Patents by Inventor Yuta MANIWA
Yuta MANIWA 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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Patent number: 11951984Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuya Watabe, Tetsuya Kanata, Yozo Iwami, Daisaku Honda, Yuhei Katsumata, Hideki Fukudome, Yuta Maniwa, Naoko Ichikawa, Saki Narita, Yuki Nishikawa
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Patent number: 11951859Abstract: A navigation server includes a processor. The processor is configured to derive one of a first route and a second route as a route from a place of departure to a destination of a vehicle in accordance with a remaining level of a travel battery of the vehicle. The first route includes a first road provided with a first non-contact electric power feeder. The second route includes a second road provided with a second non-contact electric power feeder that is different in electric power feed capability from the first non-contact electric power feeder. The processor is configured to output the derived route as a recommended route to a terminal associated with the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ayano Kimura, Hikaru Shiozawa, Toshiya Hashimoto, Chuya Ogawa, Yuta Maniwa
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Patent number: 11939011Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Saki Narita, Tetsuya Kanata, Yozo Iwami, Daisaku Honda, Yuhei Katsumata, Hideki Fukudome, Takuya Watabe, Naoko Ichikawa, Yuta Maniwa, Yuki Nishikawa
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Patent number: 11938936Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuta Maniwa, Tetsuya Kanata, Yozo Iwami, Daisaku Honda, Yuhei Katsumata, Hideki Fukudome, Takuya Watabe, Naoko Ichikawa, Saki Narita, Yuki Nishikawa
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Patent number: 11927958Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuta Maniwa, Tetsuya Kanata, Yozo Iwami, Yuhei Katsumata, Daisaku Honda, Saki Narita, Hideki Fukudome, Takuya Watabe, Naoko Ichikawa, Yuki Nishikawa
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Patent number: 11904897Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: 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
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Patent number: 11724644Abstract: A vehicle for transporting passengers include a floor board on which the passengers ride. The vehicle further includes a passenger distribution detection device that detects a passenger distribution that is a distribution of the passengers on the floor board. The vehicle further includes a control device that executes a passenger guidance control that guides the passengers on the floor board such that the passenger distribution approaches a target passenger distribution to increase a stability of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Saki Narita, Tetsuya Kanata, Yozo Iwami, Daisaku Honda, Yuhei Katsumata, Hideki Fukudome, Takuya Watabe, Naoko Ichikawa, Yuta Maniwa, Yuki Nishikawa
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Patent number: 11718967Abstract: A guidance vehicle guides a dog for a walk, and includes a leash attachment, a distance sensor, and an electronic control unit. The leash attachment is configured to attach a leash that connects the dog. The distance sensor is configured to detect a dog-to-vehicle distance being a distance between the dog and the guidance vehicle. The electronic control unit is configured to execute a travel control of the guidance vehicle. The electronic control unit includes, as one of modes of the travel control, a walk guidance mode that causes the guidance vehicle to automatically travel along a walk route while guiding the dog to walk. The walk guidance mode executed by the electronic control unit includes a basic walk mode that controls the dog-to-vehicle distance so as to maintain a constant distance when the dog is moving along the walk route.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Saki Narita, Tetsuya Kanata, Yozo Iwami, Daisaku Honda, Yuhei Katsumata, Hideki Fukudome, Takuya Watabe, Naoko Ichikawa, Yuta Maniwa, Yuki Nishikawa, Daisuke Ishii, Daisuke Sato
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Publication number: 20230219480Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Masayuki ITOH, Iwao MAEDA, Tatsuya SUGANO, Norinao WATANABE, Yutaka NAKAMURA, Yoshikazu JIKUHARA, Yuki NISHIKAWA, Yuta MANIWA
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Patent number: 11687308Abstract: There is provided, in a vehicle capable of accommodating a plurality of passengers, a display system capable of providing a motivation to start a conversation among the passengers in view of conversation intentions of each passenger. The display system includes a control device, and at least one display device. The control device is configured to perform a conversation desire display process to display a conversation desire level of each of the passengers. Alternatively, the control device is configured to perform a conversation intention display process to display a conversation intention of each of the passengers for the other passengers. The conversation desire level and the conversation intention among passengers are input to the input device provided in the display system, by an operation of the passenger. Alternatively, they are estimated by the control device based on the passenger state information detected by the sensor provided in the display system.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Saki Narita, Tetsuya Kanata, Yozo Iwami, Daisaku Honda, Yuhei Katsumata, Hideki Fukudome, Takuya Watabe, Naoko Ichikawa, Yuta Maniwa, Yuki Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20230196213Abstract: The seat management device includes a receiving unit for receiving a request regarding the characteristics of the seats of the mobile body in which the passengers can ride on each other, and a seat assigning unit for assigning a seat to the passengers for each region in the room of the mobile body on the basis of the request, to assign the passengers in which the request is common to the same region. The request is transmitted from a passenger terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Ryo MURAKAMI, Shinnosuke SHIMOKAWA, Junichi MORI, Sokfan YEE, Kensaku SHIBATA, Yuta MANIWA
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Publication number: 20230169582Abstract: A power trading system includes an alternative power storage device (power storage device and battery pallet) managed by an operator of a P2P power trading market. In a case where nonfulfillment trading occurs in which fulfillment of power trading is difficult, a trading alternative unit of a trading market server performs power trading (alternative trading) related to the nonfulfillment trading by using the alternative power storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Hiromitsu KIGURE, Kazutaka KIMURA, Kazuki OBATA, Yuki KUDO, Satoshi KIKUCHI, Yuta MANIWA
