Toyota Patent Applications

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.

POWER STORAGE DEVICE

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250023175
A power storage device includes: a plurality of power storage modules arranged in a first direction; a housing case including an upper case; and a plurality of support members, an exhaust valve is provided on one side, in the first direction, of the upper case, the upper case includes a one-side top plate portion, an other-side top plate portion, and a center-side top plate portion that are located, in a second direction, on one side, on the other side, and in a center portion,…

POWER STORAGE MODULE

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250023151
A power storage module includes a case that houses a plurality of electrode assemblies. The case includes a case body and at least one partition portion. The case body surrounds the plurality of electrode assemblies. The partition portion is located between the electrode assemblies adjacent to each other to partition an accommodation space of the case body. The partition portion includes a pair of resin layers and a metal layer. The pair of resin layers is formed integrally with the case…

POWER STORAGE MODULE

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250023144
A power storage module has a case including a case body and at least one partition portion. The case body surrounds a plurality of electrode assemblies. The partition portion is located between the electrode assemblies adjacent to each other to partition an accommodation space of the case body. In the accommodation space of the case body, the partition portion forms a first compartment and a second compartment adjacent to the first compartment with the partition portion interposed…

METHOD FOR COOLING BATTERY

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250023134
In a laminated all-solid-state battery, a negative electrode terminal and a positive electrode terminal around which a resin sheet is wound are sandwiched between exterior members (laminate films), and the exterior members are joined by heat welding. The laminated all-solid-state battery is in contact with the heat exchanger via a heat conductive sheet. When the terminal temperature detected by the temperature sensor provided at the negative electrode terminal and the positive electrode…

ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250023132
An energy storage device includes a plurality of energy storage cells, a case, and a desulfurization unit. The case includes a top wall, and the top wall includes a discharge portion that discharges gas from inside the case to outside the case. The desulfurization unit includes a desulfurization agent and a communication path that contains the desulfurization agent and that allows the inside of the case to communicate with the discharge portion. The communication path includes a…

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.…

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…

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…

VEHICLE

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250018925
Vehicles include a battery, a MG, and an ECU. The battery stores electric power as an energy source of the vehicle. MG generates the driving force of the vehicles by consuming power. ECU controls MG. Battery power includes green power and non-green power, each classified according to the greenhouse gas emission intensity. The emission intensity of green power is smaller than that of non-green power. ECU controls MG so as to limit the driving force in a case where the amount of green…

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEM

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250018977
An autonomous driving route along which autonomous driving control of a vehicle is executed is set. In the setting of the autonomous driving route, at least two candidates of a route from a current location to a destination of the vehicle are set. Next, for each of the at least two candidates, a fluctuation amount of log data that fluctuates in a memory device during a travel of the vehicle along the candidate of the route. Next, a future value of a free space in the memory device at…

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…

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.

INITIATING OPERATING BEHAVIOR BETWEEN VEHICLES

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250018946
An example operation includes one or more of: determining an operating behavior of a first vehicle that is not part of a connected vehicle system from a device communicatively coupled to the first vehicle, wherein the device is configured to operate with the connected vehicle system; determining that the operating behavior is not associated with a second vehicle that is part of the connected vehicle system; and initiating the operating behavior in the second vehicle when the device is…