Patents by Inventor Takashi Iida
Takashi Iida 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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Publication number: 20230134590Abstract: Provided is a server that executes: acquiring at least one deterioration characteristic calculation model of a storage battery based on a test; acquiring operation data on the storage battery after the test; acquiring a degree of deterioration of the storage battery in the operation data; inputting the operation data into the at least one deterioration characteristic calculation model to calculate at least one deterioration coefficient; inputting the operation data into a degree-of-deterioration calculation model for calculating a degree of deterioration of the storage battery to calculate a degree of deterioration using the at least one deterioration coefficient calculated; adjusting the at least one deterioration characteristic calculation model to calculate a degree of deterioration close to the degree of deterioration acquired; calculating at least one deterioration characteristic using the at least one deterioration characteristic calculation model adjusted; and outputting the at least one deteriorationType: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takaaki FUKUNISHI, Ryosuke NAGUMO, Ryuji SAKATA, Takashi IIDA, Changhui YANG, Tomokazu SADA, Takashi MATSUDA
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Patent number: 11634050Abstract: An occupant protection apparatus includes a driver. The driver includes a drive unit, a support shaft, a movable seat pan supported by the support shaft such that the movable seat pan is inclinable in a front-rear direction, a guide groove, a movement pin that is movable along the guide groove, a link that couples the movable seat pan to the movement pin, and an energy absorber. The guide groove includes a first guide groove portion in which the movement pin moves when the movable seat pan is inclined rearward and a second guide groove portion in which the movement pin moves when the movable seat pan is inclined forward. The energy absorber is configured to absorb at least part of a forward load from an occupant when the movement pin moves in the second guide groove portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Kojima, Tadashi Yamada, Takashi Iida, Hajime Kitte, Kenichi Fukurono, Joji Aoyama
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Patent number: 11632032Abstract: A power converter includes a power conversion controller configured to determine whether or not an output terminal is misconnected to a system power supply based on a current between a power converter and the output terminal and a voltage between the power converter and the output terminal, and to perform a control to stop power conversion in the power converter when determining that the output terminal is misconnected to the system power supply.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignees: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Iida, Mitsuteru Yano
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Patent number: 11628792Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat cushion including a cover, a frame and a pad, a plurality of parts of the cover being restrained to the frame and the pad; a cushion airbag device mounted in a front portion in the seat cushion and configured to inflate and deploy an airbag at a time of a frontal collision of a vehicle; and a restraint release part provided in a part of the cover positioned at at least one side in a seat front-rear direction with respect to the cushion airbag device among the plurality of parts of the cover. The restraint release part is configured to release the restraint of the part of the cover with an inflation pressure of the airbag.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Keiichi Kondou, Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Shohei Funaki, Hiroyuki Tomita, Takashi Iida, Shigemi Mase
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Publication number: 20230065968Abstract: In a calculation system, a data acquisition unit is configured to acquire operation data of a battery, the operation data including at least voltages and currents measured by a management device at a plurality of time points, and states of charge (SOCs) estimated based on at least one of the voltages and the currents, the management device being configured to manage the battery. An extraction unit is configured to, extract, as sample data, a set of an SOC and a voltage from sets of the SOCs and the voltages the plurality of time points included in the operation data in a period in which the battery is regarded as resting, the period being specified based on the currents. An estimation unit is configured to estimate an SOC-open circuit voltage (OCV) characteristic of the battery based on the extracted sample data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2020Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: SHINYA NISHIKAWA, TOMOKAZU SADA, TAKASHI IIDA, MASAAKI TAKEGATA
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Publication number: 20220414581Abstract: Provided is an information processing method executed by a computer, the information processing method including: acquiring a delivery destination of each of packages; acquiring candidates for a stop place for a mobile body that delivers the packages to stop; determining a group to which at least one delivery destination belongs based on a location of each of the delivery destinations; determining a stop place for the group based on a location of the at least one delivery destination belonging to the group and the candidates for the stop place; and outputting the stop place determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2020Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Changhui YANG, Masaharu AMAIKE, Takashi IIDA, Shinya NISHIKAWA, Takashi MATSUDA
