Patents by Inventor Iwao Nitta
Iwao Nitta 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: 20250104082Abstract: A management server according to an aspect of the present disclosure accepts setting of a correspondence relation by receiving a linking demand in response to occurrence of a use relation between a first target and a second target. If a second correspondence relation between a first first target and a second second target different from a first second target is accepted while setting of a first correspondence relation between the first first target and the first second target is established, the management server (I) releases the first correspondence relation, and establishes setting of the second correspondence relation, or (II) does not permit setting the second correspondence relation, and maintains the setting of the first correspondence relation, according to a predetermined rule.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Teruyoshi FUJIWARA, Iwao Nitta, Ryota Suzuki
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Publication number: 20250106204Abstract: A management server according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes at least one processor. The processor receives a first identifier, first unique information, a second identifier, and second unique information in response to occurrence of a use relationship between a first target and a second target, requests authentication of the first target by transmitting the received first identifier and the received first unique information to a first server, requests authentication of the second target by transmitting the received second identifier and the received second unique information to a second server, and sets a correspondence between the first identifier and the second identifier when both the first target and the second target have successfully been authenticated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Teruyoshi FUJIWARA, Iwao Nitta, Ryota Suzuki
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Publication number: 20250106199Abstract: A management server according to an aspect of the present disclosure receives a first certificate and a second certificate from a terminal according to a use relation occurring between a first target and a second target and receives a first time limit certificate and a second time limit certificate from a server. The management server performs collation of the first certificate and the first time limit certificate and collation of the second certificate and the second time limit certificate to authenticate the targets. When both of the authentications of the first target and the second target are successful, the management server sets a correspondence relation between a first identifier and a second identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Teruyoshi FUJIWARA, Iwao NITTA, Ryota SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20250106209Abstract: A management system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a first server, a second server, and a management server. When a use relationship occurs between a first target and a second target, the first server authenticates the first target in response to a request from a second terminal of the second target, and the second server authenticates the second target in response to a request from a first terminal of the first target. The management server receives results of the authentication from the servers, and sets a correspondence between a first identifier of the first target and a second identifier of the second target when both the first target and the second target have successfully been authenticated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Teruyoshi FUJIWARA, Iwao NITTA, Ryota SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20250104083Abstract: In a system, a first terminal of a proxy individual of a first target receives authority imparting information from a terminal of a proxy requesting individual of the first target. A second terminal of a target individual of a second target requests verification of an agency in response to a request from the first terminal. According to success of the verification, at least one of the first terminal and the second terminal transmits a linking demand toward a management server. The management server sets a correspondence relation between the proxy requesting individual and the target individual according to authentication for the proxy requesting individual being successful to enable proxy exercise of an authority of the proxy requesting individual by the proxy individual via the target individual.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Teruyoshi FUJIWARA, Iwao NITTA, Ryota SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20250106045Abstract: A terminal of a first target that is one of a mobility and a user has a controller. The controller provides electronic information to another terminal of a second target that is the other of the mobility and the user. The controller obtains an electronic signature of the second target and an electronic certificate of the second target from the other terminal. The controller verifies the validity of the electronic certificate of the second target using a public key of a certificate authority and verifies the validity of the electronic signature of the second target using a public key of the second target. In response to the success of the verification of the validity of the electronic certificate and the electronic signature, the controller sends a request to set a correspondence relationship between the first target and the second target to a management server.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Teruyoshi FUJIWARA, Iwao NITTA, Ryota SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20250104137Abstract: A system includes a management server, a plurality of first terminals corresponding to respective first objects, and a plurality of second terminals corresponding to respective second objects. The management server is configured to accept setting of correlative relations between the first objects and the second objects, by receiving association requests in accordance with usage relations being generated between the first objects and the second objects. The management server is configured such that, when, in accordance with accepting the setting of the correlative relation by two or more of the association requests being accepted with respect to a same first object, two or more correlative relations are established by two or more different second objects with respect to the same first object, the setting of one correlative relation is set to active, and the settings of other correlative relations are set to non-active, in accordance with status information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Teruyoshi FUJIWARA, Iwao NITTA, Ryota SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20250104472Abstract: A controller is provided which acquires user identification information that is identification information of a user of a vehicle; acquires an authentication face image that is an image associated with the user identification information and is an image of a face for authentication of the user of the vehicle; acquires a user's face image that is an image generated by photographing the user of the vehicle with a camera disposed outside the vehicle; performs face authentication based on a comparison between the authentication face image and the user's face image; and acquires, from the user's face image, first information to be used in the next and subsequent face authentications in response to the face authentication not being successful.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Teruyoshi FUJIWARA, Iwao NITTA, Ryota SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20250104483Abstract: A controller is provided which is configured to perform: acquiring user identification information that is identification information of a user of a vehicle and an authentication face image that is an image of a face of the user for authentication; acquiring vehicle identification information that is identification information of the vehicle associated with the user identification information; acquiring information on an attribute of the vehicle associated with the vehicle identification information; and generating a processed authentication face image by processing the authentication face image according to the information on the attribute of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Teruyoshi FUJIWARA, Iwao NITTA, Ryota SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20250106630Abstract: A management server according to one aspect of the present disclosure accepts setting of a correspondence relation between a first target and a second target in response to a linking demand. In a case where a predetermined condition is not satisfied, the management server acquires authentication results of both the first target and the second target and sets the correspondence relation in accordance with success in authentication of both the first target and the second target in the acquired authentication results. On the other hand, in a case where the predetermined condition is satisfied, authentication of at least one target out of the first target and the second target is omitted. The management server acquires an authentication result of the other target and sets the correspondence relation in accordance with success in authentication of the other target in the acquired authentication result.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Teruyoshi FUJIWARA, Iwao Nitta, Ryota Suzuki
