Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Kubota
Tomoyuki Kubota 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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Patent number: 11932026Abstract: A head unit is used for production of a media sheet that has a medium region row including a plurality of medium regions, the medium regions being to be separate personal information media. The head unit includes a plurality of thermal heads configured to thermally transfer dots exhibiting a structural color from a ribbon to a target. The plurality of thermal heads are arranged so that each thermal head corresponds to a respective one of the medium regions constituting the medium region row.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TOPPAN INC.Inventors: Masashi Kubota, Tomoyuki Marugame
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Patent number: 11901736Abstract: A server manages plural vehicles each configured to be able to participate in a DR. A first vehicle is able to transmit power through a power cable. A second vehicle is able to transmit power in a non-contact manner while being stationary. A third vehicle is able to transmit power in a non-contact manner while traveling. The server includes a communication device and a processing device. The communication device is able to transmit a DR signal to each of the vehicles. The processing device selects a target vehicle, to which the DR signal is to be transmitted, from the vehicles in accordance with the priority degree for participation in the DR. The processing device sets the priority degree of the first vehicle to be higher than that of the second vehicle, and sets the priority degree of the second vehicle to be higher than that of the third vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masato Ehara, Daiki Yokoyama, Yuki Takahashi, Tomoya Takahashi, Tomoyuki Kubota, Sachio Toyora, Keisuke Fukuoka, Zidan Xu, Wenfeng Liang, Hiroki Murata
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Publication number: 20230304814Abstract: A power transfer method between vehicles that are traveling and power transfer devices in a non-contact manner includes acquiring, for each of the vehicles, a traveling plan for a specific vehicle among the vehicles, estimating a power change amount according to power consumption or power regeneration of the specific vehicle that is traveling based on the traveling plan, and setting a power transfer amount between the specific vehicle and a corresponding power transfer device such that the power transfer amount corresponds to the power change amount. The corresponding power transfer device is a device corresponding to the specific vehicle among the power transfer devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masato EHARA, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomoya TAKAHASHI, Tomoyuki KUBOTA, Sachio TOYORA, Keisuke FUKUOKA, Zidan XU, Wenfeng LIANG, Hiroki MURATA
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Publication number: 20230278451Abstract: A power supply system includes power supply equipment and a vehicle management device. The power supply equipment is configured to be supplied with electric power from an external power supply and supply the electric power to a vehicle traveling in a power supply lane. The vehicle management device is configured to manage a plurality of vehicles configured to transfer electric power to and from the power supply equipment. The vehicle management device is configured to select balancing vehicles to be controlled for power balancing of the external power supply. The vehicle management device is configured to, when the vehicle management device determines that the control of any of the balancing vehicles for power balancing of the external power supply has been stopped halfway through, select a substitute vehicle to be controlled for power balancing of the external power supply from the vehicles traveling in the power supply lane.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2022Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masato EHARA, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomoya TAKAHASHI, Tomoyuki KUBOTA, Sachio TOYORA, Keisuke FUKUOKA, Zidan XU, Wenfeng LIANG, Hiroki MURATA
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Publication number: 20230246448Abstract: A vehicle is configured to participate in demand response used for adjusting a power supply and demand balance in a power system. The vehicle includes a power accumulation device, a power transfer device that enables power transfer in one of a first, a second, and a third method, and a control device that controls the power transfer device. The first method enables power to be transferred through a power cable between the power accumulation device and an outside of the vehicle. The second method enables power to be transferred in a non-contact manner while the vehicle is stopped. The third method enables power to be transferred in the non-contact manner while the vehicle is traveling. When the vehicle participates in the demand response, the control device selects a method in a preferential order of the first, the second, and the third method and execute the power transfer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masato EHARA, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomoya TAKAHASHI, Tomoyuki KUBOTA, Sachio TOYORA, Keisuke FUKUOKA, Zidan XU, Wenfeng LIANG, Hiroki MURATA
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Publication number: 20230246447Abstract: A server manages plural vehicles each configured to be able to participate in a DR. A first vehicle is able to transmit power through a power cable. A second vehicle is able to transmit power in a non-contact manner while being stationary. A third vehicle is able to transmit power in a non-contact manner while traveling. The server includes a communication device and a processing device. The communication device is able to transmit a DR signal to each of the vehicles. The processing device selects a target vehicle, to which the DR signal is to be transmitted, from the vehicles in accordance with the priority degree for participation in the DR. The processing device sets the priority degree of the first vehicle to be higher than that of the second vehicle, and sets the priority degree of the second vehicle to be higher than that of the third vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2022Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masato EHARA, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomoya TAKAHASHI, Tomoyuki KUBOTA, Sachio TOYORA, Keisuke FUKUOKA, Zidan XU, Wenfeng LIANG, Hiroki MURATA
