Toyota Patent Applications

NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND SERVER APPARATUS

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240386515
A terminal program for requesting a service to supply an energy source to a user vehicle causes a computer to execute operations, the operations including accepting a user operation to specify, as a return location in which the user vehicle is returned to a user after the user vehicle is picked up from the user in a parking location and an energy source is supplied to the user vehicle in a supply location, a location that is different from the parking location, limiting a location to be…

NETWORK NODE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240388660
A network node that configures a wireless communication network, comprises a processor configured to execute: receiving a charging data request; and generating a charging data record in response to receiving the charging data request. The charging data record comprises a data identifier of data provided by a data providing apparatus.

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…

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: 20240387856
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 uncoated portion of the positive current collector is not coated with the positive electrode mixture layer and is bent in the radial direction of the…

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…

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…

DATA COLLECTING DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR COLLECTING DATA, AND DATA COLLECTION INSTRUCTION DEVICE

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240386722
A data collecting device includes a processor configured to determine whether snow lies around a vehicle, set a type of feature to be detected, based on the result of determination of the presence or absence of the snow, detect a feature of the set type from an image representing an area around the vehicle generated by a camera mounted on the vehicle, and generate probe data representing the detected feature.

ANNOTATION VERIFICATION METHOD, ANNOTATION VERIFICATION APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240386709
The present disclosure is to provide an annotation verification method. In the annotation verification method, a first result which is a verified result of the annotation for a first image sequence included in the image sequence is acquired. Next, first reference information regarding a position of the specified target object range in each image included in the first image sequence is acquired based on the first result. Next, a position of the target object range in a target image is…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING LANE ELEVATION FOR GENERATING 3D MAPS

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240386670
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to estimating lane elevation using headings for generating three-dimensional (3D) maps. In one embodiment, a method includes augmenting positions of detected lane boundaries with headings of a vehicle from sensor data. The method also includes adding the headings to vertices of two-dimensional (2D) lines using direction vectors between the vertices, wherein the 2D lines are directed towards the detected lane boundaries. The…

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.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING THE DESIRE TO KEEP THE DOOR OPEN WHEN MAKING DECISIONS

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240386473
A method for monitoring user purchase making activity is described. The method includes logging a potential user purchase and purchase communications corresponding to a potential option available for purchase by a user. The method also includes predicting whether loss aversion is a factor in a purchase making process of the potential option available for purchase by the user. The method further includes determining a purchase recommendation in response to identifying that the loss…

CALCULATION DEVICE

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240385322
A calculation device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires sensor information and equipment information; and a calculation unit that calculates at least one of a position and orientation of a moving object using the sensor information, wherein in a first case where the moving object is equipped with an onboard distance measuring device, the calculation unit uses at least onboard distance measuring device information acquired by the onboard distance measuring device as the sensor…

METHOD

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240385005
The method is a method executed by a control device used for providing a charging service in which a power supply vehicle used for charging a vehicle moves to the source of the vehicle and charges the vehicle, and includes: acquiring usage date and time information indicating a date and time a user wants to use the charging service; acquiring parking lot information indicating a parking lot attached to a facility that can be used for the charging service; acquiring privilege information…

TURBINE WHEEL

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240384656
A turbine wheel includes a hub and a plurality of turbine blades. Each turbine blade includes a hub-side edge, a shroud-side edge, an inflow-side edge, and an outflow-side edge. An inlet region of each turbine blade includes an inlet portion, and a thickness decreasing portion having a thickness that gradually decreases toward the outflow-side edge. The inlet portion has a constant thickness toward the outflow-side edge, or has a thickness that gradually increases toward the outflow-side…

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.

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…

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…

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.