Patents by Inventor Masahiro Motoyoshi
Masahiro Motoyoshi 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: 11568359Abstract: Provided is a management device for managing an operation of a package delivery vehicle configured to travel autonomously on a road without accommodating a driver, and capable of storing a package into each of a plurality of storages each covered by an openable and closable door, the management device including: a storage device that stores a program; and a hardware processor, in which the hardware processor is configured to execute the program stored in the storage device to: receive application information on delivery of the package from a user; and determine an operation of the package delivery vehicle, in which the hardware processor is configured to cause the package delivery vehicle during delivery of a package to collect a new package.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kensaku Yamamoto, Yusuke Kawada, Koichi Ogura, Masahiro Motoyoshi
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Publication number: 20210291875Abstract: A management device that manages a service of transporting a user in a designated section using a vehicle which is able to travel autonomously without a driver by causing the vehicle to travel includes: a user detector configured to detect whether a user in the vehicle has alighted at a scheduled alighting position of the user; and an operation controller configured to cause the vehicle to perform a predetermined operation when the user detector detects that the user has not alighted at the scheduled alighting position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Koichi Ogura, Yusuke Kawada, Kensaku Yamamoto, Masahiro Motoyoshi
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Publication number: 20210295246Abstract: Provided is a management device for managing an operation of a package delivery vehicle configured to travel autonomously on a road without accommodating a driver, and capable of storing a package into each of a plurality of storages each covered by an openable and closable door, the management device including: a storage device that stores a program; and a hardware processor, in which the hardware processor is configured to execute the program stored in the storage device to: receive application information on delivery of the package from a user; and determine an operation of the package delivery vehicle, in which the hardware processor is configured to cause the package delivery vehicle during delivery of a package to collect a new package.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Kensaku Yamamoto, Yusuke Kawada, Koichi Ogura, Masahiro Motoyoshi
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Patent number: 11027692Abstract: An air bag device has an inflator and a bag unit configured to be deployed on a front part of a vehicle body with a gas supplied from the inflator. The bag unit includes a first bag, a second bag, and a connector, which are annularly connected to one another, and when the bag unit is deployed, the first bag and the second bag are erected on the vehicle body into a mountain-like shape in such a way that the bag unit forms a substantially triangular shape as a whole.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Aoki, Osamu Kanno, Kenyu Okamura, Masato Sasaki, Hidetoshi Nakamura, Masahiro Motoyoshi, Atsushi Nakajima
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Patent number: 10967830Abstract: A colliding object protection apparatus inflates and deploys an airbag when the apparatus detects or predicts a collision with a pedestrian. The airbag includes a first bag to be inflated and deployed in a vehicle width direction along a front edge part of a hood of a vehicle, and a second bag to be inflated and deployed on an upper surface of the hood. The second bag is continuous with a vehicle rear side portion of the first bag. An internal space of the first bag and an internal space of the second bag communicate with each other through a first vent mechanism. The first vent mechanism is opened when an internal pressure of the first bag reaches a predetermined pressure.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidetoshi Nakamura, Kenyu Okamura, Masaki Umezawa, Osamu Ito, Masato Sasaki, Masahiro Motoyoshi
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Patent number: 10953845Abstract: A colliding object protection apparatus inflates and deploys an airbag when the apparatus detects or predicts a collision with a pedestrian. The airbag includes a front bag to be inflated and deployed in a vehicle width direction along an upper part of a front grille of a vehicle. The internal space of the front bag is partitioned into a plurality of expansion chambers by a plurality of partitioning walls provided in parallel in the vehicle width direction. A vent mechanism of the expansion chamber is configured to be opened when an internal pressure of the expansion chamber reaches a predetermined pressure.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidetoshi Nakamura, Kenyu Okamura, Masaki Umezawa, Osamu Ito, Masato Sasaki, Masahiro Motoyoshi
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Publication number: 20190375367Abstract: An air bag device has an inflator and a bag unit configured to be deployed on a front part of a vehicle body with a gas supplied from the inflator. The bag unit includes a first bag, a second bag, and a connector, which are annularly connected to one another, and when the bag unit is deployed, the first bag and the second bag are erected on the vehicle body into a mountain-like shape in such a way that the bag unit forms a substantially triangular shape as a whole.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Inventors: Takashi Aoki, Osamu Kanno, Kenyu Okamura, Masato Sasaki, Hidetoshi Nakamura, Masahiro Motoyoshi, Atsushi Nakajima
