Toyota Patent Applications

METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOBILE SHOP AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING MOBILE SHOP

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240103524
A method for controlling a mobile shop includes: determining a selling situation of a plurality of items using information about an inventory status of the plurality of items and information about a well-selling time of the plurality of items; setting a charging schedule for a battery (secondary battery) based on the selling situation; and causing the mobile shop to move to EVSE (charging facility) according to the charging schedule.

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240106791
An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to execute: obtaining, from a user device, a query requesting name resolution of a first device accessible via a wide area network by DNS protocol; obtaining a first IP address, which is an IP address of the first device, based on the query; generating a second IP address that is a dummy IP address corresponding to the first IP address; replacing the first IP address with the second IP address, and transmitting a…

PRODUCTION DEVICE OF ELECTRODE MEMBER AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF ELECTRODE MEMBER

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240105903
A production device of an electrode member to be used for a battery, the production device including: a backup roll configured to support a current collector to be carried; a first die configured to form a first coating layer by coating the current collector on the backup roll with a first slurry; and a second die configured to form a second coating layer by coating the first coating layer on the backup roll with a second slurry, wherein each of the first die and the second die are…

SOUND ABSORBING DEVICES FOR PANELS WITH OPENINGS

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240105155
A sound absorbing device includes a panel with an opening, a duct extending from the panel and in fluid communication with the opening, and a plurality of acoustic resonators embedded in the panel and in fluid communication with the duct. The duct can have a rectangular cuboid shape and the plurality of acoustic resonators can include a first subset of quarter-wavelength tubes extending from a first planar side of the duct, a second subset of quarter-wavelength tubes extending from a…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RENDERING AND OPERATING VIRTUAL VEHICLES

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240104982
Systems and methods for generating vehicle profiles and rendering and operating a virtual world are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of generating a vehicle profile for operating a virtual vehicle in a virtual environment includes receiving vehicle sensor data from at least one sensor corresponding to a physical vehicle, determining at least one vehicle performance attribute from the vehicle sensor data, and storing the at least one vehicle performance attribute in the vehicle…

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUILDING MULTI-VIEW MACHINE LEARNING DATASETS FROM FLEET DATA

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240104905
A method for multi-view dataset formation from fleet data is described. The method includes detecting at least a pair of vehicles within a vicinity of one another, and having overlapping viewing frustums of a scene. The method also includes triggering a capture of sensor data from the pair of vehicles. The method further includes synchronizing the sensor data captured by the pair of vehicles. The method also includes registering the sensor data captured by the pair of vehicles within a…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY GENERATING ARTWORK BASED ON VEHICLE SENSOR DATA

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240104788
Systems and methods for dynamically generating artwork from vehicle sensor data are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of generating an artwork includes receiving vehicle sensor data from a vehicle, inputting the vehicle sensor data into a trained model, and generating, by the trained model, the artwork based at least in part on the vehicle sensor data.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FEDERATED LEARNING WITH HETEROGENEOUS CLIENTS VIA DATA-FREE KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240104427
A system for training a model using federated learning is provided. The system includes a server, and a plurality of vehicles. Each of the vehicles includes a controller programmed to: transmit first knowledge data including information about a plurality of feature vectors and information about a plurality of predictions, receive first aggregated knowledge from the server, and train a local model based on the first aggregated knowledge. The server averages the first knowledge data…

TIME-SERIES DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND PROCESSING DEVICE

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240104397
A processing device for time-series data for reducing a data amount of time-series data, comprising: a compression processing unit that performs predetermined compression processing on original data of quantized time-series data, reduces the data amount, and converts the data into data for storage in a form that can be stored in a storage unit, wherein the compression processing unit calculates a first statistical index related to the original data, excludes data corresponding to an…

ROBUST OVER THE AIR REPROGRAMMING

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240103843
An example operation includes one or more of downloading an update of a non-volatile electrically erasable memory storage of a vehicle, determining whether the memory storage is arranged in one of a block of bytes of memory and an individual byte of memory, selecting a programming protocol based on the memory storage arrangement and writing the memory storage based on the selected programming protocol.

