Patents by Inventor Tatsuya Sugano
Tatsuya Sugano 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: 20250046189Abstract: A management system includes a management server capable of wirelessly communicating with a vehicle in a parking lot, and an alarm provided on or near the vehicle and configured to emit sound or light or both in response to an instruction from the management server. The management server executes control for operating the alarm corresponding to the vehicle when detecting occurrence of an event requiring confirmation of a state of the vehicle via wireless communication with the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuro SUGIURA, Nobutsugu MARUIWA, Tatsuya SUGANO, Soichiro OURA, Hiroya CHIBA, Ryuji OKAMURA
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Patent number: 12214709Abstract: A vehicle transport planning device includes a transport proposal unit that proposes, to an occupant of a vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine, transport of the vehicle in a predetermined area where driving of the internal combustion engine is prohibited or restricted, and a transport arrangement unit that requests arrangement of a vehicle transport device for transporting the vehicle when the occupant desires the transport of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masayuki Itoh, Iwao Maeda, Tatsuya Sugano, Norinao Watanabe, Yutaka Nakamura, Yoshikazu Jikuhara, Yuki Nishikawa, Yuta Maniwa
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Patent number: 12208678Abstract: A front-rear wheel driving force distribution device includes a center differential and a limited slip differential. The limited slip differential includes a first clutch, a second clutch, a first piston, a second piston, and a one-way clutch provided between the first clutch and a rear propeller shaft. If the second clutch is engaged by the second piston, the propeller shaft on the rear side rotates at increased speed as compared with a case where the first clutch is engaged by the first piston. The one-way clutch couples the first clutch and the rear propeller shaft if a number of rotations of the first clutch is same as or higher than a number of rotations of the rear propeller shaft, and idles if the number of rotations of the first clutch is lower than the number of rotations of the rear propeller shaft.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Norio Oowada, Hiroomi Kobayashi, Taichi Murai, Takeshi Yoneda, Yosuke Takebayashi, Minoru Suyama, Tatsuya Takayanagi, Akihiro Nabeshima, Kaoru Sugano
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Patent number: 12198537Abstract: The notification system is configured to be capable of communicating with the outside, and is configured to notify the surroundings of the fact that the conveyance work is performed by a third party who has obtained permission when the vehicle is conveyed by the vehicle transportation device capable of autonomous traveling based on a notification instruction from the outside.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masayuki Itoh, Iwao Maeda, Tatsuya Sugano, Norinao Watanabe, Yutaka Nakamura, Yoshikazu Jikuhara, Yuki Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20250006049Abstract: The identification system includes a vehicle and an infrastructure device installed in a predetermined area. A first device that is one of the vehicle and the infrastructure device includes an output device configured to output an electromagnetic wave or a sound wave that is not for wireless communication. The second device that is another of the vehicle and the infrastructure device, includes a receiving device configured to receive the electromagnetic wave or the sound wave output from the output device of the first device. The first device is configured to output the electromagnetic wave or the sound wave modulated to indicate an identification code of the first device from the output device. The second device is configured to identify the first device based on the identification code indicated by the electromagnetic wave or the sound wave received via the receiving device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuro SUGIURA, Nobutsugu MARUIWA, Tatsuya SUGANO, Soichiro OURA, Hiroya CHIBA, Ryuji OKAMURA
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Publication number: 20240365010Abstract: In a recognition processing of a vehicle included in a camera image acquired by a camera installed in a closed space, the vehicle recognition system determines whether a shutter provided at an entrance/exit for a vehicle in the closed space is opened or not based on opening/closing information on the shutter. Then, the vehicle recognition system determines whether or not an outside illuminance is higher than an inside illuminance based on information on the outside illuminance and information on the inside illuminance. Furthermore, the vehicle recognition system performs brightness correction processing for correcting brightness of the camera image when it is determined that the shutter is opened and the outside illuminance is higher than the inside illuminance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2024Publication date: October 31, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuki EGASHIRA, Hiroya Chiba, Daisuke Kakuma, Yuhei Oka, Tatsuya Sugano
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Publication number: 20240355123Abstract: A vehicle location recognition system obtains vehicle model information of a target vehicle and a predicted location of a target vehicle in a parking space. The vehicle location recognition system also retrieves from a database a reflection possibility area on the vehicle body of the target vehicle identified by the vehicle line information and the predicted location. Furthermore, the vehicle location recognition system assimilates the reflection possibility area on the vehicle body of the target vehicle to the surrounding area surrounding the potentially reflective area in an image input from a camera. Furthermore, the vehicle location recognition system identifies the vehicle location of the target vehicle by image recognition on an image in which the reflection possibility area is assimilated into the surrounding area. Furthermore, the vehicle location recognition system updates the predicted location based on the vehicle location of the target vehicle identified by image recognition.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Inventors: Yuhei OKA, Tatsuya SUGANO, Kazuki EGASHIRA, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroya CHIBA
