Patents Assigned to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTIONS MACHINERY CO., LTD.
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Patent number: 11993922Abstract: Provided is a system which can supply appropriate information to one operator from a viewpoint that the one operator grasps a remotely operational mode for a working machine by the other operator. In a first remote operation apparatus 10, a passive mode detector 112 detects a passive mode of a first operation mechanism 111, and transmits operational mode data corresponding to the passive mode. In a second remote operation apparatus 20, an operation of an actuator 212 is controlled in accordance with the passive mode of the first operation mechanism 111 in response to the operational mode data, and thereby, a second operation mechanism 211 actively operates.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaki Otani, Hitoshi Sasaki, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11989674Abstract: Provided are a server and a system which enable a worker of a work machine to intuitively recognize work contents and the like to be performed using the work machine in each of a plurality of work locations. In response to a first designated operation through a remote input interface 210 of a remote operation device 20, a remote output interface 220 of the remote operation device 20 outputs a work environment image showing positions of designated work locations Q1 and Q2, and information about at least one of a designated work period and a designated work content. The designated work location, the designated work period and the designated work content are included in designated work information that is work information fitting a designated position depending on the first designated operation among a plurality of pieces of work information registered in a database 102.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke Sawada, Hitoshi Sasaki, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11987307Abstract: A sorting destination determining device extracts first records indicating a reversal to a slewing direction of a slewing body, extracts from records before the first records a second record indicating opening of an opening/closing state, extracts from the first records a third record immediately before which the second record is registered, and determines a sorting destination of a dismantled part on the basis of a slewing angle registered in the third record.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignees: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD., HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITYInventors: Katsuhiko Takahashi, Katsumi Morikawa, Yasutoshi Nishi
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Patent number: 11981542Abstract: Provided is a hoisting implement which can change a hoisting posture of a long object with a simple and light-weight configuration and minimize a possibility of occurrence of operational errors. The hoisting implement includes a first connection part and a second connection part disposed so that a center of gravity comes between the first connection part and the second connection part along the longitudinal direction of the long object. The first connection part allows a first end of the hoist rope to be fixed to the long object. The second connection part includes a link having a distal portion to which a second end of the hoist rope is allowed to be connected, a swing supporting portion fixed to the long object to swingably support the link about a proximal portion of the link, and a holding portion that detachably holds the distal portion of the laid link.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Keiji Sakai, Akira Koyahata, Hiroshi Nakashioya
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Patent number: 11975590Abstract: A cab for a construction machine includes; an operator seat including a seat base and a backrest; a control box disposed along a lateral side of the operator seat; an air conditioner main body for cooling air; and a duct disposed behind the operator sea for guiding a cooling air generated in the air conditioner main body. The duct has a blowing port provided at such a position as to allow the cooling air to flow frontward along at least one of a lateral side of the seat base and a lateral side of a lower portion of the backrest and along an inner surface of the control box.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Fujikawa, Shunsuke Tada, Yohei Tashiro
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Patent number: 11970837Abstract: A working machine control device includes a camera that obtains a captured image by imaging a particular part that is a part of a lower travelling body, and a controller, in which the controller includes a setting unit that sets a target slewing angle of an upper slewing body with respect to the lower travelling body, and a display control unit that causes a display unit to display a display screen in which a target image indicating a target position of the particular part is displayed in a superimposed manner at a position on the captured image, the position being where the particular part is displayed when a slewing angle of the upper slewing body with respect to the lower travelling body reaches the target slewing angle.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Ueda, Seiji Saiki, Hideki Yoshihara
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Publication number: 20240124272Abstract: A method for judging a winding disorder of a rope onto a drum of a winch includes acquiring a captured image by a camera oriented to the drum, performing, on the basis of the captured image, a judgment on whether the winding disorder of the rope is present or absent and a determination of a disorder degree indicating the degree of the winding disorder, and outputting results of the judgment and the determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Teppei MAEDO, Hiroki NAKAYAMA, Kazufumi KUDARA, Yohei OGAWA
