Patents by Inventor Mitsunori HOSOKAWA

Mitsunori HOSOKAWA 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: 20230186227
    Abstract: In a physical distribution system, a delivery controller is configured to acquire package information; generate a delivery schedule; calculate tentative delivery time of a package estimated based on the delivery schedule; send a delivery confirmation request notification requesting confirmation of the tentative delivery time to a consignee linked to the package; receive a response to the delivery confirmation request notification; control the autonomous mobile robot based on the delivery schedule generated most recently; and when confirmed time confirmed by the consignee in the response to the delivery confirmation request notification is different from the tentative delivery time, update the delivery schedule in such a manner that delivery of the package is completed at the confirmed time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Kitahama, Ryo Murakami, Hisashi Iizuka, Mitsunori Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 11644332
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an automated driving vehicle management system, a management method, an automated driving vehicle, and a program that are capable of appropriately managing the automated driving vehicle. The automated driving vehicle management system including: a map information storage unit that stores map information; an imaginary line management unit that manages an imaginary line imaginarily generated for a road included in the map information; and a communication unit that transmits imaginary line information about the imaginary line to a plurality of automated driving vehicles traveling along the imaginary line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Kitahama, Ryo Murakami, Hisashi Iizuka, Mitsunori Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 11551549
    Abstract: It is possible to manage information on a city area in a centralized manner and reduce a processing load. A management system includes: information acquisition means that is provided in infrastructure of a predetermined city area and acquire information on the city area; service providing means sending instructions to respective mobile bodies for providing a plurality of different conveyance services, each of the mobile bodies including a sensor configured to detect the information on the city area and moving in the city area based on the information detected by the sensor, thereby providing each of the conveyance services; and instruction means for sending an instruction to the service providing means based on the information on the city area acquired by the information acquisition means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Kitahama, Ryo Murakami, Hisashi Iizuka, Mitsunori Hosokawa
  • Publication number: 20210207973
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an automated driving vehicle management system, a management method, an automated driving vehicle, and a program that are capable of appropriately managing the automated driving vehicle. The automated driving vehicle management system including: a map information storage unit that stores map information; an imaginary line management unit that manages an imaginary line imaginarily generated for a road included in the map information; and a communication unit that transmits imaginary line information about the imaginary line to a plurality of automated driving vehicles traveling along the imaginary line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi KITAHAMA, Ryo MURAKAMI, Hisashi IIZUKA, Mitsunori HOSOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210209945
    Abstract: It is possible to manage information on a city area in a centralized manner and reduce a processing load. A management system includes: information acquisition means that is provided in infrastructure of a predetermined city area and acquire information on the city area; service providing means sending instructions to respective mobile bodies for providing a plurality of different conveyance services, each of the mobile bodies including a sensor configured to detect the information on the city area and moving in the city area based on the information detected by the sensor, thereby providing each of the conveyance services; and instruction means for sending an instruction to the service providing means based on the information on the city area acquired by the information acquisition means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi KITAHAMA, Ryo MURAKAMI, Hisashi IIZUKA, Mitsunori HOSOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210209712
    Abstract: A physical distribution infrastructure structure according to the present disclosure includes a collection and physical distribution yard configured to collect and distribute a cargo exchanged between outside and within a block, at least one unit block, an in-block physical distribution path provided to surround a periphery of the unit block in a loop shape, an autonomous transport robot for transporting the cargo by an autonomous operation passing through the in-block physical distribution path, and at least a part of the in-block physical distribution path being provided at a part in a layer different from a layer for a sidewalk or a roadway, a branch path configured to be accessible to a facility facing an outer periphery of the unit block, and a connection physical distribution path configured to connect the collection and physical distribution yard to the in-block physical distribution path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi KITAHAMA, Ryo MURAKAMI, Hisashi IIZUKA, Mitsunori HOSOKAWA