Patents by Inventor Kazuya Nishimura

Kazuya Nishimura 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).

  • Patent number: 11511759
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire traveling information indicating traveling conditions of a first vehicle traveling on a road, a determination unit configured to determine one or more driving operations of a driver driving the first vehicle by using the traveling information acquired when a second vehicle approaches the first vehicle, an evaluation unit configured to perform evaluation of safety related to the driver's driving by using determination results of the determination unit, and an updating unit configured to acquire first evaluation results of the evaluation unit during a first predetermined period to compare the first evaluation results with second evaluation results of the evaluation unit during a second predetermined period before the first predetermined period, and to update the second evaluation results based on comparison results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Yoshihiro Oe
  • Publication number: 20220372880
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes: an airfoil portion extending in a blade height direction and having a pressure surface and a suction surface each of which extends between a leading and trailing edges; a shroud portion disposed on a blade tip side of the airfoil portion; a fillet portion formed by a curved surface and connected to an end portion of the shroud portion on a side of the airfoil portion; at least one first cooling hole extending along the blade height direction within the airfoil portion; at least one cooling cavity disposed at least partially within the shroud portion and communicating with the at least one first cooling hole; and a second cooling hole connected to the at least one cooling cavity and opening to a surface of the shroud portion. The airfoil portion has a reference airfoil in which a maximum blade thickness is minimum at a reference position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventor: Kazuya NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220352556
    Abstract: Provided is a power storage element including: an outer collector including outer opposing walls facing each other with a gap therebetween in an opposition direction, an inner collector including inner opposing walls, and an electrode member disposed in a space defined between the opposing walls. The electrode member includes: an electrode laminate having a sheet-like shape and including a positive electrode body, a negative electrode body, and a separator interposed between the positive and negative electrode bodies. The electrode laminate forms a plurality of unit electrode layers laminated in a lamination direction perpendicular to the opposition direction, and adjacent unit electrode layers in the lamination direction are continued in a bending manner at end portions of the unit electrode layers in an extension direction. The positive electrode body and the negative electrode body are in contact with a first collector and a second collector, respectively, to be electrically connected thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuya NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220351917
    Abstract: Provided is a laminated power storage element including: an electrode member including a plurality of positive and negative electrode bodies each having a sheet shape and separators, the plurality of positive electrode bodies and the plurality of negative electrode bodies arranged so as to individually face each other, and the separators interposed between the individual electrode bodies; a plurality of positive electrode collectors connected to the plurality of positive electrode bodies; a plurality of negative electrode collectors connected to the plurality of negative electrode bodies; a positive electrode-side terminal to which the respective positive electrode collectors are connected; and a negative electrode-side terminal to which the respective negative electrode collectors are connected, wherein on at least one terminal of the positive electrode-side terminal and the negative electrode-side terminal, connection parts to which corresponding collectors are connected are arranged in a spatially distribu
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuya NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220341908
    Abstract: A method executed by a control device includes: acquiring odor information indicating an odor intensity of each of a plurality of garbage collection sites, the odor intensity being detected by an odor sensor; determining an order in which garbage is collected from each of the garbage collection sites based on the odor information; and causing a garbage collection device to sequentially collect the garbage from each of the garbage collection sites according to the order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20220335838
    Abstract: The control device includes a control unit that is configured to control an unmanned aerial vehicle that collects a collection object. The control unit acquires information that indicates an odor intensity of the collection object to be collected, and determines a flight route of the unmanned aerial vehicle after the unmanned aerial vehicle picks up the collection object located at a collection point, based on the information that indicates the odor intensity of the collection object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Shin SAKURADA, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20220326721
    Abstract: A server device transmits an instruction for causing a plurality of flying bodies to perform flight operation to the flying bodies. The flight operation includes a step in which a first flying body urges a penetrating tool toward an object placed in a predetermined space and flies out of the predetermined space while holding a first part and a second part of a string member attached to the penetrating tool, the first part having penetrated the object and the second part not having penetrated the object, a step in which a second flying body receives either the first or second part from the first flying body, and a step in which the first and second flying bodies transport the object while towing the object with the string member as the first and second flying bodies fly while respectively holding one or the other of the first and second parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Shin SAKURADA, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20220315221
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication unit, and a control unit configured to send an instruction for causing flight vehicles to perform a flight operation, to the flight vehicles. The flight operation includes energizing, by a first flight vehicle, a penetration tool toward a target object in a space, holding a first part, penetrated through the target object, and a second part, not penetrated through the target object, of a cord-shaped member attached to the penetration tool, and flying to outside the space, waiting, by a second flight vehicle, outside the space and receiving any one of the first and second parts from the first flight vehicle, and towing, by the first and second flight vehicles, the target object with the cord-shaped member and transporting the target object to outside the space by flying while respectively holding any one and the other of the first and second parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Shin SAKURADA, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20220319316