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Publication number: 20230234465Abstract: A hybrid electric vehicle management device configured to manage a hybrid electric vehicle that includes an internal combustion engine and that is configured to perform either or both of external charging and external discharging, includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire vehicle information of a first hybrid electric vehicle and vehicle information of a second hybrid electric vehicle. The vehicle information includes information on the amount of fuel remaining in the hybrid electric vehicle. The processor selects, based on the vehicle information, the first hybrid electric vehicle as a hybrid electric vehicle to which either or both of the external charging and the external discharging is to he requested. The amount of fuel remaining in the first hybrid electric vehicle is larger than the amount of fuel remaining in the second hybrid electric vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2022Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomoyuki KUBOTA
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Publication number: 20230226939Abstract: A power supply system includes: a power supply facility configured to receive power supply from an external power source and execute power supply to a vehicle traveling in a traveling lane; and a vehicle management apparatus configured to manage a plurality of vehicles configured to use the power supply facility, select adjustment vehicles used for power adjustment of the external power source from among the plurality of vehicles, and when any one of the selected adjustment vehicles has reached a predetermined position in the traveling lane, release the one of the adjustment vehicles that has reached the predetermined position from the power adjustment of the external power source.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2022Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masato EHARA, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomoya TAKAHASHI, Tomoyuki KUBOTA, Sachio TOYORA, Keisuke FUKUOKA, Zidan XU, Wenfeng LIANG, Hiroki MURATA
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Publication number: 20230226923Abstract: A server configured to communicate with a first vehicle and a second vehicle, each of the first vehicle and the second vehicle including a power storage device configured to be charged by wirelessly receiving electric power from a power transmission device arranged on a road during traveling, the server includes: a storage device that stores information on a power shortage area; and a processor configured to: acquire a destination of the first vehicle and a destination of the second vehicle; and limit a charging operation for the second vehicle when the destination of the first vehicle is included in the power shortage area stored in the storage device, the destination of the second vehicle is not included in the power shortage area, and the first vehicle is charged on the road.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2022Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masato EHARA, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomoya TAKAHASHI, Tomoyuki KUBOTA, Sachio TOYORA, Keisuke FUKUOKA, Zidan XU, Wenfeng LIANG, Hiroki MURATA
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Publication number: 20230219448Abstract: A power management system includes a vehicle and a charging or discharging lane. The charging or discharging lane configured to execute at least one of charging or discharging of the vehicle in a non-contact manner. The vehicle is configured to acquire contract contents including a charging or discharging amount and a charging or discharging period. The vehicle is configured to execute the contract contents in a charging or discharging lane that is different from electric vehicle supply equipment set in the contract contents and is reachable before the charging or discharging period when the vehicle is predicted to, before a start of the charging or discharging period, be unable to execute the contract contents in the set electric vehicle supply equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masato EHARA, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomoya TAKAHASHI, Tomoyuki KUBOTA, Sachio TOYORA, Keisuke FUKUOKA, Zidan XU, Wenfeng LIANG, Hiroki MURATA
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Publication number: 20230219443Abstract: A server includes a processor and a communication device configured to acquire a transmitted power amount transmitted from a power facility during external charging of a vehicle participating in a DR. The processor is configured to calculate, when a plurality of vehicles participates in the DR, a standard reward that is a standard of a reward given from an aggregator to each of the vehicles, according to the transmitted power amount, decide, when a first vehicle participates in the DR, a first reward that is a reward given from the aggregator to the first vehicle, such that the first reward becomes the standard reward for the first vehicle, and decide, when a second vehicle participates in the DR, a second reward that is a reward given from the aggregator to the second vehicle, such that the second reward becomes higher than the standard reward for the second vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masato EHARA, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomoya TAKAHASHI, Tomoyuki KUBOTA, Sachio TOYORA, Keisuke FUKUOKA, Zidan XU, Wenfeng LIANG, Hiroki MURATA
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Publication number: 20230219447Abstract: A power supply system includes power supply equipment and a vehicle management device. The power supply equipment is configured to be supplied with electric power from an external power supply and supply the electric power to a vehicle traveling in a travel lane. The vehicle management device is configured to manage vehicles configured to use the power supply equipment, and perform vehicle selection in which the vehicle management device selects a balancing vehicle from the vehicles. The vehicle management device is configured to (i) select vehicles remaining after excluding first x vehicles and last y vehicles from a vehicle group traveling in the travel lane as selection candidates and (ii) select at least one of the selection candidates as the balancing vehicle in the vehicle selection.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masato EHARA, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomoya TAKAHASHI, Tomoyuki KUBOTA, Sachio TOYORA, Keisuke FUKUOKA, Zidan XU, Wenfeng LIANG, Hiroki MURATA
