Toyota Patent Applications

OPERATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS

Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number: 20240151542
An operation management apparatus is configured to operate a vehicle by automated driving. The operation management apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire precipitation data indicating the amount of precipitation forecasted to fall during a time period that lasts until operation of the vehicle is completed, perform, using the acquired precipitation data as an input, a determination process to determine an occurrence state of puddles for each of a plurality of candidate…

ATTACK DETECTION SYSTEM

Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number: 20240155002
A first controller of a first device monitors communication to a first vehicle connected to the network. Further, when it is detected that an attack on the first vehicle is being carried out from the attack source device, the first controller transmits a first command for activating a honeypot server simulating a vehicle system of the first vehicle to the second device and transmits a second command for transferring packets transmitted from the attacking device to the first vehicle to…

SOLID-STATE BATTERY

Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number: 20240154160
A solid-state battery including a cathode layer, a solid electrolyte layer and an anode layer in this order. The solid electrolyte layer includes a first solid electrolyte layer and a second solid electrolyte layer. The first solid electrolyte layer is disposed adjacent to the cathode layer or the anode layer. The second solid electrolyte layer is disposed adjacent to the first solid electrolyte layer. The first solid electrolyte layer includes a solid electrolyte. The second solid…

METHOD FOR PRODUCING POWER STORAGE MODULE, GRIPPING JIG, AND POSITION CORRECTING JIG

Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number: 20240154148
A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a method for producing a power storage module capable of inhibiting interference of a nest and a frame body during arranging the frame body in a side surface of a layered member. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a method for producing a power storage module, the method including a preparing step of preparing a layered member, and a frame body arranging step of arranging a frame body in a side surface of the…

RARE-EARTH ANISOTROPIC MAGNET POWDER, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME

Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number: 20240153680
Provided is a rare-earth anisotropic magnet powder capable of achieving high magnetic properties while reducing the usage of Nd and Pr. The present invention provides a rare-earth anisotropic magnet powder comprising magnetic particles that contain rare-earth elements, boron, and a transition metal element. The rare-earth elements include a first rare-earth element that comprises Ce and/or La and a second rare-earth element that comprises Nd and/or Pr. The rare-earth elements have a…

PARKING LOT MANAGEMENT METHOD AND PARKING LOT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number: 20240153387
A parking lot includes a plurality of parking spaces monitored by a single camera. A parking lot management method for managing the parking lot includes a parking space allocation process that allocates an available parking space having a highest entry priority among the plurality of parking spaces to an entry vehicle entering the parking lot. The plurality of parking spaces include a first parking space and a second parking space that is closer to an installation position of the single…

SCENE SYNTHESIS FROM HUMAN MOTION

Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number: 20240153101
A method for scene synthesis from human motion is described. The method includes computing three-dimensional (3D) human pose trajectories of human motion in a scene. The method also includes generating contact labels of unseen objects in the scene based on the computing of the 3D human pose trajectories. The method further includes estimating contact points between human body vertices of the 3D human pose trajectories and the contact labels of the unseen objects that are in contact with…

OUTPUT DEVICE

Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number: 20240153056
An output device including: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to: acquire a satellite image in which a target region is photographed and event information relating to events that have occurred in the target region; and output, from among roads in the target region, a road for which a safety degree calculated based on the satellite image and the event information is less than a threshold value.

MANAGEMENT APPARATUS

Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number: 20240152824
A management apparatus includes a controller configured to present a power supply service available to a vehicle to be power supplied based on a status of the power supply service, and accept a reservation for use of the power supply service from a user of the vehicle to be power supplied.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, VEHICLE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number: 20240151839
An information processing device includes: a distance measuring section that carries out communication between an own device and a portable terminal by using BLE wireless communication, and, in a case in which strength of a signal relating to the BLE wireless communication is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value, starts measuring a distance between the own device and the portable terminal by using UWB wireless communication; a judging section judging whether or not…

CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number: 20240151076
A control device for an in-vehicle power supply system, comprising: a main power supply that supplies electric power to a load mounted on a vehicle; a redundant power supply that includes a capacitor for storing electric power and supplies electric power from the capacitor to the load when the main power supply fails; and a relay that switches the power supply source to the load to either the main power supply or the redundant power supply, wherein after the ignition of the vehicle is…

VEHICLE SELECTION DEVICE AND VEHICLE SELECTION METHOD

Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number: 20240149919
A vehicle selection device includes a processor. The processor is configured to execute a selection process of selecting, as a target vehicle to be followed by a specific vehicle, a preceding vehicle candidate that satisfies one or more selection conditions based on surrounding vehicle information being information on one or more preceding vehicle candidates around the specific vehicle. In the selection process, the processor is configured to change the one or more selection conditions…

CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number: 20240149869
The control device according to the present disclosure is configured to execute, in a process of stopping a vehicle in an emergency, acquiring occupant information including information on at least one of a state or an attribute of an occupant of the vehicle, acquiring traveling environment information of the vehicle, calculating an in-vehicle risk indicating a risk of damage to the occupant when the vehicle is decelerated by the first braking control based on the occupant information,…

VEHICLE ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number: 20240149813
A vehicle electric power supply device includes an electric power storage device, a relay device, an electric current sensor, and a control device. The control device instructs an external electric power supply to stop outputting supplied electric power when an abnormality in the electric current value is detected during charging of the electric power storage device. The control device also controls a timing of cutting off a switch of the relay device, based on a state of the electric…

LOWER LIMB EXERCISE DEVICE AND EXERCISE SYSTEM

Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number: 20240149108
A rowing exercise device includes: a pair of pedals; and a device body that guides the pair of pedals in such a way that the pair of pedals repeatedly move along a predetermined trajectory. A user performs a lower limb exercise by putting his/her feet on the pair of respective pedals. Each pedal is configured in such a way that a relative roll turn of a forefoot part relative to the device body is prevented while a relative roll turn of a rearfoot part relative to the forefoot part is…

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

Granted: May 2, 2024
Application Number: 20240144739
An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a management server includes a controller configured to execute operations, the operations including acquiring sensor information from a sensor installed in a vehicle, and upon detecting, from the sensor information, an abnormality in the vehicle, notifying the management server of the content of the abnormality.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSISTING A VEHICLE DRIVER AT A ROUNDABOUT

Granted: May 2, 2024
Application Number: 20240144819
Systems and methods for assisting a vehicle driver at a roundabout are disclosed herein. One embodiment determines that a vehicle is approaching and is within a predetermined distance from a roundabout and plays, in a passenger compartment of the vehicle in response to the determining that the vehicle is approaching and is within the predetermined distance from the roundabout, an audio prompt such that the audio prompt is panned from a first speaker on a first side of the vehicle to a…

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

Granted: May 2, 2024
Application Number: 20240144808
An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a plurality of vehicles configured to perform automated driving includes a controller configured to execute operations, the operations including receiving, from each of the plurality of vehicles, a notification of a content of an abnormality, in-vehicle images, and the number of persons in the vehicle, prioritizing the plurality of vehicles based on determination results by determining, for each of the plurality of…

VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH A PROGRAM IS RECORDED

Granted: May 2, 2024
Application Number: 20240144758
A vehicle control device includes: a receiving section receiving, from a user, setting processing for setting a time period in which control of a vehicle by using an information processing device is suppressed; a detecting section detecting a predetermined user operation for control of the vehicle; and a control permitting section that, in a case in which the predetermined user operation is detected in a time period that is different than the time period in which control of the vehicle…

VEHICLE INSPECTION SYSTEM AND VEHICLE INSPECTION METHOD

Granted: May 2, 2024
Application Number: 20240144752
A vehicle inspection system acquires a first camera image captured by a first camera and a second camera image captured by a second camera, calculates a first optical axis coordinate value from the first camera image and a second optical axis coordinate value from the second camera image, determines whether there is an abnormality in each of the first optical axis coordinate value and the second optical axis coordinate value, and identifies an abnormality factor portion causing an…