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Patent number: 11959256Abstract: An operative target position of a leading end device supposed by an operator of a working machine is estimated with high accuracy. The controller calculates a prospective locus region on the basis of respective detection results of a posture detecting part and a manipulation detecting part. The prospective locus region is a region based on a prospective locus along which a leading end device is prospected to shift. The controller calculates a gaze point region on the basis of a detection result of a sight detecting part. The gaze point region is a region based on a gaze point of an operator. The controller sets a target position in a region where the prospective locus region and the gaze point region overlap each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Koji Yamashita
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Patent number: 11959250Abstract: A first operation mechanism 3 includes a first driving source 30 which generates a driving force based on a drive command and a first driving mechanism 32 which inclines a left-side traveling pedal 1c by the driving force from the first driving source 30. The first driving mechanism 32 has a first abutting portion 32a which abuts a pedal surface of the left-side traveling pedal 1c and a first driving unit 32b which inclines the left-side traveling pedal 1c by inclining the first abutting portion. The first driving unit 32b is arranged in a position shifted to a lateral side from a space in which the first abutting portion 32a moves.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., Asahi Intecc Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hitoshi Sasaki, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki, Kohei Nakamizo
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Patent number: 11952244Abstract: A tag reader acquires identification data and data of a reception intensity indicative of an intensity of a reception signal from a weight tag mounted on each weight, and a data processing device acquires the identification data and the data of a reception intensity of each weight tag from the tag reader, discriminates the identification data corresponding to each weight tag into attached weight data indicating that a reception intensity corresponding to the identification data exceeds a reference intensity set in advance and other non-attached weight data, and determines an attachment state of the weight to the main body portion based on the attached weight data.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasuhiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 11952747Abstract: A remote operation device includes: a vibration detector to detect a plurality of vibration components in a plurality of directions different from each other, the vibration components being included in a vibration caused on an attachment; a transmission device; and a transmission control section that controls an operation of the transmission device. A vibration determination condition is set in advance, the vibration determination condition including a condition that an amplitude of a maximum vibration component largest in amplitude among the plurality of vibration components detected by the vibration detector is equal to or larger than a preset amplitude threshold. The transmission control section controls the operation of the transmission device to allow the vibration information to be transmitted to an operator only when the vibration determination condition is met.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Noda, Koji Yamashita, Yoichiro Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20240112459Abstract: A container measurement system enables accurate calculation of three-dimensional information about a container. The container measurement system includes: a distance image acquisition part provided in a working machine that performs a loading work to a container for acquiring a distance image of the container; a calculation part that calculates, on the basis of the acquired distance image, three-dimensional information including a three-dimensional position and a three-dimensional shape of the container; a storage part that stores three-dimensional shapes of various kinds of containers; a specifying part that specifies a kind of the container subjected to the calculation on the basis of the calculated three-dimensional shape of the container and the three-dimensional shapes of the various kinds of containers stored in the storage part; and a correction part that corrects the calculated three-dimensional information about the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2021Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukihiro HOSO, Sho FUJIWARA, Shingun KYU
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Publication number: 20240110364Abstract: A pump control device and a valve control device each includes: an instruction calculator that calculates a control instruction of causing a controlled object to operate by using a manipulation amount of a manipulation and at least one control parameter, and inputs the calculated control instruction to the controlled object; and an ideal output calculator that calculates an ideal output of an actuator, the ideal output being associated with the manipulation amount of the manipulation. The pump control device adjusts at least one pump control parameter to reduce a difference between a control output and the ideal output when an operation of a movable part is a power running operation. The valve control device adjusts at least one valve control parameter to reduce a difference between a control output and the ideal output when the operation of the movable part is a non-power running operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicants: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD., HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITYInventors: Kazushige KOIWAI, Yohei ONO, Natsuki YUMOTO, Shin WAKITANI, Toru YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 11946228Abstract: A safety apparatus of a work machine includes: obstacle sensors provided in the upper revolving body; a revolving angle detector; an upper-side coordinate position calculation section that calculates an upper-side coordinate position of the obstacle in the upper-side coordinate system using the upper revolving body as a reference; a lower-side judgment area setting section that sets a lower-side judgment area in the lower-side coordinate system using the lower traveling body as a reference; a coordinate transformation section that transforms one of the upper-side coordinate position and the position of the lower-side judgment area into the other coordinate system to unify the coordinate system; a lower-side approach judgment section that judges whether an obstacle exists within the lower-side judgment area in the unified coordinate system; and a safety operation command section that outputs a safety operation command based on the judgment result.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Sho Fujiwara
