Toyota Patent Grants

Seatbelt device

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12263806
A seatbelt device, including: a seatbelt formed in a belt shape; a tongue plate through which the seatbelt has been inserted; a buckle that is provided at one side in a seat width direction of a vehicle seat, with the tongue plate being attachably and detachably anchored to the buckle; and a belt-end anchor section that is provided at another side in the seat width direction of the vehicle seat, and that includes a separation operation portion, with an end portion of the seatbelt being…

Negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12266784
A negative electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprises a negative electrode core body, and a negative electrode mixture layer. When the range of 40% of the thickness of the negative electrode mixture layer from the surface of the negative electrode mixture layer on the side opposite to the negative electrode core body is defined as a first region and the range of 40% of the thickness of the negative electrode mixture layer from the interface between the negative…

Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and battery module

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12266766
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes an electrode body and a nonaqueous electrolyte solution. An electrolyte solution passage is a flow passage through which the nonaqueous electrolyte solution flows between the inside and the outside of the electrode body. A region of a negative-electrode composite material layer in contact with the electrolyte solution passage is a damming portion and a region located on the center side relative to the damming portion is a liquid…

Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle, acceleration-and-deceleration control method, and vehicle control program

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12263845
A vehicle control apparatus performs an acceleration suppressing control to suppress an acceleration of a vehicle, when a distracted state detected based on a driver's seat image continues for a predetermined first time. The distracted state is a state in which an attentiveness for driving of the driver is impaired. The vehicle control apparatus performs a deceleration control to decelerate the vehicle to stop the vehicle, when the distracted state continues for a predetermined second…

Control device for vehicle

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12263843
The vehicle includes a prime mover, a propeller shaft that transmits a rotational output, a first drive wheel that transmits a rotational output without passing through the propeller shaft, a second drive wheel transmitted through the propeller shaft, a torque distribution unit, and a transmission device. The control device of the vehicle has an autonomous driving mode and a manual driving mode, when changing a gear ratio of the transmission device, the control device controls the torque…

Lane departure suppression device

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12263838
A lane departure suppression device including a control unit that executes a lane departure suppression control (automatic steering of the steering wheel and/or a warning being issued) when it is determined that there is a possibility that a vehicle departs from a lane. The control unit does not execute the lane departure suppression control when the control unit determines that a lateral speed and a lateral acceleration of the vehicle are increased within a predetermined time from a…

Systems and methods for detecting an object in an environment of a vehicle

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12263835
Systems include a controller programmed to instruct a sensor to detect an object in an environment of a vehicle in response to an activation of a fall-on-car prevention function, determine a first value of a parameter pertaining to the object at a first time with the sensor, determine a second value of the parameter pertaining to the object at a second time with the sensor, and automatically cause an action to occur based on a comparison of the first value of the parameter and the second…

Controller for hybrid electric vehicle and method for controlling hybrid electric vehicle

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12263832
A controller controls a hybrid electric vehicle. The hybrid electric vehicle includes an engine, a motor arranged in a power transmission path between the engine and a drive wheel, and a clutch arranged in the power transmission path between the engine and the motor. The controller idles the engine in accordance with a target engine rotation speed and operates the motor in accordance with a target motor rotation speed when the clutch is in a disengagement state. When the clutch is in the…

Drive force control system for vehicle

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12263831
A drive force control system for a vehicle configured to accurately imitate a change in a drive force in a model vehicle. A drive torque simulator computes a virtual drive torque supposed to be delivered to drive wheels of the model vehicle in response to a manual operation to manipulate the vehicle, based on torque changing factors of a powertrain of the model vehicle. An actual torque calculator computes a target torque of a motor that is practically delivered to the drive wheels in…

Object detection system for a vehicle

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12263811
Vehicle systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to enhance the situational competency and/or the safe operation of a vehicle by automatically controlling the vehicle in response to a biometric attribute analysis of one or more objects detected within a predetermined threshold distance of the vehicle.

Vehicle wheel

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: D1068610

Vehicle

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12263781
The vehicle includes a light-emitting part installed in the rear windshield wiper, a front camera that captures an image of the front of the own vehicle, a control unit that causes the light-emitting part to blink in conjunction with the operation of the rear windshield wiper to display the pattern, and a processing unit that acquires the pattern displayed by the blink of the light-emitting part of the preceding vehicle based on the image shot by the front camera.

Control system for showing advantage and disadvantage of energy management request

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12263751
A display device is configured to display a screen showing, on the same graph in which an axis indicates time, a predicted transition of a first parameter relating to a remaining charge of a power storage device and a predicted transition of a second parameter relating to an amount of reward for energy management under an assumption that charge and discharge control is executed on the power storage device in response to a request for the energy management.

Vehicle and charging system

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12263750
A vehicle includes an inlet unit to which a charging connector provided in a charging device is connected, a control unit configured to communicate with the charging device, a power accumulation device charged with power delivered through the charging connector, and an input unit to which a user makes an input. The control unit is configured to, upon determining that a charging stop request is input to the input unit during charging, stop the charging.

Vehicle input device, vehicle input method, and non-transitory storage medium stored with vehicle input program

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12263734
A vehicle input device comprises an operation detection section configured to detect input to an onboard unit allocated to one operation section of plural of operation sections provided in a vicinity of a driving seat due to the one operation section being operated, a preliminary action detection section configured to detect a preliminary action directly prior to the one operation section being operated, and a notification section configured to notify an occupant of information relating…

Control device for vehicle

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12263731
When a required drive force of an engine becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined value that deteriorates the characteristics of an engine mount, torque serving as a required drive amount of a rear electric motor is increased, so that the required drive force of the engine can be reduced. As a result, crushing of the engine mount that supports the engine is reduced, so that engine vibration transmitted to a vehicle body via the engine mount can be reduced.

Control valve for fuel tank

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12263730
A fuel-tank control valve includes: casing; main float; plate with upper surface that constitutes bottom portion of casing, and that includes first gas-storage chamber formed of plate and peripheral wall portion that is provided upright from rim of upper surface to lower side; sub float arranged above the plate; second gas-storage chamber formed of a part including gas supply hole of first gas-storage chamber among parts of upper surface, and partition-wall portion which is away from…

Wheel-side device and suspension device

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12263712
A wheel-side device provided for each of a plurality of wheels of a vehicle includes: a drive mechanism provided on a suspension arm connecting a wheel support member that supports the wheel and a body-side member of the vehicle and including a drive actuator, an output shaft of the drive actuator being connected to the wheel via a constant velocity joint to rotationally drive the wheel; and a steering actuator provided between the suspension arm and the wheel support member without a…

Handrail disinfection system for vehicle with handrail

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12263265
A handrail disinfection system for vehicle with handrail is mounted on a vehicle having handrail for grasping by an occupant. The handrail disinfection system includes a tank to store disinfectant solution, an exudation part provided on the handrail, an actuator for exuding the disinfectant solution stored in the tank from the exudation part, and a controller for controlling the actuator. At least one processor included in the controller executes upon execution of at least one program,…

Therapeutic motion devices including artificial muscle drive units

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12263130
A therapeutic motion device includes a support structure including a first support portion and a second support portion. The first support portion rotatably coupled to the second support portion and at least one of the first support portion and the second support portion is movable relative to the other of the first support potion and the second support portion. First and second actuation arms extend from the first and second support portions, respectively. An artificial muscle drive…