Patents by Inventor Takashi Hayashi

Takashi Hayashi 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: 11657717
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory configured to store information about mobile bodies, each of which forms a vehicle by being coupled with a main body unit and is capable of autonomous driving; and a processor configured to transmit a summon command to a first mobile body existing within a predetermined range, the summon command summoning the first mobile body to a predetermined assembly location, and cause a predetermined number of first mobile bodies assembled at the predetermined assembly location to carry one first main body unit that is larger or heavier than a main body unit that can be carried by one first mobile body, and to cause the predetermined number of first mobile bodies to move to a predetermined destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Nakano, Masato Ura, Koji Takao, Hideyuki Sakurai, Keisuke Hotta, Rieko Masutani, Atsushi Hanawa, Masanobu Ohmi, Takashi Hayashi, Atsushi Nabata, Tetsuro Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 11656087
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, a control method for the information processing apparatus, and an information processing system which encourage a user to use a mobile object are provided. The information processing apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller. The communication interface receives actual usage for a plurality of mobile objects which are affiliated with one of a plurality of mobile object groups. The controller ranks the plurality of mobile object groups based on the actual usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiko Nakano, Yu Nagata, Takashi Hayashi, Ryota Kondo
  • Patent number: 11643097
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to execute the processing of finding, in connection with a first vehicle whose cabin unit and travel unit are separable from each other and that is scheduled to travel a first section of road in which travelling with a travel unit of a first type is suitable and provided with a travel unit of a second type different from the first type, a second vehicle that is scheduled to travel the first section in the direction opposite to the direction of travel of the first vehicle and finish travelling the first section and provided with a travel unit of the first type, and instructing the first vehicle and the second vehicle to exchange the travel unit of the first type and the travel unit of the second type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Nakano, Masato Ura, Koji Takao, Hideyuki Sakurai, Keisuke Hotta, Rieko Masutani, Atsushi Hanawa, Masanobu Ohmi, Takashi Hayashi, Atsushi Nabata, Tetsuro Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20230136213
    Abstract: An upper-limit speed of a vehicle in automatic parking control is set, and the vehicle is caused to park automatically in a parking space at a vehicle speed equal to or lower than the set upper-limit speed. In this case, the upper-limit speed is set according to a vehicle body size of the vehicle, and the upper-limit speed is lower when the vehicle body size of the vehicle is greater than a preset size than when the vehicle body size of the vehicle is less than the preset size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki FUKADA, Ryuji OKAMURA, Takashi HAYASHI, Kohki BABA, Satoshi OMI, Akihiro KUSUMOTO, Yuta KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20230127283
    Abstract: The present disclosure properly calculates a wage for coating of a vehicle. An information processing apparatus of the present disclosure accepts specification of a first vehicle on which a third coating film is to be newly formed after a second coating film formed on a first coating film is peeled from a vehicle body. The information processing apparatus calculates a wage for operation of forming the third coating film for the first vehicle based on a period elapsed since peeling of the second coating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukinori II, Kenji YAMAGUCHI, Junya OGAWA, Yuki NAGANUMA, Junya YAMAMOTO, Yuta TONE, Naoki ISHIZUKA, Tadayuki TANAKA, Keisuke ITO, Yuka YOKOI, Takashi HAYASHI, Naoya OKA, Yu HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20230117379
    Abstract: The position of the vehicle for loading articles on a cart with a self-propelled function is acquired, the travel route of the cart to the vehicle is determined, and the cart is self-propelled to the vehicle along the determined travel route and stopped around the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki FUKADA, Ryuji OKAMURA, Takashi HAYASHI, Kohki BABA, Satoshi OMI, Akihiro KUSUMOTO, Yuta KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20230114453
    Abstract: When an autonomous vehicle is caused to depart from a current position to a pickup location, a waiting location for temporarily parking the autonomous vehicle is set between the current position and the pickup location. The autonomous vehicle is autonomously driven from the current position to the waiting location, temporarily parked at the waiting location, and then autonomously driven to the pickup location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki FUKADA, Ryuji OKAMURA, Takashi HAYASHI, Kohki BABA, Satoshi OMI, Akihiro KUSUMOTO, Yuta KATAOKA
