Patents by Inventor Yuki Nishikawa

Yuki Nishikawa 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: 11965817
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cell classification method, to be executed by an analyzer, for classifying cells contained in a specimen, including: preparing a first measurement sample by treating a specimen under a first preparation condition; obtaining a first signal from the prepared first measurement sample; classifying, by using the first signal, cells contained in the first measurement sample; preparing a second measurement sample by treating the specimen under a second preparation condition different from the first preparation condition; obtaining a second signal from the prepared second measurement sample; classifying, by using the second signal, cells contained in the second measurement sample; and comparing a result of the cell classification performed by using the first signal and a result of the cell classification performed by using the second signal, with each other, and outputting an analysis result including a number of cells on the basis of a result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SYSMEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Shida, Yukiko Nakamura, Ken Nishikawa, Kota Misawa, Hikaru Onoue, Takaaki Nagai, Masaki Abe, Takahito Mihara, Masaharu Shibata, Konobu Kimura
  • Patent number: 11966008
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical film having a liquid crystal layer having excellent durability, and a liquid crystal film. The optical film of the present invention has an organic base material and a liquid crystal layer disposed on the organic base material, the liquid crystal layer contains a photo-alignment compound, and in the liquid crystal layer, the photo-alignment compound is unevenly distributed on a side of the organic base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazushige Nakagawa, Hideyuki Nishikawa, Masato Nakao, Shunya Katoh, Hiroyuki Hagio, Yutaka Nozoe, Kunihiro Kasezawa, Yuki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11951984
    Abstract: An open vehicle includes a vehicle upper portion, a traveling device, an external sensor, and an ECU. The vehicle upper portion has a riding surface that forms a bottom surface of the riding space and is configured for a plurality of users to ride on. The ECU is configured to control the traveling device to cause the open vehicle to automatically travel. The ECU is configured to execute: a specific person recognition process to use the external sensor to recognize a specific person existing in an outside space; and an automatic travel control process to control the traveling device such that, when the specific person exists within a predetermined distance range, the traveling device executes at least one of moving the open vehicle away from the specific person and increasing a vehicle speed as compared to when the specific person does not exist within the range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuya Watabe, Tetsuya Kanata, Yozo Iwami, Daisaku Honda, Yuhei Katsumata, Hideki Fukudome, Yuta Maniwa, Naoko Ichikawa, Saki Narita, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11938971
    Abstract: In a vehicle control device for an autonomous driving vehicle that autonomously travels based on an operation command, a gesture image of a person around the autonomous driving vehicle is acquired, and a stored reference gesture image is collated with the acquired gesture image. At this time, when it is discriminated that the gesture of the person around the autonomous driving vehicle is a gesture requesting the autonomous driving vehicle to stop, it is determined whether a disaster has occurred. When it is determined that the disaster has occurred, the autonomous driving vehicle is caused to stop around the person requesting the autonomous driving vehicle to stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Kobayashi, Taizo Masuda, Yuta Kataoka, Miki Nomoto, Yoshiki Ueda, Satoshi Omi, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11938936
    Abstract: In a stand-up vehicle having a vehicle upper part having a riding surface configured for a user to stand on, one or more electronic control units execute emergency situation detection processing for detecting an emergency of the user when receiving notification from the user or based on information from one or more sensors, safety posture determination processing for determining whether or not the user takes a safety posture based on information from one or more sensors after detecting the emergency, and upper limit speed management processing executed when detecting the emergency and determining that the user takes the safety posture. The upper limit speed management process increases the upper limit speed to be higher than the basic upper limit speed selected when the safety posture determination process determines that the user is not in the safety posture, or cancels the upper limit speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta Maniwa, Tetsuya Kanata, Yozo Iwami, Daisaku Honda, Yuhei Katsumata, Hideki Fukudome, Takuya Watabe, Naoko Ichikawa, Saki Narita, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11939011
    Abstract: A stand-up vehicle includes a vehicle upper portion, a handrail, one or more biometric information sensors, and one or more processors. The vehicle upper portion has a riding surface on which a user stands. The handrail is provided at an upper portion of the vehicle and is gripped by a user. The one or more biometric information sensors are at least one of a sensor provided on a handrail and a weight sensor provided below a riding surface and having the riding surface as a weight detection surface, and detect biometric information of the user. The one or more processors perform notification processing for notifying a user of biometric information detected by the one or more biometric information sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Saki Narita, Tetsuya Kanata, Yozo Iwami, Daisaku Honda, Yuhei Katsumata, Hideki Fukudome, Takuya Watabe, Naoko Ichikawa, Yuta Maniwa, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20240087787