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Patent number: 11941562Abstract: Based on operation trajectory data an operation analysis device identifies all open points indicating positions at which the crusher is opened during the operation period and all close points indicating positions at which a crusher is closed during an operation period, calculates, as a shortest distance, a distance between each open point of the all open points and a close point nearest to the each open point, and identifies, as a sorting destination open point, an open point at which the shortest distance exceeds a first threshold value, identifies data until the crusher grasping the dismantling part moves to the sorting destination and returns to the dismantling target again from among the operation trajectory data as movement data of the crusher having moved in the dismantling operation, and identifies data in which the movement data has been removed from the operation trajectory data as grasping operation data.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignees: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD., HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITYInventors: Katsuhiko Takahashi, Katsumi Morikawa, Shoya Nakamura
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Patent number: 11933020Abstract: A storage part of a construction machine stores an operation target which is set as a target of an operation of the construction machine for moving a specific portion of the construction machine to a target position set as a destination to which the specific portion moves. A calculation part calculates an index value which serves as an index indicating a deviation between the operation target and an actual state of the construction machine. A control device is configured to cause a vibration applying device to perform a first vibration applying operation when the index value satisfies a predetermined first condition, and to cause the vibration applying device to perform a second vibration applying operation when the index value satisfies a predetermined second condition different from the first condition.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kiyokazu Tanaka, Reona Takamura
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Publication number: 20240083719Abstract: An upper spreader guide device includes a pair of left and right boom-side guide parts each supported by a boom so as to be arranged in a raised attitude of rising diagonally upward from the boom in a state where the boom is arranged in a lowered attitude, and a pair of left and right movable guide parts supported by the pair of boom-side guide parts, respectively, such that a relative position with respect to the pair of boom-side guide parts is changeable between a protruding position and a retraction position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shingo KURIHARA, Eiji MIYA, Koji NISHIJIMA, Takao ETO
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Patent number: 11926991Abstract: A sensibility meter detects biometric information relating to an operator corresponding to an output from a target appliance, and determines a comfort level of the operator based on the biometric information. A first control unit determines a second target value relating to the output based on a difference between a first target value relating to the comfort level and the comfort level. A second control unit determines a control input to the target appliance based on a difference between the second target value and the output. A ? setting unit performs weighting corresponding to an operation level of the operator, for an operation input to the target appliance by the operator, and for the control input. An adder adds the weighted operation input and control input, and inputs the resultant to the target appliance.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD., HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITYInventors: Toru Yamamoto, Takuya Kinoshita
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Patent number: 11898322Abstract: A master-side device is provided outside a working machine and transmits, to a slave-side device, a command for controlling activation of an actuator. The master-side device is provided with a master-side lever and an operation pattern switching unit. The operation pattern switching unit switches a master-side operation pattern in which a first command according to an operation of the master-side lever is combined with a second command for an operation of a machine-side lever. The slave-side device transmits, to the master-side device, information of a machine-side operation pattern selected by an operation pattern switching valve.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hitoshi Sasaki, Seiji Saiki
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Publication number: 20240044102Abstract: A target locus of an attachment is determined while a calculation load for generating the target locus of the attachment is suppressed. A controller is configured to set a position of an arm distal end at a time when a contact detector detects contact of a bucket distal end with an excavation object at a start point of an arm distal end target locus. The controller is configured to receive information about a form of the arm distal end target locus in advance. The controller is configured to set a position for a finish point on the basis of an angle of a surface of the excavation object, an intersection angle between the arm distal end target locus and the surface of the excavation object, information about the form of the arm distal end target locus, and an offset amount about the finish point of the arm distal end target locus.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2022Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryunosuke MIYAZAKI, Masaki AKIYAMA, Sho FUJIWARA, Takayuki DOI