Patents by Inventor Jun Kondo
Jun Kondo 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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Patent number: 10798542Abstract: An information providing system includes: a plurality of vehicles each configured to perform inter-vehicle charging; and a server. Each of the plurality of vehicles is configured to transmit unattended power-supplying permission information to the server when the user performs an operation of permitting unattended power supplying. In the matching process, the server is configured to permit to set, as a power-supplying vehicle, a vehicle having transmitted the unattended power-supplying permission information. The server is configured to notify, to the unattended power-supplying vehicle matched through the matching process, a confirmed matching content including information of the power-receiving vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Mizutani, Daiki Kaneichi, Hirotaka Karube, Jun Kondo, Kenichi Komuro
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Publication number: 20200248689Abstract: A compressor includes a rotary shaft, a rotating body, a fixed body, a vane, and a compression chamber. The vane has a vane end that contacts the surface of fixed body. The fixed body surface includes two curved surfaces. The curved surface includes a convex surface and a concave surface. The convex surface has a convex surface inner end and a convex surface outer end. The curvature of the convex surface inner end is greater than the curvature of the convex surface outer end. The concave surface has a concave surface inner end and a concave surface outer end. The curvature of the concave surface inner end is greater than the curvature of the concave surface outer end.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Jun KONDO, Shinya YAMAMOTO, Kazunari HONDA, Kengo SAKAKIBARA, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Ken NAMIKI
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Publication number: 20200247387Abstract: The delivery system includes a vehicle and a server. The vehicle includes a power storage device and a refrigerator. The server performs a delivery planning process for determining an expected delivery time. In the delivery planning process, the server is configured to transmit, to the vehicle, an inquiry as to reception of the delivery matter. When the vehicle receives the inquiry from the server, the vehicle is configured to set a receivable time period and transmit it to the server. When the vehicle sets the receivable time period, if the vehicle is in a state that the vehicle is able to receive power from the power supply facility, the vehicle is configured to set the receivable time period to be longer than the receivable time period set if the vehicle is not in the state that the vehicle is able to receive power from the power supply facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi MIZUTANI, Hirotaka KARUBE, Daiki KANEICHI, Kenichi KOMURO, Jun KONDO
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Publication number: 20200202717Abstract: The server is configured to communicate with a plurality of power-supplying vehicles and a plurality of power-receiving vehicles. The server is configured to notify, to matched vehicles (candidate power-receiving vehicle and candidate power-supplying vehicle), a candidate gathering location list including respective pieces of information of a plurality of parking areas owned by third parties different from users of the matched vehicles, so as to make an inquiry to the users of the matched vehicles to select one of the plurality of parking areas included in the candidate gathering location list. The server is configured to determine a gathering location for the matched vehicles using the respective pieces of information of the parking areas selected by the users of the matched vehicles, and is configured to transmit the information of the parking area of the determined gathering location to the matched vehicles.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi MIZUTANI, Daiki KANEICHI, Hirotaka KARUBE, Jun KONDO, Kenichi KOMURO
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Patent number: 10661777Abstract: The delivery system includes a vehicle and a server. The vehicle includes a power storage device and a refrigerator. The server performs a delivery planning process for determining an expected delivery time. In the delivery planning process, the server is configured to transmit, to the vehicle, an inquiry as to reception of the delivery matter. When the vehicle receives the inquiry from the server, the vehicle is configured to set a receivable time period and transmit it to the server. When the vehicle sets the receivable time period, if the vehicle is in a state that the vehicle is able to receive power from the power supply facility, the vehicle is configured to set the receivable time period to be longer than the receivable time period set if the vehicle is not in the state that the vehicle is able to receive power from the power supply facility.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Mizutani, Hirotaka Karube, Daiki Kaneichi, Kenichi Komuro, Jun Kondo
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Publication number: 20200122607Abstract: A transport movable body for transporting an occupant includes: a seat in which the occupant is to be seated; a reception portion configured to receive road condition information generated by a precedent vehicle; and an adjustment portion configured to adjust a setting of the seat based on the road condition information received by the reception portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tae SUGIMURA, Hirotaka KARUBE, Kazuki MATSUMOTO, Makoto MORI, Jun KONDO
