#Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc

SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR PRIORITIZING A PLURALITY OF MANEUVER MESSAGES

An ego vehicle includes a controller configured to receive a plurality of maneuver messages from a plurality of connected vehicles. The maneuver messages include maneuvers to be performed by the plura…

DRIVE·Aug 8·1 min read

B60W60/001 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc

FUEL REACTANT LEAK DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETECTING FUEL REACTANT LEAKS

A vehicle, a vehicle fuel reactant leak detection system, a computer program product, and a computer implemented method of detecting leakage of a fuel reactant from a vehicle. The vehicle includes one…

DRIVE·Aug 10·2 min read

B60W20/50 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc

DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT OF MICROMIRROR FOR HEADS-UP DISPLAY USING PHOTOCHROMATIC MATERIAL

Systems, apparatus, computer implemented methods, and computer program products to enhance the operation of a vehicle. A HUD apparatus includes a laser light source to generate laser light to be refle…

DRIVE·Aug 3·1 min read

G02B27/0101 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDIRECTLY MONITORING AN ISOLATION RESISTANCE OF ONE OR MORE FUEL CELLS

Systems and methods for monitoring the isolation resistance of one or more fuel cells are described herein. In one example, a system includes a current transformer having a hollow core. First and seco…

DRIVE·Jun 29·1 min read

H01M8/04952 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc

WASTE HEAT RECLAMATION IN A POWER GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING A POWER GENERATION SYSTEM

A system includes a power generator to generate power from an reaction involving a first fuel reactant and a second fuel reactant, a fuel reactant supply source to supply the first fuel reactant to th…

DRIVE·Apr 20·1 min read

H01M8/04067 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc

FUEL CELL BIPOLAR PLATE FLOW FIELD HAVING HYBRID INTERWOVEN CHANNEL PATTERN

A bipolar plate for a fuel cell, a fuel cell, and a method of designing a bipolar plate for a fuel cell having a hybrid flow field structure that includes a plurality of parallel feed flow channels fl…

DRIVE·Mar 16·1 min read

H01M8/026 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc

METHOD OF DESIGNING FLUID FLOW FIELD STRUCTURE FOR FUEL CELL BIPOLAR PLATE

One or more methods of designing an FC bipolar plate that enhance the operational performance of FC. A first image analysis is conducted of image data of a fluid flow field structure having one or mor…

DRIVE·Mar 16·1 min read

G06F30/10 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc

FAN TO DECELERATE VEHICLE AND PROVIDE COOLING TO FRICTION BRAKES

Apparatuses, systems, and methods apply, with a fan, a braking force to a vehicle that includes an axle. The fan is rotated at a first rotational speed based on a rotation of the axle that rotates at …

DRIVE·Nov 24·1 min read

B60T1/087 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc

VEHICLE BRAKE COOLING SYSTEM HAVING DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTABLE AIR VENTS FOR ACTIVE BRAKE COOLING

A vehicle, a vehicle brake cooling system, a computer program product, and a method of controlling a vehicle in a manner to achieve enhanced aerodynamic performance of the vehicle and active cooling t…

DRIVE·Nov 10·2 min read

B60T5/00 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc

POWERTRAIN TORQUE LIMITATION TO ENSURE LOCK-UP CLUTCH ENGAGEMENT DURING HIGH TEMPERATURE TRANSMISSION FLUID CONDITION

A vehicle, a vehicle powertrain system, a computer program product, and a method of controlling a vehicle in a manner to achieve enhanced driving performance. An example vehicle powertrain system incl…

DRIVE·Nov 3·1 min read

B60W30/188 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc

TUNABLE WINDOW SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE

Systems and methods provide technology for a tunable vehicle window system to adjust a view for a window. The technology includes a window assembly comprising a tunable optical metamaterial deployed o…

DRIVE·Oct 13·1 min read

G02B26/023 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc

PRECONDITIONING A FUEL CELL USING ROUTE DATA

Methods and systems may provide for technology to predict a future increase in power demand on a fuel cell based on route data associated with a vehicle powered by the fuel cell and reduce an operatin…

DRIVE·Sep 29·1 min read

B60W50/0097 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc

METHOD OF PREDICTING LIQUID REGIONS AND VAPOR REGIONS IN BIPOLAR PLATES OF A FUEL CELL

A method of designing a fuel cell includes executing one or more programs on one or more computing devices having one or more processors to predict a location of one or more liquid regions and one or …

DRIVE·May 5·1 min read

H01M8/2404 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc

SUPPORT MEMBERS FOR FUEL CELL FLUID FLOW NETWORKS

A fuel cell may include a first fuel cell bipolar plate defining an air layer, a second fuel cell bipolar plate defining a hydrogen layer, and a coolant layer defined by the air layer and the hydrogen…

DRIVE·May 5·1 min read

H01M8/0267 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc

PERMEABLE SUPPORT INFILL STRUCTURE FOR FUEL CELL FLUID FLOW NETWORKS

DRIVE·May 5·1 min read

H01M8/0267 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc

FUEL CELL HAVING BIPOLAR PLATES WITH MULTI-LAYERED DEHOMOGENIZED TURING-PATTERN MICROSTRUCTURE CONFIGURATION

A fuel cell that includes an air fuel cell bipolar plate and a hydrogen fuel cell bipolar plate respectively having a Turing-pattern microstructure configuration. The spatial arrangement of the air fu…

DRIVE·May 5·1 min read

H01M8/0267 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc

PERMEABLE SUPPORT LAYER FOR FUEL CELL FLUID FLOW NETWORKS

DRIVE·May 5·1 min read

H01M8/0258 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc

POWER ELECTRONICS ASSEMBLY HAVING STAGGERED AND DIAGONALLY ARRANGED TRANSISTORS

Methods, apparatuses and systems to provide for technology to that includes a first power electronics module including a plurality of first transistors that are diagonally offset from each other, and …

DRIVE·May 5·1 min read

B60L15/007 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc

VEHICLE DEFOGGING SYSTEMS

In one embodiment, a vehicle defogging system may include a side mirror defogger, one or more other vehicle defoggers, one or more sensors, and a control unit. The side mirror defogger is independentl…

DRIVE·Dec 23·1 min read

B60S1/026 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc

SYSTEM AND METHOD ON A TOWING VEHICLE TO CONTROL A TOWED VEHICLE'S CONTROLS AND SYSTEMS

A one-touch control system for operating the controls of a towed vehicle using a towing vehicle. The system includes an electronic control unit integrated into the towed vehicle and configured to rece…

DRIVE·Nov 11·1 min read

B60D1/26 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc