Patents by Inventor Toshiya Hashimoto

Toshiya Hashimoto 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).

  • Publication number: 20240308414
    Abstract: The vehicle ECU determines whether the power transmission efficiency is decreasing due to the vehicle moving laterally from the power supply lane at night, and if the power transmission efficiency is decreasing, it illuminates the vehicle in the direction of travel according to the steering operation. Activate AFS, which can automatically change the range of light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naohiro SEO, Toshiya Hashimoto, Masato Maemura, Ryosuke Ikemura, Shogo Tsuge
  • Publication number: 20240308373
    Abstract: The vehicle ECU acquires detection information from a detection sensor that detects pedestrians located around the vehicle, and determines whether there are pedestrians located around the vehicle based on this detection information. Then, when the vehicle ECU determines that there are pedestrians located around the vehicle, the vehicle ECU outputs to the supply device the instruction information to reduce the amount of transmitted power supplied from the supply device when there are no pedestrians around the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naohiro SEO, Toshiya Hashimoto, Masato Maemura, Ryosuke Ikemura, Shogo Tsuge
  • Publication number: 20240308377
    Abstract: The control device for power supply during travel includes a processor, and the processor sets the power supply lane to the power reception lane in the case of power shortage, and sets the power supply lane to the power transmission lane in the case of power surplus, according to the supply and demand balance of the power system, and outputs information to guide surrounding vehicles to the power receiving lane or power transmission lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA ABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naohiro SEO, Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Masato MAEMURA, Ryosuke IKEMURA, Shogo TSUGE
  • Publication number: 20240300355
    Abstract: The control device includes a processor that is configured to, in a wireless power transmission system that transmits, in a noncontact manner, power from a primary coil included in a supply facility to a secondary coil included in a vehicle that is traveling, output information for changing a traveling position in a width direction of the vehicle, and correct the traveling position in the width direction according to a change in the power transmission state when changing the traveling position in the width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Masato Maemura, Ryosuke Ikemura, Shogo Tsuge
  • Publication number: 20240294074
    Abstract: The wireless power transmission system according to the present disclosure includes: a supply device installed on the road side and transmitting electric power; a vehicle equipped with a power receiving device and traveling on the road; wherein in the wireless power transmission system, a power receiving device receives power from a supply device and wirelessly transmits the power to a vehicle, the supply device is a primary coil that generates a magnetic field for transmitting power to the vehicle; a first communication device that performs short-range wireless communication with the vehicle; the vehicle includes a secondary coil that receives power transmitted contactlessly from the primary coil; a second communication device that performs short-range wireless communication with the supply device; in the first and second communication devices, one communication device has a single communication unit, and the other communication device has a plurality of communication units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato MAEMURA, Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Shogo TSUGE, Ryosuke IKEMURA
  • Publication number: 20240286512
    Abstract: The power transmission electronic control unit includes power transmission device information related to the power transmission device of the supply device, power reception device information related to one or more power reception devices provided in the vehicle, state information related to the state of the battery of the vehicle, and determines the amount of electric power to be supplied to the vehicle based on the positional relationship between the power transmitting device and the power receiving device based on the power transmitting device information, the power receiving device information, and the state information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Masato MAEMURA, Shogo TSUGE, Ryosuke IKEMURA
  • Publication number: 20240286520
    Abstract: A control device that controls a supply device that non-contactly transmits electric power to a vehicle running on a road, and is arranged in a line in the lane direction of the road and has multiple positions that detect the lateral position of the vehicle on the road. The amount of change in the lateral position of the vehicle is calculated based on the signal input from the sensor, and the amount of lateral positional deviation of the vehicle is estimated based on the calculated amount of change and vehicle speed information of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Masato Maemura, Shogo Tsuge, Ryosuke Ikemura
  • Publication number: 20240286518
    Abstract: The vehicle ECU acquires state information indicating the state of each of the plurality of power receiving devices, and based on this state information, determines whether a specific power receiving device that restricts power reception has occurred in any of the plurality of power receiving devices. When a specific power receiving device occurs, the amount of power scheduled to be received by the specific power receiving device is caused to be received by each of the plurality of power receiving devices other than the specific power receiving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Masato MAEMURA, Shogo TSUGE, Ryosuke IKEMURA
  • Publication number: 20240286511
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is mounted on a vehicle that includes a power receiving device that receives power transmitted in a non-contact manner from a ground-side supply device and a battery that charges the power received by the power receiving device. The drive frequency determined based on the requested power of the side is set as the first drive frequency, and the first drive frequency is transmitted to the supply device using wide area wireless communication. When the inverter included in the supply device is controlled to the first drive frequency, the power receiving device receives the power transmitted in a contactless manner and charges the battery, and the power is transferred before and after changing the inverter drive frequency to the first drive frequency. Feedback control is performed to check whether the transmission efficiency is high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Masato Maemura, Ryosuke Ikemura, Shogo Tsuge
  • Publication number: 20240286500
    Abstract: In a control device for a power receiving device that is equipped with a power receiving coil that receives power contactlessly transmitted from a power transmitting coil of a power transmitting device, a switching element provided between the power receiving coil and a load is operated to perform a switching operation to control the output terminal of the power receiving coil. When executing the short-circuit mode that short-circuits between the two, the short-circuit mode is executed so as to avoid a region where the phase of the current in the inverter of the power transmission device is advanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Masato MAEMURA, Ryosuke IKEMURA, Shogo TSUGE
