Toyota Patents

Toyota Motor Corporation designs, manufactures, assembles and sells passenger cars, minivans and commercial vehicles under the Toyota and Lexus brands. The company also provides financial services products to customers and dealers seeking loans to purchase or leases of Toyota vehicles.

Toyota Patents by Type
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  • Patent number: 11001198
    Abstract: A notification device provided in a vehicle including an autonomous driving system which causes the vehicle to travel by autonomous driving and to evacuate the vehicle when a failure occurs, includes a display unit configured to display information toward an outside of the vehicle, and a display controller configured to control the display unit. The display controller causes the display unit to be turned on or flicker when a failure occurs and changes a display of the display unit in at least one of a time when an evacuation starts and a time when an evacuation is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Morimura, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
  • Patent number: 11005874
    Abstract: A monitoring apparatus includes: an acquisition unit sequentially receiving messages on a network; a first calculation unit calculating a difference between data values of two continuous messages; a second calculation unit calculating a difference between reception time points of two continuous messages; a first determination unit determining whether a received message is an abnormal message based on the difference calculated by the first calculation unit or the second calculation unit; a second determination unit determining whether a received message is a suspicious message based on the difference calculated by the first calculation unit or the second calculation unit; and a recording unit recording, when the second determination unit determines that the received message is the suspicious message, as a history, data values and reception time points of the suspicious message and a predetermined number of messages received before and after reception of the suspicious message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomokazu Moriya
  • Patent number: 11006163
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus that controls a movable body that transports a user holding an entertainment ticket to and/or from an entertainment site where an entertainment is performed, the information processing apparatus including a control unit that executes: electronically reading the entertainment ticket held by the user; identifying the entertainment site associated with the entertainment ticket; generating an instruction for causing the movable body to move for transporting the user to the identified entertainment site; receiving picture data transmitted from the identified entertainment site; and providing a picture obtained by decoding the picture data to the user on board the movable body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideo Hasegawa, Tadahiro Kashiwai, Yusuke Kaneko, Akihiro Yamaguchi, Yuki Ito, Naoki Uenoyama, Takahiro Shiga
  • Patent number: 11005324
    Abstract: A rotor core has a plurality of magnetic steel sheets laminated in an axial direction. Cooling passages extending in an axial direction are formed by aligning openings of the plurality of magnetic steel sheets. The cooling passages have axial direction passages that communicate at one end. A coolant inlet is then formed in one passage, and coolant outlets are formed in the other passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshitada Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 11005318
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotary electric machine, the rotor including: a rotor core; a rotor shaft having a tubular shape, passing through a radially inner side of the rotor core to be coupled to the rotor core, and extending along an axial direction; an oil supply path that supplies oil to the rotor shaft, a portion to be lubricated that is disposed on a first axial side with respect to the rotor core, wherein one side in the axial direction is defined as the first axial side and another side in the axial direction is defined as a second axial side; and a lubrication oil path through which oil is supplied to the portion to be lubricated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Nakane, Takefumi Komaki, Masayuki Ikemoto, Yoshinari Nakagawa, Minoru Anai, Shinya Sano
  • Patent number: 11002204
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system of an internal combustion engine comprises an HC adsorbent 20 arranged adsorbing HC in exhaust gas, an NOx adsorbent 20 adsorbing NOx in exhaust gas, a catalyst 24 removing HC and NOx at a predetermined air-fuel ratio, an air-fuel ratio control part 31 configured to control an air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas, and an HC concentration calculating part 32 configured to calculate a concentration of HC desorbed from the HC adsorbent. A peak of a desorption temperature of HC at the HC adsorbent and a peak of a desorption temperature of NOx at the NOx adsorbent are substantially the same. The air-fuel ratio control part is configured to control an air-fuel ratio of inflowing exhaust gas flowing into the catalyst to the predetermined air-fuel ratio based on the concentration of HC calculated by the HC concentration calculating part when HC is desorbed from the HC adsorbent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomihisa Oda
