Patents by Inventor Takuya Ichikawa

Takuya Ichikawa 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: 11951984
    Abstract: An open vehicle includes a vehicle upper portion, a traveling device, an external sensor, and an ECU. The vehicle upper portion has a riding surface that forms a bottom surface of the riding space and is configured for a plurality of users to ride on. The ECU is configured to control the traveling device to cause the open vehicle to automatically travel. The ECU is configured to execute: a specific person recognition process to use the external sensor to recognize a specific person existing in an outside space; and an automatic travel control process to control the traveling device such that, when the specific person exists within a predetermined distance range, the traveling device executes at least one of moving the open vehicle away from the specific person and increasing a vehicle speed as compared to when the specific person does not exist within the range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuya Watabe, Tetsuya Kanata, Yozo Iwami, Daisaku Honda, Yuhei Katsumata, Hideki Fukudome, Yuta Maniwa, Naoko Ichikawa, Saki Narita, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11938936
    Abstract: In a stand-up vehicle having a vehicle upper part having a riding surface configured for a user to stand on, one or more electronic control units execute emergency situation detection processing for detecting an emergency of the user when receiving notification from the user or based on information from one or more sensors, safety posture determination processing for determining whether or not the user takes a safety posture based on information from one or more sensors after detecting the emergency, and upper limit speed management processing executed when detecting the emergency and determining that the user takes the safety posture. The upper limit speed management process increases the upper limit speed to be higher than the basic upper limit speed selected when the safety posture determination process determines that the user is not in the safety posture, or cancels the upper limit speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta Maniwa, Tetsuya Kanata, Yozo Iwami, Daisaku Honda, Yuhei Katsumata, Hideki Fukudome, Takuya Watabe, Naoko Ichikawa, Saki Narita, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11939011
    Abstract: A stand-up vehicle includes a vehicle upper portion, a handrail, one or more biometric information sensors, and one or more processors. The vehicle upper portion has a riding surface on which a user stands. The handrail is provided at an upper portion of the vehicle and is gripped by a user. The one or more biometric information sensors are at least one of a sensor provided on a handrail and a weight sensor provided below a riding surface and having the riding surface as a weight detection surface, and detect biometric information of the user. The one or more processors perform notification processing for notifying a user of biometric information detected by the one or more biometric information sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Saki Narita, Tetsuya Kanata, Yozo Iwami, Daisaku Honda, Yuhei Katsumata, Hideki Fukudome, Takuya Watabe, Naoko Ichikawa, Yuta Maniwa, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11927958
    Abstract: An automatic traveling vehicle includes a vehicle structure including a first top plate, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute a storage mode when a storage execution condition is satisfied. The storage mode includes a storage posture formation process of causing the vehicle to automatically travel so as to take a predetermined storage posture together with a counterpart automatic traveling vehicle. In the storage posture, the vehicle is in a superposition state in which the vehicle overlaps with the counterpart vehicle in a plan view, or a parallel state in which the vehicle is lined up with the counterpart vehicle while the first top plate and a second top plate of the counterpart vehicle are standing and facing each other so as to be parallel to or substantially parallel to a vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta Maniwa, Tetsuya Kanata, Yozo Iwami, Yuhei Katsumata, Daisaku Honda, Saki Narita, Hideki Fukudome, Takuya Watabe, Naoko Ichikawa, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20240076043
    Abstract: A VTOL aircraft (moving object) includes: a first communication path allowing a cabin (passenger compartment) and a component compartment to communicate with each other; and a second communication path for opening the component compartment to the outside of a fuselage. A portion of air in the cabin flows through a first circulation path and returns to the cabin, and the remaining air in the cabin flows through the first communication path and is introduced into the component compartment. A portion of air in the component compartment flows through a second circulation path and returns to the component compartment, and the remaining air in the component compartment flows through the second communication path and is discharged to the outside of the fuselage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Takuya Kubota, Yuichi Fukuchi, Azuki Ichikawa, Hikari Hirayanagi
  • Patent number: 8281094
