Toyota Patent Grants

Control device

Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number: 12146436
As for a control device for a turbocharger including a turbine, disposed in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine, and a compressor, disposed in an intake passage of the internal combustion engine and driven by the turbine, the control device includes a control unit configured to control the turbine such that a boost pressure of the turbocharger in the intake passage becomes equal to or lower than an allowable value, a first calculation unit configured to calculate a…

Harness clamp

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12140169
A harness clamp includes a harness clamp body including a base part, an upright part, a fixing part, a folding back part, a first elongated part, and a second elongated part. A distal end of the second elongated part and the upright part define a first gap. A fourth bent part and the base part define a second gap. The base, folding back, and first elongated parts define a first clamp space to clamp a harness. The base, upright, and second elongated parts define a second clamp space to…

Power electronics assemblies having embedded power electronics devices

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12144158
A power electronics assembly includes a circuit board assembly including a first electrically insulating layer, an electrically insulating substrate, a laminate panel provided between the first electrically insulating layer and the electrically insulating substrate, and one or more electrically conductive layers provided within the electrically insulating substrate. The laminate panel includes a power electronics device assembly including an S-cell and a power electronics device. The…

Control system

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12143822
A control system includes a computer configured to remotely control at least one of charging and discharging of a power storage device mounted on a control target. The computer is configured to transmit a first command indicating charging power or discharging power of the power storage device to the control target via each of a first communication path and a second communication path. The control system further includes a determination unit configured to determine whether or not any one…

System and method for network bandwidth management in vehicle

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12143446
A method and system for scheduling data transfer requests for a plurality of electronic control units (ECUs) connected to a network in a vehicle. The system includes: at least one memory storing first instructions and second instructions; a first ECU; and a plurality of second ECUs, wherein the first ECU is configured to execute the first instructions to configure a plurality of phases that are time slices for transferring data over the network, and wherein each of the plurality of…

Control device, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12140946
A moving body is a target of a remote operation performed by a remote operator and has a plurality of cameras. A control device acquires a plurality of video data respectively captured by the plurality of cameras, as transmission target data to be transmitted to a remote operator terminal. The control device acquires information on a communication speed of a communication from the moving body to the remote operator terminal. The control device determines whether data reduction is…

Vehicle and power supply system of vehicle

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12140944
A vehicle includes an ADK that creates a driving plan, a VP that carries out vehicle control in accordance with various commands from the ADK, and a vehicle control interface that interfaces between the VP and the ADK. A power supply structure for the ADK is provided independently of a power supply structure for the VP.

Remote traveling vehicle, remote traveling system, and meander traveling suppression method

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12140943
A remote traveling vehicle remotely operated by a remote operator receives remote control information of the remote operator from a server via a communication network. The remote traveling vehicle acquires driving environment information of the remote traveling vehicle, and acquires meandering state information including whether a meandering state of the remote traveling vehicle is detected, based on the driving environment information. When the remote-control information includes…

Optical device for introducing light from outdoor view

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12140740
An optical device introduces light from an outdoor view in a blind spot area hidden by an obstacle. The optical device includes a first reflector that reflects a part of light and transmits another part of the light, and a second reflector placed between a back surface of the first reflector and the obstacle and apart from the first reflector. The second reflector has a reflective surface that reflects light incident from the first reflector toward the first reflector. A light shield is…

Method for evaluating electric power storage device and method for manufacturing electric power storage device

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12140642
A method for evaluating an electric power storage device includes causing a short circuit by inserting an electrically conductive probe into a stacked portion in a thickness direction of electrode layers; measuring a penetration depth of the probe after the short circuit occurs; and evaluating the number of electrode layers involved in the short circuit based on the penetration depth. The penetration depth is identified by measuring a length of an adhesion portion in an axial direction…

Natural vacuum sensing for garage park detection

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12139161
Systems and methods are provided for determining whether a vehicle is located in an enclosed space based on the barometric pressure. Systems and methods may include taking pressure measurements and determining that a threshold pressure difference has been exceeded, which may suggest that the vehicle is in an enclosed space.

