Patents by Inventor Yosuke Kimura

Yosuke Kimura 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: 11662140
    Abstract: A raw material gas liquefying device includes a feed line; a refrigerant circulation line; and a controller. In a refrigerant liquefaction route, a refrigerant flows through a compressor, a heat exchanger, a circulation system JT valve, a liquefied refrigerant storage tank, and the heat exchanger, and returns to the compressor. In a cryogenic energy generation route, the refrigerant flows through the compressor, the heat exchanger, an expansion unit, and the heat exchanger, and returns to the compressor. The controller determines if a refrigerant storage tank liquid level is within an allowable range, manipulates a feed system JT valve opening rate to control refrigerant temperature at the high-temperature-side refrigerant flow path exit side of the heat exchanger, and manipulates the opening rate of the feed system JT valve to control the refrigerant storage tank liquid level so that the refrigerant storage tank liquid level falls into the predetermined allowable range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sakamoto, Hidetaka Miyazaki, Naotaka Yamazoe, Daisuke Kariya, Yasuo Miwa, Yuichi Saitou, Yosuke Kimura, Toshihiro Komiya, Yoshihiro Matsuda, Keisuke Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20230136713
    Abstract: A server as a sensing device is configured such that a calculation unit handles pieces of sampled vehicle data divided and assigned to data ranges set in advance, and calculates linear interpolation by using coordinate information on the vehicle data representing at least one of a longitudinal acceleration, a steering angle, and a lateral acceleration with respect to a relative difference in wheel speed between predetermined ones of front and rear wheels or right and left wheels of a vehicle, for the data ranges, that the calculation unit registers the vehicle data corresponding to a Y-intercept as to the relative difference in wheel speed between the predetermined wheels, based on the calculated linear interpolation, for the data ranges, and that a sensing unit senses air pressure decrease in a tire by using the difference in wheel speed between the predetermined wheels in the registered vehicle data, for the data ranges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke KIMURA, Yasuhiro UEHARA
  • Publication number: 20230135343
    Abstract: A degradation display system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform: acquiring a degradation index indicating a degradation state of a road section, changing display form of a map in accordance with a display range and a scale of the map, and superimposing degradation information on the map, the degradation information based on the degradation index of an area on the map or the road section in the area, wherein the superimposing includes: superimposing, for each area, the degradation information in a display form corresponding to a degree of the degradation index of the area in a case that the map is at a first scale, and superimposing, for each road section, the degradation information in a display form corresponding to a degree of the degradation index of the road section in a case that the map is at a second scale larger than the first scale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Chisato SUGAWARA, Yosuke KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230131426
    Abstract: An information display control device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: acquire vehicle information including positions in each section on roads through which each of a plurality of vehicles has passed and times at which each of a plurality of vehicles has traveled the positions; generate, for each section on the roads, a map indicating traffic records calculated based on the vehicle information including a position on the section in a different mode according to elapsed time from a latest time included in the vehicle information including a position on the section; and cause a display means to display the map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Nana JUMONJI, Chisato Sugawara, Kazuki Inagaki, Yosuke Kimura
  • Patent number: 11613161
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning system, including: a vehicle interior environmental information acquisition unit that acquires environmental information of a vehicle interior; a vehicle exterior environmental information acquisition unit that acquires environmental information of surroundings of the vehicle; a sensible temperature prediction unit that predicts a sensible temperature of an occupant of the vehicle after a predetermined amount of time has elapsed, based on the environmental information acquired by the vehicle cabin interior environmental information acquisition unit and the vehicle cabin exterior environmental information acquisition unit; and an air conditioner controller that controls an air conditioner based on information regarding a future sensible temperature of the occupant which has been predicted by the sensible temperature prediction unit and a comfortable sensible temperature of the occupant which is stored in a storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Yanagida, Tomoya Yamaguchi, Yosuke Kimura
  • Patent number: 11543425
    Abstract: A road surface damage detection device is configured to calculate, for each of road sections, a maximum variation rate that is a maximum value of a variation amount of a wheel speed per unit time in each of vehicles. The device is configured to periodically select, for each of the road sections, a maximum value from the maximum variation rate of each of the vehicles in a prescribed period, set the selected maximum value as a section maximum variation rate, and determine whether or not the road surface damage has occurred by comparing a determination target value with a positive threshold, the determination target value being obtained by subtracting a comparison value, based on at least one of the section maximum variation rates set before last time, from the section maximum variation rate that is set latest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Kimura, Takeo Moriai, Masaya Fujimori, Tatsuya Obuchi
