Patents by Inventor Komei YANO

Komei YANO 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).

  • Publication number: 20230382412
    Abstract: Provided is an operation management system capable of timely giving a driver an opportunity to take a rest. One aspect of the present disclosure is an operation management system including a sensor acquiring biological information of a driver of each of management-target vehicles, and a server managing traveling plans, each including a destination and an arrival time, of the management-target vehicles. The server includes a processor performing an adjustment process for the traveling plans. In the adjustment process, the processor proposes, to a driver of an adjustment-target vehicle, a rest point extracted from rest facilities located on a traveling route in a traveling plan, based on the traveling plan of the adjustment-target vehicle, on the traveling plans of the management-target vehicles other than the adjustment-target vehicle, on biological information of the driver of the adjustment-target vehicle acquired by the sensor, and on crowdedness information of the rest facilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu KAWASE, Komei YANO, Yuki KAMIYA
  • Patent number: 11273745
    Abstract: A vehicle seat attachable to a vehicle body, the vehicle seat including: a seat back; and a headrest configured to support a head of a seated occupant, the headrest including: a base portion fixed to the seat back; a slide portion slidable in a left-right direction in a state where the head is supported to the base portion; and an electric mechanism configured to slide the slide portion in the left-right direction, and in which the slide portion is configured to be moved by the electric mechanism in a moving direction in which the head moves in the left-right direction due to acceleration in the left-right direction applied when a vehicle moves, the electric mechanism being operated by a control device disposed in the vehicle body in response to a signal from a sensor disposed in the vehicle body, the sensor being configured to detect the moving direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Komei Yano, Kenji Kawano, Hidetaka Nagayasu, Makoto Asano, Osamu Kaneko, Hikaru Satou
  • Publication number: 20190389353
    Abstract: A vehicle seat attachable to a vehicle body, the vehicle seat including: a seat back; and a headrest configured to support a head of a seated occupant, the headrest including: a base portion fixed to the seat back; a slide portion slidable in a left-right direction in a state where the head is supported to the base portion; and an electric mechanism configured to slide the slide portion in the left-right direction, and in which the slide portion is configured to be moved by the electric mechanism in a moving direction in which the head moves in the left-right direction due to acceleration in the left-right direction applied when a vehicle moves, the electric mechanism being operated by a control device disposed in the vehicle body in response to a signal from a sensor disposed in the vehicle body, the sensor being configured to detect the moving direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Komei YANO, Kenji KAWANO, Hidetaka NAGAYASU, Makoto ASANO, Osamu KANEKO, Hikaru SATOU
  • Publication number: 20190375321
    Abstract: A vehicle interior equipment including: a contact portion contactable with a human body; and an outer shape member including: receiving portions; a hinge portion connecting adjacent receiving portions; and an outer or inner side deformable portion, in which a shape of the contact portion is changed to the following (a) or (b) by contraction or extension of the outer or inner side deformable portion: (a) the outer shape of the contact portion being made concave by bending the hinge portion so that the adjacent receiving portions are close to each other on the outer side; and (b) the outer shape of the contact portion being made convex by bending the hinge portion so that the adjacent receiving portions are close to each other on the inner side, and in which the inner or outer side deformable portion maintains the changed outer shape even without contacting with human body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Komei YANO
  • Patent number: 10106058
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a cushion frame, a base portion, and a guide structure. The guide structure includes a rail and a rolling mechanism. The rolling mechanism includes an upper guide roller, a lower guide roller, and a roller holder. The rolling mechanism is sandwiched by an upper rolling surface and a lower rolling surface of the rail. The guide structure is configured such that when an occupant load is input to the cushion frame, the guide roller and the rolling surface at one of a first contact point or a second contact point come relatively close together, such that pressure increases, due to a relative position of the roller holder and the rail changing, with the other of the first contact point or the second contact point as a reference point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sohei Matsuyama, Tomonori Ishikawa, Komei Yano, Kento Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10081285
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a main part that forms a center portion of a front surface of a seatback; bolster parts that form side parts of the front surface of the seatback; and a reclining adjuster configured to adjust a backrest angle of the seatback, and to move a lower area of the main part toward a front side relative to the bolster parts as the main part is reclined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Kaneda, Fumitoshi Akaike, Komei Yano
  • Publication number: 20170217341
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a main part that forms a center portion of a front surface of a seatback; bolster parts that form side parts of the front surface of the seatback; and a reclining adjuster configured to adjust a backrest angle of the seatback, and to move a lower area of the main part toward a front side relative to the bolster parts as the main part is reclined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji KANEDA, Fumitoshi AKAIKE, Komei YANO
  • Publication number: 20160375800
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a cushion frame, a base portion, and a guide structure. The guide structure includes a rail and a rolling mechanism. The rolling mechanism includes an upper guide roller, a lower guide roller, and a roller holder. The rolling mechanism is sandwiched by an upper rolling surface and a lower rolling surface of the rail. The guide structure is configured such that when an occupant load is input to the cushion frame, the guide roller and the rolling surface at one of a first contact point or a second contact point come relatively close together, such that pressure increases, due to a relative position of the roller holder and the rail changing, with the other of the first contact point or the second contact point as a reference point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sohei MATSUYAMA, Tomonori ISHIKAWA, Komei YANO, Kento YOSHIDA