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).
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Publication number: 20240119762Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshihisa YAMADA, Shoji KUBOTA, Masashi NOSE
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Patent number: 11472254Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoharu Kataoka, Jumpei Watanabe, Masashi Nose
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Patent number: 11384674Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsuyoshi Okada, Masaru Kakinohana, Fukutaroh Mori, Shogo Shirakawa, Yuriko Takahashi, Masashi Nose
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Patent number: 11286839Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsuyoshi Okada, Masaru Kakinohana, Fukutaroh Mori, Shogo Shirakawa, Yuriko Takahashi, Masashi Nose
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Publication number: 20210301708Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsuyoshi OKADA, Masaru KAKINOHANA, Fukutaroh MORI, Shogo SHIRAKAWA, Yuriko TAKAHASHI, Masashi NOSE
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Publication number: 20210285357Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsuyoshi OKADA, Masaru KAKINOHANA, Fukutaroh MORI, Shogo SHIRAKAWA, Yuriko TAKAHASHI, Masashi NOSE
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Publication number: 20210229545Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Jumpei WATANABE, Tomoharu KATAOKA, Masashi NOSE
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Publication number: 20210229521Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2020Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Tomoharu KATAOKA, Jumpei WATANABE, Masashi NOSE