Patents by Inventor Akihiro Kusumoto
Akihiro Kusumoto 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).
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Patent number: 11971265Abstract: A monitoring device includes: an instruction unit configured to instruct a vehicle to acquire appearance data of a monitoring object designated by a user; a detection unit configured to receive the appearance data from the vehicle and to detect whether a state of the monitoring object has changed based on the appearance data; and a monitoring result notifying unit configured to notify the user of a monitoring result of the monitoring object when the detection unit detects that the state of the monitoring object has changed.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Marie Ishikawa, Aya Hamajima, Daichi Hotta, Hayato Ito, Hidekazu Sasaki, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Akihiro Kusumoto
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Patent number: 11952952Abstract: A HST system for use in traveling of a vehicle includes a controller that controls a pump regulator that changes a displacement of a pump and a motor regulator that changes a displacement of a motor. The controller determines whether or not a particular downhill travel condition is satisfied based on a result of detection by a vehicle speed detector that detects a vehicle speed of the vehicle and a result of detection by a rotation number detector that detects a number of rotations of an engine per unit time. In a case where a depression amount of an accelerator pedal, which is detected by a depression amount detector, is zero and the particular downhill travel condition is satisfied, the controller controls the motor regulator to increase the displacement of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihiro Kondo, Ryosuke Kusumoto, Yuki Nakayama
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Patent number: 11904897Abstract: The safety management apparatus comprises a protective shield with automatic opening and closing, a sensor configured to obtain physical information related to an occupant boarded an autonomous traveling cart, and a controller configured to control the opening and closing of the protective shield. The protective shield is configured to be normally open and, when closed, shield an occupant space of the cart from the outside. The controller includes at least one memory including at least one program, and at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory. The at least one processor executes a first process and a second process upon execution of the at least one program. The first process is to determine whether the occupant is an infant based on the physical information. The second process, which is executed when the occupant is determined to be an infant, is to close the protective shield.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisuke Sato, Daisuke Ishii, Hiroki Izu, Hiroki Morita, Kei Sato, Masaki Nanahara, Kazumi Serizawa, Hironobu Tanaka, Shunsuke Mogi, Takashi Hayashi, Akihiro Kusumoto, Tetsuya Kanata, Yozo Iwami, Yuhei Katsumata, Daisaku Honda, Saki Narita, Hideki Fukudome, Takuya Watabe, Naoko Ichikawa, Yuta Maniwa, Yuki Nishikawa
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Patent number: 11897455Abstract: A vehicle is autonomously driven in an environment where a first road for vehicles running in a first direction and a second road for vehicles running in a second direction, different from the first direction, are provided alongside each other, and where a first parking space that is entered from the first road and exited to the first road is set and a second parking space that is entered from the second road and exited to the second road is set. When the vehicle is temporarily parked in the first parking space and a running direction of the vehicle heading for the next destination after being parked is the second direction, the vehicle is transferred from the first parking space to the second parking space by autonomous driving after a user of the vehicle gets out of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Omi, Takanori Imazu, Yoshiki Fukada, Takashi Hayashi, Yuta Kataoka, Kohki Baba, Ryuji Okamura, Akihiro Kusumoto
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Patent number: 11893887Abstract: Whether a vehicle is parked inside parking lines in a parking lot is detected. When the vehicle is detected not parked inside the parking lines, either the vehicle or the parking lines are moved in such a manner that the vehicle is parked inside the parking lines.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takanori Imazu, Yoshiki Fukada, Ryuji Okamura, Takashi Hayashi, Kohki Baba, Satoshi Omi, Akihiro Kusumoto, Yuta Kataoka
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Publication number: 20230294597Abstract: A parking action notification device includes an information notification unit configured to give a notice of information to an exterior of a vehicle. The information notification unit displays parking information to the exterior of the vehicle, the parking information being relevant to a parking action of the vehicle when the vehicle performs automatic parking.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Ryuji OKAMURA, Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki FUKADA, Takashi HAYASHI, Yuta KATAOKA, Kohki BABA, Satoshi OMI, Akihiro KUSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20230196910Abstract: Road traffic volume information is acquired, and CO2 recovery devices 30, 30a for recovering CO2 exhausted into the air from vehicles on a road and drifting around the road are installed. Activation of the CO2 recovery devices 30, 30a is controlled based on the road traffic volume information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Yasushi Hirata, Koseki Sugiyama, Yoshinori Miyamoto, Kazuki Kaneko, Yusaku Onochi, Daiki Yokoyama, Akihiro Kusumoto