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Publication number: 20190366971Abstract: A colliding object protection apparatus inflates and deploys an airbag when the apparatus detects or predicts a collision with a pedestrian. The airbag includes a front bag to be inflated and deployed in a vehicle width direction along an upper part of a front grille of a vehicle. The internal space of the front bag is partitioned into a plurality of expansion chambers by a plurality of partitioning walls provided in parallel in the vehicle width direction. A vent mechanism of the expansion chamber is configured to be opened when an internal pressure of the expansion chamber reaches a predetermined pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: Hidetoshi NAKAMURA, Kenyu OKAMURA, Masaki UMEZAWA, Osamu ITO, Masato SASAKI, Masahiro MOTOYOSHI
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Publication number: 20190366972Abstract: A colliding object protection apparatus inflates and deploys an airbag when the apparatus detects or predicts a collision with a pedestrian. The airbag includes a first bag to be inflated and deployed in a vehicle width direction along a front edge part of a hood of a vehicle, and a second bag to be inflated and deployed on an upper surface of the hood. The second bag is continuous with a vehicle rear side portion of the first bag. An internal space of the first bag and an internal space of the second bag communicate with each other through a first vent mechanism. The first vent mechanism is opened when an internal pressure of the first bag reaches a predetermined pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: Hidetoshi NAKAMURA, Kenyu OKAMURA, Masaki UMEZAWA, Osamu ITO, Masato SASAKI, Masahiro MOTOYOSHI
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Patent number: 9215600Abstract: To estimate radio wave propagation characteristics with high estimation accuracy, even when used for a variety of purposes. An estimation technique determining unit determines, for each of groups classified in accordance with a measurement condition, an optimum radio wave propagation characteristic estimation technique from among a plurality of radio wave propagation characteristic estimation techniques, based on an actual measured value of radio waves. A radio wave propagation characteristic estimating unit discriminates a group corresponding to the given measurement condition, sets the optimum radio wave propagation characteristic estimation technique corresponding to the discriminated group, and estimates the radio wave propagation characteristics in accordance with the set radio wave propagation characteristic estimation technique.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2010Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiro Motoyoshi
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Patent number: 9002388Abstract: A radio wave arrival status estimating system characterized by having an estimating means that estimates whether the physical characteristic of a radio wave received at the reception point of a radio system to be evaluated has reached the minimum allowable level for determining the characteristic of the radio system; that estimates an arrival status of the radio wave at the reception point by applying a first radio wave propagation status estimating technique to the reception point when estimating that the physical characteristic has reached the minimum allowable level; and that estimates an arrival status of the radio wave at the reception point by applying a second radio wave propagation status estimating technique to the reception point when estimating that the physical characteristic has not reached the minimum allowable level.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2008Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Hiroto Sugahara, Masahiro Motoyoshi, Takashi Ono
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Patent number: 8718712Abstract: A base station configuration design support system for a mobile communication system includes an estimation unit that estimates a radio wave propagation characteristic with respect to a large number of station position candidate points, with a spot at which there is a need to improve radio wave quality (countermeasure target spot) as a transmitting point, and an extraction unit extracts an improvable station position candidate point where radio wave quality at the countermeasure target spot can be improved, from among a plurality of station position candidate points, in response to an estimation result obtained by the estimation unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2009Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Masahiro Motoyoshi
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Patent number: 8666320Abstract: The amount of operation processing is reduced without largely degrading an estimation precision of radio wave propagation estimation. The radio wave propagation characteristic estimating system for estimating a radio wave propagation characteristic by taking into decision-theoretical consideration such a structure as a building or indoor furnishings includes the object selecting unit for selecting, from objects within a region to be analyzed, an object whose effect on an estimation precision is small by using position data of a transmission point, the number of constituent faces reducing unit for reducing the number of constituent faces of the selected object, and the radio wave propagation estimating unit for estimating radio wave propagation by using an object within the region to be analyzed which is not selected by the object selecting unit and an object whose number of constituent faces is reduced by the number of constituent faces reducing unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2008Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Masahiro Motoyoshi, Hiroto Sugahara
