Patents by Inventor Shin Inoue

Shin Inoue 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: 20240127165
    Abstract: An information processing method by an information processing apparatus, the information processing method including determining, as a delivery center, a first vehicle being a battery electric vehicle under energy charging or a fuel cell electric vehicle under energy fueling, and commanding a second vehicle to pick up a package from the first vehicle and deliver the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Kazuyuki INOUE, Jean-Sebastien BOIRE, Kiyonori YOSHIDA, Ai MIYATA, Yuki TATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240118688
    Abstract: An information processing method by an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with one or more vehicles delivering packages, the information processing method includes acquiring vehicle-related information including the position of each vehicle, the energy charge amount of each vehicle, the travel condition of each vehicle, a temperature, the weight of packages on each vehicle, delivery destination information on the packages on each vehicle, energy charging station information near a delivery route of each vehicle, and/or road congestion information, generating, from the vehicle-related information, plans for delivery routes and/or energy charge timings with the highest energy efficiency, and commanding the one or more vehicles to execute the plans.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Kazuyuki INOUE, Jean-Sebastien BOIRE, Kiyonori YOSHIDA, Ai MIYATA, Yuki TATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11952046
    Abstract: A vehicle body includes a cross member that is provided on a floor panel and has a hole, and a nameplate that is joined to an inner face of the cross member. At least a part of the nameplate is exposed from the hole. A hardness of the nameplate is lower than a hardness of the steel plate used in the cross member, and a vehicle identification number is stamped in an area of the nameplate, the area being exposed from the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Inoue, Katsuya Ooshima
  • Publication number: 20240085250
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus that enables a more effective reduction in a load imposed on a user, with the use of force applied to the user in relation to a tangible object. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to estimate, on the basis of a state of a user, a first amount that is predicted by the user with regard to force applied to the user in relation to a tangible object, and control presentation of information to the user on the basis of the first amount and a second amount that is preliminarily registered with regard to the force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo UTSUKI, Tsuyoshi ISHIKAWA, Junki INOUE, Takayuki KURIHARA, Takanobu OMATA, Shin SHIROMA, Kaoru KOIKE
  • Publication number: 20240084382
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to determine whether to include a regenerative brake in specifications of a proposed vehicle based on regenerative brake operation data acquired while a first vehicle including the regenerative brake is traveling in a predetermined area. The proposed vehicle is a vehicle proposed as a vehicle for a customer to drive in the predetermined area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke Tanimori, Ryota Nakabayashi, Osamu Izumida, Takeshi Kanou, Naoki Yamada, Kazuyuki Inoue, Shin Sakurada, Hiromitsu Fujii
  • Publication number: 20230321511
    Abstract: A golf practice device is disclosed to derive a proper stance and swing form of a golf club. The device to be installed on a shaft of a golf club with a club head, comprises a fixing part to be installed on the shaft and including a bearing part formed at a part thereof, and a shaft part to be fitted in the bearing part. In a state where a longitudinal direction of the shaft is horizontalized and a toe side of the club head is located on a ground side, the fixing part is installed at a center of gravity position of the entire golf club, on the shaft, and one end in an opposite side of the bearing part in the longitudinal direction, of the shaft part faces a vertical direction with respect to the longitudinal direction of the shaft to point a core of the golf club.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventor: Shin INOUE
  • Patent number: 11752853
    Abstract: Included are a pair of rockers, a floor panel disposed between the rockers, a battery pack disposed beneath the floor panel, a bracket that connects the battery pack to the rockers, and an under cover that covers a lower face of the battery pack. The battery pack includes a tray, a first partitioning plate that is disposed upon the tray and that extends in a front-rear direction, and a plurality of battery cells disposed on both sides of the first partitioning plate upon the tray. The under cover has a first portion and a second portion disposed beneath the tray with a spacing as to the tray. The second portion is situated on an upper side from the first portion. The second portion is disposed beneath the first partitioning plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Inoue, Katsuya Oshima
