Patents by Inventor Yoichi Yamamura

Yoichi Yamamura 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).

  • Publication number: 20230392939
    Abstract: A system that reduces the possibility of damaging items. A route searching system includes a type-of-item obtaining part that obtains a type of an item transported by a vehicle; a destination obtaining part that obtains a destination; and a route searching part that searches for a route that reaches the destination by selecting, based on the type of an item, a road with a low possibility of damaging the item on a priority basis over a road with a high possibility of damaging the item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka KONISHI, Yoichi YAMAMURA, Takayuki MIYAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20220261755
    Abstract: To provide a system that can figure out whether a profit is made by delivery. A delivery candidate proposal system is configured to include a current location obtaining part that obtains a current location of a delivery vehicle; a delivery information obtaining part that obtains a loading location, a delivery location, and a delivery charge for a delivery candidate package; a cost obtaining part that obtains costs required when the delivery candidate package is delivered to the delivery location on the delivery vehicle, based on the current location, the loading location, and the delivery location; and a guidance control part that allows a guidance part to provide guidance on information indicating a profit obtained by subtracting the costs from the delivery charge, with the delivery candidate package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki NAKAYAMA, Yoichi YAMAMURA, Yasuhito YAMADA, Toyohide TSUBOI
  • Patent number: 11199141
    Abstract: When an acceptance unit accepts an advance notice, a control unit, controls inflow amount of the air, an air fuel ratio derived from an injection amount of a fuel, and an advance of an ignition timing of an ignition device to temporarily increase a power that can be supplied by a generator. The control unit is determines whether a margin of an opening of a throttle is not less than a predetermined threshold. If the margin of the opening of the throttle is less than the predetermined threshold, the control unit inhibits a temporarily increase of the power. If the margin of the opening of the throttle is not less than the predetermined threshold, the control unit permits the temporarily increase of the power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi Yamamura, Kyosuke Taniguchi, Wataru Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 11094194
    Abstract: Operation management systems, methods, and programs obtain a travel plan including a scheduled point and a scheduled time associated with the scheduled point, and obtain a travel track record including a travel point of a vehicle and a travel time associated with the travel point. The systems, methods, and programs obtain, when a delay has occurred in the travel plan, a cause of the delay based on the travel track record and the travel plan, and output the obtained cause of the delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Konishi, Yoichi Yamamura, Hideki Kasezawa
  • Patent number: 11070154
    Abstract: A switch can connect or disconnect a generator and a supply unit. A control unit controls an engine in one of a plurality of control states including a power generation state, a first standby state and a second standby state. When an acceptance unit accepts a switching instruction from the first standby state to the second standby state, the control unit controls the switch to disconnect the generator and the supply unit, and reduces the engine speed of the engine from an engine speed in the first standby state to an engine speed in the second standby state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi Yamamura, Kyosuke Taniguchi, Wataru Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 10968849
    Abstract: An engine system comprises a fuel tank, an internal combustion engine, a generator, a recoil starter, a control unit, an injector, a fuel pump, an ignition apparatus, and a detection unit that detects a number-of-rotations of the internal combustion engine. The control unit, in a starting period of the internal combustion engine using the recoil starter, determines whether or not the internal combustion engine can perform self-sustaining rotation based on the number-of-rotations, and if the internal combustion engine cannot perform self-sustaining rotation. Electric power is not supplied to the ignition apparatus, the injector, and the fuel pump when the internal combustion engine cannot perform self-sustaining rotation. The electric power is supplied to them when the internal combustion engine can perform self-sustaining rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoichi Yamamura
  • Publication number: 20210073726
    Abstract: Configured is a delivery support system including: an available space detection unit that detects an available space that is a space in which a package can be loaded based on an output signal of a package sensor that is attached to a package compartment provided in a delivery vehicle and that detects a three-dimensional region in which there is a package loaded in the package compartment; a determination unit that determines whether a package to be added can be loaded in the available space based on dimensions of the package to be added; and an output unit that outputs a determination result of whether a package can be loaded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro OKODO, Yoichi YAMAMURA, Toshiyuki SEKI, Toyohide TSUBOI
  • Publication number: 20210041256
    Abstract: A system that reduces the possibility of damaging items. A route searching system includes a type-of-item obtaining part that obtains a type of an item transported by a vehicle; a destination obtaining part that obtains a destination; and a route searching part that searches for a route that reaches the destination by selecting, based on the type of an item, a road with a low possibility of damaging the item on a priority basis over a road with a high possibility of damaging the item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutaka KONISHI, Yoichi YAMAMURA, Takayuki MIYAJIMA
  • Patent number: 10844801
    Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus is provided. An injection unit injects fuel in an internal combustion engine. A carbon monoxide concentration sensor is provided in an exhaust path of the internal combustion engine and detects a carbon monoxide concentration in an exhaust gas. A control unit controls the injection unit based on the carbon monoxide concentration detected by the carbon monoxide concentration sensor such that an air fuel ratio in the internal combustion engine becomes close to a target air fuel ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi Yamamura, Ryuichi Kimata, Toshikazu Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20200284211
    Abstract: When an acceptance unit accepts an advance notice, a control unit, controls inflow amount of the air, an air fuel ratio derived from an injection amount of a fuel, and an advance of an ignition timing of an ignition device to temporarily increase a power that can be supplied by a generator. The control unit is determines whether a margin of an opening of a throttle is not less than a predetermined threshold. If the margin of the opening of the throttle is less than the predetermined threshold, the control unit inhibits a temporarily increase of the power. If the margin of the opening of the throttle is not less than the predetermined threshold, the control unit permits the temporarily increase of the power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi Yamamura, Kyosuke Taniguchi, Wataru Fukumoto