  • Patent number: 11001220
    Abstract: A passenger protection device for a front passenger seat includes: an upper airbag that is installed in a front header of a vehicle, and is configured to inflate and deploy at a time of a frontal collision of the vehicle so as to be supported by a windshield from a front side of the vehicle; and a lower airbag that is provided separately from the upper airbag and installed at a front end of a vehicle cabin below the windshield in a vehicle height direction, the lower airbag being configured to inflate and deploy at the time of the frontal collision so as to be supported by a dashboard including an instrument panel from the front side of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Hiroe Sugawara
  • Patent number: 11001311
    Abstract: A steering member includes a main body extending in a vehicle-width direction, at least one support part, a reinforcing part, and a bracket. The support part supports the steering. The reinforcing part is formed in a plate-like shape and attached to a reinforced area of an outer circumferential surface of the main body. The bracket is attached to the reinforcing part and extends from the reinforcing part toward a front side of the vehicle so as to be attached to a body of the vehicle. The outer circumferential surface of the main body comprises a support area to which the at least one support part is attached. The reinforced area faces the support area across the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignees: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norito Nishizawa, Kazuaki Kurita
  • Patent number: 11002151
    Abstract: A V-clamp fastens a clamping flange of a turbine housing and a clamping flange of a bearing housing in a rotation axis direction of a connecting shaft so that the clamping flanges are fixed to each other. An annular heat shield plate is disposed between the turbine housing and the bearing housing. The heat shield plate is clamped by the turbine housing and the bearing housing. A clearance is disposed in an entire area between an opposed surface of the clamping flange of the turbine housing and an opposed surface of the clamping flange of the bearing housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Tsukiyama, Takeshi Murase, Hiroaki Ikegami
  • Patent number: 11001162
    Abstract: A vehicle power supply device includes a relay controller. When a low voltage switching request is made to set a mode for supplying electric power from a switching module group to a low voltage power supply, the relay controller is configured to perform in sequence a first process of switching a first main relay and a second main relay to an open state, a second process of connecting a first switching relay to a second electrode terminal of the low voltage power supply and switching a second switching relay to a closed state, a third process of switching a precharge relay to a closed state and switching a third switching relay to a closed state, a fourth process of switching the second main relay to a closed state, and a fifth process of switching the precharge relay to an open state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Reina Yamada, Kenji Kataoka, Hiroshi Sato, Koji Murakami, Ken Yoshida, Shin Okumura
  • Patent number: 11001251
    Abstract: During a hybrid drive, a hybrid vehicle sets an engine required power based on a driving required power and controls an engine to output the engine required power, while controlling a motor to drive the hybrid vehicle with the driving required power. When a catalyst temperature of an exhaust emission control device is equal to or lower than a predetermined temperature that requires warming up, in the state that an output upper limit power which a power storage device is allowed to output is equal to or larger than a predetermined power, the hybrid vehicle sets a power calculated by subtracting the output upper limit power from the driving required power, to the engine required power. In the state that the output upper limit power is smaller than the predetermined power, the hybrid vehicle sets the driving required power to the engine required power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Kamatani, Kazuma Aoki, Koji Hokoi
  • Patent number: 11005323
    Abstract: A shaft of a rotor includes a cylindrical core member and a resin member. An uneven portion made up of first hole portions is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the core member. The resin member covers the outer peripheral surface of the core member, while being adhesively fixed to the first hole portions. A rotor core is attached to a periphery of the resin member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Segawa, Hiroshi Kinpara
  • Patent number: 11001255
