Patents by Inventor Kei Matsui
Kei Matsui 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: 11964402Abstract: In a robot control system, the operation of a mobile robot that moves autonomously inside a facility is controlled based at least on an image captured by a photographing device that photographs a blind area located at a blind angle to the mobile robot. When entry of the mobile robot into a predetermined area corresponding to the blind area is detected, the amount of information obtainable from an image captured by the photographing device is increased.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Patent number: 11926067Abstract: In a robot control system, the operation of a mobile robot that moves autonomously inside a facility is controlled based at least on an image captured by a photographing device that photographs a blind area located at a blind angle to the mobile robot. When entry of the mobile robot into a predetermined area corresponding to the blind area is detected, the amount of information obtainable from an image captured by the photographing device is increased.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Patent number: 11919168Abstract: A robot control system according to the present embodiment is a robot control system that controls a plurality of transport robots that is travelable autonomously in a facility. The robot control system: acquires error information indicating that an error has occurred in a first transport robot; acquires transported object information related to a transported object of the first transport robot; determines a second transport robot able to transport the transported object of the first transport robot among the transport robots based on the transported object information and the error information; and moves the second transport robot to a transfer location of the transported object of the first transport robot.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuya Taira, Shiro Oda, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma
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Publication number: 20240071248Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium stores therein a program causing a computer to execute a process including: obtaining information related to a learning target and learning subjects from a user; calculating, based on the obtained learning target and learning subjects, a learning volume including a first learning time to complete learning the subjects within a total period and generating, based on the learning volume, a long-term learning plan including the first learning time for courses in each of the subjects; generating, for each course, a short-term plan in which, based on the generated long-term plan, a second learning time predicted for each course, for a period shorter than that of the long-term plan is calculated; presenting, to the user, the courses to learn daily; and calculating, in each predetermined period, a difference of the second learning time and an actual learning time, calculating, according to a learning status of the user, a third learning time necessary to complete the learning withType: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: JustSystems CorporationInventors: Kei SUZUKI, Kentaro MATSUI, Masahiro HATTORI
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Patent number: 11914397Abstract: A robot control system according to the present embodiment is a robot control system that controls a plurality of mobile robots that can autonomously move in a facility. The robot control system acquires error information indicating that an error has occurred in a first transport robot, acquires transported object information related to a transported object of the first transport robot, determines a second transport robot able to transport the transported object of the first transport robot among the transport robots based on the transported object information and the error information, and moves the second transport robot to a transfer location of the transported object of the first transport robot.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Patent number: 11914363Abstract: A mobile robot receives first transmission information transmitted from a server device to manage the mobile robot in a state where wireless communication with the server device is possible, directly executes wireless communication with another mobile robot among the mobile robots and executes a reception process of receiving the first transmission information transmitted from the server device to manage the mobile robot from the other mobile robot in a case where wireless communication with the server device is not possible.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Patent number: 11370572Abstract: A surface treatment method and a surface treatment device 2 for a resin vessel 1 forms a coating or performs surface modification on the surface of the resin vessel 1. In a sterilized environment as well as an environment with a pressure equal to or higher than the atmospheric pressure, a material for the coating or the surface modification is attached to at least one of an inner surface and an outer surface of the resin vessel 1, and the resin vessel 1, to which the material is attached, is irradiated with an electron beam to perform the coating or the surface modification. It is possible to form the coating or perform the surface modification on the resin vessel at a high speed.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: SHIBUYA CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiaki Naka, Kei Matsui, Tokuo Nishi, Masanari Ejiri, Noriaki Ikenaga
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Publication number: 20180362202Abstract: The present invention relates to a surface treatment method and a surface treatment device 2 for a resin vessel 1, which form a coating or perform surface modification on the surface of the resin vessel 1. In a sterilized environment as well as an environment with pressure equal to or higher than the atmospheric pressure, a material for the coating or the surface modification is attached to at least one of an inner surface and an outer surface of the resin vessel 1, and the resin vessel 1, to which the material is attached, is irradiated with an electron beam to perform the coating or the surface modification. It is possible to form the coating or perform the surface modification on the resin vessel at high speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Toshiaki NAKA, Kei MATSUI, Tokuo NISHI, Masanari EJIRI, Noriaki IKENAGA
