Patents by Inventor Yoshinori NAKAI

Yoshinori NAKAI 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: 11082907
    Abstract: An unmanned traveling vehicle includes a block information acquirer that acquires position information on blocks each of which is a range of positions in an area within which the unmanned traveling vehicle is allowed to travel and channel information indicating a wireless channel available inside each of the blocks, a position acquirer that acquires a current position of the unmanned traveling vehicle, a determiner that identifies a block including the current position acquired by the position acquirer from among the blocks with reference to the position information, and determines, with reference to the channel information, a wireless channel to be used for wireless communication inside the block identified, and a communicator that performs the wireless communication by the wireless channel determined by the determiner and indicated by the channel information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MACHINERY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kuwahara, Yoshinori Nakai, Yasuhisa Ito, Wataru Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20210136648
    Abstract: An unmanned traveling vehicle includes a block information acquirer that acquires position information on blocks each of which is a range of positions in an area within which the unmanned traveling vehicle is allowed to travel and channel information indicating a wireless channel available inside each of the blocks, a position acquirer that acquires a current position of the unmanned traveling vehicle, a determiner that identifies a block including the current position acquired by the position acquirer from among the blocks with reference to the position information, and determines, with reference to the channel information, a wireless channel to be used for wireless communication inside the block identified, and a communicator that performs the wireless communication by the wireless channel determined by the determiner and indicated by the channel information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Tetsuya KUWAHARA, Yoshinori NAKAI, Yasuhisa ITO, Wataru KITAMURA