Patents by Inventor Masashi NOSE

Masashi NOSE 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: 20240119762
    Abstract: An information processing method that is executed by an information processing device configured to calculate a feature relating to driving by a driver and transmit configured to information on the feature to outside includes specifying whether a current situation is a predetermined situation, calculating information on the predetermined situation as the feature when the information processing device specifies the predetermined situation, statistically quantifying the feature, and transmitting the statistically quantified feature to outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihisa YAMADA, Shoji KUBOTA, Masashi NOSE
  • Patent number: 11472254
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle including: a vehicle main body including an electrical device that generates heat when the vehicle travels; a heat exchanger that performs heat exchange between outside air and a refrigerant; and cooling piping that constitutes a flow passage through which the refrigerant circulates between the electrical device and the heat exchanger, with a part of the flow passage being routed on a lower surface side of and in contact with a floor panel that constitutes a part of the vehicle main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoharu Kataoka, Jumpei Watanabe, Masashi Nose
  • Patent number: 11384674
    Abstract: A reuse evaluation system is a system that performs an evaluation to reuse a catalyst in a state where the catalyst that purifies an exhaust gas of an engine of a vehicle 1 is mounted on the vehicle. The reuse evaluation system includes a deterioration estimator that estimates a degree of deterioration of the catalyst based on an operating state of the vehicle, a reuse setting unit that sets a range of the degree of deterioration of the catalyst as a reuse range of the catalyst according to a usage of reuse of the catalyst, and a reuse determining unit that determines that the catalyst is reusable in the reuse usages when the degree of deterioration of the catalyst estimated by the deterioration estimator is within the reuse range set by the reuse setting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Okada, Masaru Kakinohana, Fukutaroh Mori, Shogo Shirakawa, Yuriko Takahashi, Masashi Nose
  • Patent number: 11286839
    Abstract: A method for reusing a vehicular catalyst that ensures effective reuse of a catalyst discarded when a vehicle is discarded is provided. A catalyst deterioration level of a catalytic converter is diagnosed, a catalyst that has a value of the deterioration level diagnosed to be smaller than a predetermined value is determined as a reusable catalyst, and the catalytic converter that includes the catalyst determined as the reusable catalyst is removed from a discarded vehicle. The removed catalytic converter is stored in association with a vehicle type and a manufacturing time of the discarded vehicle. When an abnormality occurs in a catalyst of a drivable vehicle corresponding to the vehicle type and the manufacturing time, a catalytic converter that includes the abnormal catalyst is replaced with the stored catalytic converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Okada, Masaru Kakinohana, Fukutaroh Mori, Shogo Shirakawa, Yuriko Takahashi, Masashi Nose
  • Publication number: 20210301708
    Abstract: A reuse evaluation system is a system that performs an evaluation to reuse a catalyst in a state where the catalyst that purifies an exhaust gas of an engine of a vehicle 1 is mounted on the vehicle. The reuse evaluation system includes a deterioration estimator that estimates a degree of deterioration of the catalyst based on an operating state of the vehicle, a reuse setting unit that sets a range of the degree of deterioration of the catalyst as a reuse range of the catalyst according to a usage of reuse of the catalyst, and a reuse determining unit that determines that the catalyst is reusable in the reuse usages when the degree of deterioration of the catalyst estimated by the deterioration estimator is within the reuse range set by the reuse setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi OKADA, Masaru KAKINOHANA, Fukutaroh MORI, Shogo SHIRAKAWA, Yuriko TAKAHASHI, Masashi NOSE
  • Publication number: 20210285357
    Abstract: A method for reusing a vehicular catalyst that ensures effective reuse of a catalyst discarded when a vehicle is discarded is provided. A catalyst deterioration level of a catalytic converter is diagnosed, a catalyst that has a value of the deterioration level diagnosed to be smaller than a predetermined value is determined as a reusable catalyst, and the catalytic converter that includes the catalyst determined as the reusable catalyst is removed from a discarded vehicle. The removed catalytic converter is stored in association with a vehicle type and a manufacturing time of the discarded vehicle. When an abnormality occurs in a catalyst of a drivable vehicle corresponding to the vehicle type and the manufacturing time, a catalytic converter that includes the abnormal catalyst is replaced with the stored catalytic converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi OKADA, Masaru KAKINOHANA, Fukutaroh MORI, Shogo SHIRAKAWA, Yuriko TAKAHASHI, Masashi NOSE
  • Publication number: 20210229545
    Abstract: A vehicle is provided with a vehicle body equipped with an electric device that generates heat during traveling, a heat exchanger that exchanges heat between the outside air and a refrigerant, and a cooling tube that constitutes a flow passage for circulation of the refrigerant between the electric device and the heat exchanger, and in which a part of the flow passage directed from the electric device to the heat exchanger is laid in a vehicle cabin of the vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Jumpei WATANABE, Tomoharu KATAOKA, Masashi NOSE
  • Publication number: 20210229521
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle including: a vehicle main body including an electrical device that generates heat when the vehicle travels; a heat exchanger that performs heat exchange between outside air and a refrigerant; and cooling piping that constitutes a flow passage through which the refrigerant circulates between the electrical device and the heat exchanger, with a part of the flow passage being routed on a lower surface side of and in contact with a floor panel that constitutes a part of the vehicle main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Tomoharu KATAOKA, Jumpei WATANABE, Masashi NOSE