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公开(公告)号:US20220207590A1
公开(公告)日:2022-06-30
申请号:US17522286
申请日:2021-11-09
Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: Yutaro Takagi , Kunihiro Iwamoto , Yuta Itozawa , Hirotaka Komura , Yoshiaki Nakamoto , Junya Ota
Abstract: A management system manages automatic ordering of a consumable product. The management system includes: a first acquisition unit that acquires information about an allowable timing of arrival of a target consumable product; a second acquisition unit that acquires information about a delivery timing or an order timing of another article other than the target consumable product; and a determination unit that determines a delivery timing or an order timing of the target consumable product such that the allowable timing is satisfied and the number of times of delivery of the target consumable product and the other article is reduced.
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公开(公告)号:US20220108612A1
公开(公告)日:2022-04-07
申请号:US17487160
申请日:2021-09-28
Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: Nobuhisa Otsuki , Kunihiro Iwamoto , Yuta Itozawa , Hirotaka Komura , Yutaro Takagi
Abstract: The plurality of passage areas include a first passage area and a second passage area, the first passage area being a passage area for which a traveling condition for a transportation vehicle carrying an object to be transported is specified, and a second passage area being a passage area for which a traveling condition for restricting traveling of the transportation vehicle more strictly than in the first passage area is specified. The traffic management system includes a traffic management unit configured to change a regulation in at least a part of the second passage area in regard to the permission/prohibition of the traveling of the transportation vehicle based on at least one of information about a demand for the object to be transported and information about a traffic environment.
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公开(公告)号:US12286300B2
公开(公告)日:2025-04-29
申请号:US17650897
申请日:2022-02-14
Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: Kunihiro Iwamoto , Yuta Itozawa , Hirotaka Komura , Yutaro Takagi
Abstract: A transport system includes a transport robot and a plurality of kinds of loading platform portions each of which is able to be connected to the transport robot. The transport system includes: a determination unit that determines a loading platform portion to which the transport robot is to be connected, from the plurality of kinds of loading platform portions, based on a transport condition; and a connection control unit that controls a connecting operation between the transport robot and the loading platform portion determined by the determination unit.
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公开(公告)号:US12091241B2
公开(公告)日:2024-09-17
申请号:US17545309
申请日:2021-12-08
Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: Yoshiaki Nakamoto , Yuta Itozawa , Hirotaka Komura , Yutaro Takagi , Junya Ota , Kunihiro Iwamoto
Abstract: A trash box is a trash box including a trash box main body in which trash is accommodated. A top surface or a side surface of the trash box main body includes an input port via which the trash is put into the trash box main body. A bottom surface of the trash box main body includes an opening-closing portion. The trash box main body is placed such that the opening-closing portion faces a reference plane that is a floor face or ground. The trash box main body is changeable in height from the reference plane.
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公开(公告)号:US12043481B2
公开(公告)日:2024-07-23
申请号:US18219796
申请日:2023-07-10
Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: Kunihiro Iwamoto , Yuta Itozawa , Hirotaka Komura , Yutaro Takagi
CPC classification number: B65G1/0435 , B65G1/0421 , B66F9/063 , B66F9/20
Abstract: An autonomous mobile robot includes a placement part, an arm configured to extend from and retract into the placement part in a horizontal direction, and a control unit configured to control a movement of the arm. The control unit moves a tip of the arm into a groove formed in a bottom surface of an object supported from underneath thereof, and then the control unit returns the tip of the arm hooked in the groove to the placement part, or the control unit moves the tip of the arm hooked in a groove formed in a bottom surface of an object placed on the placement part toward a rack configured to support the object from underneath thereof.
