Patents by Inventor Mitsushi Kintaka

Mitsushi Kintaka 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: 20220358497
    Abstract: A taxi system includes: a plurality of unmanned taxi vehicles; a medium reader that is mounted on the unmanned taxi vehicle, and outputs a result obtained by reading a certificate medium presented by the occupant, as read data; and a system controller that acquires, by analyzing the read data, ticket information including at least one of a destination and payment information, and executes, based on the acquired ticket information, at least one of setting of the destination of the unmanned taxi vehicle and execution of a payment, in which the certificate medium is a medium issued to the occupant in order to authenticate the occupant in a situation other than taxi use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Makoto KAKUCHI, Osamu IZUMIDA, Shunji INOUE, Takumi HAMAJIMA, Mitsushi KINTAKA, Toshihiro ANDOU, Masamitsu TAKAHIRA
  • Publication number: 20220335833
    Abstract: A taxicab system includes a plurality of taxicab vehicles which are all autonomous vehicles, and a management device. Each taxicab vehicle can form a vehicle group with other taxicab vehicles according to an instruction from a customer or the management device. The vehicle group includes one representative vehicle and at least one subordinate vehicle. The representative vehicle and the subordinate vehicle execute at least one of a collective billing process for charging a representative customer a fare for each of the plurality of vehicles, and a collective setting process for setting a place designated by the representative customer as a destination of each of the vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Makoto KAKUCHI, Osamu IZUMIDA, Shunji INOUE, Takumi HAMAJIMA, Mitsushi KINTAKA, Toshihiro ANDOU, Masamitsu TAKAHIRA
  • Publication number: 20220315060
    Abstract: A taxi system includes: a plurality of taxi vehicles that each transport a user to a destination by automatic driving; and a management center, in which the management center, when a prescribed protection condition is satisfied, instructs one or more unmanned taxi vehicles to execute the protection traveling that is traveling while protecting a manned taxi group including one or more manned taxi vehicles, and the unmanned taxi vehicle, when having received an execution instruction of the protection traveling, protects the manned taxi group by traveling adjacently to the manned taxi group in a front-rear direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Makoto KAKUCHI, Osamu IZUMIDA, Shunji INOUE, Takumi HAMAJIMA, Mitsushi KINTAKA, Toshihiro ANDOU, Masamitsu TAKAHIRA
  • Publication number: 20220265881
    Abstract: A taxi vehicle that autonomously transports a user to a destination with no driver in the vehicle includes a cleaning device and a notification device. The cleaning device is configured to perform cleaning processing for removing at least one of harmful materials and odors from a vehicle cabin after the user has finished using the taxi vehicle. The harmful materials are those harmful to a human body. The notification device is configured to notify a person of the cleaning degree of the vehicle cabin. The person is a person outside the vehicle who wishes to use the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Makoto KAKUCHI, Osamu IZUMIDA, Shunji INOUE, Takumi HAMAJIMA, Mitsushi KINTAKA, Toshihiro ANDOU, Masamitsu TAKAHIRA
  • Publication number: 20220270489
    Abstract: A taxi system includes a taxi vehicle that runs autonomously with a user on board and transports the user, and at least one auxiliary vehicle capable of registering the taxi vehicle as a linkage target and running by following the taxi vehicle as the linkage target with luggage loaded in the at least one auxiliary vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Makoto KAKUCHI, Osamu IZUMIDA, Shunji INOUE, Takumi HAMAJIMA, Mitsushi KINTAKA, Toshiro ANDOU, Masamitsu TAKAHIRA
  • Patent number: D565463
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Tomatsu, Mitsushi Kintaka, Shogo Tokutake
  • Patent number: D565481
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Etsuya Ohishi, Nobuyuki Tomatsu, Mitsushi Kintaka, Shogo Tokutake, Yoshimune Mayuzumi
  • Patent number: D580313
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Etsuya Ohishi, Nobuyuki Tomatsu, Mitsushi Kintaka, Shogo Tokutake, Yoshimune Mayuzumi
  • Patent number: D582066
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Tomatsu, Mitsushi Kintaka
  • Patent number: D497839
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Neuchi, Mitsushi Kintaka, Hisao Hara