Patents by Inventor Shotaro Suzuki

Shotaro Suzuki 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: 20240101384
    Abstract: A stacking apparatus of a sheet-shaped workpiece includes a pick-and-place machine that holds and picks up a sheet-shaped workpiece cut out from a sheet material and places the workpiece onto a stacking position to stack sequentially, a detector that is provided in the pick-and-place machine and detects a position of the workpiece in a lifted state by the pick-and-place machine and a controller that controls the pick-and-place machine. The controller calculates a position shift of the workpiece based on the position of the workpiece detected by the detector and adjusts, based on the calculated position shift, a holding position of a workpiece by the pick-and-place machine in a future operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Shotaro SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240097197
    Abstract: A non-aqueous rechargeable battery includes an electrode body in which a positive plate and a negative electrode plate are stacked in a stacking direction with a separator arranged in between. The positive electrode plate includes a positive electrode substrate, and a positive electrode mixture layer and an insulating layer arranged on each of two opposite surfaces of the positive electrode substrate. The positive electrode substrate includes a positive electrode uncoated portion. The electrode body includes a positive electrode current collector portion in which layers of the positive electrode uncoated portion are stacked in the stacking direction. A first insulating layer on a first surface of the positive electrode substrate, facing a center of the positive electrode current collector portion in the stacking direction, has a thickness that is greater than that of a second insulating layer on a second surface of the positive electrode substrate opposite to the first surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: PRIMEARTH EV ENERGY CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Kazutaka YOSHIKAWA, Shotaro DEGUCHI, Ryotaro SAKAI, Shota UCHIYAMA, Nobuaki KOIWA, Kentaro SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11797294
    Abstract: A central ECU includes a download execution feasibility determination unit that determines whether or not execution of download of data from an external distribution server of a vehicle is feasible based on position information of the vehicle, a download execution unit that executes the download in a case where the download execution feasibility determination unit determines that the execution of the download is feasible, and a transmission unit that records execution failure result information including position information of the vehicle when the download is executed by the download execution unit and fails, in an external monitoring server of the vehicle, in which the download execution feasibility determination unit determines whether or not the execution of the download is feasible based on the execution failure result information recorded in the distribution server and the current position information of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Tabata, Koichi Okuda, Masafumi Yamamoto, Yuki Makino, Shotaro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11745969
    Abstract: A sheet space-detecting device detects a space between a rear end of a preceding first fiber reinforced plastic sheet and a front end of a following second fiber reinforced plastic sheet in a conveyance path for fiber reinforced plastic sheets and includes: a light-detecting sensor that projects detection light on an area including the rear end of the first fiber reinforced plastic sheet, the front end of the second fiber reinforced plastic sheet, and a reference surface exposed from the space and receives reflected light thereof; and a spacer that supports the rear end of the first fiber reinforced plastic sheet and the front end of the second fiber reinforced plastic sheet in a state where the rear end and the front end are separated from the reference surface, in an area including at least a light-projected area on which the detection light is projected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shotaro Suzuki, Kensuke Hirata, Yoshiyuki Wada, Hironori Yui, Itaru Dairaku
  • Publication number: 20230121122
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a memory storing information on power consumption for flight of an aircraft flying by an electric rotor and a controller configured to instruct the aircraft to fly on a flight path passing through a power supply facility based on a remaining charge of the aircraft and the power consumption according to flight conditions when the aircraft flies to a destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shotaro SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20230114882
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to communicate using the communication interface. The controller instructs an aircraft to fly along a flight path for the aircraft to transport a passenger from a departure point to a final destination when a condition of the flight path is good, and instructs the aircraft to fly along an alternative flight path to an alternative destination and executes a dispatch process to dispatch a vehicle to transport the passenger from the alternative destination to the final destination when the condition of the flight path is poor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shotaro SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20220317991
    Abstract: A central ECU includes a download execution feasibility determination unit that determines whether or not execution of download of data from an external distribution server of a vehicle is feasible based on position information of the vehicle, a download execution unit that executes the download in a case where the download execution feasibility determination unit determines that the execution of the download is feasible, and a transmission unit that records execution failure result information including position information of the vehicle when the download is executed by the download execution unit and fails, in an external monitoring server of the vehicle, in which the download execution feasibility determination unit determines whether or not the execution of the download is feasible based on the execution failure result information recorded in the distribution server and the current position information of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi TABATA, Koichi OKUDA, Masafumi YAMAMOTO, Yuki MAKINO, Shotaro SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20220063585
    Abstract: An in-vehicle system that is to be provided in a vehicle. The in-vehicle system includes: (a) a control apparatus; (b) a first battery configured to supply an electric power to devices that are to be provided in the vehicle; and (c) a second battery provided apart from the first battery. The in-vehicle system is constructed such that rewriting of a software of the control apparatus is executable when an electric power switch of the vehicle is in an OFF state, and such that the rewriting of the software is executed with supply of the electric power from the second battery to the control apparatus when the electric power switch of the vehicle is in the OFF state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi TABATA, Koichi Okuda, Masafumi Yamamoto, Yuuki Makino, Shotaro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20210188580
    Abstract: A sheet space-detecting device detects a space between a rear end of a preceding first fiber reinforced plastic sheet and a front end of a following second fiber reinforced plastic sheet in a conveyance path for fiber reinforced plastic sheets and includes: a light-detecting sensor that projects detection light on an area including the rear end of the first fiber reinforced plastic sheet, the front end of the second fiber reinforced plastic sheet, and a reference surface exposed from the space and receives reflected light thereof; and a spacer that supports the rear end of the first fiber reinforced plastic sheet and the front end of the second fiber reinforced plastic sheet in a state where the rear end and the front end are separated from the reference surface, in an area including at least a light-projected area on which the detection light is projected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Shotaro SUZUKI, Kensuke HIRATA, Yoshiyuki WADA, Hironori YUI, Itaru DAIRAKU
  • Patent number: 4292980
    Abstract: An electrode assembly for use in electric field therapy apparatus comprises arranging between a pair of opposed electrodes an appropriate number of auxiliary electrodes with a certain distance interposed therebetween and containing all of these electrodes thus arranged in an insulating material, and enables electric field to be applied to a desired sick part of human body to be treated by selectively using pairs of these electrodes and effective electric field therapy to be attained due to the presence of the auxiliary electrodes which serve to prevent the electric field from being diffused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1981
    Assignee: Hakuju Institute for Health Science Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shotaro Suzuki