Patents by Inventor Kayoko Hara
Kayoko Hara 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: 11829903Abstract: The present disclosure includes acquiring a desired condition from a user who uses a shared vehicle, determining whether or not the shared vehicle can be reserved on the basis of the desired condition, and when the reservation of the shared vehicle is completed, providing information including a destination of the shared vehicle reserved to other users as reservation information of the shared vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2017Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoru Hirose, Kayoko Hara, Shigeki Satou
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Publication number: 20200372418Abstract: The present disclosure includes acquiring a desired condition from a user who uses a shared vehicle, determining whether or not the shared vehicle can be reserved on the basis of the desired condition, and when the reservation of the shared vehicle is completed, providing information including a destination of the shared vehicle reserved to other users as reservation information of the shared vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2017Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoru Hirose, Kayoko Hara, Shigeki Satou
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Patent number: 10748418Abstract: A vehicle management system for managing vehicles used by users has a usage managing unit that accepts a user's request for using the vehicle and to set a return space among parking spaces as a planned return space when the user's request is accepted, the return space being a space to which the vehicle is to be returned by the user after the vehicle is used by the user, a return determining unit that determines whether or not the vehicle is returned to the planned return space set by the usage managing unit when the vehicle is actually used and returned by the user, a return permitting unit that permits a return of the vehicle in a case where the return determining unit determines that the vehicle is returned to the planned return space, and a notification unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Chinomi, Kayoko Hara
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Patent number: 10482399Abstract: A shared vehicle management apparatus for managing shared vehicles shared by users includes a first storage configured to store information on a plurality of stations at which the shared vehicles can be rented and returned, a reservation acceptance device configured to accept a use reservation of a shared vehicle from a user, the use reservation including information on a departure station and an arrival station, the departure station being set by the user as a station from which the user expects to use the shared vehicle, and the arrival station being set by the user as a station to which the user returns the shared vehicle after use, a return occasion detector configured to detect a return start occasion on which the user using the shared vehicle returns the shared vehicle, and a route guidance device.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoru Hirose, Kayoko Hara, Shigeki Satoh, Yukiko Nagai, Ryusuke Hayashi, Naomi Oshino
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Publication number: 20190108750Abstract: A vehicle management system for managing vehicles used by users has a usage managing unit that accepts a user's request for using the vehicle and to set a return space among parking spaces as a planned return space when the user's request is accepted, the return space being a space to which the vehicle is to be returned by the user after the vehicle is used by the user, a return determining unit that determines whether or not the vehicle is returned to the planned return space set by the usage managing unit when the vehicle is actually used and returned by the user, a return permitting unit that permits a return of the vehicle in a case where the return determining unit determines that the vehicle is returned to the planned return space, and a notification unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Chinomi, Kayoko Hara
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Patent number: 10140858Abstract: A vehicle management system for managing vehicles used by users has a usage managing unit that accepts a user's request for using the vehicle and to set a return space among parking spaces as a planned return space when the user's request is accepted, the return space being a space to which the vehicle is to be returned by the user after the vehicle is used by the user, a return determining unit that determines whether or not the vehicle is returned to the planned return space set by the usage managing unit when the vehicle is actually used and returned by the user, a return permitting unit that permits a return of the vehicle in a case where the return determining unit determines that the vehicle is returned to the planned return space, and a notification unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2014Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Chinomi, Kayoko Hara
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Patent number: 9989971Abstract: A vehicle management system for managing vehicles used by users has a usage managing unit configured to accept a user's request for using to use one of the vehicles, and manage the vehicles and parking spaces in which the vehicles are parked, an acquisition unit configured to acquire energy information from the vehicles, the energy information indicating a remaining amount of energy used for traveling of the vehicle, a determination unit configured to compare the remaining amount acquired by the acquisition unit with a remaining amount threshold that represents a shortage of energy, determine that the vehicle needs supply of energy when the remaining amount is lower than the remaining amount threshold, and specify a recovery vehicle that has been determined as needing supply of energy as a recovery vehicle, and a command outputting unit configured to output a recovery command for recovering the recovery vehicle from the parking space.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2014Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Chinomi, Kayoko Hara
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Publication number: 20180089596Abstract: A shared vehicle management apparatus for managing shared vehicles shared by users includes a first storage configured to store information on a plurality of stations at which the shared vehicles can be rented and returned, a reservation acceptance device configured to accept a use reservation of a shared vehicle from a user, the use reservation including information on a departure station and an arrival station, the departure station being set by the user as a station from which the user expects to use the shared vehicle, and the arrival station being set by the user as a station to which the user returns the shared vehicle after use, a return occasion detector configured to detect a return start occasion on which the user using the shared vehicle returns the shared vehicle, and a route guidance device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2015Publication date: March 29, 2018Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoru Hirose, Kayoko Hara, Shigeki Satoh, Yukiko Nagai, Ryusuke Hayashi, Naomi Oshino
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Publication number: 20160246303Abstract: A vehicle management system for managing vehicles used by users has a usage managing unit configured to accept a user's request for using to use one of the vehicles, and manage the vehicles and parking spaces in which the vehicles are parked, an acquisition unit configured to acquire energy information from the vehicles, the energy information indicating a remaining amount of energy used for traveling of the vehicle, a determination unit configured to compare the remaining amount acquired by the acquisition unit with a remaining amount threshold that represents a shortage of energy, determine that the vehicle needs supply of energy when the remaining amount is lower than the remaining amount threshold, and specify a recovery vehicle that has been determined as needing supply of energy as a recovery vehicle, and a command outputting unit configured to output a recovery command for recovering the recovery vehicle from the parking space.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2014Publication date: August 25, 2016Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi CHINOMI, Kayoko HARA
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Publication number: 20160111000Abstract: A vehicle management system for managing vehicles used by users has a usage managing unit that accepts a user's request for using the vehicle and to set a return space among parking spaces as a planned return space when the user's request is accepted, the return space being a space to which the vehicle is to be returned by the user after the vehicle is used by the user, a return determining unit that determines whether or not the vehicle is returned to the planned return space set by the usage managing unit when the vehicle is actually used and returned by the user, a return permitting unit that permits a return of the vehicle in a case where the return determining unit determines that the vehicle is returned to the planned return space, and a notification unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2014Publication date: April 21, 2016Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Chinomi, Kayoko Hara