Patents by Inventor Yu URATA

Yu URATA 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: 20250252369
    Abstract: An operation plan generation apparatus includes an operation plan input unit configured to receive an input of a first operation plan, the first operation plan being an operation plan of a vehicle, a work time estimation unit configured to estimate a work time of a driver at an operation destination, based on the first operation plan, external information including a possible influencing event for realization of the first operation plan, and feature data indicating a feature of at least one of the driver of the vehicle and the operation destination of the vehicle, a travel time estimation unit configured to estimate a travel time of the vehicle from an operation origin to the operation destination, based on the first operation plan, the external information, and the feature data, and an operation plan creation unit configured to correct the first operation plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yu URATA
  • Publication number: 20250165909
    Abstract: A vehicle operation management system includes: a travel record information acquisition unit that acquires travel record information indicating a position of a vehicle, a time at which the vehicle has passed through the position, and a speed of the vehicle at the time; a destination information acquisition unit that acquires destination information indicating a position of a destination of the vehicle; and a determination unit that determines an arrival time of the vehicle at the destination and a departure time of the vehicle from the destination, based on the travel record information and the destination information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yu URATA
  • Publication number: 20240418519
    Abstract: A travel management device includes: a travel plan information acquisition unit that acquires travel plan information pertaining to travel of a vehicle to a plurality of locations; and a display data generation unit that generates display data for use in displaying by a display device. The display data includes a superimposition information set to be superimposed on positions on a map respectively corresponding to the locations on the basis of the travel plan information. The superimposition information set includes information having a display mode in which distinction can be made between a location that the vehicle is scheduled to visit once and a location that the vehicle is scheduled to visit a plurality times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yu URATA, Yui TSUYUMINE
  • Publication number: 20240412154
    Abstract: A travel management method includes acquiring travel plan information of a vehicle for a plurality of locations; acquiring travel result information of the vehicle for the plurality of locations; and causing, based on the travel plan information and the travel result information, a display device to display, in association with a time axis, a travel plan of the vehicle in a time period including times before and after a predetermined time and a travel result of the vehicle by the predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yui TSUYUMINE, Yu URATA
  • Publication number: 20240378544
    Abstract: A state estimation apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a measurement result of a first sensor, the first sensor being a sensor mounted in a vehicle in which a worker is to ride and being configured to measure a state of the vehicle, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a measurement result of a second sensor, the second sensor being a sensor carried by the worker and being configured to measure a state of the worker, and an estimation unit configured to estimate, based on the measurement result of the first sensor and the measurement result of the second sensor, a state related to work of the worker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi HACHIKAWA, Shigeki NISHIMURA, Norio KOREKAWA, Tomoyuki KITADA, Yu URATA
  • Publication number: 20240289735
    Abstract: An external information acquiring device includes a record information acquiring circuit configured to acquire record information indicating a delivery record of a parcel by a vehicle, an external information acquiring circuit configured to acquire, based on the acquired record information, external information on an event based on which there is a possibility of occurrence of a temporal difference between the delivery record and a delivery plan of the parcel by the vehicle, and a storage control circuit configured to write the acquired external information in a storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yu URATA, Takeshi HACHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240273459
    Abstract: A display method is for displaying a delivery status of a related package on a terminal device used by a user, the related package being a package related to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yu URATA, Shigeki NISHIMURA, Norio KOREKAWA, Takeshi HACHIKAWA, Tomoyuki KITADA
  • Publication number: 20240249224
    Abstract: A time determining device includes a plan information acquiring unit configured to acquire plan information indicating a scheduled standby time and a scheduled work time of a worker in a predetermined area, a travel record information acquiring unit configured to acquire travel record information including a travel position and a travel time of a vehicle in which the worker rides, and a time determining unit configured to determine, based on the plan information and the travel record information, a standby record time and a work record time of the worker in the predetermined area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yu URATA, Tomoyuki KITADA, Shigeki NISHIMURA, Norio KOREKAWA