Patents by Inventor Shinji Ichikawa

Shinji Ichikawa 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: 10622827
    Abstract: A charging station includes a plurality of electric power transmission portions and a power supply ECU. When a second vehicle is parked at a position where it can receive electric power from a first electric power transmission portion and when the second vehicle receives weak electric power from the first electric power transmission portion, the second vehicle transmits to the power supply ECU, an occupation signal which allows determination that the parking position corresponds to the first electric power transmission portion. When the power supply ECU receives the occupation signal of the first electric power transmission portion from the second vehicle, the power supply ECU stops transmission of weak electric power from the first electric power transmission portion and guides a first vehicle to a second electric power transmission portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji Ichikawa, Satoshi Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 10618411
    Abstract: An IPA-ECU recognizes a position of a power transferring unit by image recognition based on image information from a camera incorporated in a vehicle. Then, the IPA-ECU performs guidance control such that the vehicle is guided to the power transferring unit based on a result of the image recognition (first guidance control). A resonant ECU estimates a distance between the power transferring unit and a power receiving unit based on an electric power feeding condition from the power transferring unit to the power receiving unit. When the power transferring unit comes under a body of the vehicle, an HV-ECU performs guidance control of the vehicle such that a position of the power receiving unit is adjusted to a position of the power transferring unit based on distance information from the resonant ECU (second guidance control).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinji Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20200101860
    Abstract: A vehicle-mountable control device is mountable on a vehicle including at least one power receiver configured to receive electric power supplied from an external power supply, and includes a controller. The controller is configured to cause a prescribed display device to display a position of the power receiver included in the vehicle. The controller is configured to, when the vehicle includes a plurality of power receivers, cause the prescribed display device to display a position of a predetermined one power receiver of the plurality of power receivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventor: Shinji Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20200101861
    Abstract: A vehicle-mountable control device configured to control a vehicle including a charging port for DC power and an auxiliary device includes a determination unit and an information obtainment unit. The information obtainment unit is configured to obtain prescribed facility information about a power feeding facility. The determination unit is configured to permit an auxiliary device driving mode when it is determined that the power feeding facility corresponds to the auxiliary device driving mode based on the facility information, and not permit the auxiliary device driving mode when it is determined that the power feeding facility does not correspond to the auxiliary device driving mode based on the facility information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventor: Shinji Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20200106056
    Abstract: An etching device includes a chemical treatment tank configured to allow a substrate to be transported in an interior thereof, and a spraying unit disposed in the interior of the chemical treatment tank, including a blowing port oriented in a direction that does not intersect a front face of the substrate, and configured to spray an etchant chemical solution as a mist through the blowing port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroki TANIYAMA, Tohru OKABE, Shinsuke SAIDA, Shinji ICHIKAWA, Ryosuke GUNJI, Yoshihiro NAKADA, Akira INOUE, Hiroharu JINMURA
  • Patent number: 10608478
    Abstract: A power transmission system transmits electric energy to a secondary resonator having a secondary resonator coil through an electromagnetic field of a predetermined frequency from a resonator having a resonator coil and reduces noise using two noise cancellation resonators with one predetermined frequency and its higher harmonic component set as noise reduction target frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignees: EQUOS RESEARCH CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamakawa, Kenichiro Sato, Shinji Ichikawa, Naoki Gorai
  • Publication number: 20200098003
    Abstract: A display technique for displaying an advertisement content which takes account of a relation with respect to any personal experience and/or any action of a target person is provided. An information system comprises a controller including at least one processor. The controller is configured to execute: acquisition of specification information for specifying display information to be displayed on a signage apparatus, of a user as inputted by the aid of an input unit; and output of the display information to the signage apparatus at a predetermined timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji ICHIKAWA, Harunobu SAITO, Daiki KANEICHI, Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Megumi AMANO, Masato ENDO, Tae SUGIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200091269
    Abstract: A display device includes a TFT layer provided with a terminal configured to receive a signal inputted from an external source, and a terminal wiring line in a lower layer underlying the terminal, and a light emitting element layer in an upper layer overlying the TFT layer. The terminal includes a main portion and a peripheral portion surrounding the main portion. The peripheral portion is covered by a cover film, the terminal wiring line and a lower face of the peripheral portion are in contact, and the main portion and the terminal wiring line overlap via at least one terminal base film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Tohru OKABE, Ryosuke GUNJI, Shinsuke SAIDA, Shinji ICHIKAWA, Hiroki TANIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200072634
    Abstract: An output apparatus arranged on a traveling route of a user is allowed to timely output information desired by the user. The information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure is an information processing apparatus to be used by a mobile user, the information processing apparatus comprising a controller which executes acquisition of a content designated by the user; specification of an output apparatus arranged on a traveling route of the user; and transmission of the acquired content to the specified output apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji ICHIKAWA, Harunobu SAITO, Daiki KANEICHI, Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Megumi AMANO, Masato ENDO, Tae SUGIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200072628
    Abstract: A technique for outputting information relevant to a facility suitable for an action of a user at a point in a traveling route or at a destination is provided. An information processing apparatus comprises a controller which executes acquisition or estimation of a traveling route of a user; calculation of temporal information including at least one of a passage time at which the user passes through a point on the traveling route and a traveling period of time which is required until arrival at the point after starting a travel; acquisition of information relevant to a facility suitable for the user who passes through the point, of a plurality of facilities existing around the point on the basis of the temporal information; and output of the information relevant to the facility by means of an output unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji ICHIKAWA, Harunobu SAITO, Daiki KANEICHI, Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Megumi AMANO, Masato ENDO, Tae SUGIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200066146
