Toyota Patent Applications

REDUNDANT POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250105661
A redundant power supply system connected to a load system to which power is supplied from a main power supply, comprising: a redundant power supply redundantly provided to the main power supply; a first semiconductor relay connecting the redundant power supply and the load system so that backup power supply from the redundant power supply to the load system can be supplied; and a second semiconductor relay connecting the main power supply and the redundant power supply so that the…

POSITION DETERMINING SYSTEM AND POSITION DETERMINING METHOD

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250106806
The position determining system includes: a communication state acquiring unit that acquires a communication state between each of a plurality of access points and a plurality of communication devices; an placement state acquiring unit that acquires placement state data that is at least one of image data in a region in which the plurality of communication devices exist and point cloud data in the region; and a position determining unit that determines a position of the plurality of…

SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT SERVER

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250106630
A management server according to one aspect of the present disclosure accepts setting of a correspondence relation between a first target and a second target in response to a linking demand. In a case where a predetermined condition is not satisfied, the management server acquires authentication results of both the first target and the second target and sets the correspondence relation in accordance with success in authentication of both the first target and the second target in the…

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250106606
The information processing device mounted on the first vehicle performs acquisition of one or a plurality of first information including a traveling route from one or a plurality of vehicles existing in the surroundings through inter-vehicle communication, selection of a second vehicle that is scheduled to travel on at least a part of the same route as the first route on which the first vehicle is scheduled to travel from among the one or a plurality of vehicles based on the one or a…

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250106589
The information processing device acquires current positions of a plurality of vehicles. Further, the information processing device estimates an intensity distribution of radio waves output by each of the plurality of vehicles according to a current position of the plurality of vehicles. In addition, the information processing device acquires the reception intensity of the radio wave output by each of the plurality of vehicles received by the terminal moving together with the user. Then,…

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250106278
An information processing device for performing load balancing between a plurality of edge servers. Acquire a load on one or more microservices operating at each of the plurality of edge servers, and determine to operate at the first edge server to forward a predetermined percentage of requests of one or more requests issued to the first microservice loaded by a predetermined amount or more to a second microservice operating at the one or more second edge servers.

MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250106209
A management system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a first server, a second server, and a management server. When a use relationship occurs between a first target and a second target, the first server authenticates the first target in response to a request from a second terminal of the second target, and the second server authenticates the second target in response to a request from a first terminal of the first target. The management server receives results…

MANAGEMENT SERVER, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250106204
A management server according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes at least one processor. The processor receives a first identifier, first unique information, a second identifier, and second unique information in response to occurrence of a use relationship between a first target and a second target, requests authentication of the first target by transmitting the received first identifier and the received first unique information to a first server, requests authentication of…

SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250106199
A management server according to an aspect of the present disclosure receives a first certificate and a second certificate from a terminal according to a use relation occurring between a first target and a second target and receives a first time limit certificate and a second time limit certificate from a server. The management server performs collation of the first certificate and the first time limit certificate and collation of the second certificate and the second time limit…

TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250106045
A terminal of a first target that is one of a mobility and a user has a controller. The controller provides electronic information to another terminal of a second target that is the other of the mobility and the user. The controller obtains an electronic signature of the second target and an electronic certificate of the second target from the other terminal. The controller verifies the validity of the electronic certificate of the second target using a public key of a certificate…

LIMITING BATTERY DEGRADATION FOR A GROUP OF VEHICLES

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250104091
An example operation includes one or more of: receiving usage data of a group of vehicles; determining an operator of a vehicle of the group of vehicles with a lowest battery degradation, based on the usage data; and predicting one or more other operators of other vehicles of the group of vehicles, with a highest probability of providing the lowest battery degradation, based on the determining.

METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BATTERY

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250105480
A method for manufacturing a battery, including: a first injection step of injecting a first electrolytic solution that contains lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide into an electrode body having a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; a first charging step of performing first charging after the first injection step; a first aging step of performing aging treatment after the first charging step; a…

ENERGY STORAGE CELL

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250105477
In an energy storage cell according to the present disclosure, a wound electrode assembly includes a first electrode and a second electrode. A first current collector member is connected to the first electrode. A second current collector member is connected to the second electrode. A lid includes a first external terminal and a second external terminal. The first external terminal is disposed so as to overlap the radial center of the wound electrode assembly as viewed in an axial…

POWER STORAGE MODULE

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250105459
A power storage module includes an electrode stack and a seal. The electrode stack includes a first end surface and a second end surface and a side surface. The seal includes: a side surface part; a first projecting part projecting onto the first end surface; a second projecting part projecting onto the second end surface; an overhang extending outward of the electrode stack; and a rib provided on the overhang. The side surface part includes a connecting portion to which the overhang is…

POWER STORAGE DEVICE

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250105458
In a power storage device, an outer edge portion protruding farther outward than the edge portion of the current collector in each of the spacers and an outer edge portion protruding farther outward than the edge portion of the current collector in each of the seal members adjacent to each of the spacers in the lamination direction are welded to each other to form an outer surface of the sealing body, and a melt mass flow rate of a resin material constituting the spacer is larger than a…

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250104472
A controller is provided which acquires user identification information that is identification information of a user of a vehicle; acquires an authentication face image that is an image associated with the user identification information and is an image of a face for authentication of the user of the vehicle; acquires a user's face image that is an image generated by photographing the user of the vehicle with a camera disposed outside the vehicle; performs face authentication based on a…

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRACKING ROADWAY LANE MARKINGS

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250104446
The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for tracking roadway lane markings. The method includes collecting a frame of image data of the roadway, separating a first individual lane marking from among the first frame of image data of the roadway, assigning an identifier to the separated individual lane marking, and comparing the first separated individual lane marking to a subsequent frame of image data of the roadway.

INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROVIDING SERVER

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250104433
An information providing method in an information providing system is a method for providing information about a plurality of spots to a user by a server and a terminal device. Each of the plurality of spots is associated with a plurality of images that are different from one another in category. The information providing method includes: identifying a target spot from the plurality of spots (e.g., step S122, step S124); and selecting, from the plurality of images associated with the…

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FUSING MULTI-MODAL SENSOR DATA

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250104409
A method of fusing multi-modal sensor data is provided. The method includes obtaining features for 3D data captured by a first sensor of an ego vehicle, obtaining features for images captured by second sensors of the ego vehicle, flattening the features for 3D data to first features in bird eye view, transforming the features for images into second features in bird eye view, concatenating the first features and the second features to obtain first concatenated multi-sensor features, and…

WINDOW FOG DETECTION DEVICE

Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250104378
A window fog detection device includes a fog determination unit. The fog determination unit is configured to determine a fogging state of a window of a vehicle by performing image processing on an image generated by a camera that captures an image of surroundings of the vehicle through the window. The fog determination unit limits an image region to be used to determine the fogging state so as to reduce a load of the image processing.