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller configured to control display of a crosswalk on a road on which a vehicle travels. The controller outputs information to be displayed on a display device such that a driver of the vehicle visually recognizes advance notification information that makes advance notification of the display of the crosswalk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Patent number: 11458979
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire traveling information indicating traveling conditions of a first vehicle traveling on a road, a determination unit configured to determine one or more driving operations of a driver driving the first vehicle by using the traveling information acquired when a second vehicle approaches the first vehicle, an evaluation unit configured to perform evaluation of safety related to the driver's driving by using determination results of the determination unit, and an updating unit configured to acquire first evaluation results of the evaluation unit during a first predetermined period to compare the first evaluation results with second evaluation results of the evaluation unit during a second predetermined period before the first predetermined period, and to update the second evaluation results based on comparison results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Yoshihiro Oe
  • Patent number: 11461918
    Abstract: The disclosure includes: a first acquisition section that acquires a first image captured by an imaging device mounted on a vehicle after driving of the vehicle is finished; a second acquisition section that acquires a second image captured by the imaging device when driving of the vehicle is started; and a detection section that detects misalignment between the first image and the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Yoshihiro Oe
  • Publication number: 20220270475
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that controls display of a crosswalk on a road on which a vehicle travels. The control unit outputs information for displaying the crosswalk in a range that is determined based on a state of a pedestrian crossing the road.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20220254252
    Abstract: A control apparatus is a control apparatus for causing light emitting devices to display a crosswalk when the control apparatus detects a pedestrian who is about to cross a road. The control apparatus includes a controlling portion configured to perform: detect, as a first vehicle, a vehicle traveling in a crosswalk display region where a crosswalk is to be displayed; determine whether or not the speed of the first vehicle is less than a reference speed; and in a case where the speed is less than the reference speed and a predetermined safety standard is satisfied, determine to cause the light emitting devices to display the crosswalk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Shin SAKURADA, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Patent number: 11397280
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a plurality of vehicles; and a server configured to communicate with the plurality of vehicles, wherein each of the plurality of vehicles is configured to detect wind information by using a wind detection device mounted on each of the plurality of vehicles, and send probe data to the server, the probe data including the wind information and position information on each of the plurality of vehicles at a time when the wind information was detected, and the server is configured to store the probe data received from the plurality of vehicles in a database, and provide information to a client by using the probe data stored in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Yoshihiro Oe, Jun Goto, Hirofumi Kamimaru
  • Patent number: 11380200
    Abstract: A server device includes a storage unit configured to store vehicle information including vehicle behavior information and position information, a region specifying unit configured to specify a warning road region where a sudden stop of a vehicle occurs a plurality of times based on the stored vehicle information, and a notification unit configured to, when the sudden stop of the vehicle occurs in the specified warning road region, notify terminal devices that correspond to vehicles located in the warning road region and in a vicinity of the warning road region of information regarding the warning road region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Oe, Kazuya Nishimura, Hirofumi Kamimaru
  • Patent number: 11361687
    Abstract: A control device as an advertisement display device that is mountable on a vehicle includes a calculation unit configured to calculate a time for which an occupant of another vehicle is able to visually recognize a video displayed on a display attached to a host vehicle based on a driving state of the host vehicle, and a display controller configured to display an advertisement edited such that a video time corresponds to the visually recognizable time calculated by the calculation unit on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Naoki Uenoyama, Yoshihiro Oe, Hirofumi Kamimaru
  • Publication number: 20220144314
    Abstract: A control device includes a control unit. In the control device, the control unit acquires information indicating a flight path of an unmanned aerial vehicle that transports a cargo collected at a first point to a second point, determines whether the flight path has a third point where a person may be present on the ground, when it is determined that the flight path has the third point, sets an upper limit value of load capacity of the unmanned aerial vehicle, and when weight of the cargo is equal to or lower than the upper limit value, causes the unmanned aerial vehicle to collect and transport the cargo.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Shin Sakurada, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20220130259
    Abstract: A control device includes: a communication unit; and a control unit that transmits and receives information via the communication unit. When a flying object flies around a complex housing, the control unit transmits, to the flying object, information on a flight route in which a transported object of the flying object enters a blind spot from inside of the complex housing based on information on the complex housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20220113743
    Abstract: A control apparatus is equipped with a control unit. The control unit acquires information on a sound in at least one room arranged along an outer wall of a building. The control unit moves an uninhabited airborne vehicle along the outer wall of the building, based on the information on the sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20220107657
    Abstract: A controller includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to detect a state of at least one point, and determine depending on the detected state whether or not to include, in a flight route of a flying object transporting a package, a position above the at least one point as a passing point for the flying object to pass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko