Patents by Inventor Naohiro Seo

Naohiro Seo 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: 11922523
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to: acquire renewable power generation information from a renewable energy power generation server; acquire at least one of hydrogen power generation information from a hydrogen power generation server and fuel cell information; acquire grid power generation information from a grid power generation server; acquire electric power information from each of a plurality of consumer facilities in a predetermined area, the electric power information being regarding an amount of electric power consumed by the consumer facility; and generate proposal information including information on a type of electric power supplied to a predetermined consumer facility based on at least one of the renewable power generation information, the hydrogen power generation information, and the fuel cell information, the grid power generation information, and a plurality of pieces of the electric power information, and output the proposal information to the predetermined con
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Ehara, Kazuhiro Shimizu, Satoshi Tanabe, Nanae Takada, Naohiro Seo
  • Patent number: 11714068
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for preparing exosomes using: (i) a step for ultrafiltering a sample containing at least one exosome; and (ii) a step for subjecting the sample that can be obtained from step (i) to anion exchange column chromatography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Mie University
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shiku, Naohiro Seo, Tsuguhiro Kaneda, Junko Nakamura, Kazunari Akiyoshi
  • Publication number: 20230025660
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a processor that includes hardware. When an own vehicle is connected to an external network via a communication mesh network created by vehicle-to-vehicle communication that takes place between multiple vehicles, the processor outputs connection information indicating that the own vehicle is connected to the external network as information that is able to be visually recognized from outside of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Masayuki IMOTO, Jun MIYAGAWA, Yasue MANO, Ayako NAKAMURA, Naohiro SEO
  • Publication number: 20230014362
    Abstract: An electric power management system is a system that performs an exchange of electric power with an electric power system of an electric power company that is a counterparty of the exchange of the electric power, and includes a plurality of the vehicles, each including a battery, and a server that manages an exchange of the electric power between the battery of each of the vehicles and the electric power system. The server limits the exchange of the electric power between the electric power system and the battery by an upper limit value or a lower limit value of a state of charge of the battery, and changes the upper limit value or the lower limit value in accordance with a degree of charge-discharge of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato EHARA, Rentaro KUROKI, Shunsuke KOBUNA, Tatsuro KIYOHARA, Naohiro SEO, Takaharu TATEISHI
  • Publication number: 20230016961
    Abstract: A data collection device collects data in a predetermined target area by using a plurality of mobile bodies that is able to move within the target area and acquire data. The data collection device includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires area information regarding the target area; and a mobile body management unit that changes a collection location of the data based on the area information and that dispatches at least one mobile body among the mobile bodies to a specific location in the target area associated with the area information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki KODERA, Yoichiro ISAMI, Kotoru SATO, Takashi HAYASHI, Naohiro SEO
  • Publication number: 20230013438
    Abstract: An electric power management system is a system that performs an exchange of electric power with an electric power system of an electric power company that is a counterparty of the exchange of the electric power, and includes a plurality of the vehicles, each including a battery, and a server that manages an exchange of the electric power between the battery of each of the vehicles and the electric power system. The server limits the exchange of the electric power between the electric power system and the battery by an upper limit value or a lower limit value of a state of charge of the battery, and decreases the upper limit value or increases the lower limit value when a period during which the vehicle is continuously parked in a place where the vehicle can exchange the electric power is equal to or longer than a predetermined period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato EHARA, Rentaro KUROKI, Shunsuke KOBUNA, Tatsuro KIYOHARA, Naohiro SEO, Takaharu TATEISHI
  • Publication number: 20230019846
    Abstract: An electric power management system includes a plurality of the vehicles, each including a battery, and a server that manages an exchange of electric power between the battery and an electric power system of an electric power company. The server detects a predetermined operation of a user that correlates with termination of the exchange of the electric power between the battery and the electric power system. When the predetermined operation is detected, the server calculates an estimated time when the exchange of the electric power between the battery and the electric power system is terminated, and executes a process of distributing the electric power to be exchanged by the vehicle in which the exchange of the electric power with the electric power system is estimated to be terminated at the calculated estimated time to another vehicle that performs the exchange of the electric power with the electric power system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato EHARA, Rentaro KUROKI, Shunsuke KOBUNA, Tatsuro KIYOHARA, Naohiro SEO, Takaharu TATEISHI
  • Publication number: 20230019914