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Publication number: 20240330969Abstract: A control unit of an information processing device acquires pieces of product information on a plurality of incorporated products incorporated in a target product, calculates a contribution rate of each of the incorporated products to satisfaction of a predetermined condition about a predetermined traceability item of the target product based on information on the predetermined traceability item in the product information, determines an amount of an incentive for each of the incorporated products based on the contribution rate of each of the incorporated products, and notifies an account of a supplier of each of the incorporated products about information on the amount of the incentive.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Iwao NITTA, Teruyoshi Fujiwara, Ryota Suzuki
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Publication number: 20240330874Abstract: The information processing device is a device that can access first information regarding the traceability of the products of each company included in the supply chain and second information indicating the relationship between the products of each company included in the target product. The control unit of the information processing device obtains the update deadline of the first information. The control unit of the information processing device references the second information to specify a plurality of included products included in the target product and a plurality of first accounts each having an authority to update the first information for each of the plurality of included products. The control unit then notifies each identified first account of a request for updating the first information by the update deadline.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2023Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Iwao NITTA, Teruyoshi FUJIWARA, Ryota SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20240330953Abstract: In an information processing device that executes information processing related to a platform used to collect product information of a company included in a supply chain, a control unit acquires traceability-related information included in product information of a target product that is a product of a target company. The control unit sets a reference value according to traceability-related information included in product information of one or more reference products that are products of one or more companies included in the supply chain. The control unit outputs appropriateness of the traceability-related information of the target product using the set reference value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Teruyoshi FUJIWARA, Iwao Nitta, Ryota Suzuki
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Publication number: 20240330954Abstract: A control unit of an information processing device is configured to: receive a conversion coefficient from an account of a downstream company; store the conversion coefficient in a first storage area for which access authority is invested only in the account of the downstream company; convert a first value obtained from traceability information on a first product into a second value expressed in a second unit by using the conversion coefficient; and acquire traceability information on a second product by integrating the second value and a third value obtained from traceability-related information on the second product, and output a fourth value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Teruyoshi FUJIWARA, Iwao NITTA, Ryota SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20240330842Abstract: An information processing device determines whether a predetermined target value regarding a predetermined traceability item has been achieved based on information regarding the predetermined traceability item included in product information regarding each of a plurality of included products included in the target product. In addition, when a determination is made that the predetermined target value regarding the predetermined traceability item has not been achieved, the information processing device specifies at least one first product required to be improved regarding the predetermined traceability item from among the included products. Then, the information processing device outputs an improvement request for the predetermined traceability item for the first product.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Iwao NITTA, Teruyoshi FUJIWARA, Ryota SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20240330856Abstract: The control unit of the information processing device obtains a designation as to whether or not to release the part numbers controlled by the subject company with respect to the subject product of the subject company to the company to which the product information of the subject product is to be released. The control unit of the information processor generates different pseudo part numbers for each company to which the product information of the target product is to be released when it is specified that the part numbers are not to be released. The control unit of the information processing device then outputs the generated pseudo part number instead of the part number.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Iwao Nitta, Teruyoshi Fujiwara, Ryota Suzuki
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Publication number: 20240330952Abstract: The server device executes first, second, and third processing. In the first processing, an association between identification information of a first lot of a first product and identification information of a second lot of a second product manufactured using the first product of the first lot is acquired. In the second processing, an association between identification information of the second lot of the second product and identification information of traceability-related information measured in manufacturing processing of the second product of the second lot is acquired. In the third processing, second traceability information obtained by tracing a process to the second product of the second lot is acquired by integrating first traceability information obtained by tracing a process to the first product of the first lot and traceability-related information on the second product of the second lot.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Teruyoshi FUJIWARA, Iwao Nitta, Ryota Suzuki
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Publication number: 20240330950Abstract: The control unit of the information processing device receives registration of carbon footprint information regarding the carbon footprint of transportation of products of each company included in the supply chain. Then, at a predetermined timing, the control unit of the information processing device calculates the estimated value of the carbon footprint of a company included in the supply chain that has not yet completed the registration of carbon footprint information based on reference values.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2023Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Teruyoshi FUJIWARA, Iwao Nitta, Ryota Suzuki
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Publication number: 20240330955Abstract: Provided is a server device including a storage device that stores product information on a product of each company included in a supply chain for each company, and a control unit. The product information includes traceability-related information, and the control unit collects actual result data related to an actual product production result of a first product at a predetermined time, updates the traceability-related information corresponding to the first product using the actual result data, and updates the traceability-related information corresponding to the first product using alternative data stored in the storage device when the actual result data cannot be collected at the predetermined time.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Teruyoshi FUJIWARA, Iwao NITTA, Ryota SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20240330850Abstract: When an unregistered product that is an incorporated product for which information on a predetermined traceability item is not registered in product information stored in a storage device is present, an information processing device identifies a second supplier positioned immediately downstream of a first supplier of the unregistered product in a supply chain defined by a plurality of suppliers. The information processing device notifies the second supplier to request the first supplier to register the information on the predetermined traceability item about the unregistered product in the product information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Iwao NITTA, Teruyoshi FUJIWARA, Ryota SUZUKI