Patents by Inventor Yuki Ogawa

Yuki Ogawa 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: 12208786
    Abstract: A travel support control device: creates a travel support plan in which one of travel modes including a CD mode and a CS mode is assigned to each travel section based on look-ahead information generated for a travel route to allow a hybrid electric vehicle to travel and calculates a total distance of electric traveling on the travel route; creates a travel support plan for travel sections to a travel section immediately before an information non-acquirable area in which information required for creating the look-ahead information is not acquirable and calculates the total distance of electric traveling on the travel route, when the information non-acquirable area is included in the travel route; and stops switching of the travel mode based on travel support control and continuously calculates the total distance of electric traveling on the travel route, when the hybrid electric vehicle is traveling in the information non-acquirable area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki Ogawa
  • Patent number: 12162468
    Abstract: A travel support control device creates a travel support plan in which one of travel modes including a charge depleting (CD) mode and a charge sustaining (CS) mode is assigned to each travel section of a travel route based on prediction information generated for the travel route, performs travel support control, and calculates a total distance of electric traveling on the travel route as one result of the travel support control. When a hybrid electric vehicle is traveling in an area outside of communication coverage while the travel support control is being performed, the travel support control device stops switching the travel mode based on the travel support plan and keeps calculating the total distance of electric traveling on the travel route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20240286453
    Abstract: A vehicle seat air-conditioning device is used for a seat having a seat back and a bottom. The vehicle seat air-conditioning device includes: a blower that is incorporated in the seat and guides air generated by a vehicle air-conditioning apparatus mounted on the vehicle; an outlet ventilation path that guides air guided from the blower to a first outlet provided in a front surface of the seat back that is a surface located to face a person seated on the seat; a processor configured to control the blower when executing the program. The processor is configured to control at least one of an air volume or a temperature of the air generated by the vehicle air-conditioning apparatus, based on a thermal sensation parameter determined from an environmental parameter including a detection result of information regarding a temperature of air discharged from the first outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Takuya NAKAGAWA, Yuki MAKITA, Tatehiko INOUE, Yoshihiko MAEDA, Yuki OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240016364
    Abstract: The present technique relates to a surgery system, a surgery control device, a control method, and a program that allow a practitioner to easily operate a device during surgery. A surgery region is captured to acquire a surgery image that is an image of the surgery region, and a display image is output on the basis of the surgery image. With at least one of a surgical instrument and a hand reflected on the surgery image as an operation body, a predetermined instruction operation by the operation body is accepted on the basis of an image of the operation body in the surgery image. The present technique is applied to an endoscope system and a microscope surgery system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: AKIHIKO NAKATANI, SHUNSUKE HAYASHI, MASASHI NAITO, YUKI OGAWA, KAZUTERU GENBA
  • Patent number: 11859833
    Abstract: In a control device, an instruction acquirer acquires an instruction to suppress in a specified period supplying of generated power generated by power generator installed in a power-consuming area to a commercial electrical power system. Upon the instruction acquirer acquiring the instruction, a water heater controller commands a water heater installed in the power-consuming area to perform a water heat-up operation when a predetermined condition is satisfied in the specified period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Ogawa, Masaaki Yabe, Masayuki Komatsu, Satoshi Minezawa, Akihiro Toda, Takashi Arai
  • Publication number: 20230399771
    Abstract: Provided are: a cellulose fiber manufacturing method for suppressing the occurrence of thread breakage in a spinning step and unevenness in the physical properties of obtained fibers, thus enabling stable spinning; and cellulose fibers that are highly strengthened, in which fibrillation is suppressed, and that have a pleasant texture. The present invention provides a cellulose fiber manufacturing method including the following steps: a solution preparation step for dissolving cellulose in a mixed solvent of an aprotic polar solvent and a quaternary onium salt; a discharge step for discharging the obtained solution in a fibrous form through a spinneret, the moisture content of the solution at the time of discharging falling within the range from 0.05 mass % to 8 mass %; and a solidification step for solidifying the discharged fibers in a water-based solidification bath containing water and the mixed solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keisuke Jono, Yuki Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11769406
    Abstract: An automobile includes a traffic information acquisition device that acquires traveling vehicle information, and traffic information from a traffic information management center that manages traffic obstacle information on an obstacle on a road, a display device that displays surroundings map information of a subject vehicle together with a mark showing a current position of the subject vehicle, and a control device. The control device reflects a decorative image based on surroundings traffic obstacle information in the surroundings map information and displays the decorative image on the display device, and associates, with the decorative image, an involved vehicle number image on an involved vehicle number, and displays the involved vehicle number image on the display device. The involved vehicle number is the number of vehicles in the traveling vehicle information involved in the traffic information related to the decorative image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayuki Hamada, Masakazu Aoki, Yohsuke Hashimoto, Yuki Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20230264678
