Patents by Inventor Kazuki Kubo

Kazuki Kubo 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: 12179595
    Abstract: In representation processing, when a capacity retention is higher than a threshold value while a warranty condition is satisfied, an ECU has the capacity retention shown in a first manner. When the capacity retention is equal to or lower than the threshold value while the warranty condition is satisfied, the ECU has the capacity retention shown in a second manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Uchida, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Kazuki Kubo, Junta Izumi
  • Patent number: 12020514
    Abstract: A power supply equipment provided for each of parking slots is configured to be able to be stored under a ground, and is configured to supply power to a vehicle parked in a corresponding parking slot with the power supply equipment protruding from the ground. A server that manages each of the parking slots and the power supply equipment is configured to receive a reservation request that specifies a reservation start time of the parking slot. The server is configured to reserve, from a vacant slot, out of the parking slots, that is unreserved at the reservation start time, a parking slot with a neighboring parking slot on at least one side unreserved at the reservation start time with priority over a parking slot with neighboring parking slots on both sides reserved at the reservation start time, when the server receives the reservation request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tsuchiya, Kazuki Kubo
  • Patent number: 11945332
    Abstract: A vehicle includes: an instrument panel; and an ECU that controls the instrument panel so that the instrument panel displays an icon representing a status of a battery. The icon represents one of a first indication and a second indication by an increase or decrease of a scale in a display region of the icon, and the other one of the first indication and the second indication by an amount indicated by a size of a display area of the icon, the first indication representing SOC of the battery, the second indication representing a full charge capacity of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiki Sugino, Yoshihiro Uchida, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Junta Izumi, Kazuki Kubo
  • Patent number: 11909013
    Abstract: A display system includes an instrument panel and an ECU for controlling the instrument panel so that the instrument panel displays an indication related to a battery. The ECU controls the instrument panel so that the instrument panel continuously displays a second indication. The ECU also controls instrument panel so that instrument panel does not display a first indication when a predetermined condition does not hold true, and displays the first indication when the predetermined condition holds true, the predetermined condition being a condition that a display-related user operation has been performed. The first indication can be prevented from being mistaken as the second indication, without requiring a display-related user operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Tanaka, Yoshihiro Uchida, Kazuki Kubo, Yusuke Funabashi
  • Publication number: 20230387698
    Abstract: A power storage system includes: a stationary power storage device configured to supply electric power to an electrical load; a control device configured to receive supply of electric power from each of the power storage device and another power source; a relay located between the power storage device and the control device and between the power storage device and the electrical load, but not between the control device and the power source; and an input device configured to accept input from a user. When a connection request is input to the input device while the relay is in a disconnected state, the control device brings the relay into a connected state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuki Kubo, Ryotaro Uehata, Yuki Nagai, Junji Ohta
  • Publication number: 20230294550
    Abstract: A vehicle includes: an instrument panel; and an ECU that controls the instrument panel so that the instrument panel displays an icon representing a status of a battery. The icon represents one of a first indication and a second indication by an increase or decrease of a scale in a display region of the icon, and the other one of the first indication and the second indication by an amount indicated by a size of a display area of the icon, the first indication representing SOC of the battery, the second indication representing a full charge capacity of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshiki SUGINO, Yoshihiro UCHIDA, Nobuyuki TANAKA, Junta IZUMI, Kazuki KUBO
  • Publication number: 20230271501
    Abstract: In representation processing, when a capacity retention is higher than a threshold value while a warranty condition is satisfied, an ECU has the capacity retention shown in a first manner. When the capacity retention is equal to or lower than the threshold value while the warranty condition is satisfied, the ECU has the capacity retention shown in a second manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Uchida, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Kazuki Kubo, Junta Izumi
  • Patent number: 11731531
    Abstract: An ECU performs processing including obtaining a full charge capacity when a cooling apparatus remains stopped, showing textual information that inquires about whether or not cooling can be carried out when a battery temperature is equal to or lower than a threshold value TB(1), when the full charge capacity is equal to or lower than a threshold value C(1), and when the battery temperature is equal to or higher than a threshold value TB(2), carrying out battery cooling control when a request for carrying out cooling has been issued, and maintaining a standstill state of the cooling apparatus when no request for carrying out cooling has been issued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshida, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Kazuki Kubo
  • Patent number: 11679676
    Abstract: In representation processing, when a capacity retention is higher than a threshold value while a warranty condition is satisfied, an ECU has the capacity retention shown in a first manner. When the capacity retention is equal to or lower than the threshold value while the warranty condition is satisfied, the ECU has the capacity retention shown in a second manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Uchida, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Kazuki Kubo, Junta Izumi
  • Patent number: 11541779
    Abstract: A vehicle includes: an engine; an exhaust pipe through which exhaust gas from the engine is released; a battery pack located near the exhaust pipe; and an ECU that executes, during limp-home traveling of the vehicle, control in which the battery pack is not charged and discharged, and output suppression control in which output of the engine is suppressed. In the output suppression control, when the catalyst temperature is above a threshold value, the ECU suppresses the output of the engine, as compared to when the catalyst temperature is below the threshold value, while maintaining a state in which the engine can output power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Tanaka, Kazuki Kubo, Kimihito Nakamura, Kenta Fujimoto, Takayuki Oshino, Yoshihiro Uchida, Koichi Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20220410746
