Patents by Inventor Masanori Shimada
Masanori Shimada 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: 11834032Abstract: A vehicle control device including processor being configured to, when driving sections are present inside a restricted region, extract as a restricted driving section from among driving sections present inside the restricted region a driving section through which it is projected the vehicle will be driven in a restricted time period in which operation of internal combustion engines is restricted, and prepare a driving plan able to drive through the restricted driving section in the EV mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Hiroya Chiba, Yoshiyuki Kageura, Masanori Shimada, Yoshihiro Sakayanagi, Sui Kurihashi, Hiroki Morita, Makoto Ogiso
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Patent number: 11837691Abstract: A battery manufacturing method includes forming a unit cell having a positive electrode that is obtained by a positive electrode active material layer containing an electrolytic solution being disposed on a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode that is obtained by a negative electrode active material layer containing an electrolytic solution being disposed on a negative electrode current collector, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The battery manufacturing method further includes applying pressure to one unit cell or with two or more stacked unit cells from the stacking direction, and charging the one unit cell or the two or more stacked unit cells after applying of the pressure. The method is performed such that the positive electrode and the negative electrode are formed without an application film being subjected to a drying process performed through heating.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiro Kaburagi, Kazuyuki Yoda, Eiji Minegishi, Noboru Yamauchi, Yusuke Emori, Hideki Ishitani, Masanori Shimada
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Patent number: 11807244Abstract: A vehicle control device configured to control switching of drive mode of a vehicle including an internal combustion engine and a motor includes a processor configured to switch, in a case where a road surface of a perimeter of a geofencing zone is a road surface on which there is a high probability that the vehicle slips, in a movement route from an outside of the geofencing zone to an inside of the geofencing zone, the drive mode of the vehicle to drive by the motor in a state in which there is a low probability that the vehicle slips, outside the geofencing zone.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Yoshiyuki Kageura, Masanori Shimada, Yoshihiro Sakayanagi, Hiroki Morita
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Patent number: 11802391Abstract: A system controls a work machine that loads materials onto a conveyance vehicle. The system includes a controller. The controller performs a loading work by the work machine when the conveyance vehicle is stopped at a predetermined loading position. The controller acquires a loading amount onto the conveyance vehicle. The controller determines whether the loading work is finished based on the loading amount. The controller outputs a withdraw command to the conveyance vehicle to withdraw from the loading position upon determining that the loading work is finished. The controller determines whether the conveyance vehicle has withdrawn after outputting the withdraw command.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Masanori Aizawa, Kenjiro Shimada
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Patent number: 11795658Abstract: A work machine loads materials onto a conveyance vehicle. A system for controlling the work machine includes a detection device that detects an operation of the conveyance vehicle, and a controller that controls the work machine. The work machine includes a work implement attached to a rotating body. The controller acquires operation data indicative of an operation of the conveyance vehicle from the detection device. The controller causes the rotating body to rotate toward a predetermined unloading position. The controller determines whether the conveyance vehicle is stopped at a predetermined loading position based on the operation data. The controller causes the work implement to wait on standby at the unloading position upon determining that the conveyance vehicle is operating. The controller controls the work machine to unload materials at the unloading position upon determining that the conveyance vehicle is stopped at the loading position.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Masanori Aizawa, Kenjiro Shimada
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Patent number: 11788254Abstract: A system controls a work machine that loads materials onto a conveyance vehicle. The system includes a controller and a detection device. The controller controls the work machine in an automatic control mode in which work is performed automatically. The detection device detects a presence of a person in a peripheral region of the work machine. The automatic control mode includes a loading mode in which the work machine is caused to move to perform loading work for loading onto the conveyance vehicle, and an other mode other than the loading mode. The controller causes the automatic control mode to transition from the other mode to the loading mode when a predetermined transition condition is satisfied. The predetermined transition condition includes non-detection of a person by the detection device.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Masanori Aizawa, Kenjiro Shimada