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Publication number: 20230158899Abstract: The first charging equipment is configured to charge the electric power storage device via contact charging using a charging cable. The second charging equipment is configured to charge the electric power storage device via non-contact charging. The server includes: a determination section that determines a non-contact charging recommendation degree representing a degree of recommendation of the non-contact charging method to the user, based on a characteristic of the user; and a setting section that sets suggested equipment that is charging equipment to be suggested to the user, of the first charging equipment and the second charging equipment. When the non-contact charging recommendation degree is high, the setting section is more likely to set the second charging equipment as the suggested equipment than when the non-contact charging recommendation degree is low.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2022Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki ITO, Akihiro KUSUMOTO, Takahiro HIRANO, Ryunosuke YAMASHITA, Daiki TAJIMA, Katsuya KOBAYASHI, Toshihiro NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20230137845Abstract: A pedestrian protection system includes a plurality of autonomous driving vehicles and a server configured to be able to communicate with each of the autonomous driving vehicles. The server is configured to select at least one vehicle to be moved to the location of a pedestrian from among the autonomous driving vehicles as a pedestrian protection vehicle when a particular situation occurrence notification is received and is configured to send an instruction notification to the pedestrian protection vehicle. The particular situation occurrence notification indicates that the pedestrian is placed in a particular situation. The instruction notification instructs the pedestrian protection vehicle to move to the location of the pedestrian for protecting the pedestrian. Each of the autonomous driving vehicles is configured to move to the location of the pedestrian for protecting the pedestrian when the instruction notification is received.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Marie Ishikawa, Aya Hamajima, Daichi Hotta, Hayato Ito, Hidekazu Sasaki, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Akihiro Kusumoto
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Publication number: 20230136213Abstract: An upper-limit speed of a vehicle in automatic parking control is set, and the vehicle is caused to park automatically in a parking space at a vehicle speed equal to or lower than the set upper-limit speed. In this case, the upper-limit speed is set according to a vehicle body size of the vehicle, and the upper-limit speed is lower when the vehicle body size of the vehicle is greater than a preset size than when the vehicle body size of the vehicle is less than the preset size.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki FUKADA, Ryuji OKAMURA, Takashi HAYASHI, Kohki BABA, Satoshi OMI, Akihiro KUSUMOTO, Yuta KATAOKA
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Publication number: 20230125597Abstract: An information collection system includes a plurality of vehicles and a server. The server is configured to, when an event occurrence notification notifying that a specific event has occurred at least together with an event occurrence location is received, select at least one vehicle to move toward the event occurrence location from among the vehicles as an information collection vehicle, and transmit an information collection instruction notification to the information collection vehicle. The vehicles are configured to, when the information collection instruction notification is received, move toward the event occurrence location and collect images captured by a camera while the vehicles are moving as event-related information that is information related to the event.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Marie ISHIKAWA, Aya Hamajima, Daichi Hotta, Hayato Ito, Hidekazu Sasaki, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Akihiro Kusumoto
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Publication number: 20230117379Abstract: The position of the vehicle for loading articles on a cart with a self-propelled function is acquired, the travel route of the cart to the vehicle is determined, and the cart is self-propelled to the vehicle along the determined travel route and stopped around the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki FUKADA, Ryuji OKAMURA, Takashi HAYASHI, Kohki BABA, Satoshi OMI, Akihiro KUSUMOTO, Yuta KATAOKA
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Publication number: 20230114453Abstract: When an autonomous vehicle is caused to depart from a current position to a pickup location, a waiting location for temporarily parking the autonomous vehicle is set between the current position and the pickup location. The autonomous vehicle is autonomously driven from the current position to the waiting location, temporarily parked at the waiting location, and then autonomously driven to the pickup location.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki FUKADA, Ryuji OKAMURA, Takashi HAYASHI, Kohki BABA, Satoshi OMI, Akihiro KUSUMOTO, Yuta KATAOKA
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Publication number: 20230100856Abstract: Whether a vehicle is parked inside parking lines in a parking lot is detected. When the vehicle is detected not parked inside the parking lines, either the vehicle or the parking lines are moved in such a manner that the vehicle is parked inside the parking lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki FUKADA, Ryuji OKAMURA, Takashi HAYASHI, Kohki BABA, Satoshi OMI, Akihiro KUSUMOTO, Yuta KATAOKA