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Patent number: 8424965Abstract: A clutch mechanism in which a pressure receiving member is attached to two side frames of a seat back of a vehicle seat so as to be rotatable about rotation axes extending in a widthwise direction and in which when the pressure receiving member is rotated by a pressing load of an passenger sitting on the vehicle seat, the pressing load is selectively transmitted to an operation bracket pivotally connected to the rotation axes such that the operation bracket is rotated in the same direction as the pressure receiving member. When the pressure receiving member receives a quick pressing load, the operation bracket rotates while being mechanically integrated with the pressure receiving member, so that the pressing load can be transmitted to the operation bracket. When the pressure receiving member receives a slow pressing load, the operation bracket does not rotate, and only the pressure receiving member rotates, so that the transmission of the pressing load can be blocked.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2007Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsuki Sasaki, Kouji Kaneda, Kei Matsui
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Patent number: 8182014Abstract: With a vehicle seat arranging structure, a second-row passenger-side seat may be placed in a rearward slide position by sliding the second-row passenger-side seat toward the rear of a vehicle by 150 millimeters so that the second-row passenger-side seat is closer to the rear of the vehicle than the second-row driver-side seat. In addition, each of the second-row driver-side seat and the second-row passenger-side seat may be placed in an obliquely-inward frontward-oriented position by swiveling each of the second-row driver-side seat and the second-row passenger-side seat from the frontward-oriented position 10 degrees inward in the vehicle-width direction. In this way, the sense of distance between the occupants seated in the second-row driver-side seat and the second-row passenger-side seat is reduced. As a result, it is possible to promote communication between these occupants (to make it easier for these occupants to communicate with each other).Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2008Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, The University of TokyoInventors: Teiji Mabuchi, Osamu Fujimoto, Makoto Itou, Kei Matsui, Yoshihiro Suda
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Patent number: 8078364Abstract: A vehicle seat apparatus includes: a vehicle seat; a swiveling drive unit that swivels the vehicle seat between the frontward-oriented position in which the vehicle seat faces the front of a vehicle and at least one of the outward-oriented position in which the vehicle seat is oriented in the outward direction of the vehicle and the inward-oriented position in which the vehicle seat is oriented in the inward direction of the vehicle; a traveling route information obtainment unit that obtains information on a traveling route along which the vehicle travels; and a control unit that controls the operation of the swiveling drive unit based on the information obtained by the traveling route information obtainment unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2008Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, The University of TokyoInventors: Teiji Mabuchi, Osamu Fujimoto, Kei Matsui, Yoshihiro Suda, Yoshihiko Tabuchi, Shoichiro Takehara, Daisuke Yamaguchi, Takaaki Koga
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Patent number: 8047606Abstract: One aspect according to the invention can include a headrest operating device including a backside collision detecting device that can produce an operational force upon detection of occurrence of backside collision. The operational force of the backside collision detecting device can be transmitted to an operation member via an interlocking member. A switching device can switch a path of movement of the interlocking member between an inoperative path and an operative path. When no backside collision occurs, the interlocking member can move along the inoperative path, so that the operational force of the backside collision detecting device cannot be transmitted to the operation member. When the backside collision occurs, the interlocking member can move along the operative path, so that the operational force of the backside collision detecting device can be transmitted to the operation member.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2009Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kei Matsui
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Patent number: 7934763Abstract: A vehicle seat apparatus includes a vehicle seat; a swiveling drive unit that swivels the vehicle seat between a frontward-oriented position in which the vehicle seat faces the front of a vehicle and at least one of an outward-oriented position in which the vehicle seat is oriented in the outward direction of the vehicle and an inward-oriented position in which the vehicle seat is oriented in the inward direction of the vehicle; an occupant condition detection unit that detects the condition of an occupant in the vehicle; and a control unit that controls the swiveling drive unit based on the detection result obtained by the occupant condition detection unit. With this configuration, it is possible to further increase the comfort of a passenger compartment based on the condition of the occupants in the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2008Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, The University of TokyoInventors: Teiji Mabuchi, Osamu Fujimoto, Kei Matsui, Yoshihiro Suda, Yoshihiko Tabuchi, Shoichiro Takehara, Daisuke Yamaguchi, Takaaki Koga
