Patents by Inventor Akira Iijima

Akira Iijima has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240145178
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor (1) includes an anode foil (2a) having formed thereon an oxide film, a cathode foil (2c), and a separator (2d), and is equipped with a solid electrolyte (20) formed of an electroconductive polymer compound in a fine particle form, and a water-soluble compound solution (30) introduced to surround the solid electrolyte (20), the solid electrolyte (20) contains a polyol compound having a molecular weight of less than 200 and a number of hydroxy groups of 4 or more as a first water-soluble compound (2f1), the water-soluble compound solution (30) contains one kind or multiple kinds of a glycol compound in a liquid form as a second water-soluble compound (2f2), and the second water-soluble compound (2f2) has an average molecular weight of less than 400.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Masayuki SAKAGUCHI, Tetsushi OGAWARA, Yoshishige SAKURAI, Akira IIJIMA, Yosuke NOZAWA
  • Patent number: 11908632
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor (1) includes an anode foil (2a) having formed thereon an oxide film, a cathode foil (2c), and a separator (2d), and is equipped with a solid electrolyte (20) formed of an electroconductive polymer compound in a fine particle form, and a water-soluble compound solution (30) introduced to surround the solid electrolyte (20), the solid electrolyte (20) contains a polyol compound having a molecular weight of less than 200 and a number of hydroxy groups of 4 or more as a first water-soluble compound (2f1), the water-soluble compound solution (30) contains one kind or multiple kinds of a glycol compound in a liquid form as a second water-soluble compound (2f2), and the second water-soluble compound (2f2) has an average molecular weight of less than 400.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: RUBYCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakaguchi, Tetsushi Ogawara, Yoshishige Sakurai, Akira Iijima, Yosuke Nozawa
  • Publication number: 20220262574
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor (1) includes an anode foil (2a) having formed thereon an oxide film, a cathode foil (2c), and a separator (2d), and is equipped with a solid electrolyte (20) formed of an electroconductive polymer compound in a fine particle form, and a water-soluble compound solution (30) introduced to surround the solid electrolyte (20), the solid electrolyte (20) contains a polyol compound having a molecular weight of less than 200 and a number of hydroxy groups of 4 or more as a first water-soluble compound (2f1), the water-soluble compound solution (30) contains one kind or multiple kinds of a glycol compound in a liquid form as a second water-soluble compound (2f2), and the second water-soluble compound (2f2) has an average molecular weight of less than 400.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Masayuki SAKAGUCHI, Tetsushi OGAWARA, Yoshishige SAKURAI, Akira IIJIMA, Yosuke NOZAWA
  • Patent number: 11410198
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a server transmitting and receiving unit configured to receive location information indicating a location of a vehicle from an on-board device mounted on the vehicle; and a server control unit configured to when the vehicle is traveling in an area that the vehicle has visited a predetermined number of times or less, extract a facility that faces a first road located within a predetermined range based on the location information and having traffic capacity equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold, wherein the server transmitting and receiving unit is configured to send advertisement information of the facility to the on-board device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tanabe, Yuichiro Ueda, Atsuko Kobayashi, Akira Iijima, Manabu Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Goto
  • Patent number: 11353329
    Abstract: An automated driving device includes: a navigation unit configured to retrieve one or more partial routes with a predetermined length other than a guide route which branch from the guide route at a branch point through which a vehicle is expected to pass before the vehicle passes through the branch point; and an electronic control unit configured to control automated driving of the vehicle based on information of a specific partial route out of the one or more partial routes in a period until the navigation unit completes retrieval of a redundant route for guiding the vehicle to a destination point when the vehicle departs from the guide route at the branch point and travels on the specific partial route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Iijima, Hiroaki Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 11341536
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to execute acquiring a crowding level of a destination store that is a destination of a vehicle in which a user rides, extracting a store with a crowding level lower than the crowding level of the destination store as a predetermined recommended store from among other stores that belong to the same genre as the destination store and that do not belong to the same affiliated group as the destination store when the crowding level of the destination store is higher than a predetermined threshold value, generating a proposal advertisement for proposing to change the destination of the vehicle from the destination store to the predetermined recommended store, and presenting the proposal advertisement to the user who rides in the vehicle via a mobile terminal that moves with the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuko Kobayashi, Yuichiro Ueda, Akira Iijima, Daisuke Tanabe, Manabu Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Goto