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Patent number: 11524649Abstract: A vehicle seat includes: a seat cushion in which a front panel extends between front parts of right and left side frames and a front rod extends between the front parts of the right and left side frames at a position rearward of the front panel in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle; a cushion airbag device mounted in a front part of the seat cushion and configured to inflate and deploy a cushion airbag when a frontal collision of the vehicle occurs; and a bag support fixed to the front rod, the cushion airbag being fixed to the bag support at a position rearward of the front rod in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Hiroyuki Tomita, Satoshi Nonoyama, Takashi Iida, Shigemi Mase, Yusuke Kojima, Masashi Hotta
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Patent number: 11505097Abstract: An occupant protection device, for a vehicle which protects an occupant seated on a seating surface of a seat, includes: a first push-up mechanism which pushes up a waist portion of the occupant by raising a rear portion of the seating surface; a second push-up mechanism which pushes up a thigh portion of the occupant by raising a front portion of the seating surface; and a control unit which controls operations of the first push-up mechanism and the second push-up mechanism. The control unit operates the first push-up mechanism and then operates the second push-up mechanism when an impact applied to the vehicle from the front of the seat is detected or predicted.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Koki Tanaka, Takashi Iida, Shigeyuki Suzuki, Tadashi Yamada, Shigemi Mase
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Publication number: 20220355702Abstract: An information processing method includes: acquiring a weight of an electric mobile body; acquiring an amount of power consumption of the mobile body for each of numbers of one or more batteries mounted on the mobile body, the amount of power consumption being calculated based on the number of batteries; calculating a degradation cost of batteries for each of the numbers of the one or more batteries, the degradation cost being calculated based on the amount of power consumption and on the number of batteries; calculating a charging cost for each of the numbers of the one or more batteries, the charging cost being calculated based on the weight; and determining a number of batteries to be actually mounted on the mobile body, in accordance with the degradation cost and the charging cost, and outputting the number of batteries to be mounted.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: Shinya NISHIKAWA, Takashi IIDA, Changhui YANG, Masaharu AMAIKE
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Publication number: 20220355675Abstract: An information processing method executed by a computer includes: acquiring an acceleration request for a mobile body that moves using a battery; calculating an output current in the battery based or the acceleration request; calculating a degradation degree of the battery based on the output current; generating an acceleration control instruction in response to the acceleration request in accordance with the degradation degree of the battery; and outputting the generated acceleration control instruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: Masaharu AMAIKE, Changhui YANG, Takashi IIDA, Shinya NISHIKAWA, Takashi MATSUDA
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Publication number: 20220274619Abstract: An acquisition unit of in-vehicle notification device mounted on electric vehicle acquires a discharge current value discharged from secondary battery in electric vehicle to motor for running in electric vehicle. According to the acquired discharge current value, a notification unit notifies the driver of information indicating an impact of a current driving condition by the driver of electric vehicle on degradation of secondary battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: TAKASHI MATSUDA, CHANGHUI YANG, TAKASHI IIDA
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Patent number: 11404899Abstract: A voltage measurer measures a voltage of a battery cell. A controller controls charging-discharging of the battery cell. The controller performs control to apply a reverse current for canceling a polarization voltage of the battery cell through the battery cell after the completion of charging-discharging of the battery cell. For example, after the charging-discharging of the battery cell completes, the controller sets a current command value, in a power converter, that instructs flow of a reverse current of a preset value for a preset time.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinya Nishikawa, Tohru Watanabe, Takashi Iida
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Patent number: 11383670Abstract: A side airbag apparatus includes an airbag that is configured to be deployed and inflated between a body side portion of a vehicle and an occupant seated in a seat in a passenger compartment by a pressure of gas supplied from an inflator. The airbag includes an outer bag and an inner bag, which is provided in the outer bag and accommodates the inflator. The inner bag includes an upper-side inflation portion, which projects forward when inflated to correspond to the shoulder of the occupant, a lower-side inflation portion, which projects forward when inflated to correspond to the lumbar region of the occupant, and a recessed portion, which is provided between the upper-side inflation portion and the lower-side inflation portion. The inner bag includes a connecting hole that connects the inside and the outside of the inner bag to each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Shuji Yamamoto, Takashi Iida, Kenichi Fukurono, Koki Tanaka
