Patents by Inventor Yuma ITO
Yuma ITO 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).
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Publication number: 20260206044Abstract: The vehicle includes a first communication device and a second communication device. The first communication device provides one or more first communication channels as a first access point. The second communication device is connected to the second access point via a second communication channel. The first communication device or the second communication device performs control so that the frequency bands of the one or more first communication channels and the frequency bands of the second communication channel do not overlap with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2025Publication date: July 16, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Noriaki ITO, Shingo SUGIMOTO, Yuma ITO
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Publication number: 20260205915Abstract: The in-vehicle device includes a communication unit and a control unit. When the communication unit is connected to the communication device by a wireless LAN, the control unit determines whether or not to switch the connection destination of the communication unit to another communication device based on at least one of the absolute speed of the vehicle, the travel distance of the vehicle, and the relative speed of the vehicle with respect to the communication device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2025Publication date: July 16, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Noriaki ITO, Shingo Sugimoto, Yuma Ito
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Publication number: 20260181361Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus includes a communication unit configured to perform wireless communication, a storage unit storing data that is restricted from being transferred outside a region, and a control unit configured to, when the control unit receives predetermined identification information from a wireless communication apparatus by performing wireless communication with the wireless communication apparatus via the communication unit during a process in which the vehicle moves outside the region, delete the data from the storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2025Publication date: June 25, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shingo SUGIMOTO, Yuma ITO
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Publication number: 20260181048Abstract: The information processing device includes a communication unit that communicates with a vehicle, and a control unit, wherein the control unit monitors a state of the vehicle based on information received from the vehicle via the communication unit, and closes a communication line of the vehicle when it is determined that the vehicle is in a predetermined state.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2025Publication date: June 25, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shingo SUGIMOTO, Yuma ITO, Shigeo OHNOGI, Isao NISHIOKA, Naoki UEDA
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Publication number: 20260171666Abstract: A control device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a control unit configured to execute: acquiring a state of a vehicle; and controlling the directivity of an antenna provided in the vehicle based on the state of the vehicle. A control device according to another embodiment of the present disclosure includes a control unit configured to execute: receiving a state of a vehicle from a sensor configured to acquire information indicating the speed and the position of the vehicle; and controlling the directivity of an antenna provided in the vehicle based on the state of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2025Publication date: June 18, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Noriaki ITO, Shingo SUGIMOTO, Yuma ITO
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Publication number: 20260173028Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes a first communication circuit that supports a mobile communication standard, a second communication circuit that supports a wireless local area network communication standard or a short-range wireless communication standard, a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive identification information linked to a first region via the second communication circuit by performing wireless local area network communication or short-range wireless communication with a wireless communication device via the second communication circuit. The processor receives a profile corresponding to the first region as a second profile from the information processing device by the mobile communication via the first communication circuit, and stores the second profile in the memory by overwriting a first profile stored in the memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2025Publication date: June 18, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shingo SUGIMOTO, Yuma ITO
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Publication number: 20260170949Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit, in which the control unit is configured to receive vehicle information from each of a plurality of vehicles indicating at least one of status and position of each of the vehicles, decide on hub vehicles to serve as hubs for providing data, from among the vehicles based on the vehicle information, transmit predetermined data to the hub vehicles, decide on, for each of the hub vehicles, client vehicles with which the predetermined data is to be shared, based on the vehicle information, and transmit, to each of the hub vehicles, information for identifying the corresponding client vehicles, to share the predetermined data with the client vehicles.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2025Publication date: June 18, 2026Inventors: Shingo SUGIMOTO, Yuma ITO, Napak JENKITTIKUL