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Publication number: 20230202333Abstract: A power storage amount control device includes a processor configured to acquire a value of a parameter representing a predicted power consumption amount of a load, set target power storage amounts of a plurality of power storage devices based on the value of the parameter representing the predicted power consumption amount, transmit a signal to the power storage device such that the power storage amount of the power storage device is equal to or larger than the set target power storage amount, and set the target power storage amount of a first power storage device supplying the power to a first load higher than the target power storage amount of a second power storage device supplying the power to a second load of which the predicted power consumption amount is smaller than that of the first load.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Tomoyuki KUBOTA
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Publication number: 20230099792Abstract: A motor includes a rotor that includes a shaft along a central axis extending in a vertical direction, a stator that includes coils and opposes the rotor in a radial direction, a casing that supports the rotor and the stator, and a terminal attached to the casing and electrically connected to lead wires extending from the coils. The terminal includes a lead wire terminal portion that is in contact with the lead wire, an external terminal portion that is electrically connected to the lead wire terminal portion and extends toward an outside of the casing, and a holding portion that holds the lead wire terminal portion and the external terminal portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Shota INOUE, Tomoyuki KUBOTA
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Publication number: 20220239106Abstract: The present power adjustment device includes: a storage device that stores vehicle information including a past behavior history of the electric vehicle participating in a VPP; and a charge-discharge instruction device for instructing the electric vehicle to charge and discharge power. The charge-discharge instruction device creates a charge-discharge plan of the electric vehicle to satisfy the power adjustment request, and instructs the electric vehicle of the created charge-discharge plan. In addition, when the charge-discharge instruction device receives an additional request of power adjustment after the instruction of the charge-discharge plan, the charge-discharge instruction device creates a change charge-discharge plan to meet the additional request, based on the estimated behavior of the electric vehicle, and the charge-discharge plan creation unit presents the electric vehicle of the charge-discharge plan that is created. The change charge-discharge plan includes information on an economic merit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2021Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomoyuki KUBOTA
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Patent number: 11364733Abstract: An ink ribbon feeding mechanism includes a cartridge mounting section, a first paying out rotor which is inserted into a first paying out core when a cartridge is being mounted in the cartridge mounting section, and a plurality of rotor side engaging portions which are provided on the first paying out rotor and which engage with a plurality of core side engaging portions when the first paying out rotor rotates. The rotor side engaging portion has an butting portion. When the cartridge is being mounted in the cartridge mounting section, the core side engaging portion butts against the butting portion, one or the other of the first paying out core and the first paying out rotor rotates, the rotor side engaging portion is inserted into the core side insertion recessed portion. A plurality of the butting portions are provided in positions different from each other in a cartridge mounting direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Akio Ishimoto, Taishi Sasaki, Tomoyuki Kubota
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Patent number: 11117406Abstract: Disclosed is a tape printing device including a cartridge installation part in which a first cartridge and a second cartridge different in shape when seen from an installation direction are alternatively installable, wherein the cartridge installation part has, when seen from the installation direction, an overlap region in which a first installation region that is an installation region for the first cartridge and a second installation region that is an installation region for the second cartridge overlap each other, and a non-overlap region composed of one of the first installation region and the second installation region.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Akio Ishimoto, Taishi Sasaki, Tomoyuki Kubota
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Patent number: 11117404Abstract: A tape printing device that is vertically long and can be operated by being handheld includes a handling portion including an operating portion on a front surface and is a part to be handheld, and a main mechanism portion connected to a tip end side of the handling portion, in which the printing mechanism portion is built, in which the handling portion is formed in a constricted shape of which an intermediate portion of a longitudinal direction is constricted.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Kubota, Akihiro Shintani, Taishi Sasaki, Haruki Sugawara, Naoya Nishimura
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Publication number: 20210188112Abstract: A method for model creation for a power distribution network, includes: an acquisition step of acquiring, when rechargeable batteries mounted on a plurality of vehicles are in electrical connection with a plurality of different charge/discharge points of a power distribution network, charge/discharge amounts at the plurality of charge/discharge points upon charging/discharging of the rechargeable batteries and measurement results indicating values about power at a plurality of different measurement points of the power distribution network; and a model creation step of creating an electrical characteristic model for the power distribution network, based on the acquired charge/discharge amounts and measurement results.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoyuki KUBOTA, Shunsuke KOBUNA, Masato EHARA
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Patent number: 10987958Abstract: A printer cover is mounted on a tape printer that includes a plurality of housing faces that include a first housing face in which a first cavity opening portion of a cartridge mounting section into which a tape cartridge is mounted is formed and a lid member that openably closes the first cavity opening portion. The printer cover is an integrally formed body having elasticity. The printer cover has cover faces that include the first cover face that covers the first mounting-side housing face, and a first lid-exposure opening that is provided in the first mounting-side cover face and through which lid member is exposed.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Tomoyuki Kubota