Patents by Inventor Koichi Ikemoto
Koichi Ikemoto 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: 11651630Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a failure detection unit configured to detect a failure of a vehicle, and a vehicle controller configured to control the vehicle. The vehicle controller changes the control of the vehicle depending on a failure level when the failure detection unit detects a failure of an on-vehicle component other than the vehicle control device.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiji Yamashita, Koichi Ikemoto, Koji Taguchi, Shin Sakurada, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
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Patent number: 11511754Abstract: A seat determining apparatus includes a travel route determining unit configured to determine a travel route of a vehicle such that the travel route runs by way of a scheduled boarding point and scheduled alighting point of each of a plurality of users scheduled to ride the vehicle, the scheduled boarding point being a point at which the user is scheduled to get on the vehicle, the scheduled alighting point being a point at which the user is scheduled to get off the vehicle; a boarding and alighting order determining unit configured to determine alighting order, in which the users get off the vehicle, based on the travel route and the scheduled alighting point of each of the users; and a seat determining unit configured to determine a seat according to the alighting order for each of the users when each of the users rides the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiji Yamashita, Koichi Ikemoto, Koji Taguchi, Shin Sakurada, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
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Patent number: 11500381Abstract: A stopping position control device according to an embodiment includes a sitting position specifying unit configured to specify a sitting position of a user who gets off a vehicle next, the vehicle being subjected to automatic driving control, and a stopping position determination unit configured to determine a stopping position of the vehicle, at which the user gets off the vehicle, corresponding to the sitting position of the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiji Yamashita, Koichi Ikemoto, Koji Taguchi, Shin Sakurada, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
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Patent number: 11437637Abstract: A community system includes an ammonia-hydrogen converter that is arranged in an industrial area and that converts ammonia to hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Ikemoto, Motoki Hamazaki, Katsuhiko Hirose, Atsushi Mizutani, Shuntara Kato, Yohei Tanigawa
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Patent number: 11380922Abstract: A community system includes an ammonia-hydrogen converter that is arranged in an industrial area and that converts ammonia to hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Ikemoto, Motoki Hamazaki, Katsuhiko Hirose, Atsushi Mizutani, Shuntara Kato, Yohei Tanigawa
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Patent number: 11333523Abstract: A vehicle control device that controls a vehicle configured to transport a passenger to a destination by autonomous traveling, the vehicle control device includes a vehicle controller configured to control operation of the vehicle, an image display configured to display an image of a periphery of the destination to the passenger via an output device, and a getting-off position detector configured to detect a desired getting-off position designated by the passenger via an input device. The image shows a region where stopping is prohibited, and the vehicle controller is configured to cause the vehicle to stop at the desired getting-off position.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiji Yamashita, Koichi Ikemoto, Koji Taguchi, Shin Sakurada, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
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Patent number: 11302945Abstract: The community system includes a hydrogen source, a hydrogen storage, an FC power generating facility, a hydrogen filler, a house group that uses electric power supplied from the FC power generating facility and hydrogen supplied from at least one of the hydrogen source and the hydrogen storage, and a management system that manages hydrogen in the community system. The hydrogen source is a hydrogen producing device that produces hydrogen using waste heat generated in a commercial and industrial installation or produces hydrogen from by-product gas produced in the commercial and industrial installation.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsu Todo, Koichi Ikemoto, Motoki Hamazaki, Katsuhiko Hirose, Atsushi Mizutani, Shuntaro Kato, Yohei Tanigawa
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Patent number: 11210948Abstract: A vehicle includes a communication unit configured to receive identification information for notification set for a user, an outside-vehicle notification unit configured to perform notification to the surrounding of the vehicle, and a controller configured to make the outside-vehicle notification unit perform notification of the identification information for notification to the surrounding of the vehicle. The vehicle further includes a positioning unit configured to measure a position of the vehicle. The communication unit is configured to further receive a predicted boarding position of the user to the vehicle. The controller is configured to, in a case where the measured position of the vehicle is included within a predetermined range from the predicted boarding position of the user, makes the outside-vehicle notification unit perform the notification of the identification information for notification to the surrounding of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiji Yamashita, Koichi Ikemoto, Koji Taguchi, Shin Sakurada, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