  • Publication number: 20240270092
    Abstract: A vehicle control device controls a vehicle having a secondary coil that receives non-contactly transmitted power from a primary coil installed on a road. Further, the vehicle control device switches Fine Positioning from an on state to an off state when determining that the vehicle is traveling outside a D-WPT section or the vehicle is traveling outside a D-WPT lane on a basis of position information of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Masato MAEMURA, Shogo TSUGE, Ryosuke IKEMURA
  • Publication number: 20240253511
    Abstract: A control device for power supply during traveling has a processor, acquires control information from the vehicle, and controls the biometric detector provided in the power supply lane that transmits electric power to the vehicle while traveling based on the control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Masato MAEMURA, Shogo TSUGE, Ryosuke IKEMURA
  • Publication number: 20240253504
    Abstract: In a wireless power transfer system configured to contactlessly transfer power from a supply device in a road to a vehicle, the vehicle includes a plurality of power receiving devices configured to receive power from the supply device, and a power transfer ECU is configured to set, based on state information from the vehicle, a power transfer pattern by which each of a plurality of segments transfers power, the power transfer pattern being set for each power transfer device. The power transfer ECU is configured to cause each of the power transfer devices to transfer power based on the power transfer pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato MAEMURA, Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Shogo TSUGE, Ryosuke IKEMURA
  • Publication number: 20240253505
    Abstract: A wireless power transfer system that performs wireless power transfer by magnetic coupling between a supply device on a ground and a vehicle on traveling, includes: a control device that controls wireless power transfer from a power transmitter of the supply device to a power receiver of the vehicle. Further, the control device determine that a coupling deviation has occurred in the magnetic coupling in a case where a state in which received power in the power receiver is smaller than a target value by a predetermined value or more has continued for a predetermined time period during the wireless power transfer from the supply device to the vehicle; and performs a state transition to Magnetic Coupling Check to confirm a coupling coefficient of the magnetic coupling in a case where the control device has determined that the coupling deviation has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Masato MAEMURA, Shogo TSUGE, Ryosuke IKEMURA
  • Publication number: 20240253480
    Abstract: A contactless power supply system that supplies power from a power supply device in a road to a power reception device in a vehicle. Further, the power supply device includes: first and second communication devices to execute wide-area and a short-range wireless communications, respectively with the power reception device; and an acceptable value deriving unit that derives an acceptable value of a power change rate feasible in the power reception device, the power supply device transmits information regarding the acceptable value of the power change rate to the power reception device, and the power reception device executes power control within a range not exceeding the acceptable value based on the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Masato MAEMURA, Shogo TSUGE, Ryosuke IKEMURA
  • Publication number: 20240258835
    Abstract: A wireless power transfer system include: a supply device provided on a road; and a vehicle having a power reception device, the power reception device receiving power from the supply device and performing wireless transfer of the power to the vehicle. Further, the supply device includes: a primary coil; and a first short-range wireless communication device to communicate with the vehicle, the vehicle includes: a secondary coil; and a second short-range wireless communication device to communicate with the supply device, the first short-range wireless communication device is provided on a rear side in a traveling direction of the vehicle with respect to the primary coil, and the second short-range wireless communication device is provided on a front side in the traveling direction of the vehicle with respect to the secondary coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato MAEMURA, Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Shogo TSUGE, Ryosuke IKEMURA
  • Publication number: 20240253506
    Abstract: An in-motion power supply control device includes a processor, which limits a continuous power supply time for a vehicle in motion to a predetermined value or less in a case where a supply device that transfers power to the vehicle in motion includes no foreign object detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Masato MAEMURA, Shogo TSUGE, Ryosuke IKEMURA
  • Publication number: 20240253484
    Abstract: A traveling noncontact power supply system of the present disclosure supplies electric power from a road-side power supply device to a vehicle-side power receiving device in a contactless manner. The road-side power supply device has a first communication device for wide-area wireless communication and a second communication device for short-range wireless communication. The vehicle-side power receiving device has a third communication device for wide-area wireless communication and a fourth communication device for short-range wireless communication. The vehicle can perform regenerative braking to charge a power storage device. If the compatibility between the road-side power supply device and the vehicle-side power receiving device is satisfied, and there is a possibility that the power storage device is overcharged, predetermined charging control is performed by short-range wireless communication to prevent overcharging of the power storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Masato MAEMURA, Shogo TSUGE, Ryosuke IKEMURA
  • Publication number: 20240253483
    Abstract: The control device for power supply during traveling includes a processor, and the processor determines the type of power transmitting device that transmits power to the vehicle while the vehicle is running, the type of power receiving device installed in the vehicle, and the foreign object detection unit installed in the power transmitting device. An upper limit of power to be transmitted from the power transmitting device to the power receiving device is determined based on the detection range of the means and the positional relationship between the power transmitting device and the power receiving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Masato MAEMURA, Shogo TSUGE, Ryosuke IKEMURA
  • Publication number: 20240258841
    Abstract: A control device for power feeding during traveling includes a processor. Further, when a living object or a metal foreign object is detected around a primary coil of a power transfer device that transfers power to a power reception device of a vehicle that is traveling, the processor deletes identification information on the primary coil registered in an identification information list of the primary coil, and when the living object or the metal foreign object is not detected, the processor performs compatibility check and service authentication between the power reception device of the vehicle and the power transfer device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Masato MAEMURA, Shogo TSUGE, Ryosuke IKEMURA