    Abstract: An information system comprises a controller which is configured to execute: acquiring a screen image of a vehicle which is traveling on a roadway, the screen image being photographed by the aid of an image pickup unit; detecting a dangerous driving state of the vehicle which is traveling, in accordance with a time course of the screen image; and displaying information in relation to the vehicle having been detected to be in the dangerous driving state on a signage apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji ICHIKAWA, Harunobu SAITO, Daiki KANEICHI, Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Megumi AMANO, Masato ENDO, Tae SUGIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200065860
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to execute detecting approach of a vehicle to an advertisement to be displayed; and providing stimulus relevant to the advertisement to any one or more of five senses other than a visual sense of a person in the vehicle if the approach of the vehicle to the advertisement is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji ICHIKAWA, Harunobu SAITO, Daiki KANEICHI, Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Megumi AMANO, Masato ENDO, Tae SUGIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200065856
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to execute displaying an advertisement; specification of a moving body that moves at a place at which the advertisement to be displayed can be viewed; storing attribute information of the specified moving body; performing statistical processing for the stored attribute information of the moving body; and determining the advertisement to be displayed on the basis of a result of the statistical processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji ICHIKAWA, Harunobu SAITO, Daiki KANEICHI, Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Megumi AMANO, Masato ENDO, Tae SUGIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200065859
    Abstract: A technique is provided, which presents guidance information of a place for a user of a vehicle that is bound for the place indicated by advertisement information. Those executed are display of advertisement information on a display apparatus installed with a display surface directed to a road; acquisition of action information which exhibits an action performed by a crew of a vehicle traveling on the road; judgment to judge whether or not the vehicle is bound for a place indicated by the advertisement information on the basis of the action information; and display of guidance information of the place indicated by the advertisement information on the display apparatus or any display apparatus different from the display apparatus if it is judged that the vehicle is bound for the place indicated by the advertisement information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji ICHIKAWA, Harunobu SAITO, Daiki KANEICHI, Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Megumi AMANO, Masato ENDO, Tae SUGIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200065041
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, which is provided to display advertisement information on a display apparatus installed with a display surface directed to a road, is configured to execute acquisition of a traveling situation of a vehicle which travels on the road; selection of a first display form or a second display form having an amount of information larger than that of the first display form, as the display form of the advertisement information on the basis of the traveling situation; and display of the advertisement information on the display apparatus in the display form selected on the basis of the traveling situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji ICHIKAWA, Harunobu SAITO, Daiki KANEICHI, Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Megumi AMANO, Masato ENDO, Tae SUGIMURA
  • Patent number: 10562395
    Abstract: A control device for a hybrid vehicle is provided with an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. The control device includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a controller. The acquisition unit acquires a plurality of pieces of vehicle information regarding the vehicle configured to be externally charged. The vehicle information includes information related to a destination of the vehicle. The determination unit determines whether or not the hybrid vehicle is externally charged at the destination based on at least one piece of vehicle information regarding a same-destination vehicle including at least one of a vehicle having the same destination as the hybrid vehicle and a vehicle that has arrived at the destination of the hybrid vehicle. The controller controls the hybrid vehicle in accordance with a result of the determination by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinji Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20200044192
    Abstract: A portion of a resin film is precisely cut out when the resin film is peeled off. A rear surface of a glass substrate on which a protrusion is formed is irradiated with a laser beam to peel a resin film from the glass substrate. Then, the protrusion and the resin film formed on the protrusion are left on the glass substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Tohru OKABE, Ryosuke GUNJI, Hiroki TANIYAMA, Shinsuke SAIDA, Shinji ICHIKAWA, Akira INOUE, Hiroharu JINMURA, Yoshihiro NAKADA
  • Patent number: 10513191
    Abstract: An electric power transmission device includes an electric power transmission portion, a first communication portion, and a first control device controlling the electric power transmission portion and the first communication portion. A vehicle includes an electric power reception portion, a second communication portion, and a second control device controlling the electric power reception portion and the second communication portion. The first control device and the second control device determine whether or not to cause the electric power transmission portion to transmit electric power based on an instruction from a user which is provided after the user is notified of a status of electric power reception in the electric power reception portion or an estimated status of electric power reception in the electric power reception portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinji Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 10500964
    Abstract: An electric power reception device for a vehicle is equipped with an electric power reception unit that is configured to be able to receive electric power from an electric power transmission device in a non-contact manner, a communication portion that transmits information on a position or dimension of the electric power reception unit to the electric power transmission device, and a vehicle ECU that controls the communication portion. Preferably, the vehicle ECU transmits pre-stored information to the electric power transmission device with the aid of the communication portion, before allowing a vehicle to be parked at an electric power reception position of the electric power transmission device. The information includes at least one of a size of the electric power reception unit, a size of the vehicle in which the electric power reception unit is mounted, and a mounting position of the electric power reception unit in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinji Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 10457149
    Abstract: A power reception unit includes a resonance circuit for contactlessly receiving electric power output from power transmission units. Each of the power transmission units is configured to be able to form a plurality of resonance circuits having circuit configurations different from each other. A communication unit transmits information about a configuration of the resonance circuit of the power reception unit to a communication unit. A power supply ECU controls the power transmission units such that a resonance circuit of the plurality of resonance circuits which has a circuit configuration identical to that of the resonance circuit of the power reception unit is formed in the power transmission units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinji Ichikawa