Patents by Inventor Seiichi Tsunoda
Seiichi Tsunoda 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: 11835966Abstract: A service system includes a common server and multiple vehicles in communication with the common server to travel autonomously. Each vehicle performs tasks of multiple entities by cooperating with the common server. The common server includes an operating status database in which an operating status of each vehicle and a primary entity which has priority to use all or part of the vehicles are associated with each other. When one of the vehicles finishes a task of the primary entity, the common server determines whether the vehicle can perform another task of an entity other than the primary entity by checking the operating status database, and if determining so, performs the task of the other entity by cooperating with the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keima Fukunaga, Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Yasutaka Etou, Terumi Ukai
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Patent number: 11703867Abstract: A vehicle traveling from a first area to a second area includes a traveling mechanism having a plurality of wheels and a traveling function, and a control unit configured to cause the traveling mechanism to perform a wheel cleaning operation and then cause the vehicle to enter the second area.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shunji Inoue, Kunihiro Iwamoto, Daisuke Sato, Takuya Watabe, Makoto Kakuchi, Seiichi Tsunoda, Keima Fukunaga, Kenta Miyahara
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Patent number: 11505212Abstract: Provided is a vehicle management system including a plurality of vehicles that execute different functions, and an event information server that transmits event occurrence information. The vehicles execute the same function corresponding to the event occurrence information, when a priority of a function corresponding to the event occurrence information received from the event information server is higher than a priority of a function currently being executed.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keima Fukunaga, Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Yasutaka Etou, Terumi Ukai
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Patent number: 11488238Abstract: An arrangement system of a vehicle that permits a user to perform a trial use or a trial fitting of a product in a vehicle interior includes a display unit configured to display products that are candidates for purchase, an operation unit configured to be operated by the user to select a desired product from the products displayed on the display unit, and a vehicle arrangement unit configured to arrange the vehicle on which the product selected through an operation performed on the operation unit is loaded.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga, Kinya Tagawa, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Sho Tanaka, Yuki Shinohara
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Patent number: 11472441Abstract: Provided is a vehicle management system including a plurality of vehicles that execute different functions, and an event information server that transmits event occurrence information. The vehicles execute the same function corresponding to the event occurrence information, when a priority of a function corresponding to the event occurrence information received from the event information server is higher than a priority of a function currently being executed.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keima Fukunaga, Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Yasutaka Etou, Terumi Ukai
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Publication number: 20220105962Abstract: A service management device manages a service delivered in a predetermined area. The service management device has an operator interface including a display that displays information for an operator and receiving an input from the operator. The service management device performs a simulation of the service delivered in the predetermined area and displays a result of the simulation on the display. More specifically, the service management device displays, on the display, a simulation setting screen used by the operator to specify a simulation condition. The service management device receives the simulation condition specified by the operator through the operator interface and performs the simulation in accordance with the specified simulation condition. The simulation condition at least includes ON/OFF of a regulation that is imposed on an autonomous robot used for delivering the service in the predetermined area.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventors: Nobuhisa OTSUKI, Kunihiro IWAMOTO, Haeyeon LEE, Seiichi TSUNODA, Wataru KAKU, Kota OISHI
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Patent number: 11125573Abstract: A pickup system for picking up a product using a vehicle having an autonomous travelling function includes a communication unit configured to accept a pickup request from a user, a travel control unit configured to cause the vehicle to autonomously travel to a user position specified in the pickup request accepted through the communication unit, and an informing unit configured to inform the user that, when the vehicle arrives at the user position, the arrived vehicle is a vehicle that is to pick up a product in response to the pickup request.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga
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Patent number: 11085780Abstract: A pickup system for picking up a product using a vehicle having an autonomous travelling function includes a communication unit configured to accept a pickup request from a user, a travel control unit configured to cause the vehicle to autonomously travel to a user position specified in the pickup request accepted through the communication unit, and an informing unit configured to inform the user that, when the vehicle arrives at the user position, the arrived vehicle is a vehicle that is to pick up a product in response to the pickup request.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga
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Patent number: 11052775Abstract: A second communication unit of a power receiving vehicle sends a charging start request signal to a power supplying vehicle located on a planned travel route of the power receiving vehicle. At least one of a first travel control unit of the power supplying vehicle and a second travel control unit of the power receiving vehicle brings the power supplying vehicle and the power receiving vehicle close to each other up to a position that satisfies a charging start condition when the first travel control unit receives the charging start request signal from the power receiving vehicle through a first communication unit of the power supplying vehicle. The remaining charge of a battery of the power receiving vehicle is managed by performing charging between the power supplying vehicle and the power receiving vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga
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Patent number: 11009891Abstract: A vehicle is configured to accommodate a cart and a passenger. A communication unit of the vehicle is configured to communicate with the cart. A traveling environment acquisition unit of the vehicle is configured to acquire a traveling environment of the vehicle. A cart control unit of the vehicle is configured to control an arrangement of the cart in the vehicle through the communication unit according to the traveling environment acquired toy the traveling environment acquisition unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga, Kinya Tagawa, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Sho Tanaka, Yuki Shinohara
