Toyota Patent Applications

CONTROL DEVICE FOR IN-VEHICLE UNIT AND CONTROL METHOD OF IN-VEHICLE UNIT

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240409155
A control device for an in-vehicle unit installed in a vehicle having a warning light includes a control circuit and a storage circuit. The control circuit executes an abnormality detection process, a detection result write-in process, and a lighting request output process. The storage circuit retains contents of the history information even when the in-vehicle unit is powered on or powered off. The control circuit is configured to retrieve the contents of the history information from…

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240414778
The information processing device includes a storage unit that stores authentication information used for connection to a first communication system, a first eUICC that holds profile information used for connection to a first carrier network selected and contracted by a user as an access network, and a control unit. The controller receives the authentication in the first carrier network by using the profile information, establishes a connection with the first carrier network, and…

COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240414134
A communication device communicating with an in-vehicle terminal includes a control unit that performs: authentication based on authentication information that the communication device receives from the in-vehicle terminal by using a tunnel established on an access network selected from among a plurality of access networks available for communication between the in-vehicle terminal and the communication device; and, when the authentication succeeds, routing of data received from the…

DRIVE DEVICE

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240413699
A drive device including a motor case, a first case, and a second case is provided. The motor case is configured to house a motor. The first case is configured to house a gear unit that is mechanically connected with the motor. The second case is configured to house an electric power conversion unit that is electrically connected with the motor. The first case and the second case are fastened to the motor case by a plurality of fastening members. The plurality of fastening members…

COOLING SYSTEM

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240413429
In the present disclosure, there is provided a cooling system including a circulation path for circulating an insulating coolant of a non-aqueous system, and a coolant storage unit provided in the circulation path and storing the insulating coolant, wherein a specific gravity of the insulating coolant is smaller than that of water, and the coolant storage unit has a water removing portion therein, and the water removing portion is fixed to the coolant storage unit so that at least part…

METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BIPOLAR ELECTRODE LAMINATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BIPOLAR BATTERY

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240413292
The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a bipolar electrode laminate in which a positive electrode active material layer and a negative electrode active material layer can each have a desired density and a small manufacturing process. The method of the present disclosure for manufacturing a bipolar electrode laminate comprising, providing a first electrode mixture, and the second electrode mixture comprising an electrolyte component, forming the first electrode mixture…

SAFE DRIVING SUPPORT SYSTEM AND SAFE DRIVING SUPPORT METHOD

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240412636
In a safe driving support system, a data center is connected to a plurality of vehicles via a communication network. The data center stores a position of a first vehicle of which a G sensor detects that behavior of the vehicle has been disturbed when caution information is received from the first vehicle as a caution-needed spot in a storage device. The data center transmits data of a caution image extracted from data of images in a predetermined period before the caution information has…

METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING BEHAVIOR

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240412561
In a method for recognizing behavior, a computer obtains skeleton information of a worker in time series from video data. The computer obtains position coordinates of each part of the worker included in the obtained skeleton information. When the skeleton information of more than one worker is obtained, the computer identifies a worker subject to behavior recognition based on the position coordinates of each worker. The computer recognizes behavior of the identified worker based on the…

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240411480
The information processing device places the input first data in at least one of the plurality of storage devices. The information processing device includes a control unit that executes acquisition of a constraint condition including a first condition related to time for determining a storage device in which the first data is to be placed, and, when the generation time of the first data satisfies the first condition, determination of a first storage device that is a storage device to…

DRIVE DEVICE

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240410464
The drive device includes a first motor. The drive device includes a first rotational shaft that integrally rotates with a rotor of the first motor. The drive device includes a first counter shaft that is disposed parallel to the first rotational shaft and that is also connected to the first rotational shaft via a first counter gear. The drive device includes a first transmission shaft that is disposed coaxially with the first rotational shaft and that is also connected to the first…

PRESS DEVICE AND METHOD OF PRESSING

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240408660
A controller of a press device causes a presser to stop pressing upon a press die being displaced by a specific dimension after a time point when a detection value provided by a pressing force detector has exceeded a threshold value.

CONTROL DEVICE FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING VEHICLE

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240409120
A control device for causing a vehicle to travel by autonomous driving based on a target path calculated based on a current position on map data of a vehicle estimated by a map data, a behavior detection sensor, and an external detection sensor, wherein a current position of the vehicle is estimated by correcting a position on map data of the vehicle in accordance with a relative position of the vehicle on a roadway, a correction amount at that time is obtained, a change in a correction…

INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240409111
An information providing system includes a memory device that stores accident-prone location information including items. Each of the items includes position information of a spot that requires attention of a driver and a precaution related to the spot. The processing circuitry is configured to store, in the memory device, history information indicating whether the driver has been notified of each of the items. The processing circuitry is configured to extract, based on the…

LANE CHANGE SUPPORT DEVICE

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240409096
A lane change support device includes a control unit configured to execute lane change control for enabling a vehicle to automatically change lanes from a lane in which the vehicle is traveling to an adjacent lane. The control unit counts a holding time for which an operation part that is operated to a predetermined operation position to start the lane change control is continuously held at the operation position, starts the lane change control when the counted holding time reaches a…

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240409095
An information processing device that generates information regarding vehicle driving, the information processing device periodically estimating a factor causing a first vehicle to stop based on information collected from a second vehicle preceding the first vehicle., determining whether or not the first vehicle needs to stop and the stopping position based on the result of the estimation; and when it is determined that the first vehicle needs to stop at the stopping position, the first…

VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240409082
A vehicle control device includes a rotating electrical machine and a gasoline engine, and controls a vehicle that receives electric power from a power supply lane provided on a road side and charges a battery that outputs power of the rotating electrical machine, the vehicle control device including a processor, wherein the processor selects one of first travel by the rotating electrical machine and second travel by the gasoline engine based on the electric power price and the gasoline…

HEADLIGHT ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM WITH MEASURING ASSEMBLY INCLUDING OPTICAL BEAM EXTENDING PAST AN ARTICULATING REFERENCE

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240409024
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to vehicle headlight calibration. In one embodiment, a headlight adjustment system includes a headlight positioned in a vehicle with a measuring assembly attached to the headlight. An adjust system is connected to the moving assembly and a moving mechanism. In response to an optical beam of the measuring assembly extending past an articulating reference member of the measuring assembly to an optical receptor of the measuring…

SEATBACK AND VEHICLE SEAT

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240409016
A seatback includes a pressure-receiving member and a drive mechanism. The pressure-receiving member includes a first pressure-receiving portion configured to support a lumbar region of an occupant, and a second pressure-receiving portion joined to an upper part of the first pressure-receiving portion and configured to support a back of the occupant in cooperation with the first pressure-receiving portion. The drive mechanism is configured to displace the pressure-receiving member…

INSTRUMENT PANEL FOR VEHICLE

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240408964
An instrument panel includes a groove extending in a direction intersecting with a vehicle width direction and provided on one side of an opening of the instrument panel in the vehicle width direction, at a position offset from the opening in the vehicle width direction, and a first stepped portion and a second stepped portion that are configured to restrain liquid from flowing toward the opening in a case where the liquid flows into the groove and overflows the groove. In this…

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TEMPORARY STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240408963
An information processing device includes a processor. The processor is configured to cause an information display unit to blink with a predetermined blinking pattern. The information display unit is arranged on a vehicle such that a user of the vehicle is able to see the information display unit from outside of the vehicle. The processor is configured to transmit to a terminal of the user blinking pattern information which causes at least part of a display screen of the terminal of the…