Patents by Inventor Daiki Yokoyama
Daiki Yokoyama 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: 11945318Abstract: The power supply apparatus includes a power transmission apparatus configured to transmit power to a power reception apparatus of the vehicle by non-contact and a processor configured to control the power transmission apparatus, detect a pickup/dropoff operation at the vehicle when power is being supplied by non-contact from the power supply apparatus to the vehicle, and detect a number of surrounding vehicles being supplied with power by non-contact in a predetermined range at surroundings of the power supply apparatus. The processor is configured to decrease power transmitted from the power transmission apparatus to the power reception apparatus when detecting a pickup/dropoff operation, and determine an amount of decrease of the transmitted power based on the number of surrounding vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Toshiya Hashimoto, Shuntaro Okazaki, Shogo Tsuge, Kazuhisa Matsuda
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Patent number: 11945429Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium for use in an information processing device in a vehicle control system.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiyuki Kageura, Yoshihiro Sakayanagi, Daiki Yokoyama
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Patent number: 11941965Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to enable a warning to be issued to a person who is highly likely to be put in danger at a risky point. In an information processing apparatus, a controller acquires information indicating a risky point, acquires a state of a person with a predetermined positional relationship to the risky point, and determines whether or not the state of the person is a state where there is a high possibility of being put in danger, among a plurality of states of the person assumable at the risky point. Furthermore, in a case where the state of the person is determined to be the state where there is a high possibility of being put in danger, the controller causes an output unit to output information indicating a warning.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yurika Tanaka, Shuichi Sawada, Takaharu Ueno, Shin Sakurada, Daiki Yokoyama, Genshi Kuno
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Patent number: 11904833Abstract: A boundary is at an engine drive restricted zone where operation of the internal combustion engine is restricted. An adjusting device adjusts of at least one of the temperature inside the cabin using electric power, the humidity inside the cabin using electric power, or the air pollution degree inside the cabin. In response to a prediction that (1) a host vehicle will enter the inside of the engine drive restricted zone and that (2a) the time period for the host vehicle to reach the boundary is within a preset time period or that (2b) the distance between the host vehicle and the boundary is within a preset distance, the value of at least one of the temperature inside the cabin, the humidity inside the cabin, and the air pollution degree inside the cabin is reduced before the host vehicle enters the inside of the engine drive restricted zone.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Hiroya Chiba, Yoshiyuki Kageura, Masanori Shimada, Yoshihiro Sakayanagi, Sui Kurihashi, Hiroki Morita, Makoto Ogiso
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Patent number: 11904882Abstract: A setting device including a processor is provided. The processor is configured to, when occurrence of a secondary disaster is predicted after occurrence of a disaster, set a region in which the secondary disaster is predicted to a charging-prohibited zone in which use of a charging facility for charging a battery installed in a vehicle is prohibited.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Yoshiyuki Kageura, Masanori Shimada, Yoshihiro Sakayanagi, Hiroki Morita
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Patent number: 11901736Abstract: A server manages plural vehicles each configured to be able to participate in a DR. A first vehicle is able to transmit power through a power cable. A second vehicle is able to transmit power in a non-contact manner while being stationary. A third vehicle is able to transmit power in a non-contact manner while traveling. The server includes a communication device and a processing device. The communication device is able to transmit a DR signal to each of the vehicles. The processing device selects a target vehicle, to which the DR signal is to be transmitted, from the vehicles in accordance with the priority degree for participation in the DR. The processing device sets the priority degree of the first vehicle to be higher than that of the second vehicle, and sets the priority degree of the second vehicle to be higher than that of the third vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masato Ehara, Daiki Yokoyama, Yuki Takahashi, Tomoya Takahashi, Tomoyuki Kubota, Sachio Toyora, Keisuke Fukuoka, Zidan Xu, Wenfeng Liang, Hiroki Murata
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Patent number: 11901740Abstract: A management system is configured to manage a power feed mat that wirelessly feeds power to a movable body. The power feed mat is configured to communicate while it is placed at a prescribed location. This management system includes a monitoring apparatus that monitors communication by the power feed mat and a processing apparatus that performs prescribed processing when the monitoring apparatus senses loss of the communication.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Toshiya Hashimoto, Katsuya Kobayashi, Takahiro Hirano, Midori Sugiyama, Ryunosuke Yamashita
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Publication number: 20240047997Abstract: A power supply mat includes a power transmission coil configured to transmit electric power supplied from an external power supply or internal power supply to a moving body provided with a power reception coil by noncontact, a covering sheet configured to cover the power transmission coil, and a light emitting device configured to emit light toward the outside when detecting the moving body is approaching it within a predetermined distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Sungmin CHO
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Publication number: 20240025415Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an imaging device configured to capture an image of an outside of a host vehicle to generate an image and a control device. The control device is configured to determine a road type of a road on which the host vehicle is traveling by recognizing a specific object in the image, and take a determination measure for determining the road type of the road on which the host vehicle is traveling when the specific object cannot be recognized.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hayato SHIRAI, Takashi NISHIKIORI, Sui KURIHASHI, Daiki YOKOYAMA
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Publication number: 20240006921Abstract: A power supply mat includes a connecting part to be electrically connected via a cable with a power supply vehicle having an external power supply function, a power transmission coil configured to transmit by noncontact the electric power supplied from the power supply vehicle through the connecting part to an outside power consuming device provided with a power reception coil, and a covering sheet configured to cover the power transmission coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Katsuya KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20230415589Abstract: A control device for a ground power supply apparatus judges if it has received from one moving body among a plurality of moving bodies a first signal notifying it that the one moving body has become an immobilized state on an electrified road at which a ground power supply apparatus has been installed. The control device, if receiving the first signal, when receiving from another moving body among the plurality of moving bodies, a power supply request signal requesting noncontact power supply at the ground power supply apparatus or an approach signal notifying it of approach the ground power supply apparatus, sends to the other moving body originating the power supply request signal or approach signal a second signal notifying it that there is a moving body in an immobilized state present on the electrified road.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Shuntaro OKAZAKI, Shogo TSUGE, Kazuhisa MATSUDA