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus operates a collision avoidance apparatus that is mounted in a vehicle based on a distance to an object that is positioned ahead of the vehicle in a travelling direction. The driving assistance apparatus includes: a resistance determining unit that determines whether or not running resistance that suppresses rolling of wheels forward in the travelling direction of the vehicle is present; an operation determining unit that determines whether or not an accelerator operation by a driver of the vehicle is being performed; and a distance setting unit that sets an operation distance that is a distance at which the collision avoidance apparatus is operated. When the resistance determining unit determines that the running resistance is present and when the operation determining unit determines that the accelerator operation is being performed, the distance setting unit sets the operation distance to a value that is less than that when the running resistance is not present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masumi Fukuman, Akihiro Kida
  • Patent number: 11001122
    Abstract: A vehicle temperature regulation system includes: a power unit including a motor driven by a supply of electrical power from a battery to cause wheels to rotate; a first cooling unit including a first heat exchanger disposed at a vehicle front side of the power unit, and a first circulation path that allows refrigerant to circulate between the power unit and the first heat exchanger to perform heat exchange; a second cooling unit including a second heat exchanger disposed at a vehicle rear side of the power unit, an air conditioning unit, a compressor, and a second circulation path that allows refrigerant to circulate between the second heat exchanger, the air conditioning unit, and the compressor to perform heat exchange; and a duct that interconnects the air conditioning unit and the battery and through which cool air or warm air is supplied from the air conditioning unit to the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Ajisaka
  • Patent number: 11001263
    Abstract: A vehicular breaking force control system includes: a plurality of actuators capable of generating a braking force for a vehicle; a coasting state detection unit configured to detect that a coasting state has been established; a target braking force calculation unit configured to calculate a target braking force on the basis of a state of the vehicle when the coasting state detection unit detects that the coasting state has been established; and a braking force distribution control unit configured to determine a distribution braking force that is a braking force to be caused to be generated by each actuator, such that the distribution braking force is equal to or less than a braking force generable by the actuator and a sum of the distribution braking forces is equal to the target braking force, and to perform control of causing each actuator to generate the distribution braking force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Shimizu, Shun Sato, Katsumi Kono, Atsushi Ayabe, Noritake Mitsutani, Hiroki Nakano
  • Patent number: 11002208
    Abstract: An in-vehicle control device carries out fuel cut-off for stopping fuel injection from a fuel injection valve when a prescribed fuel cut-off condition including that a lockup clutch with which a torque converter is equipped is engaged and that an accelerator is off is fulfilled. Besides, the in-vehicle control device performs a fuel cut-off suspension process for carrying out fuel injection from the fuel injection valve and releasing the lockup clutch when there is a request to suspend fuel cut-off with the accelerator off. Also, the in-vehicle control device performs a speed increase process for performing shift control of an automatic transmission such that the rotational speed of a turbine impeller with which the torque converter is equipped becomes higher while the fuel cut-off suspension process is performed than when fuel cut-off is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota Iwasaki, Yoshitsugu Shinohara
  • Patent number: 11001270
    Abstract: A driving support device includes an electric control unit and a cleaning device. The electric control unit is configured to select one mode of a first mode based on a premise that a driver is touching a steering wheel and a second mode not based on the premise that the driver is touching the steering wheel. The electric control unit is configured to permit cleaning of the cleaning device when a cleaning request is issued and the mode is the first mode and to prohibit cleaning of the cleaning device when the mode is the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masumi Dakemoto
  • Patent number: 11004339
    Abstract: A driving assistance device for a driver of a vehicle includes an electronic control unit configured to, before the vehicle passes through a predetermined position in a predetermined direction, acquire information relating to a predetermined traffic regulation to be applied when the vehicle passes through the predetermined position in the predetermined direction, acquire an observance tendency of an other driver relating to the predetermined traffic regulation, a degree of similarity between a predetermined characteristic of the other driver and the predetermined characteristic of the driver of the vehicle is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, before the vehicle passes through the predetermined position in the predetermined direction, output a warning to prompt observance of the predetermined traffic regulation, and change an output state of the warning to prompt observance of the predetermined traffic regulation based on the observance tendency of the traffic regulation of another driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Oe, Hirofumi Kamimaru
  • Patent number: 11001302
    Abstract: A front end of an upper bracket in a vehicle longitudinal direction is welded to a top surface of a rear cross member, and a weld zone between the rear cross member and the upper bracket includes, in a plan view of a vehicle, a central portion extending along a vehicle width direction and a curved end portion extending in a curved shape from each end of the central portion in the vehicle width direction toward a front side of the vehicle or a diagonally front side of the vehicle, to thereby reduce a stress on each vehicle-widthwise end of the weld zone between the rear cross member and the upper bracket configured to connect a towing tool attachment to the rear cross member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Maiko Ikeyoshi
  • Patent number: 11003927
    Abstract: In a target recognition apparatus that recognizes a target in a periphery of an own vehicle, a radar target acquiring unit acquires, as a radar target, the target that is detected by transmission and reception of radar waves. An image target acquiring unit acquires, as an image target, the target that is included in a captured image captured by an imaging apparatus. A target recognizing unit recognizes, as a first target, one of a plurality of radar targets included in a predetermined area relative to the image target and recognizes, as a second target, at least one of the plurality of radar targets other than the first target. A sameness determining unit determines whether the first target and the second target are the same object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiko Inoue, Tadashi Sakai, Yohei Masui, Takashi Maeda
  • Patent number: 11001221
    Abstract: A passenger protection device for a front passenger seat includes: an upper airbag that is installed in a front header of a vehicle, and is configured to inflate and deploy at a time of a frontal collision of the vehicle so as to be supported by a windshield from a front side of the vehicle; and a lower airbag that is provided separately from the upper airbag and installed at a front end of a vehicle cabin below the windshield in a vehicle height direction, the lower airbag being configured to inflate and deploy at the time of the frontal collision so as to be supported by a dashboard including an instrument panel from the front side of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Hiroe Sugawara
  • Patent number: 11004285
    Abstract: A processing device includes a control unit configured to perform: identifying a user when the user enters a vehicle and performing a process of guaranteeing a boarded state of the user while the user is in the vehicle; receiving information on a predetermined procedure for performing an authentication process from the user; and transmitting user information which is required for performing the predetermined procedure as information on the user of whom the boarded state in the vehicle is guaranteed to an external device that is installed at a first place for the predetermined procedure in a state in which the boarded state of the user is guaranteed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiro Murakami, Katsuhiko Sakakibara, Makoto Matsushita, Junya Sato, Kiyonori Yoshida, Tae Sugimura, Takashi Hayashi, Jun Endo
  • Patent number: 11002211
    Abstract: An engine diagnostic system is provided for diagnosing a deterioration degree of an engine mounted on a vehicle. The engine diagnostic system learns, as a knock learning value, a maximum advancement amount of an ignition timing that reduces knocking. A database stores time-series data of the knock learning value of the engine for each individual engine. The knock learning value is acquired from each of a plurality of vehicles of the same model. An evaluation process computes an evaluation value indicating the deterioration degree of a designated engine using the time-series data of the knock learning value of each engine stored in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tsutomu Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11002963
    Abstract: A head-up display device includes a casing provided inside an instrument panel. The casing includes an upper case constituting an upper part of the casing and provided with a fragile portion that is configured to be broken when an impact load is input to the casing from an upper side in a vehicle up-down direction, and a lower case constituting a lower part of the casing, provided with a light source unit configured to emit image information, and having a rigidity higher than that of the upper case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Taichi Minei, Shigeto Muramatsu, Yasunobu Nagata, Norihisa Nomura, Takashi Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 11002213
