Patents Assigned to Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 11919613
    Abstract: In a rescue network system for a watercraft, a transmitter transmits a first distress signal of the watercraft to which it belongs. A receiver receives a second distress signal from another watercraft. An output outputs emergency information indicating the existence of the second distress signal from the another watercraft. A controller is configured or programmed to control the output to output the emergency information when the receiver has received the second distress signal from the another watercraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kohei Terada
  • Patent number: 11912412
    Abstract: A substrate working system includes a plurality of substrate working apparatuses, a component storage that stores a device and a component to be used by the substrate working apparatuses, and a component conveyance flight vehicle. The component conveyance flight vehicle conveys a conveyance article by flying from the component storage to a predetermined position corresponding to a predetermined substrate working apparatus while holding the conveyance article based on necessary article information of the substrate working apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Nakano, Tomoyoshi Utsumi
  • Patent number: 11912388
    Abstract: A marine vessel power supply system for a marine vessel including an electric motor to rotate a propeller includes an inverter to supply electric power to the electric motor, a battery to supply electric power to the inverter, and an electronic control unit configured or programmed to control the inverter. The inverter includes an inverter circuit to convert DC electric power supplied from the battery to AC electric power, a voltage detector to detect the voltage in a wiring between the battery and the inverter circuit, and a microcomputer configured or programmed to communicate with the electronic control unit and to control the inverter circuit according to a command supplied from the electronic control unit. The electronic control unit calculates an SOC estimate indicative of an estimated state-of-charge value of the battery based on a value of the voltage detected by the voltage detector and acquired from the microcomputer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuta Miyagi
  • Patent number: 11904989
    Abstract: In a control device for a battery of a marine vessel, a first value indicating either a voltage or a power storage amount of a main battery to supply electric power to start the engine is acquired. When the first value that has been acquired is smaller than a first threshold value, at least one of a prohibition of a transition to a motor drive mode in which a propeller is driven by using at least a motor regardless of an operation mode that is designated and a prohibition of charging a load battery is performed, and the engine is caused to rotate to charge the main battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuji Ikegaya
  • Patent number: 11904988
    Abstract: A watercraft includes a hull, an engine to generate power to propel the hull, an engine speed sensor to detect the rotation speed of the engine, and an ON/OFF sensor to be turned on and off according to a vertical acceleration of the hull. The watercraft further includes a controller configured or programmed to determine, based on at least one of a detection value of the ON/OFF sensor and a detection value of the engine speed sensor, whether or not a water surface is smooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirofumi Amma
  • Patent number: 11904971
    Abstract: A straddled vehicle having an engine unit. The engine unit includes an engine body having a cylinder axis tilting forward, a radiator including a radiator core, a turbocharger including a turbine wheel and a compressor wheel, and an intercooler including an intercooler core. In a side view, at least a part of the intercooler core, a part of the turbine wheel and a part of the radiator core are within an area enclosed by a first connecting line, a second connecting line, an engine-body front-surface and a wheel rear-surface. In an upward-downward or forward-backward direction of the cylinder axis, the intercooler-core upper end is more upward than the turbine-wheel upper end, the intercooler-core front end is more frontward than the turbine-wheel front end, the intercooler-core lower end is more upward than the radiator-core upper end, and the radiator-core rear end is more frontward than both the turbine-wheel rear end and the intercooler-core rear end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Makita, Hayatoshi Sato, Masaki Torigoshi, Makoto Kuroiwa, Naoto Tajima
  • Patent number: 11909106
    Abstract: A leaning vehicle having a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication antenna mounted thereon, a body frame that leans in a vehicle leftward or rightward direction when the leaning vehicle turns left or right, and a V2X communication device configured to perform V2X communication. The V2X communication antenna has such a radiation pattern that a 3 dB beam width thereof in a horizontal mounting plane is larger than the 3 dB beam width thereof in a vertical mounting plane, the 3 dB beam width in the vertical mounting plane existing both in a vehicle upper region and in a vehicle lower region, and the 3 dB beam width in the horizontal mounting plane existing both in a vehicle left region and in a vehicle right region. The V2X communication device performs the V2X communication with another V2X communication device, at least when the leaning vehicle turns left or right and the body frame leans accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasushi Hashimoto, Daisuke Asano
  • Patent number: 11904974
