Toyota Patent Applications

POWER STORAGE CELL

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240396050
A power storage cell includes an electrode assembly constructed as a wound body in which a positive electrode sheet and a negative electrode sheet are wound with a separator interposed therebetween, a current collector plate, a cell case, and an electrolyte solution. Each of the positive electrode sheet and the negative electrode sheet includes a current collector foil, and an active material layer. The current collector foil includes a main region where the active material layer is…

DRIVE RECORDER

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240397189
A drive recorder mounted on a vehicle includes a camera and a processing device. When the processing device recognizes that a landmark appears in the image shot by the camera, the processing device performs a process of setting the shutter speed and shooting timing for taking a photo of the landmark based on the vehicle speed, and A process of shooting a landmark at the shutter speed and shooting timing is executed.

CHARGING DEVICE

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240396355
A control device of a charging device performs constant current charging, when starting charging at time t0. When the SOC of a battery reaches a set value ? at time t1, the charging current is limited to gradually decrease. When the battery voltage VB of the battery reaches a charging completion voltage VBb at time t2, charging is terminated. When the charging current is small, the polarization is small, and therefore, the charging completion voltage VBb can be set to a value…

ELECTRICITY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240396331
An electricity management apparatus (an aggregator server, an electricity generation business operator server) is an apparatus that manages adjustment power of electricity delivered to an electricity transmission and distribution business operator by a trading business operator (an aggregator, an electricity generation business operator). The electricity management apparatus is capable of controlling an adjustment system of supply and demand of electricity and includes: a memory that…

SECONDARY BATTERY

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240396189
A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly, a housing, and a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal provided to the housing. The housing includes a main body with a first opening and a second opening respectively provided on opposite sides in a long-side direction of the housing, a first sealing body that closes the first opening, and a second sealing body that closes the second opening. The main body includes a pair of long-side surfaces and a pair of…

POWER STORAGE CELL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240396172
A power storage cell includes an electrode assembly constructed as a wound body in which a positive electrode sheet and a negative electrode sheet are wound with a separator interposed therebetween. The separator includes a separator layer, and an adhesion layer provided on at least one of an inner surface and an outer surface of the separator layer in a radial direction of the electrode assembly. A termination end portion of the electrode assembly is affixed via the adhesion layer to a…

SECONDARY BATTERY

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240396130
A secondary battery includes: an electrode assembly including a stack of a plurality of positive electrodes and a plurality of negative electrodes with a separator in between, each of the plurality of positive electrodes including a positive-electrode current collecting foil, each of the plurality of negative electrodes including a negative-electrode current collecting foil; and an exterior package that accommodates part of the electrode assembly. The electrode assembly includes a…

POWER STORAGE SYSTEM

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240396104
A power storage system includes: a power storage device mounted on a vehicle; a heat source configured to be capable of heating the power storage device with electric power; and a control device configured to control the heat source. The control device is configured to detect supply power that is supplied to the vehicle from a power-supplying facility provided outside the vehicle, determine a first target temperature by using the detected supply power, and control the heat source to…

Solid Electrolyte Particle

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240396080
A solid electrolyte particle include Li, Ge, P, and S. The solid electrolyte particle satisfies relationships of “0.20?IB/IA?0.35” and “0.30?IC/IA?0.45”. IA, IB, and IC each indicate a peak height in an X-ray diffraction spectrum measured using a CuK? ray as an X-ray source. IA indicates a peak height at a diffraction angle of 29.4±0.5°. IB indicates a peak height at a diffraction angle of 41.4±0.5°. IC indicates a peak height at a diffraction angle of 47.3±0.5°.

