Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka Nishikawa

Yoshitaka Nishikawa 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: 11657382
    Abstract: A drive-through system includes: a store terminal including a first processor; a vehicle including a second processor; and a user terminal device including a third processor. The second processor is configured to receive, from each occupant, operation to select a product to be purchased in a drive-through service, generate order information indicating the product selected by the occupant, and output the generated order information to the store terminal device. The first processor is configured to acquire the order information, generate, by using the acquired order information, settlement information for each occupant for performing settlement processing of the product, and output the generated settlement information to the vehicle. The second processor is further configured to acquire the settlement information, and display the settlement information of each occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Takahashi, Yuki Tatsumoto, Keisuke Nishinaka, Hiroki Tamura, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Kenji Gotoh, Kota Kato
  • Patent number: 11562396
    Abstract: A server includes a processor including hardware, the processor is configured to: record information about a traveling route of a vehicle and a driver of the vehicle as action history information; select a service to be provided to the driver based on the action history information; and provide the selected service to the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Takahashi, Yuki Tatsumoto, Keisuke Nishinaka, Hiroki Tamura, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Kenji Gotoh, Kota Kato
  • Publication number: 20210312537
    Abstract: A car sharing system includes: a vehicle including a first processor including hardware, the first processor being configured to calculate a degree of safe driving of the vehicle by a driver, and output information about the calculated degree of safe driving; and a server including a second processor including hardware, the second processor being configured to acquire the information about the degree of safe driving, and determine whether to provide the vehicle to a car sharing service based on the acquired information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiko TAKAHASHI, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Keisuke NISHINAKA, Hiroki TAMURA, Yoshitaka NISHIKAWA, Kenji GOTOH, Kota KATO
  • Publication number: 20210312342
    Abstract: A parking lot provision system includes a vehicle including a first processor having hardware, the first processor being configured to calculate a safe driving degree of the vehicle by a driver, and output information related to the safe driving degree which is calculated; and a server device including a second processor having hardware, the second processor being configured to acquire the information related to the safe driving degree, and determine, based on the information which is acquired, whether to provide a parking lot provision service for renting a parking lot to the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiko TAKAHASHI, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Keisuke NISHINAKA, Hiroki TAMURA, Yoshitaka NISHIKAWA, Kenji GOTOH, Kota KATO
  • Publication number: 20210304170
    Abstract: A settlement system includes: a terminal device configured to be carried by a first user, the terminal device including a first processor including hardware, the first processor being configured to output user information indicating a second user who pays a cost for traveling a vehicle by the first user; and a server including a second processor including hardware, the second processor being configured to acquire the user information, and execute settlement processing by the second user indicated by the user information for the cost for traveling the vehicle with the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiko TAKAHASHI, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Keisuke NISHINAKA, Hiroki TAMURA, Yoshitaka NISHIKAWA, Kenji GOTOH, Kota KATO
  • Publication number: 20210304182
    Abstract: A drive-through system includes: a store terminal including a first processor; a vehicle including a second processor; and a user terminal device including a third processor. The second processor is configured to receive, from each occupant, operation to select a product to be purchased in a drive-through service, generate order information indicating the product selected by the occupant, and output the generated order information to the store terminal device. The first processor is configured to acquire the order information, generate, by using the acquired order information, settlement information for each occupant for performing settlement processing of the product, and output the generated settlement information to the vehicle. The second processor is further configured to acquire the settlement information, and display the settlement information of each occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiko TAKAHASHI, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Keisuke NISHINAKA, Hiroki TAMURA, Yoshitaka NISHIKAWA, Kenji GOTOH, Kota KATO
  • Publication number: 20210302188
    Abstract: A route guidance system includes: a vehicle including a first processor including hardware, the first processor being configured to prepare, in response to an occupant inputting a destination and a budget of route guidance, a route guidance plan to the destination satisfying a condition of the budget, and output, in response to the occupant selecting the route guidance plan, selected plan information including at least information specifying the occupant and information regarding a cost of the selected route guidance plan; and a server including a second processor including hardware, the second processor being configured to acquire the selected plan information, and execute settlement processing of the cost of the route guidance plan included in the received selected plan information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiko TAKAHASHI, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Keisuke NISHINAKA, Hiroki TAMURA, Yoshitaka NISHIKAWA, Kenji GOTOH, Kota KATO
  • Publication number: 20210304249
    Abstract: A server includes a processor including hardware, the processor is configured to: record information about a traveling route of a vehicle and a driver of the vehicle as action history information; select a service to be provided to the driver based on the action history information; and provide the selected service to the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiko TAKAHASHI, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Keisuke NISHINAKA, Hiroki TAMURA, Yoshitaka NISHIKAWA, Kenji GOTOH, Kota KATO
  • Patent number: 10221464
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steel wire rod with stable workability. The steel wire rod has steel components containing, by mass %, C: 0.20 to 0.60%, Si: 0.15 to 0.30%, Mn: 0.25 to 0.60%, P: ?0.020%, S: ?0.010%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, and an internal microstructure including cementite, in which by number ratio, 80% or more of the cementite in a cross-section vertical to a longitudinal direction of the wire rod has a short axis of 0.1 ?m or less and a ratio of a long axis to the short axis, defined as an aspect ratio, of 2.0 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ooba, Yukihiro Takahashi, Yoshitaka Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20170101696
