Patents by Inventor Ken Ishikawa
Ken Ishikawa 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: 11964356Abstract: A hand-held tool, such as a disc grinder, is used to perform work at a high work site, a countermeasure is taken to prevent the hand-held tool from falling by using a suspension tool, such as a tether strap. If a coupling part that couples the suspension tool to the hand-held tool is damaged, this fact is notified to a user. Thereby, an original function of the suspension tool can be reliably performed. If a large impact is applied to a coupling member via a suspension tool, the coupling member is displaced to a second position, due to the deformation of a first position retaining member. A conductive portion disengages from contacts to cause a power circuit to be shut off, thereby prohibiting a main body part from being activated.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Ryosuke Otani, Junya Ishikawa, Takafumi Kotsuji, Satoshi Ninagawa, Ken Goto, Yu Eto
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Publication number: 20240067191Abstract: An in-vehicle environment setting system 10 includes: a receiving unit 210 that receives, from a vehicle 50, setting information regarding a setting for an in-vehicle environment of the vehicle 50 and environment information regarding an outdoor environment of the vehicle 50 in a manner associated with an identity of a user 52 who boards the vehicle 50; a learning unit 220 that learns a preference of the user 52 related to the setting for the in-vehicle environment based on the setting information and the environment information; a generation unit 230 that generates recommended setting information regarding a recommended setting for the in-vehicle environment preferred by the user 52 based on a learning result of the preference; and a transmission unit 240 that transmits the recommended setting information to a vehicle 60 which is different from the vehicle 50.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIK] KAISHAInventors: Takashige Hori, Makoto Akahane, Ken Ishikawa, Masatoshi Takahara
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Patent number: 11851072Abstract: An in-vehicle environment setting system 10 includes: a receiving unit 210 that receives, from a vehicle 50, setting information regarding a setting for an in-vehicle environment of the vehicle 50 and environment information regarding an outdoor environment of the vehicle 50 in a manner associated with an identity of a user 52 who boards the vehicle 50; a learning unit 220 that learns a preference of the user 52 related to the setting for the in-vehicle environment based on the setting information and the environment information; a generation unit 230 that generates recommended setting information regarding a recommended setting for the in-vehicle environment preferred by the user 52 based on a learning result of the preference; and a transmission unit 240 that transmits the recommended setting information to a vehicle 60 which is different from the vehicle 50.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige Hori, Makoto Akahane, Ken Ishikawa, Masatoshi Takahara
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Patent number: 11657654Abstract: This disclosure makes vehicle passage at a tollbooth on a vehicle road smoother. A plurality of candidate lanes are selected based on whether or not a first vehicle scheduled to pass through a tollbooth is an ETC vehicle, and the type of each lane at the tollbooth. Moreover, a predicted value in correlation with a required time predicted to be required for passing through the tollbooth is calculated for each candidate lane. Further, a recommended lane that is recommended for the first vehicle to travel is determined from the plurality of candidate lanes based on the predicted value for each candidate lane.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige Hori, Masaru Wakabayashi, Yoko Sakurai, Ken Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20220180677Abstract: An alighting point guide system includes an acquisition portion configured to acquire an alighting point guide request from an occupant of a vehicle, and a guide portion configured to provide a guide to an alighting point. When the number of occupants of the vehicle as a transmission source of the alighting point guide request is larger than a reference number set in advance, the guide portion selects, as the alighting point, a point where at least either one value of a statistic value about a door-open time detected previously and a statistic value about the number of times of door opening that is detected previously is equal to or more than a threshold with preference to a point where the at least either one value is less than the threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2021Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoko SAKURAI, Masaru OHASHI, Ken ISHIKAWA, Takashige HORI, Masaru WAKABAYASHI, Shin MAEYAMADA
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Patent number: 11215474Abstract: A vehicle driving assist apparatus includes a searching unit and a guidance unit. The searching unit is configured to search for a travel route based on a search instruction. The travel route is a route along which a vehicle travels to a destination. The guidance unit is configured as follows: when the searching unit finds a plurality of travel routes and the plurality of travel routes includes two or more travel routes each including a merging point where two or more roads meet, the guidance unit provides a driver with information about a travel route that is included in the plurality of travel routes and that includes the merging point before which there is a road that is included in the two or more roads and that allows vehicles to easily accelerate, in preference to the rest of the travel routes.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige Hori, Makoto Akahane, Ken Ishikawa, Masatoshi Takahara
