Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

Konan Gakuen

Ryota Tomizawa

Taizo Masuda

Yasuhiro Kobatake

Daisaku Honda

Hiroki Awano

Kenichi Okumura

Nobutsugu Maruiwa

Hiroya Matsubayashi

Satoshi Tanabe

Hojung Jung

Daisuke Sato

Ayako Shimizu

Shozo Takaba

Yuki Nishikawa

Sei Miyazaki

Debasish Banerjee

Songtao Wu

Tatsuya Sugano

Yushi Seki

Atsuki Yoshimura

Miki Nomoto

Yuka Nishiyama

Tokuhiro Masui

Shinya Iwasaki

Satoshi Omi

Brian Woods

Shigeru Ikeda

Tatsuya Hasegawa

Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to a device having a lens that directs angles of light toward solar cells and display sections having components that improve image clarity, reflectivity, and vividness. In one embodiment, a system includes a lens that directs incident light within a first angular range for absorption and a second angular range toward viewing material. The system also includes that the viewing material is within sections of the lens and forms an image. The system also includes reflective components adjacent to the viewing material within the sections of the lens, the reflective components reach ends of the lens away from the incident light and reflect the incident light within the second angular range that reflects off the viewing material. The system also includes an absorption component that captures energy from the incident light, the absorption component coupled to the lens at the ends and the reflective components.

System to display a vivid image on solar cells

A wrapping film includes a transparent film with an ultraviolet-near infrared (UV-NIR) active layer and a visibly transparent infrared (VTIR) reflective layer. The transparent film is configured to be wrapped onto a surface, the UV-NIR active layer is configured to absorb at least one of UV light or NIR light and emit IR light, and the VTIR reflective layer is configured to reflect the emitted IR light. The wrapping film also includes a photovoltaic solar cell disposed on an edge of and in optical communication with the transparent film and the photovoltaic solar cell is configured to receive the reflected IR light and generate electricity.

Solar concentrator wrapping films

An automatic parking lot management system includes an infrastructure sensor for detecting a preset range in a parking lot. A mobile body including a peripheral detection sensor is used, and the mobile body is able to be moved to a detectable position at which the peripheral detection sensor of the mobile body is able to detect a detection range of the infrastructure sensor. When determination is made that there is an abnormality in the infrastructure sensor, the mobile body is moved to the detectable position to cause the peripheral detection sensor to detect the detection range of the infrastructure sensor.

Automatic parking lot management system, automatic parking lot management method, and storage medium

A voice output method is a voice output method in a moving body of public transportation. The voice output method includes: a storage step of storing a voice output to an inside of the moving body, the voice being stored by being divided into a guide voice related to information on the moving body and an advertising voice related to advertising; a determination step of determining whether or not a passenger of the moving body includes a visually impaired person; and a restraint step of, by the moving body, restraining the advertising voice from being output when determination is made that the passenger includes the visually impaired person.

Voice output method

In an apparatus producing hydrogen gas by a decomposition reaction of water using a photocatalyst, the water is warmed with waste heat of a light source for improving the production efficiency of hydrogen gas. The hydrogen gas producing apparatuscomprises a container portion receiving water; a photocatalyst body, dispersed or placed in the water, having a photocatalyst material to generate excited electrons and electron holes by irradiation of light, causing the decomposition reaction of water which decomposes water into hydrogen and oxygen to generate hydrogen gas; a light source emitting the light to be irradiated to the photocatalyst body; and a housing carrying the light source; wherein the housing is placed in the water, which is warmed by the waste heat of the light source discharged from the housing surface which is coated with a photocatalyst material.

Hydrogen gas producing apparatus using a photocatalyst

A method for managing a souvenir supply service is provided. The method includes the step of acquiring map information and information on a sightseeing plan of a user using the souvenir supply service. The information on the sightseeing plan comprises positional information on a sightseeing spot visited by the user and information on a time zone during which the user visits the sightseeing spot. The method also includes the step of sending a mobile vehicle loaded with a souvenir associated with the sightseeing spot to the sightseeing spot in the time zone during which the user visits the sightseeing spot based on the map information and the sightseeing plan information.

Method, system and computer-readable medium for managing souvenir supply service

The sightseeing plan provision system includes a communication terminal and a server. The communication terminal is operated by a user who is traveling for purposes other than tourism. The server includes a processor and a storage device, and presents a sightseeing plan to the user. The processor automatically generates a new sightseeing plan based on the travel route planning information so as to include a desired stop-by spot of the user in response to a request of the user operating the communication terminal. Then, the processor registers the generated new sightseeing plan in the database of the storage device.

Sightseeing plan provision system and sightseeing plan provision method

A parking management device for a parking lot adjacent to a store that provides a product includes a provision time acquisition unitthat acquires a provision time of a product ordered by a driver driving the vehicle to the store, a parking location determination unit that determines a parking location of the vehicle entering the parking lot based on the provision time acquired by the provision time acquisition unit, and a guidance information generation unit that generates guidance information for guidance of the vehicle to the parking location determined by the parking location determination unit.

Parking management device, vehicle, and parking management method

A control unit of a server is a device that adjusts a parking position of a vehicle in a parking lot, and includes an acquisition unit that acquires the parking position of the vehicle scheduled to receive a package in the parking lot, and an adjustment information generation unit that generates adjustment information for adjusting parking of another vehicle in a parking slot adjacent to the parking position of the vehicle scheduled to receive the package in the parking lot such that a space is secured around the vehicle scheduled to receive the package.

Parking position adjustment device and parking position adjustment method

A parking management device includes: a data acquiring unit configured to acquire user identification data for identifying the position of a user moving in a parking lot; a movement route estimating unit configured to estimate a movement route based on the user identification data acquired by the data acquiring unit, the movement route being a route along which the user moves in the parking lot; and a running route deciding unit configured to decide a running route of a vehicle so as to avoid the movement route estimated by the movement route estimating unit, the vehicle being a vehicle running in the parking lot.

Parking management device, vehicle, and parking lot management method

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.

Voice guidance method

A disinfection system disinfects an inside of a building or a moving body. The disinfection system includes an ultraviolet irradiator, a recognition sensor that recognizes a situation of the inside of the building or the moving body, and a control device configured to automatically control the ultraviolet irradiator based on the situation of the inside of the building or the moving body, which is recognized by the recognition sensor, to disinfect the inside of the building or the moving body.

Disinfection device and disinfection system

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.

Boarding and alighting support method

A control system for a vehicle includes a camera mounted on the vehicle and configured to take an image of an occupant of the vehicle, and an anti-droplet protective equipment providing device mounted on the vehicle and configured to provide anti-droplet protective equipment to the occupant, a determination unit configured to determine whether the occupant is wearing the anti-droplet protective equipment based on the image of the occupant taken by the camera, and a provision control unit configured to provide the anti-droplet protective equipment to the occupant with the anti-droplet protective equipment providing device when the determination unit determines that the occupant is not wearing the anti-droplet protective equipment.

Control system for vehicle and control method for vehicle

Semiconductor particles are used as a photocatalyst for inducing a water-splitting reaction where water molecules decompose into oxygen molecules and hydrogen molecules by addition of a co-catalyst and light irradiation, the semiconductor particles including strontium titanate doped with scandium. A synthesis method of a semiconductor for the photocatalyst includes a synthesis step of synthesizing the semiconductor particles including strontium titanate doped with scandium by mixing strontium chloride (SrCl), strontium titanate (SrTiO), and scandium oxide (ScO) and firing the mixture.

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Mishima, Japan

Ryota Tomizawa