Patents by Inventor Hirotaka ISHIOKA

Hirotaka ISHIOKA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11912344
    Abstract: A vehicle lower part structure includes: center rail portions disposed at a central part in a front-rear direction of the vehicle; front rail portions disposed forward of the center rail portions in the front-rear direction of the vehicle; rear rail portions disposed rearward of the center rail portions in the front-rear direction of the vehicle; front connecting rail portions connecting the center rail portions and the front rail portions in the front-rear direction of the vehicle; rear connecting rail portions connecting the center rail portions and the rear rail portions in the front-rear direction of the vehicle; first mount portions supporting a vehicle body constituting a cabin; and second mount portions supporting the vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jumpei Watanabe, Yasuhiro Hara, Norimasa Koreishi, Hirotaka Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11904679
    Abstract: An electric vehicle cooling system, including: a first radiator installed at a vehicle and configured to cool a power unit driven by electrical power; and a second radiator installed at the vehicle, disposed at a vehicle front side of the first radiator, and configured to cool an autonomous driving control device configured to control autonomous driving of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hara, Norimasa Koreishi, Jumpei Watanabe, Hirotaka Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11904678
    Abstract: An electric vehicle cooling system, including: a first radiator installed at a vehicle and configured to cool a power unit driven by electrical power; and a second radiator installed at the vehicle, disposed at least at one side in a vehicle width direction, or another side in the vehicle width direction, of the first radiator so as not to overlap with the first radiator as viewed along a vehicle front-rear direction, and configured to cool an autonomous driving control device configured to control autonomous driving of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hara, Norimasa Koreishi, Jumpei Watanabe, Hirotaka Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20230303009
    Abstract: A driver's cab is located at the front end portion of a vehicle. A sensor unit is provided on the front face of a body of the vehicle and is located at the same height as the driver's-cab floor of the driver's cab. A floor crossing member extends along the lateral direction of the vehicle on the driver's-cab floor between the sensor unit and an accelerator pedal. The floor crossing member has both sides coupled one-to-one with a left front side member and a right front side member extending along the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, respectively, at the left front portion and right front portion of the vehicle. After entering the driver's cab due to a frontal collision, the sensor unit abuts on the floor crossing member, leading to suppression of the distance of entry of the sensor unit into the driver's cab.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotaka Ishioka, Hideo Takeda, Norimasa Koreishi
  • Publication number: 20230302989
    Abstract: A vehicular front structure includes: a left front pillar disposed at a left front face of a body of a vehicle; a right front pillar disposed at a right front face of the body; an upper front crossing member extending along a lateral direction of the vehicle, the upper front crossing member having respective ends coupled one-to-one with the left front pillar and the right front pillar; a lower front crossing member extending along the lateral direction of the vehicle, the lower front crossing member having respective ends coupled one-to-one with the left front pillar and the right front pillar; and an external display coupled with the upper front crossing member and the lower front crossing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotaka ISHIOKA, Hideo TAKEDA, Norimasa KOREISHI
  • Patent number: 11548560
    Abstract: A vehicle skeleton structure includes: a first front pillar portion provided at a first side portion of a vehicle body; a second front pillar portion provided at a second side portion of the vehicle body; a front upper cross portion coupled to upper portions of the first and second front pillar portions; a front lower cross portion coupled to lower portions of the first and second front pillar portions; a first rear pillar portion provided at the first side portion along a rear peripheral edge portion of the door opening portion; a second rear pillar portion provided at the second side portion; a rear upper cross portion coupled to upper portions of the first and second rear pillar portions; and a rear lower cross portion coupled to lower portions of the first and second rear pillar portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hara, Jumpei Watanabe, Hirotaka Ishioka, Norimasa Koreishi
  • Publication number: 20220402557
    Abstract: A vehicle front portion structure includes: a dash panel separating a power unit compartment provided at a lower portion of a vehicle front portion from a cabin; a partition wall having a lower end portion secured to a vehicle rear end portion of the dash panel and extending in a vehicle upward direction to divide the cabin into a front portion and a rear portion; a front portion vehicle seat disposed on the dash panel; a seat support member supporting the front portion vehicle seat from a vehicle lower side and having a front end portion secured to the dash panel and a rear end portion secured to the partition wall; and an autonomous driving unit, at least part of the autonomous driving unit being disposed in an area surrounded by the dash panel, the partition wall, and the seat support member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hara, Norimasa Koreishi, Jumpei Watanabe, Hirotaka Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20220402560
