Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Nakamura

Toshihiro Nakamura 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: 12175230
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that executes acquiring information on update of a program implemented in a vehicle, and formulating a plan for updating the program while the vehicle is stopped in an operation plan based on the information on the update of the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Nagata, Toshihiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240387474
    Abstract: In a semiconductor device, a sealing body seals a semiconductor element, at least part of a wiring member, at least part of signal terminals, a relay substrate, and bonding wires. The bonding wires electrically connect pads of the semiconductor element and lands of the relay substrate. The wiring member has a front-face metal body. The front-face metal body includes a wiring portion and an island portion electrically isolated from the wiring portion. The semiconductor element is disposed on the wiring portion and the relay substrate is disposed on the island portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: TOSHIHIRO NAKAMURA, HIROTOSHI KUSAMA, NAOHITO MIZUNO, AYAKO SHIMOZUMA, TOMOMI OKUMURA
  • Patent number: 12135220
    Abstract: A power supply system includes a plurality of power transmission coils, a display layer, and a controller. The power transmission coils are arranged in a predetermined direction on a road and configured to transmit electric power in a non-contact manner to a power receiving coil mounted on a vehicle. The display layer is provided above the power transmission coils. The controller controls a display mode of the display layer so as to guide the vehicle in accordance with a traveling state of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Ito, Akihiro Kusumoto, Takahiro Hirano, Ryunosuke Yamashita, Daiki Tajima, Katsuya Kobayashi, Toshihiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240312981
    Abstract: An ESD protection circuit includes: a protective element placed between VDD and VSS; an RC circuit; and an inverter connected to a node of the RC circuit at its input and to a node of the protective element at its output. The inverter includes a PMOS connected to VDD at its source and an NMOS connected to VSS at its source. The PMOS and the NMOS are connected in common to the node of the RC circuit at their gates and to the node of the protective element at their drains. The gate length of the PMOS is smaller than the gate length of the NMOS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshito UCHIHASHI, Masahiro GION, Toshihiro NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 12087342
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy disc blank for a magnetic disc made of an aluminum alloy containing Fe: 0.005 to 1.800 mass % with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, wherein a flatness change of the aluminum alloy disc blank for a magnetic disc when the aluminum alloy disc blank for a magnetic disc is held in the atmosphere at 50° C. or lower for 336 hours is 2.0 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignees: UACJ CORPORATION, FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kotaro Kitawaki, Ryo Sakamoto, Wataru Kumagai, Hideyuki Hatakeyama, Ryohei Yamada, Shinpei Todo, Toshihiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240232920
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire questionnaire data including a score for each autonomous driving system installed in each vehicle among a plurality of vehicles operated by autonomous driving along a predetermined operation route, the score being an evaluation index of ride comfort of each vehicle, identify, based on an aggregate result of the questionnaire data, a vehicle from among the plurality of vehicles for which the score is determined to be less than a threshold as a first vehicle, and extract first data to be used in analyzing ride comfort from first vehicle information acquired by a first autonomous driving system, which is an autonomous driving system installed in the first vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Ibuki SHIMADA, Toshihiro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240233541
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an input interface that accepts a parking reservation for a vehicle for which parking is desired, and a controller that confirms, when the vehicle for which parking is desired is a first vehicle whose purpose for parking includes charging, whether there is an opening for reservation of a first parking lot having a charging station, completes acceptance of reservation of the first parking lot for the first vehicle when there is an opening, changes a reservation of the first parking lot for at least one second vehicle, selected based on a predetermined condition from among one or more reservation holding vehicles for which acceptance of reservation of the first parking lot is completed, to a reservation of a second parking lot based on the predetermined condition when there is no opening, and completes acceptance of reservation of the first parking lot for the first vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Ibuki SHIMADA, Toshihiro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240167835
    Abstract: A power supply system includes a plurality of power transmission coils, a display layer, and a controller. The power transmission coils are arranged in a predetermined direction on a road and configured to transmit electric power in a non-contact manner to a power receiving coil mounted on a vehicle. The display layer is provided above the power transmission coils. The controller controls a display mode of the display layer so as to guide the vehicle in accordance with a traveling state of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki ITO, Akihiro KUSUMOTO, Takahiro HIRANO, Ryunosuke YAMASHITA, Daiki TAJIMA, Katsuya KOBAYASHI, Toshihiro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240135818
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an input interface that accepts a parking reservation for a vehicle for which parking is desired, and a controller that confirms, when the vehicle for which parking is desired is a first vehicle whose purpose for parking includes charging, whether there is an opening for reservation of a first parking lot having a charging station, completes acceptance of reservation of the first parking lot for the first vehicle when there is an opening, changes a reservation of the first parking lot for at least one second vehicle, selected based on a predetermined condition from among one or more reservation holding vehicles for which acceptance of reservation of the first parking lot is completed, to a reservation of a second parking lot based on the predetermined condition when there is no opening, and completes acceptance of reservation of the first parking lot for the first vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Ibuki SHIMADA, Toshihiro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240135398
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire questionnaire data including a score for each autonomous driving system installed in each vehicle among a plurality of vehicles operated by autonomous driving along a predetermined operation route, the score being an evaluation index of ride comfort of each vehicle, identify, based on an aggregate result of the questionnaire data, a vehicle from among the plurality of vehicles for which the score is determined to be less than a threshold as a first vehicle, and extract first data to be used in analyzing ride comfort from first vehicle information acquired by a first autonomous driving system, which is an autonomous driving system installed in the first vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Ibuki SHIMADA, Toshihiro NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11966861