    Abstract: Provided are an internal combustion engine control device and control method in which a multi-injection process comprises performing an intake synchronized injection and an intake asynchronous injection to inject a required injection amount of fuel by operating a port injection valve for injecting fuel into an intake passageway. A variable process includes variably setting an injection timing for the intake synchronized injection on the basis of at least two of three parameters. The injection timing for the intake synchronized injection is expressed by the rotation angle of a crank shaft of an internal combustion engine. The three parameters include a rotational speed of the crank shaft of the internal combustion engine, a valve-opening start timing of an intake valve, and a temperature of an intake system of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiko Niwa, Masanori Toya, Takashi Yoshida, Takayuki Omachi
  • Patent number: 11004766
    Abstract: A cooler may include: a housing including a coolant space in which coolant flows; partition walls partitioning the coolant space into a plurality of flow channels; and a plurality of cooling fins located in each of the flow channels. The partition walls may be curved tortuously such that each of the flow channels comprises wide portions and narrow portions. The wide portions and the narrow portions may be arranged alternately in each of the flow channels in a direction along which the coolant flows. A number of the cooling fins located in each of the wide portions may be greater than a number of the cooling fins located in each of the narrow portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tadafumi Yoshida, Ryo Miyazaki, Yasuki Hirota, Takafumi Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 11002338
    Abstract: A drive belt includes a hoop and multiple elements joined together in a loop by the hoop. Each element has an assembly space into which one end portion of the hoop is inserted during assembly. Each element is configured such that a first opening width, which is a distance between a first hook and a second hook, is less than a width of the hoop, and a second opening width, which is a distance between the second hook and a contact site where the one end portion of the hoop housed in the assembly space contacts a first pillar, is greater than the width of the hoop. The first hook and the second hook respectively include a first displacement-restriction surface and a second displacement-restriction surface each configured to restrict relative displacement between the element and the hoop by contacting a corresponding one of edges of the hoop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keisuke Ninomiya
  • Patent number: 11005146
    Abstract: A battery includes a case, an internal terminal, an external terminal, and an insulator. The internal terminal includes an internal terminal base and a shaft. The internal terminal base is disposed inside the case, with the insulator interposed between the case and the internal terminal base. The external terminal includes an external terminal base and a boss. The external terminal base is disposed outside the case, with the insulator interposed between the external terminal base and the case. The boss extends from the external terminal base. The boss receives the shaft of the internal terminal therethrough. The boss is pressure-welded to the shaft of the internal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Koike, Yoshinori Shibata, Kaoru Ito
  • Patent number: 11005121
    Abstract: A sealing part has an outer peripheral point of the sealing part within a range from 0 degree to 90 degrees around a center point of the sealing part relative to a stacking direction, and that is located at a distance of a first length L1 from the center point. Each point on the outer peripheral line within a first range satisfies L2?L1, where L2 is a second length that is a distance from the center point to that point. Each point on the outer peripheral line within a second range satisfies L3<L1, where L3 is a distance from the center point to that point, and is located on the opposite side of the outer peripheral point from the center point or at the same position as the outer peripheral point in the direction perpendicular to the stacking direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Sato, Hideya Kadono
  • Patent number: 11004439
    Abstract: Acoustic measurement systems include an enclosure having a high efficiency yet very thin acoustic absorber coating portions thereof, in order to diminish background reflections. The thin acoustic absorber includes a reflective sublayer having a periodic array of indentations on its surface. The periodic array of indentations can be one-dimensional or two dimensional. The thin acoustic absorber further includes a thin absorbing layer overlaid on the reflective sublayer, and typically formed of a viscoelastic foam. The thin acoustic absorber possesses unprecedented absorption efficiency across a broad frequency range and at normal or oblique angles of incidence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Taehwa Lee, Hideo Iizuka
  • Patent number: 11002231