Controller for internal combustion engine

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12140095
An internal combustion engine includes a fuel injection valve configured to inject hydrogen gas into the cylinder, a selective catalytic reduction catalyst located in an exhaust passage and configured to remove NOx, a urea water injection valve configured to inject urea water into the catalyst, a tank that stores urea water injected by the urea water injection valve, and a remaining amount detection sensor configured to detect a remaining amount of urea water stored in the tank. A…

Exhaust gas purification system

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12140060
Provided is an exhaust gas purification system that allows suppressing the emission of carbon monoxide (CO). An exhaust gas purification system includes a three-way catalyst and a particulate filter and a control device. The three-way catalyst and the particulate filter are arranged respectively on an upstream side and a downstream side of an exhaust channel connected to an internal combustion engine. The control device controls the internal combustion engine so as to execute fuel cut…

Biofunctional materials

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12139701
Provided are methods and compositions for self-cleaning that include a digestive protein capable of decomposing stain forming molecules, a substrate applied to a solid surface, and a linker moiety bound to an outer surface of said substrate and an active group of said digestive protein, said linker moiety between said protein and said substrate and covalently linking said protein to a surface of said substrate by an amide bond, the linker moiety between a free amine of said protein and…

Thermoplastic resin composition and method for producing same, molded article and method for manufacturing same, and modifying agent and modification method

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12139596
The thermoplastic resin composition includes (A) a first polyolefin resin with a number average molecular weight of less than 350,000, (B) a second polyolefin resin with a number average molecular weight of 350,000 or more, (C) a polyamide resin having a structure in which a carbon number of a linear chain part of a hydrocarbon group sandwiched between adjacent amide bonds in its main chain is 5 or less, and (D) a modified elastomer having a reactive group with the polyamide resin (C). A…

Transport system and transport method

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12139333
A transport system is a transport system that transports a luggage using a transport vehicle and a transport robot. In a state in which the transport robot and the transport vehicle are connected, the transport robot takes out the luggage from the transport vehicle, or stores the luggage in the transport vehicle.

Structural energy storage for CF based powered mobile devices

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12139235
An electric mobility apparatus that can include at least one electric carbon fiber component. The electric carbon fiber component incorporating a structural battery, the structural battery including energy storage devices, each of the energy storage devices having an anode core of a continuous carbon fiber, an electrolyte arranged on the at least one continuous carbon fiber core, and a cathode layer arranged to the continuous carbon fiber core on the electrolyte. An interface is…

Control apparatus, steering device, and control method

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12139196
A control apparatus according to the present disclosure is configured to perform a process of calculating a command torque that is given to a steering mechanism, an adjustment gain calculation process in which an adjustment gain for the command torque is calculated based on a steering torque, a process of calculating an adjusted command torque obtained by applying the adjustment gain to the command torque, and a process of controlling the steering mechanism in accordance with the…

Vehicle platform, autonomous driving system, and vehicle control interface box

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12139174
A VCIB interfaces between an autonomous driving kit (ADK) and a vehicle platform (VP). The VP includes as vehicle modes, a manual mode in which the VP is under the control by a driver and an autonomous mode in which the VP is under the control by the ADK. When a first condition is satisfied in the manual mode, the VCIB has the vehicle mode make transition from the manual mode to the autonomous mode. The first condition includes (1) a condition that the VCIB has authenticated the ADK, (2)…

Vehicular display control device, vehicular display device, vehicle, vehicular display control method, and non-transitory recording medium

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12139163
In cases in which an other vehicle traveling along an adjacent lane, which is adjacent to a travel lane of a host vehicle is executing a cut-in operation to move from the adjacent lane to a cut-in position ahead of the host vehicle in the travel lane, a processor controls a display section configured to display a travel lane image representing the travel lane, an adjacent lane image representing the adjacent lane, a lane boundary line image representing a lane boundary line defining a…