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Publication number: 20200127888Abstract: A movable object according to one aspect of the disclosure is a movable object including a drive unit and a communication device, and includes: a determination section that determines failure of a base station via the communication device; a movement control section that drives the drive unit to cause movement of the movable object to a specified relay location on a route connecting a first location included in a first cell of a first base station and a second location included in a second cell of a second base station; and a relay processing section that relays a signal at the specified relay location, the signal being exchanged between a wireless communication terminal located in the first cell and the second base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tae SUGIMURA, Hirotaka KARUBE, Kazuki MATSUMOTO, Makoto MORI, Jun KONDO
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Publication number: 20200116507Abstract: A moving body, which a person boards, includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire current position information of the moving body, and a recommended path calculation unit configured to calculate a path that is a recommended path toward a predetermined destination and passes through an interior of at least one building, based on the current position information and the predetermined destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tae SUGIMURA, Hirotaka KARUBE, Kazuki MATSUMOTO, Makoto MORI, Jun KONDO
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Publication number: 20200117209Abstract: A small size vehicle includes an imaging unit configured to capture an image of a space ahead of the small size vehicle, a receiver configured to receive an emergency signal, an acquisition unit configured to acquire pre-set evacuation route information in a case where the emergency signal is received, and a determination unit configured to determine whether an evacuation route indicated by the evacuation route information is passable for a person or not based on the image captured by the imaging unit, when the small size vehicle travels along the evacuation route.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tae SUGIMURA, Hirotaka KARUBE, Kazuki MATSUMOTO, Makoto MORI, Jun KONDO
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Publication number: 20200116490Abstract: An information processing device includes: a receiver configured to receive an emergency signal indicating occurrence of a disaster; an acquisition unit configured to acquire traveling data from a predetermined small size vehicle in a case where the emergency signal is received; and a generation unit configured to generate map information indicating passable route passable for a person based on the traveling data, the passable route including a route including a place other than an existing road.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tae SUGIMURA, Hirotaka KARUBE, Kazuki MATSUMOTO, Makoto MORI, Jun KONDO
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Publication number: 20200116512Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a registration unit that receives registration of personal information including at least one of an age, an address, a family structure, and a physical feature of a user, a priority management unit that, based on the registered personal information, stores a specific user set with priority for a person to be rescued at the time of disaster occurrence, a disaster information acquisition unit that acquires information regarding occurrence of a disaster in a predetermined area, a positional information acquisition unit that acquires current positional information of an autonomous driving vehicle, a traveling route decision unit that, when the disaster information acquisition unit acquires the information of the disaster, decides a traveling route to a position of the specific user, and an output unit that outputs a signal for executing an autonomous driving mode based on information indicating the traveling route.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tae SUGIMURA, Hirotaka KARUBE, Kazuki MATSUMOTO, Makoto MORI, Jun KONDO
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Publication number: 20200120376Abstract: An entertainment system according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a plurality of mobile units each of which has an output device for outputting a video and/or a sound of content, an arrangement control unit configured to control an arrangement of the plurality of mobile unit, and an output control unit configured to control the video and/or the sound of the content, which is output from each of the plurality of mobile units, based on the arrangement of the plurality of mobile units.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tae SUGIMURA, Hirotaka KARUBE, Kazuki MATSUMOTO, Makoto MORI, Jun KONDO
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Publication number: 20200114934Abstract: A vehicle includes a receiving part configured to receive an emergency signal, an alert control part configured to determine a speech speed of an emergency alert based on current position information of the vehicle and map information of surroundings of the vehicle when the emergency signal is received by the receiving part, and an output part configured to output the emergency alert using the speech speed determined by the alert control part.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tae SUGIMURA, Hirotaka KARUBE, Kazuki MATSUMOTO, Makoto MORI, Jun KONDO
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Publication number: 20200117216Abstract: An information processing device includes a registering unit, an obtaining unit, a predicting unit, a determining unit, and a vehicle relocating unit. The registering unit registers information on a destination where a predetermined event is held. The obtaining unit obtains current location information of vehicles movable around or within the destination. The predicting unit predicts, for each specific area, demand for the vehicles that are needed when the predetermined event is held at the destination. The determining unit determines, for each specific area, a difference between the number of available vehicles out of the vehicles of which current location information has been obtained by the obtaining unit and the number of vehicles predicted by the predicting unit. When the difference determined for each specific area by the determining unit is larger than a predetermined threshold, the vehicle relocating unit relocates the vehicles so as to reduce the difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tae SUGIMURA, Hirotaka KARUBE, Kazuki MATSUMOTO, Makoto MORI, Jun KONDO
