Patents by Inventor Naoko Kishikawa

Naoko Kishikawa 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: 20220284394
    Abstract: A transportation planning system includes a control section and a storage section. The storage section retains cargo information, vehicle information, location information, movement time period information, and storage location information. The control section divides a region including a plurality of locations into a plurality of divisional regions, selects one or more of the locations as a candidate for a storage location of cargo, and generates a plurality of transportation schedules each including the candidate for a storage location and a storage period. The control section determines that, in a case where an amount of cargo to be stored does not exceed the capacity of the storage location, the plan of the candidate for is reasonable, and calculates a transportation cost in one or more of the transportation schedules for which it has been determined that the plan of the candidate storage is reasonable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akane SETO, Kazuya UYAMA, Junko HOSODA, Naoko KISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220237560
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to create a delivery plan in consideration of loadability for a package when the package has a new shape or a shape of the package changes during a delivery process. A delivery plan creating system includes: a stowage rule generation unit that generates stowage rules using delivery performance data including records of a type of a delivery vehicle and a type of a package to be delivered by the delivery vehicle and stores the stowage rules in a stowage rule storage unit; a delivery plan calculation unit that estimates a scheme of the package to be loaded on the delivery vehicle and creates a delivery plan using the scheme when the package to be loaded on each delivery vehicle in the scheme matches one of the stowage rules; and a display unit that displays the delivery plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Futoshi KOIKE, Junko HOSODA, Naoko KISHIKAWA, Akane SETO
  • Patent number: 11367031
    Abstract: A delivery plan creating device includes: a delivery request acquisition unit that acquires a delivery change request; a change instruction deadline calculation unit that calculates, based on a delivery time range contained in the delivery change request, a change instruction deadline representing a deadline that can instruct a change in a delivery plan; a storage unit that stores conditional calculation record information in which a delivery condition set at a time of creating an executed delivery plan is in association with calculation time required for creating the executed delivery plan; a search unit that selects a delivery condition set similar to the delivery change request from the conditional calculation record information; and a calculation starting time point calculation unit that calculates a calculation starting time point by counting the calculation time in association with the selected delivery condition set backward from the change instruction deadline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Futoshi Koike, Junko Hosoda, Naoko Kishikawa, Akane Seto
  • Patent number: 11282156
    Abstract: A transportation planning apparatus calculates work time included in a transportation work plan. The transportation planning apparatus holds (i) order information showing a plurality of orders each including a delivery work and a pickup work, a site where the delivery work is performed, and a site where the pickup work is performed, and (ii) work time information of the delivery work, the pickup work, and a delivery and pickup work when regarded as one work. A transportation work order plan is generated showing a performing order of the delivery work and the pickup work that are included in the plurality of orders, sets the delivery work and the pickup work that are continuous at the same site, and specifies work time of the delivery work, the pickup work, and the delivery and pickup work that are included in the transportation work order plan with reference to the work time information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoko Kishikawa, Junko Hosoda, Futoshi Koike
  • Publication number: 20220083938
    Abstract: A transportation planning system provides a transportation plan for reducing at least a plan change amount in response to a variation in a transportation amount and a change in a transportation resource. A storage unit stores transportation amount information on an article based on an order, transportation resource information on the article, and transportation resource arrangement plan information indicating a preset transportation resource arrangement plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Akane SETO, Junko HOSODA, Futoshi KOIKE, Naoko KISHIKAWA, Kazuya UYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210264338
    Abstract: A delivery plan creating device includes: a delivery request acquisition unit that acquires a delivery change request; a change instruction deadline calculation unit that calculates, based on a delivery time range contained in the delivery change request, a change instruction deadline representing a deadline that can instruct a change in a delivery plan; a storage unit that stores conditional calculation record information in which a delivery condition set at a time of creating an executed delivery plan is in association with calculation time required for creating the executed delivery plan; a search unit that selects a delivery condition set similar to the delivery change request from the conditional calculation record information; and a calculation starting time point calculation unit that calculates a calculation starting time point by counting the calculation time in association with the selected delivery condition set backward from the change instruction deadline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Futoshi KOIKE, Junko HOSODA, Naoko KISHIKAWA, Akane SETO
  • Publication number: 20210133655
    Abstract: A transportation plan generation apparatus can access transported item count information that stores a transportation date, a transported item, and a transported item count, transported item information that stores the transported item and a volume, and transportation fee information that stores a transportation means, a load volume, a fee for each period. The apparatus executes: detecting a first period, among a plurality of periods, during which the transportation volume for each period based on the transported item count and the volume exceeds a threshold; identifying second periods that are prior to the first period, and that don't correspond to the first period; determining a given second period during which the fee for the transportation means is less expensive than for the first period, among the second periods, to be a period to which a portion of the transportation volume of the first period is reallocated; and outputting a determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI TRANSPORT SYSTEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Issei SUEMITSU, Kei UTSUGI, Junko HOSODA, Naoko KISHIKAWA, Yoshihito SHIMAZU, Takahiro NISHIKAWA, Akira KOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200342560
    Abstract: A transportation planning apparatus calculates work time included in a transportation work plan. The transportation planning apparatus holds (i) order information showing a plurality of orders each including a delivery work and a pickup work, a site where the delivery work is performed, and a site where the pickup work is performed, and (ii) work time information of the delivery work, the pickup work, and a delivery and pickup work when regarded as one work. A transportation work order plan is generated showing a performing order of the delivery work and the pickup work that are included in the plurality of orders, sets the delivery work and the pickup work that are continuous at the same site, and specifies work time of the delivery work, the pickup work, and the delivery and pickup work that are included in the transportation work order plan with reference to the work time information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Naoko KISHIKAWA, Junko HOSODA, Futoshi KOIKE
  • Publication number: 20200082487
    Abstract: The inventory deployment planning device includes an inventory deployment planning unit configured to distribute an inventory amount, a delivery amount and a warehousing amount to each warehouse at any ratio based on a total inventory amount of a product, a demand amount and a supply amount of the product and to distribute an operation amount of each operation to a prescribed resource in each warehouse at any ratio based on the inventory amount, the delivery amount and the warehousing amount; a resource number calculation unit configured to calculate the number of required resources of the resource based on the operation amount, and to calculate a total number of resources according to a prescribed rule; a cost calculation unit configured to calculate a resource cost based on the total number of resources; and an optimum inventory deployment selection unit configured to specify an optimum inventory deployment in a supply chain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Naoko KISHIKAWA, Junko HOSODA, Yuhei NIWA
  • Publication number: 20130332233
    Abstract: There is provided a system or others capable of predicting a parts shipment quantity varying in accordance with an assumed parts-purchase period (such as a charge-free warranty period of a product) (having a period length with taking a product shipping date as a starting point during which a customer is assumed to purchase parts) so that prediction accuracy can be increased more than a conventional one. In the prediction system (1) for the parts shipment quantity, a server (10) has a prediction unit (100) to which product data (D1), parts shipment data (D2), and a prediction condition (D3) containing information of the assumed parts-purchase period are inputted and which performs a process of predicting a future shipment quantity for each parts and of outputting prediction result data (D0). The prediction unit (100) performs a process of predicting the future shipment quantity for each parts in accordance with the assumed parts-purchase period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventors: Naoko Kishikawa, Jun Tateishi, Kenji Tamaki