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Publication number: 20230103109Abstract: A parking lot management system for managing a parking lot intended for autonomous vehicles and manually driven vehicles includes: a reservation unit configured to reserve a parking space for an autonomous vehicle; and a reserved parking space notification unit configured to notify a manually driven vehicle in the parking lot of the reserved parking space.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki Fukada, Ryuji Okamura, Takashi Hayashi, Kohki Baba, Satoshi Omi, Akihiro Kusumoto, Yuta Kataoka
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Patent number: 11610469Abstract: A server includes: a registration unit that registers identification information for identifying a detection target in a storage unit; a detection target determination unit that determines whether the detection target is shown in an image captured on or around a road, based on the identification information; an abnormal behavior determination unit that determines whether the detection target exhibits an abnormal behavior that is different from a normal behavior of the detection target, when the detection target is shown in the image; and an alert transmission unit that transmits an alert when the detection target exhibits the abnormal behavior.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Marie Ishikawa, Aya Hamajima, Daichi Hotta, Hayato Ito, Hidekazu Sasaki, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Akihiro Kusumoto
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Publication number: 20230062923Abstract: Provided is an automatic parking service causes a vehicle that has arrived at a platform to enter one parking space among a plurality of parking spaces by autonomous driving and that causes the vehicle parked in the parking space exit the platform by autonomous driving. A congestion degree of a platform requested to be used in an entry-exit time zone specified by a user that uses the automatic parking service is determined when an entry-exit request in which one platform among the plurality of platforms is used is received from the user. The use of another platform is proposed to the user when the congestion degree of the platform requested to be used is high, the other platform having a lower congestion degree than the platform requested to be used.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Satoshi OMI, Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki FUKADA, Takashi HAYASHI, Yuta KATAOKA, Kohki BABA, Ryuji OKAMURA, Akihiro KUSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20230064634Abstract: An abnormality notification system includes: a vehicle that travels regularly on a predetermined travel route; a communication device configured to be able to communicate with a sensor mounted on the vehicle and an outside, the sensor being a sensor that acquires road data obtained by imaging or measuring a road along the travel route; and a control device. The control device is configured to determine whether an abnormality has occurred on the road along the travel route based on a different part when the road data acquired by the sensor is compared with reference road data obtained by imaging or measuring the road along the travel route in the past, and transmit predetermined abnormality occurrence information to an external client via the communication device when the control device determines that an abnormality has occurred on the road along the travel route.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Marie Ishikawa, Aya Hamajima, Daichi Hotta, Hayato Ito, Hidekazu Sasaki, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Akihiro Kusumoto, Yoshiki Ueda, Taizo Masuda, Yuta Kataoka, Hiromitsu Kobayashi, Miki Nomoto, Satoshi Omi, Yuki Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20230055038Abstract: A vehicle is autonomously driven in an environment where a first road for vehicles running in a first direction and a second road for vehicles running in a second direction, different from the first direction, are provided alongside each other, and where a first parking space that is entered from the first road and exited to the first road is set and a second parking space that is entered from the second road and exited to the second road is set. When the vehicle is temporarily parked in the first parking space and a running direction of the vehicle heading for the next destination after being parked is the second direction, the vehicle is transferred from the first parking space to the second parking space by autonomous driving after a user of the vehicle gets out of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Satoshi OMI, Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki FUKADA, Takashi HAYASHI, Yuta KATAOKA, Kohki BABA, Ryuji OKAMURA, Akihiro KUSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20230023013Abstract: A remote driving taxi system provides a mobility service using remote driving taxis that are driven by remote drivers. Each of the remote driving taxis includes a display lamp configured to indicate whether the remote driving taxi is currently available. Management information includes use states of the remote driving taxis and assignment states between the remote driving taxis and the remote drivers. The remote driving taxi system puts on the display lamp of the remote driving taxi to which the remote driver has already been assigned and that is currently available, based on the management information. Further, the remote driving taxi system puts off the display lamp of the remote driving taxi to which the remote driver has already been assigned and that is currently unavailable, based on the management information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toru NISHITANI, Rio SUDA, Hiroshi YONENAGA, Hidekazu SASAKI, Tatsushi TAKENAKA, Shun OTA, Akihiro KUSUMOTO