Toyota Patent Applications

DENSITY DESIGN FOR CITY NODES

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250029482
An example operation includes one or more of receiving information at a vehicle in proximity to a first node from the first node, sending information from the vehicle to the first node, analyzing the sent information by the first node, determining by the first node that the vehicle will be in proximity to an adjacent node to the first node, after the vehicle is no longer in proximity to the first node, receiving the analyzed information from the first node at the adjacent node,…

METHOD EXECUTED BY TERMINAL DEVICE

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250029142
A method executed by a terminal device of a user, the method comprising: determining whether a vehicle has parked in a target area based on position information of a vehicle of the user; and displaying an image linked to content related to the target area on a screen of the terminal device of the user when it is determined that the vehicle has parked in the target area and the target area is within business hours.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250029132
First data that is acquired while the first vehicle is traveling is provided to a first business entity, information about a benefit that occurs when a first business entity is provided is obtained, information about the benefit is presented to a user associated with the first vehicle, and the user is asked whether to consent to provision of the first data to the first business entity.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250029131
A first consent to utilizing first data collected from a first vehicle for a first purpose is obtained from a user of the first vehicle, a second consent to diverting the first data collected based on the first consent to a second purpose is obtained from a user of the first vehicle, and a predetermined process is performed to give a user of the first vehicle a portion of the benefit generated by diverting the first data to the second purpose.

WORK RECOGNITION SYSTEM, WORK RECOGNITION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250029045
A work recognition system that uses a plurality of work component recognition models into which information of movement, touch, hearing, position, camera, and equipment, and tools at the time of a work performed by a worker is input, the work recognition system including: a product selection filtering unit configured to select the work component recognition model based on a production instruction; a progress filtering unit configured to select the work component recognition model in…

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250029041
Information on a risk occurring when first data acquired during traveling by a first vehicle is provided to a first business is acquired, information on the risk is presented to a user associated with the first vehicle, and the user is asked whether to consent to provide the first data to the first business.

WORK RECOGNITION SYSTEM, WORK RECOGNITION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250029029
A work recognition system including: a storage unit configured to store a plurality of work component recognition models that take as input information of movement, touch, hearing, position, camera, and equipment, and tools at the time of a work to an object of a worker, divide the work into work components, and make a determination; a unit work recognition model generation unit configured to generate a general-purpose unit work recognition model by combining components independent of…

CARGO HANDLING SYSTEM

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250019215
A cargo handling system includes: a first detection unit configured to detect a cargo on a pallet held by a fork of a forklift as a loaded state together with the pallet using at least one type of sensor before cargo handling work is started; a first abnormality determination unit configured to determine whether the loaded state detected by the first detection unit is abnormal; a second detection unit configured to detect a work situation using a plurality of types of sensors after the…

ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250020123
An electric compressor includes a rotary shaft, a compression part, a motor including a stator, and a housing. The stator includes a stator core, coils corresponding to a plurality of phases, an insulator, coil ends, first leads of the winding wires, a neutral connection portion, and a cover member. The cover member has a cover end surface opposite from the coil ends. The cover end surface has an accommodation portion in which the neutral connection portion is accommodated. The first…

ENGINE CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250020086
A control device changes an operation line of an engine to an operation line according to an alcohol concentration on the condition that warm-up of the engine has been completed. Thus, when warm-up of the engine has been completed, the control device changes an operating point that is set according to a required output toward a higher torque side and a lower speed side when the alcohol concentration in a blended fuel is high than when the alcohol concentration in the blended fuel is low.…

VEHICLE

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250018951
The vehicle comprises a vehicle platform configured to be capable of receiving commands related to autonomous driving from the autonomous driving kit. The autonomous driving kit is configured to transmit a wake command to the vehicle platform requesting transition of the power mode of the vehicle platform to the wake mode. The vehicle platform transitions to the wake mode by the wake command only when the shift lever indicates parking and the vehicle speed is 0 km/h.

CARGO HANDLING CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250019214
A cargo handling control device includes a target detector detecting a cargo handling target, a position calculator calculating a position of the cargo handling target relative to a forklift truck, an approach controller control the forklift truck based on the position of the cargo handling so that the forklift truck approaches a cargo handling position corresponding to the cargo handling target, an approach determiner determining whether an approach of the forklift truck to the cargo…

ENGINE COMPARTMENT MOUNTED STRUCTURE

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250019004
An engine compartment mounted structure is provided with an engine mounted in an engine compartment of a vehicle, a charger mounted on the vehicle upper side of the transaxle mounted in the engine compartment and side by side in a vehicle width direction in a plan view, and a charging cable arranged from the charger to a charging port for external power supply connection provided on an outer plate of the vehicle, and the charging cable is arranged through a space between the engine and…

MOTION SICKNESS MITIGATION

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250018979
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to detecting whether a user in a vehicle is experiencing motion sickness. In one embodiment, a method includes determining whether a user in a vehicle is experiencing motion sickness based on a first movement measurement of the vehicle and a second movement measurement of a head of the user using a radar sensor and in response to determining whether the user is experiencing motion sickness, activating mitigation control.

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250018974
The present disclosure relates to an autonomous driving system mounted on a vehicle. The autonomous driving system comprises a storage device and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to execute acquiring recognition data by recognizing a situation around the vehicle, generating a path plan for the vehicle based on the recognition data, performing autonomous driving control of the vehicle in accordance with the path plan, and storing a data log related to the…

AUTOMATED DRIVING SYSTEM

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250018973
An automated driving system comprises one or more processors configured to perform automated driving control of a vehicle in accordance with a control parameter and one or more storage devices. The automated driving system stores log data related to the automated driving control in the one or more storage devices while performing the automated driving control. When a free capacity of the one or more storage devices is less than a threshold value, the automated driving system adjusts the…

DRIVER MONITORING DEVICE, DRIVER MONITORING METHOD AND DRIVER MONITORING COMPUTER PROGRAM

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250018968
The driver monitoring device includes a processor configured to: detect an object having a possibility of affecting traveling of a vehicle based on an external sensor signal, detect, among a gaze direction of a driver of the vehicle and an orientation of a face of the driver, at least the gaze direction based on a driver image, determine whether an object direction to the detected object is included within a peripheral visual range corresponding to a peripheral visual field of the driver…

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250018967
The information processing device includes a control unit that determines a traveling lane in which the host vehicle and the target vehicle travel from position information of the host vehicle and the target vehicle and map information, determines a traveling direction of the target vehicle with respect to the host vehicle from a difference in traveling azimuth angle of the host vehicle and the target vehicle, and outputs alert information corresponding to a determination result of the…

CONTROL SYSTEM

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250018958
A control system comprises one or more processors configured to perform vehicle control of a vehicle including a plurality of control functions and one or more storage devices. The control system stores log data related to the vehicle control in the one or more storage devices while performing the vehicle control. When a free capacity of the one or more storage devices is less than a threshold value, the control system restricts operation of one or more target control functions selected…

VEHICLE SPEED ACQUISITION DEVICE AND ABNORMAL NOISE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250018955
The vehicle speed acquisition device of the present disclosure acquires the position information at a predetermined first time interval, acquires the sound pressure of the sound emitted from the vehicle at the second time interval shorter than the first time interval, estimates the vehicle speed at the acquisition timing of the position information and the vehicle speed at the acquisition timing of the sound pressure based on the acquired position information and the first and second…