Patents by Inventor Ryota MIKUNI

Ryota MIKUNI 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: 20240109396
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an information receiver, an estimator, and a processor. The information receiver is configured to communicate with a mobile terminal of an occupant of the vehicle, and acquire information related to an action performed by the occupant outside a vehicle compartment of the vehicle. The estimator is configured to estimate a fatigue state including a fatigue degree of the occupant, based on a place identified from the acquired information related to the action. The processor is configured to execute, based on a result of estimating the fatigue state, air conditioning control including setting of a temperature and setting of an air volume on an air conditioning device configured to air condition the vehicle compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Junichi MOTOYAMA, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Ryota NAKAMURA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA
  • Publication number: 20240101139
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a social media information acquisition unit, a collector, a browsing time acquisition unit, an extractor, and a control processor. The social media information acquisition unit communicates with portable devices of occupants in the vehicle to acquire social media information of the occupants from the portable devices. The collector collects search keywords from the social media information of the occupants. The browsing time acquisition unit acquires information on browsing time for each of the search keywords from the social media information. The extractor extracts a common subject based on the search keywords collected from all of the portable devices of the occupants in a communicable state, and the information on the browsing time. The control processor determines content of a proposal to be provided to the occupants in the vehicle based on the common subject, and notifies the occupants of the content of the proposal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Ryota NAKAMURA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA
  • Publication number: 20240101140
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a fatigue state detector, an information provider, and a processor. The fatigue state detector is configured to detect a fatigue degree of an occupant of the vehicle. The information provider is configured to provide various pieces of information related to traveling of the vehicle to the occupant. The processor is configured to change a frequency of providing the various pieces of the information by the information provider, depending on the fatigue degree of the occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Ryota NAKAMURA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Yuta GOTO, Takuya KANETA
  • Publication number: 20240100908
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an estimator and a control processor. The estimator is configured to perform estimation of an emotion that an occupant has had since before boarding the vehicle. The control processor is configured to make a comprehensive evaluation of a result of the estimation performed by the estimator to determine the emotion, and perform control of an operation mode of an in-vehicle device based on the emotion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Ryota NAKAMURA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240105185
    Abstract: An agent system includes a microphone, a speaker, an interpretation unit, a memory, and a control processor. The microphone collects voices of occupants in the interior of a vehicle compartment of a vehicle. The speaker outputs a voice sound to the interior of the vehicle compartment. The interpretation unit acquires the voices of the occupants collected by the microphone and interprets contents of utterances of the occupants included in the voices acquired. The memory stores data on the utterances interpreted by the interpretation unit and data on the respective occupants who are utterers of the utterances associated with each other. The control processor designates an occupant who has uttered most frequently among the occupants as a listener based on the data stored in the memory, determines topics to be outputted to the listener, and performs control to output the topics as the voice sound via the speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Ryota NAKAMURA, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240089701
    Abstract: A vehicle serving as a first vehicle includes a communicator, an identification unit, a collector, and a notification unit. The communicator communicates with one or more second vehicles upon occurrence of a multiple-vehicle accident involving multiple vehicles. The one or more second vehicles include the vehicles involved in the multiple-vehicle accident. The identification unit uniquely identifies a vehicle that is to issue an emergency notification by communicating with the one or more second vehicles. The collector collects accident information from the one or more second vehicles when the first vehicle corresponds to the vehicle that is to issue the emergency notification. The notification unit notifies an emergency notification center of the accident information collected by the collector as notification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Junichi MOTOYAMA, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Ryota NAKAMURA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA
  • Publication number: 20240089717
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a determination unit, an authentication unit, a collector, an information generator, and a control processor. The determination unit determines whether multiple persons have been involved in an accident. The authentication unit performs vehicle-side possessor authentication to authenticate whether a portable device authenticated by portable device-side possessor authentication as is portable device owned by a driver. When the multiple persons have been involved in the accident and the portable device authenticated by the portable device-side possessor authentication corresponds to a portable device that is to send accident information to an emergency notification center, the collector collects information relevant to the accident from other vehicles involved in the accident. The information generator sorts out the information relevant to the accident to generate the accident information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Ryota NAKAMURA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240087449
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a collection unit, an identification unit, an ID information generation unit, a storage, a determination unit, and a notification unit. The collection unit performs, when an accident occurs, communication connection with a surrounding vehicle including an accident vehicle or a portable device and collect accident information therefrom. The identification unit identifies the accident vehicle based on the collected accident information. The ID information generation unit generates ID information for the accident associated with information regarding the identified accident vehicle. The storage holds a database in which the ID information and the accident information are associated with each other. The determination unit determines that the accident involves multiple vehicles when the database includes multiple pieces of the identical ID information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Ryota NAKAMURA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA
  • Publication number: 20240089700
    Abstract: A server apparatus determines whether a vehicle without an emergency notification system is included in accident vehicles based on image data received from peripheral vehicles or peripheral portable devices. When the vehicle without the emergency notification system is included, the server acquires position data on a vehicle having issued an emergency notification. The server requests a base station covering the acquired position to send an information provision request to vehicles and portable devices present in a set target area. The server collects accident information from the peripheral vehicles and the peripheral portable devices, and collects information from the vehicles and the portable devices present in the set target area. The extractor extracts accident information from the information collected from the vehicles or the portable devices present in the set target area based on the position data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Ryota NAKAMURA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA
  • Patent number: 11896112
    Abstract: A feeding container includes a feeding mechanism having a sleeve. In the feeding container, a first groove through which a projection formed in a holding member that holds a coating material passes and a second groove that extends from the first groove to an end surface of the sleeve are formed on an inner surface of the sleeve, and the first groove has a projection holding portion which is configured to accept the projection and disposed at a position away along the first groove from a connection portion of the first groove and the second groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TOKIWA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryota Mikuni
  • Publication number: 20220312937
    Abstract: A feeding container includes a feeding mechanism having a sleeve. In the feeding container, a first groove through which a projection formed in a holding member that holds a coating material passes and a second groove that extends from the first groove to an end surface of the sleeve are formed on an inner surface of the sleeve, and the first groove has a projection holding portion which is configured to accept the projection and disposed at a position away along the first groove from a connection portion of the first groove and the second groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Ryota MIKUNI