    Abstract: A hybrid electric vehicle includes: a powertrain configured to execute hybrid traveling and power generation, and electric traveling, the hybrid traveling and the power generation being performed through cooperation of an internal combustion engine and one or more electric motors; a battery that transmits and receives electric power to and from the powertrain; and a control device. The control device executes management of a remaining battery level of the battery for securing a specific remaining battery level as traveling assistance, when a specific section in which operation of the internal combustion engine is restricted exists on a predicted travel route. The control device executes a selection process for selecting, based on presence or absence of an execution history of the traveling assistance and the remaining battery level, a traveling mode before entering the specific section from a BEV mode, an HEV mode, and a charging mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11708064
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes a controller configured to control an engine and an electric motor in one of a plurality of control modes. The controller is configured to execute a switching control to switch the control mode in accordance with a traveling plan. The controller is configured to report at least one of first information and second information using a report device, the first information indicating that the switching control is capable of being executed, the second information indicating that the switching control is not executed. The controller is configured to report third information using the report device in a case where the first information is reported by the report device, the third information being relevant to the switching control, and not to report the third information in a case where the second information is reported by the report device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20230227019
    Abstract: In a hybrid electric vehicle and a control method thereof, a predicted travel route is acquired, required travel energy required for the hybrid electric vehicle to travel in the specific section in an EV drive mode is specified when the predicted travel route includes a specific section where the hybrid electric vehicle is supposed to travel in the EV drive mode, a desired value for the remaining capacity of the battery is set based on the specified required travel energy, a drive mode to be executed from a plurality of drive modes is determined based on the relationship between the actual remaining capacity of the battery and the desired value, until the hybrid electric vehicle enters the specific section. Switching between the EV and an HV drive modes is prohibited, regardless of the relationship, when a predetermined time has not elapsed since the last switching of the drive mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki OGAWA
  • Patent number: 11648929
    Abstract: An HV-ECU executes processing of steps. The steps include: a step of turning on a result display permission flag when an assist condition visible to a user is established; a step of calculating energy consumption in each travel section and total energy consumption when all the assist conditions are established and look-ahead information is updated; a step of generating a travel plan when the total energy consumption is greater than remaining energy; a step of executing switching control in accordance with the travel plan; and a step of outputting a result display when the result display permission flag is in an ON state when a vehicle reaches a destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11644608
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes first and second light-emitting elements arranged along a first direction; at least one light-transmissive member having a lateral surface and covering the upper surfaces of the first and second light-emitting elements; and a light-reflective member in contact with at least portions of the lateral surfaces of the first and second light-emitting elements, and the lateral surface of the light-transmissive member. The light-transmissive member has first and second surfaces exposed from the light-reflective member and located above the upper surfaces of the first and second light-emitting elements, respectively. The light-reflective member includes a first portion located between the first surface and the second surface in the first direction above the first and second surfaces. The first portion includes at least one concave curved surface in a first cross-section extending along the first direction and perpendicular to the upper surface of the first light-emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Sawabe, Yuki Ogawa, Takeshi Morikawa
  • Publication number: 20230105178
    Abstract: In a case where the storage area of an information processing apparatus is insufficient for data to be downloaded, an information terminal causes the size of a lacking storage space and a list of stored data in the storage area to be displayed, and accepts, from a user, selection of the data targeted for deletion. If the selection is expected to resolve the lack of storage space, the information terminal accepts a deletion request and issues the deletion request to a management server to achieve deletion of the target data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Takehiko Tsurumi, Makoto Sunayama, Syunsuke Bamba, Toru Yamamoto, Makoto Oshita, Koji Ihara, Keisuke Ichikawa, Yuki Ogawa, Nobuyoshi Miyokawa, Daisuke Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 11608046
