Patents by Inventor Yukie Nishikawa

Yukie 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: 12275342
    Abstract: An automatic traveling cart includes a connecting arm that connects a wheelchair to a front portion or a rear portion of the automatic traveling cart. The automatic traveling cart transports the wheelchair while a user is placed on the wheelchair without intentionally placing the wheelchair on the cart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kanata, Yozo Iwami, Yuhei Katsumata, Daisaku Honda, Saki Narita, Hideki Fukudome, Takuya Watabe, Naoko Ichikawa, Yuta Maniwa, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 12240442
    Abstract: A vehicle information delivery device includes an image processing unit configured to generate vehicle related images indicating the status of a vehicle moving unmanned in a predetermined target area based on camera images taken in the target area where unattended parking is performed, and an information sending unit configured to send delivery information including the vehicle related images to a display terminal visually recognized by a user of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Itoh, Iwao Maeda, Tatsuya Sugano, Norinao Watanabe, Yutaka Nakamura, Yoshikazu Jikuhara, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 12238756
    Abstract: A communication method of the present disclosure includes detecting or estimating a decrease in throughput of a first communication terminal mounted on a first vehicle that is remotely driven, and reducing a communication speed of a second communication terminal with which the first communication terminal shares a communication resource in response to detection or estimation of the decrease in the throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Takashima, Takahiro Ogawa, Kenji Tadakuma, Keisuke Miwa, Shuichi Tamagawa, Takahiro Okano, Shun Ota, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 12223227
    Abstract: A voice guidance method includes: a determination step of determining whether or not a visually impaired person is included in passengers in a vehicle as a public transport; and a guidance step of, in a case where the visually impaired person is determined to be included in the passengers, providing voice guidance to inform the visually impaired person of a state around the vehicle when the visually impaired person gets off the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taizo Masuda, Ryota Tomizawa, Sei Miyazaki, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 12214709
    Abstract: A vehicle transport planning device includes a transport proposal unit that proposes, to an occupant of a vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine, transport of the vehicle in a predetermined area where driving of the internal combustion engine is prohibited or restricted, and a transport arrangement unit that requests arrangement of a vehicle transport device for transporting the vehicle when the occupant desires the transport of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Itoh, Iwao Maeda, Tatsuya Sugano, Norinao Watanabe, Yutaka Nakamura, Yoshikazu Jikuhara, Yuki Nishikawa, Yuta Maniwa
  • Patent number: 12208040
    Abstract: A boarding and alighting support method supports a person requiring support who requires support of another person to get on a vehicle or get off a vehicle. The boarding and alighting support method includes: a storing step of storing at least one of a first image that is an image of the person requiring support and a second image that is an image of a protector of the person requiring support; a first display step in which the vehicle that the person requiring support is planned to get on displays the at least one of the first image and the second image; and a second display step in which the vehicle displays the at least one of the first image and the second image when the person requiring support is planned to get off the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taizo Masuda, Ryota Tomizawa, Sei Miyazaki, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 12198093
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taizo Masuda, Kiyoto Sasaki, Daisuke Kakuma, Hiroyoshi Masui, Akihiro Yamaguchi, Sokfan Yee, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 12198537
    Abstract: The notification system is configured to be capable of communicating with the outside, and is configured to notify the surroundings of the fact that the conveyance work is performed by a third party who has obtained permission when the vehicle is conveyed by the vehicle transportation device capable of autonomous traveling based on a notification instruction from the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Itoh, Iwao Maeda, Tatsuya Sugano, Norinao Watanabe, Yutaka Nakamura, Yoshikazu Jikuhara, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 12191266
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a silicon substrate, a first layer, a second layer, a barrier metal, and a gate pad. The first layer is formed of an oxide film provided on an upper surface of the silicon substrate. The second layer is a layer at least selectively having a projecting and recessed part on an upper surface of the first layer, the projecting and recessed part having a projection and recess deeper than a projection and recess occurring when the layer is formed in a planar shape. The barrier metal is formed on an upper surface of the second layer according to a shape of the projecting and recessed part. The gate pad is in close contact with the silicon substrate via the barrier metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Emiko Inoue, Yukie Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20240408963
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor. The processor is configured to cause an information display unit to blink with a predetermined blinking pattern. The information display unit is arranged on a vehicle such that a user of the vehicle is able to see the information display unit from outside of the vehicle. The processor is configured to transmit to a terminal of the user blinking pattern information which causes at least part of a display screen of the terminal of the user to blink in the same pattern as the predetermined blinking pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuki TAKAHASHI, Naotoshi KADOTANI, Nana KIKUIRE, Yuki NISHIKAWA, Takahiko KUWABARA, Ryusei GICHU, Takashi OTA, Toshifumi IWASE, Hironori ITO, Hisanobu INOUE
  • Patent number: 12157391
    Abstract: A control device includes a processor configured to output, in a case where communication between a server instructing a power feeding vehicle to proceed for power feeding to a feeding target facility and the power feeding vehicle is interrupted, a control signal for causing the power feeding vehicle to move to an installation site of the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junichi Mori, Kentaro Ban, Tatsuro Kiyohara, Yuta Maniwa, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 12152891
