Toyota Patent Grants

Mobile computing network queried content capture

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12204493
Mobile computing network queried content capture is performed by receiving, from a server, a task executable by a mobile computing network, and a retention policy, executing the task using the mobile computing network to capture target content, assigning, to a first instance of captured target content, a probability of reducing based on the retention policy, reducing, in response to an amount of available storage becoming equal to or lower than a threshold amount, at least one of the…

Object detection device

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12204020
An object detection apparatus is mounted to a vehicle and detects an object by a reflected wave of a probe wave. The object detection apparatus calculates a relative velocity of the object to the vehicle, estimates an azimuth of the object relative to the vehicle, and corrects the estimated azimuth. The object detection apparatus generates a velocity-azimuth curve that indicates a relationship between the relative velocity of the object and the azimuth of the object that is calculated…

Battery control device

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12203995
A battery control device includes a processor that is configured to estimate a full charge capacity of a battery based on an amount of current supplied to the battery from a start of charging to an end of charging and voltages of the battery at the start of charging and the end of charging when the battery is charged from a state where a voltage of the battery is below a predetermined start voltage threshold value to a state where the voltage exceeds a predetermined end voltage threshold…

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…

Tank and manufacturing method for tank

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12203597
A manufacturing method for a tank including a liner and a reinforcement layer having a first layer made up of a pipe fitted to an outer surface of the liner and a second layer covering the pipe includes forming the pipe by winding first fiber reinforced resin containing a first fiber and a first resin around a mandrel and thermally curing the first fiber reinforced resin under a first condition, forming the first layer by fitting the pipe to the liner, and forming the second layer by…

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…

Compositions for facilitating biological stain removal

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12195704
A liquid bioactive composition is provided that includes an enzyme with enzymatic activity toward a component of a biological stain. Also provided is a process for facilitating the removal of a biological stain is provided wherein the enzyme in the liquid bioactive coating material is capable of enzymatically degrading of one or more components of the biological stain to facilitate biological stain removal from a substrate.

Delivery rack and delivery vehicle

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12196008
A rack includes: a casing; M pairs of supports that are provided inside the casing so as to extend in a depth direction and arrayed at regular intervals in a predetermined direction; and a lock mechanism that locks returnable containers housed while being supported so as to be slidable along the respective M pairs of supports. The lock mechanism has M rotary lock main bodies that are respectively provided at the M pairs of supports and each unlock at a predetermined rotation angle, and a…

Building

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12195988
A staircase area at which a staircase is installed across a first floor and a second floor is provided in a building. A part of the staircase area is a non-installation space in which a staircase is not installed, and a lifting space through which a transport robot moves up and down between the first floor and the second floor is provided using the non-installation space. The lifting space and a staircase hall having a spandrel wall there between are adjacent to each other the second…

Walking support machine for cane

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: D1057390

Parking assist apparatus

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12195084
Provided is a steering assist apparatus configured to perform a steering assist control for changing a steering angle of a vehicle in such a manner that the vehicle moves along a target path; determine whether a newly-detected object is a stationary object or a moving object; cancel the steering assist control and inform a driver that the steering assist control is cancelled when the newly-detected object is the stationary object and a cancel condition is satisfied; pause the steering…

Apparatus and method for displaying lane information and non-transitory computer-readable medium containing computer program for displaying lane information

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12195009
An apparatus for displaying lane information detects a lane change section in an adjoining lane adjoining a travel lane of a vehicle from an image representing surroundings of the vehicle. The lane change section has a length in a travel direction greater than a lane change threshold indicating a length required for a lane change and includes no other vehicles. The apparatus presents an entry position on a display as a position indicating the lane change section when the entry position…

Collision avoidance support device

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12194993
A collision avoidance support device comprises target detection unit, target type determination unit, relative position determination unit, target track prediction unit, and vehicle track prediction unit, obstacle determination unit. The vehicle track prediction unit is configured to enlarge said width of a vehicle predicted track compared with a case where an enlargement condition is not satisfied when the enlargement condition is satisfied. The enlargement condition is satisfied when…

Hybrid electric vehicle propulsion start control

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12194983
In start control for controlling an engine, a motor, and a clutch, a target throttle valve opening degree is set based on a rotational speed of the motor and a coolant temperature of the engine to control the engine such that the clutch is half-engaged to crank the engine by the motor, and fuel injection and ignition of the engine are started after a rotational speed difference between the rotational speed of the motor and a rotational speed of the engine becomes smaller than a threshold…

Information processing device and vehicle system

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12194957
An information processing device comprises a controller configured to detect, in relation to an area associated with a predetermined facility, entry or exit of a predetermined vehicle, transmit, to a facility device corresponding to the facility, in a case where the vehicle enters the area, an electronic key for enabling movement of the vehicle, and invalidate the electronic key transmitted to the facility device in a case where the vehicle exits the area.

Vehicle occupant restraint device

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12194947
A vehicle occupant restraint device includes: a center airbag that is provided at a side portion at a vehicle width direction inner side of a seatback of the vehicle seat, and that inflates and deploys toward a vehicle width direction inner side of an occupant seated at the vehicle seat due to gas ejected from an inflator being supplied to an interior of the center airbag; and a string-like member, one end portion of the string-like member being attached to a seat front side end portion…

Vehicle center airbag device

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12194946
A vehicle center airbag device, including: an inflator that is provided at a driver's seat, and that ejects gas due to being actuated; and a center airbag that is provided at a side portion, at a vehicle width direction inner side, of a seatback of the driver's seat, and that inflates and deploys toward a vehicle width direction inner side of an occupant seated in the driver's seat due to the gas being supplied to an interior thereof, wherein the center airbag includes, at a head…

Vehicle center airbag device

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12194943
A vehicle center airbag device includes: an inflator that is provided at a vehicle seat, and that is configured to eject gas due to being actuated; and a center airbag that is provided at a side portion at a vehicle width direction inner side of a seatback of the vehicle seat, and that is configured to inflate and deploy toward a vehicle width direction inner side of an occupant seated in the vehicle seat due to the gas being supplied to an interior thereof; and an introduction path that…

Vehicle and vehicular static eliminator

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12194935
During traveling of a vehicle body, a vehicle is provided with a vehicular static eliminator including a self-discharge static eliminating device that is attached to an outer surface of a lid of a fuse box mounted to a front compartment with a front grill, and a coversheet overlapped with an external surface of the self-discharge static eliminating device, in which the fuse box is disposed close to a hood and the coversheet includes Japanese paper.