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Publication number: 20210114810Abstract: A robot system includes a robot control device to link a plurality of transport robots having a function of traveling with a package being loaded. A task acquisition unit acquires a task to be performed. A notification unit notifies the transport robot of action details which are assigned regarding the task. The transport robot takes an action in link with another transport robot according to the notified action details.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohito MATSUOKA, Nobuyuki TOMATSU, Yasutaka ETOU, Masanobu OHMI, Manabu YAMAMOTO, Seiichi TSUNODA, Keima FUKUNAGA, Takuya WATABE, Makoto KAKUCHI, Kunihiro IWAMOTO, Daisuke SATO, Shunji INOUE, Kenta MIYAHARA, Satoshi OKAMOTO, Jiro GOTO, Terumi UKAI, Tetsuya TAIRA, Daisaku HONDA, Masato ENDO, Takashi HAYASHI, Suguru WATANABE, Yohei TANIGAWA
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Publication number: 20210114623Abstract: Provided is a vehicle management system including a plurality of vehicles that execute different functions, and an event information server that transmits event occurrence information. The vehicles execute the same function corresponding to the event occurrence information, when a priority of a function corresponding to the event occurrence information received from the event information server is higher than a priority of a function currently being executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Keima FUKUNAGA, Tomohito MATSUOKA, Seiichi TSUNODA, Jiro GOTO, Yasutaka ETOU, Terumi UKAI
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Publication number: 20210114225Abstract: A self-propelled pallet serving as an item delivery robot includes a dynamic map memory serving as a map data memory; a BIM data memory serving as an internal structure memory; a road route generator; a coordinator; and an intra-building route generator. The road route generator obtains a road route that is a route based on the map data with an entrance of a destination building as a destination. The coordinator determines a corresponding entrance that is an entrance in the internal structure data, which corresponds to the entrance in the map data that is determined to be the destination in the road route. The intra-building route generator obtains an intra-building route that is a route based on the internal structure data, which extends from the corresponding entrance to a location that is the position of the destination individual determined based on the internal structure data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Keima FUKUNAGA, Tomohito MATSUOKA, Seiichi TSUNODA, Jiro GOTO, Yasutaka ETOU, Terumi UKAI
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Publication number: 20210116940Abstract: A service system includes a common server and multiple vehicles in communication with the common server to travel autonomously. Each vehicle performs tasks of multiple entities by cooperating with the common server. The common server includes an operating status database in which an operating status of each vehicle and a primary entity which has priority to use all or part of the vehicles are associated with each other. When one of the vehicles finishes a task of the primary entity, the common server determines whether the vehicle can perform another task of an entity other than the primary entity by checking the operating status database, and if determining so, performs the task of the other entity by cooperating with the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Keima FUKUNAGA, Tomohito MATSUOKA, Seiichi TSUNODA, Jiro GOTO, Yasutaka ETOU, Terumi UKAI
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Publication number: 20210109530Abstract: A vehicle traveling from a first area to a second area includes a traveling mechanism having a plurality of wheels and a traveling function, and a control unit configured to cause the traveling mechanism to perform a wheel cleaning operation and then cause the vehicle to enter the second area.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shunji INOUE, Kunihiro IWAMOTO, Daisuke SATO, Takuya WATABE, Makoto KAKUCHI, Seiichi TSUNODA, Keima FUKUNAGA, Kenta MIYAHARA
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Patent number: 10977935Abstract: In an information processing device, an acquirer acquires a congestion degree in the vicinity of multiple vehicles arranged in a certain arrangement pattern. A deriver derives a move instruction for moving a target vehicle among the multiple vehicles such as to change a space between vehicles, on the basis of an acquired congestion degree. A communication unit transmits the move instruction to the target vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga, Kinya Tagawa, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Sho Tanaka, Yuki Shinohara
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Patent number: 10838227Abstract: In a vehicle-mounted device configured to be mounted on a vehicle for providing a service, a projector projects, based on data of a three-dimensional image related to the service, the three-dimensional image in the air above the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga
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Patent number: 10657855Abstract: A vehicle includes a substantially box-shaped body, wheels disposed on four corners of the vehicle, and at least one side display disposed on either or both exterior side surfaces of the body for displaying images and videos. The side display stretches lower than a top of the wheels along the vertical axis of the vehicle and wider than between inside ends of the wheels along the longitudinal axis of the vehicle. The lower edge of the side display is curbed or bent upwards at both ends to avoid overlapping with the wheels.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga
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Patent number: 10562343Abstract: Disclosed is a wheel cover for a vehicle. The wheel cover is supported to be relatively rotatable with rotation of a wheel having a tire attached to an outer periphery of the wheel. The wheel cover has a shape indicating a moving direction of a vehicle or a figure indicating the moving direction of the vehicle outward in a vehicle width direction, and is configured to be turned by an actuator such that, when the moving direction of the vehicle is changed, the shape or the figure indicates the moving direction of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga
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Patent number: 10540839Abstract: In order to settle the sales transaction of an item in a cabin, an item detection unit of a vehicle settlement system detects removal of the item from an item arrangement unit provided in the cabin. An item monitoring unit monitors movement of the item when the item detection unit detects the removal of the item. A settlement processor settles the sales transaction of the item detected by the item detection unit when a predetermined condition is satisfied after the item monitoring unit detects the movement of the item out of a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga