Toyota Patent Applications

ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY DISPLACEMENT STRUCTURE

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240383367
Apparatuses, systems, and methods relate to technology to determine a first height of first rails within a first storage compartment of a displacement structure. The technology determines that a first battery in a battery compartment of a vehicle is to be removed, where the battery compartment includes vehicle rails having a vehicle height. The technology adjusts the first height of the first rails to align the first rails with the vehicle rails by adjusting the first height to match the…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COOLING ELECTRONIC DEVICES

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240389277
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for cooling electronic devices. The system includes a capillary cooler assembly comprising a housing, a plurality of feeding tubes within the housing, a wick within the housing, and one or more vapor outlets, a fluid feed line fluidly coupled to the plurality of feeding tubes, a fluid bypass line fluidly coupled to the fluid feed line, a fluid bypass valve fluidly coupled to the fluid feed line and the fluid bypass line, wherein…

FEEDING DEVICE FOR FLOWABLE MATERIAL

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240383631
A feeding device for a flowable material is provided with a platen housed in a container containing the flowable material, a cylindrical ram attached to the platen, a pump that reciprocates a piston housed in the ram to suck up the flowable material in the container and a determination device configured to determine a replacement time of the container based on a change in a moving speed of the piston.

VEHICLE SIDE STRUCTURE

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240383535
The hinge retainer of the vehicle side structure includes a front standing wall portion that is superimposed on an inner surface of a front wall portion of the A-pillar lower reinforcement, a side standing wall portion that is integrally provided so as to be orthogonal to the front standing wall portion and is superimposed on an inner surface of a side wall portion of the A-pillar lower reinforcement, and a top wall portion that is integrally provided so as to bridge from an upper side…

VEHICLE STEERING GUIDE TORQUE CONTROL APPARATUS

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240383528
A control unit that controls a reaction force actuator that applies steering guide torque to a steering wheel: calculates, based on a curvature of a curve of a travel road in front of a vehicle detected by a camera sensor, a target steering angle for causing the vehicle to travel along the curve; calculates a target steering guide torque, based on a deviation between the target steering angle that was calculated a prediction time period earlier and an actual steering angle; adjusts a…

VEHICLE CONTROLLER, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR VEHICLE CONTROL

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240383478
A vehicle controller includes a memory configured to store trajectory distribution information representing distribution of trajectories for each lane in a predetermined section of a road; and a processor configured to set a target trajectory of a vehicle by referring to the trajectory distribution information of a second lane different from a first lane being traveled by the vehicle, when the vehicle travels the predetermined section, and make the vehicle travel along the target…

AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM, AND VEHICLE

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240383442
An authentication device to be mounted on a vehicle includes a processor. The processor is configured to execute first authentication based on biometric information acquired from a user and biometric information preregistered in the vehicle. The processor is configured to execute second authentication different from the first authentication. The processor is configured to transit setting of the first authentication to a state in which the user is able to change the setting, when the…

PACKAGE-CARRYING ROBOT AND ITS CONTROL METHOD

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240383423
Drainage from a robot can be appropriately treated. A package-carrying robot includes: a water storage part in which water generated in a storage room in which a package is housed is accumulated; a drain part configured to drain the water accumulated in the water storage part; a traveling path state detection unit configured to detect a state of a traveling path of the package-carrying robot; and an open/close control unit configured to control opening/closing of the drain part according…

POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240383418
A power supply system includes a power conversion device, a battery unit that is electrically connected to the power conversion device via a wiring, and a case. The case includes a first case portion that defines a first internal space for housing the power conversion device, a second case portion that defines a second internal space for housing the battery unit, and a partition wall portion that separates the first internal space and the second internal space from each other and has a…

FRONT TRUNK

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240383409
A front trunk includes a trunk box that opens toward one side and has a storing space therein and is disposed adjacent to a heat generator, and a metal layer disposed on at least a portion of an outer surface of the trunk box.

DELIVERY LOCKER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240382028
A delivery locker management system includes a delivery locker station including multiple delivery lockers having two or more different sizes, and a server that communicates with the delivery locker station. The server obtains information on a size of a parcel to be deposited. The server extracts delivery lockers having sizes suitable for the parcel from available delivery lockers among the multiple delivery lockers. The server allocates one of the extracted delivery lockers to the…

NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND SERVER APPARATUS

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240383365
A terminal program for requesting a service to dispatch a service staff or a service vehicle to a location in which a user vehicle is parked and supply an energy source to the user vehicle causes a computer to execute operations, the operations including acquiring, before the user vehicle is parked in a parking location, first information regarding the parking location and transmitting request data including the acquired first information, and acquiring, after transmitting the request…

DURING-TRAVEL NON-CONTACT POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240383357
The during-travel non-contact power supply system provides contactless power supply from a road-side power supply device to a vehicle equipped with a vehicle-side power receiving device while traveling on a power supply lane to charge a power storage device mounted on the vehicle. The road-side power supply device includes a road-side communication device for performing wireless communication, and the vehicle-side power receiving device includes a vehicle-side communication device for…

DRIVING FORCE CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240383331
A driving force control device for separately controlling a driving force of drive wheels is configured to: acquire a detection value of a steering angle, a speed of the drive wheels, and a speed of the vehicle; set a driving force generated in each drive wheel; control the driving force of each drive wheel so as to become a set driving force; and set a driving force to be generated in at least one pair of the drive wheels, based on a value calculated by multiplying a difference between…

FASTENING STRUCTURE OF UNDERCOVER

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240383329
A fastening structure of an undercover includes a fuel tank disposed under a floor of a vehicle, a first undercover covering the fuel tank from below, and a coupling bracket for mechanically coupling the first undercover to a fixing member, the coupling bracket being fastened to an upper surface of the first undercover and being fastened to the fixing member on both sides in a front-rear direction with the fuel tank interposed between the fixing members.

VEHICLE

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240383324
A vehicle is provided with a shock absorber arranged along a side of a housing space for a battery pack of the vehicle, and a reinforcing member for reinforcing a lower surface of an enclosure of the battery pack of the vehicle, the reinforcing member being disposed at a bottom of the housing space for the battery pack of the vehicle, in which the reinforcing member has a section protruding from the housing space for the battery pack, the side surface of the reinforcing member is brought…

VEHICLE HEIGHT CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240383296
A vehicle height control device applied to a vehicle equipped with a wheel that is rotatably supported about a rotational axis and has a tire, and a drive system that drives the wheel via a transmission by an engine, in which a suspension arm is arranged between a wheel carrier and a vehicle body so that the rotational axis when viewed in the lateral direction of the vehicle draws a locus inclined backward as the wheel moves up and down, the vehicle height control device includes a…

DOOR JIG PRESS

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240383109
Systems and methods are provided for using vehicle door jigs with a door jig press. A vehicle door jig can be inserted into a press, and the press can be activated by simultaneously pressing and holding down two or more actuation mechanisms. The press can tighten one or more hooks of the vehicle door jig by pressing the one or more hooks against a base of the vehicle door jig. Releasing the two or more actuation mechanisms can complete pressing of the vehicle door jig.

DRILL

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240383050
The drill includes a main blade having a wicking amount, a thinning blade, a thinning back portion, and an oil hole. The thinning bottom is along the first radius. The thinning back portion is along the second radius. The pair of thinning bottoms includes a thinning separation amount. (1) The first radius for the wicking amount ranges from 0.5×f to 1.2×f, and f represents the wicking amount. (2) The second radius ranges from 5.5 mm to 7.5 mm. (3) The thinning separation amount ranges…

DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR IDENTIFYING A DRUNKEN DRIVER

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240382123
A device includes a controller configured to activate an application on the device, present a cognitive test through the application. The cognitive test includes a plurality of sub-tests including at least two of a typing accuracy and speed test, a speech slurring test, a reaction time test, a depth perception test, and a puzzle test. The controller is configured to determine whether the driver passed each of the sub-tests based on inputs received from the driver, and determine whether…