Patents by Inventor Wataru MINOURA

Wataru MINOURA 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: 20240132094
    Abstract: The information processing device extracts one or a plurality of autonomously drivable sections in the traveling route of the vehicle to the destination. Further, the information processing device specifies the first section having the longest autonomous driving continuable time on the traveling route. Then, the information processing device outputs the autonomous driving continuable time in the first section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru MINOURA, Fumihiro NASU, Yoshiaki MOTOYASU, Yoshiki TERASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20230324193
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a memory configured to store a history of travel of a vehicle, a communication interface, and a controller configured to transmit and receive information to and from another apparatus via the communication interface. The controller is configured to output a first history for a first period in response to a predetermined instruction during the first period and to refrain from outputting the first history, even upon receiving the predetermined instruction, during a second period partitioned from the first period based on information transmitted by a terminal apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Wataru MINOURA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20230319240
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to transmit and receive information to and from another apparatus via the communication interface, wherein the controller is configured to transmit information to a vehicle about a boarding point, designated by a terminal apparatus, at which a user is to board the vehicle, and transmit, to the terminal apparatus, a captured image of surroundings of the vehicle, the captured image being captured by the vehicle during travel to the boarding point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Wataru MINOURA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20230316913
    Abstract: A service support apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus of a user or a staff member, and a controller configured to acquire status data indicating a parking status of shared vehicles at a plurality of locations, and transmit presentation data to the terminal apparatus via the communication interface upon detecting an excess of shared vehicles at a first location, a shortage of shared vehicles at a second location, or both based on the acquired status data, the presentation data encouraging the user or the staff member to travel to the second location in a shared vehicle parked at the first location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Wataru MINOURA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20230194272
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to transmit and receive information to and from other apparatuses via the communication interface. When the controller receives information for reserving use of a vehicle from a terminal apparatus, and a distance between an end point of a first use and a start point of a second use that starts after the first use is equal to or less than a reference distance, the controller is configured to transmit a movement instruction to a first terminal apparatus corresponding to the first use for a user to move the vehicle to the start point of the second use at an end of the first use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Wataru MINOURA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20210402992
    Abstract: An apparatus for setting a planned trajectory includes a processor configured to identify a travel lane on which a vehicle is traveling, detect, as a specific section, a section lacking at least one of left and right lane lines of the travel lane of the vehicle in a planned travel section, set at least one candidate of a planned trajectory to be traveled by the vehicle in the specific section, the at least one candidate including a candidate based on an existing one of the lane lines or a road edge, and set, of the set candidate, a candidate having a minimum variation in curvature or a minimum offset distance in a direction perpendicular to a travel direction of the vehicle at parts connected to the planned trajectory in sections ahead of and behind the specific section as the planned trajectory of the specific section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Shuichi MORIMOTO, Yuta ASAKA, Wataru MINOURA, Shun FUJIOKA, Takashi IENAGA, Takahiro OZAKI
  • Publication number: 20190308622
    Abstract: A vehicle travel control system installed on a vehicle executes vehicle travel control that determines a travel lane and controls the vehicle to travel in the travel lane based on driving environment information. A restricted lane section is a lane and a section of lane in which a specific type of vehicle is prohibited from traveling. An avoidance target lane section is the restricted lane section in which the vehicle is prohibited from traveling. The driving environment information includes: vehicle type information indicating a type of the vehicle; and restricted lane section information indicating a position of the restricted lane section. The vehicle travel control system recognizes the avoidance target lane section based on the vehicle type information and the restricted lane section information, and executes the vehicle travel control so as to avoid the avoidance target lane section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru Minoura, Kiyohiro Sogen, Yuichiro Nara, Shuichi Morimoto
  • Patent number: 10207459
    Abstract: A working method for an end portion of a plate member includes heating and pressing the end portion of the plate member formed of a thermoplastic resin in a thickness direction to form a thin portion, folding the thin portion such that a pressed surface is positioned inside to move an outer peripheral end of the thin portion as an end portion on an outer peripheral side of the plate member to the vicinity of a main body portion of the plate member to which an inner end of the thin portion as an end portion on an inner side of the plate member is connected, and pressing the outer peripheral end of the thin portion in the thickness direction to move the outer peripheral end thereof further inward than a surface of the main body portion in the thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignees: MITSUIYA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Hasegawa, Wataru Minoura, Takuji Ono, Sachiko Nishi
  • Publication number: 20160151967
    Abstract: A working method for an end portion of a plate member includes heating and pressing the end portion of the plate member formed of a thermoplastic resin in a thickness direction to form a thin portion, folding the thin portion such that a pressed surface is positioned inside to move an outer peripheral end of the thin portion as an end portion on an outer peripheral side of the plate member to the vicinity of a main body portion of the plate member to which an inner end of the thin portion as an end portion on an inner side of the plate member is connected, and pressing the outer peripheral end of the thin portion in the thickness direction to move the outer peripheral end thereof further inward than a surface of the main body portion in the thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Satoshi HASEGAWA, Wataru MINOURA, Takuji ONO, Sachiko NISHI