Patents by Inventor Masato Endo
Masato Endo 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: 20240423815Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an actuator and a prosthesis that can propose an actuator and a prosthesis that can downsize a device. An actuator includes: a leaf spring that includes a bent portion bent in a U shape and a first extending portion extending from the bent portion, a first one end portion that is an end portion of the first extending portion on a side of the bent portion being cantilevered, the first extending portion being bendable and deformable in a plate thickness direction according to torque by transmitting the torque; and a first support member that supports a part of the first extending portion on a bending direction side in a case where torque transmitted in a first direction by the first extending portion is larger than a predetermined value. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a prosthesis.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2022Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Ken ENDO, Ryusuke MORITA, Masato TANAKA
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Publication number: 20240397294Abstract: An information processing system relates to a delivery service in which a vehicle cabin including a trunk of a vehicle used by a user is designated as a delivery destination of a package. The information processing system includes a center server configured to remind the user to receive the package from the vehicle cabin of the vehicle designated by the user as the delivery destination of the package, in a case where the package is not received from the vehicle cabin of the vehicle after a predetermined time has elapsed since the package was delivered to the vehicle cabin of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2024Publication date: November 28, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masato ENDO, Yuichiro HARUNA
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Publication number: 20240312542Abstract: A semiconductor storage device includes a thermal history monitor and a determination circuit. The thermal history monitor outputs a thermal history based on a characteristic variation of a memory cell when a reliability detection command is input from a controller or a host device. The determination circuit determines package reliability based on the thermal history output from the thermal history monitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2024Publication date: September 19, 2024Applicant: Kioxia CorporationInventors: Masato ENDO, Haruo MIKI, Daiki SUGAWARA
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Patent number: 12096316Abstract: An information processing system relates to a delivery service in which a vehicle cabin including a trunk of a vehicle used by a user is designated as a delivery destination of a package. The information processing system includes a center server configured to remind the user to receive the package from the vehicle cabin of the vehicle designated by the user as the delivery destination of the package, in a case where the package is not received from the vehicle cabin of the vehicle after a predetermined time has elapsed since the package was delivered to the vehicle cabin of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masato Endo, Yuichiro Haruna
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Patent number: 12086737Abstract: An information providing system includes: a server including a first processor configured to provide an excursion pass that allows a user to use a plurality of transportation units to a terminal of the user; and a terminal including a second processor configured to output predetermined information to the server. The first processor is configured to: estimate a transportation unit used by the user among the plurality of transportation units, and a usage section of the transportation unit; acquire evaluation information indicating evaluation of the user with respect to the transportation unit from the terminal; calculate allocation of sales of the excursion pass to each operator providing the plurality of transportation units based on an estimation result of the transportation unit and the usage section, and the evaluation information; and output information regarding the allocation to each operator.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Majima, Masato Endo
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Patent number: 12078138Abstract: A remote startup system includes: a terminal; a center server configured to receive a startup request; and a vehicle having a driving device, the vehicle configured to receive a startup request, and start up the driving device, wherein at least one of the center server and the vehicle includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on transmission availability state of a power transmission device that transmits power of the driving device in the vehicle to driving wheels, or information on an operation state of a rotation prevention device that prevents rotation of the driving wheels when a function of transmitting the startup request is activated or when the startup request is transmitted, and a permission determination unit configured to determine whether to permit the startup of the driving device based on the startup request, based on the information acquired by the information acquisition unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2023Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuyuki Tamane, Masato Endo
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Publication number: 20240256099Abstract: In an information processing apparatus, a control unit is configured to execute acquiring assessment results of a plurality of items on driving operation of a first vehicle, and first information on a first device. The first device is used to assist in driving operation of a first item of which the assessment result is lower than a reference value among the plurality of items, and the first device is attachable to the first vehicle. The control unit is configured to output the assessment results of the plurality of items and the first information in a form in which the assessment result of the first item is associated with the first information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi AKIMA, Yasuyuki KAMEZAKI, Masato ENDO
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Publication number: 20240249308Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to: acquire information on driving of a user; determine, for each trip, whether a predetermined event has occurred based on the information on the driving of the user, and create a diagnostic report associated with the predetermined event; and notify the user that the diagnostic report is present in response to creation of the diagnostic report associated with the predetermined event.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2024Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shuji Miyai, Yasuyuki Kamezaki, Masato Endo, Seira Nakata
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Publication number: 20240249643Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to execute: a process of presenting a user a plurality of missions respectively corresponding to a plurality of items of driving assessment; a process of setting one or more first missions for the user, the one or more first missions being selected by the user from among the plurality of missions; a process of determining whether the user has cleared the one or more first missions based on the driving assessment corresponding to the one or more first missions; and a process of presenting the user the plurality of missions including a second mission higher in difficulty level than the one or more first missions in response to a situation that the user has cleared the one or more first missions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2023Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shuji MIYAI, Yasuyuki KAMEZAKI, Masato ENDO, Seira NAKATA