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Publication number: 20200115048Abstract: A complex system includes an unmanned flying object, a vehicle in which the unmanned flying object is mountable and including a power supply device, a travel controller configured to transmit a travel instruction signal including a command to travel in a state where the unmanned flying object is mounted in the vehicle to the vehicle when flying of the unmanned flying object is disabled and traveling of the vehicle is enabled, and a flying controller configured to transmit a flying instruction signal including a command to fly away from the vehicle to the unmanned flying object when flying of the unmanned flying object is enabled and traveling of the vehicle is disabled. The vehicle travels in a state where the unmanned flying object is mounted in the vehicle based on the travel instruction signal, and the unmanned flying object flies away from the vehicle based on the flying instruction signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tae SUGIMURA, Hirotaka KARUBE, Kazuki MATSUMOTO, Makoto MORI, Jun KONDO
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Patent number: 10622647Abstract: A fuel cell includes a first separator including a reactant gas buffer portion which includes a first buffer region and a second buffer region. The first buffer region has a first depth in the stacking direction. First embossed portions are formed in the first buffer region. Each of the first embossed portions has a first diameter and a first radius of a corner at a distal end of each of the first embossed portions. The second buffer region has a second depth in the stacking direction larger than the first depth. Second embossed portions are formed in the second buffer region. Each of the second embossed portions has a second diameter and a second radius of a corner at a distal end of each of the second embossed portions. The second diameter is smaller than the first diameter or the second radius is smaller than the second diameter.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2016Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki Yamano, Narutoshi Sugita, Jun Kondo
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Patent number: 10614712Abstract: The server is configured to communicate with a plurality of power-supplying vehicles and a plurality of power-receiving vehicles. The server is configured to notify, to matched vehicles (candidate power-receiving vehicle and candidate power-supplying vehicle), a candidate gathering location list including respective pieces of information of a plurality of parking areas owned by third parties different from users of the matched vehicles, so as to make an inquiry to the users of the matched vehicles to select one of the plurality of parking areas included in the candidate gathering location list. The server is configured to determine a gathering location for the matched vehicles using the respective pieces of information of the parking areas selected by the users of the matched vehicles, and is configured to transmit the information of the parking area of the determined gathering location to the matched vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Mizutani, Daiki Kaneichi, Hirotaka Karube, Jun Kondo, Kenichi Komuro
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Patent number: 10367223Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes power generation cells stacked in a stacking direction. Each of the power generation cells includes a membrane electrode assembly and a separator. The membrane electrode assembly includes an electrolyte membrane, and electrodes between which the electrolyte membrane is sandwiched in the stacking direction. The separator is stacked on the membrane electrode assembly in the stacking direction. The power generation cells are sandwiched between end plates in the stacking direction. A resin fluid manifold member is disposed on one of the end plates opposite to the power generation cells in the stacking direction and through which a fluid is to flow. The resin fluid manifold member has a contact surface which is in contact with the one of the end plates. The resin fluid manifold member includes recessed portions provided in the contact surface and ribs provided between the recessed portions in the contact surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Motohiro Takahashi, Jun Kondo, Hiromitsu Sato
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Patent number: 10309601Abstract: A light source device includes a light source, a wavelength conversion member, and a retroreflective optical member. The light source emits excitation light. The wavelength conversion member includes a first region irradiated with the excitation light and radiates, from the first region, converted light having a wavelength different from that of the excitation light. The retroreflective optical member reflects the converted light toward the first region. The first region is a region that is a part of the wavelength conversion member.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masatoshi Nishimura, Akihiro Yamada, Jun Kondo
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Patent number: 10288245Abstract: An illumination device includes a light source; a light condensing element for concentrating light from the light source onto a light concentration position; a plate for receiving light from the light condensing element and transmitting such light; a phosphor element for receiving light from the light source at the light concentration position; and a lens for projecting light from the plate. The plate is configured to rotate about an axis perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens to shift the light concentration position, which is between the plate and the lens, in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the lens.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Yamada, Masatoshi Nishimura, Jun Kondo