    Abstract: A control system includes a computer that controls each of multiple power balancing resources. The computer selects one or more control targets to be used for power balancing of an external electric power source from the power balancing resources, and controls each of the one or more control targets so as to cause the power storage device to charge or discharge for the power balancing. The computer preferentially selects the power balancing resource provided with a small-capacity power storage device as the control target for the power balancing of which duration is shorter than a predetermined time, and preferentially selects the power balancing resource provided with a large-capacity power storage device as the control target for the power balancing of which the duration is longer than the predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato EHARA, Rentaro KUROKI, Shunsuke KOBUNA, Tatsuro KIYOHARA, Naohiro SEO, Takaharu TATEISHI
  • Publication number: 20230001820
    Abstract: An electric power management system is a system that performs an exchange of electric power with an electric power system of an electric power company that is a counterparty of the exchange of the electric power, and includes a plurality of the vehicles, each including a battery, and a server that manages an exchange of the electric power between the battery of each of the vehicles and the electric power system. The server manages the exchange of the electric power for each vehicle group in which the vehicles are bundled, and configures the vehicle group in advance by bundling the vehicles having the same or similar electric power supply and demand characteristics of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato EHARA, Rentaro KUROKI, Shunsuke KOBUNA, Tatsuro KIYOHARA, Naohiro SEO, Takaharu TATEISHI
  • Publication number: 20230004132
    Abstract: An electric power management system is a system that performs an exchange of electric power with an electric power system of an electric power company that is a counterparty of the exchange of the electric power, and includes a plurality of the vehicles, each including a battery, and a server that manages an exchange of the electric power between the battery of each of the vehicles and the electric power system. The server manages the exchange of the electric power for each vehicle group in which the vehicles are bundled, and configures the vehicle groups in advance such that distributions of the electric power supply and demand characteristics of the batteries of the vehicles included in the vehicle groups are the same or similar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato EHARA, Rentaro KUROKI, Shunsuke KOBUNA, Tatsuro KIYOHARA, Naohiro SEO, Takaharu TATEISHI
  • Publication number: 20220410733
    Abstract: A power transfer system includes: a compact mobility; a ground unit disposed on a second lane which is a driving lane for the compact mobility, the ground unit being capable of wireless power transfer; and a controller that controls the ground unit. The compact mobility has an amount of electric power that can be stored less than a predetermined amount, and travels at a speed dependent on electric power wirelessly received from the ground unit. When a pedestrian is sensed in the second lane, the controller forces the compact mobility to decelerate by reducing transmission power from the ground unit to the compact mobility, as compared to when the pedestrian is not sensed in the second lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshihiro Nakamura, Katsuya Kobayashi, Hiroki Murata, Hiroshi Matsumori, Naohiro Seo, Akihiro Kusumoto
  • Publication number: 20220402383
    Abstract: A vehicle is capable of receiving electric power supplied from a charger and capable of receiving electric power supplied from a charging mat. The charging mat is movable and capable of wireless power transfer. A method for providing a vehicle charging service includes a first step and a second step. The first step is giving, by a server, an instruction for installing the charging mat on a lane at which charging congestion is detected or predicted to occur, the charging congestion being traffic congestion for charging the electric power supplied from the charger. The second step is transmitting the electric power from the charging mat when the vehicle is detected above the charging mat installed on the lane in accordance with the instruction, and transmitting no electric power from the charging mat when the vehicle is not detected above the charging mat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshihiro Nakamura, Katsuya Kobayashi, Hiroki Murata, Hiroshi Matsumori, Naohiro Seo, Akihiro Kusumoto
  • Publication number: 20220404826
    Abstract: An information collection device according to the present disclosure is an information collection device that causes a small unmanned aerial vehicle to fly from a departure point to a destination and collects information at the destination using the small unmanned aerial vehicle, and includes a control device that causes the small unmanned aerial vehicle to fly from the departure point to the destination by transmitting a control signal to the small unmanned aerial vehicle by wireless information communication via a vehicle when determination is made that the wireless information communication is able to be executed with the small unmanned aerial vehicle via the vehicle located between the departure point and the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Imoto, Jun Miyagawa, Yasue Mano, Ayako Nakamura, Naohiro Seo
  • Publication number: 20220394482
    Abstract: A control system includes a computer configured to remotely control at least one of charging and discharging of a power storage device mounted on a control target. The computer is configured to transmit a first command indicating charging power or discharging power of the power storage device to the control target via each of a first communication path and a second communication path. The control system further includes a determination unit configured to determine whether or not any one of the first communication path and the second communication path is under a cyberattack by using a second command received by the control target via the first communication path when the computer transmits the first command, and a third command received by the control target via the second communication path when the computer transmits the first command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato EHARA, Rentaro KUROKI, Shunsuke KOBUNA, Tatsuro KIYOHARA, Naohiro SEO, Takaharu TATEISHI
