Patents by Inventor Yuta ITOZAWA

Yuta ITOZAWA 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: 20220065640
    Abstract: A risk of theft is reduced in transportation by an autonomous mobile body. A route determination system according to the present disclosure determines a transport route of an article to be transported by an autonomous mobile body. The route determination system according to the present disclosure includes a judgement unit that judges whether or not an area including a position of a person is dangerous based on position information of the person and a credit rank of the person and a route determination unit that determines, as the transport route, a bypass route for bypassing a dangerous area when a candidate of the transport route passes through the dangerous area judged to be dangerous by the judgement unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kunihiro Iwamoto, Yuta Itozawa, Hirotaka Komura
  • Publication number: 20220066468
    Abstract: A transport system, a transport method, and a program capable of selecting an appropriate support position when a target object is supported and lifted by an autonomous mobile robot are provided. The transport system supports and transports a target object by an autonomous mobile robot, the transport system including: a marker position specifying unit configured to specify a position of a marker attached to a target object; and an operation controller configured to determine a support position of the target object based on the position of the marker that has been specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kunihiro Iwamoto, Yuta Itozawa, Hirotaka Komura
  • Publication number: 20220065645
    Abstract: A route determination system determines a transport route for an autonomous mobile body to transport an article from among a plurality of candidates. The system includes an acquisition unit that acquires setting information related to necessity of at least one of cooling retention and heat retention of the article and an extraction unit that extracts, for each of the plurality of candidates, a low-temperature environment part in which a temperature in a delivery environment of the article along the candidate is estimated to be lower than temperatures of other parts of the candidate when the setting information about the cool retention is acquired, and a route determination unit that determines the transport route from among the plurality of candidates so that the temperature in the delivery environment of the article becomes low based on a length of the low-temperature environment part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kunihiro Iwamoto, Yuta Itozawa, Hirotaka Komura
  • Publication number: 20220063680
    Abstract: A delivery system includes an autonomously-moving-type delivery vehicle configured to deliver an article, and a transportation vehicle configured to carry and transport the delivery vehicle, in which the delivery system is configured so that after the transportation vehicle carrying the delivery vehicle travels toward a delivery destination of the article, the delivery vehicle gets out of the transportation vehicle and delivers the article to the delivery destination. The delivery system makes a computer perform processes including determining whether or not the delivery vehicle can get out of the traveling transportation vehicle based on a situation of the transportation vehicle, and making the delivery vehicle get out of the transportation vehicle only when it is determined that the delivery vehicle can get out of the transportation vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kunihiro Iwamoto, Hirotaka Komura, Yuta Itozawa
  • Publication number: 20220065641
    Abstract: A route determination system according to the present disclosure determines a transport route of an article from among a plurality of candidates. Autonomous mobile bodies for transporting the article on the plurality of candidates are different from each other. The route determination system includes a calculation unit configured to calculate, for each of the plurality of candidates, a theft risk based on a degree of theft easiness and a time required for the transportation by the autonomous mobile body, the degree of theft easiness representing likelihood of an occurrence of theft in the autonomous mobile body, and the theft risk representing a magnitude of a risk of the occurrence of the theft, and a determination unit configured to determine the transport route from among the plurality of candidates so that the theft risk is reduced based on the theft risk calculated by the calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kunihiro Iwamoto, Yuta Itozawa, Hirotaka Komura
  • Publication number: 20220066452
    Abstract: A route determination system according to the present disclosure determines a transport route of an article from among a plurality of candidates. The transport route includes a first transport section for transporting the article on by a first autonomous mobile body and a second transport section for transporting the article on by a second autonomous mobile body smaller than the first autonomous mobile body. The second autonomous mobile body is mounted on the first autonomous mobile body in the first transport section. The system includes a judgement unit configured to judge whether or not weather is suitable for traveling of the second autonomous mobile body based on weather information along the transport route and a determination unit configured to determine the transport route from among the plurality of candidates so that a length of the second transport section becomes short when it is judged that the weather is not suitable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kunihiro Iwamoto, Yuta Itozawa, Hirotaka Komura
  • Publication number: 20220036287