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Publication number: 20260172883Abstract: The system includes an in-vehicle device and a server. The server stores communication performance information of one or more communication carriers transmitted from a plurality of vehicles. When a change in the vehicle state is detected, the in-vehicle device transmits information related to the change in the vehicle state to the server, and the server determines the communication requirement of the in-vehicle device based on the received information related to the change in the vehicle state, selects one of the communication carriers in which the communication requirement is satisfied from among the one or more communication carriers included in the communication result information as the specific carrier, and transmits the information of the selected specific carrier to the in-vehicle device. Then, the in-vehicle device connects to the specific carrier included in the received information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2025Publication date: June 18, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shingo SUGIMOTO, Yuma Ito, Shigeo Ohnogi, Isao Nishioka, Naoki Ueda
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Publication number: 20260159030Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a memory that stores first identification information for identifying a user, a communication unit that performs communication with a smart key including an NFC tag that stores second identification information for identifying the user, the smart key corresponding to a vehicle of the user and being held by the user, and a control unit configured to read the second identification information from the NFC tag via the communication unit, determine whether the first identification information matches the second identification information, and when the first identification information matches the second identification information, authenticate the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2025Publication date: June 11, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shingo SUGIMOTO, Yuma ITO, Keiichiro HABU, Isao NISHIOKA
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Publication number: 20260154994Abstract: An information processing device includes a communication unit that is capable of communicating with a vehicle, a controller, and a storage unit. The controller stores a plurality of pieces of content in the storage unit, acquires, in a case where a charging start condition of the vehicle is satisfied, a charging time of the vehicle predicted based on a charging condition of the vehicle, selects one or more pieces of the content from among the plurality of pieces of content based on the charging time, and provides the selected one or more pieces of the content to the vehicle via a LAN.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2025Publication date: June 4, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shingo SUGIMOTO, Yuma ITO, Shigeo OHNOGI, Isao NISHIOKA, Naoki UEDA
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Publication number: 20260143364Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes a communication unit that is able to perform communication by any of mobile object communication lines, and a controller that causes the communication unit to switch to a second line in a case where a communication failure occurs during communication via a first line and that causes the communication unit to switch from the second line to the first line in a case where the communication failure is resolved. The controller causes the communication unit to maintain communication via the second line until after a lapse of a predetermined period in a case where an event in which the communication via the second line is to be maintained occurs even in a case where the communication failure has been resolved.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2025Publication date: May 21, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Noriaki ITO, Shingo SUGIMOTO, Yuma ITO
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Publication number: 20260143365Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes a communication unit connectable to either a primary line or a secondary line of mobile communication, and a controller configured to cause the communication unit to switch to the secondary line when a failure has occurred in the primary line, in which the controller is configured to execute, when a condition under which communication through the primary line for providing a service to a user is disconnectable is satisfied, switching processing of causing the communication unit to switch to the secondary line even in a case where the failure has not occurred in the primary line.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2025Publication date: May 21, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Noriaki ITO, Shingo Sugimoto, Yuma Ito
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Publication number: 20260142846Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to determine a role of a person to be a target in an online meeting based on information about the online meeting. The control unit is configured to determine whether to permit the person to participate in the online meeting in a vehicle based on the role.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2025Publication date: May 21, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuma ITO, Yu WATANABE, Shingo SUGIMOTO
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Publication number: 20260124930Abstract: The vehicle control device includes a forward information acquisition device that acquires forward information regarding a situation ahead of the host vehicle, and a controller that executes a following travel control for matching a distance between the host vehicle and a following target object located ahead of the host vehicle to a target distance based on the forward information. The following travel control includes acceleration control for accelerating the host vehicle, deceleration control for decelerating the host vehicle, and constant speed control for maintaining the speed of the host vehicle at a constant speed. The controller does not perform the acceleration control in the following travel control when the forward information indicates that the pedestrian is present in the predicted traveling region of the host vehicle in front of the host vehicle and the pedestrian is selected as the following target object during the execution of the following travel control.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2025Publication date: May 7, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuma ITO
