Patents by Inventor Kazuya Nishimura

Kazuya Nishimura 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).

  • Patent number: 11983021
    Abstract: A controller includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to detect a state of at least one point, and determine depending on the detected state whether or not to include, in a flight route of a flying object transporting a package, a position above the at least one point as a passing point for the flying object to pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11952115
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication unit, and a control unit configured to send an instruction for causing flight vehicles to perform a flight operation, to the flight vehicles. The flight operation includes energizing, by a first flight vehicle, a penetration tool toward a target object in a space, holding a first part, penetrated through the target object, and a second part, not penetrated through the target object, of a cord-shaped member attached to the penetration tool, and flying to outside the space, waiting, by a second flight vehicle, outside the space and receiving any one of the first and second parts from the first flight vehicle, and towing, by the first and second flight vehicles, the target object with the cord-shaped member and transporting the target object to outside the space by flying while respectively holding any one and the other of the first and second parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Shin Sakurada, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11948451
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that controls display of a crosswalk on a road on which a vehicle travels. The control unit outputs information for displaying the crosswalk in a range that is determined based on a state of a pedestrian crossing the road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11948457
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller configured to control display of a crosswalk on a road on which a vehicle travels. The controller outputs information to be displayed on a display device such that a driver of the vehicle visually recognizes advance notification information that makes advance notification of the display of the crosswalk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11928751
    Abstract: A method that is executed by an information processing device includes acquiring first information regarding a vehicle, acquiring second information regarding a first product selected by a user, deciding a procedure for loading the first product into the vehicle based on the first information and the second information, and performing notification of the procedure for loading the first product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Shin Sakurada, Yuko Mizuno, Josuke Yamane, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11927971
    Abstract: A control apparatus is equipped with a control unit. The control unit acquires information on a sound in at least one room arranged along an outer wall of a building. The control unit moves an uninhabited airborne vehicle along the outer wall of the building, based on the information on the sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20240054886
    Abstract: Provided is a method executed by a marking device that marks a first pedestrian crossing to be visually recognized by a pedestrian who is going to cross a roadway and a second pedestrian crossing to be visually recognized by a driver of a vehicle on the roadway. The method includes: marking the first pedestrian crossing and the second pedestrian crossing when one or more conditions including at least a condition that a first pedestrian who is going to cross the roadway from a first side to a second side is detected are satisfied; starting to unmark the first pedestrian crossing from the first side to the second side while the first pedestrian is crossing the roadway; and unmarking the second pedestrian crossing when the first pedestrian has finished crossing the roadway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20240027940
    Abstract: A belt rotating device includes: an endless belt to be rotated; a projection provided at an axial end portion of an inner peripheral surface of the endless belt and extending in a peripheral direction of the endless belt; a first roll around which the endless belt is wrapped, the first roll being configured to limit an axial movement of the endless belt by coming into contact with the projection; and a second roll including a large-diameter portion, a small-diameter portion, and a transition portion, the small-diameter portion being located on an axially outer side relative to the large-diameter portion and having a smaller diameter than the large-diameter portion, the transition portion having an outside diameter that decreases from the large-diameter portion to the small-diameter portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroaki AKAMATSU, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Kazuya YASUI
  • Publication number: 20240029552
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that controls display of a crosswalk on a road on which a vehicle travels. The control unit outputs information for displaying the crosswalk in a range that is determined based on a state of a pedestrian crossing the road.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20240021074
    Abstract: A route control device includes a control unit that sets an angle of a guideway for guiding a wheelchair user with respect to a roadway in accordance with a length of a waiting time for which a vehicle traveling on the roadway is kept waiting, when the wheelchair user who is about to cross the roadway is detected, and performs a control of displaying a pedestrian crossing including the guideway on the roadway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Yuko MIZUNO, Shin SAKURADA
  • Publication number: 20230406105
    Abstract: In an in-vehicle terminal device that is able to perform communication with a server device, an identification information acquisition unit acquires identification information of a user who boards a vehicle. A communication unit transmits the identification information of the user to the server device and receives arrangement information of a plurality of display elements corresponding to the identification information of the user transmitted from the server device. A setting unit decides an arrangement of the display elements of the in-vehicle display according to an arrangement criterion based on vehicle type information of the vehicle using the arrangement information of the display elements corresponding to the identification information of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro OE, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Jun GOTO, Hirofumi KAMIMARU
  • Publication number: 20230408090