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Patent number: 12122379Abstract: System that causes a first vehicle and a second vehicle to perform automated valet parking includes one or more processors configured to cause, a second vehicle to perform follow-up traveling to follow a first vehicle; set a stop position between the first vehicle and the second vehicle when the second vehicle is performing the follow-up traveling to follow the first vehicle in the parking place; calculate, between the stop position and a position where the second vehicle starts deceleration to stop at the stop position; and set a target vehicle-to-vehicle distance of the second vehicle from the first vehicle, and set, as the target vehicle-to-vehicle distance, a distance longer than a sum of the deceleration start distance and a margin distance from the stop position to the first vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuya Sugano, Koji Morita
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Patent number: 12122361Abstract: In a system, a parallel-parking number that is the number of the parking spaces aligned in the parallel-parking direction is acquired for each parking area. A vacancy number that is the number of vacant parking spaces is acquired for each parking area. Based on the parallel-parking number, a vacancy number threshold value is calculated that is a threshold value of the vacancy number for calculating a priority of each parking area, in one of which an automated-parking-target vehicle is to be parked. The priorities are calculated such that the priority of a parking area with the vacancy number equal to or larger than the vacancy number threshold value is higher than the priority of a parking area with the vacancy number smaller than the vacancy number threshold value. The automated-parking-target vehicle is caused to park preferentially in a parking space in the parking area with the higher priority.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuya Sugano, Ryuji Okamura, Koji Morita
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Publication number: 20240304047Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a management system for managing a vehicle having a remote activation function. The management system includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry activates the vehicle and acquire remaining battery level of the vehicle at check timing while the vehicle is parked and performs a restoration promoting process for restoring the remaining battery level in a case where the remaining battery level is equal to or lower than a threshold value. The threshold value is set to a value larger than a remote activation lower limit that is a lower limit of the remaining battery level necessary for remote activation of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Hiroya CHIBA, Tatsuya SUGANO, Nobutsugu MARUIWA, Tetsuro SUGIURA, Daisuke KAKUMA
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Publication number: 20240300474Abstract: The present disclosure provides a hybrid vehicle control system for controlling a vehicle having a motor and an engine. The system executes the following processes. The first process is determining whether a situation which the vehicle is currently facing is a situation in which high accuracy is required for control of driving of the vehicle or not. The second process is selecting only an EV mode under a situation in which high accuracy is required for the control. The third process is selecting an engine activation mode only under a situation in which high accuracy is not required for the control. The EV mode is a mode in which the engine is stopped and the vehicle is driven by the motor. The engine activation mode is a mode in which the engine is activated for at least one of power generation for charging a battery and driving the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Hiroya CHIBA, Takehiko HANADA, Tatsuya SUGANO, Noriyuki TSURUOKA, Ryuji OKAMURA, Amane YAJIMA, Yuki OKAMOTO
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Patent number: 12060057Abstract: An automated parking system is equipped with an estimation unit that estimates a state of a target vehicle, and a setting unit that sets a running mode of the target vehicle as a low-risk running mode in which a risk regarding the target vehicle is reduced, on condition that the target vehicle be in a low-temperature state.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2022Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koji Morita, Tatsuya Sugano
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Publication number: 20240257642Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a system for managing movement of vehicles in a predetermined area including a parking lot, a pick-up and drop-off area, and a baggage delivery area. The system comprises one or more processors configured to execute a parking process of parking a vehicle stopping at the pick-up and drop-off area in the parking lot. The parking process includes the following first to third processes. The first process is checking whether or not there is a checked baggage scheduled to be collected from the vehicle at the baggage delivery area. The second process is moving the vehicle from the pick-up and drop-off area to the baggage delivery area when there is the checked baggage. The third process is parking the vehicle in the parking lot in response to the checked baggage being collected from the vehicle after the vehicle is moved to the baggage delivery area.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroya CHIBA, Tatsuya Sugano, Ryuji Okamura, Noriyuki Tsuruoka, Daisuke Kakuma
