Toyota Patent Grants

Information processing apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12204688
A controller of an information processing apparatus is configured to, for each of multiple viewers of a light field display: identify a three-dimensional coordinate position of eyes; generate an image according to the identified three-dimensional coordinate position of the eyes; identify, based on the identified three-dimensional coordinate position of the eyes, a channel to which the generated image is to be output, of a plurality of channels associated with a plurality of light rays to…

Cold plates incorporating reactive multilayer systems and S-cells

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12207450
Cold plate assemblies, power electronics assemblies including the same, and power electronics systems including the same are disclosed. A cold plate includes an S-cell disposed within a cavity of the cold plate and at least one reactive multilayer system interposed between the S-cell and a base wall of the cavity.

Power conversion apparatus

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12206335
A power conversion apparatus includes a transformer including a first winding, a second winding, and a third winding, a first switching circuit connected between an external power supply and the first winding, a second switching circuit connected between a main battery and the second winding, and a third switching circuit connected between an auxiliary battery and the third winding. The first switching circuit includes a power factor correction circuit, a smoothing capacitor configured…

Power storage module

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12206122
In a power storage module, a side surface of an electrode laminate body has a welded layer where first sealing portions adjacent in a lamination direction are welded. A sealing body has: a side surface (opening wall) provided with a through hole communicating with an internal space; and side surfaces (non-opening walls) lacking the through hole. When viewed from the lamination direction, a width of the welded layer at the opening wall is smaller than a width of the welded layer at the…

All-solid-state battery and production method therefor

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12206075
An all-solid-state battery including a cell laminate including two or more unit cells, and a resin layer covering a side surface of the cell laminate, wherein each unit cell includes a positive electrode current collector layer, a positive electrode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a negative electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode current collector layer laminated in this order, at least one of the positive electrode current collector layer, positive…

Lithium phosphate derivative compounds as Li super-ionic conductor, solid electrolyte and coating layer for lithium metal battery and lithium-ion battery

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12206069
Electrodes for a solid-state lithium-ion battery are provided. The electrodes have an active material layer containing or coated with electrolytes of lithium phosphate derivative compounds which contain an anionic framework capable of conducting lithium ions. Materials of specific formulae are provided and methods to alter the composite materials with inclusion of aliovalent ions shown. Lithium batteries containing the electrodes are also provided.

Methods for predicting likelihood of successful experimental synthesis of computer-generated materials by combining network analysis and machine learning

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12205683
One aspect of the disclosure relates to systems and methods for determining probabilities of successful synthesis of materials in the real world at one or more points in time. The probabilities of successful synthesis of materials in the real world at one or more points in time can be determined by representing the materials and their pre-defined relationships respectively as nodes and edges in a network form, and computation of the parameters of the nodes in the network as input to a…

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and non-transitory storage medium

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12205069
An information processing apparatus includes a controller, the controller being configured to select a first mobile body to deliver baggage to a delivery destination existing in a predetermined facility from among a plurality of types of delivery mobile bodies, wherein the controller selects the first mobile body, based on required time necessary to deliver the baggage to the delivery destination in a site of the predetermined facility, for each delivery mobile body.

Information processing device, information processing method, image acquisition method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12205067
An information processing device is configured to perform an operation of a delivery service in which an inside of a vehicle, a building, or a facility used by a user is designated as a delivery destination of a package, or perform a support of the operation. The information processing device includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on an accommodation situation of an object accommodated inside the vehicle, the building, or the facility, and an…

Software update apparatus, software update method, non-transitory storage medium storing program, vehicle, and OTA master

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12204894
A software update apparatus includes a communication unit that sends a request for downloading update data to a center, a storage unit that stores the downloaded update data, and a control unit that executes, based on the update data, a control for installing, or installing and activating update software on one or more target electronic control units from among a plurality of electronic control units connected to each other via an in-vehicle network. The control unit acquires software…