  • Patent number: 11620910
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, a vehicle, an information processing method and an information processing program which improve the utility of techniques for generating a travel plan for a vehicle are provided. An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller acquires first storage information indicating a stored amount of a first storage apparatus of a first vehicle provided with the first storage apparatus for storing drainage water. The controller generates a travel plan for a second vehicle provided with a second storage apparatus for storing the drainage water collected from the first vehicle, based on predetermined information which includes the first storage information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiko Nakano, Yu Nagata, Takashi Hayashi, Ryota Kondo
  • Patent number: 11618401
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle system including: a body unit; a traveling unit capable of traveling with the body unit being mounted thereon; coupling units configured to couple the body unit and the traveling unit; a sensor used for predicting a crash; a controller configured to execute causing coupling between the traveling unit and the body unit by the coupling units to be released when a crash is predicted based on a detection value of the sensor; an acting unit provided on one of the traveling unit and the body unit and configured to act so that a positional relationship between the body unit and the traveling unit is changed when the coupling is released; and an acted-upon unit provided on the other between the traveling unit and the body unit and configured to receive action of the acting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Nakano, Masato Ura, Koji Takao, Hideyuki Sakurai, Keisuke Hotta, Rieko Masutani, Atsushi Hanawa, Masanobu Ohmi, Takashi Hayashi, Atsushi Nabata, Tetsuro Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20230103109
    Abstract: A parking lot management system for managing a parking lot intended for autonomous vehicles and manually driven vehicles includes: a reservation unit configured to reserve a parking space for an autonomous vehicle; and a reserved parking space notification unit configured to notify a manually driven vehicle in the parking lot of the reserved parking space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki Fukada, Ryuji Okamura, Takashi Hayashi, Kohki Baba, Satoshi Omi, Akihiro Kusumoto, Yuta Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20230100856
    Abstract: Whether a vehicle is parked inside parking lines in a parking lot is detected. When the vehicle is detected not parked inside the parking lines, either the vehicle or the parking lines are moved in such a manner that the vehicle is parked inside the parking lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki FUKADA, Ryuji OKAMURA, Takashi HAYASHI, Kohki BABA, Satoshi OMI, Akihiro KUSUMOTO, Yuta KATAOKA
  • Patent number: 11615433
    Abstract: A vehicle dispatch device is configured to dispatch a vehicle having an autonomous driving function to a user, the device includes: a search unit configured to search for a first alternative moving object when the vehicle cannot continue the autonomous driving to the destination during the autonomous driving of the vehicle on which the user is boarded, the first alternative moving object to which the user can transfer at a boarding position which is within a predetermined distance from a position on a route to an end position of the autonomous driving of the vehicle, within a predetermined time from alighting from the vehicle; and a grant unit configured to grant a reward to the user when the first alternative moving object does not exist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junya Watanabe, Seiji Arakawa, Yuji Sasaki, Masafumi Hayakawa, Naotoshi Kadotani, Takashi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20230071319
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides information about a coating history of a vehicle. An information processing apparatus executes acquiring, for a vehicle with a later peelable second coating film formed being layered on at least a part of a first coating film, history data that is data about work on the second coating film, and acquiring a first image that is an external appearance image of the vehicle before the second coating film being formed, based on the history data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukinori II, Kenji YAMAGUCHI, Junya OGAWA, Yuki NAGANUMA, Junya YAMAMOTO, Yuta TONE, Naoki ISHIZUKA, Tadayuki TANAKA, Keisuke ITO, Yuka YOKOI, Takashi HAYASHI, Naoya OKA, Yu HAMADA
  • Patent number: 11597261
    Abstract: A control apparatus, a vehicle and a control method which improve user-friendliness of a technique for providing information to an interior or an exterior of a vehicle are provided. The control apparatus of the vehicle includes a controller which changes the degree of visibility between the exterior and the interior of the vehicle based on at least one of first information indicating a state of the exterior of the vehicle and second information indicating a state of the interior of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiko Nakano, Yu Nagata, Takashi Hayashi, Ryota Kondo
  • Publication number: 20230062923