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公开(公告)号:US12030715B2
公开(公告)日:2024-07-09
申请号:US17650905
申请日:2022-02-14
Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: Kunihiro Iwamoto , Yuta Itozawa , Hirotaka Komura , Yutaro Takagi
CPC classification number: B65G1/0435 , B25J5/007 , B60P3/007 , B62D63/025 , B65G1/1375 , B66F9/063 , B66F9/065 , B60P1/6409 , B60P1/6427 , B60P1/6481 , B60P1/649
Abstract: The transport system has a transport vehicle. The transport vehicle includes two racks, each of the two racks being configured to accommodate a plurality of boxes, and a drive arm that is disposed at a position between the two racks and that moves each of the boxes in and out of each of the racks. The transport vehicle moves each of the boxes in and out of each of the two racks by changing an orientation of the drive arm.
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公开(公告)号:US11969887B2
公开(公告)日:2024-04-30
申请号:US17487191
申请日:2021-09-28
Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: Nobuhisa Otsuki , Kunihiro Iwamoto , Yuta Itozawa , Hirotaka Komura , Yutaro Takagi
CPC classification number: B25J9/0009 , G05D1/0217 , B66F9/063 , G05D2201/0216
Abstract: The traveling unit main body and the accommodation unit are adapted to be uncoupled and re-coupled. The traveling unit main body includes a first driving unit and a second driving unit configured to perform at least one of operations of taking out or storing the article from or in the accommodation unit and transporting the article taken out from the accommodation unit. The traveling unit main body performs at least one of the operations of taking out, storing, and transporting the article using the first driving unit and the second driving unit in a state in which the traveling unit main body and the accommodation unit are uncoupled.
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公开(公告)号:US11946290B2
公开(公告)日:2024-04-02
申请号:US17548235
申请日:2021-12-10
Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: Kunihiro Iwamoto , Yuta Itozawa , Hirotaka Komura , Yutaro Takagi , Yoshiaki Nakamoto , Junya Ota
IPC: E05B65/462 , A47B88/407 , A47B88/437 , B62B3/00 , E05B47/00
CPC classification number: E05B65/462 , A47B88/407 , A47B88/437 , B62B3/005 , E05B47/0001
Abstract: A rack includes: a casing; M (an integer not less than three) pairs of supports that are provided inside the casing so as to extend in a depth direction and arrayed at regular intervals in a predetermined direction (a height direction or a left-right direction); and a lock mechanism. The rack can house all returnable containers of one or more prespecified sizes along the respective pairs of supports. The lock mechanism includes N (an integer not less than two and meeting N
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公开(公告)号:US11919157B2
公开(公告)日:2024-03-05
申请号:US17546244
申请日:2021-12-09
Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: Kunihiro Iwamoto , Yuta Itozawa , Hirotaka Komura , Yutaro Takagi
CPC classification number: B25J9/042 , B25J9/126 , B25J18/04 , Y10S901/01
Abstract: In a conveyance system, an object is conveyed by use of a conveyance robot. The conveyance robot includes: an arm including a shaft portion extensible and retractable in an axial direction of the shaft portion, and a protruding portion extending from the shaft portion in a direction different from the axial direction so as to be engaged with a groove formed on the object; a drive mechanism configured to rotate the arm around the axial direction as a rotating axis; and a detecting portion configured to detect an abnormality in the rotation angle of the arm.
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公开(公告)号:US11804088B2
公开(公告)日:2023-10-31
申请号:US17721607
申请日:2022-04-15
Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: Nobuhisa Otsuki , Haeyeon Lee , Kunihiro Iwamoto , Yuta Itozawa , Hirotaka Komura , Yutaro Takagi , Kota Oishi
CPC classification number: G07C9/00896 , B60W60/00256 , G07C2009/0092
Abstract: A mobile body delivers a package to a designated destination by autonomous traveling. When the mobile body arrives at the destination, door status information including opening/closing status of an entrance door of the destination is acquired, and it is determined whether the entrance door of the destination has been opened based on the acquired door status information. When the entrance door has been opened, a delivery of the package to the destination is authenticated, and a locking device for regulating the delivery of the package from the mobile body is unlocked.
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