Patents by Inventor Seiichi Tsunoda

Seiichi Tsunoda 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: 10493893
    Abstract: An electric vehicle includes: a box-shaped base frame in which a battery is stored in an internal space, with a vehicle drive unit using an in-wheel motor attached to a side surface; and a floor panel that is separately arranged from the base frame at a position above the base frame in the vehicle. In the electric vehicle, a slope device that feeds out a slope board toward a sidewalk or a road is provided in a clearance between the base frame and the floor panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20190197606
    Abstract: An arrangement system of a vehicle that permits a user to perform a trial use or a trial fitting of a product in a vehicle interior includes a display unit configured to display products that are candidates for purchase, an operation unit configured to be operated by the user to select a desired product from the products displayed on the display unit, and a vehicle arrangement unit configured to arrange the vehicle on which the product selected through an operation performed on the operation unit is loaded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga, Kinya Tagawa, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Sho Tanaka, Yuki Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20190196498
    Abstract: A selection unit in a server device selects a service that a vehicle provides from a plurality of predetermined services. A communication unit transmits, to the vehicle, information acquired on a spot where a product is available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20190197885
    Abstract: In an information processing device, an acquirer acquires a congestion degree in the vicinity of multiple vehicles arranged in a certain arrangement pattern. A deriver derives a move instruction for moving a target vehicle among the multiple vehicles such as to change a space between vehicles, on the basis of an acquired congestion degree. A communication unit transmits the move instruction to the target vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga, Kinya Tagawa, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Sho Tanaka, Yuki Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20190193582
    Abstract: A second communication unit of a power receiving vehicle sends a charging start request signal to a power supplying vehicle located on a planned travel route of the power receiving vehicle. At least one of a first travel control unit of the power supplying vehicle and a second travel control unit of the power receiving vehicle brings the power supplying vehicle and the power receiving vehicle close to each other up to a position that satisfies a charging start condition when the first travel control unit receives the charging start request signal from the power receiving vehicle through a first communication unit of the power supplying vehicle. The remaining charge of a battery of the power receiving vehicle is managed by performing charging between the power supplying vehicle and the power receiving vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20190195633
    Abstract: An acquisition unit in an information processing device acquires a traveling time of a vehicle from a place of departure to a destination, and a period of time required for a task performed by a user. A derivation unit derives a period of time required for a remaining task in accordance with the period of time required for the task acquired by the acquisition unit and a period of time that the user performed the task. An output unit outputs a suggestion, for departure in the vehicle, when the period of time required for the remaining task derived by the derivation unit and the traveling time acquired by the acquisition unit meet a predetermined relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga, Kinya Tagawa, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Sho Tanaka, Yuki Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20190197927
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a substantially box-shaped body, wheels disposed on four corners of the vehicle, and at least one side display disposed on either or both exterior side surfaces of the body for displaying images and videos. The side display stretches lower than a top of the wheels along the vertical axis of the vehicle and wider than between inside ends of the wheels along, the longitudinal axis of the vehicle. The lower edge of the side display is curbed or bent upwards at both ends to avoid overlapping with the wheels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20190197816
    Abstract: In order to settle the sales transaction of an item in a cabin, an item detection unit of a vehicle settlement system detects removal of the item from an item arrangement unit provided in the cabin. An item monitoring unit monitors movement of the item when the item detection unit detects the removal of the item. A settlement processor settles the sales transaction of the item detected by the item detection unit when a predetermined condition is satisfied after the item monitoring unit detects the movement of the item out of a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20190193620
    Abstract: An electric vehicle includes: a box-shaped base frame in which a battery is stored in an internal space, with a vehicle drive unit using an in-wheel motor attached to a side surface; and a floor panel that is separately arranged from the base frame at a position above the base frame in the vehicle. In the electric vehicle, a slope device that feeds out a slope board toward a sidewalk or a road is provided in a clearance between the base frame and the floor panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20190196504
    Abstract: A vehicle is configured to accommodate a cart and a passenger. A communication unit of the vehicle is configured to communicate with the cart. A traveling environment acquisition unit of the vehicle is configured to acquire a traveling environment of the vehicle. A cart control unit of the vehicle is configured to control an arrangement of the cart in the vehicle through the communication unit according to the traveling environment acquired toy the traveling environment acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga, Kinya Tagawa, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Sho Tanaka, Yuki Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20190197472