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a coil component that includes a coil part embedded in a magnetic element body. The coil part has a structure in which plural interlayer insulating films and plural conductor layers having a coil pattern are alternately stacked. At least one of the conductor layers has a clearance area having no coil pattern and extending radially outward from a center axis of the coil part. The magnetic element body includes a first magnetic resin layer provided in an inner diameter area of the coil part, a second magnetic resin layer provided in a radially outside area of the coil part, and a fifth magnetic resin layer filled in the clearance area and contacting the first and second magnetic resin layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Yuki HASHIMOTO, Toshiyuki ABE, Takeshi OKUMURA, Tomonaga NISHIKAWA, Naoaki FUJII, Kazuhiro YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11927958
    Abstract: An automatic traveling vehicle includes a vehicle structure including a first top plate, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute a storage mode when a storage execution condition is satisfied. The storage mode includes a storage posture formation process of causing the vehicle to automatically travel so as to take a predetermined storage posture together with a counterpart automatic traveling vehicle. In the storage posture, the vehicle is in a superposition state in which the vehicle overlaps with the counterpart vehicle in a plan view, or a parallel state in which the vehicle is lined up with the counterpart vehicle while the first top plate and a second top plate of the counterpart vehicle are standing and facing each other so as to be parallel to or substantially parallel to a vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta Maniwa, Tetsuya Kanata, Yozo Iwami, Yuhei Katsumata, Daisaku Honda, Saki Narita, Hideki Fukudome, Takuya Watabe, Naoko Ichikawa, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20240070793
    Abstract: An order reception system according to the present disclosure includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to perform receiving a reservation from a user to provide a dish to a dish providing place, receiving the reservation to provide a dish, calculating a lead time required for providing the dish and an arrival time at which the user arrives at the dish providing place, and instructing the dish providing place to start preparing to provide the dish based on the arrival time and the lead time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240068821
    Abstract: The drive route generation device according to the present disclosure is configured to execute a process of acquiring a designated point, a process of acquiring a designation condition for a drive route to be generated, a process of selecting one or a plurality of specific spots from a plurality of spots based on the position information and the designation condition for the plurality of spots, and a process of generating, as a drive route, a circulation route that comes back to a designated point via one or a plurality of specific spots using the designated point as a departure point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240068827
    Abstract: A vehicle according to the present disclosure includes a first riding space and a second riding space, each of which is a riding position on one side and the other side of a right side and a left side with respect to a front-rear direction, respectively, and is configured to: acquire a traveling route; identify a side where a landscape viewed from the vehicle is good from among the right side and the left side with respect to a traveling direction; identify a preferential space in which a degree of preferential treatment of a passenger riding in the first riding space or the second riding space is high; and determine the forward direction and the backward direction when the vehicle travels on the traveling route such that the preferential space is set to the side where the landscape viewed from the vehicle is good.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11904897
    Abstract: The safety management apparatus comprises a protective shield with automatic opening and closing, a sensor configured to obtain physical information related to an occupant boarded an autonomous traveling cart, and a controller configured to control the opening and closing of the protective shield. The protective shield is configured to be normally open and, when closed, shield an occupant space of the cart from the outside. The controller includes at least one memory including at least one program, and at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory. The at least one processor executes a first process and a second process upon execution of the at least one program. The first process is to determine whether the occupant is an infant based on the physical information. The second process, which is executed when the occupant is determined to be an infant, is to close the protective shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Sato, Daisuke Ishii, Hiroki Izu, Hiroki Morita, Kei Sato, Masaki Nanahara, Kazumi Serizawa, Hironobu Tanaka, Shunsuke Mogi, Takashi Hayashi, Akihiro Kusumoto, Tetsuya Kanata, Yozo Iwami, Yuhei Katsumata, Daisaku Honda, Saki Narita, Hideki Fukudome, Takuya Watabe, Naoko Ichikawa, Yuta Maniwa, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20240054442