ENERGY STORAGE CELL

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240396072
An energy storage cell includes an electrode assembly, a cell case housing the electrode assembly, and an electrolyte solution contained in the cell case. The electrode assembly includes a wound assembly obtained by winding a positive electrode sheet and a negative electrode sheet with a separator therebetween, a first tape attached to one end in an axial direction of the wound assembly, and a second tape attached to the other end in the axial direction of the wound assembly. A force of…

SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CAPTIONS FOR TRIGGERS

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240391485
A method for triggering capture of diverse driving data from captions is described. The method includes training a discriminator network to identify similarities between a received text description and a received scene description. The method also includes feeding a trained discriminator network with real scene information along with text/sentence descriptions to verify whether the real scene information matches the text/sentence description. The method further includes generating a…

POWER STORAGE CELL

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240396007
A power storage cell includes an electrode body in which a sheet member is wound surrounding a winding axis, and a housing case in which the electrode body is housed. The electrode body includes a starting terminal portion in a winding direction, and an ending terminal portion located on an opposite side from the starting terminal portion. The sheet member includes an electrode sheet and a separator. The electrode sheet includes a current collector plate and an electrode composite…

POWER STORAGE CELL

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240395999
A power storage cell includes a wound electrode assembly which includes: a positive plate (a first electrode); a negative plate (a second electrode); and a separator. The positive plate includes a positive current collector (a first current collector) and a positive electrode mixture layer (a first electrode material layer). The positive current collector has: a positive coated portion (a first coated portion) and a plurality of positive uncoated portions (first uncoated portions)…

TRAFFIC CONGESTION DETECTION SYSTEM

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240395134
A traffic congestion detection system including a server device, the server device includes at least one processor, the at least one processor being configured to perform commands: acquiring pieces of traveling data from a plurality of vehicles; generating first traffic congestion detection information based on at least part of the acquired pieces of traveling data; acquiring image information on a surrounding image for at least one vehicle out of the plurality of vehicles; determining…

FEATURE IDENTIFICATION DEVICE AND FEATURE IDENTIFICATION METHOD

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240395053
A feature identification device identifies a type of lane separation equipment, including at least separation poles and separation wire ropes, for separating a road by travel direction. When the type of lane separation equipment is not associated with a predetermined position on the road, the device identifies the type of the lane separation equipment based on an image in which the lane separation equipment is captured at a predetermined position by an algorithm selected from a first…

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR DETERMINING STATION THAT VISITOR IS PROMPTED TO USE

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240394607
The information processing device includes a control unit that predicts the number of users of each of the plurality of stations on the event date based on the identification information of the visitor and the person flow data of each of the plurality of stations in the vicinity of the event place, and determines a station that prompts the visitor to use based on the identification information and the predicted number of users.

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SPATIO-TEMPORAL REGULAR EXPRESSION MATCHING

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240394318
Systems and methods are provided that implement spatio-temporal query of perception data streams. A system is distinctly designed to implement efficient and flexible spatio-temporal queries, which conduct pattern matching over perception data streams for automotive applications, particularly autonomous vehicles. The system is also designed to enable the spatio-temporal queries to be expressed in SpREs (Spatial Regular Expressions), which is implemented as a querying language that…

MOVING AVAILABILITY DETERMINATION DEVICE AND A MOVING AVAILABILITY DETERMINATION METHOD

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240393120
A moving availability determination device comprises a route acquisition unit that acquires a candidate movement route, an information acquisition unit that acquires determination basis information including at least one of the following information: moving object feature information indicating at least one of a specification related to the movement of a moving object and a dimension of the moving object; speed condition information indicating a condition of the moving speed of the…

ELECTRIC TURBO COMPRESSOR

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240392792
An electric turbo compressor includes a first impeller includes a first hub fixed to the rotary shaft, and a plurality of first blades arranged on the first hub, a second impeller includes a second hub fixed to the rotary shaft, and a plurality of second blades arranged on the second hub. A housing includes a first shroud facing the first blades and forming a first impeller chamber that accommodates the first impeller, and a second shroud facing the second blades and forming a second…

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING VEHICLE DATA

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240391492
A management server transmits data for updating indicating data to update a trained model to at least two vehicles on which autonomous driving control by using the trained model is performed. The trained model indicates a model generated by a machine learning. The management server collects data for verification from each of the at least two vehicles to which the data for updating have been transmitted. The data for verification indicates data obtained or generated in connection with the…