Toyota Patent Applications

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240394667
The information processing device acquires a recommended period for recommending maintenance of the vehicle for each of the plurality of maintenance items. For a plurality of maintenance items, the information processing device determines the earliest recommended period among the acquired recommended periods as a reference period, and identifies the maintenance item of the earliest recommended period as a reference maintenance item. The information processing device identifies, among the…

STATOR FOR ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240396408
A stator includes a stator core, coils, and a thermistor. The stator core includes a cylindrical yoke and multiple teeth extending from an inner circumferential surface of the yoke. The stator core includes slots each located between adjacent ones of the teeth in a circumferential direction of the yoke. The thermistor is configured to measure a temperature of the coils. A pillar-shaped insulating member is disposed in each slot. The insulating member is disposed in each slot between the…

STATOR FOR ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE AND MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240396395
A stator for a rotating electric machine includes a stator core that includes multiple teeth extending from an inner circumferential surface of a cylindrical yoke, and multiple coils respectively provided around the respective teeth. A slot exists between teeth that are adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction of the yoke. The teeth each include a tooth extension having tooth side surfaces, which define the slots, and two flanges having flange surfaces that define the slots.…

STATOR FOR ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE AND MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240396393
A stator includes a stator core and coils. The stator core includes slots each located between two teeth that are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction of a yoke. Each tooth includes a tooth extension extending from the inner circumferential surface of the yoke, and two flanges projecting from a distal end of the tooth extension toward opposite sides in the circumferential direction. An insulating member is disposed in each slot between the coils adjacent to each other…

CHARGING DEVICE

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240396355
A control device of a charging device performs constant current charging, when starting charging at time t0. When the SOC of a battery reaches a set value ? at time t1, the charging current is limited to gradually decrease. When the battery voltage VB of the battery reaches a charging completion voltage VBb at time t2, charging is terminated. When the charging current is small, the polarization is small, and therefore, the charging completion voltage VBb can be set to a value…

POWER STORAGE CELL

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240395999
A power storage cell includes a wound electrode assembly which includes: a positive plate (a first electrode); a negative plate (a second electrode); and a separator. The positive plate includes a positive current collector (a first current collector) and a positive electrode mixture layer (a first electrode material layer). The positive current collector has: a positive coated portion (a first coated portion) and a plurality of positive uncoated portions (first uncoated portions)…

Method for Metal Gapfill

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240395614
A method of metal gapfill including depositing a metal layer on a dielectric layer present on a field and/or in an opening of a feature via plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition utilizing a metal halide precursor and a plasma comprising hydrogen and a noble gas; and depositing a metal gapfill material on the field and in the opening directly over the metal layer, wherein the metal gapfill material completely fills the opening.

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

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240395144
A first vehicle acquires first data about the vacancy status of a first parking lot when exiting from the first parking lot, broadcasts second data including an identifier of the first parking lot, and transmits, in response to a request transmitted from a second vehicle having received the second data, the first data to the second vehicle.

FEATURE IDENTIFICATION DEVICE AND FEATURE IDENTIFICATION METHOD

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240395053
A feature identification device identifies a type of lane separation equipment, including at least separation poles and separation wire ropes, for separating a road by travel direction. When the type of lane separation equipment is not associated with a predetermined position on the road, the device identifies the type of the lane separation equipment based on an image in which the lane separation equipment is captured at a predetermined position by an algorithm selected from a first…

POSITION ESTIMATING DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ESTIMATING POSITION

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240394911
A position estimating device includes a processor configured to detect a first position of a vehicle traveling a predetermined road section at a first time, based on a fixed sensor installed on or near the predetermined road section, estimate a second position of the vehicle at a second time, based on the first position of the vehicle at the first time, the second time being a time when a vehicle-captured image representing a predetermined feature is generated by a vehicle-mounted camera…

