Patents by Inventor Takashi NANBU

Takashi NANBU 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: 11807475
    Abstract: There is provided a loading support system including a container selection unit configured to select a container, which is suitable for a shape of a load to be loaded on a cargo bed of a collection and delivery vehicle, from a plurality of standardized containers having different shapes, and a loading location determination unit configured to determine a loading location of the container, which is selected by the container selection unit, in the cargo bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohei Ohtsuka, Atsushi Sajiki, Yukio Umemura, Takashi Nanbu, Hiroki Tabata, Hiroki Hagiwara, Takeshi Saotome
  • Publication number: 20200327496
    Abstract: A delivery management system includes: an acceptance unit configured to accept a delivery request including information on a delivery date of a package, from a user, a setting unit configured to set a delivery fee, in which a discount according to the delivery date is applied, for the delivery request; a delivery schedule storage unit configured to store a delivery schedule of each of a plurality of delivery vehicles; and a determination unit configured to determine a delivery vehicle that delivers the package corresponding to the delivery request based on the delivery schedule such that a requirement of the delivery date of the delivery request is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohei OHTSUKA, Atsushi SAJIKI, Yukio UMEMURA, Takashi NANBU, Hiroki TABATA, Hiroki HAGIWARA, Takeshi SAOTOME, Masao HITOMI, Yu NISHIKATA, Kousuke MATSUYAMA, Maiko EGUCHI, Seiji KUROKI, Hiroaki KAWAHARA
  • Publication number: 20200324984
    Abstract: There is provided a loading support system including a container selection unit configured to select a container, which is suitable for a shape of a load to be loaded on a cargo bed of a collection and delivery vehicle, from a plurality of standardized containers having different shapes, and a loading location determination unit configured to determine a loading location of the container, which is selected by the container selection unit, in the cargo bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohei OHTSUKA, Atsushi SAJIKI, Yukio UMEMURA, Takashi NANBU, Hiroki TABATA, Hiroki HAGIWARA, Takeshi SAOTOME
  • Publication number: 20200327493
    Abstract: A cargo handling place reservation system includes a reception unit configured to receive a reservation application from a user; and a reservation unit configured to reserve a reservation target candidate place as the cargo handling place for the reservation target transportation vehicle. The reservation unit is configured to extract vacant candidate places, which are the candidate places where other reservations are not set in an allocated time slot from the expected arrival time of the reservation target transportation vehicle at the candidate place until a use time allocated to the reservation target transportation vehicle elapses, by referring to a vehicle information storage unit and a candidate place information storage unit, to determine the reservation target candidate place from the extracted vacant candidate places, and to set the reservation in the allocated time slot as the reservation status of the reservation target candidate place in the candidate place information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki TABATA, Atsushi SAJIKI, Yukio UMEMURA, Takashi NANBU, Kohei OHTSUKA, Hiroki HAGIWARA, Takeshi SAOTOME, Masao HITOMI, Yu NISHIKATA, Kousuke MATSUYAMA, Maiko EGUCHI, Seiji KUROKI, Hiroaki KAWAHARA
  • Publication number: 20200327484
    Abstract: A sharing system includes a management apparatus connected to a plurality of user terminals, a storage facility terminal provided in a storage facility, and a plurality of relay facility terminals respectively provided in a plurality of relay facilities through a network. The management apparatus includes a usage processing unit configured to perform usage processing of an article. When the usage processing unit receives a usage request, which is transmitted from the user terminal and which includes a usage user and a usage article, the usage processing unit transmits, to the storage facility terminal, a transport instruction to transport the usage article to the relay facility corresponding to the usage user, as the usage processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohei OHTSUKA, Atsushi SAJIKI, Yukio UMEMURA, Takashi NANBU, Hiroki TABATA, Hiroki HAGIWARA, Takeshi SAOTOME