    Abstract: A server receives a return request of a rental car including information on a usage end position of a car rental service desired by a user from a terminal of the user who has rented a rental car or the rental car. The server searches for a remote driving route of the rental car based on the information on the usage end position and information on a destination of the rental car for after the user finishes using the car rental service. The server compares the remote driving route with a communication area on a map. Then, the server transmits information indicating permission to drop off the rental car to the terminal of the user or the rental car when an entire route of the remote driving route is located inside the communication area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Takashima, Takahiro Ogawa, Kenji Tadakuma, Keisuke Miwa, Shuichi Tamagawa, Takahiro Okano, Shun Ota, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 12131640
    Abstract: A boarding and alighting time informing method includes a determination step for determining, at a stop where a bus stops, whether a person with disabilities is going to board the bus and whether a person with disabilities is going to alight from the bus, a prediction step for predicting a boarding and alighting time at the stop in either one or both of a case when it is determined that a person with disabilities is going to board the bus and a case when it is determined that a person with disabilities is going to alight from the bus, and an informing step for informing at least one of the inside and the outside of the bus about the predicted boarding and alighting time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taizo Masuda, Ryota Tomizawa, Sei Miyazaki, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 12111655
    Abstract: A multifunctional vehicle includes a traveling input device that is operated by a driver of the multifunctional vehicle; an information processing device that processes operation information of the traveling input device and that switches and executes a normal driving mode for driving the multifunctional vehicle and a remote driving mode for driving the other vehicle; wearable glasses that communicate with another vehicle directly or via the information processing device; and a communication device that communicate with the other vehicle. In the normal driving mode, a vehicle control of the multifunctional vehicle is executed using control information generated based on the operation information. In the remote driving mode, the control information is transmitted to the other vehicle via the communication device. The wearable glasses are configured to display a surrounding image of the other vehicle during execution of the remote driving mode by the information processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Takashima, Takahiro Ogawa, Kenji Tadakuma, Keisuke Miwa, Shuichi Tamagawa, Takahiro Okano, Shun Ota, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20240300538
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes one or more processors configured to: on a travel route of an autonomous driving taxi configured to travel toward a desired drop-off position of a user of the autonomous driving taxi, set a predetermined travel route range from a point behind the desired drop-off position to the desired drop-off position, as a permissible midway drop-off range in which midway drop-off from the autonomous driving taxi is permitted; receive a setting about a midway drop-off position in the permissible midway drop-off range, the setting being made by the user in the autonomous driving taxi configured to travel toward the desired drop-off position; and stop the autonomous driving taxi at the midway drop-off position set by the user such that the user drops off the autonomous driving taxi midway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naotoshi KADOTANI, Yuki NISHIKAWA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Nana KIKUIRE, Takahiko KUWABARA, Ryusei GICHU, Takashi OTA, Toshifumi IWASE, Hironori ITO, Hisanobu INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240302177
    Abstract: An information processing device includes one or more processors configured to: set, as a travel destination of a vehicle, a point where an occupant of the vehicle gets out of the vehicle to transfer from the vehicle to a regularly operated transportation facility; acquire delay information indicating occurrence of a delay of the regularly operated transportation facility or occurrence of an event that causes a delay in travel of the vehicle to the travel destination; and change the travel destination of the vehicle based on the delay information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naotoshi KADOTANI, Yuki NISHIKAWA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Nana KIKUIRE, Takahiko KUWABARA, Ryusei GICHU, Takashi OTA, Toshifumi IWASE, Hironori ITO, Hisanobu INOUE
  • Patent number: 12083917
    Abstract: A control device includes a processor that calculates a total charge demand based on SOC information and a charge request signal of each of a plurality of electrified vehicles and performs an operation for creating, based on the calculated total charge demand, an electric power supply and demand operation plan that manages electric power for charging the electrified vehicles by a charging facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junichi Mori, Kentaro Ban, Tatsuro Kiyohara, Yuta Maniwa, Yuki Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20240286645
    Abstract: The vehicle includes an interface unit and an active safety device. The active safety device includes an acquisition unit that acquires at least one of surrounding environment information related to the surrounding environment of the vehicle and in-vehicle environment information related to the environment inside the vehicle. The active safety device includes a performance evaluation unit that evaluates the driving performance of the autonomous driving kit based on at least one of surrounding environment information and in-vehicle environment information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sho HASHIMOTO, Satoshi NAKAMURA, Tomoki SOMIYA, Kazumasa HARADA, Hiroki YABUSHITA, Sei MIYAZAKI, Yuki NISHIKAWA, Noriaki HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240288884
    Abstract: The vehicle is configured to be able to communicate with an autonomous driving kit configured to be detachable from the vehicle, and includes an interface unit that gives a control instruction related to automated driving control to each unit of the vehicle based on an instruction from the autonomous driving kit, and an active safety device that realizes a preventive safety function of the vehicle. The active safety device includes performance evaluation unit for evaluating the driving performance of the autonomous driving kit based on the degree of deviation between the reference traveling data in the area in which the vehicle is traveling and the traveling data of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sho HASHIMOTO, Satoshi Nakamura, Tomoki Somiya, Kazumasa Harada, Hiroki Yabushita, Sei Miyazaki, Yuki Nishikawa, Noriaki Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20240286605
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an interface unit and a preventive safety device. The preventive safety device includes a performance evaluation unit that performs evaluation of driving performance of the autonomous driving kit, and a suppression unit that suppresses a cancel signal output from the autonomous driving kit to cancel the preventive safety function based on the evaluation of the driving performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sho HASHIMOTO, Satoshi NAKAMURA, Tomoki SOMIYA, Kazumasa HARADA, Hiroki YABUSHITA, Sei MIYAZAKI, Yuki NISHIKAWA, Noriaki HASEGAWA