Patents by Inventor Kazuki Matsumoto
Kazuki Matsumoto 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: 11313686Abstract: A moving body, which a person boards, includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire current position information of the moving body, and a recommended path calculation unit configured to calculate a path that is a recommended path toward a predetermined destination and passes through an interior of at least one building, based on the current position information and the predetermined destination.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tae Sugimura, Hirotaka Karube, Kazuki Matsumoto, Makoto Mori, Jun Kondo
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Patent number: 11308806Abstract: A vehicle surveillance system in which when a vehicle including a communication section that performs transmission-reception of radio communication is parked, information related to surveillance of the vehicle acquired at the vehicle is transmitted from the communication section through the radio communication, includes a control section that performs: acquiring information related to radio wave intensity received by the communication section; and, when the vehicle is intended to be parked, generating information related to a parking form that makes the radio wave intensity not lower than a predetermined intensity, based on the information related to the radio wave intensity received by the communication section.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira Sasaki, Jun Hioki, Kazuki Matsumoto, Fumio Wada
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Publication number: 20220091556Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body and a detachable unit to be attached to the apparatus body in an attachment direction and detached from the apparatus body in a detachment direction. The detachable unit includes a rotary body and a unit drive gear. The apparatus body includes an apparatus-body drive gear to engage with the unit drive gear of the detachable unit attached in the apparatus body, at an engageable position on a downstream side of the apparatus-body drive gear in the attachment direction. One or each of the unit drive gear and the apparatus-body drive gear moves to a retracted position at which the one or each of the unit drive gear and the apparatus-body drive gear does not engage with the other of the unit drive gear and the apparatus-body drive gear and does not interfere with attachment and detachment operations of the detachable unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Yasunobu SHIMIZU, Hiroshi HOSOKAWA, Hiroshi FUJIWARA, Kazuki MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 11279377Abstract: A server device configured to communicate with a communication device mounted in a vehicle, the server device includes a controller configured to execute acquiring a position of an emergency vehicle, specifying a non-emergency vehicle at a predetermined distance from the position of the emergency vehicle, and transmitting, to a communication device mounted in the non-emergency vehicle, a communication stop request as information for prompting an occupant of the non-emergency vehicle to stop use of wireless communication.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira Sasaki, Jun Hioki, Kazuki Matsumoto, Fumio Wada
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Patent number: 11215468Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a registration unit that receives registration of personal information including at least one of an age, an address, a family structure, and a physical feature of a user, a priority management unit that, based on the registered personal information, stores a specific user set with priority for a person to be rescued at the time of disaster occurrence, a disaster information acquisition unit that acquires information regarding occurrence of a disaster in a predetermined area, a positional information acquisition unit that acquires current positional information of an autonomous driving vehicle, a traveling route decision unit that, when the disaster information acquisition unit acquires the information of the disaster, decides a traveling route to a position of the specific user, and an output unit that outputs a signal for executing an autonomous driving mode based on information indicating the traveling route.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tae Sugimura, Hirotaka Karube, Kazuki Matsumoto, Makoto Mori, Jun Kondo
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Patent number: 11154897Abstract: A piston includes: a base body; a sealing ring provided at an outer peripheral surface of the base body and configured to slidingly contact an inner peripheral surface of a container; a pressing body provided at one side of the base body in a non-hermetical state with respect to the container, the one side being close to a fluid; and a supporting member supporting the pressing body in a state where the pressing body is separated from the base body. The base body includes an air discharge hole through which an inside and outside of the container communicate with each other, the inside and outside of the container being sealed by the sealing ring. The pressing body can approach and separate from the base body between a first position at which the pressing body opens the air discharge hole and a second position at which the pressing body closes the air discharge hole.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kotaro Moriyasu, Kazuki Matsumoto, Norifumi Yoshimoto, Mitsuru Ikuta, Koji Oda, Hirokadu Hata
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Publication number: 20210258206Abstract: A communication apparatus that can communicate with a public communication network by using an in-vehicle communication module permanently installed in a vehicle or one or more external communication modules not installed permanently in the vehicle. The communication apparatus includes: a memory unit configured to store a selection table recording a criterion for selecting a communication module to be used for the communication; and a control unit configured to evaluate a plurality of the communication modules and acquire an evaluation result; and to select a communication module to be used for communication according to the evaluation result and the selection table.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2020Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuki MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 10962900Abstract: A seal member includes a first seal portion abutting an end portion of a rotating body to seal a gap between a storage container and the end portion, and a second seal portion abutting an end portion of a blade to seal a gap between the storage container and the end portion. The second seal portion has a tip contacting portion to contact a tip portion of the blade and a non-tip contacting portion to contact a portion of the blade except for the tip portion. The non-tip contacting portion is recessed to form a step between the non-tip contacting portion and the tip contacting portion. The tip contacting portion includes a base portion to contact with the storage container, an abutting portion configured to abut the blade, and a connecting portion which connects the base portion and the abutting portion to each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2016Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroomi Matsuzaki, Kazuki Matsumoto, Hiraku Sasaki
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Publication number: 20210048777Abstract: A cartridge that can be inserted in an apparatus main body of an image forming apparatus by moving along an axial direction of an image bearing member includes the image bearing member, a frame configured to support the image bearing member, a storage member configured to store therein information on the cartridge, and include an electrical contact, and a first pressed section and a second pressed portion configured to be pressed by the apparatus main body. The electrical contact is disposed between the first pressed section and the second pressed section, and is configured to be in contact with the main body contact on a lower side in a state where the cartridge is attached to the apparatus main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Hiroki Shimizu, Osamu Anan, Kazuki Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20210031754Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires images captured by a plurality of vehicles each including a camera that images a periphery of the vehicle while the vehicle is parked by wireless communication. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to execute acquiring information on a status of each of the vehicles, selecting an imaging vehicle serving as a vehicle that performs imaging among the vehicles based on the information, generating a command to perform imaging, for the imaging vehicle, and transmitting the command to perform imaging to the imaging vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira SASAKI, Jun HIOKI, Kazuki MATSUMOTO, Fumio WADA
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Publication number: 20210035379Abstract: An information processing device mounted on a vehicle includes a processor configured to: send abnormality occurrence information to a predetermined server through a first communication unit when an occurrence of an abnormality is detected in the vehicle, the abnormality occurrence information indicating the occurrence of the abnormality, the first communication unit being mounted on the vehicle and configured to perform communication via a base station using a first communication method; and send a proxy sending request to a terminal around the vehicle through a second communication unit when communication with the predetermined server cannot be performed through the first communication unit, the proxy sending request being a request to send the abnormality occurrence information to the predetermined server in proxy mode, the second communication unit being mounted on the vehicle and configured to perform communication using a second communication method that allows for terminal-to-terminal direct communicatType: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira SASAKI, Jun HIOKI, Kazuki MATSUMOTO, Fumio WADA
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Publication number: 20210027627Abstract: A vehicle surveillance system in which when a vehicle including a communication section that performs transmission-reception of radio communication is parked, information related to surveillance of the vehicle acquired at the vehicle is transmitted from the communication section through the radio communication, includes a control section that performs: acquiring information related to radio wave intensity received by the communication section; and, when the vehicle is intended to be parked, generating information related to a parking form that makes the radio wave intensity not lower than a predetermined intensity, based on the information related to the radio wave intensity received by the communication section.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira SASAKI, Jun HIOKI, Kazuki MATSUMOTO, Fumio WADA
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Patent number: 10894549Abstract: A vehicle includes a receiving part configured to receive an emergency signal, an alert control part configured to determine a speech speed of an emergency alert based on current position information of the vehicle and map information of surroundings of the vehicle when the emergency signal is received by the receiving part, and an output part configured to output the emergency alert using the speech speed determined by the alert control part.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tae Sugimura, Hirotaka Karube, Kazuki Matsumoto, Makoto Mori, Jun Kondo
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Publication number: 20210009151Abstract: A server device configured to communicate with a communication device mounted in a vehicle, the server device includes a controller configured to execute acquiring a position of an emergency vehicle, specifying a non-emergency vehicle at a predetermined distance from the position of the emergency vehicle, and transmitting, to a communication device mounted in the non-emergency vehicle, a communication stop request as information for prompting an occupant of the non-emergency vehicle to stop use of wireless communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira SASAKI, Jun HIOKI, Kazuki MATSUMOTO, Fumio WADA
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Publication number: 20210014658Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller configured to acquire information relating to a current position of a terminal from the terminal, transmit first content data to the terminal when the current position of the terminal is within a communication range of first wireless communication, and transmit second content data, which has a data size transmittable within a predetermined time even though second wireless communication having a speed lower than the first wireless communication, transfers information with the same effect as a content of the first content data, and is different in transfer method of the content from the first content data, to the terminal when the current position of the terminal is outside the communication range of the first wireless communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira SASAKI, Jun HIOKI, Kazuki MATSUMOTO, Fumio WADA
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Publication number: 20210012644Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller configured to execute acquiring a position of a reporting vehicle that is a vehicle having reported occurrence of an emergency, acquiring a position of an emergency vehicle that is a vehicle to be dispatched to an occurrence site of the emergency to respond to the emergency, specifying, based on the position of the reporting vehicle and the position of the emergency vehicle, a base station that relays radio waves of wireless communication to be performed between the vehicles, and controlling the base station such that directivity of a radio wave from the base station toward the reporting vehicle and directivity of a radio wave from the base station toward the emergency vehicle are enhanced.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira SASAKI, Jun HIOKI, Kazuki MATSUMOTO, Fumio WADA
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Publication number: 20210003407Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to receive, from a terminal, information about a departure place or a current position and information about a destination; based on field strength map information indicating a distribution of field strength in a first communication system, acquire a route from the departure place or the current position to the destination, of which communication quality in the first communication system satisfies a predetermined criterion; and send information about the acquired route to the terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira SASAKI, Jun HIOKI, Kazuki MATSUMOTO, Fumio WADA
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Patent number: 10858013Abstract: A vehicle includes a receiving part configured to receive an emergency signal, an alert control part configured to determine a speech speed of an emergency alert based on current position information of the vehicle and map information of surroundings of the vehicle when the emergency signal is received by the receiving part, and an output part configured to output the emergency alert using the speech speed determined by the alert control part.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tae Sugimura, Hirotaka Karube, Kazuki Matsumoto, Makoto Mori, Jun Kondo
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Patent number: 10859971Abstract: A cartridge that can be inserted in an apparatus main body of an image forming apparatus by moving along an axial direction of an image bearing member includes the image bearing member, a frame configured to support the image bearing member, a storage member configured to store therein information on the cartridge, and include an electrical contact, and a first pressed section and a second pressed portion configured to be pressed by the apparatus main body. The electrical contact is disposed between the first pressed section and the second pressed section, and is configured to be in contact with the main body contact on a lower side in a state where the cartridge is attached to the apparatus main body.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroki Shimizu, Osamu Anan, Kazuki Matsumoto
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Patent number: D907700Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Osamu Anan, Hiroki Shimizu, Kazuki Matsumoto