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steel wire rod with stable workability. The steel wire rod has steel components containing, by mass %, C: 0.20 to 0.60%, Si: 0.15 to 0.30%, Mn: 0.25 to 0.60%, P: 0.020%, S: 0.010%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, and an internal microstructure including cementite, in which by number ratio, 80% or more of the cementite in a cross-section vertical to a longitudinal direction of the wire rod has a short axis of 0.1 ?m or less and a ratio of a long axis to the short axis, defined as an aspect ratio, of 2.0 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi OOBA, Yukihiro TAKAHASHI, Yoshitaka NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20160244858
    Abstract: A wire rod according to the present invention includes a predetermined chemical composition, wherein a metal structure includes 90 area % to 100 area % of bainite, wherein when eight test pieces having a length of 400 mm, which are obtained by dividing a wire rod having a length of 3200 mm into eight components having a same length, are manufactured, an average tensile strength TS of each test pieces satisfies a relation of “[TS]?810×[C]+475” by N/mm2, wherein a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the tensile strengths of each test pieces is 50 N/mm2 or less, and wherein an average reduction of area RA of each test pieces satisfies a relation of “[RA]??0.083×[TS]+154” by %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsusei TADA, Yukihiro TAKAHASHI, Yoshitaka NISHIKAWA, Daisuke HIRAKAMI, Toshiyuki MANABE
  • Patent number: 8303012
    Abstract: A pick-up style utility vehicle has a front seat, a rear seat, and a cargo bed in this order from a front of the vehicle. The cargo bed has at least left and right stationary side panels and expandable side panels that extend forward from the front ends of the stationary side panels. The cargo bed is changeable between an expanded state in which the cargo bed is expanded forward into a rear riding space in front of the cargo bed and a non-expanded state not occupying the rear riding space. The expandable side panels are rotatable about rotational shafts forward and rearward in a vehicle width direction so as to be shiftable between a position in the expanded state and a position in the non-expanded state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenichi Sumi, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Tetsuaki Shirai
  • Patent number: 8240737
    Abstract: A pick-up style utility vehicle with an expandable cargo bed, including a front seat, a rear seat, a stationary bottom plate serving as a bottom face of the cargo bed, an expansion bottom plate for expanding the bottom face of the cargo bed, and a shared linkage mechanism for holding the rear seat at a use position where the rear seat is positioned on the upper side of the stationary bottom plate and a shunting position where the rear seat is shunted into a rear leg room provided in front of and below the stationary bottom plate. The shared linkage mechanism also holds the expansion bottom plate at a storage position where the expansion bottom plate is above the stationary bottom plate and an expansion position where the expansion bottom plate is positioned over the leg room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Takaya, Masafumi Inoue, Shinichi Tanba, Daisuke Takagi, Masahiro Koga, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Takao Kawabata, Dave Reinke
  • Publication number: 20110156442
    Abstract: A pick-up style utility vehicle according to the present invention has a front seat, a rear seat, and a cargo bed in this order from front. The cargo bed has at least left and right stationary side panels and expandable side panels extended forward from the front ends of the stationary side panels and is changeable between an expanded state in which the cargo bed is expanded forward to a rear riding space in front of the cargo bed and a non-expanded state not occupying the rear riding space. The expandable side panels are rotatable about rotational shafts forward and rearward in a vehicle width direction so as to be shiftable between a position in the expanded state and a position in the non-expanded state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventors: Kenichi Sumi, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Tetsuaki Shirai
  • Publication number: 20110148146
    Abstract: The present invention is a pick-up style utility vehicle with an expandable cargo bed, including a front seat, a rear seat, a stationary bottom plate serving as a bottom face of the cargo bed, an expansion bottom plate for expanding the bottom face of the cargo bed, and a shared linkage mechanism for holding the rear seat at a use position where the rear seat is positioned on the upper side of the stationary bottom plate and a shunting position where the rear seat is shunted into a rear leg room provided on the front lower side of the stationary bottom plate, and also for holding the expansion bottom plate at a storage position where the expansion bottom plate is placed out of the upper side of the leg room and an expansion position where the expansion bottom plate is positioned on the upper side of the leg room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Satoshi TAKAYA, Masafumi Inoue, Shinichi Tanba, Daisuke Takagi, Masahiro Koga, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Takao Kawabata, Dave Reinke
  • Patent number: 7462250
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high strength, high toughness steel wire rod useful for a PC steel wire, galvanized steel strands, spring use steel wire, cables for suspension bridges, etc. By hot rolling, then directly patenting or reaustenitizing, then patenting a high carbon steel wire rod of a specific chemical composition of the steel and chemical composition, size, and numerical density of inclusions, piano wire rod or high carbon steel wire rod having a structure of mainly pearlite, having an average value of the proeutectoid cementite area ratio of 5% or less in a center region of less than 20% of the wire rod diameter from the center of the wire rod, having a micromartensite size of the C section of 100 ?m or less, having a tensile strength of the 170 kgf/mm2 class or more, and having a drawing ratio at break of 30% or more is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Yamasaki, Seiki Nishida, Toshiyuki Kajitani, Wataru Yamada, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Nariyasu Muroga, Nobuyuki Komiya
  • Publication number: 20060137776
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high strength, high toughness steel wire rod useful for a PC steel wire, galvanized steel strands, spring use steel wire, cables for suspension bridges, etc. By hot rolling, then directly patenting or reaustenitizing, then patenting a high carbon steel wire rod of a specific chemical composition of the steel and chemical composition, size, and numerical density of inclusions, piano wire rod or high carbon steel wire rod having a structure of mainly pearlite, having an average value of the proeutectoid cementite area ratio of 5% or less in a center region of less than 20% of the wire rod diameter from the center of the wire rod, having a micromartensite size of the C section of 100 ?m or less, having a tensile strength of the 170 kgf/mm2 class or more, and having a drawing ratio at break of 30% or more is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2004
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Inventors: Shingo Yamasaki, Seiki Nishida, Toshiyuki Kajitani, Wataru Yamada, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Nariyasu Muroga, Nobuyuki Komiya
  • Patent number: D460787
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Nishikawa
  • Patent number: D478127
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Nishikawa