    Abstract: A luggage delivery management system manages a service of delivering luggage deposited by a user to a destination specified by the user. The luggage delivery management system acquires payment amount information indicating an amount equivalent to a payment amount paid by the user for the service. When multiple pieces of luggage of a plurality of the users are delivered by one vehicle, the luggage delivery management system determines whether to set priority of the multiple pieces of luggage. The luggage delivery management system sets the priority of the luggage of the user who pays more to be higher based on the payment amount information when the priority is set. Then, the luggage delivery management system sets a luggage delivery route of the vehicle such that the multiple pieces of luggage are delivered to the destinations in accordance with the priority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240054411
    Abstract: An itinerary matching system according to the present disclosure includes a process of receiving registration of an itinerary, a process of extracting two registered itineraries from among a plurality of registered itineraries that have been registered and calculating a degree of matching between the two registered itineraries that have been extracted, a process of generating, upon receiving that the degree of matching exceeds a predetermined threshold value, a merged itinerary in which the two registered itineraries are merged, and a process of setting, upon receiving acceptance from a participant of each of the two registered itineraries, the participant of each of the two registered itineraries as a participant of the merged itinerary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240027200
    Abstract: A vehicle management system includes one or more storage devices that store entrance and exit information indicating a correspondence relationship between a location of an entrance and a location of an exit for each area, and one or more processors. The processors determine whether an alighting position at which a user of the vehicle gets off the vehicle is the location of the entrance, based on the entrance and exit information, and set a destination of the vehicle so that the vehicle moves to the location of the exit corresponding to the entrance, when the alighting position of the user is the location of the entrance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240028649
    Abstract: An information provision system proposes an action item including at least one of a destination and a vehicle to a user. A database indicates a correspondence between a category of clothing and the action item that is recommended. The information provision system acquires an image showing user's clothing that is clothing of the user, and recognizes the category of the user's clothing based on the image. The information provision system further refers to the database to select the action item recommended for the category of the user's clothing as a recommended action item. The information provision system then proposes the recommended action item to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240019254
    Abstract: The spot proposal system includes one or more storage devices that store a database indicating a spot weather compatibility with weather tor each spot, and one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors acquire weather information for each candidate spot, acquire spot weather compatibility corresponding to the weather for each candidate spot with reference to the database, select a target spot from among the candidate spots based on the spot weather compatibility corresponding to the weather for each candidate spot, and propose a target spot to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11826473
    Abstract: Provided is an orally disintegrating tablet film-coated with a composition for film coating containing hypromellose and hydroxypropyl cellulose but not containing a plasticizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAWAI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Ayane Natsume, Yuki Nishikawa, Michinori Oikawa, Hiroaki Kikuoka
  • Publication number: 20230376028
    Abstract: The vehicle transportation system includes an in-vehicle system mounted on the vehicle, and a vehicle transportation device capable of communicating with the in-vehicle system and capable of transporting the vehicle by autonomous travel. The vehicle transportation device is configured to transmit a confirmation signal for confirming the presence or absence of a remote operation request to the in-vehicle system at the time of transportation of the vehicle, and permit remote operation from the inside of the vehicle when a request signal for remote operation is received from the in-vehicle system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Masayuki ITOH, Iwao MAEDA, Tatsuya SUGANO, Norinao WATANABE, Yutaka NAKAMURA, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Yuki NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230374808
    Abstract: A parking facility is suitable for carrying a vehicle into a parking stall or carrying the vehicle out of the parking stall by a transport vehicle that enters a lower space under the vehicle and picks up the vehicle. The parking facility includes a restricting member that can move between a restricting position in which entry of the transport vehicle into the parking stall for carrying the vehicle into the parking stall or carrying the vehicle out of the parking stall is restricted and an allowable position in which the entry of the transport vehicle into the parking stall for carrying the vehicle into the parking stall or carrying the vehicle out of the parking stall is allowed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Masayuki ITOH, Iwao MAEDA, Tatsuya SUGANO, Norinao WATANABE, Yutaka NAKAMURA, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Yuki NISHIKAWA