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).

  • Publication number: 20240190230
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun KOBAYASHI, Takahiro Okano, Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Nobuhiro Nakano
  • Publication number: 20240190268
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun KOBAYASHI, Takahiro OKANO, Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Nobuhiro NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20240144310
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun KOBAYASHI, Takahiro OKANO, Mitsuyoshi OHNO, Nobuhiro NAKANO
  • Patent number: 11822347
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideyuki Sakurai, Nobuhiro Nakano, Kazuhisa Maeda, Yohei Tanigawa, Keisuke Itou, Kantarou Shinma, Nobuki Hayashi, Tetsuro Sakaguchi, Yukari Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11794581
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideyuki Sakurai, Yoshimi Kobayashi, Kazuhisa Maeda, Nobuhiro Nakano
  • Patent number: 11597328
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Nobuhiro Nakano
  • Patent number: 11600052
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideyuki Sakurai, Nobuhiro Nakano, Kazuhisa Maeda, Yohei Tanigawa, Keisuke Itou, Kantarou Shinma, Nobuki Hayashi, Tetsuro Sakaguchi, Yukari Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20220198540
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideyuki SAKURAI, Nobuhiro NAKANO, Kazuhisa MAEDA, Yohei TANIGAWA, Keisuke ITOU, Kantarou SHINMA, Nobuki HAYASHI, Tetsuro SAKAGUCHI, Yukari OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20220197310
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideyuki SAKURAI, Nobuhiro NAKANO, Kazuhisa MAEDA, Yohei TANIGAWA, Keisuke ITOU, Kantarou SHINMA, Nobuki HAYASHI, Tetsuro SAKAGUCHI, Yukari OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20220198759
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideyuki SAKURAI, Nobuhiro NAKANO, Kazuhisa MAEDA, Yohei TANIGAWA, Keisuke ITOU, Kantarou SHINMA, Nobuki HAYASHI, Tetsuro SAKAGUCHI, Yukari OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20220144086
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Hideyuki SAKURAI, Yoshimi KOBAYASHI, Kazuhisa MAEDA, Nobuhiro NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20220097584
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Nobuhiro Nakano
  • Patent number: 9776501
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Justin E. Dominic, Nobuhiro Nakano, Hiroki Ogasawara
  • Patent number: 9452787
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Nakano, Yukiko Nawa
  • Publication number: 20160236564
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Justin E. Dominic, Nobuhiro Nakano, Hiroki Ogasawara
  • Publication number: 20150344071
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuhiro NAKANO, Yukiko NAWA