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Patent number: 11209283Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a controller, and a provision unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire behavior information and a request for route retrieval from the vehicle. The controller is configured to decide a plurality of temporary routes in a case where the request for route retrieval is acquired, recognize a manner reference score of each of the temporary routes, recognize an evaluation score of each of a plurality of manner items based on the behavior information acquired from the vehicle having requested the route retrieval, calculate a total evaluation score by using the evaluation score of each of the manner items, and select some of the temporary routes as proposal routes based on comparison between the manner reference score and the total evaluation score. The provision unit is configured to provide the proposal routes to the vehicle having requested the route retrieval.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige Hori, Ken Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20210304520Abstract: This disclosure makes vehicle passage at a tollbooth on a vehicle road smoother. A plurality of candidate lanes are selected based on whether or not a first vehicle scheduled to pass through a tollbooth is an ETC vehicle, and the type of each lane at the tollbooth. Moreover, a predicted value in correlation with a required time predicted to be required for passing through the tollbooth is calculated for each candidate lane. Further, a recommended lane that is recommended for the first vehicle to travel is determined from the plurality of candidate lanes based on the predicted value for each candidate lane.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige HORI, Masaru WAKABAYASHI, Yoko SAKURAI, Ken ISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20210264775Abstract: A server includes a control unit configured to: determine based on probe data acquired by a first vehicle whether the first vehicle is parked or stopped on a road; determine based on probe data acquired by one or more second vehicles located near the first vehicle whether the first vehicle is affecting traffic flow on the road, when the control unit determines that the first vehicle is parked or stopped; and output an alert when the control unit determines that the first vehicle is affecting the traffic flow on the road.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige HORI, Masaru WAKABAYASHI, Yoko SAKURAI, Ken ISHIKAWA
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Patent number: 11100792Abstract: Obstacle determination systems and programs detect back-and-forth steering that is behavior of a vehicle for avoiding an obstacle. The systems and programs determine that the obstacle is present between a point where the back-and-forth steering has started and a point where the back-and-forth steering has ended when a steering start road and a steering end road are identical roads. The steering start road is a road where the vehicle is present at a start of the back-and-forth steering. The steering end road is a road where the vehicle is present at an end of the back-and-forth steering.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignees: AISIN CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ken Ishikawa, Yasuyuki Kusumoto, Kento Nagashima
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Publication number: 20210188305Abstract: A vehicle driving assistance device includes: a control unit configured to identify a point at which a vehicle speed is likely to increase, based on vehicle information collected from a plurality of vehicles, the vehicle information including position information for each of the vehicles and situation information for each of the plurality of vehicles. The control unit is configured to decide whether there is a vehicle deceleration factor due to which the vehicle speed decreases within an area in which a vehicle travels a prescribed distance from the point identified by the control unit. The control unit is configured to alert a driver that there is the vehicle deceleration factor, when there is the vehicle deceleration factor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2021Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashige Hori, Makoto Akahane, Ken Ishikawa, Masatoshi Takahara
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Patent number: 11043123Abstract: A driving assistance device communicates with an information processing device for providing driving assistance. The driving assistance device includes: an electronic control unit configured to: acquire signal information from the information processing device, the signal information indicating a time at which a traffic light on a traveling route displays a stop indication, the traveling route being a route on which a vehicle is traveling; make a prediction whether the vehicle should stop at the traffic light, based on a traveling state of the vehicle and the signal information; and perform the driving assistance and control an operation of the vehicle around the traffic light based on the prediction.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashige Hori, Makoto Akahane, Ken Ishikawa, Masatoshi Takahara
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Patent number: 10974734Abstract: A vehicle driving assistance device includes: a control unit configured to identify a point at which a vehicle speed is likely to increase, based on vehicle information collected from a plurality of vehicles, the vehicle information including position information for each of the vehicles and situation information for each of the plurality of vehicles. The control unit is configured to decide whether there is a vehicle deceleration factor due to which the vehicle speed decreases within an area in which a vehicle travels a prescribed distance from the point identified by the control unit. The control unit is configured to alert a driver that there is the vehicle deceleration factor, when there is the vehicle deceleration factor.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashige Hori, Makoto Akahane, Ken Ishikawa, Masatoshi Takahara