    Abstract: When performing asynchronous remote copying, whether or not a disaster has occurred at a main site is judged at a remote site; and if the disaster has occurred, recovery processing is immediately started at the remote site. When asynchronous remote copying is performed between a controller and a controller, the controller transfers remote copy target data in a storage apparatus and command information via a remote copy channel to the controller; and after receiving the remote copy target data, the controller stores the remote copy target data in a storage apparatus; and if the controller fails to receive the command information within a set time period, the controller judges that a disaster has occurred, and then outputs the judgment result to a backup center server; and the backup center server executes recovery processing based on data in the storage apparatus when the disaster has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Miyatake, Takuya Ichikawa, Katsuhiro Okumoto
  • Publication number: 20120137092
    Abstract: When performing asynchronous remote copying, whether or not a disaster has occurred at a main site is judged at a remote site; and if the disaster has occurred, recovery processing is immediately started at the remote site. When asynchronous remote copying is performed between a controller and a controller, the controller transfers remote copy target data in a storage apparatus and command information via a remote copy channel to the controller; and after receiving the remote copy target data, the controller stores the remote copy target data in a storage apparatus; and if the controller fails to receive the command information within a set time period, the controller judges that a disaster has occurred, and then outputs the judgment result to a backup center server; and the backup center server executes recovery processing based on data in the storage apparatus when the disaster has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Miyatake, Takuya Ichikawa, Katsuhiro Okumoto
  • Patent number: 7617334
    Abstract: In the host, an IP issues CCW, and a CH encodes the CCW and a CCW chain by the encode program to create a code including the description of controlling a conditional branch with the DKC and transmits the code to a PORT in the DKC. In the DKC, the PORT decodes the code by the decode program, and a CP sequentially processes each command obtained by the decoding and returns a return code representing the end state of the processing. The host receives the return code to recognize the end state of the processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Muto, Isamu Kurokawa, Shinichi Hiramatsu, Takuya Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20080256264
    Abstract: In the host, an IP issues CCW, and a CH encodes the CCW and a CCW chain by the encode program to create a code including the description of controlling a conditional branch with the DKC and transmits the code to a PORT in the DKC. In the DKC, the PORT decodes the code by the decode program, and a CP sequentially processes each command obtained by the decoding and returns a return code representing the end state of the processing. The host receives the return code to recognize the end state of the processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: Junichi Muto, Isamu Kurokawa, Shinichi Hiramatsu, Takuya Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 7194591
    Abstract: A plurality of services are defined for one service memory field (overlap service), and a plurality of access methods, such as “only read” and “read/write”, are set in the service memory field. When an overlap service is defined, a PIN code may be set to each service. For example, when two services “read” and “read/write” can be started corresponding to a service memory field, two PIN codes are set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiharu Takemura, Tadashi Morita, Fumio Kubono, Taro Kurita, Takuya Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20060224795
    Abstract: In the host, an IP issues CCW, and a CH encodes the CCW and a CCW chain by the encode program to create a code including the description of controlling a conditional branch with the DKC and transmits the code to a PORT in the DKC. In the DKC, the PORT decodes the code by the decode program, and a CP sequentially processes each command obtained by the decoding and returns a return code representing the end state of the processing. The host receives the return code to recognize the end state of the processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Inventors: Junichi Muto, Isamu Kurokawa, Shinichi Hiramatsu, Takuya Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20040250037
    Abstract: A plurality of services are defined for one service memory field (overlap service), and a plurality of access methods, such as “only read” and “read/write”, are set in the service memory field. When an overlap service is defined, a PIN code may be set to each service. For example, when two services “read” and “read/write” can be started corresponding to a service memory field, two PIN codes are set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiharu Takemura, Tadashi Morita, Fumio Kubono, Taro Kurita, Takuya Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 5949587
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for producing an original plate for optical discs, which is allowed to produce original plates for a plurality of kinds of optical discs satisfying various standards. The apparatus includes a laser light generator for generating laser light; a diaphragm mechanism for limiting laser light generated by the laser light generator; and an objective lens for refracting the laser light limited by the diaphragm mechanism in such a manner that the laser light is focussed on a photosensitive layer or a surface layer formed on the original plate; wherein a spot diameter of a beam of the laser light is changed by varying a diaphragm diameter of the diaphragm mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takamizawa, Kazuhito Hori, Atsushi Koshiyama, Takuya Ichikawa, Kunihide Fujii