Vehicle front part structure

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12202549
Instrument panel side parts are provided integrally with an instrument panel main body part. Vehicle-mounted components are housed in the instrument panel side parts. Thus, even in a vehicle in which an engine compartment is not provided on a vehicle front side in a vehicle cabin it is possible to ensure a housing space for these vehicle mounting parts. Further, the instrument panel side parts are provided integrally with the instrument panel main body part. Thus, compared to a case in…

Combustion nozzle and combustor

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12203656
A combustion nozzle discharges compressed air and fuel, to be combusted, into a combustion chamber of a combustor of a gas turbine. The combustion nozzle includes an air inlet, a nozzle orifice, an air channel, a fuel channel, and fuel outlets. The air inlet receives the compressed air. The nozzle orifice opens into the combustion chamber and discharges the compressed air. The air channel communicates between the air inlet and the nozzle orifice. The fuel channel receives the fuel, and…

Hydrogen gas supply system, point management system, and service management system

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12203603
A hydrogen gas supply system comprises a storing unit that stores hydrogen, a communication unit that receives at least either of burden information indicative of an environmental burden exerted during manufacturing of hydrogen externally received by the storing unit and quality information indicative of quality with respect to the hydrogen externally received by the storing unit, a user interface unit that provides an output in accordance with the at least either of the burden…

Information processing device, non-transitory storage medium, and information processing method

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12203542
An information processing method includes receiving shift requests to control a shift range of a vehicle from a plurality of application software products configured to implement driver assistance functions of the vehicle, arbitrating the shift requests by using, as a condition, whether each of the received shift requests is a request in a traveling range or a request in a parking range, when the traveling range is the shift range in which a driving wheel of the vehicle is rotatable and…

Damper device

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12203537
A damper device includes an input-side rotating member, an intermediate rotating member, an output-side rotating member, and an elastic body. The elastic body is located in a clearance in a circumferential direction between each of a plurality of corresponding portions in which a hook portion of the input-side rotating member and a hook portion of the output-side rotating member face each other and the intermediate rotating member. A part of the corresponding portions is a first…

Greasing device and greasing method

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12203506
A greasing device that feeds grease to a portion requiring greasing that is housed inside a housing, and includes a jig and a greasing pipe fixed to the jig. The housing includes a though-hole that extends through the housing. The jig includes an insertion part that is inserted into the through-hole of the housing. A side surface of the insertion part bear a marking-off line at a position a predetermined distance away from a leading end side of the insertion part. A positon of the…

Motor-driven compressor

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12203480
A motor-driven compressor includes a rotary shaft, an electric motor, a compression unit, an inverter, a housing, and an inverter case. The housing includes a housing end wall and a housing circumferential wall, which extends from a housing end wall in an axial direction of the rotary shaft. The inverter case includes a case end wall, which extends in the axial direction from the case end wall. The seal circumferential wall includes a proximal end connected to the case end wall and an…

Device for canceling acoustic noise generated by a pump

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12203469
A device for canceling acoustic noise generated includes, in one example, an inlet channel configured to be fluidly connected to an inlet port of a pump and an outlet channel configured to be fluidly connected to an outlet port of the pump. The device also includes an inlet resonator and an outlet resonator, both having open ends and closed ends. The open ends of the inlet and outlet resonators are fluidly connected to the inlet and outlet channels, respectively. When in operation, the…

Autonomous driving kit, vehicle platform, vehicle control interface box, and vehicle

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12202559
An ADK is attachable to and removable from a VP and issues an instruction for autonomous driving to the VP. The VP includes a steering system for steering of the VP. (An ADS of) the ADK includes a compute assembly and a communication module configured to communicate with the VP. The compute assembly obtains from the VP, a torque value relating to a steering system 33 through the communication module and transmits to the VP, a wheel steer angle command indicating the wheel steer angle in…

Exterior member for vehicle and method for manufacturing the same

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12202552
A vehicle exterior member having a self-neutralizing function which can improve running characteristics and steering stability of a vehicle without impairing the design property has a fiber molded member containing a needle-punched nonwoven fabric or knitted fabric. The fibers constituting the fiber molded member contain a conductive fiber.