    Abstract: A driver's seat peripheral structure includes a driver's seat provided upward from a power unit compartment at a front portion of a vehicle, a front floor panel that makes up a floor face of the driver's seat and that is provided with an opening having a size that enables an electronic unit in the power unit compartment to be extracted, and a lid member that is attached to the front floor panel to close the opening and to which a reinforcing member is integrally attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hara, Norimasa Koreishi, Jumpei Watanabe, Hirotaka Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20220402404
    Abstract: A part of a floor panel of a cabin is formed by a main wall portion, and the main wall portion is located on the vehicle upper side and vehicle front side of a center floor panel located to overlap an electronic device when viewed in the vehicle vertical direction. A vehicle seat is supported from the vehicle lower side by a base portion that extends in the vehicle longitudinal direction. A leg portion is extended downward from a vehicle-front-side portion of the base portion, and the leg portion is supported on the main wall portion. A partition frame is located on the vehicle rear side of the vehicle seat, and a vehicle-rear-side portion of the base portion is supported by the partition frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hara, Norimasa Koreishi, Jumpei Watanabe, Hirotaka Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20220402553
    Abstract: A vehicle front section structure including left and right front side frames, and left and right front side members. The left and right front side frames extend along a vehicle front-rear direction at respective sides in a vehicle width direction with respect to the power unit. A lower kick section sloping with a downward gradient on progression toward a vehicle rear side is formed at a rear section of each of the front side frames. The left and right front side members extend along the vehicle front-rear direction at a vehicle upper side of the left and right front side frames, are supported by the left and right front side frames, and configure part of a vehicle body. An upper kick section sloping with a downward gradient on progression toward the vehicle rear side is formed at a rear section of each of the front side members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hara, Norimasa Koreishi, Jumpei Watanabe, Hirotaka Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20220402551
    Abstract: A vehicle front section structure includes: a power unit installed at a front section; a left and right pair of front side frames extending in a vehicle front-rear direction; a left and right pair of front side members extending in the vehicle front-rear direction at a vehicle upper side of the left and right pair of front side frames, with rear end portions of the front side members being respectively joined to the left and right pair of front side frames; a cross member disposed at a vehicle rear side and obliquely upward of the power unit so as to span between the left and right pair of front side members and to support a driving seat of the vehicle; and a reinforcement brace spanning between the cross member and at least one front side member of the left front side member or a right front side member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hara, Norimasa Koreishi, Jumpei Watanabe, Hirotaka Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20220402552
    Abstract: A vehicle front section structure includes left and right front side frame. A deformation portion configured to undergo compression deformation in the vehicle front-rear direction at a time of head-on collision of the vehicle is provided at a front end portion of each of the left and right front side frames. Left and right front side members that support a floor section of a vehicle cabin extend along the vehicle front-rear direction at a vehicle upper side with respect to the left and right front side frames. Front sections of the left and right front side members and the corresponding left and right deformation portions are connected by left and right coupling members. The left and right coupling members are configured so as to more readily undergo plastic deformation under collision load at a time of head-on collision than the left and right front side members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hara, Norimasa Koreishi, Jumpei Watanabe, Hirotaka Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20220402556
    Abstract: Instrument panel side parts are provided integrally with an instrument panel main body part. Vehicle-mounted components are housed in the instrument panel side parts. Thus, even in a vehicle in which an engine compartment is not provided on a vehicle front side in a vehicle cabin it is possible to ensure a housing space for these vehicle mounting parts. Further, the instrument panel side parts are provided integrally with the instrument panel main body part. Thus, compared to a case in which the instrument panel side parts are separated from the instrument panel main body part, a space around the driver's seat can be expanded by the reduced amount of dead space, and the comfortability of the driver can be ensured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hara, Norimasa Koreishi, Jumpei Watanabe, Hirotaka Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20220402351