    Abstract: An intake device for an internal combustion engine configures a flow passage for intake air that is drawn into combustion chambers. The intake device includes an intake manifold configuring multiple runners that respectively distribute intake air to multiple cylinders, a surge tank including a cavity that is connected to the runners and defines a convergence portion, a throttle body incorporating a throttle valve, and a connection pipe connecting the surge tank and the throttle body and configuring a curved flow passage extending between the throttle body and the surge tank. The connection pipe includes a partition plate that divides the curved flow passage into a circumferentially inner flow passage and a circumferentially outer flow passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tadashi Ibaragi, Kazuaki Nakayama, Ako Itoh, Ryuji Koike, Toshiyuki Kondo
  • Patent number: 11005138
    Abstract: A battery module includes a plurality of single cells, a battery chamber, an exhaust chamber, a partition wall, a smoke exhaust cover and a seal member. The exhaust chamber is provided adjacently to the battery chamber. Gas released from the single cells flows through the exhaust chamber. The exhaust chamber has one or more exhaust holes configured to release the gas to an outside. The partition wall isolates the exhaust chamber and the battery chamber from each other. The smoke exhaust cover is arranged so as to lace the partition wall. The exhaust chamber is surrounded by the partition wall, the smoke exhaust cover and the seal member. The smoke exhaust cover has a protective protrusion at a location between the seal member and the exhaust valves adjacent to the seal member. The protective protrusion is configured upright from the smoke exhaust cover toward the partition wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoshi Morioka
  • Patent number: 11002230
    Abstract: There is provided an air cleaner including: an outlet pipe through which air is discharged; an airflow meter that is inserted toward an interior of the outlet pipe through a wall of the outlet pipe; and a flow-regulating member that is formed projecting from an inner surface of the outlet pipe at a side of the airflow meter, the flow-regulating member including an edge that is formed with a peaked shape with respect to the inner surface and that runs along a direction of flow of air, a rear end that is formed at a downstream end of the edge in the direction of flow, and that is shaped cut sharply toward the inner surface and a width-narrowing portion that decreases in width in a circumferential direction of the outlet pipe on progression downstream in the direction of flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Harada, Shunsuke Rikitake
  • Patent number: 11005114
    Abstract: A plant control system is equipped with a plant, an actuator that controls a state of the plant based on a command value, and an arithmetic device that calculates the command value through the use of state information indicating the state of the plant and that outputs the command value to the actuator. The arithmetic device adopts, as the command value, a value of u obtained by deleting a time differential of y from equations: dy/dt=f(y, u, d, t) and K4×dy/dt=K3×yref?K1×y+K2×(time integral of (yref?y))+K5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Okuyoshi, Tetsuya Bono, Toshihiro Egawa
  • Patent number: 11002560
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a display control unit that is configured to: display markers in positions, on a display unit, corresponding to future positions of a host vehicle which are acquired from an autonomous driving control unit that autonomously drives the host vehicle, and move display positions of the markers on the display unit in accordance with travel of the host vehicle and toward a reference position on the display unit corresponding to the host vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hitoshi Kumon
  • Patent number: 11004769
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an MIO substrate with integrated jet cooling for electronic modules and a method of forming the same. In one embodiment, a substrate for an electronic module includes a thermal compensation base layer having an MIO structure and a cap layer overgrown on the MIO structure. A plurality of orifices extends through the thermal compensation base layer between an inlet face and an outlet face positioned opposite to the inlet face, defining a plurality of jet paths. A plurality of integrated posts extends outward from the cap layer, wherein each integrated post of the plurality of integrated posts is positioned on the outlet face between each orifice of the plurality of orifices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Shailesh N. Joshi
  • Patent number: 11002964
    Abstract: Methods, systems, devices and apparatuses for a heads up display (HUD) unit assembly. The HUD unit assembly includes a HUD guard device. The HUD guard device has a first elongated member. The first elongated member is position on one or more surfaces of the HUD unit and along an edge of the HUD unit and is configured to protect the one or more surfaces of the HUD unit and the edge of the HUD unit during installation of an instrument panel. The HUD guard device has a first leg member and a second leg member. The first leg member and the second leg member each have a first end and a second end. The first ends are coupled to the first elongated member and the second ends are configured to couple and interface with the HUD unit to support the first elongated member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew W. Harvey, Jonathan Joseph Quijano, Thomas Edward Whitaker
  • Patent number: 11002546
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to determining a location of a vehicle within a structure. In one embodiment, a method includes collecting, from at least one sensor in the vehicle, sensor data that indicates information associated with control of the vehicle in the structure. The method includes classifying gradients along a path of the vehicle through the structure according to the sensor data. The method includes identifying traversed levels of the structure along the path according to the gradients. The method includes providing the location including at least an indicator of the traversed levels as an electronic output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Connected North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshikazu Tanaka, Brian M. Kursar, Akshata Dundi Mohan, Nimish Kumar Amlathe, Raja Shekar Kilaru, Christian Gilles Claudel
  • Patent number: 11002340
    Abstract: An automatic transmission includes a main transmission and an auxiliary transmission. The auxiliary transmission includes an auxiliary-transmission-side planetary gear mechanism, a first clutch, and a second clutch. The auxiliary-transmission-side planetary gear mechanism is provided between a pair of main-transmission-side planetary gear mechanisms, and a part of the auxiliary-transmission-side planetary gear mechanism is located within the main transmission. The first clutch fixes rotation of a sun gear of the auxiliary-transmission-side planetary gear mechanism. The second clutch connects a ring gear of the auxiliary-transmission-side planetary gear mechanism with the sun gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hironori Asaoka, Atsushi Honda, Motoki Tabuchi, Daisuke Okamoto, Naoyuki Kishimoto, Tomoe Osada
  • Patent number: 11003758
    Abstract: An information processing method includes, by an information processing device, acquiring a snapshot of data stored in a main storage device of the information processing device in a state where an external device is not authenticated yet, after the information processing device is powered ON; performing first authentication in which the information processing device authenticates the external device after the snapshot is stored in an auxiliary storage device of the information processing device; and performing second authentication in which the information processing device is started up using the snapshot and authenticates the external device after the information processing device is powered ON again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11003916
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein disclose methods and systems for dynamic object recognition. Using location and information from the recognition process, historical data for a dynamic object, and associated data from secondary objects, a more complete data set can be generated for the dynamic object. The dynamic object data set can then be stored for later recognition and a more complete and human-like understanding of the dynamic object, useful in a variety of automated tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventor: Jens Strabo Hummelshøj
  • Patent number: 11002799
    Abstract: A method of evaluating a power storage device includes at least [a] to [f] below. [a] A power storage device is prepared. [b] A charge level of the power storage device is adjusted to produce a first potential difference between a positive electrode and a negative electrode. [c] The positive electrode or the negative electrode is selected as a reference electrode. [d] After the charge level is adjusted, an operation to insert a conductive rod-shaped member into a stack portion along a direction of stack of the positive electrode and the negative electrode is performed while a second potential difference between the reference electrode and the rod-shaped member is measured. [e] The rod-shaped member is stopped. [f] The power storage device is evaluated based on a state of the power storage device after the rod-shaped member is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kensaku Miyazawa, Shinichi Hamasaki, Yuya Ishihara, Tetsuya Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11002831
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a road debris blocking system that provides a barrier to road debris at a surveying sensor. The vehicle includes a vehicle body and a processor. A road debris blocking device moves between a stowed configuration and a deployed configuration relative to the vehicle body. An actuator moves the road debris blocking device between the stowed configuration and the deployed configuration. A wheel angle sensor provides a signal to the processor indicative of a wheel angle. A memory module is communicatively coupled to the processor that stores logic that, when executed by the processor, causes the system to receive the signal from the wheel angle sensor and instruct the actuator to move the road debris blocking device from the stowed configuration to the deployed configuration based on the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott L. Frederick, Paxton S. Williams
