Toyota Patent Applications

FUEL CELL STACK

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250096298
A fuel cell stack includes power generation cells stacked in a first direction that is orthogonal to a vertical direction. The fuel cell stack includes a gas passage, a gas supply manifold, and a gas discharge manifold. The gas supply manifold and the gas discharge manifold are each located at a position aligned with the gas passage in a second direction and extend through the power generation cells in the first direction. A lower portion of a peripheral edge of the gas discharge…

COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM, AND USER EQUIPMENT

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250097765
A communication control device includes a processor configured to perform communication throttling for a plurality of user equipments when at least one of determinations is made. The determinations include the number of the user equipments connected to a base station being equal to or greater than a threshold, occurrence of congestion in the base station, and occurrence of traffic congestion in an area to which the base station belongs.

COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM, AND UE

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250097764
A communication control device includes a processor configured to perform communication throttling on a first user equipment determined to be located far from a base station out of a plurality of user equipments connected to the base station.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250097740
An information processing device installed in a vehicle that includes a first communication module for performing communication with a cellular communication network, a second communication module for performing communication among vehicles, and a control unit that executes receiving, from one or more other vehicles via the second communication module, communication state data relating to a state of communication with the cellular communication network, and determining whether a failure…

WIRELESS CHARGING DEVICE

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250096617
The wireless charging device is mounted on a vehicle. The wireless charging device includes a control unit. The control unit estimates the moving direction of the mobile terminal on the wireless charging device based on the direction of the acceleration in a case where the occurrence of acceleration having a magnitude equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold in the horizontal direction is detected during charging of the mobile terminal. Further, in the wireless charging device,…

ENERGY STORAGE CELL

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250096440
In the energy storage cell according to the present disclosure, the first wound electrode assembly includes a first positive electrode and a first negative electrode. The second wound electrode assembly includes a second positive electrode and a second negative electrode. The second positive electrode is not in contact with the first positive electrode. The second negative electrode is not in contact with the first negative electrode. The second wound electrode assembly is formed by…

POWER STORAGE CELL

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250096434
In a power storage cell, a current collector plate includes a central portion, an outer peripheral edge, a spoke, a first piece, and a second piece. The central portion is disposed to overlap with a center of the wound electrode body when viewed from an The outer peripheral edge is located on the outer peripheral side of the 5 axial direction. central portion. One of the outer peripheral edge and the central portion is connected to the case to electrically connect the current collector…

ASSEMBLIES FOR PROTECTING BATTERY PACKS OF A VEHICLE

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250096387
A battery pack assembly includes a frame, a cooling plate, a plurality of cross members, a plurality of reinforcement members, and a protection plate. The frame includes a front wall, a rear wall, and a pair of side walls. The plurality of cross members extend between the pair of side walls and is coupled to the cooling plate. The plurality of reinforcement members positioned below and coupled to the cooling plate are aligned with the plurality of cross members. The protection plate…

ELECTRODE LAMINATE AND BATTERY

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250096330
In the electrode laminate of the present disclosure, a fixing member including a curable resin is disposed on at least one side face portion. The fixing member has a thin film region and a thick film region. The thin film region is formed on at least one end portion including the terminal end of the fixing member, and the thick film region is formed at a portion other than the thin film region. The thickness of the fixing member is thinnest at the terminal end. Further, the battery of…

Method of Manufacturing Power Storage Cell

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250096303
A method of manufacturing a power storage cell includes: forming a wound electrode assembly by winding a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator; fixing a winding end portion, in a winding direction, of the wound electrode assembly, by a fixing member; housing, in a cell case, the wound electrode assembly having the winding end portion fixed by the fixing member; injecting an electrolyte solution in the cell case; and releasing fixing of the winding end portion by the…

CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICLE

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250093881
A control device for a vehicle includes an external force information acquisition unit configured to acquire external force information on external force acting on a vehicle that is an autonomous vehicle, an external force determination unit configured to determine a kind of the external force by using the external force information, and a traveling control signal generation unit configured to generate a traveling control signal for the vehicle in accordance with the kind of the external…