    Abstract: An overturn-notification-rider-informing-device includes: an acquisition section that acquires notification preparation information indicating that a leaning-vehicle-overturn-notification-system is preparing to notify of overturn occurrence information to outside of the leaning vehicle, or notification completed information indicating that the leaning-vehicle-overturn-notification-system has notified of the overturn occurrence information to outside of the leaning vehicle; and an actuation section that, based on the notification preparation information or the notification completed information, causes light to be radiated or sound to be generated by actuating at least one component among a front light and the like in an operating state that is different from an operating state of the relevant component at a time when, or immediately before, the leaning vehicle changes from a travelling state to an overturned state, and thereby informs of the overturn notification state to the rider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shibuya, Kotaro Onishi, Tomohiro Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11897513
    Abstract: An autonomous vehicle, including a vehicle body, a wheel supported by the vehicle body, a steering mechanism configured to change a travel direction, a driving/braking force generating device configured to generate a driving force or a braking force to drive or decelerate the autonomous vehicle, a plurality of seats each configured to be sat on by a passenger, and an autonomous driving controller configured to control the steering mechanism and the driving/braking force generating device to autonomously drive the autonomous vehicle without any driver's manipulation. The autonomous driving controller is configured to determine whether or not to control the driving/braking force generating device to change the autonomous vehicle from a stopped state to a run state, based on (1) at least one of a number of passengers, a maximum capacity, or a scheduled number of passengers, and (2) at least one of a number of sitting passengers or a number of ready-state-expressing passengers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiki Kuranuki, Hokuto Fujii
  • Patent number: 11878638
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a radiator including a fan, a driving seat provided on a rear side of the radiator, a dashboard disposed on the rear side of the radiator and on a front side of the driving seat, and a heat shield plate disposed between the radiator and the dashboard. According to this structure, it is possible to prevent a device (for example, an electric component disposed on the dashboard) disposed on the rear side of the radiator from directly contacting air that receives heat of the radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Maeda, Shinichiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240015942
    Abstract: The component storehouse storing the tray in the tray storage rack (tray storage part) is notified of the magazine preparation command indicating the component to be held in the slot of the magazine. In response to this, the component storehouse includes the working robot (work implementation part) that conducts a predetermined work including the tray extraction work, the tray placement work, and the pallet insertion work. The working robot prepares the magazine where the component indicated by the magazine preparation command is held in the slot. In this way, it becomes possible to prepare the magazine automatically where the pallet is inserted in the slot with the tray housing the component placed on the pallet, thereby allowing manpower-saving in component replenishment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichi MATSUSHITA, Yoshihiro OTAKA
  • Patent number: 11866140
    Abstract: A marine propulsion system includes marine propulsion devices each including a propeller shaft, an engine, an electric motor, a power transmission to transmit mechanical power to the propeller shaft from at least one of the engine and the electric motor, an electric circuit connected to the electric motor, and a controller to control the engine. The controllers in the marine propulsion devices are communicable with each other when in a communicable state. When the controller in each of the marine propulsion devices is in the communicable state, but the controller of one of the marine propulsion devices is incommunicable with any other controller of the marine propulsion devices, the incommunicable controller limits an output of the engine controlled by the incommunicable controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta Miyagi, Morihiko Nanjo
  • Patent number: 11865710
    Abstract: A vertical articulated robot includes a plurality of joint axis portions configured to rotationally drive a plurality of arms. The plurality of joint axis portions include a narrow joint axis portion. In the narrow joint axis portion, at least one of at least a portion of a brake or an oil seal is arranged inside a recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshifumi Manome
  • Patent number: 11866122
    Abstract: A leaning vehicle including a vehicle body, at least one front wheel, at least one rear wheel, a leaning device that causes the vehicle body, the at least one front wheel and the at least one rear wheel to lean leftward or rightward at the left-turn or right-turn of the leaning vehicle, a steering handle rotatable counter-clockwise or clockwise to turn the at least one front wheel left or right, a lean actuator supplying power to the leaning device, and a control unit that controls the lean actuator in accordance with an amount of rotation of the steering handle detected by a steering-handle rotation sensor. The control unit is configured to, when the steering handle is rotated within a particular rotation range, control the lean actuator to restrain the vehicle body, the at least one front wheel and the at least one rear wheel from leaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuya Nagata, Nobuo Hara
