Patents by Inventor Katsuhito Yamauchi

Katsuhito Yamauchi 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: 20230172776
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wheelchair restraint apparatus that renders easy adjustment of a restraining position of a wheelchair inside a vehicle. One aspect of the present disclosure is a wheelchair restraint apparatus configured to restrain a wheelchair inside a vehicle. The wheelchair restraint apparatus includes a main body having a seat belt, and a restrained mechanism to and from which the wheelchair is attachable and detachable; and a slide mechanism configured to cause the main body to slide with respect to the vehicle. The restraint mechanism is configured to restrain the wheelchair in a state where a part of the wheelchair is inserted to the restraint mechanism in a traveling direction of the wheelchair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tokuyuki NISHIKAWA, Keisuke TODA, Katsuhito YAMAUCHI, Jacob RICHTER, Chandra JINKA, Doug KRUEGER, Tracy JOSEPH, Enoch MORISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20230172775
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wheelchair restraint mechanism that renders easy alignment between a striker and a latch. One mode of the present disclosure is a wheelchair restraint mechanism for restraining a wheelchair to a restraining member installed on a vehicle. The wheelchair restraint mechanism includes an engagement target portion and an engagement portion. The engagement target portion includes a striker having a rod shape extending in up-down directions. The engagement portion includes: a housing member to house the striker; a latch to limit separation of the striker from the housing member; and a guide member to guide the striker towards the housing member. The guide member includes a first guide surface and a second guide surface, which face each other in width directions of the wheelchair and have a distance therebetween decreasing towards the housing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tokuyuki NISHIKAWA, Keisuke TODA, Katsuhito YAMAUCHI, Jacob RICHTER, Chandra JINKA, Doug KRUEGER, Tracy JOSEPH, Enoch MORISHIMA
  • Patent number: 11410197
    Abstract: An autonomous driving vehicle that is a mobile unit according to this disclosure is a mobile unit configured to transport a user to a facility that provides services or commercial products and, at the same time, configured to perform an advertising activity for the services or the commercial products of the facility. The mobile unit includes a control unit configured to acquire data for providing a promotion in the mobile unit and is configured to provide a promotion in the mobile unit based on the acquired data. The promotion is related to the services and the commercial products at the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kentaro Takahashi, Hirotaka Sunada, Hideo Hasegawa, Naomi Kondo, Takashi Shiomi, Kazuya Mikashima, Jun Usami, Yasuhiko Fukuzumi, Sayaka Ishikawa, Katsuhito Yamauchi, Tasuku Kuno
  • Patent number: 11370347
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile cabin set that allows flexible arrangement of layout in a cabin. One aspect of the present disclosure provides a mobile cabin set that includes a cabin body configuring a part of a moving body and including a ceiling surface, a floor surface, and two or more side surfaces that define an interior space; at least one rail arranged on at least one surface of the ceiling surface, or the two or more side surfaces of the cabin body, the at least one rail extending in a direction that intersects a vertical direction; and at least one attachment arranged in the interior space. The at least one rail includes an attachment/detachment mechanism to allow attachment/detachment of the at least one attachment at a given position of the at least one rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tokuyuki Nishikawa, Katsuhito Yamauchi, Takeshi Yamada, Hiroaki Namba, Masahiro Tatenami
  • Publication number: 20220194697
    Abstract: A waste transporting mobile unit includes a waste container that collects waste, a sensor configured to sense the amount of waste accumulated in the waste container, and a travel device configured to travel when the amount of waste sensed by the sensor reaches a predetermined amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Yoshikawa, Shigeru Inamori, Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Kosuke Sakakibara, Nao Yamamoto, Shinpei Yasukawa, Katsuhito Yamauchi, Hiroaki Namba, Tatsuya Ono
  • Publication number: 20220198837
    Abstract: A path acquiring unit that tracks a visitor of an amusement facility, and acquires a movement path of the visitor, and a print creating unit that creates a visit record by combining the movement path acquired by the path acquiring unit with a picture acquired at a prescribed place on the acquired movement path are included, and the visit record created by the print creating unit is provided to the visitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Yoshikawa, Shigeru Inamori, Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Kosuke Sakakibara, Nao Yamamoto, Shinpei Yasukawa, Katsuhito Yamauchi, Hiroaki Namba, Tatsuya Ono
  • Patent number: 11241619