  • Patent number: 11669955
    Abstract: Defects of substrates are inspected when executing a job in which a treatment recipe for substrates and the substrates being treatment objects are designated to perform predetermined treatments on the substrates. An imaging step successively images substrates. A first determination step decomposes, in order from the substrate as head of the job, a planar distribution of pixel values in a substrate image captured at the imaging step into pixel value distribution components using a Zernike polynomial, calculates Zernike coefficients of the pixel value distribution components corresponding to defects to be detected, and determines presence or absence of a defect based on the calculated Zernike coefficients. A second determination step determines, from predetermined timing after one or more substrates is determined to have no defect at the first determination step, presence or absence of a defect based on the substrate image determined to have no defect at the first determination step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Shin Inoue, Kazuya Hisano, Akiko Kiyotomi, Tadashi Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20220315129
    Abstract: A vehicle body includes a cross member that is provided on a floor panel and has a hole, and a nameplate that is joined to an inner face of the cross member. At least a part of the nameplate is exposed from the hole. A hardness of the nameplate is lower than a hardness of the steel plate used in the cross member, and a vehicle identification number is stamped in an area of the nameplate, the area being exposed from the hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin INOUE, Katsuya OOSHIMA
  • Patent number: 11364958
    Abstract: A vehicle body lower structure may comprise: a rocker arranged at a lower lateral part of a vehicle body and extending along a front-rear direction of the vehicle body, the rocker being hollow; a power supply package arranged under a floor panel of the vehicle body; and an energy absorbing member fixed to the power supply package and fixed to a bottom plate of the rocker. A side surface of the energy absorbing member located under the rocker may be inclined to face diagonally upward, and a drain hole may be arranged in the bottom plate at a position above the side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Takahashi, Shin Inoue
  • Publication number: 20220118842
    Abstract: Included are a pair of rockers, a floor panel disposed between the rockers, a battery pack disposed beneath the floor panel, a bracket that connects the battery pack to the rockers, and an under cover that covers a lower face of the battery pack. The battery pack includes a tray, a first partitioning plate that is disposed upon the tray and that extends in a front-rear direction, and a plurality of battery cells disposed on both sides of the first partitioning plate upon the tray. The under cover has a first portion and a second portion disposed beneath the tray with a spacing as to the tray. The second portion is situated on an upper side from the first portion. The second portion is disposed beneath the first partitioning plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Inoue, Katsuya Oshima
  • Patent number: 11192590
    Abstract: A battery case is joined to a rocker inner formed toward a vehicle width direction inner side of a rocker. The rocker is provided with rocker outer R/F and rocker inner R/F that respectively form a closed cross-section portion and a closed cross-section portion between themselves and a rocker panel that partitions a closed cross-section portion formed by a rocker outer and the rocker inner in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Takahashi, Shin Inoue
  • Publication number: 20210166365
    Abstract: A method for inspecting defects of substrates when executing a job in which a treatment recipe for the substrates and the substrates being treatment objects are designated to perform predetermined treatments on the substrates, includes: an imaging step of successively imaging the substrates; a first determination step of decomposing, in order from the substrate being a head of the job, a planar distribution of pixel values in a substrate image captured at the imaging step into a plurality of pixel value distribution components using a Zernike polynomial, calculating Zernike coefficients of the pixel value distribution components corresponding to defects to be detected, and determining presence or absence of a defect of the substrate based on the calculated Zernike coefficients; and a second determination step of determining, from predetermined timing after at least one substrate is determined to have no defect at the first determination step, presence or absence of a defect of the substrate being a determinat
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Shin INOUE, Kazuya HISANO, Akiko KIYOTOMI, Tadashi NISHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210094624
