Patents by Inventor Nobuhiro NAKANO
Nobuhiro NAKANO 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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Patent number: 12066735Abstract: In a terminator, a midpoint electrode is provided between a first signal electrode and a second signal electrode, a first resistor is connected between the first signal electrode and the midpoint electrode, a second resistor is connected between the second signal electrode and the midpoint electrode, a first GND electrode is provided on a side opposite to the side where the first resistor is provided with the first signal electrode interposed therebetween, a second GND electrode is provided on the side opposite to the side where the second resistor is provided with the second signal electrode interposed therebetween, and capacitances in the terminator are formed between the first signal electrode and the midpoint electrode, between the second signal electrode and the midpoint electrode, between the first signal electrode and the first GND electrode, and between the second signal electrode and the second GND electrode.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Shigeru Kanazawa, Hiromasa Tanobe, Josuke Ozaki, Shinsuke Nakano, Nobuhiro Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20240208318Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body and a battery attachable to and detachable from the vehicle body. The battery includes a battery-side connector and a cover that protects the battery-side connector. The vehicle body includes a vehicle body-side connector electrically connectable to the battery-side connector. The cover exposes the battery-side connector when the battery-side connector is fit to the vehicle body-side connector in a fitting direction in which the vehicle body-side connector and the battery-side connector are fit to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2023Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun KOBAYASHI, Takahiro OKANO, Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Nobuhiro NAKANO
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Publication number: 20240190230Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body and a battery attachable to and detachable from the vehicle body. The battery includes a battery side connector. The vehicle body includes a vehicle body side connector electrically connectable to the battery side connector and a holding portion that holds the vehicle body side connector. The holding portion holds the vehicle body side connector as being movable along a fitting direction in which the vehicle body side connector and the battery side connector are fitted to each other while the battery side connector is connected to the vehicle body side connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun KOBAYASHI, Takahiro Okano, Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Nobuhiro Nakano
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Publication number: 20240190268Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body on which a battery is mountable and a battery attachable to and detachable from the vehicle body. The battery includes a battery side connector. The vehicle body includes a vehicle body side connector to be engaged with the battery side connector. The battery side connector is made of a material having a lower hardness than a material constituting the vehicle body side connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun KOBAYASHI, Takahiro OKANO, Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Nobuhiro NAKANO
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Publication number: 20240144310Abstract: A server (battery replacement management server) includes: a communication unit (acquisition unit) that acquires number-of-users information (situation information) in a battery replacement apparatus; and a processor (control unit) that adjusts, based on the situation information, an incentive given to a user of the battery replacement apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun KOBAYASHI, Takahiro OKANO, Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Nobuhiro NAKANO
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Patent number: 11822347Abstract: A delivery system includes a cooking station, a meal serving station, a drone, a meal conveying device configured to convey a meal from the cooking station to the meal serving station, and a controlling portion. A character of a theme park is displayed on the drone. The controlling portion causes the drone to fly from the cooking station to the meal serving station and causes the meal conveying device to convey the meal from the cooking station to the meal serving station such that, just after the drone has arrived at the meal serving station, the meal conveyed by the meal conveying device is served to a visitor from the meal serving station.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideyuki Sakurai, Nobuhiro Nakano, Kazuhisa Maeda, Yohei Tanigawa, Keisuke Itou, Kantarou Shinma, Nobuki Hayashi, Tetsuro Sakaguchi, Yukari Ogawa
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Patent number: 11794581Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes: an acceleration prediction section that predicts a direction of an acceleration acting on a vehicle based on information including at least one of: information regarding a planned travel path of the vehicle, information acquired from a periphery information detection sensor that detects information regarding a vehicle periphery, or information acquired from an acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration of the vehicle; and a display control section that, in a case in which an acceleration predicted by the acceleration prediction section is greater than a predetermined threshold, displays a direction of the predicted acceleration at a display portion in a vehicle cabin.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideyuki Sakurai, Yoshimi Kobayashi, Kazuhisa Maeda, Nobuhiro Nakano
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Patent number: 11600052Abstract: In an image display system that is equipped with a camera that images a figure of a visitor of a theme park in front of a mirror device and a background, a server that processes an image of the visitor imaged by the camera and that generates display data, and a display device that displays the display data generated by the server on the mirror device, the server includes a database that stores image data on a character, and generates the display data after replacing part of the image of the visitor imaged by the camera with part of an image of the character selected by the visitor with reference to the database.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideyuki Sakurai, Nobuhiro Nakano, Kazuhisa Maeda, Yohei Tanigawa, Keisuke Itou, Kantarou Shinma, Nobuki Hayashi, Tetsuro Sakaguchi, Yukari Ogawa
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Patent number: 11597328Abstract: Vehicle seats that includes: a pair of seatbacks of front seats spaced apart in a vehicle width direction; and a pair of retaining portions provided at rear face sides of the pair of seatbacks, the pair of retaining portions configured to allow a rod-shaped member to span between the seatbacks, the rod-shaped member being grippable by a vehicle occupant sitting at a rear seat middle.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Nobuhiro Nakano