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Publication number: 20240255963Abstract: A vehicle unloading management device includes a processor. When an unload request for unloading a vehicle being loaded in an airport parking lot is received from a passenger of an airplane whose arrival destination is an airport, the processor sets a time period for performing automated unload of the passenger's vehicle. In the process of setting the time period, when at least two unload requests are received from at least two vehicles and time periods for performing automated unload of the at least two vehicles overlap, the processor predicts an arrival order at the airport parking lot of a passengers corresponding to the at least two unload requests with overlapping the time periods. And the processor determines an order for automated unload of the at least two vehicles according to the arrival order.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroya CHIBA, Tatsuya Sugano, Ryuji Okamura, Noriyuki Tsuruoka, Daisuke Kakuma
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Publication number: 20240255288Abstract: An automated valet parking management device according to the present disclosure includes one or more processors and one or more memory devices. The one or more memory devices store map information on a parking facility including a loading dock and positional information on a door of a cargo room included in a cargo vehicle that performs at least one of a carry-in and a carry-out of a cargo in the loading dock. The one or more processors execute parking arrangement processing for determining a parking position and a parking direction of the cargo vehicle when the cargo working operation of the cargo vehicle is performed based on the map information and the positional information on the door before the cargo working operation is started by the cargo vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroya CHIBA, Tatsuya SUGANO, Yuhei OKA, Yuki OKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240257286Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a parking management system for managing parking of vehicles in a parking lot of a specific facility including a pick-up and drop-off area. The parking management system comprises one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute, when a vehicle enters the parking lot, acquiring a scheduled usage time at which a passenger of the vehicle is scheduled to use the specific facility. And the one or more processors are configured to execute the following first and second processes. The first process is parking the vehicle in the parking lot when the scheduled usage time is more than a predetermined time after a current time. The second process is moving the vehicle to the pick-up and drop-off area in response to the current time becoming the predetermined time before the scheduled usage time after the vehicle is parked.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuya SUGANO, Hiroya CHIBA, Rika OIKE
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Publication number: 20240257639Abstract: An automated parking management device includes a storage device and a processor that performs an organization processing for organizing an automated parking location of a vehicle in a parking lot. In the organization processing, the processor calculates a degree of anti-theft necessity for a loaded vehicle and a load scheduled vehicle for each vehicle. The processor calculates a degree of theft resistance for each parking spot based on a map information of the parking lot, a location information of the loaded vehicle, and a location information of the load scheduled vehicle. The processor determines an automated parking location of the loaded vehicle and the load scheduled vehicle based on the degree of anti-theft necessity and degree of theft resistance such that a vehicle with a higher degree of anti-theft necessity is parked in the parking spot with a higher degree of theft resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroya CHIBA, Tatsuya SUGANO, Ryuji OKAMURA, Noriyuki TSURUOKA, Daisuke KAKUMA
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Publication number: 20240227837Abstract: A notification device notifies a driver of a vehicle to be parked in one of a plurality of parking spaces in a parking area including a control device that transmits control information for parking travel control of the vehicle heading for the assigned parking space to the vehicle via a communication network that the parking travel control is not executable, via an output device mounted on the vehicle, in the case where it is determined that the vehicle has arrived within the predetermined distance of the parking area, the travel controller is incapable of executing the parking travel control, and the driver is in the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2023Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tatsuya Sugano
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Publication number: 20240217525Abstract: A load and unload support device includes an information processing unit for communicating with a user terminal of a first vehicle and a control terminal of a second vehicle. When the second vehicle is parked between an entrance/exit of a parallel parking lot connected to a road and the first vehicle, the information processing unit transmits a temporary unload instruction for the second vehicle that is received from the user terminal to the control terminal. When receiving the load instruction for the second vehicle from the user terminal subsequent to a receipt of the temporary unload instruction, the information processing unit transmits the load instruction for the second vehicle to the control terminal. When a predetermined time elapses after the receipt of the temporary unload instruction without receiving the load instruction for the second vehicle, information processing unit transmits an alert notification to the user terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroya CHIBA, Tatsuya SUGANO, Rika OIKE
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Publication number: 20240132092Abstract: A notification device notifies a driver of a vehicle to be parked in one of a plurality of parking spaces in a parking area including a control device that transmits control information for parking travel control of the vehicle heading for the assigned parking space to the vehicle via a communication network that the parking travel control is not executable, via an output device mounted on the vehicle, in the case where it is determined that the vehicle has arrived within the predetermined distance of the parking area, the travel controller is incapable of executing the parking travel control, and the driver is in the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tatsuya Sugano