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).
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Publication number: 20240145178Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Masayuki SAKAGUCHI, Tetsushi OGAWARA, Yoshishige SAKURAI, Akira IIJIMA, Yosuke NOZAWA
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Patent number: 11908632Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 18, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: RUBYCON CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki Sakaguchi, Tetsushi Ogawara, Yoshishige Sakurai, Akira Iijima, Yosuke Nozawa
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Publication number: 20220262574Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Masayuki SAKAGUCHI, Tetsushi OGAWARA, Yoshishige SAKURAI, Akira IIJIMA, Yosuke NOZAWA
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Patent number: 11410198Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.Inventors: Daisuke Tanabe, Yuichiro Ueda, Atsuko Kobayashi, Akira Iijima, Manabu Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Goto
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Patent number: 11353329Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira Iijima, Hiroaki Sakakibara
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Patent number: 11341536Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.Inventors: Atsuko Kobayashi, Yuichiro Ueda, Akira Iijima, Daisuke Tanabe, Manabu Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Goto
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Patent number: 11334073Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira Iijima, Hiroaki Sakakibara
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Patent number: 11220180Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira Iijima, Hiroaki Sakakibara
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Publication number: 20220003570Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: HIROKI UKAI, MASAHIRO GOTO, SHUICHI MORIMOTO, AKIRA IIJIMA, CHIKA TSUMORI
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Patent number: 11215472Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira Iijima, Hironobu Sugimoto, Hiroaki Sakakibara
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Patent number: 11215473Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira Iijima, Hiroaki Sakakibara, Yohei Kubo
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Publication number: 20210291860Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshito KONDO, Shingo KINASHI, Hironobu SUGIMOTO, Akira IIJIMA, Yohei KUBO
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Publication number: 20210291872Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicants: AISIN AW CO.,LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshito KONDO, Shingo KINASHI, Hironobu SUGIMOTO, Akira IIJIMA, Yohei KUBO
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Patent number: 10865360Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshimasa Utaka, Kazushi Tamura, Akira Iijima
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Publication number: 20200256701Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.Inventors: Akira IIJIMA, Yuichiro UEDA, Atsuko KOBAYASHI, Daisuke TANABE, Manabu YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki GOTO
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Publication number: 20200258123Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Hitachi Solutions, LtdInventors: Atsuko KOBAYASHI, Yuichiro UEDA, Akira IIJIMA, Daisuke TANABE, Manabu YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki GOTO
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Publication number: 20200256694Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.Inventors: Yuichiro UEDA, Atsuko KOBAYASHI, Akira IIJIMA, Daisuke TANABE, Manabu YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki GOTO
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Publication number: 20200258124Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.Inventors: Yuichiro UEDA, Atsuko KOBAYASHI, Akira IIJIMA, Daisuke TANABE, Manabu YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki GOTO
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Publication number: 20200258125Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.Inventors: Daisuke TANABE, Yuichiro UEDA, Atsuko KOBAYASHI, Akira IIJIMA, Manabu YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki GOTO
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Publication number: 20200166369Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira IIJIMA, Hiroaki SAKAKIBARA, Yohei KUBO