    Abstract: An electric vehicle cooling system, including: a first radiator installed at a vehicle and configured to cool a power unit driven by electrical power; and a second radiator installed at the vehicle, disposed at a vehicle front side of the first radiator, and configured to cool an autonomous driving control device configured to control autonomous driving of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hara, Norimasa Koreishi, Jumpei Watanabe, Hirotaka Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20220402350
    Abstract: An electric vehicle cooling system, including: a first radiator installed at a vehicle and configured to cool a power unit driven by electrical power; and a second radiator installed at the vehicle, disposed at least at one side in a vehicle width direction, or another side in the vehicle width direction, of the first radiator so as not to overlap with the first radiator as viewed along a vehicle front-rear direction, and configured to cool an autonomous driving control device configured to control autonomous driving of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hara, Norimasa Koreishi, Jumpei Watanabe, Hirotaka Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20220402346
    Abstract: A vehicle front portion structure includes: a battery that is disposed under a floor of a vehicle and between a left and right pair of frame portions, the left and right pair of frame portions configuring a skeleton of the vehicle and being disposed with a space therebetween in a vehicle width direction; a power control unit that is provided at a front portion of the vehicle and closer to a vehicle front side than the battery, and that is configured to control power to a motor; a support member that is provided at the front portion of the vehicle and that is configured to support the power control unit; and a cable that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction, through a space at an inner side, in the vehicle width direction, of the support member, and that connects the battery with the power control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hara, Norimasa Koreishi, Jumpei Watanabe, Hirotaka Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11498623
    Abstract: A vehicle lower part structure includes: center rail portions disposed at a central part in a front-rear direction of the vehicle; front rail portions disposed forward of the center rail portions in the front-rear direction of the vehicle; rear rail portions disposed rearward of the center rail portions in the front-rear direction of the vehicle; front connecting rail portions connecting the center rail portions and the front rail portions in the front-rear direction of the vehicle; rear connecting rail portions connecting the center rail portions and the rear rail portions in the front-rear direction of the vehicle; first mount portions supporting a vehicle body constituting a cabin; and second mount portions supporting the vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jumpei Watanabe, Yasuhiro Hara, Norimasa Koreishi, Hirotaka Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11485420
    Abstract: A vehicle frame structure includes a front wall portion and a rear wall portion that are respectively provided in front and rear end portions of a vehicle, a side wall portion extending in the vehicle front-rear direction so as to separate the vehicle cabin from the exterior of the vehicle cabin, and a connecting portion that includes a first end portion and a second end portion, and has a closed section structure that is curved so as to protrude inward in the vehicle width and front-rear directions in a plan view. The first end portion is connected to an inner side of one of the front wall portion and the rear wall portion in the vehicle front-rear direction, and the second end portion is connected to an inner side of the side wall portion in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotaka Ishioka, Yasuhiro Hara, Norimasa Koreishi, Jumpei Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11453445
    Abstract: A structure of a vehicle cabin includes a vehicle seat arranged inside the vehicle cabin and above electronic equipment, a first panel unit composing a part of a floor panel, arranged to overlap the electronic equipment when viewed from a vehicle-height direction, and supporting the electronic equipment from a vehicle lower side directly or via a member, and a second panel unit composing a part of the floor panel and arranged in front of the electronic equipment in the vehicle front-rear direction to overlap the electronic equipment when viewed from the vehicle front-rear direction. The floor panel separates the inside of the vehicle cabin from the outside thereof and composes a lower part of the vehicle cabin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jumpei Watanabe, Yasuhiro Hara, Norimasa Koreishi, Hirotaka Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11440500
    Abstract: A partition portion that partitions a cabin in a front-rear direction of a vehicle is disposed on a vehicle rear side with respect to a seat. A restraint device is partially attached to the partition portion, and a webbing of the restraint device is withdrawn from a partition portion side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jumpei Watanabe, Yasuhiro Hara, Norimasa Koreishi, Hirotaka Ishioka