  • Publication number: 20220302781
    Abstract: A rotor for rotary electric machine includes shaft that includes flange portion, rotor core that fits to shaft wherein manner that rotational torque can be transmitted between rotor core and shaft, first end plate that covers one end face of rotor core in axial direction, second end plate that covers another end face of rotor core in axial direction, nut member that is screwed to shaft and holds rotor core with flange portion in axial direction, first washer provided between flange portion and first end plate in axial direction, and second washer provided between nut member and second end plate in axial direction. Flange portion protrudes to outer radial side from outer peripheral surface of shaft to which rotor core is fitted. First washer is in contact with seat surface of flange portion in axial direction, and has outer diameter larger than outer diameter of seat surface of flange portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shumpei TOYAMA, Yosuke KIMURA, Ryohei INOUE
  • Publication number: 20220219680
    Abstract: An information processing device including: a detecting section detecting an observed amount relating to a change in acceleration of a vehicle due to a driving operation; an inertial measurement section detecting an actually measured value of acceleration of the vehicle; and an estimating section that determines that the vehicle has collided in a case in which an acceleration difference, which is a difference between an actually measured value of acceleration of the vehicle detected by the inertial measurement section and an estimated value of acceleration of the vehicle derived on the basis of the observed amount, is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Kentaroh NAGAYA, Yosuke KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220198922
    Abstract: A data center server that acquires and accumulates traveling data from an in-vehicle system mounted on an individual vehicle functions as a specification unit and an extraction unit. The specification unit specifies a plurality of first vehicles that performs a predetermined driving operation at a first place among vehicles passing through the first place. The extraction unit extracts a driving operation common to the first vehicles in a period until the first vehicles reach the first place, from a traveling history of each of the first vehicles specified by the specification unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Masatoshi SATOH, Yosuke KIMURA, Kentaroh NAGAYA
  • Publication number: 20220188394
    Abstract: A person specifying device includes an authentication unit configured to acquire a captured image capturing a person boarding a moving vehicle, to perform a matching determination as to whether or not the person reflected in the captured image matches a pre-registered person, and to generate person-specifying information representing the person determined via the matching determination; and an authentication-interval-updating unit configured to update a time interval for performing the matching determination to be shorter when failing to achieve a success frequency of authentication above a desired value via the matching determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke KIMURA, Kazuki INAGAKI
  • Patent number: 11185309
    Abstract: Control device 10 of an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes a hardware processor that sets, among a plurality of operation modes in which pulse waveforms of ultrasound pulses to be transmitted are different from one another, at least first and second operation modes for which observation results are to be simultaneously displayed on a screen, sets at least one operation type that defines transmission timing of ultrasound pulses, and sets a switching frequency of a switching signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Mutsuhiro Akahane, Yasuhiro Nakamura, Yosuke Kimura, Kazuya Osada
  • Publication number: 20210323329
    Abstract: Provided are a printing apparatus, a reading method, and a program capable of stably acquiring a high-quality read image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yosuke KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20210165012
    Abstract: A road surface damage detection device is configured to calculate, for each of road sections, a maximum variation rate that is a maximum value of a variation amount of a wheel speed per unit time in each of vehicles. The device is configured to periodically select, for each of the road sections, a maximum value from the maximum variation rate of each of the vehicles in a prescribed period, set the selected maximum value as a section maximum variation rate, and determine whether or not the road surface damage has occurred by comparing a determination target value with a positive threshold, the determination target value being obtained by subtracting a comparison value, based on at least one of the section maximum variation rates set before last time, from the section maximum variation rate that is set latest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke KIMURA, Takeo MORIAI, Masaya FUJIMORI, Tatsuya OBUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210163014
    Abstract: A road surface damage detection device is configured to calculate, for each of road sections, a maximum variation rate that is a maximum value of a variation amount of a wheel speed per unit time in each of vehicles. Next, the device is configured to periodically select, for each of the road sections, a maximum value from the maximum variation rate of each of the vehicles in a first prescribed period, set the selected maximum value as a section maximum variation rate, and determine whether or not the road surface damage has occurred by comparing the section maximum variation rate with a threshold. The device sets the threshold, for each of the road sections, based on a behavior of each of the vehicles in a second prescribed period or based on the behavior of each of the vehicles when a predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke KIMURA, Takeo MORIAI, Masaya FUJIMORI, Tatsuya OBUCHI