    Abstract: In a server device, an acquisition unit acquires information on the amount and respective delivery areas of a plurality of packages collected at a relay point, the packages are sorted at the relay point. A dispatch unit dispatches, for each delivery area, a vehicle of a size corresponding to the amount of packages for the delivery area to the relay point, based on the information on the amount and respective delivery areas of the plurality of packages acquired by the acquisition unit, before the plurality of packages are collected at the relay point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20190196212
    Abstract: In a vehicle-mounted device configured to be mounted on a vehicle for providing a service, a projector projects, based on data of a three-dimensional image related to the service, the three-dimensional image in the air above the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20190195643
    Abstract: A pickup system for picking up a product using a vehicle having an autonomous travelling function includes a communication unit configured to accept a pickup request from a user, a travel control unit configured to cause the vehicle to autonomously travel to a user position specified in the pickup request accepted through the communication unit, and an informing unit configured to inform the user that, when the vehicle arrives at the user position, the arrived vehicle is a vehicle that is to pick up a product in response to the pickup request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20190193462
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wheel cover for a vehicle. The wheel cover is supported to be relatively rotatable with rotation of a wheel having a tire attached to an outer periphery of the wheel. The wheel cover has a shape indicating a moving direction of a vehicle or a figure indicating the moving direction of the vehicle outward in a vehicle width direction, and is configured to be turned by an actuator such that, when the moving direction of the vehicle is changed, the shape or the figure indicates the moving direction of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 9969263
    Abstract: An on-vehicle system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention causes a mobile terminal device 40 and an on-vehicle device 50 to work together, and allocates and displays two pieces of application software information about a widget from the mobile terminal device 40 on two display areas of gadget displays 61V and 62V connected to the on-vehicle device 50. Also, the allocation of the application software information is conducted via a touch panel 3 on the mobile terminal device 40 provided with a display device 6 for displaying a widget setting screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiichi Tsunoda, Daiki Isogai, Yasutomo Kato
  • Publication number: 20150227221
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device 40 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a touch panel 3 and a control device 1 which causes the touch panel 3 to function as a touch pad for operating an operation object displayed on a display device 6V when it is placed at a predetermined position in a vehicle interior. The touch panel 3 functions as a multi-touch type touch pad. The control device 1 switches operation objects depending on a number of fingers used for performing a touch gesture on the touch panel 3. The operation objects include a cursor, a map image, and a widget screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seiichi Tsunoda, Daiki Isogai, Yasutomo Kato
  • Publication number: 20150224876
    Abstract: An on-vehicle system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention causes a mobile terminal device 40 and an on-vehicle device 50 to work together, and allocates and displays two pieces of application software information about a widget from the mobile terminal device 40 on two display areas of gadget displays 61V and 62V connected to the on-vehicle device 50. Also, the allocation of the application software information is conducted via a touch panel 3 on the mobile terminal device 40 provided with a display device 6 for displaying a widget setting screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seiichi Tsunoda, Daiki Isogai, Yasutomo Kato
  • Publication number: 20150205430
    Abstract: A portable terminal includes a control device that inhibits reception of an operator's operation input to a home button until coupling of the portable terminal to an onboard device is intercepted when the portable terminal is coupled to the onboard device and predetermined application software is operating in the portable terminal. The predetermined application software transmits details of the operator's operation input to a touch panel of the portable terminal to application software that is operating in the onboard device so as to control a screen displayed on an onboard display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seiichi Tsunoda, Daiki Isogai, Yasutomo Kato
  • Patent number: 9085215
    Abstract: An estimated temperature range is calculated by adding a plus-side temperature width to the temperature detected by a temperature sensor within the cabin of a vehicle and subtracting a minus-side temperature width therefrom, and is displayed on the display of a mobile terminal as a temperature state of the cabin. When cooling is performed, the plus-side temperature width is made greater than the minus-side temperature width. Also, the plus-side temperature width is narrowed with elapse of time from the start of pre-air-conditioning. With this operation, the temperature state of the vehicle cabin from the start of the pre-air-conditioning can be properly communicated to a vehicle user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirohito Kawai, Naoya Inoue, Seiichi Tsunoda, Takaaki Goto, Yoichiro Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20140100716
    Abstract: An estimated temperature range is calculated by adding a plus-side temperature width to the temperature detected by a temperature sensor within the cabin of a vehicle and subtracting a minus-side temperature width therefrom, and is displayed on the display of a mobile terminal as a temperature state of the cabin. When cooling is performed, the plus-side temperature width is made greater than the minus-side temperature width. Also, the plus-side temperature width is narrowed with elapse of time from the start of pre-air-conditioning. With this operation, the temperature state of the vehicle cabin from the start of the pre-air-conditioning can be properly communicated to a vehicle user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirohito Kawai, Naoya Inoue, Seiichi Tsunoda, Takaaki Goto, Yoichiro Higuchi