Toyota Patent Applications

SHARED DECISION-MAKING WITH COGNITIVE PRIORS

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250121832
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to integrating human decision-making into a model-based system. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring sensor data, including driver data about a driver of a vehicle and driving data about the vehicle and a surrounding environment of the vehicle. The method includes encoding, using a world encoder, the sensor data into a latent representation. The method includes determining human decision- making characteristics…

COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND CELLULAR NETWORK

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250126508
A communication control device includes a processor configured to control switching of a partner of communication with a mobile terminal for first traffic from a first edge server to a second edge server in a cellular network when a switching condition for the first traffic based on a reduction in quality of communication related to the first traffic at present or in future is met and a second edge server capable of taking over the communication related to the first traffic is discovered…

EXHAUST PIPE LIFTING APPARATUSES AND METHODS OF USE

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250122056
An exhaust pipe lifting apparatus includes a support frame and a lift table assembly including a lift frame configured to move vertically relative to the support frame. The support frame including a roller rotatably connected thereto that rolls against the lift frame as the lift frame moves between raised and lowered positions and interlocks with a locking feature on the lift frame in the raised position.

STEERING CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250121877
A software processing device of a steering control device is configured to execute a sampling process, a turning angle calculation process, and a control constant learning process. The sampling process is a process of sampling a steering angle and a yaw rate in synchronization. The turning angle calculation process is a process of calculating a turning angle of the turning wheel, using the yaw rate and a vehicle velocity as inputs. The control constant learning process is a process of…

STEERING CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250121876
A steering control device controls a steering device. The steering device includes a processor configured to execute a dead band amount calculation process and a superposition process. The dead band amount calculation process is a process of calculating a dead band amount using a steering angle as an input, the dead band amount being an amount by which the steering angle changes while a turning wheel does not turn in a steering direction. The superposition process is a process of…

OPERATION DEVICE FOR VEHICLE, VEHICLE, OPERATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY MEMORY MEDIUM

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250121858
The operation device is provided with operation switches at dedicated surfaces that are surfaces of interior components disposed laterally adjacent to the driver seat of the vehicle. The dedicated surfaces face to the sides of the interior components at which the driver seat is disposed. The operation switches are capable, in accordance with operation by a driver, of instructing control of at least one of an autonomous driving function and a driving assistance function of the vehicle.

VEHICLE, VEHICLE CONTROL INTERFACE BOX, AND AUTONOMOUS DRIVING VEHICLE

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250121851
A VP carries out vehicle control in accordance with an instruction from an ADK. A vehicle control interface interfaces between the VP and the ADK. The vehicle control interface receives from the ADK, a power supply mode request which is an instruction for controlling a power supply mode of the VP. The power supply mode includes a sleep mode in which a vehicle is in a Ready OFF state, a driving mode in which the vehicle is in a Ready ON state, and a wake mode in which the vehicle control…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTIVE RISK-AWARE CONTROL OF VEHICLES IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250121849
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to implementing predictive, risk-aware control barrier functions, the effects of which certify using predicted future trajectories the probability of vehicles (such as tractor-trailers) becoming unsafe over a time interval remains bounded by a user-specified value.

BEHAVIOR-CONDITIONED MESSAGE STYLIZATION

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250121845
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to stylizing messages within a vehicle according to an occupant and a current context. In one embodiment, a method includes determining a style for presenting messages associated with an occupant of a vehicle according to a context defined in relation to an occupant and an environment of the vehicle. The method includes generating a message according to the style for the occupant. The method includes providing the message to…

VEHICLE TRAVELING ASSISTANCE DEVICE

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250121841
The vehicle traveling assistance device proposes a change of the set vehicle speed based on the traveling environment of the own vehicle during execution of the constant speed traveling control for autonomously controlling the traveling of the own vehicle so that the travel speed of the own vehicle is maintained at the set vehicle speed. The vehicle traveling assistance device determines whether or not to make a proposal based on whether or not the set vehicle speed after the change is…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRIC CURRENT-BASED ROBOT COMMAND ALTERATION

