Patents by Inventor Takuji Yamada

Takuji Yamada 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: 11927454
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to acquire information of a position and information of a travelable range of a vehicle which travels using a battery as an energy source, to extract a charging station located within the travelable range from the position out of a plurality of charging stations, to extract a spot which is able to be visited in a state in which the vehicle stops in the extracted charging station out of a plurality of spots, and to transmit information of the extracted spot along with information of the extracted charging station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuji Yamada, Jun Tsukamoto, Kaori Sakai
  • Publication number: 20230378831
    Abstract: Provided is a rotor capable of effectively utilizing magnetic flux generated from a magnet, a motor using the rotor, and an electronic device. The rotor, the motor using the rotor, and the electronic device include a rotor core including: an annular part; a plurality of magnetic pole pieces extending in a radial direction; and a plurality of connecting parts configured to connect the annular part and each of the plurality of magnetic pole pieces; a plurality of first magnets disposed between two adjacent magnetic pole pieces of the plurality of magnetic pole pieces in a circumferential direction; and a plurality of second magnets disposed in a space formed between two adjacent connecting parts of the plurality of connecting parts in the circumferential direction, the connecting parts extending in a direction having both of a component of the radial direction and a component of the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Naoto TOYOMURA, Takuji YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20230175202
    Abstract: Provided is a cable including a stranded member floating-preventing element that can be easily peeled off. A power transmission line core includes one core member and six side members twisted around the core member, each member obtained by impregnating a fiber bundle including a plurality of carbon fibers that are continuous in the longitudinal direction and bundled into the fiber bundle with a resin and curing the resin. A tow including a plurality of tow fibers that are continuous in the longitudinal direction and arranged flatly and densely is spirally wound around the surface of the power transmission line core in the direction opposite to the twisting direction of the side members. The tow is detachably entangled in the unevenness on the surface of the power transmission line core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Akari MATSUDA, Takuji Yamada, Hironobu Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20220368178
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator and a substrate. The stator includes a plurality of magnetic bodies and a coil wound around each of the magnetic bodies. The substrate opposes the stator in the rotational axis direction. The coil includes a first layer and a second layer stacked on the first layer. 1?D/L holds, where L is a thickness of the magnetic body in the rotational axis direction and D is a width of the magnetic body in a radial direction. In the radial direction, a conducting wire of the first layer and a conducting wire of the second layer making up an inner edge of the coil are in contact with each other, and, in the radial direction, a conducting wire of the first layer and a conducting wire of the second layer making up an outer edge of the coil are in contact with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Naoto TOYOMURA, Takuji YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11488210
    Abstract: An information processing device has a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit exchanges information with a terminal device. The control unit controls the communication unit in such a manner as to transmit, to the terminal device, an advertisement associated with a composition category to which a composition of occupants in the moving object based on occupant composition information belongs, when receiving the occupant composition information from the terminal device. The occupant composition information regards the composition of the occupants in the moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuji Yamada, Jun Tsukamoto, Kaori Sakai
  • Patent number: 11391582
    Abstract: An information providing device for a trip to multiple users including a first user and a second user is provided. The information providing device includes circuitry configured to determine a destination of the trip based on a degree of interest of the first user, provide the second user with a first trip proposal to the destination when a degree of interest of the second user in the destination is greater than or equal to a predetermined degree-of-interest threshold value, and provide the second user with a second trip proposal to the destination when the degree of interest of the second user in the destination is less than the predetermined degree-of-interest threshold value. In the second trip proposal, a degree of recommendation of the trip proposal is increased from the first trip proposal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiko Suzuki, Ko Koga, Takuji Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220170757
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides more appropriate information for vehicles. An information processing apparatus of the present disclosure receives pieces of probe data from a plurality of vehicles having traveled through a predetermined point, each of the pieces of probe data indicating a traveling environment at the point, and generates information for other vehicles to pass through the point, for each of attributes of vehicles, based on the pieces of probe data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro HAYASHI, Kazunori FUJIMORI, Takuji YAMADA, Naoya OKA, Daisuke KIMURA, Yumiko YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20220157169
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to: receive vehicle data from a plurality of vehicles, specify a first vehicle, among the plurality of vehicles, that is predicted to be parked to pick up or drop off a person in a predetermined period of time, based on the vehicle data, make a determination, based on the vehicle data, whether the first vehicle is in a first state in which parking for pick-up of the person is predicted to be performed or a second state in which parking for drop-off of the person is predicted to be performed, and perform assignment of a parking position to the first vehicle based on a result of the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro HAYASHI, Kazunori FUJIMORI, Takuji YAMADA, Naoya OKA, Daisuke KIMURA, Yumiko YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20220148108
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to: generate a plurality of movement plans for touring around a plurality of spots; acquire, for each of the plurality of spots included in each of the plurality of movement plans, spot information that is information that affects a level of satisfaction of a user visiting the spot; and present, to the user, each of the plurality of movement plans together with the spot information about each of the plurality of spots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro HAYASHI, Kazunori FUJIMORI, Takuji YAMADA, Naoya OKA, Daisuke KIMURA, Yumiko YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 11269936