    Abstract: Provided is a contents providing system capable of inducing excitement of a spectator in a battle game. One embodiment of the present disclosure is a contents providing system including: an acquisition part acquiring, as player information, at least one of a posture, an amount of activity, and biological information from each of multiple players playing a battle game where multiple events occur simultaneously in one game space; and a processing part processing the player information acquired by the acquisition part into information-for-spectator to be provided for the spectator or an organizer of the battle game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuko Hama, Nobuki Hayashi, Katsuhito Yamauchi, Asami Takayama
  • Publication number: 20210235025
    Abstract: A control unit of an autonomous vehicle, which is a moving object of the present disclosure, acquires a video of the outside of the autonomous vehicle to be displayed on a window display on an inner wall surface of the autonomous vehicle, and superimposes, on the acquired video, an image corresponding to a location of the autonomous vehicle to display on the window display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kentaro TAKAHASHI, Hirotaka SUNADA, Hideo HASEGAWA, Naomi KONDO, Takashi SHIOMI, Kazuya MIKASHIMA, Jun USAMI, Yasuhiko FUKUZUMI, Sayaka ISHIKAWA, Katsuhito YAMAUCHI, Tasuku KUNO
  • Patent number: 11045379
    Abstract: A seat including: a seat surface portion having first and second support surfaces; and a switching mechanism, wherein the seat surface portion is switched by the switching mechanism between: a first posture in which the seat surface portion is brought down to the front side such that the first support surface is in a low position where a seated person is capable of sitting thereon by lowering a hip, and a second posture in which the seat surface portion is brought up to the rear side from the first posture such that the second support surface is in a high position where the seated person in a standing posture is capable of sitting thereon, and wherein a vibration device which is configured to apply vibration corresponding to music to a body of the seated person is disposed at an inner side of the second support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhito Yamauchi, Nobuki Hayashi, Tokuyuki Nishikawa, Takeshi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20210166273
    Abstract: An autonomous driving vehicle that is a mobile unit according to this disclosure is a mobile unit configured to transport a user to a facility that provides services or commercial products and, at the same time, configured to perform an advertising activity for the services or the commercial products of the facility. The mobile unit includes a control unit configured to acquire data for providing a promotion in the mobile unit and is configured to provide a promotion in the mobile unit based on the acquired data. The promotion is related to the services and the commercial products at the facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kentaro TAKAHASHI, Hirotaka SUNADA, Hideo HASEGAWA, Naomi KONDO, Takashi SHIOMI, Kazuya MIKASHIMA, Jun USAMI, Yasuhiko FUKUZUMI, Sayaka ISHIKAWA, Katsuhito YAMAUCHI, Tasuku KUNO
  • Publication number: 20200369195
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile cabin set that allows flexible arrangement of layout in a cabin. One aspect of the present disclosure provides a mobile cabin set that includes a cabin body configuring a Dart of a moving body and including a ceiling surface, a floor surface, and two or more side surfaces that define an interior space; at least one rail arranged on at least one surface of the ceiling surface, or the two or more side surfaces of the cabin body, the at least one rail extending in a direction that intersects a vertical direction; and at least one attachment arranged in the interior space. The at least one rail includes an attachment/detachment mechanism to allow attachment/detachment of the at least one attachment at a given position of the at least one rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tokuyuki NISHIKAWA, Katsuhito YAMAUCHI, Takeshi YAMADA, Hiroaki NAMBA, Masahiro TATENAMI
  • Publication number: 20200338448
    Abstract: Provided is a contents providing system capable of inducing excitement of a spectator in a battle game. One embodiment of the present disclosure is a contents providing system including: an acquisition part acquiring, as player information, at least one of a posture, an amount of activity, and biological information from each of multiple players playing a battle game where multiple events occur simultaneously in one game space; and a processing part processing the player information acquired by the acquisition part into information-for-spectator to be provided for the spectator or an organizer of the battle game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuko HAMA, Nobuki HAYASHI, Katsuhito YAMAUCHI, Asami TAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190359085
    Abstract: A seat storage system, wherein a controller is configured to, in a case where a seating determiner confirms that no sitting person is seated on a seat surface portion of any one of a plurality of seats, issue an instruction of switching the seat surface portion to a first posture to a switching device of each of the seats whose seat surface portion is detected as being in a second posture by a posture determiner, and operate front-rear movement devices of all of the plurality of seats to narrow an interval between the seats after the posture determiner has determined that the seat surface portions of all of the plurality of seats have been switched to the first posture. Here, the first posture corresponds to a raised sitting posture and the second posture corresponds to a sitting posture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhito Yamauchi, Nobuki Hayashi, Tokuyuki Nishikawa, Takeshi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20190358111