    Abstract: A vehicle body lower structure may comprise: a rocker arranged at a lower lateral part of a vehicle body and extending along a front-rear direction of the vehicle body, the rocker being hollow; a power supply package arranged under a floor panel of the vehicle body; and an energy absorbing member fixed to the power supply package and fixed to a bottom plate of the rocker. A side surface of the energy absorbing member located under the rocker may be inclined to face diagonally upward, and a drain hole may be arranged in the bottom plate at a position above the side surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Naoki TAKAHASHI, Shin INOUE
  • Publication number: 20210070376
    Abstract: A vehicle body lower structure may comprise: a rocker arranged at a lower lateral part of a vehicle body and extending along a front-rear direction of the vehicle body; a power supply package arranged under a floor panel of the vehicle body; and a hollow beam extending along the front-rear direction and fixed to the power supply package, the hollow beam including an upper plate, a lower plate, and a vertical plate, and the vertical plate connecting the upper plate and the lower plate. The hollow beam may be fixed to the rocker by a bolt penetrating the upper plate and the lower plate, and a head of the bolt may overlap the vertical plate in an axial direction of the bolt, and/or a washer through which the bolt extends overlaps the vertical plate in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Naoki TAKAHASHI, Shin INOUE, Shunji SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20200114973
    Abstract: A battery case is joined to a rocker inner formed toward a vehicle width direction inner side of a rocker. The rocker is provided with rocker outer R/F and rocker inner R/F that respectively form a closed cross-section portion and a closed cross-section portion between themselves and a rocker panel that partitions a closed cross-section portion formed by a rocker outer and the rocker inner in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Naoki Takahashi, Shin Inoue
  • Patent number: 10507869
    Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a load transmission member, a first engagement portion, and a second engagement portion. The load transmission member is disposed at a position overlapping with the power unit in a vehicle front view. The first engagement portion is provided between the load transmission member and the power unit. The second engagement portion is provided between the suspension member and the power unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shin Inoue
  • Publication number: 20190016391
    Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a load transmission member, a first engagement portion, and a second engagement portion. The load transmission member is disposed at a position overlapping with the power unit in a vehicle front view. The first engagement portion is provided between the load transmission member and the power unit. The second engagement portion is provided between the suspension member and the power unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shin INOUE
  • Patent number: 8885140
    Abstract: The present invention is a substrate treatment apparatus for performing solution treatment on a substrate, performing post-treatment in a treatment module subsequent to the solution treatment, including: a solution treatment section including a plurality of nozzles prepared for respective kinds of treatment solutions corresponding to lots of substrates; a transfer mechanism for transferring the substrate; a monitoring section monitoring whether there is a failure in discharge of the treatment solution in the nozzle; and a control unit outputting a control signal to prohibit the solution treatment in the solution treatment section for a substrate scheduled to be treated using a nozzle determined to have a failure by the monitoring section and to perform the solution treatment in the solution treatment section for a substrate scheduled to be treated using a nozzle other than the nozzle determined to have a failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Tomohiro Nakashima, Shin Inoue, Yoshitaka Hara, Izumi Hasegawa, Kunie Ogata, Takuya Mori
  • Publication number: 20130057836
    Abstract: The present invention is a substrate treatment apparatus for performing solution treatment on a substrate, performing post-treatment in a treatment module subsequent to the solution treatment, including: a solution treatment section including a plurality of nozzles prepared for respective kinds of treatment solutions corresponding to lots of substrates; a transfer mechanism for transferring the substrate; a monitoring section monitoring whether there is a failure in discharge of the treatment solution in the nozzle; and a control unit outputting a control signal to prohibit the solution treatment in the solution treatment section for a substrate scheduled to be treated using a nozzle determined to have a failure by the monitoring section and to perform the solution treatment in the solution treatment section for a substrate scheduled to be treated using a nozzle other than the nozzle determined to have a failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomohiro NAKASHIMA, Shin INOUE, Yoshitaka HARA, Izumi HASEGAWA, Kunie OGATA, Takuya MORI