Patents by Inventor Kazuya Mikashima
Kazuya Mikashima 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: 11410197Abstract: An autonomous driving vehicle that is a mobile unit according to this disclosure is a mobile unit configured to transport a user to a facility that provides services or commercial products and, at the same time, configured to perform an advertising activity for the services or the commercial products of the facility. The mobile unit includes a control unit configured to acquire data for providing a promotion in the mobile unit and is configured to provide a promotion in the mobile unit based on the acquired data. The promotion is related to the services and the commercial products at the facility.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kentaro Takahashi, Hirotaka Sunada, Hideo Hasegawa, Naomi Kondo, Takashi Shiomi, Kazuya Mikashima, Jun Usami, Yasuhiko Fukuzumi, Sayaka Ishikawa, Katsuhito Yamauchi, Tasuku Kuno
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Publication number: 20210235025Abstract: A control unit of an autonomous vehicle, which is a moving object of the present disclosure, acquires a video of the outside of the autonomous vehicle to be displayed on a window display on an inner wall surface of the autonomous vehicle, and superimposes, on the acquired video, an image corresponding to a location of the autonomous vehicle to display on the window display.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kentaro TAKAHASHI, Hirotaka SUNADA, Hideo HASEGAWA, Naomi KONDO, Takashi SHIOMI, Kazuya MIKASHIMA, Jun USAMI, Yasuhiko FUKUZUMI, Sayaka ISHIKAWA, Katsuhito YAMAUCHI, Tasuku KUNO
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Patent number: 11067032Abstract: A piston includes: a piston head; and a piston skirt connected to the piston head, wherein the piston skirt includes wall portions protruding outward from a surface of the piston skirt, the wall portions adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction of the piston skirt are inclined in directions opposite to each other with respect to a direction of movement of the piston in a bore for the piston, and define a tapered portion, and the tapered portions are spaced away from each other in the circumferential direction of the piston skirt.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takuzo Hirano, Ichiro Yamaguchi, Nobuhiko Soda, Hironori Aoyama, Kazuya Mikashima, Hiroyuki Ito
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Publication number: 20210189995Abstract: A piston includes: a piston head; and a piston skirt connected to the piston head, wherein the piston skirt includes wall portions protruding outward from a surface of the piston skirt, the wall portions adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction of the piston skirt are inclined in directions opposite to each other with respect to a direction of movement of the piston in a bore for the piston, and define a tapered portion, and the tapered portions are spaced away from each other in the circumferential direction of the piston skirt.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuzo HIRANO, Ichiro YAMAGUCHI, Nobuhiko SODA, Hironori AOYAMA, Kazuya MIKASHIMA, Hiroyuki ITO
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Publication number: 20210166273Abstract: An autonomous driving vehicle that is a mobile unit according to this disclosure is a mobile unit configured to transport a user to a facility that provides services or commercial products and, at the same time, configured to perform an advertising activity for the services or the commercial products of the facility. The mobile unit includes a control unit configured to acquire data for providing a promotion in the mobile unit and is configured to provide a promotion in the mobile unit based on the acquired data. The promotion is related to the services and the commercial products at the facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2020Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kentaro TAKAHASHI, Hirotaka SUNADA, Hideo HASEGAWA, Naomi KONDO, Takashi SHIOMI, Kazuya MIKASHIMA, Jun USAMI, Yasuhiko FUKUZUMI, Sayaka ISHIKAWA, Katsuhito YAMAUCHI, Tasuku KUNO
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Patent number: 10533515Abstract: An intake-port core includes a body part having the same outer shape as that of the intake port, a port-injector part having the same outer shape as that of a port-injector insertion part, and an extending part. A cooling-water flow-passage core includes a water-jacket core having the same outer shape as that of a water jacket. The intake-port core is inserted from the extending part thereof into the water-jacket core so as to join the cooling-water flow-passage core to the intake-port core. Thereafter, a core print part that is a separate body from the intake-port core is joined to the intake-port core.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusei Kusaka, Kazuya Mikashima, Hiroyuki Ikuta
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Publication number: 20170241370Abstract: An intake-port core includes a body part having the same outer shape as that of the intake port, a port-injector part having the same outer shape as that of a port-injector insertion part, and an extending part. A cooling-water flow-passage core includes a water-jacket core having the same outer shape as that of a water jacket. The intake-port core is inserted from the extending part thereof into the water-jacket core so as to join the cooling-water flow-passage core to the intake-port core. Thereafter, a core print part that is a separate body from the intake-port core is joined to the intake-port core.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusei KUSAKA, Kazuya MIKASHIMA, Hiroyuki IKUTA
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Patent number: 9212631Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus of the internal combustion engine capable of removing deposited foreign matters accumulated on an EGR valve without deteriorating a combustion state of the internal combustion engine. When the vehicle is under deceleration and under fuel cut operation, the ECU opens an EGR shutoff valve and obtains an intake pressure “Pclose” under the EGR valve in the fully closed state. Then, the ECU opens the EGR valve and obtains an intake pressure “Popen” under the EGR valve in the fully opened state. Then, the ECU calculates a difference ?P between “Popen” and “Pclose”, and closes the EGR shutoff valve on the condition that the difference ?P is equal to or smaller than a threshold value “Pth1”. Then, the ECU opens the EGR valve, and subsequently opens the EGR valve.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2011Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuya Mikashima, Tomoyuki Noguchi
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Publication number: 20130319382Abstract: Provided is an exhaust gas recirculation apparatus of an internal combustion engine which can effectively suppress condensed water from being generated in an EGR passage, compared with the conventional apparatus. The exhaust gas recirculation apparatus includes an EGR pipe formed therein with an EGR passage held in communication with the exhaust passage and the intake passage, an EGR cooler in the EGR passage to cool the EGR gas, a first valve provided in the EGR passage between the EGR cooler and the exhaust passage to selectively take an opened state or a closed state, the first valve being operative to shut off the EGR gas from flowing into the EGR passage when the first valve takes the closed state, a second valve provided in the EGR passage between the EGR cooler and the intake passage to adjust an amount of the EGR gas flowing into the intake passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2011Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuhiko Horie, Tomoyuki Noguchi, Takashi Tomita, Kazuya Mikashima, Akinari Yasue
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Publication number: 20130312719Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus of the internal combustion engine capable of removing deposited foreign matters accumulated on an EGR valve without deteriorating a combustion state of the internal combustion engine. When the vehicle is under deceleration and under fuel cut operation, the ECU opens an EGR shutoff valve and obtains an intake pressure “Pclose” under the EGR valve in the fully closed state. Then, the ECU opens the EGR valve and obtains an intake pressure “Popen” under the EGR valve in the fully opened state. Then, the ECU calculates a difference ?P between “Popen” and “Pclose”, and closes the EGR shutoff valve on the condition that the difference ?P is equal to or smaller than a threshold value “Pth1”. Then, the ECU opens the EGR valve, and subsequently opens the EGR valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2011Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuya Mikashima, Tomoyuki Noguchi