Patents by Inventor Masaki Shitara

Masaki Shitara 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: 20200234594
    Abstract: Under a situation where plural vehicles are dispatched to different areas, an information processor acquires sales information that includes information on a sales quantity of a specified product or a specified service by each of the vehicles. Then, on the basis of the acquired sales information, the information processor forecasts a demand for the specified product or the specified service in each of the areas where the vehicles are dispatched. Furthermore, on the basis of the forecasted demand, the information processor determines a redispatch area that is an area where each of the plural vehicles is redispatched, and sends a move command for moving each of the plural vehicles to the respective redispatch area to each of the plural vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi DOGISHI, Masaki SHITARA, Keiji YAMASHITA, Nozomi KANEKO, Naoki YAMAMURO, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Ryoichi SHIRAISHI
  • Publication number: 20200225680
    Abstract: A vehicle that is able to travel autonomously includes a control unit configured to perform: stopping a first service and executing a second service of emergency support when the emergency has occurred during execution of the first service; and executing movement to a predetermined position associated with the second service. An information processing device includes a control unit configured to perform: detecting occurrence of an emergency; and instructing a vehicle, which is able to travel autonomously and which is located in a predetermined range including an area in which the emergency has occurred, to stop a first service which is being executed and to execute a second service of emergency support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki SHITARA, Hiromichi DOGISHI, Keiji YAMASHITA, Nozomi KANEKO, Naoki YAMAMURO, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Ryoichi SHIRAISHI
  • Patent number: 9038598
    Abstract: A vehicle is provided with an engine, an H2 and CO tank, a CO2 reclaimer, an electrolytic solution tank, an electrolyzer, a water tank and the like. During operation of the engine, an exhaust gas is introduced into an absorbing liquid in the CO2 reclaimer so as to recover CO2 in the exhaust gas and to store the same in the electrolytic solution tank. While supplying the absorbing liquid having absorbed CO2 and water to the electrolyzer from the electrolytic solution tank and the water tank, respectively, electric power is supplied to the electrolyzer. As a result, a mixed gas composed of CO and H2 from CO2 and water. The generated mixed gas is temporarily stored in the H2 and CO tank and is supplied to the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideyuki Nishida, Masaki Shitara, Yasushi Ito
  • Publication number: 20130333638
    Abstract: A vehicle is provided with an engine, an H2 and CO tank, a CO2 reclaimer, an electrolytic solution tank, an electrolyser, a water tank and the like. During operation of the engine, an exhaust gas is introduced into an absorbing liquid in the CO2 reclaimer so as to recover CO2 in the exhaust gas and to store the same in the electrolytic solution tank. While supplying the absorbing liquid having absorbed CO2 and water to the electrolyser from the electrolytic solution tank and the water tank, respectively, electric power is supplied to the electrolyser. As a result, a mixed gas composed of CO and H2 from CO2 and water. The generated mixed gas is temporarily stored in the H2 and CO tank and is supplied to the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideyuki Nishida, Masaki Shitara, Yasushi Ito
  • Publication number: 20130287636
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel manufacturing system and has an object to provide a fuel manufacturing system which can simplify in term of the system construction. An electrolytic solution having a property of absorbing CO2 is used in the system. Therefore, a mixed gas can be generated directly with the electrolytic solution in which CO2 has absorbed. In short, a CO2 absorbing process is only needed to execute, which is shown in FIG. 6. Thus, the mixed gas generating process can be simplified as compared to a system including the CO2 releasing process (FIG. 4, 5). And the system construction can be downsized since a device for the CO2 releasing process can be omitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Shitara, Takumi Ohki