  • Patent number: 11334073
    Abstract: An autonomous driving device includes a navigation device configured to search a plurality of routes, from a diverging point to a target position, for one or more extra routes other than a recommended route before a vehicle passes the diverging point wherein the diverging point is a point where the vehicle is expected to pass; and an electronic control unit configured to control autonomous driving of the vehicle based on information on a particular extra route when the vehicle departs from the recommended route at the diverging point and travels on the particular extra route wherein the particular extra route is one of the one or more extra routes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Iijima, Hiroaki Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 11220180
    Abstract: An autonomous driving apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. The autonomous driving apparatus includes a controller configured to detect that an output timing of route guidance information from a navigation apparatus mounted on the vehicle matches an output timing of route guidance information from the autonomous driving apparatus, acquire an output setting for the route guidance information output from the navigation apparatus, and decide an output setting for the route guidance information output from the autonomous driving apparatus based on the acquired output setting information and the detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Iijima, Hiroaki Sakakibara
  • Publication number: 20220003570
    Abstract: A map data output device includes: a map storage that stores map data that represents lane network information; a position determination portion that determines a current position of a vehicle; a read processing portion that reads the map data of an area established based on the current position; a control map generation portion that generates control map data obtained by adding information to the map; and an output portion that outputs the control map data to a vehicle control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: HIROKI UKAI, MASAHIRO GOTO, SHUICHI MORIMOTO, AKIRA IIJIMA, CHIKA TSUMORI
  • Patent number: 11215472
    Abstract: An information providing device to be mounted on a vehicle. The vehicle includes control means and control means for transmitting, when the vehicle is controlled by automatic driving, a control signal for outputting route guidance information for informing a driver of the vehicle about a specified route by mechanical speech, and a control signal for outputting automatic driving guidance information for informing the driver of the vehicle about a route of the vehicle driven by automatic driving by a sound effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Iijima, Hironobu Sugimoto, Hiroaki Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 11215473
    Abstract: A control device as a driving support device includes a processor configured such that the processor receives respective voice output instructions from an automatic driving device and a car navigation device provided in a vehicle, and when respective timings to output voice from the automatic driving device and from the car navigation device overlap with each other, the processor performs a control to display a content corresponding to a content of the voice output from the automatic driving device for a longer time than a time to display the content of the voice in a case where the timings do not overlap with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Iijima, Hiroaki Sakakibara, Yohei Kubo
  • Publication number: 20210291860
    Abstract: A driving assistance system includes a planned travel route acquirer, a driving assistance section acquirer, and a guide controller. The planned travel route acquirer acquires a planned travel route for a vehicle. The driving assistance section acquirer acquires a driving assistance section on the planned travel route. The guide controller presents at least one icon indicating a point of switching between the driving assistance section and a non-assistance section on the planned travel route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshito KONDO, Shingo KINASHI, Hironobu SUGIMOTO, Akira IIJIMA, Yohei KUBO
  • Publication number: 20210291872
    Abstract: A driving assistance system includes: a planned travel route obtaining unit that obtains a planned travel route for a vehicle; a switching point obtaining unit that obtains a switching point from a driving assistance section to a non-assistance section on the planned travel route; and a guide control unit that displays an indication for announcing switching from the driving assistance section to the non-assistance section, from a point shifted to a near side by a predetermined section from the switching point on the planned travel route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicants: AISIN AW CO.,LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshito KONDO, Shingo KINASHI, Hironobu SUGIMOTO, Akira IIJIMA, Yohei KUBO
  • Patent number: 10865360
