Toyota Patent Applications

METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON CLATHRATE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LITHIUM-ION BATTERY

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240387809
The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a silicon clathrate electrode active material capable of improving the treatment efficiency of a sodium-containing silicon clathrate in a sodium removal step and capable of reducing the amount of sodium remaining in the obtained silicon clathrate electrode active material, and a method for manufacturing a lithium-ion battery comprising manufacturing such a silicon clathrate electrode active material. The method of the present…

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…

INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE, AND INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240389067
Examples of the description provide technology that allows an information communication system to efficiently provide information by sensing. For example, the information communication system is configured to: on request from a requestor, respond with information relating to a detection target; to receive a frequency of responding with the information; and to respond with the information based on the received frequency.

POWER SYSTEM

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240388112
A power system includes a battery device that outputs information related to a battery, a power generation device that supplies power to the battery device, and a control device that controls power generation voltage of the power generation device based on the information acquired from the battery device. The control device controls, when the information is not acquirable from the battery device, power generation voltage of the power generation device based on the output voltage that is…

CASE SIDE WALL OF BATTERY CASE

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240387921
The case side wall of the battery case has a tubular portion with a closed cross-section structure consisting of an upper wall, a lower wall, an inner wall, and an outer wall, an inner flange, and an outer flange. A first member made of a steel plate forms an inner flange, an inner wall, an upper wall, an outer wall upper portion, and an outer flange, and a second member made of a steel plate forms an outer flange, an outer wall lower portion, a lower wall, and two reinforcing walls. The…

CASE SIDE WALL OF BATTERY CASE

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240387920
The case side wall and the upper cover 24 are sealingly connected at the upper wall. The case side wall and the lower cover are sealingly connected by an inner flange. A first member of one steel plate of the case side wall forms a portion of the upper wall that is sealingly coupled to the upper cover, an inner flange, and an inner wall in one piece seamlessly and without holes. The inner wall serves as a waterproof wall, and even if water enters the tubular portion of the case side…

HEAT CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING HEAT CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL, AND BATTERY MODULE

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240387901
A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a heat conductive material that achieves both heat conductivity and insulation properties. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a heat conductive material including a matrix resin and a filler, wherein the filler includes a first filler that is a bar shape or a flake shape, and a second filler that is a bar shape or a flake shape; a volume resistivity of the first filler is 1012 ?cm or more; a magnetic…

BATTERY AND ELECTRODE

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240387885
A battery according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes an electrode layer having a groove structure and a current collector including the electrode layer having the groove structure on at least one surface thereof. The current collector includes two plate-like members and a column. Each of the two plate-like members has an electrode layer on one surface thereof and opposes each other on the other surface thereof. The column is arranged along the groove structure and…

POWER STORAGE CELL

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240387855
A power storage cell includes: a wound electrode assembly which includes a positive plate (a first electrode) and a negative plate (a second electrode); and a case accommodating the wound electrode assembly. The positive plate includes: a positive current collector (a current collector); a positive electrode mixture layer (an electrode material) with which a portion of the positive current collector is coated; and a positive electrode tab lead (a tab lead). The positive current collector…

CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL COMPOSITE PARTICLES, CATHODE COMPOSITE MATERIAL, LITHIUM-ION BATTERY, AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL COMPOSITE PARTICLES

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240387823
The cathode active material composite particles of the present disclosure include surface-modified cathode active material particles and a binder resin. In addition, the surface-modified cathode active material particles included in the cathode active material composite particles of the present disclosure have a silicon particle and an organic group that modifies the surface of the silicon particle. The ratio of the mass of the binder resin contained in the cathode active material…

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…

METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON CLATHRATE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LITHIUM-ION BATTERY

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240387808
The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a silicon clathrate positive electrode active material capable of removing at least a portion of a type I silicon clathrate, and a method for manufacturing a lithium-ion battery comprising manufacturing such a silicon clathrate electrode active material. Disclosed methods of making silicon clathrate electrode active material, comprising the following steps: (a) providing silicon clathrate particle that contain a type I silicon…

ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES AND LITHIUM-ION BATTERY

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240387807
The present disclosure provides an active material for lithium-ion batteries, having low expansion during initial charging and a high non-expansion region retention rate even with repeated charging-discharging, and a lithium-ion battery comprising such an active material for batteries. The active material for lithium-ion batteries of the present disclosure comprises silicon clathrate comprising type I silicon clathrate and type II silicon clathrate. In the active material for lithium-ion…

SURFACE-MODIFIED NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL PARTICLE, NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MIXTURE, LITHIUM-ION BATTERY, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MIXTURE

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240387806
The surface-modified negative electrode active material particles of the present disclosure have silicon particles and a fluoroalkyl group that modifies the surface of the silicon particles. The negative electrode mixture of the present disclosure includes surface-modified negative electrode active material particles and a fluorine-containing binder. The surface-modified negative electrode active material particles included in the negative electrode mixture of the present disclosure have…

LEARNING SYSTEM, WALKING TRAINING SYSTEM, SYSTEM, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND TRAINED MODEL

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240387056
A learning apparatus, a walking training apparatus, a method, a system, a program, and a trained model for performing walking training at appropriate setting parameters are provided. A learning apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a data acquisition unit configured to acquire rehabilitation data from a walking training apparatus including an actuator configured to assist a walking motion of a trainee and a control unit configured to control the actuator in accordance with a…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING DRIVERS VIA VEHICLE LIGHT CONTROL

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240386814
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to training a vehicle driver based on in-cabin or external light triggers. In one embodiment, a system includes a processor and a memory storing machine-readable instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to monitor a vehicle location along a roadway. A map of the roadway indicates a target location for a driving maneuver to be performed. When the vehicle location is within a…

DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURING A NETWORK OF ECUS

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240385952
An example operation includes one or more of establishing a network connection between a plurality of ECUs via a bus, receiving a request to perform a software test, dynamically configuring a subset of ECUs among the plurality of ECUs for executing the software test via the bus, and executing the software test via the dynamically configured subset of ECUs, wherein the executing comprises exchanging messages between only the subset of ECUs rather than the plurality of ECUs based on the…

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING VEHICLE DATA

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240385749
A method for managing data related to a vehicle in which autonomous driving control is performed is provided. In the method, it is determined whether artificial intelligence is involved in computer processing for performing the autonomous driving control. In the method, it is also determined whether a predetermined save condition is satisfied. When it is determined that the artificial intelligence is involved in the computer processing and it is determined that the predetermined save…

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.