WEATHER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240389523
Various embodiments of a weather management system launch an aerial feature to an elevation while the aerial feature is tethered to a positioning system. The positioning system generates a motion strategy to direct aerial feature movement over time to induce a surface condition selected by the positioning system. Execution of the motion strategy over time with the positioning system steers the aerial feature to react with naturally occurring weather conditions to provide the selected…

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240394666
The control unit of the information processing device acquires the travel start date and time when the vehicle is scheduled to start moving, and the scheduled route of the vehicle. In addition, if the travel distance or travel time of the vehicle on the scheduled route is equal to or greater than the threshold, the control unit of the information processing device determines the items that the vehicle user should check in the vehicle by the travel start date and time. Decide on a…

DELIVERY SYSTEM AND ITS DELIVERY METHOD

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240394651
A delivery system includes a storage box, receiver terminals, a deliverer terminal, and a server. The deliverer terminal transmits, to the server, identification information of the storage box storing a delivery item and identification information of a destination receiver of the delivery item. The server transmits delivery information to the receiver terminal of the destination receiver based on the identification information of the destination receiver of the delivery item. The…

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR DETERMINING STATION THAT VISITOR IS PROMPTED TO USE

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240394607
The information processing device includes a control unit that predicts the number of users of each of the plurality of stations on the event date based on the identification information of the visitor and the person flow data of each of the plurality of stations in the vicinity of the event place, and determines a station that prompts the visitor to use based on the identification information and the predicted number of users.

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SPATIO-TEMPORAL REGULAR EXPRESSION MATCHING

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240394318
Systems and methods are provided that implement spatio-temporal query of perception data streams. A system is distinctly designed to implement efficient and flexible spatio-temporal queries, which conduct pattern matching over perception data streams for automotive applications, particularly autonomous vehicles. The system is also designed to enable the spatio-temporal queries to be expressed in SpREs (Spatial Regular Expressions), which is implemented as a querying language that…

REMOTE CONTROLLER, REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM, AND REMOTE CONTROL METHOD

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240393798
A remote controller includes: an acquisition unit; a detection unit; a control value generation unit; and a transmission unit. The control value generation unit generates a retreat control value if at least either one of a first case and a second case applies. The first case includes two or more moving objects overlapping each other in the sensor information. The second case includes establishing an expectation before sensor information acquisition that the two or more moving objects…

ON-VEHICLE RADAR DEVICE

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240393457
The on-vehicle radar device 1 can acquire sets of stationary reflection point information SI, which consist of information related to each reflection point that is stationary in the vicinity of the own vehicle, based on the physical quantities of radio waves emitted and received by the transceiver. If the similarity SIM between the first set of stationary reflection point information acquired at the first point in time before the ignition switch transitions from the ON to the OFF state…

METHOD OF PRODUCING ELECTRODE, AND ELECTRODE PRODUCTION APPARATUS

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240390937
An electrode production apparatus includes: an aerosol-supplying part; a support part; and an electric-field-forming apparatus, wherein the aerosol-supplying part includes an aerosol-preparing part and a porous electrode, the aerosol-preparing part is to mix an active material powder, a binder, and a gas to prepare an aerosol, the porous electrode is interposed between the aerosol-preparing part and the support part, the support part is to support a substrate, the substrate is positioned…

EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION DEVICE

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240390853
Provided is an exhaust gas purification device having a high warm-up performance and a high NOx conversion performance. The exhaust gas purification device includes a substrate having an upstream end and a downstream end, a first catalyst layer disposed on the substrate in a first region extending between the downstream end and a first position and containing rhodium, a second catalyst layer disposed on the substrate in a second region extending between the upstream end and a second…

ADSORPTION SYSTEM AND ADSORPTION METHOD

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240390843
An adsorption system according to one aspect of the present disclosure is an adsorption system which adsorbs, from a gas containing a predetermined gas component to be adsorbed and water vapor, the predetermined gas component. The adsorption system includes: an adsorption part configured to adsorb the predetermined gas component from the gas; a measurement unit configured to measure a humidity of the gas; and a flow rate controller configured to control a flow rate of the gas supplied to…