Patents by Inventor Eiichi Maeda
Eiichi Maeda 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: 20240068881Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion device that includes an element body including a plurality of stacked; and a meandering wire inside the element body and that has a stacked structure. The meandering wire includes a thermoelectric material that has an anomalous Nernst effect, and a thermal conductivity of the plurality of stacked substrates is lower than that of the thermoelectric material. A thermoelectric conversion device that includes a winding core; and a winding wire wound around the winding core. The winding wire consists only of a thermoelectric material that has an anomalous Nernst effect. A thermoelectric conversion device that includes a plurality of substrates and meandering wires on main surfaces of the respective substrates. The meandering wires include a thermoelectric material that has an anomalous Nernst effect, and the substrates adjacent to each other are arranged at an angle that is larger than 0 degrees and smaller than 180 degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Eiichi MAEDA, Masashi HATTORI, Mitsuru ODAHARA, Toru TAKAHASHI, Kojiro KOMAGAKI, Takahiro TAGUCHI
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Patent number: 11869488Abstract: In cases in which a confidence score of an inferred intent label is a predetermined threshold or less, an intent inference section searches for whether or not wording pertaining to a location, such as “on the door”, is present in a question. In cases in which a word relating to a location is present, the intent inference section consults individual function identification data associated with OM item codes in order to find intent labels including individual functions relevant to the location (such as “door”). In cases in which an intent label including an individual function relevant to the “door” is found, an OMA interaction control section consults QA data to find and acquire associated response information based on the found intent label and the OM item code, and notifies a HMI interaction control section of such response information.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Chikage Kubo, Keiko Nakano, Eiichi Maeda, Hiroyuki Nishizawa
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Patent number: 11809885Abstract: An agent device receives input information that is input by the user, in a case in which the input information is a question from the user, executes inference processing on the input information to infer an intent of the question in order to acquire a response to the question based on the intent, in a case in which a plurality of the responses are acquired, provides the notification device with option information that includes the plurality of responses as options, in a case in which new input information is received, determines whether the new input information is information requiring the inference processing or is selection information relating to a selection result from selection of the options, and in a case in which the new input information is the selection information, provides the notification device with response information regarding the response associated with the selection result without executing the inference processing.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiichi Maeda, Chikage Kubo, Keiko Nakano, Hiroyuki Nishizawa
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Patent number: 11790907Abstract: An agent device that receives, from an onboard device installed in a vehicle, vehicle information relating to the vehicle and question information corresponding to a question from a user, based on the vehicle information, confirms a scope of questions for which generation of a response is not possible, and instructs the onboard device to block receipt of questions falling within the scope of questions for which it has been confirmed that response generation is not possible.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiichi Maeda, Chikage Kubo, Keiko Nakano, Hiroyuki Nishizawa
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Patent number: 11593568Abstract: An agent system includes a first memory and a first processor coupled to the first memory. The first processor analyzes contents of a verbal question, and carries out pre-processing that replaces vocabulary, which is used in the contents of the question, with homogenized vocabulary, and generates response information based on results of analysis. In a case in which there exists substitution vocabulary that has replaced original vocabulary in the pre-processing, the first processor changes the response information such that it can be recognized that the substitution vocabulary in the response information is synonymous with the original vocabulary, and outputs the response information.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Chikage Kubo, Keiko Nakano, Eiichi Maeda, Hiroyuki Nishizawa
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Patent number: 11577745Abstract: An information processing device acquires question information. The information processing device acquires vehicle state information representing a state of the vehicle. The information processing device acquires answer information in response to the question information, the answer information including an image for display. The information processing device, in a case in which the vehicle state information represents that the vehicle is traveling, stores the answer information in a storage. The information processing device, in a case in which the information processing device acquires vehicle state information representing that the vehicle is stopped, outputs the answer information stored in the storage.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiko Nakano, Eiichi Maeda, Chikage Kubo, Hiroyuki Nishizawa
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Patent number: 11505200Abstract: An agent management device includes a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to: generate a response to an inquiry from an occupant of a moving body; determine whether or not a change in a control content of the moving body to correspond to the response is possible; output a question whether or not to execute the change to the control content to the occupant when determining that the change to the control content is possible; and execute the change to the control content when the occupant approves the change to the control content.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Eiichi Maeda
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Publication number: 20220111855Abstract: An agent device executes processing including receiving words and actions from an occupant of a vehicle, identifying an intention of the received words and actions, selecting, as a recommended function, a function of the vehicle that is recommended for activation based on the identified intention of the vehicle occupant, deciding which of activating the selected recommended function, or suggesting the activation thereof, to execute based on predetermined conditions pertaining to an environment of the vehicle, and instructing the vehicle either to activate the recommended function or to suggest the activation thereof based on the decision.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiichi MAEDA, Keiko NAKANO, Chikage KUBO, Hiroyuki NISHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20220115014Abstract: A vehicle agent device receives utterance information from an on-board unit, analyzes the content of the utterance, detects, as a non-installed function from a database, a function that an occupant intended to utilize but which was not installed and is installable, generates proposal information for furnishing the occupant with information relating to the non-installed function it detected, and sends the proposal information that has been generated to the on-board unit to thereby send the information relating to the non-installed function to a preregistered mobile device carried by the occupant.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Chikage KUBO, Keiko Nakano, Eiichi Maeda, Hiroyuki Nishizawa
