Patents by Inventor Takahiro MUTA

Takahiro MUTA 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).

  • Patent number: 11320276
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control system including a plurality of vehicles, a storage that stores information relating to a user who is on a vehicle for each of the plurality of vehicles, at least one processor configured to receive a matching request for requesting meeting with a user who is on one of the plurality of vehicles, specify a first vehicle which a first user matching the matching request is on, on the basis of the information stored in the storage and perform control on the first vehicle so as to let the first vehicle and a requesting source of the matching request meet each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Muta, Eisuke Ando, Takao Hishikawa
  • Patent number: 11226635
    Abstract: A moving body system for controlling operation of moving bodies comprises an accepter configured to accept utilization requests for requesting utilization of the moving bodies corresponding to respective users in order that the plurality of users gather by using the moving bodies corresponding to the respective users; an acquirer configured to acquire scheduled working times of the respective users in the moving bodies when the respective users move by the moving bodies corresponding thereto respectively; and a determiner configured to determine a meeting place at which the respective users gather, the determiner determining the meeting place so that the meeting place gets closer to a getting-on position of the user who has the scheduled working time shorter than that of the other user or those of the other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Muta, Eisuke Ando, Takao Hishikawa
  • Patent number: 11043129
    Abstract: A mobile object system dispatches a vehicle capable of moving autonomously to a destination at which a user is located. The system includes a controller comprising at least one processor configured to receive a request for use of a vehicle provided with first equipment, and send to the vehicle a first command to travel to a first destination designating a place where at least a part of the first equipment is present as a first stopover place. The vehicle in the mobile object system travels, in accordance with the first command to travel, from the first stopover place to the first destination after loading of at least a part of the first equipment onto the vehicle at the first stopover place is completed to complete the first equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Muta, Eisuke Ando, Takao Hishikawa
  • Patent number: 11007884
    Abstract: There is provided an electric automobile including: a battery installed beneath a floor of a vehicle cabin; a driving unit provided at either one side, in a vehicle longitudinal direction, with respect to the battery; a high-voltage part disposed at the one side with respect to the battery and further toward a vehicle longitudinal direction inner side than an end portion at the one side of the driving unit and electrically connected to the driving unit; a control unit disposed at the one side with respect to the battery and further toward the vehicle longitudinal direction inner side than the end portion of the driving unit, and that controls autonomous driving of the vehicle; and an accessory part disposed further toward a vehicle longitudinal direction outer side than the end portion of the driving unit and independent from a control system that relates to traveling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ayano Tsuruta, Yasuhiro Hara, Takahiro Muta
  • Publication number: 20200062133
    Abstract: There is provided an electric automobile including: a battery installed beneath a floor of a vehicle cabin; a driving unit provided at either one side, in a vehicle longitudinal direction, with respect to the battery; a high-voltage part disposed at the one side with respect to the battery and further toward a vehicle longitudinal direction inner side than an end portion at the one side of the driving unit and electrically connected to the driving unit; a control unit disposed at the one side with respect to the battery and further toward the vehicle longitudinal direction inner side than the end portion of the driving unit, and that controls autonomous driving of the vehicle; and an accessory part disposed further toward a vehicle longitudinal direction outer side than the end portion of the driving unit and independent from a control system that relates to traveling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Ayano Tsuruta, Yasuhiro Hara, Takahiro Muta
  • Publication number: 20190294129
    Abstract: To provide a support technique of enabling a user to appropriately execute predetermined work within a mobile body. A work support system supports execution of work of a user using predetermined facility in a first mobile body including the predetermined facility among one or more mobile bodies. The work support system includes a judging unit configured to judge whether a user needs a break on the basis of user information relating to the user who is executing work within the first mobile body, and a managing unit configured to instruct the first mobile body to provide predetermined service to the user when it is judged that the user needs a break.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro MUTA, Eisuke ANDO, Takao HISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190280890
    Abstract: A transport system includes a mobile body including a room and an environment adjusting device that adjusts an environment of the room, and an information processing apparatus including a processor configured to provide, on the basis of identification information for identifying a user who uses the room, adjustment information for adjusting the environment of the room for each user to the mobile body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro MUTA, Eisuke ANDO, Takao HISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190258252
    Abstract: A moving body, which moves while carrying a user who is executing a work, comprises an acquirer configured to acquire work information in relation to the work to be executed by the user in the moving body; and an adjuster configured to adjust a working environment in the moving body by changing at least any one of setting of equipment of the moving body, a traveling condition, and a traveling route on the basis of the work information. The moving body may further comprise a sensor which measures a state of the working environment; and the adjuster can also adjust the working environment so that a measured value, which is obtained by the sensor, is within a predetermined range which is determined on the basis of the work information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro MUTA, Eisuke ANDO, Takao HISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190250003
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control system including a plurality of vehicles, a storage that stores information relating to a user who is on a vehicle for each of the plurality of vehicles, at least one processor configured to receive a matching request for requesting meeting with a user who is on one of the plurality of vehicles, specify a first vehicle which a first user matching the matching request is on, on the basis of the information stored in the storage and perform control on the first vehicle so as to let the first vehicle and a requesting source of the matching request meet each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro MUTA, Eisuke ANDO, Takao HISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190250633
    Abstract: A moving body system for controlling operation of moving bodies comprises an accepter configured to accept utilization requests for requesting utilization of the moving bodies corresponding to respective users in order that the plurality of users gather by using the moving bodies corresponding to the respective users; an acquirer configured to acquire scheduled working times of the respective users in the moving bodies when the respective users move by the moving bodies corresponding thereto respectively; and a determiner configured to determine a meeting place at which the respective users gather, the determiner determining the meeting place so that the meeting place gets closer to a getting-on position of the user who has the scheduled working time shorter than that of the other user or those of the other users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro MUTA, Eisuke ANDO, Takao HISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190244154
    Abstract: A work support system is provided for supporting work execution by a user by using an information processing apparatus in a moving body which has the information processing apparatus; the work support system comprising an acquirer configured to acquire first working environment information to be used by the user to restart an interrupted work from a work management apparatus for storing work information in relation to the interrupted work, if the user interrupts the work that has been being executed; and a former configured to form a first working environment for restarting the interrupted work on the basis of the first working environment information in the information processing apparatus possessed by the moving body, if the user moves to a destination by the moving body after the user interrupts the work to be interrupted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro MUTA, Eisuke ANDO, Takao HISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190197454
    Abstract: A task support system configured to support task performance of a user using an information processing apparatus installed in a vehicle includes a server. The server includes a task management database storing identification information and remaining task information in association with each other. The server is configured to calculate a needed time for the vehicle to reach a predetermined destination set in association with the user, acquire the remaining task information associated with the user from the task management database, based on the identification information, when the user gets on the vehicle, extract a predetermined task predicted to be completed by the user through the information processing apparatus within the needed time, from among remaining tasks included in the remaining task information, and present the extracted predetermined task to a predetermined apparatus accessible by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro MUTA, Eisuke ANDO, Takao HISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190197904
    Abstract: A mobile object system dispatches a vehicle capable of moving autonomously to a destination at which a user is located. The system includes a controller comprising at least one processor configured to receive a request for use of a vehicle provided with first equipment, and send to the vehicle a first command to travel to a first destination designating a place where at least a part of the first equipment is present as a first stopover place. The vehicle in the mobile object system travels, in accordance with the first command to travel, from the first stopover place to the first destination after loading of at least a part of the first equipment onto the vehicle at the first stopover place is completed to complete the first equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro MUTA, Eisuke ANDO, Takao HISHIKAWA