    Abstract: A transportation management system according to an aspect is a transportation management system configured to manage transportation of a testing apparatus for diagnosing a health condition of a user by using a computer. A reservation for a test that a user undergoes is received, and a testing apparatus to be transported to the user is determined based on the reservation. The testing apparatus is transported to the user, and the user is diagnosed by using the testing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuta Itozawa, Kunihiro Iwamoto, Hirotaka Komura
  • Publication number: 20220036288
    Abstract: A delivery system configured to put an article into a freight-and-passenger vehicle, which travels according to an operation schedule, and transport the article by the freight-and-passenger vehicle, and then unload the article from the freight-and-passenger vehicle and deliver the article to a delivery destination is provided. The freight-and-passenger vehicle is configured to cause a computer to perform processes of notifying a passenger on the freight-and-passenger vehicle transporting the article of a request for requesting the passenger to deliver the article from a stop place where the article is unloaded to a delivery destination thereof, and giving an incentive to the passenger who has undertaken the request after the passenger has delivered the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Kunihiro Iwamoto, Hirotaka Komura, Yuta Itozawa
  • Publication number: 20210354294
    Abstract: The delivery management system stores identification information identifying an article to be delivered to a user and storage place information indicating a storage place of the article in a living space of the user while associating the identification information and the storage place information with each other, and reads the identification information attached to the article and extracts the storage place information associated with the identification information when the article arrives at a delivery destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Kunihiro Iwamoto, Yuta Itozawa, Hirotaka Komura
  • Patent number: 11175672
    Abstract: An autonomous moving body includes: a driven body including a carriage capable of moving autonomously; a battery; a first communication unit capable of communicating with a charging dock; and a first arithmetic processing unit for executing first arithmetic processing related to the drive of the driven body among arithmetic processings of the autonomous moving body. A charging dock includes: a charger for charging the battery; a second communication unit capable of communicating with the autonomous moving body; and a second arithmetic processing unit for executing second arithmetic processing other than the first arithmetic processing among the arithmetic processings of the autonomous moving body. The second communication unit is configured to be able to receive arithmetic data used for the second arithmetic processing from the first communication unit, and to transmit a processing result of the second arithmetic processing executed by the second arithmetic processing unit to the first communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuta Itozawa
  • Publication number: 20210194388
    Abstract: To make it possible to freely move a moving body between level surfaces located at different heights that are not connected by a vertical member. A moving body includes a movable moving part, an expansion/contraction part disposed in the moving part and configured to expand and contract in a vertical direction, a first engagement part disposed at a tip of the expansion/contraction part and configured to engage with a member located in a surrounding environment, and a control unit configured to control the moving part and the expansion/contraction part. The control unit moves the moving part to a target height position by engaging the first engagement part with a member located at the target height position and then expanding or contracting the expansion/contraction part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiro IWAMOTO, Yuta ITOZAWA, Hirotaka KOMURA
  • Publication number: 20210090758
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a coiled cord capable of increasing the length of a cable while preventing a winding diameter of the coiled cord in a plane orthogonal to the direction in which the coiled cord is extended and contracted in a natural state from increasing. A first exemplary aspect is a coiled cord around which a cable is wound, the cable being capable of being freely extended and contracted, the coiled cord including: a first layer in which the cable is wound from an inner side of the coiled cord to an outer side thereof in a radial direction, and a second layer in which the cable is wound from the outer side of the coiled cord to the inner side thereof in the radial direction, in which the first and the second layers are continuously connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta ITOZAWA, Hirotaka KOMURA
  • Publication number: 20190346852
    Abstract: An autonomous moving body includes: a driven body including a carriage capable of moving autonomously; a battery; a first communication unit capable of communicating with a charging dock; and a first arithmetic processing unit for executing first arithmetic processing related to the drive of the driven body among arithmetic processings of the autonomous moving body. A charging dock includes: a charger for charging the battery; a second communication unit capable of communicating with the autonomous moving body; and a second arithmetic processing unit for executing second arithmetic processing other than the first arithmetic processing among the arithmetic processings of the autonomous moving body. The second communication unit is configured to be able to receive arithmetic data used for the second arithmetic processing from the first communication unit, and to transmit a processing result of the second arithmetic processing executed by the second arithmetic processing unit to the first communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuta ITOZAWA