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Patent number: 11772631Abstract: The home position estimation system includes a GNSS receiver, an object detection device for detecting an object in surroundings of the hybrid vehicle, an identifying part configured to identify the object detected by the object detection device, and a position estimating part configured to estimate a position of the hybrid vehicle based on an output of the GNSS receiver. If a predetermined condition is satisfied and the object identified by the identifying part is an object indicating a boundary of a low emission zone which requires that the internal combustion engine be stopped, the position estimating part is configured to judge whether the hybrid vehicle is located within the low emission zone, regardless of the output of the GNSS receiver, based on a result of identification by the identifying part.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Hiroya Chiba, Yoshiyuki Kageura, Masanori Shimada, Yoshihiro Sakayanagi
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Patent number: 11760334Abstract: The control device of a vehicle includes a position estimating part configured to estimate a position of the vehicle, and a power output part configured to control the internal combustion engine and the electric motor to output power for running use. The power output part is configured to determine a startup position of the internal combustion engine of the vehicle when the vehicle exits from a low emission zone requesting the internal combustion engine be stopped so that startup positions of internal combustion engines of a plurality of vehicles are dispersed at surroundings of the low emission zone.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Hiroya Chiba, Yoshiyuki Kageura, Masanori Shimada, Yoshihiro Sakayanagi
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Patent number: 11762034Abstract: The abnormal power supply voltage detection device has a function of accurately detecting the abnormal voltage in accordance with the characteristics of the semiconductor element for each semiconductor chip. Circuit group for operating the adjustment function has a function of preventing the influence of the power supply voltage of the logic system such as control in the semiconductor product malfunctions becomes abnormal. Furthermore, it has a function of detecting the abnormal voltage of the various power supplies in the semiconductor product. It also has a function to test the abnormal voltage detection function in the normal power supply voltage range during use of semiconductor products.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Tadashi Kameyama, Masanori Ikeda, Masataka Minami, Kenichi Shimada, Yukitoshi Tsuboi
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Patent number: 11658343Abstract: A battery manufacturing method includes forming a unit cell having a positive electrode that is obtained by a positive electrode active material layer containing an electrolytic solution being disposed on a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode that is obtained by a negative electrode active material layer containing an electrolytic solution being disposed on a negative electrode current collector, and a separator interposed between the positive and negative electrodes. Heat sealing a seal part that is disposed at an outer peripheral portion of the unit cell. Cooling the outer peripheral portion of the unit cell by using a cooling medium after carrying out the heat sealing of the seal part. The method is performed such that the positive electrode and the negative electrode are formed without an application film being subjected to a drying process performed through heating.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuyuki Yoda, Tomohiro Kaburagi, Eiji Minegishi, Koh Hatanaka, Takuya Sakurai, Masanori Shimada, Yusuke Emori, Yuichiro Yokoyama
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Patent number: 11628820Abstract: A control system includes a motor-generator, an electric power generation system, and a battery. An EV operation, in which the electric motor is operated while the electric power generation system is stopped, is performed, when an SOC of the battery is higher than a first value, and an HV operation, in which the electric motor is operated while the electric power generation system is operated, is performed, when the SOC is lower than the first value. At the time of the EV operation, in response to a predicted value of the SOC being equal to or higher than a second set value which is lower than the first set value, the EV operation is continued even if the SOC falls below the first value. The predicted value is a predicted value of the SOC assuming continuation of the EV operation from a current location to a destination.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masanori Shimada, Daiki Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20230083648Abstract: A CO2 emission amount calculation apparatus includes a processor to search for a route from a departure place of a movable object to a destination, calculate, in response to re-routing of the movable object on the route searched for, a first CO2 emission amount that the movable object emits in a route before the re-routing and a second CO2 emission amount that the movable object emits in a route after the re-routing, and calculate, with the first CO2 emission amount and the second CO2 emission amount, a CO2 emission amount that the movable object emits over an entire route from the departure place to the destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventors: Masanori SHIMADA, Koichi UEDA, Naoto SUZUKI, Yoshihiro SAKAYANAGI