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes an electric motor, a power storage device, an engine, and a controller. The controller executes switching control for switching control modes. The controller adds, to a first traveling distance, a traveling distance that is obtained when a state in which the engine is not operating and a power storage amount of the power storage device is higher than a threshold continues, and adds, to a second traveling distance, a traveling distance that is obtained when a state in which the engine is not operating and a charge depleting mode is selected continues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11597373
    Abstract: There is provided a hybrid vehicle to suppress hunting (inversion) of a drive mode in a short time. The hybrid vehicle has an engine, a motor, a battery, an air conditioning system configured to condition air in a passenger compartment, and map information, and sets a drive route from the present location to the destination, and creates a drive support plan in which one of the drive modes including CD mode and CS mode is assigned to each drive section of the drive route to perform the drive support control. The drive support plan is created based on the battery remaining capacity taking into account the power consumption of the air conditioning system. When the predetermined condition that is based on the battery remaining capacity without taking into account the power consumption of the air conditioning system is satisfied while performing the drive support control, the driving state is continued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20230063622
    Abstract: An automobile includes a traffic information acquisition device that acquires traveling vehicle information, and traffic information from a traffic information management center that manages traffic obstacle information on an obstacle on a road, a display device that displays surroundings map information of a subject vehicle together with a mark showing a current position of the subject vehicle, and a control device. The control device reflects a decorative image based on surroundings traffic obstacle information in the surroundings map information and displays the decorative image on the display device, and associates, with the decorative image, an involved vehicle number image on an involved vehicle number, and displays the involved vehicle number image on the display device. The involved vehicle number is the number of vehicles in the traveling vehicle information involved in the traffic information related to the decorative image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki HAMADA, Masakazu AOKI, Yohsuke HASHIMOTO, Yuki OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230063897
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a traffic obstruction information acquisition device configured to acquire traffic obstruction information, a vehicle information acquisition device configured to acquire vehicle information related to a second vehicle located between a position of the vehicle and a location on the traveling route where a traffic obstruction has occurred, a notification device configured to give, to a driver of the vehicle, a notification by a first notification method and a notification by a second notification method, and a control device configured to notify the driver of the traffic obstruction information by the first notification method when a predetermined condition that brings difficulty for the driver in recognition of the traffic obstruction is not satisfied based on the vehicle information, and notify the driver of the traffic obstruction information by the second notification method when the predetermined condition is satisfied based on the vehicle information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki HAMADA, Yohsuke HASHIMOTO, Yuki OGAWA, Masakazu AOKI
  • Publication number: 20230055862
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an image capturing device configured to capture an image in a vehicle traveling direction, a display device, and a controller configured to carry out an analysis of the image captured by the image capturing device and display an indicator based on the analysis on the display device. The controller is configured to display a first object that approaches a host vehicle on the display device in a mode different from a mode for a second object that does not approach the host vehicle within the image captured by the image capturing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki HAMADA, Yuki OGAWA, Masakazu AOKI, Yohsuke HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230038111
    Abstract: In a control device, an instruction acquirer acquires an instruction to suppress in a specified period supplying of generated power generated by power generator installed in a power-consuming area to a commercial electrical power system. Upon the instruction acquirer acquiring the instruction, a water heater controller commands a water heater installed in the power-consuming area to perform a water heat-up operation when a predetermined condition is satisfied in the specified period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Yuki OGAWA, Masaaki YABE, Masayuki KOMATSU, Satoshi MINEZAWA, Akihiro TODA, Takashi ARAI
  • Publication number: 20230036756
    Abstract: When an adjustment target road in which a state of charge of the battery needs to be actively adjusted such as a congested road or a downhill road has been detected in the travel route based on the look-ahead information, the travel support control device performs state-of-charge adjustment control up to the adjustment target road. The travel support control device detects the adjustment target road based on look-ahead information generated for an estimated route on which it is estimated that the hybrid vehicle is to travel when the travel route has not been set, and performs the state-of-charge adjustment control up to the adjustment target road when the adjustment target road has been detected. At this time, a detection range for detecting a congested road and a detection range for detecting a downhill road in the estimated route are different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki OGAWA