  • Patent number: 11013496
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe and a display. The apparatus includes a power supply including at least one voltage converting circuit converting input voltage to a predetermined power voltage for output. The voltage converting circuit includes a coil and a switching element performing a switching operation for switching routes of current flowing in the coil in response to a predetermined switching control signal, and the voltage converting circuit outputs the power voltage through the repeated switching operations under supply of the input voltage. The power supply is provided with a plurality of coils, and the coils are disposed such that a leakage magnetic field in a vicinity of an aperture of at least one of the coils is partially negated by a leakage magnetic field from one or more of the other coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Muramatsu, Yasuhiro Nakamura, Yosuke Kimura
  • Publication number: 20210138871
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning system, including: a vehicle interior environmental information acquisition unit that acquires environmental information of a vehicle interior; a vehicle exterior environmental information acquisition unit that acquires environmental information of surroundings of the vehicle; a sensible temperature prediction unit that predicts a sensible temperature of an occupant of the vehicle after a predetermined amount of time has elapsed, based on the environmental information acquired by the vehicle cabin interior environmental information acquisition unit and the vehicle cabin exterior environmental information acquisition unit; and an air conditioner controller that controls an air conditioner based on information regarding a future sensible temperature of the occupant which has been predicted by the sensible temperature prediction unit and a comfortable sensible temperature of the occupant which is stored in a storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Kenichi Yanagida, Tomoya Yamaguchi, Yosuke Kimura
  • Patent number: 10967869
    Abstract: A road surface condition estimation apparatus (1) is provided with a collecting device (111) for collecting, from vehicle (2), behavior information relating to a behavior of the vehicle; a determining device (112) for determining on the basis of the behavior information whether or not an abnormality condition is satisfied, the abnormality condition being set on the basis of a specific behavior that is expected to be taken by the vehicle when the vehicle encounters a road surface abnormality; and an estimating device (112) for estimating a condition of the road surface on the basis of a determined result of the determining device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Kimura, Hiroshi Majima, Masaya Fujimori, Takeo Moriai, Tatsuya Obuchi
  • Publication number: 20210063196
    Abstract: An abnormal section that is a road section having an abnormal road condition is detected out of respective road sections, based on vehicle information from a plurality of vehicles. Out of roads in a displayed map, a small number of abnormal sections-part that has a number of consecutive abnormal sections (a continuous distance where the road condition is abnormal) less than a reference value is provided with state information in a first display mode. A large number of abnormal sections-part that has the number of consecutive abnormal sections equal to or greater than the reference value is provided with the state information in a second display mode that is different from the first display mode. The small number of abnormal sections-part and the large number of abnormal sections-part provided with the state information are displayed in a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Yosuke Kimura, Tatsuya Obuchi, Masaya Fujimori, Takeo Moriai, Hiroshi Majima
  • Publication number: 20210064891
    Abstract: An object is to enable a user to more readily design a maintenance plan according to the type of an abnormality of road. A first abnormal section that is a road section having a road condition of a first abnormality and a second abnormal section that is a road section having the road condition of a second abnormality that is different from the first abnormality are detected, based on vehicle information from a plurality of vehicles. Out of roads in a displayed map, the first abnormal section is provided with the state information in a first display mode, and the second abnormal section is provided with the state information in a second display mode that is different from the first display mode. The first abnormal section and the second abnormal section provided with the state information are displayed in a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke KIMURA, Tatsuya OBUCHI, Masaya FUJIMORI, Takeo MORIAI, Hiroshi MAJIMA
  • Patent number: 10788069
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a joined component in which the overflow of brazing filler metal from the outer peripheral line of a joint boundary surface between a first member and a second member is suppressed, and a method for manufacturing the joined component. A joined component is obtained by joining, with brazing filler metal, a first member and a second member to each other at a joint boundary surface where the first member and the second member are in contact with each other, the joined component having a non-contact area that is provided on an inner side with respect to an outer peripheral line of the joint boundary surface and in which the first member and the second member are not in contact with each other. In the joined component, the first member has a retaining recess where the brazing filler metal that is melted when the first member and the second member are joined to each other is retained, the retaining recess providing the non-contact area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Uozumi, Yosuke Kimura