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Patent number: 11377058Abstract: Provided is a vehicle seat having a seat cushion, a submarine bar, an airbag main body, a bag retainer, and a transmission member. The seat cushion is shifted by a tilting mechanism or a lifting mechanism. The submarine bar is suspended across side frames. The airbag main body inflates and deploys inside the seat cushion. The bag retainer is at least partially disposed inside the airbag main body and retains an inflator. The transmission member transmits, to the submarine bar, a load that acts on the bag retainer when the airbag main body inflates and deploys in a state where the seat cushion has been shifted upward.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD., TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Takashi Iida, Shuji Yamamoto, Shigemi Mase, Hiroyuki Tomita
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Patent number: 11277011Abstract: A voltage detector detects a voltage of each cell of a plurality of cells that are series-connected. A plurality of discharge circuits are respectively parallel-connected to the plurality of cells. A controller performs a control to equalize voltages or capacities of the plurality of cells to a target value by controlling discharge time of the plurality of discharge circuits, based on the voltages of the plurality of cells detected by the voltage detector. The controller sets the target value higher as an amount of change in the voltages of the plurality of cells in a predetermined period is larger.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryosuke Nagase, Shinya Nishikawa, Takashi Iida
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Patent number: 11260818Abstract: A seat cushion airbag apparatus includes a support portion, an airbag, and a fastening portion. The support portion is arranged below the cushion portion of a conveyance seat. The airbag is arranged between the cushion portion and the support portion and at the center portion in the width direction of the conveyance seat. The fastening portion fastens the airbag to the support portion and is disposed in the lower portion of the airbag in the inflated state at a position rearward of the center in the front-rear direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Iida, Shigemi Mase, Shigeyuki Suzuki, Hitoshi Ida, Yasushi Masuda, Tadashi Yamada, Yusuke Kojima, Shuji Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20220048417Abstract: An occupant protection apparatus includes a driver. The driver includes a drive unit, a support shaft, a movable seat pan supported by the support shaft such that the movable seat pan is inclinable in a front-rear direction, a guide groove, a movement pin that is movable along the guide groove, a link that couples the movable seat pan to the movement pin, and an energy absorber. The guide groove includes a first guide groove portion in which the movement pin moves when the movable seat pan is inclined rearward and a second guide groove portion in which the movement pin moves when the movable seat pan is inclined forward. The energy absorber is configured to absorb at least part of a forward load from an occupant when the movement pin moves in the second guide groove portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Yusuke KOJIMA, Tadashi YAMADA, Takashi IIDA, Hajime KITTE, Kenichi FUKURONO, Joji AOYAMA
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Patent number: 11239519Abstract: A power storage unit includes a plurality of power storage module groups connected in parallel, each having a plurality of power storage modules connected in series or in series and parallel. A plurality of temperature adjustment units is installed in each of the power storage module groups constituting the power storage unit, and cools or heats the power storage module groups. A management unit controls the plurality of temperature adjustment units corresponding to each of the power storage module groups to make resistances of the plurality of power storage module groups come close.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazufumi Nishikawa, Takashi Iida
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Publication number: 20220026498Abstract: A voltage of a battery cell is measured, and a current flowing through the battery cell is measured. An open circuit voltage (OCV) of the battery cell is estimated based on the measured voltage, the measured current, and an equivalent circuit model based on electrochemistry of the battery cell, and a state of charge (SOC) of the battery cell is estimated based on the estimated OCV, SOC-OCV characteristics on a charge side of the battery cell, and SOC-OCV characteristics on a discharge side of the battery cell. At least one of a positive electrode and negative electrode of the battery cell is a mixed electrode containing a plurality of materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2019Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: SHINYA NISHIKAWA, TOHRU WATANABE, TAKASHI IIDA
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Publication number: 20220026497Abstract: A voltage of a battery cell is measured, and a current flowing through the battery cell is measured. An open circuit voltage (OCV) of the battery cell is estimated based on the measured voltage, the measured current, and an equivalent circuit model based on electrochemistry of the battery cell. At least one of a positive electrode and negative electrode of the battery cell is a mixed electrode containing a plurality of materials. The equivalent circuit model is a model including a diffusion resistance component for each of the plurality of materials for use in the positive electrode and the negative electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2019Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: SHINYA NISHIKAWA, TAKASHI IIDA, TOHRU WATANABE