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Patent number: 11205342Abstract: A traffic information processing device includes a communication unit configured to communicate through a communication network with a plurality of communication vehicles configured to detect relative positions and relative speeds of vehicles around a host vehicle with respect to the host vehicle, an information acquisition unit configured to acquire position and speed information of the communication vehicle and position and speed information of vehicles around the communication vehicle from each of the communication vehicles traveling in a specific area through the communication unit, and a traffic state prediction unit configured to predict a future change in a traffic state of a road in the specific area based on the position and speed information from the communication vehicles acquired by the information acquisition unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Ikemoto, Keiji Yamashita, Koji Taguchi, Shin Sakurada, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
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Patent number: 11082819Abstract: A mobility service supporting device includes a communication unit configured to be communicable with a vehicle-mounted device installed in a vehicle subjected to autonomous driving control and a portable terminal of a user of the vehicle and a controller configured to transmit, based on information about the position of the vehicle which is received from the vehicle-mounted device via the communication unit, notification for preventing the portable terminal from being left behind in the vehicle to the portable terminal of the user via the communication unit before the vehicle arrives at a destination of the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Ikemoto, Keiji Yamashita, Koji Taguchi, Shin Sakurada, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
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Patent number: 11054086Abstract: The community system includes a hydrogen source, a hydrogen storage, an FC power generating facility, a house group that uses hydrogen supplied from at least one of the hydrogen source and the hydrogen storage, and a management system that manages hydrogen in the community system. The management system manages hydrogen possession allocated to each house in the house group.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsu Todo, Koichi Ikemoto, Motoki Hamazaki, Katsuhiko Hirose, Atsushi Mizutani, Shuntaro Kato, Yohei Tanigawa
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Patent number: 10702168Abstract: A blood pressure estimation apparatus includes: a pulse wave measurement unit measuring a user's pulse wave signal; an electrocardiogram signal measurement unit measuring a user's electrocardiogram signal; and a processing circuit estimating a user's blood pressure value by using the pulse wave and electrocardiogram signals, wherein the processing circuit (a) acquires a pulse wave signal feature by using the pulse wave signal, (b) acquires an electrocardiogram signal feature by using the electrocardiogram signal, (c) acquires a pulse wave propagation time by using the pulse wave and electrocardiogram signals, (d) selects a blood pressure group indicating a relationship between a pulse wave propagation time and blood pressure of the user by using the pulse wave signal feature, electrocardiogram signal feature, and pulse wave propagation time, and (e) estimates the blood pressure value by using the blood pressure group, pulse wave signal feature, electrocardiogram signal feature, and pulse wave propagation timeType: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Morikawa, Koichi Ikemoto, Masatoshi Sasaki, Satoshi Kanai
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Publication number: 20200211373Abstract: A traffic information processing device includes a communication unit configured to communicate through a communication network with a plurality of communication vehicles configured to detect relative positions and relative speeds of vehicles around a host vehicle with respect to the host vehicle, an information acquisition unit configured to acquire position and speed information of the communication vehicle and position and speed information of vehicles around the communication vehicle from each of the communication vehicles traveling in a specific area through the communication unit, and a traffic state prediction unit configured to predict a future change in a traffic state of a road in the specific area based on the position and speed information from the communication vehicles acquired by the information acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2019Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Ikemoto, Keiji Yamashita, Koji Taguchi, Shin Sakurada, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
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Publication number: 20200175866Abstract: A vehicle includes a communication unit configured to receive identification information for notification set for a user, an outside-vehicle notification unit configured to perform notification to the surrounding of the vehicle, and a controller configured to make the outside-vehicle notification unit perform notification of the identification information for notification to the surrounding of the vehicle. The vehicle further includes a positioning unit configured to measure a position of the vehicle. The communication unit is configured to further receive a predicted boarding position of the user to the vehicle. The controller is configured to, in a case where the measured position of the vehicle is included within a predetermined range from the predicted boarding position of the user, makes the outside-vehicle notification unit perform the notification of the identification information for notification to the surrounding of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2019Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiji YAMASHITA, Koichi IKEMOTO, Koji TAGUCHI, Shin SAKURADA, Tomoyuki KURIYAMA