    Abstract: Provided is a lubricating oil composition for engine equipped with a forced-induction mechanism capable of lowering the frequency of occurrence of LSPI, while using a calcium-based detergent. The lubricating oil composition for engine equipped with a forced-induction mechanism contains a base oil (A), a metal-containing surfactant (B) containing at least a calcium-containing surfactant (b1), and at least one basic compound (C) selected from a metal carbonate, a metal hydroxide, and an amine-based compound, wherein the content of sulfur contained in the metal-containing surfactant (B) is 0.2 mass % or more on the basis of the whole amount of the metal-containing surfactant (B); the content of a calcium atom is 0.08 to 0.20 mass % on the basis of the whole amount of the composition; and a mass ratio of the content of the basic compound (C) and the content of a calcium atom derived from the calcium-containing surfactant (b1) [(content of (C))/(calcium content derived from (b1))] is 2.0 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshimasa Utaka, Kazushi Tamura, Akira Iijima
  • Publication number: 20200256701
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to output information on a facility a user is going to visit or a facility the user has visited, detect a visit to the facility indicated by the output information, and adjust the degree of output of the information on the facility based on the number of detected visits to the facility indicated by the output information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira IIJIMA, Yuichiro UEDA, Atsuko KOBAYASHI, Daisuke TANABE, Manabu YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki GOTO
  • Publication number: 20200258123
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to execute acquiring a crowding level of a destination store that is a destination of a vehicle in which a user rides, extracting a store with a crowding level lower than the crowding level of the destination store as a predetermined recommended store from among other stores that belong to the same genre as the destination store and that do not belong to the same affiliated group as the destination store when the crowding level of the destination store is higher than a predetermined threshold value, generating a proposal advertisement for proposing to change the destination of the vehicle from the destination store to the predetermined recommended store, and presenting the proposal advertisement to the user who rides in the vehicle via a mobile terminal that moves with the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd
    Inventors: Atsuko KOBAYASHI, Yuichiro UEDA, Akira IIJIMA, Daisuke TANABE, Manabu YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki GOTO
  • Publication number: 20200256694
    Abstract: An information processing device that provides information to a user is provided. The information processing device includes a control unit configured to identify facilities corresponding to a user attribute including user needs, preferences, or characteristics, to acquire a travel history that includes visited locations visited during past travels by the user carrying at least one of the information processing device and another device used by the user, and to output information on an unvisited facility to the user. The unvisited facility is included in the facilities corresponding to the user attribute and is located at a location other than the visited locations recorded in the travel history.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro UEDA, Atsuko KOBAYASHI, Akira IIJIMA, Daisuke TANABE, Manabu YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki GOTO
  • Publication number: 20200258124
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to receive location information indicating a location of a vehicle from an on-board device, when the vehicle is traveling in an area that the vehicle has visited a predetermined number of times or less, extract a facility that faces a first road located within a predetermined range based on the location information and having traffic capacity equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold, and send advertisement information of the extracted facility to the on-board device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro UEDA, Atsuko KOBAYASHI, Akira IIJIMA, Daisuke TANABE, Manabu YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki GOTO
  • Publication number: 20200258125
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a server transmitting and receiving unit configured to receive location information indicating a location of a vehicle from an on-board device mounted on the vehicle; and a server control unit configured to when the vehicle is traveling in an area that the vehicle has visited a predetermined number of times or less, extract a facility that faces a first road located within a predetermined range based on the location information and having traffic capacity equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold, wherein the server transmitting and receiving unit is configured to send advertisement information of the facility to the on-board device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke TANABE, Yuichiro UEDA, Atsuko KOBAYASHI, Akira IIJIMA, Manabu YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki GOTO
  • Publication number: 20200166369
    Abstract: A control device as a driving support device includes a processor configured such that the processor receives respective voice output instructions from an automatic driving device and a car navigation device provided in a vehicle, and when respective timings to output voice from the automatic driving device and from the car navigation device overlap with each other, the processor performs a control to display a content corresponding to a content of the voice output from the automatic driving device for a longer time than a time to display the content of the voice in a case where the timings do not overlap with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira IIJIMA, Hiroaki SAKAKIBARA, Yohei KUBO