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250121497
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to altering a robot command instruction set to address operating inefficiencies of the robot. In one embodiment, a system includes a processor and a memory storing machine-readable instructions. The machine-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to 1) continuously monitor an electrical current used by a motor of a robot and 2) compare the electrical current to a secondary electrical…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING VEHICLE TRAJECTORIES BASED ON DRIVER AWARENESS

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250121819
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to predicting future trajectories of ado vehicles and an ego vehicle based on the awareness of the driver of the ego vehicle towards the ado vehicles. In one embodiment, a method includes determining an awareness of a driver of an ego vehicle to ado vehicles in the vicinity of the ego vehicle. The method also includes altering track data of ado vehicles based on a lack of awareness of the driver towards the ado vehicles. The…

VEHICLE

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250121812
A vehicle includes: a plurality of motors having different loss characteristics during regeneration from each other, a battery that can be charged by power generated during the regeneration of each of the plurality of motors; a detection device for detecting power information related to a power state of the battery; and a control device for causing a motor, which has a greater loss characteristic of the regeneration than that of other motors among the plurality of motors, to perform the…

COLLISION DETECTION DEVICE AND COLLISION DETECTION METHOD

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250121789
A collision detection device applied to a vehicle having a hood lock at a vehicle front end center portion includes a first acceleration sensor, a second acceleration sensor, a hood opening and closing sensor, and one or more processors that determine that a front collision has occurred when a condition that first acceleration is higher than a first collision determination threshold value and second acceleration is higher than a second collision determination threshold value is…

MANAGEMENT DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM, AND CONTROL METHOD

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250121783
A management device is applied to an in-vehicle network system including electronic control units. When a vehicle is in a first state, the management device supplies power to one of the electronic control units included in a first group, and does not supply power to another one of the electronic control units not included in the first group. When the vehicle is in a second state differing from the first state, the management device supplies power to one of the electronic control units…

ELECTRIC VEHICLE

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250121736
An electric vehicle according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a driving motor, a battery configured to supply electric power to the driving motor, and a deterioration meter configured to measure a deterioration level of the battery. The deterioration meter includes an analog display unit configured to indicate the measured deterioration level by a needle, and the needle is movable only in a direction which indicates that the deterioration level increases. Further, the…

INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF MOBILE OBJECT

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250121687
A plate-shaped plate member capable of showing an image projected thereon is disposed along a ceiling of a vehicle, and a plurality of seats are disposed in the vehicle such that the height with respect to a horizontal plane gradually increases in a first direction. At least a part of the plate member slopes downward with respect to the horizontal plane in a second direction opposite to the first direction.

VEHICLE DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250121685
A vehicle display control device that displays predetermined information in a display region that is at a periphery of a driver's seat in a case in which at least one travel assist function among acceleration/deceleration or steering operates, the device includes a processor, wherein the processor: displays an image, which expresses a reason why a travel assist function has operated, in the display region; and displays a mark, which corresponds to a type of the travel assist function, in…

VEHICLE

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250121652
When a vehicle receives a remote air conditioning request from user equipment with a system of the vehicle stopped, the vehicle turns on a remote air conditioning request signal after starting the system, and executes remote air conditioning in which the air conditioner is operated with the engine in operation, on the condition that a recognized shift that is a recognized shift position is a parking position. When the recognized shift is not the parking position, the prohibition of the…

METHOD OF MANUFACTURING

Granted: April 17, 2025
Application Number: 20250121551
A method of manufacturing the resin molded product, comprises: (a) applying a resin on the thermoplastic resin sheet to form the resin layer, (b) heating the resin layer; (c) irradiating the resin layer with UV; (d) molding the thermoplastic resin sheet having the resin layer formed thereon; and (e) after (d), irradiating the resin layer with UV. (c) and (b) are performed by the time the molding in (d) is completed.