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Publication number: 20200166354Abstract: An operation assistance device includes a communication unit configured to communicate with a portable terminal of a user who uses a vehicle and an on-vehicle device, an acquisition unit configure to acquire a kind of the user from the portable terminal through the communication unit, a getting on and off position setting unit configured to set a getting on position or a getting off position of the user, and a getting on and off position transmission unit configure to transmit the set getting on position or the set getting off position to the on-vehicle device through the communication unit. A stop allowable area for getting on and off is set in advance for each kind of the user. The getting on and off position setting unit sets the getting on position or the getting off position in the stop allowable area corresponding to the acquired kind of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Ikemoto, Keiji Yamashita, Koji Taguchi, Shin Sakurada, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
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Publication number: 20200167883Abstract: A vehicle allocation management device includes a number-of-insufficient-vehicles calculation unit configured to, for each of a plurality of districts, calculate a difference between the number of demanded vehicles of the district and the number of vehicles, which are already allocated in the district in a predetermined time period and are able to provide the mobility service, a movement destination decision unit configured to, for each of at least one movement target vehicle among the vehicles, decide a standby location of any one of candidate districts having the number of insufficient vehicles greater than zero among the districts as a movement destination of the movement target vehicle according to a position of the movement target vehicle after mobility service provision, and a vehicle allocation instruction unit configured to notify each movement target vehicle of the movement destination of the vehicle through a communication unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiji YAMASHITA, Koichi Ikemoto, Koji Taguchi, Shin Sakurada, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
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Publication number: 20200159217Abstract: A stopping position control device according to an embodiment includes a sitting position specifying unit configured to specify a sitting position of a user who gets off a vehicle next, the vehicle being subjected to automatic driving control, and a stopping position determination unit configured to determine a stopping position of the vehicle, at which the user gets off the vehicle, corresponding to the sitting position of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiji YAMASHITA, Koichi IKEMOTO, Koji TAGUCHI, Shin SAKURADA, Tomoyuki KURIYAMA
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Publication number: 20200160624Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a failure detection unit configured to detect a failure of a vehicle, and a vehicle controller configured to control the vehicle. The vehicle controller changes the control of the vehicle depending on a failure level when the failure detection unit detects a failure of an on-vehicle component other than the vehicle control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiji YAMASHITA, Koichi IKEMOTO, Koji TAGUCHI, Shin SAKURADA, Tomoyuki KURIYAMA
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Publication number: 20200149920Abstract: A vehicle control device that controls a vehicle configured to transport a passenger to a destination by autonomous traveling, the vehicle control device includes a vehicle controller configured to control operation of the vehicle, an image display configured to display an image of a periphery of the destination to the passenger via an output device, and a getting-off position detector configured to detect a desired getting-off position designated by the passenger via an input device. The image shows a region where stopping is prohibited, and the vehicle controller is configured to cause the vehicle to stop at the desired getting-off position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiji Yamashita, Koichi Ikemoto, Koji Taguchi, Shin Sakurada, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
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Publication number: 20200145800Abstract: A mobility service supporting device includes a communication unit configured to be communicatable with a vehicle-mounted device installed in a vehicle subjected to autonomous driving control and a portable terminal of a user of the vehicle and a controller configured to transmit, based on information about the position of the vehicle which is received from the vehicle-mounted device via the communication unit, notification for preventing the portable terminal from being left behind in the vehicle to the portable terminal of the user via the communication unit before the vehicle arrives at a destination of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2019Publication date: May 7, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi IKEMOTO, Keiji YAMASHITA, Koji TAGUCHI, Shin SAKURADA, Tomoyuki KURIYAMA