  • Publication number: 20210129909
    Abstract: A vehicle according to the present disclosure comprises an under unit which is equipped with a driving mechanism configured to rotate wheels of the vehicle, and an upper unit which is mounted on the under unit. The upper unit comprises an extension/contraction mechanism which is configured to extend or contract the upper unit according to a size of the under unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki YABUSHITA, Keiichi Kondo, Kaori Takahashi, Jin Xin, Daisuke Mizushima, Satoru Ando, Takeshi Murakami, Yuchi Yamanouchi, Kenta Miyahara, So Sawahira, Rina Mukai
  • Publication number: 20210129081
    Abstract: Catalyst material comprising a ternary spinel mixed oxide for treatment of an exhaust gas stream via direct decomposition removal of NOx to N2 and O2. The low temperature (from about 400° C. to about 650° C.), direct decomposition is accomplished without the need of a reductant molecule. In one example, Mn may be incorporated into metal oxide, such as CuyCo3-yO4 spinel oxide, synthesized using co-precipitation techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Krishna Gunugunuri, Charles A. Roberts, Torin C. Peck
  • Publication number: 20210130175
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the synthesis of a composite material comprising steps of: (a) reacting gaseous magnesium (Mg) and silica (SiO2) in an inert atmosphere; (b) washing the product obtained in step (a) in an acidic medium; and (c) reacting further gaseous magnesium (Mg) with the silica (SiO2) and silicon (Si) product obtained in step (b). The process of the invention allows Mg2Si/MgO nanocomposites to be prepared without too many separate steps, and wherein the MgO phase is homogeneously dispersed within the Mg2Si matrix. The nanocomposites obtained may for example find practical application as thermoelectric materials in thermoelectric generators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE, UNIVERSITÄT SALZBURG
    Inventors: Sachin KINGE, Michael S. ELSAESSER, Raphael BERGER, Nastaran HAYATI-ROODBARI
  • Publication number: 20210129667
    Abstract: A drive force control system for a vehicle configured to allow a driver to find out a steering angle at which a wheel grips a road surface. In the vehicle, a torque distribution ratio to a pair of wheels turned by a steering wheel and another pair of wheels is changeable. A controller restricts a control to change the torque distribution ratio in the event of a slip of the pair of wheels, if a steering angle of the pair of wheels is changed to allow the pair of wheels to grip a road surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akio SUGAWARA, Kunihiko Usui, Ryosuke Ikemura, Keisuke Ushida
  • Publication number: 20210129754
    Abstract: A system is disclosed and includes a vehicle. The vehicle includes a plurality of sensors including a first set and a second set. The vehicle includes a mirror assembly that includes a mirror body and one or more actuators that are actuable to move the mirror assembly between an extended position and a retracted position. The second set is positioned on the mirror assembly. The vehicle includes a controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of sensors and the one or more actuators, and the controller causes the one or more actuators to adjust a position of the mirror body based on information received from the first set. The controller selectively activates the second set based on the position of the mirror body. The controller calibrates the second set of the plurality of sensors while the position of the mirror body is being set to the extended position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Ethan W. Pomish, Todd Muck
  • Publication number: 20210129191
    Abstract: An adhering matter removing method for removing adhering matter on a surface of an article includes the step of immersing a target surface of the article into a fluidized bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiko SHIRAI, Hironobu MATSUI
  • Publication number: 20210129688
    Abstract: A freight vehicle includes a chassis, a body portion having therein a vehicle cabin in which an occupant rides and supported by a front end of the chassis, a tilt mechanism that is provided on the chassis and that tilts the body portion with respect to the chassis, a tank that is disposed on the body portion and stores gas, a gas consuming unit that is supported by the chassis and supplied with the gas to consume the gas, and a pipe that connects the tank and the gas consuming unit and through which the gas flows. At least a part of the pipe is composed of a flexible pipe having a first end fixed to the body portion and a second end fixed to the chassis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, HINO MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka SAWADA, Yukihide YOKOYAMA