    Abstract: An operation planning system that creates an operation plan of a vehicle with a rechargeable battery as a travel energy source includes: a reception unit configured to receive request information including a departure location and a destination from a user; and an operation determining unit configured to determine an operation plan in response to the request information. The operation determining unit is configured to derive a state of charge shortage by which there is a shortage when the vehicle travels in an operation section based on the state of charge of the vehicle and to create the operation plan by allocating a vehicle, which is able to be charged with the derived state of charge shortage until an operation of the vehicle starts, to the operation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Nagata, Toshihiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240096870
    Abstract: In a semiconductor integrated circuit device, a first power line extends in an X direction in an IO region and is formed in a first interconnect layer. A second power line extends in the X direction in a core region. A third power line extends in a Y direction, is formed in a second interconnect layer located below the first interconnect layer, and is connected to the first and second power lines. The third power line overlaps an external connection pad in planar view and is placed between adjacent interconnects in the X direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: Toshihiro NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11935559
    Abstract: This magnetic disk device is a 3.5-inch magnetic disk device equipped with magnetic disks formed from an aluminum alloy substrate. The magnetic disks arranged in a stacked manner have a thickness Td of 0.3 mm to 0.6 mm, the number N of magnetic disks involved is 10 to 16, and spacers disposed between the magnetic disks have an outside diameter 2 Rso of 35 mm to 65 mm. The outside diameter 2 Rso (mm) of the spacers satisfies 2 Rso??60 Td+70 and 2 Rso??0.5 N2?+16.5 N?73.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: UACJ CORPORATION, FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Kitamura, Kotaro Kitawaki, Hideyuki Hatakeyama, Ryohei Yamada, Toshihiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240083297
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that creates an electrical energy consumption map, for an autonomous vehicle, indicating electrical energy consumption of links in an operation route defined by an operation plan, calculates, based on the map, a first predicted value of total electrical energy consumption required for traveling the operation route, and compares the total electrical energy consumption indicated by the first predicted value with a SOC prior to operation of the vehicle, and when the SOC prior to operation does not satisfy the total electrical energy consumption, extracts links satisfying a predetermined condition as candidate links for switching to a manual driving section from among links designated as an autonomous driving section and changes the operation plan so that the SOC prior to operation satisfies the total electrical energy consumption by switching at least one of the extracted candidate links to the manual driving section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Ibuki SHIMADA, Toshihiro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240087456
    Abstract: A method performed by an information processing apparatus, the method includes, for each of a plurality of vehicles for which charging in a target time period has been applied for, acquiring vehicle information including predicted remaining SOC to be remaining at a start of the target time period and/or predicted consumed SOC to be consumed in a vehicle use period after an end of the target time period, determining, based on the vehicle information, whether each of the plurality of vehicles is a target for charging in the target time period, and determining a charging plan to charge a vehicle being determined to be eligible for charging, among the plurality of vehicles, in the target time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Toshihiro NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11914384
    Abstract: An energy consumption estimation device includes a reception unit configured to receive, from a user, request information including a departure point and a destination, a route derivation unit configured to derive a plurality of travel routes based on the departure point and the destination included in the request information, an acquisition unit configured to acquire section energy consumption in a case where a vehicle travels on a road section, which is derived based on information on vehicle speed and information on road undulations, and an estimation unit configured to respectively estimate energy consumption of the vehicle in a case where the vehicle travels on the derived travel routes by adding section energy consumption for road sections included in the travel route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Nagata, Toshihiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240014640
    Abstract: (Problem) To provide an electric cable connection method for joining terminal conductors in an assembled state and a joined electric cable. (Solution to the Problem) An electric cable connection method is a method for connecting exposed terminal conductors 21a of a plurality of covered electric cables 20 so as to be conductive. The electric cable connection method includes an assembly step s2 of assembling the covered electric cables 20; a fixing step s3 of fixing the terminal conductors 21a of the assembly of the plurality of electric cables 20 with a resin cover 50; and a joining step s4 of setting the plurality of covered electric cables having the plurality of terminal conductors 21a fixed with the resin cover 50 in an electric cable connection device 40, and joining the plurality of exposed terminal conductors 21a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicants: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Toshihiro NAKAMURA, Kazuhiro HIGUCHI, Yukihiro TORIMOTO, Tomohiro NAKAYAMA, Hiroshi TAKANO, Ryo NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240005958
    Abstract: A hard disk drive is a 3.5-inch hard disk drive on which a magnetic disk formed of an aluminum alloy substrate is mounted. A thickness Td of each of magnetic disks that are arranged in a stacked manner is 0.3 mm or more and 0.6 mm or less, the number N of the magnetic disks is 10 or more and 16 or less, and an outer diameter 2Rso of a spacer that is arranged between the magnetic disks is 35 mm or more and 65 mm or less. The outer diameter 2Rso (mm) of the spacer satisfies 2Rso??60Td+70 and 2Rso??0.5N2+16.5N?73.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Naoki KITAMURA, Kotaro KITAWAKI, Hideyuki HATAKEYAMA, Ryohei YAMADA, Toshihiro NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11862915
    Abstract: [Object] The present invention provides a joined conductor and a method for manufacturing a joined conductor that can improve electrical conductivity between conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Nakamura, Tomohiro Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20230366683
    Abstract: An information processing device comprises a controller configured to execute: acquiring respective vehicle-mounted videos including an identical road section from a first vehicle that is an automated driving vehicle and a second vehicle that is a manual driving vehicle; identifying a first running trajectory corresponding to the first vehicle and a second running trajectory corresponding to the second vehicle on the basis of the vehicle-mounted videos; and making a judgment on a subject present at a first point that is a point with a divergence above a predetermined value between the first running trajectory and the second running trajectory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Nagata, Toshihiro Nakamura