Toyota Patent Applications

ELECTRODE FOR SOLID-STATE BATTERY, AND SOLID-STATE BATTERY

Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number: 20250007008
An electrode for a solid-state battery includes a sulfide solid electrolyte, and a metal that reacts with the sulfide solid electrolyte to exhibit electron conductivity. The content of the metal, with respect to the total volume of the electrode for a solid-state battery, is greater than or equal to 5 ppm by volume and less than 10,000 ppm by volume.

CONDUCTIVE MODULE AND POWER STORAGE DEVICE

Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number: 20250007128
A conductive module includes: a conductive board; a voltage detection terminal having a first location configured to be conductively connected to the conductive board; a temperature measurer including a temperature-measuring element and a case holding the temperature-measuring element; a plate-shaped housing assembled to the conductive board, the housing having a terminal accommodating recess accommodating the voltage detection terminal and a temperature measurer accommodating recess…

POWER STORAGE MODULE

Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number: 20250007105
A power storage module includes a plurality of power storage cells, a module case, and a connection member. The plurality of power storage cells each include an electrode assembly, a cell case, and an external terminal. The external terminal is electrically connected to the electrode assembly, located outside the cell case, and disposed at a side of the cell case in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction. The module case includes a bottom surface portion and a peripheral side…

SECONDARY BATTERY

Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number: 20250007100
A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly, a tubular member, a pair of sealing bodies, a first external terminal, a second external terminal, and a spacer disposed inside the tubular member, wherein the electrode assembly has a first end portion located on one side in a direction parallel to the cylindrical axis direction and a second end portion located on the other side in the parallel direction, and the first end portion is provided with one or more first current collector…

BATTERY PACK

Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number: 20250007072
A battery pack includes: a battery stack; a lower case that houses the battery stack; an upper cover that covers the battery stack; a restraint band that restrains the upper cover; a first fastening member that fastens the upper cover to the lower case; and a second fastening member that fastens the restraint band to the upper cover. The upper cover has a top wall provided above the battery stack, and the top wall includes a base for fastening the second fastening member. The restraint…

POWER STORAGE MODULE

Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number: 20250007061
The power storage module includes power storage cells, a resin frame, and a case. The resin frame includes an intervening portion interposed between the pair of power storage cells, and a flow path forming portion forming a flow path of the cooling fluid. The flow path forming portion includes a one-side flow path forming portion provided in a region on one side of the intervening portion in the second direction, and an other-side flow path forming portion provided in a region on the…

LAMINATED BATTERY AND METHOD OF PRODUCING LAMINATED BATTERY

Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number: 20250007049
A laminated battery includes: an electrode body; and a laminate film package that covers the electrode body and encloses the electrode body therein. In the laminated battery, the laminate film package includes a first laminate film portion and a second laminate film portion, and the laminate film package has a fused part at which an end part of the first laminate film portion and an end part of the second laminate film portion are overlaid and inner surfaces thereof are fused together.…

SECONDARY BATTERY

Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number: 20250007048
In a secondary battery, a first end face portion extends toward a second side surface portion, from one end of a first side surface portion in the width direction. A second end face portion extends toward a first side surface portion, from one end of the second side surface portion in the width direction. An end face weld connects respective leading ends of the first and second end face portions to each other. The leading end of the first end face portion is located closer to a center of…

SECONDARY BATTERY

Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number: 20250007047
In a secondary battery, a main body of a housing includes a bottom surface portion, a first side surface portion, a second side surface portion, a first top surface portion, a second top surface portion, and a weld. The first top surface portion extends toward the second side surface portion, from an end of the first side surface portion opposite to the bottom surface portion. The second top surface portion extends toward the first side surface portion, from an end of the second side…

HEAT EXCHANGER MANUFACTURING METHOD, HEAT EXCHANGER, POWER STORAGE DEVICE, AND POWER STORAGE DEVICE PACK

Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number: 20250007035
A heat exchanger manufactured by a heat exchanger manufacturing method of the present disclosure has a first metal plate and second metal plate, and a zigzag metal plate including a third metal plate formed in a zigzag shape. The zigzag metal plate has plural mountain portions joined to the first metal plate and plural valley portions joined to the second metal plate. The third metal plate deforms easily. The method includes: preparing a layered plate by layering the first metal plate,…