    Abstract: Provided is an automatic parking service causes a vehicle that has arrived at a platform to enter one parking space among a plurality of parking spaces by autonomous driving and that causes the vehicle parked in the parking space exit the platform by autonomous driving. A congestion degree of a platform requested to be used in an entry-exit time zone specified by a user that uses the automatic parking service is determined when an entry-exit request in which one platform among the plurality of platforms is used is received from the user. The use of another platform is proposed to the user when the congestion degree of the platform requested to be used is high, the other platform having a lower congestion degree than the platform requested to be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi OMI, Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki FUKADA, Takashi HAYASHI, Yuta KATAOKA, Kohki BABA, Ryuji OKAMURA, Akihiro KUSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11592303
    Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to acquire facility information containing an advertisement or publicity on a facility located along a travel route that a vehicle is scheduled to travel or a facility located within a predetermined range from the travel route, and, while the vehicle is traveling along the travel route, process an image of a first facility associated with the facility information or an image of a second facility present around the first facility based on the facility information and display the image of the first facility or the image of the second facility on a display provided in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiro Murakami, Katsuhiko Sakakibara, Makoto Matsushita, Junya Sato, Kiyonori Yoshida, Tae Sugimura, Takashi Hayashi, Jun Endo
  • Publication number: 20230056270
    Abstract: A mobile body includes: a main body provided with a moving function; a storage battery that is disposed in the main body and that stores electric power for driving the main body; a supply unit that supplies electric power to the storage battery; a requesting unit that requests an electric power provider who is able to supply electric power to the storage battery by the supply unit for cooperation in electric power supply; and a granting unit that grants an incentive to the electric power provider that has supplied the electric power to the storage battery by the supply unit. Therefore, when the electric power is insufficient during traveling, the electric power can be supplied to the storage battery by requesting cooperation in electric power supply, and the electric power provider can receive an incentive by supplying the electric power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Tetsuya KANATA, Tomoko ASAI, Kohki BABA, Kei SATO, Takashi HAYASHI, Manabu NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20230058771
    Abstract: A food delivery pallet is provided with a heating chamber, a heat retaining chamber, a heat retaining chamber, a cooling chamber, and an electric bulletin board. Therefore, in the food delivery pallet, when food is heated in the heating chamber, the electric bulletin board displays that the food is being heated in the food delivery pallet. This makes it possible to call attention of people nearby to the food delivery pallet, and to ensure safety of the people nearby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Tetsuya KANATA, Tomoko ASAI, Kohki BABA, Kei SATO, Takashi HAYASHI, Manabu NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20230054840
    Abstract: A maintenance information management device includes an information registration unit configured to register vehicle identification information and maintenance information in a memory for each vehicle, an information update unit configured to update the maintenance information after the maintenance of the vehicle by adding maintenance contents to the maintenance information registered in the memory, and an information providing unit configured to provide the maintenance information when a provision request for the maintenance information is accepted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Masato ENDO, Yasuyuki KAMEZAKI, Yasuhiro MURATA, Takeo MORIAI, Kosuke SAKAKIBARA, Kenta MIYAHARA, Takashi HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230055038
    Abstract: A vehicle is autonomously driven in an environment where a first road for vehicles running in a first direction and a second road for vehicles running in a second direction, different from the first direction, are provided alongside each other, and where a first parking space that is entered from the first road and exited to the first road is set and a second parking space that is entered from the second road and exited to the second road is set. When the vehicle is temporarily parked in the first parking space and a running direction of the vehicle heading for the next destination after being parked is the second direction, the vehicle is transferred from the first parking space to the second parking space by autonomous driving after a user of the vehicle gets out of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi OMI, Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki FUKADA, Takashi HAYASHI, Yuta KATAOKA, Kohki BABA, Ryuji OKAMURA, Akihiro KUSUMOTO