Patents by Inventor Yoshikazu Jikuhara

Yoshikazu Jikuhara 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: 11953906
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller configured to acquire information indicating an attribute of a recipient of a package, acquire information indicating a location for placing the package in a vehicle, and present a depositor of the package with the information indicating the location for placing the package and the information indicating the attribute of the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Jikuhara, Shin Sakurada, Tomokazu Maya, Hiroyuki Bandai, Hiromitsu Fujii
  • Publication number: 20240087073
    Abstract: A control device reads power consumption, information on the delivery number and weight of a first product set, and information on the delivery number and weight of a second product set from a storage device. The control device proportionally divides the power consumption. The control device reads a first conversion formula from the storage device, and calculates CO2 emissions from transportation of the first product set from an A station to a B station and CO2 emissions from transportation of the second product set from the A station to the B station by substituting the power consumptions, into the first conversion formula.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi KOMADA, Mitsuru OGASAWARA, Masahiko ISHII, Hidetaka ASANO, Tomokazu ISHII, Koji HETSUGI, Kosuke YONEKAWA, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA
  • Publication number: 20240075952
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to manage a vehicle with a relaxation facility, the information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire stress information regarding a worker working at a workplace, and command the vehicle to move to the workplace based on the acquired stress information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Shin SAKURADA, Tomokazu MAYA, Hiroyuki BANDAI, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20240078500
    Abstract: A management device includes a communication device and a control device. The communication device is configured to communicate with a moving object configured to transport a product from an upstream company to a downstream company. The control device is configured to calculate CO2 emissions emitted by transportation of the product based on an amount of energy consumed by the moving object from a transportation start time point to a transportation completion time point of the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi KOMADA, Mitsuru OGASAWARA, Masahiko ISHII, Hidetaka ASANO, Tomokazu ISHII, Koji HETSUGI, Kosuke YONEKAWA, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA
  • Publication number: 20240069533
    Abstract: A management method for management of a CO2 emission amount emitted by production of a product in a production line where a first product and a second product are produced includes acquiring a power consumption amount consumed in the production line for a predetermined period, and calculating a CO2 emission amount for each product by allocating the power consumption amount based on a ratio of a total work time required to produce the first product in the production line during the predetermined period and a total work time required to produce the second product in the production line during the predetermined period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi KOMADA, Mitsuru OGASAWARA, Masahiko ISHII, Hidetaka ASANO, Tomokazu ISHII, Koji HETSUGI, Kosuke YONEKAWA, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA
  • Publication number: 20240069506
    Abstract: A management method for managing a CO2 emission amount to be emitted by producing a product, includes: reading out a first CO2 emission amount that is a CO2 emission amount per unit weight of a first raw material and a second CO2 emission amount that is a CO2 emission amount per unit weight of a second raw material; and calculating the CO2 emission amount of the product based on a CO2 emission amount to be calculated from the first CO2 emission amount and from a weight of the first raw material used to produce the product, and a CO2 emission amount to be calculated from the second CO2 emission amount and from a weight of the second raw material used to produce the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi KOMADA, Mitsuru OGASAWARA, Masahiko ISHII, Hidetaka ASANO, Tomokazu ISHII, Koji HETSUGI, Kosuke YONEKAWA, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA
  • Publication number: 20240067225
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to manage a vehicle with a cafeteria facility, the information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire dispatch destination information including a designated location and a designated time period, and command the vehicle to be dispatched to the designated location in the designated time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Shin SAKURADA, Tomokazu MAYA, Hiroyuki BANDAI, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20240054422
    Abstract: A management device includes a communication unit that communicates with a company and a processor that calculates an amount of carbon dioxide emitted by manufacturing a product using a predetermined calculation method. The communication unit notifies the company of information including the amount of carbon dioxide, and the predetermined calculation method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi KOMADA, Mitsuru OGASAWARA, Masahiko ISHII, Hidetaka ASANO, Tomokazu ISHII, Koji HETSUGI, Kosuke YONEKAWA, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA
  • Publication number: 20240053755
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to communicate, using the communication interface, with a mobile object having a facility for executing one or more processes in a plurality of processes to be executed sequentially to manufacture a product. The controller is configured to transmit an instruction to a first mobile object to travel to a meeting point with a second mobile object for executing a second process that follows a first process to be executed in the first mobile object, the instruction being for delivering the product being manufactured to the second mobile object at the meeting point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Shin SAKURADA, Tomokazu MAYA, Hiroyuki BANDAI, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20240051580
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to communicate via the communication interface with at least one mobile object that has a changing room. The controller is configured to transmit an instruction to the mobile object to move to a specified location by a specified time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Shin SAKURADA, Tomokazu MAYA, Hiroyuki BANDAI, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20240056314
    Abstract: A data management system includes a plurality of data management apparatuses, a certification authority group, and a time stamp authority group. In making an application for a proof of existence of invention information, the data management apparatus generates an invention hash, and transmits the invention hash to selected time stamp authorities of the time stamp authority group. Each of the time stamp authorities having received the invention hash generates a time stamp token. The data management apparatus acquires the time stamp token from each of the plurality of time stamp authorities to which the invention hash has been transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki YAMAMURO, Junya WATANABE, Shigeki MATSUMOTO, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Ryota SUZUKI, Yuki YAMASHITA, Hitoshi MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20240054429
    Abstract: A first management device provided in a first company provided upstream includes a communication unit that acquires position information of a transport vehicle when a product is transported to a second company provided downstream by the transport vehicle. In addition, the first management device includes a processor that performs control to notify the second company of information including an amount of carbon dioxide emitted by manufacturing the product, in a case where detection is made that the transport vehicle has entered premises of the second company based on the acquired position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi KOMADA, Mitsuru OGASAWARA, Masahiko ISHII, Hidetaka ASANO, Tomokazu ISHII, Koji HETSUGI, Kosuke YONEKAWA, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA
  • Publication number: 20240046400
    Abstract: A controller is provided which is configured to dispatch a bus to a predetermined facility in response to receiving information about payment from a terminal that is arranged in the predetermined facility to make a payment of a usage fee for the bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Yoshinori KANEMITSU, Yurika TANAKA, Keiichi UNO
  • Publication number: 20240046192
    Abstract: A management device of a second corporation being configured to manage at least one product delivered from a first corporation on an upstream side to the second corporation on a downstream side, includes a first controller that is configured to transmit identification information of the product to the first corporation, and a second controller that is configured to manage the product. A first management device of the first corporation is configured to transmit, based on receiving the identification information from the first controller, first information to the first controller. The first information is information based on a first carbon dioxide amount emitted due to manufacturing the product. The second controller is configured to manage the product and the first carbon dioxide amount in correlation with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi KOMADA, Mitsuru OGASAWARA, Masahiko ISHII, Hidetaka ASANO, Tomokazu ISHII, Koji HETSUGI, Kosuke YONEKAWA, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA
  • Publication number: 20240046712
    Abstract: A management device is configured to manage CO2 emission amounts emitted from production of products on a production line. The management device includes a storage device configured to store a unit weight of a first product and a unit weight of a second product produced on the production line, and a control device that is configured to proportionally divide an electric power consumption amount consumed on the production line over a predetermined period, based on a weight ratio of a total weight of the first product and a total weight of the second product produced on the production line over the predetermined period, and calculate the CO2 emission amount for each product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi KOMADA, Mitsuru OGASAWARA, Masahiko ISHII, Hidetaka ASANO, Tomokazu ISHII, Koji HETSUGI, Kosuke YONEKAWA, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA
  • Publication number: 20240019263
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to dispatch a guidance device to a gathering point for a disabled person who has made a reservation for the use of a bus, to generate a command to move the dispatched guidance device from the gathering point to a point set as a bus stop for the bus, and to transmit the command thus generated to the guidance device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Yoshinori KANEMITSU, Yurika TANAKA, Keiichi UNO
  • Publication number: 20240020621
    Abstract: The delivery support device supports delivery of one or more articles. The delivery support device includes a control unit that acquires temperature data indicating a temperature of each article for each of the one or more articles, and adjusts a delivery order of the one or more articles according to the temperature indicated by the acquired temperature data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Jun HIOKI, Kaori YAMADA, Maiko WATANABE, Yuki KUWAYAMA, Shunya MARUTA, Yo OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20240020585
    Abstract: A controller is provided that designates a first position where a shielding object is present as a boarding point of a bus in response to a weather forecast at a boarding date and time of a user on the bus being predetermined weather.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Yoshinori KANEMITSU, Yurika TANAKA, Keiichi UNO
  • Publication number: 20240012418
    Abstract: The information processing device includes a control unit that manages a logistics robot that delivers a package from an intermediate delivery point to a living place of each of a plurality of users. The control unit estimates the time at which the logistics robot completes the delivery of the first package to the first user based on the information on the undelivered package existing at the intermediate delivery point at the time at which the first package arrives at the intermediate delivery point and the delivery capability of the logistics robot. The control unit outputs the estimated time to the terminal device of the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Jun HIOKI, Kaori YAMADA, Maiko WATANABE, Yuki KUWAYAMA, Shunya MARUTA, Yo OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20240013136
    Abstract: The information processing device of the present disclosure is included in a delivery system that delivers a package delivered to an intermediate delivery point in a specific area to a final delivery destination in the specific area. The information processing device includes a control unit that determines a logistics robot that delivers a package from an intermediate delivery point to a final delivery destination, and performs a process of acquiring or generating authentication information for confirming authenticity of the logistics robot and that is used when the logistics robot receives a package from a vehicle that has delivered the package to an intermediate delivery point, and transmitting the authentication information to a vehicle-side system before the logistics robot receives the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Jun HIOKI, Kaori YAMADA, Maiko WATANABE, Yuki KUWAYAMA, Shunya MARUTA, Yo OKUMURA