    Abstract: In an electricity supply system including a plurality of pieces of electricity supply equipment and a plurality of vehicles, when a second vehicle being supplied with electricity from first electricity supply equipment receives a request to surrender the first electricity supply equipment from a first vehicle, the second vehicle surrenders the first electricity supply equipment to the first vehicle and moves, through automated driving, to second electricity supply equipment selected from among the plurality of pieces of electricity supply equipment when the second vehicle is able to travel as far as the second electricity supply equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuki Kubo
  • Publication number: 20220392270
    Abstract: A power supply equipment provided for each of parking slots is configured to be able to be stored under a ground, and is configured to supply power to a vehicle parked in a corresponding parking slot with the power supply equipment protruding from the ground. A server that manages each of the parking slots and the power supply equipment is configured to receive a reservation request that specifies a reservation start time of the parking slot. The server is configured to reserve, from a vacant slot, out of the parking slots, that is unreserved at the reservation start time, a parking slot with a neighboring parking slot on at least one side unreserved at the reservation start time with priority over a parking slot with neighboring parking slots on both sides reserved at the reservation start time, when the server receives the reservation request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tsuchiya, Kazuki Kubo
  • Patent number: 11498420
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a battery that is mounted as a power source in the vehicle and an instrument panel that displays, to a user of the vehicle, an index (a capacity retention ratio Q or an electric vehicle (EV) travelable distance) indicating a larger value as deterioration of the battery progresses less. The instrument panel displays a maximum value of the index until a predetermined condition has been satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuki Kubo, Yoshihiro Uchida, Junta Izumi, Masaki Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 11453310
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit configured to display an index corresponding to a deterioration state of a secondary battery and an EV travelable distance; and a control unit configured to control display of the display unit such that a first decreasing amount by which the EV travelable distance displayed on the display unit decreases with the elapse of time until a predetermined condition has been satisfied is less than a second decreasing amount by which the EV travelable distance displayed on the display unit decreases with the elapse of time after the predetermined condition has been satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuki Kubo, Junta Izumi, Yoshihiro Uchida, Masaki Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20220258631
    Abstract: A charging apparatus installed at a bottom of a hollow in a ground and configured to charge a power storage device mounted on a vehicle includes a movable unit, an ascending and descending device, a communication device, and a control device. The ascending and descending device is configured to cause the movable unit to ascend or descend between a first state and a second state. The communication device is configured to communicate with a device outside the charging apparatus. The control device is configured to permit ascent of the movable unit when the following conditions are satisfied: (i) the charging apparatus is in the first state; (ii) request information indicating a request to charge a charging target vehicle is received via the communication device; and (iii) determination is made that an authentication process for permitting charging of the charging target vehicle is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki TSUCHIYA, Kazuki KUBO
  • Patent number: 11374270
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a secondary battery and a display device. The secondary battery is mounted on the vehicle as a power source. The display device is configured to display an indicator that indicates a capacity retention rate of the secondary battery at a current point in time. The capacity retention rate is a ratio of a capacity of the secondary battery at the current point in time to a reference capacity of the secondary battery. The reference capacity is set in advance based on a virtual capacity of the secondary battery after a lapse of a predetermined period from manufacture of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuki Kubo, Yoshihiro Uchida, Junta Izumi, Masaki Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 11353514
    Abstract: An ECU sets a SOC estimated from an OCV at the time of activating a system of a vehicle as an initial SOC value in the case where the SOC during a stop of the system is higher than a first SOC, which represents the SOC estimated from the OCV at the time of activating the system by using a discharging curve line, or the SOC during the stop of the system is lower than a second SOC, which represents the SOC estimated from the OCV at the time of activating the system by using a charging curve line. The ECU sets the SOC during the stop of the system as the initial SOC value in the case where the SOC during the stop of the system is equal to or lower than the first SOC and is equal to or higher than the second SOC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Uchida, Kiyohito Machida, Yuki Moriya, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Kazuki Kubo, Masaki Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 11305668
    Abstract: A controller performs processing including estimating a current degree of deterioration based on battery use history data when it is determined that deterioration diagnosis timing has come, setting a deterioration curve, setting a deterioration straight line, obtaining an elapsed time, obtaining a capacity retention based on the elapsed time and the deterioration straight line, updating representation of the capacity retention on an output unit, and showing an initial value as the capacity retention when it is determined that the deterioration straight line has not been set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuki Kubo, Yoshihiro Uchida, Junta Izumi, Masaki Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 11180051
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a controller and a display. The controller is configured to calculate a capacity retention (a degree of deterioration) based on measurement data of a main battery. The controller estimates an upper limit value and a lower limit value of an error (range) of the calculated capacity retention. The controller calculates a capacity retention range including the upper limit value Wu and the lower limit value. The controller has the display show the calculated capacity retention range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuki Kubo, Junta Izumi, Yoshihiro Uchida, Masaki Uchiyama
  • Patent number: D1062601
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshio Uchiyama, Masateru Nakamura, Takashi Murata, Kazuki Kubo, Masahiro Misu, Chihiro Onuma