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Publication number: 20230412000Abstract: A ground power supply device includes a power transmission device, a ground-side communication device, and a power transmission control device. The power transmission device performs contactless power supply to a moving body including a power reception device. The ground-side communication device communicates directly or indirectly with the moving body. The power transmission control device is configured to: count the number of times a power transfer abnormality has occurred between the power transmission device and the power reception device or the number of times an abnormality occurrence notification that is sent from the moving body when the power transfer abnormality is detected in the moving body; and determine that there is an abnormality in the power transmission device when the number of times the power transfer abnormality has occurred or the number of times the abnormality occurrence notification has been received becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Daiki YOKOYAMA
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Patent number: 11834032Abstract: A vehicle control device including processor being configured to, when driving sections are present inside a restricted region, extract as a restricted driving section from among driving sections present inside the restricted region a driving section through which it is projected the vehicle will be driven in a restricted time period in which operation of internal combustion engines is restricted, and prepare a driving plan able to drive through the restricted driving section in the EV mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Hiroya Chiba, Yoshiyuki Kageura, Masanori Shimada, Yoshihiro Sakayanagi, Sui Kurihashi, Hiroki Morita, Makoto Ogiso
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Patent number: 11831181Abstract: A power feed system includes a computer that evaluates benefit obtained when a power feed mat is placed, for each of a plurality of locations within a subject region where the power feed mat can be placed, the power feed mat being configured to wirelessly feed power to a movable body. In a power feed method using such a computer, a display shows a result of evaluation of the benefit for each location within the subject region evaluated by the computer.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Toshiya Hashimoto, Katsuya Kobayashi, Takahiro Hirano, Midori Sugiyama, Ryunosuke Yamashita
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Patent number: 11828609Abstract: A vehicle information DB holds information on whether or not a vehicle falls under a welfare vehicle provided with an assistance apparatus for a driver who has a lower limb impairment. A power feed facility DB holds position information of a power feed facility and information indicating whether the power feed facility falls under a contact type power feed facility or a wireless power feed facility. A processing apparatus creates a travel route such that a larger number of wireless power feed facilities are included along the travel route when the vehicle falls under the welfare vehicle than when the vehicle does not fall under the welfare vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Yoshihiro Sakayanagi, Midori Sugiyama, Tomohiro Kaneko, Hirotaka Saito
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Patent number: 11820398Abstract: A learning apparatus configured to be able to communicate with a plurality of equipment in which learning models are mounted, wherein when first equipment among the plurality of equipment in which a learning model trained using training data sets acquired in a predetermined first area is mounted and which is controlled by the same is used in a predetermined second area, the learning apparatus uses training data sets acquired in the second area to relearn the learning model mounted in the first equipment.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Ryo Nakabayashi
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Patent number: 11807244Abstract: A vehicle control device configured to control switching of drive mode of a vehicle including an internal combustion engine and a motor includes a processor configured to switch, in a case where a road surface of a perimeter of a geofencing zone is a road surface on which there is a high probability that the vehicle slips, in a movement route from an outside of the geofencing zone to an inside of the geofencing zone, the drive mode of the vehicle to drive by the motor in a state in which there is a low probability that the vehicle slips, outside the geofencing zone.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Yoshiyuki Kageura, Masanori Shimada, Yoshihiro Sakayanagi, Hiroki Morita
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Patent number: 11807209Abstract: A control device is configured to set a target state of charge of a battery and control an internal combustion engine and rotating electrical machine and the charging and discharging of the battery to make the hybrid vehicle run so that the battery state of charge becomes the target state of charge. The control device is further configured to set the target state of charge based on a remaining distance or required time from a current position up to a restricted zone in which operation of the internal combustion engine is restricted and a grace period from a current time to a time at which the restriction of operation of the internal combustion engine in the restricted zone is started.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiaki Miyazato, Daiki Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20230322091Abstract: A contactless power feed system includes a first ground power feed device and a second ground power feed device for performing contactless power feed to a moving body. The first ground power feed device transmits a passing signal to the second ground power feed device when entry of the moving body to a first power feed section is confirmed. The second ground power feed device transmits a power feed stop signal to the first ground power feed device when confirmation of entry or approach of the moving body to a second power feed section is not possible even after a predetermined time has elapsed after receiving the passing signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Shuntaro OKAZAKI, Shogo TSUGE, Kazuhisa MATSUDA
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Publication number: 20230311061Abstract: An information management system includes: a plurality of CO2 recovery devices configured to recover CO2; a CO2 collection station configured to collect CO2 recovered by the plurality of CO2 recovery devices; a CO2 using facility configured to use CO2 collected at the CO2 collection station; and an information management device including a communication unit configured to transmit linked information in which intended use information indicating intended use of CO2 in the CO2 using facility and an amount of use for the intended use is linked with identification information of a user of each of the plurality of CO2 recovery devices to an information communication terminal used by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Hiroshi OTSUKI, Takahiro SUZUKI, Harumi GOTOU, Shingo KORENAGA