Toyota Patent Applications

DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250074442
The driving assistance device includes: a fluctuation amount recognition unit; a driver abnormality recognition unit that recognizes an abnormality of a driver of another vehicle based on a captured image of an external camera provided in a vehicle; an abnormal state determination unit that determines whether the other vehicle is in a fluctuation abnormality state based on a comparison result between a fluctuation amount of the other vehicle and the fluctuation threshold; and a…

ELECTRODE MANUFACTURING METHOD

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250079431
A coating step of coating a slurry obtained by dispersing an electrode material on a current collector foil in a solvent to obtain a coating film, and a drying step of drying the coating film while transporting the current collector foil on which the coating film is formed in a drying furnace, the coating film, three regions divided along the transport direction, a central portion disposed in the center of the width direction, and an end portion disposed on both sides of the central…

ELECTRIC CRAWLER VEHICLE

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250074508
An electric crawler vehicle includes a pair of left and right traveling crawlers, a traveling electric motor that generates traveling power to be transmitted to the pair of left and right traveling crawlers, and a turning electric motor that generates turning power to be transmitted to the pair of left and right traveling crawlers. The traveling electric motor and the turning electric motor are disposed on one lateral side of the vehicle.

WHEELED PLATFORM AND WHEELED PLATFORM SYSTEM

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250074492
The wheeled platform of the present disclosure includes a base on which an object is placed; wheels attached to the base; a lock device having a latch that is lockable to a striker that is fixed; a guide member configured to guide the striker to a position where the striker is lockable to the latch; and a wheeled platform side terminal contactable with a fixed side terminal disposed on a member to which the striker is fixed, the wheeled platform side terminal being disposed at a position…

MANUAL OPERATED SWING ARM DOLLY

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250074490
Systems and methods are provided for a swing arm dolly. A swing arm dolly can comprise a swing arm mounted on a frame. A lever and locking mechanism can lock the swing arm to the frame. One or more wheels can extend downward from the swing arm. The swing arm dolly can also comprise a spring-loaded plunger secured to the frame, wherein upon disengaging the locking mechanism, the one or more wheels roll onto the spring-loaded plunger, pushing the spring-loaded plunger downward to lock the…

SHARED CONTROL APPROACH FOR HIGHLY DYNAMIC VEHICLE OPERATION

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250074476
A method for a shared control, dynamic driving system is described. The method includes determining a vehicle command requested by a vehicle operator of an ego vehicle. The method also includes predicting the ego vehicle entering an unstable, controllable operating range if the vehicle command is performed. The method further includes adjusting the vehicle command to maintain control of the ego vehicle in the unstable, controllable operating range. The method also includes performing an…

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEM

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250074459
The autonomous driving system includes an external sensor, an internal sensor configured to detect a traveling state of the vehicle, a machine learning model configured to receive a detection results of the external sensor and the internal sensor as input values and outputs an instruction value of autonomous driving, an operation unit configured to perform the autonomous driving of the vehicle based on the instruction value output, a transmission unit configured to transmit information…

AUTOMATED DRIVING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD FOR AUTOMATED DRIVING SYSTEM

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250074458
An automated driving system for deciding to change a travel state of a host vehicle using a machine learning model in an automated driving control process for the host vehicle includes an automated driving control unit configured to decide to change the travel state of the host vehicle using the machine learning model on the basis of a preset target route and position information of the host vehicle and map information, or a detection result of an external sensor of the host vehicle, and…

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEM

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250074447
An autonomous driving system includes an external sensor, an internal sensor, a machine learning model configured to receive a detection result of the external sensor and the internal sensor as input values and output an instruction value of autonomous driving, an operation unit configured to perform the autonomous driving based on the instruction value, a user interface, and a control unit, wherein the control unit includes, determining at least one risk candidate scene, and extracting…

VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250074446
When a preceding vehicle condition is satisfied, a vehicle control device reduces either or both of deviation warning and deviation control compared to when the preceding vehicle condition is not satisfied. The preceding vehicle condition is satisfied when the condition that the other vehicle is detected in front of the host vehicle, and the left lateral distance or the right lateral distance is equal to or greater than the first threshold distance, the condition that the vehicle speed…

EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION DEVICE

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250073640
An exhaust gas purification device capable of reducing pressure loss and improving exhaust gas purification performance. Exhaust gas purification device including honeycomb substrate and outflow cell side catalyst. Honeycomb substrate includes porous partition wall defining plurality of cells extending from inflow side end surface to outflow side end surface. Plurality of cells include inflow and outflow cells adjacent across partition wall. Inflow cell has open inflow and sealed outflow…

DETECTION AND REMEDIATION OF AN INSTABILITY CONDITION IN A VEHICLE-TRAILER SYSTEM

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250074440
A stability monitoring system for detecting an instability condition in a moving vehicle-trailer system includes a processor and a memory communicably coupled to the processor. The memory may store a stability evaluation module configured to determine if a measured value of at least one stability evaluation parameter satisfies an associated predetermined condition. The stability evaluation module may be configured to, if the measured value of the stability evaluation parameter satisfies…

METHOD FOR DEVELOPING AUTONOMOUS DRIVING VEHICLE

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250074439
A method for developing an autonomous driving vehicle including an external sensor including a number, a type, and a detection performance as a sensor specification, wherein the autonomous driving vehicle includes a machine learning model to configured to output a route with respect to at least a recognition process and a planning process to plan the route among the recognition process, the planning process, and a vehicle control process, the method comprising: a first step of training…

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250074190
The control unit of the information processing device detects that a specific switch among the plurality of existing switches for operating each of the plurality of devices existing in the vehicle is operated by a predetermined method in which the function of the corresponding device is not exerted. The control unit of the information processing device transmits a command for causing the user terminal used by the user associated with the vehicle to perform a predetermined operation in…

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND SYSTEM

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250074170
In the information processing device, weather information predicts rain or snow around the parking location of the target vehicle, the control unit determines whether there is a roof at the parking location. Further, when it is determined that there is no roof at the parking location, the control unit sends inquiry information for inquiring whether to close the open and close roof to the user of the target vehicle. When the control unit receives an instruction to perform close control of…

HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250074154
An HEV mode and a BEV mode is a hybrid electric vehicle capable of traveling, comprising: a radiator; an air conditioner including a condenser and a pressure sensor for performing air conditioning in a room; a cooling fan that operates in response to the rotation of the engine to blow cooling air to the radiator and the condenser; and a control unit that controls the operation of the engine and the air conditioner, wherein the control unit reduces the amount of heat dissipation of the…

VEHICLE BEHAVIOR CONTROL DEVICE AND VEHICLE BEHAVIOR CONTROL METHOD

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250074133
The vehicle behavior control device includes a controller and an actuator that applies a control force to wheels of the vehicle through position control by the controller. The actuator is configured to apply a control force to the wheel by deforming the transmission member. The controller is configured to calculate a required control force for the actuator, adjust the required control force in consideration of the assumed reaction force, and perform position control of the actuator based…

VEHICLE BEHAVIOR CONTROL APPARATUS, VEHICLE BEHAVIOR CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250074132
A vehicle behavior control apparatus comprises first to fourth suspensions provided on first to fourth wheels of a vehicle, respectively. The first to fourth suspensions include first to fourth actuators that apply vertical control forces to the first to fourth wheels, respectively. When a failure occurs in the fourth actuator other than the i-th actuator (i=1 to 3) among the first to fourth actuators, the vehicle behavior control apparatus executes the following first to third process.…

SUSPENSION CONTROL SYSTEM

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250074129
A first acquisition unit acquires a road surface displacement-associated value related to up-down direction displacement of a road surface forward of a vehicle. A second acquisition unit acquires a state related to up-down direction displacement of a sprung structure or an unsprung structure of the vehicle. A deriving unit derives, in time series data of the road surface displacement-associated value or the state that is acquired, a ratio between a magnitude of a component of a first…

BATTERY ELECTRODE MATERIAL APPLICATION DEVICE

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250073745
The battery electrode material application device includes a conveyance unit that transports a conductive base material, a hopper configured to accommodate powder, a conductive screen disposed between the base material transported by the conveyance unit and the hopper, a voltage application unit that can apply a voltage between the conveyance unit and the screen, and an inclined plate that extends obliquely downward from the screen.