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Publication number: 20230165533Abstract: A health management device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a weight of an occupant detected by a detector provided in a seat of a vehicle that transports the occupant or a value detectable using the weight as a characteristic value associated with a physical body of the occupant; and a display information generating unit configured to generate display information which is displayed on a display device which is visible to an occupant when the occupant sits on the seat based on the characteristic value, the display information varying according to a difference between the characteristic value detected at the timing at which the occupant sits on the seat and the characteristic value of the occupant detected in the past.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Ryo MURAKAMI, Shinnosuke SHIMOKAWA, Junichi MORI, Sokfan YEE, Kensaku SHIBATA, Yuta MANIWA
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Publication number: 20230166723Abstract: A physical function inspection device includes a target person selection unit that selects a target person for physical function inspection from passengers of a vehicle, a behavior detection unit that detects the behavior of the target person when the vehicle is traveling, and an evaluation unit that evaluates the physical function of the target person based on the behavior of the target person.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Ryo MURAKAMI, Shinnosuke SHIMOKAWA, Junichi MORI, Sokfan YEE, Kensaku SHIBATA, Yuta MANIWA
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Patent number: 11654392Abstract: A vehicle able to recover CO2 includes a CO2 recovery container holding an adsorbent adsorbing CO2 in gas. The vehicle is configured so that the adsorbent is taken out from the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takao Aiba, Hiroki Morita, Tetsuya Nakahira, Jun Miyagawa, Yuta Maniwa
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Publication number: 20230141894Abstract: A control unit of a server includes: a delivery request receiving unit configured to receive a delivery request for a parcel from a terminal of a delivery requester that requests a delivery of the parcel; a movable body selection unit configured to select a movable body that delivers the parcel, based on an address of a receiver of the parcel and operation information about a plurality of movable bodies that is periodically operated for each route, the address of the receiver being included in the delivery request; and a carry-in instruction sending unit configured to send a carry-in instruction to the terminal, the carry-in instruction being an instruction to carry the parcel in the selected movable body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Ryo MURAKAMI, Shinnosuke SHIMOKAWA, Junichi MORI, Sokfan YEE, Kensaku SHIBATA, Yuta MANIWA
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Publication number: 20230133117Abstract: Upon receipt of a reported value (an amount of power generation by a renewable energy facility) in a time slot from an agent of a prosumer (facility), a processor of a transaction market server calculates a predicted amount of power generation of the renewable energy facility in the time slot (S1 to S13). The processor sets a first threshold for the predicted amount of power generation and determines a normal range of the reported value (S15). The processor compares the reported value with the predicted amount of power generation, and when the reported value is outside the normal range, prohibits the facility with the renewable energy facility from using a renewable energy tag.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki KUDO, Kazutaka KIMURA, Kazuki OBATA, Hiromitsu KIGURE, Satoshi KIKUCHI, Yuta MANIWA
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Publication number: 20230128848Abstract: A market electricity price prediction unit is configured to predict a transaction price of electricity traded in an electricity transaction market. A user use prediction unit is configured to predict a use plan of a vehicle by a user of the vehicle. An electricity transaction plan preparation unit is configured to prepare an electricity transaction plan based on a prediction result of the market electricity price prediction unit and a prediction result of the user use prediction unit. The user inquiry performing unit is configured to make an inquiry to the user about the electricity transaction plan before an electricity transaction according to the electricity transaction plan is contracted in the electricity transaction market.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki KUDO, Kazutaka KIMURA, Kazuki OBATA, Hiromitsu KIGURE, Satoshi KIKUCHI, Yuta MANIWA
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Publication number: 20230120979Abstract: A power trading system includes a power trading platform (a power trading computer) and a vehicle agent (a bidding computer) that places a bid on the power trading platform. The vehicle agent includes a bidding unit and a generation unit. The bidding unit places a bid for power trading by transmitting bid data in a predetermined format to the power trading computer. The generation unit transcribes transcribed information included in the bid data for a contracted bid and generates the bid data for a cancellation bid so as to cancel the contracted bid. The transcribed information includes attribute information indicating an attribute of electric power related to power trading.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki KUDO, Kazutaka KIMURA, Kazuki OBATA, Hiromitsu KIGURE, Satoshi KIKUCHI, Yuta MANIWA
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Publication number: 20230117558Abstract: An agent is an information processing apparatus that puts in a bid to allow a vehicle to conduct transaction of power reception/provision through a transaction market server. In the event of nonfulfillment of transaction which means that the vehicle does not conduct transaction of power reception/provision, the transaction market server performs penalty processing for imposing a penalty on a user of the vehicle. The agent includes a bid processing unit and an indicator value calculator. The bid processing unit is configured to put in a bid to the transaction market server. The indicator value calculator calculates an indicator value that represents an extent of the penalty imposed on the user in the penalty processing. When the indicator value reaches a threshold value, the bid processing unit suspends a bid.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki KUDO, Kazutaka KIMURA, Kazuki OBATA, Hiromitsu KIGURE, Satoshi KIKUCHI, Yuta MANIWA