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Patent number: 12606131Abstract: To effectively improve the accuracy of abnormality determination of a driver, provided is a vehicle control device comprising a stop hold release control unit configured to execute a stop hold control for holding by activating a brake apparatus, and execute a release control for releasing a stop hold by the brake apparatus when a predetermined release condition is satisfied, an operation input acquiring unit for acquire an operation input of a driver, a driver abnormality determining unit for determining whether the driver is in an abnormal state, and a determination correction unit configured to execute a determination correction for making the driver abnormality determination unit easily determine that the driver is in the abnormal state, when the release control is executed by the stop hold release control unit and the operation input acquisition unit does not acquire the operation input.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2024Date of Patent: April 21, 2026Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuma Ito
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Publication number: 20260068047Abstract: A wiring substrate includes a conductor layer, an insulating layer formed on the conductor layer such that the insulating layer is covering the conductor layer, and a via conductor formed in a through hole penetrating through the insulating layer such that the through hole has a first opening on the opposite side with respect to the conductor layer and a second opening facing the conductor layer and that the via conductor is connecting to the conductor layer. The conductor layer has a surface facing the via conductor and having a recess communicating with the through hole such that the recess is smaller than the second opening and has a conical shape tapering toward the opposite side with respect to the via conductor and the recess has the center on the surface of the conductor layer that is offset from the center of the first opening of the through hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2025Publication date: March 5, 2026Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuma ITO, Shunya HATANAKA
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Publication number: 20260040448Abstract: A wiring substrate includes a first conductor layer, an insulating layer covering the first conductor layer, a second conductor layer formed on a surface of the insulating layer, and a via conductor formed in a hole penetrating through the insulating layer such that the via conductor is connecting the first conductor layer and the second conductor layer. The insulating layer is formed such that the hole includes a first portion decreasing in width on the first conductor layer side, a second portion formed on the first conductor layer side of the first portion and increasing in width on the first conductor layer side, and a third portion formed on the first conductor layer side of the second portion and decreasing in width on the first conductor layer side.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2025Publication date: February 5, 2026Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Kyohei YOSHIKAWA, Yuma ITO
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Patent number: 12466368Abstract: A vehicle stop holding device for holding a stop of a vehicle includes a ECU for starting execution of a backup control for holding a stop state of the vehicle by a brake holding device when an operation of getting off the driver of the vehicle is detected while the vehicle is stopped by the brake device, and ECU outputs a brake operation request for requesting an operation of the brake device to the driver and releases the brake of the brake device when both a release operation of the seat belt by the driver of the vehicle and an opening operation which is an operation for opening the door are detected during a period from the start of the execution of the backup control until the completion of the completion.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2023Date of Patent: November 11, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuma Ito
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Patent number: 12434730Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus executes a moving control to autonomously control a moving of a vehicle. The apparatus outputs first and second announcements and executes a voice operation process when the approval operation is performed. The first announcement is to inform a driver of contents of the voice operation process planned to be executed for the moving control in accordance with utterance contents of the driver acquired by voice recognition. The second announcement is to request the driver to perform an approval operation to approve the informed contents. The apparatus completes outputting the first announcement and execute the voice operation process, or stops outputting the first announcement, execute the voice operation process, and output a third announcement to inform the driver of the contents of the executed voice operation process when the approval operation is performed while the first announcement is output.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2023Date of Patent: October 7, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuma Ito
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Patent number: 12434707Abstract: The processor of the driving support device satisfies the second condition for determining that the driver of the own vehicle was paying attention to the area in front of the own vehicle at the time the first condition for determining that the preceding vehicle has started is satisfied. If not, the notification device is controlled to present predetermined first information to the driver, and after presenting the first information, the switch device is operated without the second condition being satisfied. If it is detected that the notification device has been activated, the notification device is controlled to present second information to the driver, and after presenting the second information, the switch device is operated without the second condition being satisfied. When it is detected that the host vehicle has been moved, the host vehicle is controlled so that the host vehicle starts in a predetermined first mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2024Date of Patent: October 7, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuma Ito