Toyota Patent Grants

Information processing device, information processing system, information processing method, and display device

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12183188
An information processing device includes a control unit that controls display of a crosswalk on a road on which a vehicle travels. The control unit outputs information for displaying the crosswalk in a range that is determined based on a state of a pedestrian crossing the road.

Power electronics systems comprising a two-phase cold plate housing a vaporization structure

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12185511
A two-phase cold plate that includes a manifold body having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet each fluidly coupled to a fluid pathway housed within the manifold body and a vaporization structure housed within the manifold body such that the fluid pathway is disposed over the vaporization structure. The vaporization structure includes a cavity cover, a porous surface, a vapor cavity disposed between the cavity cover and the porous surface, and one or more porous feeding posts extending…

Communication device and communication method

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12184452
According to one embodiment, a communication device includes: acquisition circuitry including a plurality of data acquirers configured to acquire data for transmission; processing circuitry configured to determine consecutive first sequence numbers for a plurality of pieces of the data acquired by the plurality of data acquirers, and to generate a plurality of packets that include the data acquired by the plurality of data acquirers and the first sequence numbers determined for the…

Demodulating apparatus, base station and demodulating method

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12184315
The demodulating apparatus includes circuits of receiving modulated radio signals coming from a plurality of transmission devices, first demodulating a first reception signal DPSK-modulated among the radio signals, modulating demodulation signals into modulation signals based on DPSK, estimating an amplitude and a phase of a propagation signal on a propagation path leading to the reception circuit from the transmission device on the basis of the radio signal and the modulation signal,…

Battery system

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12184114
A battery system comprising a controller and a solid-state lithium secondary battery, wherein, the controller estimates an end part cathode potential Ve2 from a voltage relaxation amount ?V2; the end part cathode potential Ve2 is a local potential of an end part of the cathode; and the voltage relaxation amount ?V2 is generated by diffusion of, into the non-facing part of the anode, lithium transferred to the facing part of the anode from the cathode of the solid-state lithium secondary…

Reference jig

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12184104
The evaluation jig includes a pair of female terminals connectable to a pair of male terminals of a charging connector and an electric wire that connects the paired female terminals to each other. The electric wire has a cross-sectional area of 70 mm2 or more and 95 mm2 or less. The electric wire has a length of 2 m or more.

Stacked electrode body, resin-fixed stacked electrode body, and all-solid-state battery

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12183934
Provided is a stacked electrode body the whole of which can be checked for misregistration. A stacked electrode body for an all-solid-state battery includes a plurality of electrode bodies that are stacked and each includes a first electrode, a solid electrolyte layer, a second electrode, and a second current collector which are disposed on each of both surfaces of a first current collector in this order, wherein each of the electrode bodies has a protrusion protruding outward from a…

Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12183914
A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, in which a positive electrode includes a positive electrode mixture layer in which a mixture containing a positive electrode active material is formed and a positive electrode mixture layer non-forming portion in which the positive electrode mixture layer is not formed, and a negative electrode includes a negative electrode mixture layer in which a mixture containing a negative electrode active material is formed and a negative electrode…

Sealed battery and assembled battery

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12183875
The present disclosure provides a joining technique capable of improving strength and reducing electrical resistance of a connecting portion that performs heterometal interjunction in a sealed battery. A mode of the sealed battery disclosed herein includes an electrode body, a battery case, a positive electrode internal terminal, a positive electrode external terminal, a negative electrode internal terminal, and a negative electrode external terminal. In the sealed battery, in a…

Knowledge transfer for early unsafe driving behavior recognition

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12183203
Systems and methods of unsafe driving detection are provided which share partial unsafe driving behavior analyses with others in order to ensure that unsafe driving behavior is detected as early as possible. For example, in response to an event which interrupts a first detecting vehicle from collecting additional driving behavior data associated with a subject vehicle, the first detecting vehicle may transfer driving behavior data it has already collected and processed, to another…

Connection member for vehicle structure

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12179845
An object of the present invention is to provide an innovative and highly practical connection member for a vehicle structure. The present invention is a connection member for a vehicle structure equipped with at least two connection sections (2) that are used in the vehicle structure and that connect appropriate sites within the vehicle structure, the connection member for a vehicle structure being characterized in having a layered structure section (1) configured by impregnating a…

Information processing device, vehicle, and storage medium

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12183180
An information processing device includes a processor configured to: acquire connection information representing a state of a connection region including a connection portion that connects a vehicle and a power supply target such that power is able to be supplied; determine whether the connection information includes information indicating an abnormality in the connection portion; and output information that issues a notification that the connection portion is abnormal when the processor…

Semantically aware keypoint matching

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12183087
A method for keypoint matching performed by a semantically aware keypoint matching model includes generating a semanticly segmented image from an image captured by a sensor of an agent, the semanticly segmented image associating a respective semantic label with each pixel of a group of pixels associated with the image. The method also includes generating a set of augmented keypoint descriptors by augmenting, for each keypoint of the set of keypoints associated with the image, a keypoint…

Management method and management apparatus

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12182753
A management method includes determining, by a management apparatus, a stopping location for a vehicle used for delivery, based on vehicle classification data on the vehicle, delivery environment information, and stopping environment information during the delivery.

System and method for adjusting bounding box dimensions

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12181613
Systems and methods for adjusting the dimensions of point clouds are described herein. In one example, a system includes a processor and a memory having instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to generate a bounding box using a point cloud generated by a sensor and adjust a dimension of the bounding box based on a magnitude of a viewing angle of a side of the bounding box with respect to the sensor.

Cost-based vehicle routing

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12181296
Systems and methods are provided for determining navigation routing of a vehicle based on predicted total cost of possible routes, including: receiving information identifying a destination for a vehicle; determining two or more possible routes from a origination to the destination; determining a plurality of cost factors for a plurality of the determined possible routes, wherein the cost factors comprise direct cost information for the plurality of determined possible routes and…

Automatic alternate transportation

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12181292
An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a server, that a transport is inoperable on a route, instructing, by the server, an alternate transport to navigate to the transport, configuring, by the server, the alternate transport based on a configuration of the transport and routing, by the server, the configured alternate transport to an intended destination of the transport.

Rotary driving device

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12181037
The rotary driving device includes a shaft which has one end and the other end in the axial direction and is provided with an oil passage through which lubricating oil flows from one end to the other end, a transmission case accommodating the shaft therein, and a bearing arranged at the other end of the shaft in the transmission case and rotatably supporting the shaft. The shaft includes an end surface located on the other end in the axial direction. The transmission case includes an…

Manufacturing method of porous silicon material, porous silicon material, and power storage device

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12180563
The manufacturing method of a porous silicon material of the present disclosure includes a particle forming step of melting a raw material containing Al as a first element in an amount of 50% by mass or more and Si in an amount of 50% by mass or less to obtain a silicon alloy, a pore forming step of removing the first element from the silicon alloy to obtain a porous material, and a heat treatment step of heating the porous material to diffuse elements other than Si to a surface of the…

Industrial vehicle

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12180047
A forklift truck includes a main controller, a driving motor, a drive controller, and an object detector. The drive controller controls the driving motor. The object detector detects the position of an object being present in the backward direction of the forklift truck. The main controller derives an expected trajectory of the forklift truck. The main controller imposes a speed limit on the forklift truck by setting a vehicle speed upper limit when the object detected by the object…