FUEL CELL SYSTEM

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250096293
A fuel cell system capable of maintaining the output of the fuel cell system. A fuel cell system, wherein the fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell stack, a cooling flow path configured to circulate cooling water for cooling the fuel cell stack in and out of the fuel cell stack, a radiator disposed on the cooling flow path, a bypass flow path branching from the cooling flow path upstream of the radiator of the cooling flow path, bypassing the radiator, and merging with the cooling flow…

METAL FOAM GAS DIFFUSION LAYERS WITH HYDROPHILIC SURFACES AND POLYMER-ELECTROLYTE-MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS WITH METAL FOAM GAS DIFFUSION LAYERS

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250096282
A bipolar plate-gas diffusion layer (GDL) assembly for a polymer-electrolyte-membrane (PEM) fuel cell includes a flat metallic bipolar plate and a porous metal GDL with superhydrophilic surfaces adjacent to and in direct contact with the flat metallic bipolar plate. The porous metal GDL includes flow channels defined by flow channels walls with flow channel surfaces. The flow channel walls and flow channel surfaces have an average porosity generally equal to an average porosity of an…

LITHIUM METAL SECONDARY BATTERY

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250096274
It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a lithium metal secondary battery capable of improving cycle property. A lithium metal secondary battery, wherein the lithium metal secondary battery comprises a negative electrode current collector layer, an alloy layer, an electrolyte layer, a positive electrode active material layer, and a positive electrode current collector layer in this order, and wherein the alloy layer comprises an alloy having indium and tin.

BATTERY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING BATTERY

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250096249
A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a battery with excellent discharge capacity properties. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a battery utilizing a deposition and dissolution reaction of a metal lithium as an anode reaction, the battery including: layers in the order of an anode current collector, a metal layer, an electrolyte layer, and a cathode active material layer in a thickness direction, wherein the metal layer contains a Li—Mg alloy phase…

SELF EXTRINSIC SELF-CALIBRATION VIA GEOMETRICALLY CONSISTENT SELF-SUPERVISED DEPTH AND EGO-MOTION LEARNING

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250095380
Systems and methods described herein relate to self-supervised scale-aware learning of camera extrinsic parameters. One embodiment processes instantaneous velocity between a target image and a context image captured by a first camera; jointly training a depth network and pose network based on scaling by the instantaneous velocity; produce depth map using the depth network; produce ego-motion of the first camera using the pose network; generate synthesized image from the target image…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TWO-STAGE 3D OBJECT DETECTION NETWORK FOR SENSOR FUSION

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250095345
Systems and methods are provided that implement two-stage three-dimensional (3D) object detection, which includes a distinct fusion of radar data and camera data. The radar data includes a four-dimensional (4D) millimeter-wave (MMW) radar point cloud, and the camera data includes a high-resolution image in the two-dimensional space (2D). Thereafter, a 3D ROI proposal is fused with 2D image data generating a 2D proposal projection. The 2D proposal projection comprises proposals that…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING IMAGES USING DIFFUSION MODEL

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250095246
Provided are a method, system, and device for generating synthetic images. The method may include, receiving an input image; removing at least one pre-existing object from the input image; inpainting the region where the at least one pre-existing object was removed; estimating a position of another pre-existing object from the input image; generating a layout over the input image based on the estimated position; and generating a synthetic object based on the layout.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250094917
A control unit configured to execute: acquiring a past processing result of each of a plurality of companies constituting a supply chain that manufactures a product by a plurality of processes using a recycled material, a current load state, an inventory amount, and a required amount of recycled material; generating a combination of companies in which the load of each company corresponding to each process is equal to or less than a predetermined load in accordance with a past processing…

SOFTWARE UPDATE APPARATUS, SOFTWARE UPDATE METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, VEHICLE, AND OTA MASTER

Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250094169
A software update apparatus includes a communication unit that sends a request for downloading update data to a center, a storage unit that stores the downloaded update data, and a control unit that executes, based on the update data, a control for installing, or installing and activating update software on one or more target electronic control units from among a plurality of electronic control units connected to each other via an in-vehicle network. The control unit acquires software…