Patents by Inventor Jun Endo
Jun Endo 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: 11004285Abstract: A processing device includes a control unit configured to perform: identifying a user when the user enters a vehicle and performing a process of guaranteeing a boarded state of the user while the user is in the vehicle; receiving information on a predetermined procedure for performing an authentication process from the user; and transmitting user information which is required for performing the predetermined procedure as information on the user of whom the boarded state in the vehicle is guaranteed to an external device that is installed at a first place for the predetermined procedure in a state in which the boarded state of the user is guaranteed.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiro Murakami, Katsuhiko Sakakibara, Makoto Matsushita, Junya Sato, Kiyonori Yoshida, Tae Sugimura, Takashi Hayashi, Jun Endo
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Patent number: 10928858Abstract: An electronic device with pressing input function has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped housing. In the housing, a pressing sensor, a display panel, a protection member, and a computation circuit module are arranged. In the display panel, a polarization plate is arranged on a first side of a liquid crystal panel. In the pressing sensor, electrodes are formed on both planar faces of a piezoelectric film having double refractivity. The pressing sensor is arranged on the operation surface (the display face) side of the housing relative to the front polarization plate.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Masamichi Ando, Jun Endo, Hideki Kawamura
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Publication number: 20210003782Abstract: An optical waveguide connection structure connects a Si waveguide and an optical fiber to each other with a bonding layer interposed therebetween. The Si waveguide has a core whose cross-sectional area in the direction perpendicular to the direction of propagation of light decreases toward the optical fiber, and a cladding that covers the core. The optical fiber has a fiber core, a fiber cladding that covers the fiber core, and a recess formed in an end face opposed to the Si waveguide. The bonding layer fills a gap between the end face of the Si waveguide and the end face of the optical fiber and the recess, and the bonding layer has a refractive index greater than the refractive index of the fiber core of the optical fiber.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2019Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Jun Endo, Atsushi Aratake
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Publication number: 20200373857Abstract: A vibration device that includes a flat plate that has a first main surface and a second main surface; a vibrator that is configured to vibrate along a first direction parallel to the first main surface; a connecting member that connects the vibrator to the first main surface of the flat plate; a support member having a cavity or a recess in a portion thereof facing the vibrator; and a cushioning material connecting the first main surface of the flat plate to the support member, the cushioning material being disposed so as to not overlap with the vibrator in a plan view of the vibration device. A combined length of the vibrator and the connecting member in a second direction perpendicular to the first main surface of the flat plate is larger than a length of the cushioning material in the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: Jun Endo, Junichi Hashimoto, Shozo Otera, Toru Tominaga
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Publication number: 20200343437Abstract: A vibration structure that includes a film having a first electrode on a first main surface thereof, the first electrode defining a first connection region on the first main surface where the first electrode is not present, and the film is constructed to be deformed in a plane direction when a voltage is applied thereto; a frame-shaped member; a vibration portion surrounded by the frame-shaped member; a first connection member that connects the first main surface of the film to the frame-shaped member at the first connection region; a second connection member that connects the film to the vibration portion; and an extended electrode that is connected to the first electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Toru Tominaga, Junichi Hashimoto, Jun Endo, Shozo Otera
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Publication number: 20200343439Abstract: A vibration structure that includes a piezoelectric film constructed to deform in a plane direction as a voltage is applied thereto, a frame-shaped member, a vibration portion surrounded by the frame-shaped member in a plan view of the vibration structure, a support portion connecting the vibration portion and the frame-shaped member, and supporting the vibration portion within the frame-shaped member such that the vibration portion vibrates in the plane direction when the piezoelectric film is deformed in the plane direction, a first connection member that connects the piezoelectric film to the vibration portion, and a second connection member that connects the piezoelectric film to the frame-shaped member. Of the connection members, the first connection member is disposed between the center of gravity of the vibration portion and the second connection member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Junichi Hashimoto, Jun Endo, Toru Tominaga, Shozo Otera
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Publication number: 20200335689Abstract: A piezoelectric device that includes a film that has a first main surface and a second main surface, and has piezoelectricity; a first substrate; and a first connection member that connects the film to the first substrate. The first connection member is a thermosetting resin, and a curing temperature of the first connection member is lower than a temperature at which the film thermally contracts.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventors: Jun Endo, Junichi Hashimoto, Toru Tominaga, Shozo Otera
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Publication number: 20200298889Abstract: A controller of an autonomous traveling vehicle as an information processing apparatus of the disclosure executes acquiring first information relating to a predetermined item and the first information relating to predetermined processing in a processing apparatus mounted on the autonomous traveling vehicle, acquiring second information relating to shipping of the predetermined item, controlling running of the autonomous traveling vehicle based on the second information, and controlling the operation of the processing apparatus based on the first information when the autonomous traveling vehicle is in a running state based on the second information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiro MURAKAMI, Katsuhiko SAKAKIBARA, Makoto MATSUSHITA, Junya SATO, Kiyonori YOSHIDA, Tae SUGIMURA, Takashi HAYASHI, Jun ENDO
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Publication number: 20200301441Abstract: A service providing system includes a first vehicle, a second vehicle, and a management device. The first vehicle is a vehicle able to perform autonomous traveling, is a shared vehicle to be usable by a plurality of users, and is configured to provide a predetermined service to a user who uses the first vehicle. The second vehicle is a vehicle able to perform autonomous traveling, is a vehicle to be boarded by a specific user among the users, is connectable to the first vehicle, and as being connected to the first vehicle, allows the specific user to receive the predetermined service. The management device transmits traveling information for autonomous traveling to at least one vehicle such that the first vehicle and the second vehicle join with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiro Murakami, Katsuhiko Sakakibara, Makoto Matsushita, Junya Sato, Kiyonori Yoshida, Tae Sugimura, Takashi Hayashi, Jun Endo
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Publication number: 20200290645Abstract: A processing device that is provided in a building in which a user stays includes a control unit configured to perform: transmitting a request for a vehicle which the user desires to use to move to the building; detecting that the vehicle reaches a vicinity of the building; inquiring of the user about whether access of the vehicle to the inside of the building is permitted when it is detected that the vehicle reaches the vicinity of the building; and guiding at least a part of the vehicle to the inside of the building when the access is permitted by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiro MURAKAMI, Katsuhiko SAKAKIBARA, Makoto MATSUSHITA, Junya SATO, Kiyonori YOSHIDA, Tae SUGIMURA, Takashi HAYASHI, Jun ENDO
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Publication number: 20200278211Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to acquire facility information containing an advertisement or publicity on a facility located along a travel route that a vehicle is scheduled to travel or a facility located within a predetermined range from the travel route, and, while the vehicle is traveling along the travel route, process an image of a first facility associated with the facility information or an image of a second facility present around the first facility based on the facility information and display the image of the first facility or the image of the second facility on a display provided in the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiro MURAKAMI, Katsuhiko Sakakibara, Makoto Matsushita, Junya Sato, Kiyonori Yoshida, Tae Sugimura, Takashi Hayashi, Jun Endo
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Publication number: 20200273335Abstract: Disclosed is a processing device that is mounted in a vehicle and is able to perform communication with a center server during a normal time. The processing device includes a controller configured to execute searching for one or a plurality of other vehicles with which a host vehicle is able to perform communication, in emergency where a situation of emergency occurs and communication with the center server is disrupted, inquiring the other vehicles searched by the search about whether or not to enable intervention control related to the situation, and deciding a center vehicle giving an instruction related to the intervention control from among the other vehicles replying to enable the intervention control and the host vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiro MURAKAMI, Katsuhiko SAKAKIBARA, Makoto MATSUSHITA, Junya SATO, Kiyonori YOSHIDA, Tae SUGIMURA, Takashi HAYASHI, Jun ENDO
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Patent number: 10756252Abstract: An electronic device that includes a housing and a piezoelectric sensor. The piezoelectric sensor is disposed in contact with an inner wall surface of the housing while in a bent state. The piezoelectric sensor includes a piezoelectric film, a coverlay, a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, and a substrate having flexibility. The first electrode is disposed on a surface of the substrate. The first electrode includes a wide part and a narrow part. The coverlay covers a boundary between the wide part and the narrow part. The piezoelectric film covers a boundary between a part of the first electrode which is covered with the coverlay and a part of the first electrode which is not covered with the coverlay.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2017Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Kihara, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi, Jun Endo
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Publication number: 20200258318Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes a ticket issuance control unit configured to inform a user who desires to use a parking lot having a plurality of parking spaces, of a candidate to be used as a parking place from among the plurality of parking spaces through an entrance machine, and a coupon activation unit configured to, when a vehicle of the user is parked in a parking space corresponding to the candidate to be used as a parking place, activate a coupon that is provided on a parking ticket issued to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Jun ENDO
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Publication number: 20200258336Abstract: A processing device includes a control unit configured to perform: identifying a user when the user enters a vehicle and performing a process of guaranteeing a boarded state of the user while the user is in the vehicle; receiving information on a predetermined procedure for performing an authentication process from the user; and transmitting user information which is required for performing the predetermined procedure as information on the user of whom the boarded state in the vehicle is guaranteed to an external device that is installed at a first place for the predetermined procedure in a state in which the boarded state of the user is guaranteed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiro MURAKAMI, Katsuhiko Sakakibara, Makoto Matsushita, Junya Sato, Kiyonori Yoshida, Tae Sugimura, Takashi Hayashi, Jun Endo
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Publication number: 20200258056Abstract: An information processing device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a TO-DO task information acquisition portion configured to acquire information about an unexecuted TO-DO task of a user; a plan information acquisition portion configured to acquire information about a forward plan of the user; and a TO-DO task execution support portion configured to notify, via a user terminal, the user of information on a facility related to execution of the TO-DO task in association with a plan accompanied with movement in the forward plan, the facility related to execution of the TO-DO task being placed around a moving route corresponding to the plan accompanied with movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Jun ENDO
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Publication number: 20200246830Abstract: A vibration structure that includes a film constructed to deform in a plane direction as voltage is applied thereto, a frame-shaped member, a vibration portion surrounded by the frame-shaped member in a plan view of the vibration structure, a support portion connecting the vibration portion and the frame-shaped member and supporting the vibration portion within the frame-shaped member, a first connection member that connects the film and the frame-shaped member, and a second connection member that connects the film to the vibration portion such that the vibration portion vibrates in the plane direction when the film is deformed in the plane direction. The support portion is disposed at a position closer to a center of gravity of the vibration portion than an end portion of the vibration portion when viewed in the plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Junichi Hashimoto, Shozo Otera, Jun Endo, Toru Tominaga
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Publication number: 20200239033Abstract: A processing device performs: acquiring first information on one or more commodities of which purchase is to be recommended based on a travel schedule of a vehicle; identifying one or more users based on a route that the vehicle is scheduled to travel; transmitting second information for recommending purchase of the one or more commodities based on the first information to the identified user; and controlling travel of the vehicle such that a commodity is picked up and is then delivered to a user who has returned a reply of desiring purchase of the commodity when the reply has been returned from the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiro MURAKAMI, Katsuhiko SAKAKIBARA, Makoto MATSUSHITA, Junya SATO, Kiyonori YOSHIDA, Tae SUGIMURA, Takashi HAYASHI, Jun ENDO
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Publication number: 20200223391Abstract: A processing device includes a control unit configured to execute identifying a first training device that is of one or more training devices equipped in a movable object for providing a training opportunity to a passenger and that is used by the passenger, and at least one process of controlling a traveling state of the movable object depending on a content of a training using the first training device and restricting use states of the one or more training devices depending on the traveling state of the movable object.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2019Publication date: July 16, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiro MURAKAMI, Katsuhiko SAKAKIBARA, Makoto MATSUSHITA, Junya SATO, Kiyonori YOSHIDA, Tae SUGIMURA, Takashi HAYASHI, Jun ENDO
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Publication number: 20200151230Abstract: An information processing system includes: a vehicle configured to capture an image of clothing and accessories of a user when the user gets in the vehicle to generate a clothing and accessories image; and a server configured to communicate with the vehicle and a terminal device of the user. The server is configured to: train a supervised learning model by using at least one of schedule information of the user and weather information as input data and clothing and accessories information as training data; estimate clothing and accessories according to at least one of schedule information of the user and weather information for the next time the user gets in the vehicle by using the trained supervised learning model; and send clothing and accessories recommendation information indicating the estimated clothing and accessories to the terminal device of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Jun Endo