  • Publication number: 20220377284
    Abstract: In an information collecting system, an information collecting device managed by the designated institution sets information acquisition spaces where acquisition of personal information of residents in the region is allowed and information acquisition prohibited spaces where acquisition of personal information of residents is prohibited, the information collecting device transmits space information corresponding to spaces in which information acquisition terminals are located, for information acquisition terminals which are located in information acquisition spaces and information acquisition prohibited spaces and which allow acquisition of personal information of residents, and the information acquisition terminal determines that personal information acquired by an information acquisition terminal is not to be transmitted to an information collecting device when the information acquisition terminal is located in an information acquisition prohibited space, based on the received space information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroaki KODERA, Yoichiro ISAMI, Kotoru SATO, Takashi HAYASHI, Naohiro SEO
  • Publication number: 20220223889
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor that: acquires movement information related to a movement of a moving body from the moving body including a fuel cell using hydrogen fuel as a power source of the moving body, a storage unit for storing hot water discharged from the fuel cell, and a tub for using the hot water discharged from the storage unit; acquires destination information related to a destination of the moving body from the moving body or a terminal of a user who uses the moving body; and acquires set values of a water amount and a water temperature of the hot water stored in the storage unit from the moving body, generates schedule information related to traveling of the moving body based on the movement information, the destination information, and the set values, and outputs the schedule information to the moving body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato EHARA, Kazuhiro SHIMIZU, Satoshi TANABE, Nanae TAKADA, Naohiro SEO
  • Publication number: 20220224112
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to: acquire renewable power generation information from a renewable energy power generation server; acquire at least one of hydrogen power generation information from a hydrogen power generation server and fuel cell information; acquire grid power generation information from a grid power generation server; acquire electric power information from each of a plurality of consumer facilities in a predetermined area, the electric power information being regarding an amount of electric power consumed by the consumer facility; and generate proposal information including information on a type of electric power supplied to a predetermined consumer facility based on at least one of the renewable power generation information, the hydrogen power generation information, and the fuel cell information, the grid power generation information, and a plurality of pieces of the electric power information, and output the proposal information to the predetermined con
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato EHARA, Kazuhiro SHIMIZU, Satoshi TANABE, Nanae TAKADA, Naohiro SEO
  • Publication number: 20220194259
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor having hardware. The processor is configured to create, upon acquiring a charging signal indicating that an electric moving vehicle autonomously moving by power stored in a battery requires charging of the battery, or determining that the charging is required, based on a predetermined task additionally set to the electric moving vehicle, schedule information including a travel schedule that enables the electric moving vehicle to travel to a charging station where the battery is to be charged and to perform the task, and output the schedule information to the electric moving vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato EHARA, Kazuhiro SHIMIZU, Satoshi TANABE, Nanae TAKADA, Naohiro SEO
  • Publication number: 20220185318
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided with a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to: acquire image information acquired by capturing an image of an item collected by a moving body and store the image information in a storage unit; determine whether the item in the image information read from the storage unit is waste; when the processor determines that the item is not waste, output an instruction signal for keeping the item in the moving body and output information related to the item based on the image information; and when user identification information associated with the information related to the item exists in the storage unit, output an instruction signal for moving to a predetermined location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato EHARA, Kazuhiro SHIMIZU, Satoshi TANABE, Nanae TAKADA, Naohiro SEO
  • Publication number: 20220188730
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor including hardware. The processor: predicts a power generation amount of a next day and derive a predicted value of the power generation amount based on the weather information and the power generation information in the solar power generation facility; predicts a demand amount of electric power to be used in the predetermined area on the next day and derives a predicted value of the demand amount based on the weather information in the predetermined area; and outputs a request signal for requesting distribution of a distributed item from an outside of the predetermined area to the predetermined area based on the predicted value of the power generation amount and the predicted value of the demand amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato EHARA, Kazuhiro SHIMIZU, Satoshi TANABE, Nanae TAKADA, Naohiro SEO