Toyota Patent Applications

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…

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: 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…

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…

METHOD THAT IS PERFORMED BY IN-VEHICLE DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240385875
The in-vehicle device adds the first task that has occurred to the end of the queue. The in-vehicle device performs a switching process including a step of determining whether there is an unexecuted second task immediately before the first task in the queue, a step of comparing the first priority assigned to the first task with the second priority assigned to the second task when it is determined that the second task exists, and a step of switching the order of the first task and 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…

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…

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…

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…

WATER ELECTROLYSIS DEVICE

Granted: November 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240384427
A water electrolysis device that causes a water electrolysis reaction to take out an H2 gas that includes a power source, a cell, at least one of a voltage sensor and a temperature sensor, a water level sensor, a water injection unit, and a control unit, and that performs control so as to increase the amount of the water injected when the water level of the electrolytic solution is lower than boundary lines between the positive electrode and the positive electrode terminal and between…

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.

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…

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…

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.

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…