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor. The processor is configured to: receive an input of a question; hold a response, when data required to output response content in response to the question is insufficient; and output, when insufficient data is collected while the response is being held, an announcement that the response is made and the response content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chikage Kubo, Takuji Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220037943
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rotor, a motor using the rotor and an electronic device capable of effectively utilizing magnetic flux generated from a magnet. The rotor includes a rotor core including an annular portion and a plurality of magnetic pole pieces radially extending from the annular portion via a pair of joint portions, a plurality of first magnets disposed between the neighboring magnetic pole pieces in a circumferential direction, and a plurality of second magnets disposed between the pair of joint portions, in which each of the first magnets contacts side surfaces of two neighboring magnetic pole pieces in the circumferential direction and each of the second magnets contacts inner surfaces of the magnetic pole pieces in a radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Takuji YAMADA, Naoto TOYOMURA
  • Patent number: 11200803
    Abstract: An information providing method includes: causing a first agent mounted in a first vehicle to specify information on driving of a first driver of the first vehicle; requesting, based on the information, an external device to provide information for driving support; and notifying the first driver of information indicating a deriving process of driving support information, the deriving process being acquired from the external device, and the driving support information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chikage Kubo, Takuji Yamada
  • Patent number: 11153733
    Abstract: An information providing system includes a detection information acquisition unit configured to acquire a detection result of a vehicle sensor, an occupant information database configured to hold occupant information generated based on a previous detection result of the vehicle sensor, and an output controller configured to, when information relating to an occupant acquired from the detection result of the vehicle sensor conforms to the occupant information held in the occupant information database, output provided information according to the occupant information to the occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chikage Kubo, Takuji Yamada
  • Patent number: 11109190
    Abstract: In an information provision device, an estimator estimates an arrival time of each user at a meeting place where users meet up, based on transportation of the user. Based on the arrival time estimated by the estimator, a determination unit determines a notification target user to be notified of guidance regarding facilities around the meeting place. A notification unit notifies, of the guidance, the notification target user determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuji Yamada, Hiroki Awano, Takeshi Fujiki
  • Patent number: 11077810
    Abstract: In a vehicle-mounted terminal device configured to be mounted on a vehicle and capable of communicating with a server device, a communication unit transmits identification information of a driver of the vehicle to the server device and receives personal setting information, indicating a setting state of a vehicle-mounted apparatus, transmitted from the server device and related to the identification information of the driver. A setting unit makes setting of a vehicle-mounted apparatus on the vehicle based on the personal setting information received at the communication unit. When the authentication of the driver is completed and when a power supply of the vehicle is turned on, the communication unit receives personal setting information for a vehicle-mounted apparatus, transmitted from the server device and related to the identification information of the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuji Yamada, Takeshi Fujiki
  • Publication number: 20210201353
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit performs information communication with a terminal device. When receiving route information, the control unit controls the communication unit to transmit to the terminal device an advertisement including an arrival point in a distribution area, and including expected arrival time in a target time slot or in a time slot preliminary time before the beginning of the target time slot. The route information is used to acquire the arrival point on the scheduled travel route to the destination and the expected arrival time at the arrival point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuji YAMADA, Jun TSUKAMOTO, Kaori SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20210190533
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller configured to acquire an expected arrival time at a destination based on route guidance to a user, acquire an action start time of the user at the destination, calculate a spare time between the expected arrival time and the action start time, extract a stopover candidate to stop over from among a plurality of stopover candidates based on the spare time, and transmit information regarding the extracted stopover candidate to a device used by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuji YAMADA, Jun TSUKAMOTO, Kaori SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20210180969
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to acquire information of a position and information of a travelable range of a vehicle which travels using a battery as an energy source, to extract a charging station located within the travelable range from the position out of a plurality of charging stations, to extract a spot which is able to be visited in a state in which the vehicle stops in the extracted charging station out of a plurality of spots, and to transmit information of the extracted spot along with information of the extracted charging station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuji YAMADA, Jun TSUKAMOTO, Kaori SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20210182909
    Abstract: An information processing device has a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit exchanges information with a terminal device. The control unit controls the communication unit in such a manner as to transmit, to the terminal device, an advertisement associated with a composition category to which a composition of occupants in the moving object based on occupant composition information belongs, when receiving the occupant composition information from the terminal device. The occupant composition information regards the composition of the occupants in the moving object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuji YAMADA, Jun TSUKAMOTO, Kaori SAKAI
  • Patent number: 11009368
    Abstract: An action support device includes a controller and a notification unit. The controller is configured to acquire action information of a user, the action information being extracted based on an action history of the user, and including a route having a start point and an end point, and a departure time at the start point, acquire traffic information, and determine whether or not a road obstacle or an operation obstacle indicated in the traffic information acquired before the departure time occurs on the route indicated in the action information. The notification unit is configured to, when the controller determines that the road obstacle or the operation obstacle indicated in the traffic information acquired before the departure time occurs on the route indicated in the action information, notify the user of information relating to the traffic information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuji Yamada, Takeshi Fujiki