Patents by Inventor Atsushi OKI
Atsushi OKI 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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Publication number: 20240070572Abstract: A notification method includes: determining candidate destinations for a vehicle from among a plurality of facilities requesting for electric power, using first information about the vehicle and second information about the plurality of facilities; and transmitting the candidate destinations to a user terminal of the vehicle. The first information includes a power generation type of an electric power stored in a power storage device included in the vehicle. The second information includes a power generation type of the electric power requested by each of the plurality of facilities.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi OKI, Hiroki TAKABATAKE, Shigeki KINOMURA, Hisashi FUJISAWA, Hiromitsu FUJII
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Publication number: 20240054516Abstract: A store terminal executes a process including a step S500 for determining whether or not to receive the allocation fee and a step S502 for determining whether or not there is a request for termination of use, and further including, when the allocation fee is received (YES in S500) and it is determined that there is a request for termination of use (YES in S502), a step S504 for acquiring a usage time, a step S506 for setting a discount amount, a step S508 for setting a usage fee, and a step S510 for executing a checkout process.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hisashi FUJISAWA, Shigeki KINOMURA, Atsushi OKI, Hiroki TAKABATAKE, Hiromitsu FUJII
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Publication number: 20240046300Abstract: A power management system includes: a server that manages a status of reservation for use of a shop by a user who uses an electrically powered vehicle in which a battery is mounted and that performs supply/demand adjustment for power in a power grid connected to the shop; and a power charging/discharging station installed in a parking lot of the shop and connected to the power grid. The server performs the supply/demand adjustment using the battery of the electrically powered vehicle while the battery and the power charging/discharging station are connected to each other after the reservation for the use of the shop is made by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hisashi FUJISAWA, Shigeki KINOMURA, Atsushi OKI, Hiroki TAKABATAKE, Hiromitsu FUJII
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Publication number: 20240034173Abstract: A parking lot management method for managing a parking lot includes requesting energy management to a vehicle parked in a parking slot and displaying a remaining time until a parking time limit of the vehicle. Displaying the remaining time includes increasing the remaining time when the vehicle executes the energy management as compared with the remaining time when the vehicle does not execute the energy management.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shigeki KINOMURA, Hiroki TAKABATAKE, Hisashi FUJISAWA, Atsushi OKI, Hiromitsu FUJII
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Publication number: 20240029564Abstract: A parking lot management method for managing a parking lot includes determining whether a parking space in the parking lot is insufficient. Further, the parking lot management method further includes at least one of executing a process of prompting at least one vehicle parked in the parking lot to exit when it is determined that a parking space in the parking lot is insufficient, and requesting at least one vehicle electrically connected to a power supply facility to execute energy management when it is determined that the parking space in the parking lot is not insufficient and a predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hisashi FUJISAWA, Shigeki KINOMURA, Atsushi OKI, Hiroki TAKABATAKE, Hiromitsu FUJII
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Publication number: 20230104750Abstract: The battery pack includes a battery stack, a holding member, a device component, and a case. The case has opposing walls facing the device component. The holding member has a pair of fixing portions, a holding portion, and a pair of connecting portions. Holding member, when the load for deforming the opposing wall so that the opposing wall bulges toward the device component acts on the opposing wall, the device component is deformed so as to displace in a direction away from the opposing wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Atsushi OKI
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Patent number: 10826037Abstract: A vehicle-mounted battery apparatus to be mounted in a vehicle includes: a battery pack, the battery pack including a battery cell, the battery cell including a gas exhaust portion configured to discharge internal gas; a smoke exhaust duct connected to the battery pack and configured to discharge gas to an outside of the vehicle; and a check valve disposed in the smoke exhaust duct and configured to block flow of gas from the outside of the vehicle toward the battery pack. The check valve includes: a valve seat disposed in the smoke exhaust duct and having a hole; a valve body configured to be seated on the valve seat to cover the hole; and a shock absorbing member disposed between the valve body and the valve seat to alleviate impact of the valve body against the valve seat.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Oki, Junta Katayama
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Publication number: 20190198835Abstract: A vehicle-mounted battery apparatus to be mounted in a vehicle includes: a battery pack, the battery pack including a battery cell, the battery cell including a gas exhaust portion configured to discharge internal gas; a smoke exhaust duct connected to the battery pack and configured to discharge gas to an outside of the vehicle; and a check valve disposed in the smoke exhaust duct and configured to block flow of gas from the outside of the vehicle toward the battery pack. The check valve includes: a valve seat disposed in the smoke exhaust duct and having a hole; a valve body configured to be seated on the valve seat to cover the hole; and a shock absorbing member disposed between the valve body and the valve seat to alleviate impact of the valve body against the valve seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi OKI, Junta Katayama