Patents by Inventor Atsushi Okubo

Atsushi Okubo 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: 12027049
    Abstract: A management device of an automated valet parking system predicts a usage schedule of an automated valet parking service used by a user from usage history information about a usage history of the automated valet parking service used by the user. Then, the management device determines a parking position of a vehicle of the user among multiple parking lots with reference to the predicted usage schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shogo Momoshima, Ryuji Okamura, Atsushi Okubo, Takaaki Kato, Daiki Kaneichi, Minoru Nakadori
  • Patent number: 12002363
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus communicable with the vehicle includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: detect the vehicle before parking; determine the characteristic of the detected vehicle or the characteristic of a driver of the vehicle; set a parking frame for the vehicle in accordance with the characteristic; and transmit information indicating the parking frame to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Okubo, Kento Nitta, Takaaki Kato, Daiki Kaneichi, Minoru Nakadori
  • Publication number: 20240027983
    Abstract: A server is a server of an aggregator that requests a power-conditioning resource to participate in demand response for adjusting electric power demand-supply balance in a power grid. The power-conditioning resource includes a plurality of vehicles that is managed by a provider and used to provide a service thereof. The server includes a storage device and a processing device. The storage device is configured to store collection result information indicating results of participation of the vehicles in the demand response in a predetermined collection period. The processing device is configured to set an evaluation value indicating a degree of contribution of the provider to adjustment of electric power demand-supply balance based on the collection result information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi OKUBO, Kiyonori YOSHIDA, Kotomi ASANO, Tamaki OZAWA, Yusuke SAIGO
  • Publication number: 20240013114
    Abstract: A server notifies a user of a vehicle that is able to participate in DR. The server includes a communication device and a processing device. The communication device communicates with a provider server that stores information indicating an execution period and an execution location of at least one job given by a provider. The processing device performs a process of inquiring the provider server about whether the at least one job includes a target job through the communication device. The target job is a job of which the execution period is included in a DR period and the execution location is in a vicinity area of a DR location. When the at least one job includes the target job, the processing device performs a notification process of notifying the user of target job information indicating the execution period and the execution location of the target job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Okubo, Kiyonori Yoshida, Kotomi Asano, Tamaki Ozawa, Yusuke Saigo
  • Publication number: 20240012377
    Abstract: A server includes a storage device, a communication device, and a processing device. The storage device stores DR location information and DR period information. The communication device is configured to communicate with a provider server that stores a database indicating an available period and a use start location of each of a plurality of managed mobile objects. The processing device is configured to perform a process of inquiring the provider server about whether the managed mobile objects include a target mobile object of which the available period is in the DR period and the use start location is in a vicinity area of the DR location. When the managed mobile objects include the target mobile object, the processing device is configured to perform a notification process of notifying the user of target mobile object information indicating the available period and the use start location of the target mobile object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi OKUBO, Kiyonori YOSHIDA, Kotomi ASANO, Tamaki OZAWA, Yusuke SAIGO
  • Patent number: 11852968
    Abstract: To provide a pellicle in which outgas from an adhesive layer is suppressed. The pellicle includes a pellicle film, a support frame for supporting the pellicle film, a protrusion part arranged in the support frame, a first adhesive layer arranged on the protrusion part; and an inorganic material layer arranged at a position closer to the pellicle film than the first adhesive layer. The inorganic material layer may include a first inorganic material layer arranged at a first side surface of the first adhesive layer, the first side surface of the first adhesive layer intersecting the pellicle film, and arranged at a position closer to the pellicle film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Yosuke Ono, Kazuo Kohmura, Atsushi Okubo, Daiki Taneichi, Hisako Ishikawa, Tsuneaki Biyajima
  • Publication number: 20230280112
    Abstract: In a header plate structure of heat exchangers having a core divided in plurality, a flat tube is inserted into each of the tube insertion holes having a burring, which is formed in a header plate; the flat tube is joined at an inner surface in the vicinity of a top portion of the burring; a burring with height H1 is formed to a long side portion of a dummy tube insertion hole; and a burring with height H2 is formed to a long side portion of an end portion tube insertion hole adjacent to the dummy tube insertion hole, in which height H2 of the burring of the end portion tube insertion hole has been formed higher than the height H1 of the burring of the dummy tube insertion hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Akira KOMURO, Taiji SAKAI, Atsushi OKUBO, Hiro KUBOTA
  • Patent number: 11740027
    Abstract: To mitigate thermal stress concentration in the vicinity of a flow-volume limiting portion in a stacked plate heat exchanger to thereby prevent fatigue breaking due to the same. The flow-volume limiting portion is also provided with opening portions that are similar to those in flow paths to reduce rigidity difference from flow path portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: T.RAD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Bungo, Atsushi Okubo, Taiji Sakai
  • Publication number: 20230267838
    Abstract: The server (electrified vehicle management device) includes a communication unit (second communication unit) that communicates with a mobile terminal (first communication unit) of a user of the electrified vehicle. The server includes a processor (control unit) that controls the communication unit. Then, the processor controls the communication unit so that a permission signal permitted to receive a privilege in the amusement park is transmitted to the mobile terminal of the user when a predetermined condition is satisfied with respect to power control in a EVSE (power station) provided in the amusement park (entertainment facility).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi OKUBO, Kiyonori YOSHIDA, Kotomi ASANO, Tamaki OZAWA, Yusuke SAIGO
  • Publication number: 20230264586