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Publication number: 20240249569Abstract: A control unit provided in an information processing device executes driving diagnosis of a vehicle for a plurality of items in a predetermined period, obtains a score for each of the plurality of items, and performs driving diagnosis among the plurality of items. Determining a comprehensive evaluation according to the number of items whose diagnostic results are equal to or less than a predetermined score; displaying the comprehensive evaluation on an initial screen of a user interface that displays the results of the driving diagnosis; and displaying the evaluation for each of the plurality of items on another screen associated with.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi AKIMA, Shuji Miyai, Yasuyuki Kamezaki, Masato Endo
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Publication number: 20240249249Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to acquire information on user's driving, perform a driving diagnose of a vehicle based on the acquired information, and present an amount of money saved for a component of the vehicle based on a result of the driving diagnosis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2023Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kota WASHIO, Masato ENDO
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Patent number: 12046089Abstract: An information processing device includes: a decision unit that decides upper limits of respective individual evaluation values for a plurality of calculation items such that a total of the upper limits is a previously determined value, the individual evaluation values being relevant to driving of a driver, the calculation items being calculation items for which the individual evaluation values are calculated; an acquisition unit that acquires vehicle information relevant to a vehicle; a calculation unit that calculates the respective individual evaluation values for the calculation items within the upper limits decided by the decision unit, based on the vehicle information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a control unit that displays, on a display unit, the respective individual evaluation values for the calculation items that are calculated by the calculation unit and a total evaluation value that is a total of the respective individual evaluation values for the calculation items.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Chisato Sugiura, Ai Ito, Akihito Nakamura, Yasuyuki Kamezaki, Takaaki Nagatani, Shuhei Manabe, Masato Endo
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Publication number: 20240239364Abstract: The server obtains a first reduction amount of carbon dioxide emitted from the vehicle group and converts the first reduction amount of carbon dioxide into a first amount of the biological group. The server acquires a second reduction amount of carbon dioxide emitted from the first vehicle by driving of the first user associated with the first vehicle included in the vehicle group, and acquires a contribution degree of the first user in the first amount of the biological group based on the second reduction amount of carbon dioxide. The server causes the predetermined display device to display information indicating the first amount of the biological group and the degree of contribution of the first user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: July 18, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kota WASHIO, Hinata ICHIKAWA, Masato ENDO
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Patent number: 11946764Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes: a map information acquisition unit that acquires map data around a vehicle; and an item display unit that overlaps a virtual item on a predetermined travel road on the map data and that displays the virtual item in a display area in a vehicle cabin. The item display unit overlaps and displays the virtual item on the map data, thereby guiding a driver of the vehicle toward the travel road on which the virtual item is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masato Endo, Yasuyuki Kamezaki, Yasuhiro Murata, Takeo Moriai, Kosuke Sakakibara, Kenta Miyahara, Takashi Hayashi
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Patent number: 11941921Abstract: A maintenance information management device includes an information registration unit configured to register vehicle identification information and maintenance information in a memory for each vehicle, an information update unit configured to update the maintenance information after the maintenance of the vehicle by adding maintenance contents to the maintenance information registered in the memory, and an information providing unit configured to provide the maintenance information when a provision request for the maintenance information is accepted.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masato Endo, Yasuyuki Kamezaki, Yasuhiro Murata, Takeo Moriai, Kosuke Sakakibara, Kenta Miyahara, Takashi Hayashi
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Patent number: 11941314Abstract: A display control device includes one or more processors configured to: acquire information regarding a plurality of driving evaluation items set in advance; count, as the number of times of measurement, the number of times that at least one of a vehicle state and a driving state meets each of the driving evaluation items while a driver is driving a vehicle; display the driving evaluation items in a display region in a vehicle cabin; and visually display information relating to the remaining number of times that is a difference between the permissible number of times set for each of the driving evaluation items and the number of times of measurement.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuyuki Kamezaki, Shuhei Manabe, Takaaki Nagatani, Masato Endo, Kenya Takagi
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Patent number: 11925867Abstract: A processor is capable of assessing plural driving assessment items with mutually different details on the basis of driving operations of a vehicle. A game is displayed at a display part of an operation terminal by execution of a game application. The processor assigns modification factors generated in accordance with assessment results of the driving assessment items to a character in the game.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masato Endo
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Publication number: 20240075940Abstract: An individual characteristics management device includes: a data acquiring section acquiring driving data relating to a plurality of driving evaluation items that are set in advance, and an individual characteristics estimating section estimating individual characteristics of a driver based on the driving data acquired by the data acquiring section.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Shuhei MANABE, Masato ENDO
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Patent number: 11912280Abstract: A driving diagnosis device includes: an event display unit that displays at least one event that is executed while a vehicle is driven; an event determination unit that determines whether the event is executed; a change element giving unit that gives, to a character of a game that is displayed on a display unit of an operation terminal by executing a game application, a change element generated in response to the event determined to be executed by the event determination unit; and a determination prohibition unit that causes the event determination unit not to determine that the same event is executed, when the same event is executed after the number of times the same event is executed exceeds a limited number of times that is a predetermined plurality of times.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masato Endo
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Patent number: 11915188Abstract: A delivery server includes a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to: transmit arrival information of a product to a user terminal carried by a user who has ordered the product; transmit, in a case where unattended delivery is instructed by the user terminal, unattended delivery information to a home delivery terminal of a delivery person who delivers the product, and request a signature of the user; transmit the signature information to the home delivery terminal in response to receiving signature information regarding the signature of the user from the user terminal; and transmit delivery completion information of the product to the user terminal.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji Okazaki, Masato Endo, Mayumi Kurita, Masashi Toritani, Kumiko Matsuura, Takayuki Shikoda, Masaaki Otsuka, Yoshikazu Ishii