TRANSPORT TRAILERS FOR RAISING AND TRANSPORTING DOLLIES

Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number: 20250002098
A method of moving an autonomous mobile robot dolly is provided. The method includes positioning a base of a transport trailer under a frame of the autonomous mobile robot dolly. The base carries a lifting plate that is operatively connected to an actuator that is configured to raise the lifting plate. The lifting plate is raised using the actuator thereby raising the autonomous mobile robot dolly to a raised position. The transport trailer is moved from one location to a different…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCOURAGING APPLICATION EXPLORATION

Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number: 20250005087
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to encouraging exploration within a computing application. In one embodiment, a system includes a processor and a memory storing machine-readable instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to identify when a user is stuck in a repetitive pattern within a computing application. When the user is stuck in the repetitive pattern the instructions, the instructions when executed by the…

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number: 20250004646
The information processing device acquires architecture model information including information representing communication paths for aggregating communication paths between ECU in a plurality of types of vehicles and data communication standards capable of transmitting and receiving data on respective communication paths, acquires variation information including information specifying necessary communication paths necessary for a particular vehicle and information specifying data…

OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE

Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number: 20250004130
A object detection device for a vehicle, in which sonars A and C simultaneously transmit sound waves and receive direct waves reflected by objects; a sonar B positioned between the sonars A and C receives indirect waves reflected by the objects; and, when, in a situation where the sonars A and C receive the direct waves and the sonar B receives one indirect wave, a peak value of the indirect wave received by the sonar B is greater than or equal to a predetermined multiplication with…

VOLTAGE DETECTION UNIT AND POWER STORAGE DEVICE

Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number: 20250004057
A voltage detection unit includes: a voltage detection terminal having a first location configured to be conductively connected to a detection target; a plate-shaped housing having a terminal accommodating recess accommodating the voltage detection terminal; a cover configured to be locked to the housing at a temporary locking position where the first location of the voltage detection terminal accommodated in the terminal accommodating recess is not covered and a final locking position…

TACTILE SENSOR COMPRISED OF PRINTABLE LATTICE AND MOLDED COMPLIANT CONDUCTORS

Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number: 20250003813
An embodiment of the present disclosure takes the form of a sensor device including a base structure with a plurality of ports extending into the base structure, a plurality of cells within the base structure and fluidly coupled to the plurality of ports, and an electrically conductive material disposed within the cells. The sensor device also includes a sensorized lattice structure disposed on the base structure and an electrically conductive layer disposed on top of the sensorized…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENTLY PRODUCING ACCURATE SLAM-BASED MAPS

Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number: 20250003765
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to implementing a mapping management system. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving trace data; processing the trace data to provide a group of passes within a lane segment; determining error measurements for the group of passes within the lane segment; receiving a criterion; and determining an estimated number of passes to satisfy the criterion based on the error measurements.

ELECTRIC TURBO COMPRESSOR

Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number: 20250003414
An electric turbo compressor including a housing, an electric motor, and a rotating body driven to rotate by the electric motor. The rotating body includes a rotary shaft, a first impeller, and a second impeller. The first impeller includes a first hub fixed to the rotary shaft, and a plurality of first blades arranged on the first hub, and the second impeller includes a second hub fixed to the rotary shaft, and a plurality of second blades arranged on the second hub. In the rotating…

EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS AND EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION METHOD

Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number: 20250003361
An exhaust gas purification apparatus includes: an oxidation reduction catalytic converter; a selective reduction catalytic converter disposed downstream of the oxidation reduction catalytic converter; and a controller configured to perform a first control or a second control based on mixing ratios when a temperature is higher than a predetermined temperature. The first control is performed when the mixing ratio downstream of the selective reduction catalytic converter is greater than…

VEHICLE SIDE PORTION STRUCTURE

Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number: 20250003274
A vehicle side portion structure includes: a guide groove portion that extends along a vehicle front-rear direction at a side portion of a vehicle body, and that guides a sliding door so as to be capable of sliding; a door side groove portion that is formed at the sliding door, and that extends so as to be continuous with the guide groove portion in the vehicle front-rear direction in a closed state of the sliding door, and a rear camera that is disposed in the door side groove portion,…