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).

  • Patent number: 11945318
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Toshiya Hashimoto, Shuntaro Okazaki, Shogo Tsuge, Kazuhisa Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11945429
    Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium for use in an information processing device in a vehicle control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kageura, Yoshihiro Sakayanagi, Daiki Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11941965
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika Tanaka, Shuichi Sawada, Takaharu Ueno, Shin Sakurada, Daiki Yokoyama, Genshi Kuno
  • Patent number: 11904833
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Hiroya Chiba, Yoshiyuki Kageura, Masanori Shimada, Yoshihiro Sakayanagi, Sui Kurihashi, Hiroki Morita, Makoto Ogiso
  • Patent number: 11904882
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Yoshiyuki Kageura, Masanori Shimada, Yoshihiro Sakayanagi, Hiroki Morita
  • Patent number: 11901736
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masato Ehara, Daiki Yokoyama, Yuki Takahashi, Tomoya Takahashi, Tomoyuki Kubota, Sachio Toyora, Keisuke Fukuoka, Zidan Xu, Wenfeng Liang, Hiroki Murata
  • Patent number: 11901740
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Toshiya Hashimoto, Katsuya Kobayashi, Takahiro Hirano, Midori Sugiyama, Ryunosuke Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20240047997
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Sungmin CHO
  • Publication number: 20240025415
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hayato SHIRAI, Takashi NISHIKIORI, Sui KURIHASHI, Daiki YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240006921
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Katsuya KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230415589
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Shuntaro OKAZAKI, Shogo TSUGE, Kazuhisa MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20230412000
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Daiki YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 11834032
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Hiroya Chiba, Yoshiyuki Kageura, Masanori Shimada, Yoshihiro Sakayanagi, Sui Kurihashi, Hiroki Morita, Makoto Ogiso
  • Patent number: 11831181
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Toshiya Hashimoto, Katsuya Kobayashi, Takahiro Hirano, Midori Sugiyama, Ryunosuke Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11828609
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Yoshihiro Sakayanagi, Midori Sugiyama, Tomohiro Kaneko, Hirotaka Saito
  • Patent number: 11820398
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Ryo Nakabayashi
  • Patent number: 11807244
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Yoshiyuki Kageura, Masanori Shimada, Yoshihiro Sakayanagi, Hiroki Morita
  • Patent number: 11807209
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Miyazato, Daiki Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20230322091
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Shuntaro OKAZAKI, Shogo TSUGE, Kazuhisa MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20230311061
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Hiroshi OTSUKI, Takahiro SUZUKI, Harumi GOTOU, Shingo KORENAGA