    Abstract: A seat including: a seat surface portion having first and second support surfaces; and a switching mechanism, wherein the seat surface portion is switched by the switching mechanism between: a first posture in which the seat surface portion is brought down to the front side such that the first support surface is in a low position where a seated person is capable of sitting thereon by lowering a hip, and a second posture in which the seat surface portion is brought up to the rear side from the first posture such that the second support surface is in a high position where the seated person in a standing posture is capable of sitting thereon, and wherein a vibration device which is configured to apply vibration corresponding to music to a body of the seated person is disposed at an inner side of the second support surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhito YAMAUCHI, Nobuki HAYASHI, Tokuyuki NISHIKAWA, Takeshi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20190359091
    Abstract: A vehicle seat device including: a seat main body; and a movable body, wherein a seat surface portion of the seat main body is configured to be switched between: a first posture in which the seat surface portion is brought down to a front side such that a first support surface is in a low position where the seated person can sit thereon by lowering a hip; and a second posture in which the seat surface portion is brought up to a rear side from the first posture such that a second support surface is in a high position where the seated person in a standing posture can sit thereon, and wherein the movable body includes a placement portion configured to swing with respect to the floor in a state where both soles of the seated person are placed when the seat surface portion is in the second posture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhito YAMAUCHI, Nobuki HAYASHI, Tokuyuki NISHIKAWA, Takeshi YAMADA
  • Patent number: 10155454
    Abstract: A seat surface part is switchable by a switching mechanism between a forward-unfolded posture in which the seat surface part is forwardly unfolded down so that a first support surface comes into a state at a low position where the seated person lowers his or her body to sit, and a second support surface comes into a state of forming a backwardly inclined surface that is inclined backwardly downward, and a folded-up posture in which the seat surface part is folded up backward from the forward-unfolded posture so that the second support surface is lifted up at a higher position than a position of the first support surface in the forward-unfolded posture, and an upper surface inclined forwardly downward is formed by the backwardly inclined surface so that the second support surface comes into a state at a high position where the seated person perches in a standing posture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhito Yamauchi, Nobuki Hayashi, Tokuyuki Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20180162236
    Abstract: A seat surface part is switchable by a switching mechanism between a forward-unfolded posture in which the seat surface part is forwardly unfolded down so that a first support surface comes into a state at a low position where the seated person lowers his or her body to sit, and a second support surface comes into a state of forming a backwardly inclined surface that is inclined backwardly downward, and a folded-up posture in which the seat surface part is folded up backward from the forward-unfolded posture so that the second support surface is lifted up at a higher position than a position of the first support surface in the forward-unfolded posture, and an upper surface inclined forwardly downward is formed by the backwardly inclined surface so that the second support surface comes into a state at a high position where the seated person perches in a standing posture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhito YAMAUCHI, Nobuki HAYASHI, Tokuyuki NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9987959
    Abstract: A seat cover of a vehicle seat configured to cover an outer surface of a seat pad, wherein a part of the seat cover which is configured to cover at least a seating surface of the seat pad consists of a seating surface piece made of a piece of cloth, and wherein, when covering the outer surface of the seat pad, the seat cover is bonded only to the seating surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuki Hayashi, Katsuhito Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20160347221
    Abstract: A seat cover of a vehicle seat configured to cover an outer surface of a seat pad, wherein a part of the seat cover which is configured to cover at least a seating surface of the seat pad consists of a seating surface piece made of a piece of cloth, and wherein, when covering the outer surface of the seat pad, the seat cover is bonded only to the seating surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuki HAYASHI, Katsuhito YAMAUCHI
  • Patent number: 8162402
    Abstract: A vehicular seat has a pad including a foamed elastic material and a skin member covering a surface of the pad. A groove is formed at the surface of the pad, and the groove is inclined to a line orthogonal to the surface of the pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignees: Toyota Boshoku Kabushikia Kaisha, Toyota Boshoku America, Inc.
    Inventor: Katsuhito Yamauchi