch (first punching process); and punching out an inner region internal to the remaining outline by a second punch from the plate workpiece in which the outer region has been removed while applying a block to a side surface of the plate workpiece along the partial outline (second punching process). In the second punching process, by applying the block to the side surface of the already-formed partial outline, deformation of the partial outline can be suppressed when the inner region internal to the remaining outline is punched out by the second punch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi TAKAHASHI, Hokuto SUZUKI, Yuma IWAMOTO
  • 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: 20240150870
    Abstract: To provide an aluminum alloy in which natural aging is suppressed and a method for producing the same. This disclosure relates to an Al—Si-based aluminum alloy containing Si, Mg, Mn, Fe, and unavoidable impurities and Al—Si—Mg—Fe—Mn-based compounds, and further to a method for producing said Al—Si—based aluminum alloy by controlling the cooling process of a molten alloy during casting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi FURUKAWA, Yuji Okada, Takashi Mizuno, Takashi Tomita, Nobuyuki Shinohara
  • 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: 20240151076
    Abstract: A control device for an in-vehicle power supply system, comprising: a main power supply that supplies electric power to a load mounted on a vehicle; a redundant power supply that includes a capacitor for storing electric power and supplies electric power from the capacitor to the load when the main power supply fails; and a relay that switches the power supply source to the load to either the main power supply or the redundant power supply, wherein after the ignition of the vehicle is turned off, the discharge process of the capacitor is started, and the fixation prevention process of the relay using the electric power of the capacitor is executed during the discharging process of the capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shu NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240149459
    Abstract: A mobile robot control system according to an embodiment is a mobile robot control system configured to control a mobile robot, a shape of the mobile robot having long sides and short sides in a top view, and the mobile robot control system including: an area setting unit configured to set a virtual bumper area defined by a first area and a second area, the first area being defined by a plurality of circles arranged along the long-side direction and the second area being formed by moving the first area in accordance with a moving speed of the mobile robot; and a control unit configured to control the mobile robot so as to decelerate or stop when the nearby object enters the virtual bumper area. Control may be performed using a machine learning model generated by supervised learning or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukinori Kurahashi, Shiro Oda, Takeshi Matsui
  • Publication number: 20240151542
    Abstract: An operation management apparatus is configured to operate a vehicle by automated driving. The operation management apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire precipitation data indicating the amount of precipitation forecasted to fall during a time period that lasts until operation of the vehicle is completed, perform, using the acquired precipitation data as an input, a determination process to determine an occurrence state of puddles for each of a plurality of candidate links connecting a first node and a second node included in a route along which the vehicle is scheduled to travel, and select a link, from among the candidate links, based on a determination result of the occurrence state of the puddles and determine, as an operation route for the vehicle, a route constituted of the selected link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Tomoyuki Kozuka
  • Publication number: 20240149890
    Abstract: An on-vehicle system includes: a control device; an in-vehicle sensor that detects whether there is a priority target among occupants in a vehicle; and a storage device that stores a learned model for feeling estimation. Further, the control device: determines whether there is a priority target among occupants in the vehicle based on a detection result of the in-vehicle sensor; acquires information on the priority target when determining that there is the priority target; estimates a feeling of the priority target based on the information that has been acquired 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 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro KANEKO, Shigeki NAKAYAMA, Kotoru SATO