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Publication number: 20120027068Abstract: To estimate radio wave propagation characteristics with high estimation accuracy, even when used for a variety of purposes. An estimation technique determining unit determines, for each of groups classified in accordance with a measurement condition, an optimum radio wave propagation characteristic estimation technique from among a plurality of radio wave propagation characteristic estimation techniques, based on an actual measured value of radio waves. A radio wave propagation characteristic estimating unit discriminates a group corresponding to the given measurement condition, sets the optimum radio wave propagation characteristic estimation technique corresponding to the discriminated group, and estimates the radio wave propagation characteristics in accordance with the set radio wave propagation characteristic estimation technique.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Inventor: Masahiro Motoyoshi
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Patent number: 7933558Abstract: A radio wave propagation characteristic estimation system in a radio communication system includes: non-diffracted wave estimation device configured to estimate propagation characteristics of a radio wave reaching from a predetermined transmission point in a limited evaluation area to a plurality of reception points in the evaluation area and to estimate a component other than diffracted wave among the radio wave component reaching from the transmission point to the reception points; diffracted wave estimation device configured to estimate only a diffracted wave component among the radio components reaching from the transmission point to the respective reception points; and total radio wave component calculation device configured to calculate total radio wave propagation characteristics in the respective reception points considering the estimated result in the non-diffracted wave estimation device and the estimation result of the diffracted wave estimation device.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2006Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Hiroto Sugahara, Masahiro Motoyoshi
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Publication number: 20110003596Abstract: A base station configuration design support system for a mobile communication system includes an estimation unit that estimates a radio wave propagation characteristic with respect to a large number of station position candidate points, with a spot at which there is a need to improve radio wave quality (countermeasure target spot) as a transmitting point, and an extraction unit extracts an improvable station position candidate point where radio wave quality at the countermeasure target spot can be improved, from among a plurality of station position candidate points, in response to an estimation result obtained by the estimation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventor: Masahiro Motoyoshi
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Publication number: 20100255803Abstract: A radio wave arrival status estimating system characterized by having an estimating means that estimates whether the physical characteristic of a radio wave received at the reception point of a radio system to be evaluated has reached the minimum allowable level for determining the characteristic of the radio system; that estimates an arrival status of the radio wave at the reception point by applying a first radio wave propagation status estimating technique to the reception point when estimating that the physical characteristic has reached the minimum allowable level; and that estimates an arrival status of the radio wave at the reception point by applying a second radio wave propagation status estimating technique to the reception point when estimating that the physical characteristic has not reached the minimum allowable level.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2008Publication date: October 7, 2010Inventors: Hiroto Sugahara, Masahiro Motoyoshi, Takashi Ono
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Publication number: 20100081390Abstract: The amount of operation processing is reduced without largely degrading an estimation precision of radio wave propagation estimation. The radio wave propagation characteristic estimating system for estimating a radio wave propagation characteristic by taking into decision-theoretical consideration such a structure as a building or indoor furnishings includes the object selecting unit for selecting, from objects within a region to be analyzed, an object whose effect on an estimation precision is small by using position data of a transmission point, the number of constituent faces reducing unit for reducing the number of constituent faces of the selected object, and the radio wave propagation estimating unit for estimating radio wave propagation by using an object within the region to be analyzed which is not selected by the object selecting unit and an object whose number of constituent faces is reduced by the number of constituent faces reducing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2008Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Motoyoshi, Hiroto Sugahara
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Publication number: 20090128411Abstract: It is possible to accurately estimate propagation considering diffraction without significantly increasing the operation processing amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2006Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroto Sugahara, Masahiro Motoyoshi