  • Publication number: 20200287489
    Abstract: A switch can connect or disconnect a generator and a supply unit. A control unit controls an engine in one of a plurality of control states including a power generation state, a first standby state and a second standby state. When an acceptance unit accepts a switching instruction from the first standby state to the second standby state, the control unit controls the switch to disconnect the generator and the supply unit, and reduces the engine speed of the engine from an engine speed in the first standby state to an engine speed in the second standby state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi Yamamura, Kyosuke Taniguchi, Wataru Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 10760509
    Abstract: A system includes a fuel tank, an internal combustion engine, a generator, a recoil starter, a control unit, an injector, a fuel pump, an igniter, and a detection unit that detects the crank angle of the internal combustion engine. The control unit, in a starting period of the internal combustion engine, which is started using the recoil starter, supplies electric power to the igniter, the injector, and the fuel pump such that a power supply period of the igniter will not overlap a power supply period of the injector and the fuel pump, using the crank angle as a reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoichi Yamamura
  • Publication number: 20190390621
    Abstract: An engine system comprises a fuel tank, an internal combustion engine, a generator, a recoil starter, a control unit, an injector, a fuel pump, an ignition apparatus, and a detection unit that detects a number-of-rotations of the internal combustion engine. The control unit, in a starting period of the internal combustion engine using the recoil starter, determines whether or not the internal combustion engine can perform self-sustaining rotation based on the number-of-rotations, and if the internal combustion engine cannot perform self-sustaining rotation. Electric power is not supplied to the ignition apparatus, the injector, and the fuel pump when the internal combustion engine cannot perform self-sustaining rotation. The electric power is supplied to them when the internal combustion engine can perform self-sustaining rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoichi Yamamura
  • Publication number: 20190390618
    Abstract: A system includes a fuel tank, an internal combustion engine, a generator, a recoil starter, a control unit, an injector, a fuel pump, an igniter, and a detection unit that detects the crank angle of the internal combustion engine. The control unit, in a starting period of the internal combustion engine, which is started using the recoil starter, supplies electric power to the igniter, the injector, and the fuel pump such that a power supply period of the igniter will not overlap a power supply period of the injector and the fuel pump, using the crank angle as a reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoichi Yamamura
  • Patent number: 10513993
    Abstract: An intake pressure sensor is provided in an intake path of a single cylinder engine and detects an intake pressure. A crank angle sensor detects a crank angle of the single cylinder engine. A sampling unit samples the intake pressure detected by the intake pressure sensor when the crank angle detected by the crank angle sensor becomes a sampling start angle. A calculation unit extracts M intake pressures of relatively small values of N intake pressures sampled by the sampling unit. The calculation unit acquires, as a bottom pressure, an average value of P intake pressures remaining after several intake pressures of relatively large values and several intake pressures of relatively small values of the M intake pressures are excluded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventor: Yoichi Yamamura
  • Publication number: 20190162126
    Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus is provided. An injection unit injects fuel in an internal combustion engine. A carbon monoxide concentration sensor is provided in an exhaust path of the internal combustion engine and detects a carbon monoxide concentration in an exhaust gas. A control unit controls the injection unit based on the carbon monoxide concentration detected by the carbon monoxide concentration sensor such that an air fuel ratio in the internal combustion engine becomes close to a target air fuel ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Yoichi Yamamura, Ryuichi Kimata, Toshikazu Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20190162133
    Abstract: An intake pressure sensor is provided in an intake path of a single cylinder engine and detects an intake pressure. A crank angle sensor detects a crank angle of the single cylinder engine. A sampling unit samples the intake pressure detected by the intake pressure sensor when the crank angle detected by the crank angle sensor becomes a sampling start angle. A calculation unit extracts M intake pressures of relatively small values of N intake pressures sampled by the sampling unit. The calculation unit acquires, as a bottom pressure, an average value of P intake pressures remaining after several intake pressures of relatively large values and several intake pressures of relatively small values of the M intake pressures are excluded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventor: Yoichi Yamamura
  • Publication number: 20190156672
    Abstract: Operation management systems, methods, and programs obtain a travel plan including a scheduled point and a scheduled time associated with the scheduled point, and obtain a travel track record including a travel point of a vehicle and a travel time associated with the travel point. The systems, methods, and programs obtain, when a delay has occurred in the travel plan, a cause of the delay based on the travel track record and the travel plan, and output the obtained cause of the delay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutaka KONISHI, Yoichi YAMAMURA, Hideki KASEZAWA
  • Publication number: 20190143926
    Abstract: Vehicle management systems, methods and programs receive contact information indicating contact between an object and a vehicle. The contact information is detected by a sensor that detects contact between the object and the vehicle. The systems, methods, and programs obtain inspection information. The inspection information is a result of inspecting the vehicle for damage by a user of the vehicle who is notified of the contact between the object and the vehicle from having received the contact information. Inspection information transmission systems, methods, and programs, and information management systems, methods, and programs are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi YAMAMURA, Yuichi KURIWAKI, Hirokazu HIRAI
  • Patent number: 9429086
    Abstract: A control section starts cranking of an engine with a first opening degree upon detection of a first operation signal, and, if the engine has reached a predetermined number of rotations through a predetermined number of times of the cranking with the first opening degree, the control section starts running of the engine in a first mode corresponding to the first opening degree. If the engine has not reached the predetermined number of rotations through the predetermined number of times of the cranking with the first opening degree, the control section starts cranking with a second opening degree, and, if the engine has reached the predetermined number of rotations through the predetermined number of times of the cranking with the second opening degree, the control section starts running of the engine in a second mode corresponding to the second opening degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhide Ono, Yoichi Yamamura, Koji Nakagawa