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Publication number: 20220105948Abstract: A vehicle agent device receives a captured image and vehicle information from an on-board unit, identifies an occupant from the captured image, specifies attributes of the occupant it identified, searches for vehicle functions corresponding to the attributes it specified, and sends, as description information to an on-board unit, a moving image that introduces the vehicle functions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiko NAKANO, Chikage KUBO, Eiichi MAEDA, Hiroyuki NISHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20210237757Abstract: An information processing device acquires question information. The information processing device acquires vehicle state information representing a state of the vehicle. The information processing device acquires answer information in response to the question information, the answer information including an image for display. The information processing device, in a case in which the vehicle state information represents that the vehicle is traveling, stores the answer information in a storage. The information processing device, in a case in which the information processing device acquires vehicle state information representing that the vehicle is stopped, outputs the answer information stored in the storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiko NAKANO, Eiichi MAEDA, Chikage KUBO, Hiroyuki NISHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20210232635Abstract: An agent device that receives state information regarding a state of a vehicle from the vehicle, and receive a question from a user as question information; performs inference processing for the received question information and the received state information in order to infer an intent of the question; and acquires a response to the question based on the inferred intent.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiichi MAEDA, Chikage KUBO, Keiko NAKANO, Hiroyuki NISHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20210232414Abstract: An agent device receives input information that is input by the user, in a case in which the input information is a question from the user, executes inference processing on the input information to infer an intent of the question in order to acquire a response to the question based on the intent, in a case in which a plurality of the responses are acquired, provides the notification device with option information that includes the plurality of responses as options, in a case in which new input information is received, determines whether the new input information is information requiring the inference processing or is selection information relating to a selection result from selection of the options, and in a case in which the new input information is the selection information, provides the notification device with response information regarding the response associated with the selection result without executing the inference processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiichi MAEDA, Chikage KUBO, Keiko NAKANO, Hiroyuki NISHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20210233528Abstract: An agent device that receives, from an onboard device installed in a vehicle, vehicle information relating to the vehicle and question information corresponding to a question from a user, based on the vehicle information, confirms a scope of questions for which generation of a response is not possible, and instructs the onboard device to block receipt of questions falling within the scope of questions for which it has been confirmed that response generation is not possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiichi MAEDA, Chikage KUBO, Keiko NAKANO, Hiroyuki NISHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20210209316Abstract: An agent system includes a first memory and a first processor coupled to the first memory. The first processor analyzes contents of a verbal question, and caries out pre-processing that replaces vocabulary, which is used in the contents of the question, with homogenized vocabulary, and generates response information based on results of analysis. In a case in which there exists substitution vocabulary that has replaced original vocabulary in the pre-processing, the first processor changes the response information such that it can be recognized that the substitution vocabulary in the response information is synonymous with the original vocabulary, and outputs the response information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2020Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Chikage KUBO, Keiko NAKANO, Eiichi MAEDA, Hiroyuki NISHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20210193129Abstract: In cases in which a confidence score of an inferred intent label is a predetermined threshold or less, an intent inference section searches for whether or not wording pertaining to a location, such as “on the door”, is present in a question. In cases in which a word relating to a location is present, the intent inference section consults individual function identification data associated with OM item codes in order to find intent labels including individual functions relevant to the location (such as “door”). In cases in which an intent label including an individual function relevant to the “door” is found, an OMA interaction control section consults QA data to find and acquire associated response information based on the found intent label and the OM item code, and notifies a HMI interaction control section of such response information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Chikage KUBO, Keiko NAKANO, Eiichi MAEDA, Hiroyuki NISHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20210171053Abstract: An agent management device includes a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to: generate a response to an inquiry from an occupant of a moving body; determine whether or not a change in a control content of the moving body to correspond to the response is possible; output a question whether or not to execute the change to the control content to the occupant when determining that the change to the control content is possible; and execute the change to the control content when the occupant approves the change to the control content.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2020Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Eiichi MAEDA
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Publication number: 20200150680Abstract: An operation support apparatus for supporting an operation to be performed on a vehicle includes a processor configured to: obtain first operation information relating to an operation performed by a user in a first vehicle; generate, from the first operation information, second operation information for performing an operation equivalent to the operation in a second vehicle that is different from the first vehicle; and output the second operation information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Eiichi MAEDA
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Patent number: 10304610Abstract: A coil component includes a coil portion, a core portion in which the coil portion is buried, and first and second outer electrodes connected respectively to one end and the other end of the coil portion at one or different end surfaces of the core portion. The core portion includes a metal magnetic substance—resin composite and a heat dissipative resin composite having a higher thermal conductivity than the metal magnetic substance—resin composite. The heat dissipative resin composite is arranged around an outer periphery of the coil portion to connect the outer periphery and the end surface of the core portion in at least parts thereof. The metal magnetic substance—resin composite is arranged in a core region and upper and lower regions with respect to the coil portion, and in a connecting region in at least one corner of the core portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2016Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Eiichi Maeda
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Publication number: 20170133143Abstract: A coil component includes a coil portion, a core portion in which the coil portion is buried, and first and second outer electrodes connected respectively to one end and the other end of the coil portion at one or different end surfaces of the core portion. The core portion includes a metal magnetic substance—resin composite and a heat dissipative resin composite having a higher thermal conductivity than the metal magnetic substance—resin composite. The heat dissipative resin composite is arranged around an outer periphery of the coil portion to connect the outer periphery and the end surface of the core portion in at least parts thereof. The metal magnetic substance—resin composite is arranged in a core region and upper and lower regions with respect to the coil portion, and in a connecting region in at least one corner of the core portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2016Publication date: May 11, 2017Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Eiichi MAEDA