    Abstract: A server (electric vehicle management device) includes a communication unit (second communication unit) that communicates with a DCM (first communication unit) of a user of an electric vehicle and a processor (control unit) that controls the communication unit. The processor controls the communication unit such that viewable content C is transmitted to the DCM of the user when a predetermined condition regarding electric power control at an EVSE (electric power station) is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi OKUBO, Kiyonori YOSHIDA, Kotomi ASANO, Tamaki OZAWA, Yusuke SAIGO
  • Publication number: 20230244138
    Abstract: A pellicle including: a pellicle film including a carbon-based film having a carbon content rate of 40 mass % or more; a support frame that supports the pellicle film; and an adhesive layer containing an adhesive, the pellicle having the total amount of aqueous outgas of 5.0×10?4 Pa·L/sec or less in an atmosphere of 23° C. and 1×10?3 Pa or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Yousuke ONO, Atsushi OKUBO, Kazuo KOHMURA
  • Publication number: 20230194977
    Abstract: A pellicle film for photolithography including a carbon nanotube film, in which the carbon nanotube film contains carbon nanotubes; the carbon nanotube film transmits 80% or more of EUV light at a wavelength of 13.5 nm; the carbon nanotube film has a thickness from 1 nm to 50 nm; the carbon nanotube film is deposited on a silicon substrate, in which the 3? of the reflectance is 15% or less when the reflectance of the deposited carbon nanotube film is measured using a reflectance spectrophotometer-based film thickness meter under the following conditions: the diameter of measurement spots, 20 ?m; the reference measurement wavelength, 285 nm; the number of measurement spots, 121 spots; the distance between the centers of adjacent measurement spots, 40 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicants: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC., NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yousuke ONO, Hisako ISHIKAWA, Ryohei OGAWA, Atsushi OKUBO, Kazuo KOHMURA, Atsuko SEKIGUCHI, Yuichi KATO, Takeo YAMADA, Ying ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20230037218
    Abstract: A management device of an automated valet parking system predicts a usage schedule of an automated valet parking service used by a user from usage history information about a usage history of the automated valet parking service used by the user. Then, the management device determines a parking position of a vehicle of the user among multiple parking lots with reference to the predicted usage schedule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shogo MOMOSHIMA, Ryuji OKAMURA, Atsushi OKUBO, Takaaki KATO, Daiki KANEICHI, Minoru NAKADORI
  • Publication number: 20230036846
    Abstract: Provided are a pellicle film, a pellicle, an original plate for exposure, an exposure device, a method of producing a semiconductor device, and a method of producing a pellicle, the pellicle film containing carbon nanotubes having a silicon carbide layer in which at least a part of carbon is substituted with silicon at least on a surface layer side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Atsushi OKUBO, Kazuo KOHMURA, Hisako ISHIKAWA, Yosuke ONO, Yasuhisa FUJII, Wataru YOSHIKAWA, Nobuko MATSUMOTO, Tomoe DEGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220364875
    Abstract: A method executed by an information processing device includes acquiring first information indicating use records of a user for each of a plurality of transportations, acquiring second information indicating preference levels of the user for each of the transportations, and outputting third information suggesting the user to use at least one transportation among the transportations, based on the first information and the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi OKUBO, Kento NITTA, Takaaki KATO, Daiki KANEICHI, Minoru NAKADORI
  • Publication number: 20220333941
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a communication interface; and one or more processors configured to when determining that a degree of dirt of a vehicle exceeds a predetermined first threshold value, select at least one vehicle washing facility from among a plurality of vehicle washing facilities, based on an attribute of a user of the vehicle, and notify the user of guidance information for guiding the user to the selected vehicle washing facility via the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi OKUBO, Kento NITTA, Takaaki KATO, Daiki KANEICHI, Minoru NAKADORI
  • Publication number: 20220335832
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus communicable with the vehicle includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: detect the vehicle before parking; determine the characteristic of the detected vehicle or the characteristic of a driver of the vehicle; set a parking frame for the vehicle in accordance with the characteristic; and transmit information indicating the parking frame to the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi OKUBO, Kento NITTA, Takaaki KATO, Daiki KANEICHI, Minoru NAKADORI
  • Publication number: 20220333873
    Abstract: The present invention reduces and mitigates thermal stress generated at joint portions between a header plate and a flat tube of a heat exchanger. In a direction of a vertical center axis passing the center of the inside of a flat tube, positions of first brazing parts are set to be closer to the center of the flat tube in the direction of the vertical center axis than positions of edge brazing parts. Accordingly, the thermal stress concentrated at the joint portions between short sides of the flat tube and the header plate is dispersed to other portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Akira KOMURO, Taiji SAKAI, Atsushi OKUBO
  • Publication number: 20220326039
    Abstract: A method executed by an information processing device includes acquiring a score indicating a driving skill of a user who drives a vehicle and executing traffic assistance processing based on the score at the time when the vehicle is parked. An information processing device comprises a controller that acquires a score indicating a driving skill of a user who drives a vehicle, and executes traffic assistance processing based on the score, at a time when the vehicle is parked. A non-transitory storage medium stores instructions that are executable by one or more processors and causes the one or more processors to acquire a score indicating a driving skill of a user who drives a vehicle, and execute traffic assistance processing based on the score, at a time when the vehicle is parked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Kodai TAKANOHASHI, Atsushi OKUBO, Yuji TACHIBANA, Shogo MOMOSHIMA, Takaaki KATO, Daiki KANEICHI, Minoru NAKADORI
  • Publication number: 20220319321
    Abstract: A plan proposal device includes a controller configured to predict, as a user action, an action of a first user in a certain period, including parking a vehicle in a parking lot shared by a plurality of users including the first user, generate proposal data for proposing an action plan in the certain period based on an obtained prediction result and information on the parking lot in the certain period, and output the generated proposal data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Kodai TAKANOHASHI, Atsushi OKUBO, Yuji TACHIBANA, Shogo MOMOSHIMA, Takaaki KATO, Daiki KANEICHI, Minoru NAKADORI