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Publication number: 20110031772Abstract: With a vehicle seat arranging structure, a second-row passenger-side seat may be placed in a rearward slide position by sliding the second-row passenger-side seat toward the rear of a vehicle by 150 millimeters so that the second-row passenger-side seat is closer to the rear of the vehicle than the second-row driver-side seat. In addition, each of the second-row driver-side seat and the second-row passenger-side seat may be placed in an obliquely-inward frontward-oriented position by swiveling each of the second-row driver-side seat and the second-row passenger-side seat from the frontward-oriented position 10 degrees inward in the vehicle-width direction. In this way, the sense of distance between the occupants seated in the second-row driver-side seat and the second-row passenger-side seat is reduced. As a result, it is possible to promote communication between these occupants (to make it easier for these occupants to communicate with each other).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2008Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, UNIVERSITY OF TOKYOInventors: Teiji Mabuchi, Osamu Fujimoto, Makoto Itou, Kei Matsui, Yoshihiro Suda
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Publication number: 20100187874Abstract: A seatback includes an active headrest that moves forward to catch the back of the head of an occupant, when a load is applied by the occupant to a seatback in a rear-end collision. A first panel and a second panel are provided between a plurality of frame members that constitute the frame of the seatback. The first panel is flexible, and the second panel is more rigid than the first panel. A pressure-receiving member is attached to the second panel, receives the load applied by the occupant to the seatback through the second panel, and transmits the load applied to the seatback to a lock mechanism in the active headrest.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2009Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kei MATSUI
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Publication number: 20100187875Abstract: A clutch mechanism in which a pressure receiving member is attached to two side frames of a seat back of a vehicle seat so as to be rotatable about rotation axes extending in a widthwise direction and in which when the pressure receiving member is rotated by a pressing load of an passenger sitting on the vehicle seat, the pressing load is selectively transmitted to an operation bracket pivotally connected to the rotation axes such that the operation bracket is rotated in the same direction as the pressure receiving member. When the pressure receiving member receives a quick pressing load, the operation bracket rotates while being mechanically integrated with the pressure receiving member, so that the pressing load can be transmitted to the operation bracket. When the pressure receiving member receives a slow pressing load, the operation bracket does not rotate, and only the pressure receiving member rotates, so that the transmission of the pressing load can be blocked.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2007Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsuki Sasaki, Kouji Kaneda, Kei Matsui
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Publication number: 20090250981Abstract: One aspect according to the invention can include a headrest operating device including a backside collision detecting device (20) that can produce an operational force upon detection of occurrence of backside collision. The operational force of the backside collision detecting device (20) can be transmitted to an operation member (25, 40, 50) via an interlocking member (23). A switching device (24) can switch a path of movement of the interlocking member (23) between an inoperative path and an operative path. When no backside collision occurs, the interlocking member (23) can move along the inoperative path, so that the operational force of the backside collision detecting device (20) cannot be transmitted to the operation member (25, 40, 50). When the backside collision occurs, the interlocking member (23) can move along the operative path, so that the operational force of the backside collision detecting device (20) can be transmitted to the operation member (25, 40, 50).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2009Publication date: October 8, 2009Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kei MATSUI
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Publication number: 20090164073Abstract: A vehicle seat apparatus includes: a vehicle seat; a swiveling drive unit that swivels the vehicle seat between the frontward-oriented position in which the vehicle seat faces the front of a vehicle and at least one of the outward-oriented position in which the vehicle seat is oriented in the outward direction of the vehicle and the inward-oriented position in which the vehicle seat is oriented in the inward direction of the vehicle; a traveling route information obtainment unit that obtains information on a traveling route along which the vehicle travels; and a control unit that controls the operation of the swiveling drive unit based on the information obtained by the traveling route information obtainment unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2008Publication date: June 25, 2009Inventors: Teiji MABUCHI, Osamu FUJIMOTO, Kei MATSUI, Yoshihiro SUDA, Yoshihiko TABUCHI, Shoichiro TAKEHARA, Daisuke YAMAGUCHI, Takaaki KOGA
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Publication number: 20090160229Abstract: A vehicle seat apparatus includes a vehicle seat; a swiveling drive unit that swivels the vehicle seat between a frontward-oriented position in which the vehicle seat faces the front of a vehicle and at least one of an outward-oriented position in which the vehicle seat is oriented in the outward direction of the vehicle and an inward-oriented position in which the vehicle seat is oriented in the inward direction of the vehicle; an occupant condition detection unit that detects the condition of an occupant in the vehicle; and a control unit that controls the swiveling drive unit based on the detection result obtained by the occupant condition detection unit. With this configuration, it is possible to further increase the comfort of a passenger compartment based on the condition of the occupants in the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2008Publication date: June 25, 2009Inventors: Teiji Mabuchi, Osamu Fujimoto, Kei Matsui, Yoshihiro Suda, Yoshihiko Tabuchi, Shoichiro Takehara, Daisuke Yamaguchi, Takaaki Koga