Patents by Inventor Mutsumi KAWASHIMA
Mutsumi KAWASHIMA 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: 20240123809Abstract: A vehicle includes: a vehicle body having a bottom portion; a power storage device including a main body having a front wall portion, a rear wall portion, and a lower surface; and a flow regulation plate having a distal end portion at a position spaced downward from the bottom portion, a protruding portion is provided on the lower surface side of the main body; in a fixed state in which the power storage device is fixed to the vehicle body, the lower surface is located downward of the bottom portion; the flow regulation plate is provided to be pivotable; and in the fixed state, the protruding portion abuts against the flow regulation plate to maintain a state in which the flow regulation plate covers at least one of the front wall portion and the rear wall portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuya SHIMIZU, Katsuya Shimazu, Ayaka Kagami, Mutsumi Kawashima
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Patent number: 11958182Abstract: A mobile body system for managing a mobile body that moves within a predetermined area includes a mobile body associated with a guest group including one or more guests, and a managing apparatus configured to manage an outer appearance of the mobile body. The managing apparatus includes an activity collector configured to collect activity information indicative of an activity of the guest within the predetermined area, and an outer appearance manager configured to change the outer appearance of the mobile body viewed by the guest based on the activity information collected by the activity collector.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mutsumi Kawashima, Tomoaki Miyazawa, Masato Noritake, Nobuhiro Nishikawa, Masato Kurima, Tokuyuki Nishikawa, Reiko Tomita, Takaaki Kato, Hiroyuki Tomita, Daisaku Kato
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Patent number: 11878579Abstract: A vehicle underbody structure, including: a case that is provided on a vehicle lower side of a vehicle and has a mount portion on which batteries are mounted; a refrigerant flow passage that is provided on the vehicle lower side of the case and in which heat exchange can take place between the batteries on the mount portion and a refrigerant; and inflow/outflow portions that communicate with the refrigerant flow passage from a vehicle upper side and allow the refrigerant to flow in or flow out between an outside of the refrigerant flow passage and the refrigerant flow passage.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhide Matsuo, Ayaka Kagami, Mutsumi Kawashima
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Publication number: 20220193562Abstract: A movable body for transporting a visitor at a predetermined area includes a first display device configured to display a video on a virtual window being a display range defined on an inner surface of the movable body, and a display controller configured to partially altering a vehicle window view video which should be originally obtained from the virtual window when the virtual window is assumed to be a physical window, to generate an entertainment effect video. In an operation to generate the entertainment effect video, the display controller may partially or entirely convert a figure of a person contained in the vehicle window view video into that of a fictitious character or may convert at least one of persons contained in the vehicle window view video into an invisible form.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Mutsumi Kawashima, Tomoaki Miyazawa, Masato Noritake, Nobuhiro Nishikawa, Masato Kurima, Tokuyuki Nishikawa, Reiko Tomita, Takaaki Kato, Hiroyuki Tomita, Daisaku Kato
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Publication number: 20220193916Abstract: A mobile body system for managing a mobile body that moves within a predetermined area includes a mobile body associated with a guest group including one or more guests, and a managing apparatus configured to manage an outer appearance of the mobile body. The managing apparatus includes an activity collector configured to collect activity information indicative of an activity of the guest within the predetermined area, and an outer appearance manager configured to change the outer appearance of the mobile body viewed by the guest based on the activity information collected by the activity collector.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Mutsumi Kawashima, Tomoaki Miyazawa, Masato Noritake, Nobuhiro Nishikawa, Masato Kurima, Tokuyuki Nishikawa, Reiko Tomita, Takaaki Kato, Hiroyuki Tomita, Daisaku Kato
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Publication number: 20220197303Abstract: A mobile unit system is lent to a user group consisting of at least one user in a park. The mobile unit system includes a first mobile unit configured to support an activity of the at least one user; and a second mobile unit configured to cooperate with the first mobile unit. The second mobile unit is smaller in size and has lower functionality than the first mobile unit. The first mobile unit has at least one of a baggage transportation function, a user transportation function, and a payment processing function.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Mutsumi Kawashima, Tomoaki Miyazawa, Masato Noritake, Nobuhiro Nishikawa, Masato Kurima, Tokuyuki Nishikawa, Reiko Tomita, Takaaki Kato, Hiroyuki Tomita, Daisaku Kato
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Publication number: 20220176789Abstract: A vehicle underbody structure, including: a case that is provided on a vehicle lower side of a vehicle and has a mount portion on which batteries are mounted; a refrigerant flow passage that is provided on the vehicle lower side of the case and in which heat exchange can take place between the batteries on the mount portion and a refrigerant; and inflow/outflow portions that communicate with the refrigerant flow passage from a vehicle upper side and allow the refrigerant to flow in or flow out between an outside of the refrigerant flow passage and the refrigerant flow passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2021Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Yasuhide Matsuo, Ayaka Kagami, Mutsumi Kawashima
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Publication number: 20210261202Abstract: In a vehicle lower part structure, a flow path for coolant is constituted by a tray bottom portion of a tray on which a battery is installed and second recesses of a plate. A flat plate portion of a protector is disposed on the lower side of the plate in a vehicle up-down direction, and the flat plate portion is connected to bottom portions of first recesses of the plate with bolts. The first recesses have a larger depth than the second recesses and the bottoms of the first recesses are located lower than those of the second recesses in the vehicle up-down direction. Thus, the flat plate portion of the protector is separated downward from the bottoms of the first recesses in the vehicle up-down direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2020Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Mutsumi KAWASHIMA, Ayaka KAGAMI, Yasuhide MATSUO