  • Patent number: 11858344
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a differential gear that transmits rotation of a propeller shaft to an axle. A differential lock switches the differential gear between a locked state and an unlocked state. A clutch is provided in a power transmission path between a prime mover and wheels of the vehicle. A controller controls an engaging force of the clutch during a moving start of the vehicle in accordance with which of the locked state and the unlocked state is selected by the differential gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenji Fukushima
  • Patent number: 11851133
    Abstract: An electric motor-assisted bicycle includes a vehicle speed sensor to detect a vehicle speed, a torque sensor to detect a pedal force on a pedal connected to a crankshaft, a motor to generate an assist force that assists the pedal force, a motor controller to control the assist force by the motor depending on the pedal force and the vehicle speed, a threshold determiner to determine an unauthorized alteration determination threshold depending on the vehicle speed, and an unauthorized alteration detector to determine whether an unauthorized alteration has been made to the vehicle speed sensor or the torque sensor by comparing a running output and the unauthorized alteration determination threshold, wherein the running output is the sum of the assist force by the motor and the pedal force. If an unauthorized alteration has been made, a predetermined control is performed to address the unauthorized alteration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kaoru Eda, Yoichiro Hattori
  • Patent number: 11851151
    Abstract: An outboard motor includes an engine, a generator to generate power by driving of the engine, a driving force transmitter to transmit a driving force from the engine, a propeller shaft to rotate by being switched from a neutral state in which a clutch is disconnected from the driving force transmitter of the engine at idle to a non-neutral state in which the clutch is connected to the driving force transmitter, and a controller configured or programmed to perform a control to reduce a rotation speed of the engine by regeneration of the generator based on a user's switching operation on a shift operator to switch the outboard motor from the neutral state to the non-neutral state, and then connect the clutch to the driving force transmitter while rotating the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahisa Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230398698
    Abstract: The invention includes: an axial nozzle member having a tip portion configured to adsorb a component; a holder member configured to slidably hold the nozzle member in a nozzle projection direction parallel to an axis line of the nozzle member; an urging member configured to generate an urging force to slide the nozzle member in the nozzle projection direction and cause the tip portion of the nozzle member to be projected from the holder member; and a locking part configured to locking the nozzle member projected from the holder member by the urging force, to thereby position the tip portion of the nozzle member at a projection limit position. The locking part locks the nozzle member at a first locking position and a second locking position which are asymmetric with respect to the axis line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiro HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20230397387
    Abstract: A parts tower that stores reels storing components to be mounted on substrates includes storing sections storing the reels, loading and unloading sections in which the reels are disposed, a moving section that moves the reels inside the parts tower, an operation section receiving an instruction of unloading of the reels, and a controller. Some of the storing sections that are disposed around the loading and unloading sections are defined as unloading waiting sections. The controller performs a first moving process in which the reels that are to be unloaded relatively early among the stored reels to the unloading waiting sections are moved by the moving section before receiving the instruction of unloading the reels, and a second moving process in which the reels stored in the unloading waiting sections are moved to the loading and unloading sections by the moving section in response to receiving the instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 11835005
    Abstract: A fuel injection controller for a vessel engine to drive a propulsion apparatus mounted in a vessel is configured or programmed to execute functions of an effective opening area calculator to calculate an effective opening area of a throttle valve based on a throttle opening degree of the vessel engine, a filter value calculator to determine a first-order lag filter value of the effective opening area, a correction value calculator to determine a ratio of the effective opening area to the first-order lag filter value as a correction value, a predictive suction pressure calculator to determine predictive suction pressure by multiplying an average value of suction pressure detected at a suction passage by the correction value determined by the correction value calculator, a fuel injection amount calculator to calculate a fuel injection amount based on the predictive suction pressure, and a fuel injection driver to drive a fuel injector based on the fuel injection amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroki Sato