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Publication number: 20220197310Abstract: A delivery system includes a cooking station, a meal serving station, a drone, a meal conveying device configured to convey a meal from the cooking station to the meal serving station, and a controlling portion. A character of a theme park is displayed on the drone. The controlling portion causes the drone to fly from the cooking station to the meal serving station and causes the meal conveying device to convey the meal from the cooking station to the meal serving station such that, just after the drone has arrived at the meal serving station, the meal conveyed by the meal conveying device is served to a visitor from the meal serving station.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideyuki SAKURAI, Nobuhiro NAKANO, Kazuhisa MAEDA, Yohei TANIGAWA, Keisuke ITOU, Kantarou SHINMA, Nobuki HAYASHI, Tetsuro SAKAGUCHI, Yukari OGAWA
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Publication number: 20220198759Abstract: In an image display system that is equipped with a camera that images a figure of a visitor of a theme park in front of a mirror device and a background, a server that processes an image of the visitor imaged by the camera and that generates display data, and a display device that displays the display data generated by the server on the mirror device, the server includes a database that stores image data on a character, and generates the display data after replacing part of the image of the visitor imaged by the camera with part of an image of the character selected by the visitor with reference to the database.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideyuki SAKURAI, Nobuhiro NAKANO, Kazuhisa MAEDA, Yohei TANIGAWA, Keisuke ITOU, Kantarou SHINMA, Nobuki HAYASHI, Tetsuro SAKAGUCHI, Yukari OGAWA
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Publication number: 20220198540Abstract: An information providing system includes a first portable terminal of a first visitor who visits a theme park and a server that communicates with the first portable terminal, in which the information providing system provides information on food provided in the theme park, the server includes a database in which an image of the food is associated with the information on the food, and when the first visitor takes a picture of food eaten by a second visitor and uploads the taken picture, the server specifies the food in the picture with reference to the database, and transmits the information on the specified food to the first portable terminal of the first visitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideyuki SAKURAI, Nobuhiro NAKANO, Kazuhisa MAEDA, Yohei TANIGAWA, Keisuke ITOU, Kantarou SHINMA, Nobuki HAYASHI, Tetsuro SAKAGUCHI, Yukari OGAWA
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Publication number: 20220144086Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes: an acceleration prediction section that predicts a direction of an acceleration acting on a vehicle based on information including at least one of: information regarding a planned travel path of the vehicle, information acquired from a periphery information detection sensor that detects information regarding a vehicle periphery, or information acquired from an acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration of the vehicle; and a display control section that, in a case in which an acceleration predicted by the acceleration prediction section is greater than a predetermined threshold, displays a direction of the predicted acceleration at a display portion in a vehicle cabin.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2021Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Hideyuki SAKURAI, Yoshimi KOBAYASHI, Kazuhisa MAEDA, Nobuhiro NAKANO
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Publication number: 20220097584Abstract: Vehicle seats that includes: a pair of seatbacks of front seats spaced apart in a vehicle width direction; and a pair of retaining portions provided at rear face sides of the pair of seatbacks, the pair of retaining portions configured to allow a rod-shaped member to span between the seatbacks, the rod-shaped member being grippable by a vehicle occupant sitting at a rear seat middle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Nobuhiro Nakano
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Patent number: 9776501Abstract: Vehicle fluid conduit systems and protectors for such systems are presented. Fluid conduit systems can include a fuel fill system having a fuel filler tube, a re-circulation tube, and a protector. In some embodiments, the protector can include a protector bracket and a bolting plate that extend around the fuel filler tube and re-circulation tube. The protector can include a strap. The strap can extend between the fuel filler tube and re-circulation tube between two or more protector attachment locations.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Justin E. Dominic, Nobuhiro Nakano, Hiroki Ogasawara
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Patent number: 9452787Abstract: There is provided a vehicle front portion structure including: a front pillar having a lower portion disposed on a vehicle rear side of a front wheel well; a rocker having a front end portion joined to a lower end portion of the lower portion of the front pillar; and a reinforcing member that is formed with a length in a vehicle up and down direction, is disposed near a vehicle front side in the lower portion of the front pillar, reinforces a front portion side of the lower portion, and is not joined to the rocker.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2015Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuhiro Nakano, Yukiko Nawa
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Publication number: 20160236564Abstract: Vehicle fluid conduit systems and protectors for such systems are presented. Fluid conduit systems can include a fuel fill system having a fuel filler tube, a re-circulation tube, and a protector. In some embodiments, the protector can include a protector bracket and a bolting plate that extend around the fuel filler tube and re-circulation tube. The protector can include a strap. The strap can extend between the fuel filler tube and re-circulation tube between two or more protector attachment locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2015Publication date: August 18, 2016Inventors: Justin E. Dominic, Nobuhiro Nakano, Hiroki Ogasawara
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Publication number: 20150344071Abstract: There is provided a vehicle front portion structure including: a front pillar having a lower portion disposed on a vehicle rear side of a front wheel well; a rocker having a front end portion joined to a lower end portion of the lower portion of the front pillar; and a reinforcing member that is formed with a length in a vehicle up and down direction, is disposed near a vehicle front side in the lower portion of the front pillar, reinforces a front portion side of the lower portion, and is not joined to the rocker.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuhiro NAKANO, Yukiko NAWA