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Patent number: 10065484Abstract: A recess is formed at a door outer panel, and a reference pin provided at a rear spoiler abuts a front wall of the recess, thereby enabling the rear spoiler to be positioned with respect to a back door in a vehicle front-rear direction and a vehicle vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2014Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mutsumi Kawashima, Miho Mizukoshi
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Patent number: 9931914Abstract: A bonding structure of vehicle members includes a first member formed of resin in a shape of a panel and in which a ridge line is formed by an angular portion divided with respect to a curvature of other portion of a surface thereof, a second member formed in a shape of a panel with resin or metal having a smaller thermal expansion coefficient than the first member, an outside bonding portion provided on an outer edge side of the first member to bond together the first member and the second member, and an inside bonding portion provided inside of the outside bonding portion in a plane direction of the first member and bonds together the first member and the second member, at least one of plural apexes in a proximity of the outside bonding portion overlapping the ridge line when viewed from outside of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mutsumi Kawashima, Miho Mizukoshi, Yasuyuki Suzuki
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Patent number: 9840133Abstract: A concave portion, that is concave in a direction away from a back door glass, is formed at a facing wall of an outer member at a facing region that faces a bus bar portion. Due thereto, a gap between a bottom surface of the concave portion and the bus bar portion that is disposed at the back door glass can be made to be large.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2014Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mutsumi Kawashima, Miho Mizukoshi
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Patent number: 9746021Abstract: A sealing rubber is integrally molded to an outer peripheral face and a lower face of a flange portion of a collar, and a protruding portion is continuously formed along the circumferential direction around a through-hole in an upper face of a resin member.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mutsumi Kawashima, Miho Mizukoshi, Hidetoshi Hayashi, Shinya Kamimura, Koki Ikeda
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Patent number: 9539885Abstract: A convex portion is provided on a door outer panel. Thus, when the door outer panel is thermally expanded, the convex portion is compressed along the direction of a plane of the door outer panel, so a gap the convex portion is crushed. That is, a dimensional difference that has occurred between the door outer panel and a door inner panel along the direction of the plane of the door outer panel is absorbed through compressive deformation of the convex portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2014Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Mutsumi Kawashima
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Publication number: 20160375747Abstract: A bonding structure of vehicle members includes a first member formed of resin in a shape of a panel and in which a ridge line is formed by an angular portion divided with respect to a curvature of other portion of a surface thereof, a second member formed in a shape of a panel with resin or metal having a smaller thermal expansion coefficient than the first member, an outside bonding portion provided on an outer edge side of the first member to bond together the first member and the second member, and an inside bonding portion provided inside of the outside bonding portion in a plane direction of the first member and bonds together the first member and the second member, at least one of plural apexes in a proximity of the outside bonding portion overlapping the ridge line when viewed from outside of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2014Publication date: December 29, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mutsumi KAWASHIMA, Miho MIZUKOSHI, Yasuyuki SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20160303954Abstract: A recess is formed at a door outer panel, and a reference pin provided at a rear spoiler abuts a front wall of the recess, thereby enabling the rear spoiler to be positioned with respect to a back door in a vehicle front-rear direction and a vehicle vertical direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2014Publication date: October 20, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mutsumi KAWASHIMA, Miho MIZUKOSHI
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Publication number: 20160305466Abstract: A sealing rubber 24 is integrally molded to an outer peripheral face 20B and a lower face 20C of a flange portion 20 of a collar 16, and a protruding portion 28 is continuously formed along the circumferential direction around a through-hole 14A in an upper face 14B of a resin member 14.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2014Publication date: October 20, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mutsumi KAWASHIMA, Miho MIZUKOSHI, Hidetoshi HAYASHI, Shinya KAMIMURA, Koki IKEDA
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Publication number: 20160263973Abstract: A concave portion, that is concave in a direction away from a back door glass, is formed at a facing wall of an outer member at a facing region that faces a bus bar portion. Due thereto, a gap between a bottom surface of the concave portion and the bus bar portion that is disposed at the back door glass can be made to be large.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mutsumi KAWASHIMA, Miho MIZUKOSHI
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Publication number: 20160114663Abstract: A convex portion is provided on a door outer panel. Thus, when the door outer panel is thermally expanded, the convex portion is compressed along the direction of a plane of the door outer panel, so a gap the convex portion is crushed. That is, a dimensional difference that has occurred between the door outer panel and a door inner panel along the direction of the plane of the door outer panel is absorbed through compressive deformation of the convex portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2014Publication date: April 28, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Mutsumi KAWASHIMA