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Publication number: 20230075549Abstract: A CO2 emission calculation device includes a processor configured to calculate a CO2 emission factor of a moving body based on a CO2 emission factor of an energy source supplied to the moving body, and calculate a CO2 emission at a time of a movement of the moving body based on the CO2 emission factor of the moving body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Masanori SHIMADA, Koichi UEDA, Naoto SUZUKI, Yoshihiro SAKAYANAGI
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Publication number: 20220402518Abstract: A setting device including a processor is provided. The processor is configured to, when occurrence of a secondary disaster is predicted after occurrence of a disaster, set a region in which the secondary disaster is predicted to a charging-prohibited zone in which use of a charging facility for charging a battery installed in a vehicle is prohibited.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Inventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Yoshiyuki KAGEURA, Masanori SHIMADA, Yoshihiro SAKAYANAGI, Hiroki MORITA
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Publication number: 20220388517Abstract: A vehicle control device configured to control switching of drive mode of a vehicle including an internal combustion engine and a motor includes a processor configured to switch, in a case where a road surface of a perimeter of a geofencing zone is a road surface on which there is a high probability that the vehicle slips, in a movement route from an outside of the geofencing zone to an inside of the geofencing zone, the drive mode of the vehicle to drive by the motor in a state in which there is a low probability that the vehicle slips, outside the geofencing zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Yoshiyuki KAGEURA, Masanori SHIMADA, Yoshihiro SAKAYANAGI, Hiroki MORITA
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Patent number: 11491967Abstract: A control system for a hybrid vehicle which includes an internal combustion engine and an electric motor and whose drive mode is switchable between an electric vehicle mode and a hybrid vehicle mode includes: an on-board learning unit mounted on the hybrid vehicle and configured to perform a learning action; a position determination unit configured to determine whether the hybrid vehicle is located in a low emission area where operation of the internal combustion engine is supposed to be restricted; and a learning control unit configured to at least partially stop the learning action of the on-board learning unit when determination is made that the hybrid vehicle is located in the low emission area.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Masanori Shimada
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Publication number: 20220343392Abstract: The offer device includes a processor configured to offer candidate vehicles for reservation to a user through a user terminal, and determine a possibility of an area in which operation of an internal combustion engine is banned or restricted being included in a planned running route of the user. The processor is configured to determine an offer mode of the candidate vehicles for reservation based on the possibility.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Hiroya CHIBA, Yoshiyuki KAGEURA, Masanori SHIMADA, Yoshihiro SAKAYANAGI, Hiroki MORITA
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Publication number: 20220291003Abstract: A ridesharing management system which enables a plurality of users using a ridesharing service to share a vehicle as passengers, wherein the vehicle is comprised of a hybrid vehicle, and a boundary is established between the inside of an engine restricted zone in which operation of an internal combustion engine is restricted and the outside of the engine restricted zone. It is predicted whether the SOC amount of the battery will become less than a setting value during travel in the engine restricted zone if traveling through a stop in the engine restricted zone and a stop outside the engine restricted zone due to a pick-up request or drop-off request from a user. A route order that does not result in the SOC amount of the battery becoming less than the setting value during travel in the engine restricted zone is suggested.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Hiroya CHIBA, Yoshiyuki KAGEURA, Masanori SHIMADA, Yoshihiro SAKAYANAGI, Hiroki MORITA
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Publication number: 20220250541Abstract: An alarm device adapted for a hybrid vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine and an electric motor is disclosed. A restriction zone, in which the operation of the internal combustion engine should be restricted, is defined in advance within a zone in which the vehicle can move. An alarm is issued by an alarm device in response to determining that the SOC of a battery of a vehicle, which is about to enter the restriction zone, is lower than a predetermined threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2021Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Hiroya CHIBA, Yoshiyuki KAGEURA, Masanori SHIMADA, Yoshihiro SAKAYANAGI
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Publication number: 20220234567Abstract: A vehicle control device including processor being configured to, when driving sections are present inside a restricted region, extract as a restricted driving section from among driving sections present inside the restricted region a driving section through which it is projected the vehicle will be driven in a restricted time period in which operation of internal combustion engines is restricted, and prepare a driving plan able to drive through the restricted driving section in the EV mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2021Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Hiroya CHIBA, Yoshiyuki KAGEURA, Masanori SHIMADA, Yoshihiro SAKAYANAGI, Sui KURIHASHI, Hiroki MORITA, Makoto OGISO