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Patent number: 10762784Abstract: An obstacle determination system includes an avoidance behavior detection unit configured to detect an avoidance behavior that is a behavior of a vehicle avoiding an obstacle, and an obstacle determination unit configured to determine that the obstacle is present when a road on which the avoidance behavior occurs is not a road on which avoidance of an oncoming vehicle is needed.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ken Ishikawa, Naoki Yoshikawa, Yasuyuki Kusumoto, Kento Nagashima
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Publication number: 20200234224Abstract: An information processing device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a fatigue level estimation unit configured to estimate a fatigue level of a user based on schedules for the future included in information on schedules of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2019Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige HORI, Makoto AKAHANE, Ken ISHIKAWA, Masatoshi TAKAHARA
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Publication number: 20200211043Abstract: An information processing device includes circuitry configured to predict a future fuel consumption amount of a vehicle, based on information relevant to an actual result of a fuel consumption amount of the vehicle and information relevant to a plan of a user of the vehicle; and configured to predict a fuel replenishment timing at which a fuel replenishment of the vehicle is needed, based on the future fuel consumption amount of the vehicle and information relevant to a remaining fuel amount of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige Hori, Makoto Akahane, Ken Ishikawa, Masatoshi Takahara
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Publication number: 20200132486Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a controller, and a provision unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire behavior information and a request for route retrieval from the vehicle. The controller is configured to decide a plurality of temporary routes in a case where the request for route retrieval is acquired, recognize a manner reference score of each of the temporary routes, recognize an evaluation score of each of a plurality of manner items based on the behavior information acquired from the vehicle having requested the route retrieval, calculate a total evaluation score by using the evaluation score of each of the manner items, and select some of the temporary routes as proposal routes based on comparison between the manner reference score and the total evaluation score. The provision unit is configured to provide the proposal routes to the vehicle having requested the route retrieval.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige Hori, Ken Ishikawa
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Patent number: 10549677Abstract: A vehicle system includes an information processing device and a vehicle. The vehicle includes: a detection unit configured to detect an illuminance change; an acquisition unit configured to acquire position information; a first sending unit configured to send, to the information processing device, (i) illuminance change position information and (ii) traveling information; a first receiving unit configured to receive a turn-on condition from the information processing device; and a turn-on unit configured to turn on a headlight according to the traveling information and the turn-on condition. The information processing device includes a learning unit configured to learn, as the turn-on condition, traveling content of the vehicle before the vehicle reaches the position where the illuminance change is detected, by using the travelling information, and a second sending unit configured to send the turn-on condition to the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashige Hori, Makoto Akahane, Ken Ishikawa, Masatoshi Takahara
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Publication number: 20190308633Abstract: An in-vehicle environment setting system 10 includes: a receiving unit 210 that receives, from a vehicle 50, setting information regarding a setting for an in-vehicle environment of the vehicle 50 and environment information regarding an outdoor environment of the vehicle 50 in a manner associated with an identity of a user 52 who boards the vehicle 50; a learning unit 220 that learns a preference of the user 52 related to the setting for the in-vehicle environment based on the setting information and the environment information; a generation unit 230 that generates recommended setting information regarding a recommended setting for the in-vehicle environment preferred by the user 52 based on a learning result of the preference; and a transmission unit 240 that transmits the recommended setting information to a vehicle 60 which is different from the vehicle 50.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin AW Co., Ltd., Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashige Hori, Makoto Akahane, Ken Ishikawa, Masatoshi Takahara
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Publication number: 20190287389Abstract: Obstacle determination systems and programs detect back-and-forth steering that is behavior of a vehicle for avoiding an obstacle. The systems and programs determine that the obstacle is present between a point where the back-and-forth steering has started and a point where the back-and-forth steering has ended when a steering start road and a steering end road are identical roads. The steering start road is a road where the vehicle is present at a start of the back-and-forth steering. The steering end road is a road where the vehicle is present at an end of the back-and-forth steering.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2017Publication date: September 19, 2019Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ken ISHIKAWA, Yasuyuki KUSUMOTO, Kento NAGASHIMA