APPENDAGE PRESSURIZATION DEVICES COMPRISING ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240099871
An appendage pressurization device includes an appendage strap and one or more artificial muscles disposed in the appendage strap and communicatively coupled to a controller. Each artificial muscle includes a housing comprising an electrode region and an expandable fluid region, a dielectric fluid housed within the housing, and an electrode pair positioned in the electrode region of the housing, the electrode pair comprising a first electrode fixed to a first surface of the housing and a…

RECYCLING SUPPORT SYSTEM

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240103502
A recycling support system for a production facility performing a plurality of types of recycling processing using marine plants includes a measurement unit configured to measure an amount of remaining energy used to operate the production facility, and a control unit configured to control a proportion of each of the plurality of types of recycling processing carried out in the production facility according to the amount of remaining energy used to operate the production facility…

LASER RADAR MOUNTING STRUCTURE

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240103135
A laser radar mounting structure is for mounting a laser radar to a vehicle. The laser radar has an irradiation unit configured to irradiate an electromagnetic wave for detecting an object around the vehicle. The laser radar mounting structure includes: an installation hole provided near a front pillar on a windshield of the vehicle, near a rear pillar on a rear glass of the vehicle, near the front pillar on a roof of the vehicle, or near the rear pillar on the roof of the vehicle; the…

Electrically Powered Vehicle and Method of Diagnosing Deterioration of Vehicle Battery

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240103091
When a PCU (inverter) of an electrically powered vehicle fails, a first map where a temperature and a current of a battery are defined as parameters or a second map where a temperature and a rate of change in voltage of the battery are defined as parameters is used to determine whether or not rapid deterioration of the battery has occurred. When it is determined that the rapid deterioration of the battery has occurred, a battery replacement indicator is turned on.

RESINS FOR ADHESIVE BONDING OF FABRICS

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240101875
A resin for adhesive bonding to fabrics includes between about 80 wt. % and about 90 wt. % of a monomer, between about 10 wt. % and about 20 wt. % of a cross-linking agent with two or more acrylic acid groups separated by a flexible linker, between about 0.5 wt. % and about 1.5 wt. % of a photoinitiator, and between about 10 wt. % and about 15 wt. % of a thickening agent. The monomer as a melting point less than 25° C. and the flexible linker has subunits such as methylene glycol,…

DRIVING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240101194
A driving assistance system includes: a first control unit configured to output an output amount related to a required amount; and a second control unit configured to calculate a difference amount between the output amount output and an actually measured amount of an actuator, and control the actuator based on the difference amount and a torque map, in which in assist control (second driving assistance control), the first control unit calculates a difference amount between a second…

NOTIFICATION DEVICE AND NOTIFICATION METHOD

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240101133
With reference to a message table associating a plurality of messages to be notified to a driver of a vehicle with a first condition, a second condition, last notification time of the message, and renotification requirement, a notification device selects messages associated with an identified first condition corresponding to a situation of surroundings of a vehicle or a state of a driver, selects, from among the messages associated with the identified first condition, messages associated…

TRAVEL PLANNER AND METHOD FOR TRAVEL PLANNING

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240101119
A travel planner identifies, for a connection point where a travel lane in which a vehicle is traveling connects ahead of the vehicle with another lane different from the travel lane, an entry time range representing a time range during which entry of the vehicle from the travel lane to the connection point is recommended, and creates a travel plan including a transition of travel speed of the vehicle from a current position of the vehicle to the connection point so as to arrive at the…

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND SYSTEM

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240101068
A controller is provided that is configured to perform: identifying a first user who is a user using a vehicle that is associated with a plurality of users; and transmitting, to a terminal of the first user, information about a parking position of the vehicle when the vehicle is parked, and not transmitting the information about the parking position of the vehicle to a terminal of a second user, who is a user other than the first user among the plurality of users.

VEHICLE

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240100973
A vehicle includes: a battery; an electricity supply unit configured to be capable of supplying electric power from the battery to an external load; a charge port unit including a charge inlet that a charge connector is attached to and detached from, the charge connector being used for charging the battery with an external electricity source; and a control unit configured to control operation of a movable portion that is included in the charge port unit. When an external electricity…