    Abstract: A turbine including a turbine rotor, a turbine casing, a plurality of turbine rotor cascades, a plurality of turbine stator cascades, and a diffuser forming an exhaust gas flow path through which exhaust gas flows from one side in the axial direction toward another side, and which is provided on the other side in the axial direction from a last stage rotor cascade. The diffuser has an inner cylinder, an outer cylinder forming the exhaust gas flow path between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder, and a strut which connects the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder in the radial direction. The outer cylinder has a first inclined surface extending outward from the inside in the radial direction from an inlet of the exhaust gas flow path toward the other side in the axial direction. The first inclined surface forms an angle of 16° to 24° with the axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Takashi HIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230392943
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a processor configured to receive information for traveling guidance, which is generated based on an image of a specific point. The image of the specific point is captured by another vehicle, and the specific point is a point at which a traveling route of a different vehicle deviates from a guidance route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro OE, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Hirofumi KAMIMARU
  • Publication number: 20230386321
    Abstract: A control device includes a control unit configured to execute controls of displaying, on a roadway, a first crosswalk toward a first side of a roadway and displaying, on the roadway, a second crosswalk toward a second side of the roadway, and concealing the first crosswalk from the first side toward the second side while a pedestrian is crossing the roadway from the first side to the second side through the first crosswalk and the second crosswalk and concealing the second crosswalk after the pedestrian has crossed the roadway. The second side is opposite to the first side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Patent number: 11830445
    Abstract: To more appropriately adjust the brightness inside a vehicle. Provided is a system including: a first vehicle configured to output, to a server, information regarding illuminance of light incident on a vehicle by associating with information regarding a traveling environment; a second vehicle configured to output information regarding a traveling environment to the server; and the server including a controller configured to generate, based on the information regarding the illuminance of the light incident on the first vehicle, information regarding a sudden-change point that is a point at which a change amount of the illuminance of the light incident on the first vehicle exceeds a prescribed value, and configured to output, based on the information regarding the traveling environment of the second vehicle acquired from the second vehicle, information regarding the sudden-change point to the second vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Hirofumi Kamimaru
  • Patent number: 11823563
    Abstract: Provided is a method executed by a marking device that marks a first pedestrian crossing to be visually recognized by a pedestrian who is going to cross a roadway and a second pedestrian crossing to be visually recognized by a driver of a vehicle on the roadway. The method includes: marking the first pedestrian crossing and the second pedestrian crossing when one or more conditions including at least a condition that a first pedestrian who is going to cross the roadway from a first side to a second side is detected are satisfied; starting to unmark the first pedestrian crossing from the first side to the second side while the first pedestrian is crossing the roadway; and unmarking the second pedestrian crossing when the first pedestrian has finished crossing the roadway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11807097
    Abstract: In an in-vehicle terminal device that is able to perform communication with a server device, an identification information acquisition unit acquires identification information of a user who boards a vehicle. A communication unit transmits the identification information of the user to the server device and receives arrangement information of a plurality of display elements corresponding to the identification information of the user transmitted from the server device. A setting unit decides an arrangement of the display elements of the in-vehicle display according to an arrangement criterion based on vehicle type information of the vehicle using the arrangement information of the display elements corresponding to the identification information of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Oe, Kazuya Nishimura, Jun Goto, Hirofumi Kamimaru
  • Patent number: 11810453
    Abstract: A route control device includes a control unit that sets an angle of a guideway for guiding a wheelchair user with respect to a roadway in accordance with a length of a waiting time for which a vehicle traveling on the roadway is kept waiting, when the wheelchair user who is about to cross the roadway is detected, and performs a control of displaying a pedestrian crossing including the guideway on the roadway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Yuko Mizuno, Shin Sakurada
  • Patent number: 11803931
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is configured to acquire a rental request for a company vehicle used for a business operation of a company, select the company vehicle, in response to the rental request, from among private vehicles that are used by employees of the company when they go to work and are available as the company vehicle, and provide, in a case where a private vehicle is selected in selecting the company vehicle in response to the rental request and rented out as the company vehicle, to a requestor who has sent the rental request availability information that enables the requestor to use the selected private vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Masaru Ando, Toshinari Honda
  • Patent number: 11802484
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes: an airfoil portion extending in a blade height direction and having a pressure surface and a suction surface each of which extends between a leading and trailing edges; a shroud portion disposed on a blade tip side of the airfoil portion; a fillet portion formed by a curved surface and connected to an end portion of the shroud portion on a side of the airfoil portion; at least one first cooling hole extending along the blade height direction within the airfoil portion; at least one cooling cavity disposed at least partially within the shroud portion and communicating with the at least one first cooling hole; and a second cooling hole connected to the at least one cooling cavity and opening to a surface of the shroud portion. The airfoil portion has a reference airfoil in which a maximum blade thickness is minimum at a reference position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuya Nishimura