Patents Assigned to Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 11685458
    Abstract: A straddled vehicle, including left and right seat frames respectively located leftward and rightward of a vehicle center plane with respect to a rear-to-front direction, a cross member configured to connect the left and right seat frames, a seat located above the left and right seat frames and the cross member, a rear fender, and a position regulator joining the seat with the rear fender to regulate upward movement of the seat. The seat includes a first load transmitting portion and a first horizontal position determining portion. The cross member includes a load receiver configured to receive a load of the seat, and a second horizontal position determining portion configured to restrict movement of the seat in a substantially horizontal direction. The position regulator includes an elastic member supported by the seat, a coupling portion supported by the elastic member, and a fastening portion configured to fasten the coupling portion to the rear fender.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya Fujimori, Shidehiko Miyashiro, Toshiyuki Shirai, Yuya Ozaki
  • Patent number: 11685497
    Abstract: A marine vessel maneuvering system includes a propulsion device, a steering device, a forward/reverse drive switch, a steering wheel, a forward drive operator, a reverse drive operator, and a controller. The forward drive operator and the reverse drive operator are respectively located on one and the other sides of a pivot axis of the steering wheel, and are pivotable together with the steering wheel. The controller performs a forward drive propulsion control and a reverse drive propulsion control to set the propulsive force direction and control a magnitude of the propulsive force according to the operation of the forward drive operator and the reverse drive operator. The controller enables the forward drive propulsion control in a forward drive operation valid range. The controller enables the reverse drive propulsion control in a reverse drive operation valid range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenichi Fujino
  • Patent number: 11687099
    Abstract: A boat includes a propulsion device that generates, by driving of an engine, a propulsive force to propel a boat body, a trim changer that changes a trim angle of the boat body, a trim actuator that drives the trim changer, and a controller configured or programmed to control operation of the trim actuator based on a value corresponding to a change in a boat speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshimasa Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20230200037
    Abstract: A board manufacturing system includes an autonomous mobile cart configured to transport an object used in board work devices of a mounting line, a robot arm provided on the autonomous mobile cart and configured to transport the object used in the board work devices to the board work devices, and a controller provided in the autonomous mobile cart and configured or programmed to control driving of the robot arm. The controller is configured or programmed to control the driving of the robot arm such that the robot arm transports the object used in the board work devices into and out of the board work devices within a movable range of a working unit in the board work devices in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro KANEKO, Yusetsu KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11680953
    Abstract: The cell transfer device includes a head group including a plurality of heads to which tips are attached and which move along a first direction; a head unit in which the head group is installed and which moves in a second direction and in a third direction; and a plurality of drive motors which are mounted on the head unit and which generate driving force to cause the head to move along the first direction. The plurality of drive motors are separately arranged on one side and the other side in the third direction with the head group provided therebetween. The head group includes a first head and a second head. The first head is driven by the drive motor arranged on the one side in the third direction, and the second head is driven by the drive motor arranged on the other side in the third direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohei Izume, Masaru Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20230189494
    Abstract: A component mounting system is a system in which a mounting machine and an inspection device are connected to a management device so as to enable data communication therewith. The mounting machine includes a mounting analysis unit that acquires suction position shift data for each component mounting operation of a mounting head. The inspection device includes an inspection analysis unit that acquires mounting position shift data corresponding to each of a plurality of target mounting positions. The management device includes a mark generating unit and a display unit. Based on each suction position shift data and each mounting position shift data, the mark generating unit generates a suction shift mark and a mounting shift mark each of which visualizes the direction and the size of a positional shift. The display unit displays each suction shift mark or each mounting shift mark at each marking position on board graphics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hikaru IMADA
  • Patent number: 11674433
    Abstract: A watercraft propulsion system includes a propulsion unit to be driven by an engine. The engine includes a cylinder block, an air intake channel, an exhaust channel, a supercharging device, and a fuel injector. The watercraft propulsion system includes the engine, the propulsion unit to be driven by the engine, a rotation speed sensor to detect a rotation speed of the engine, an air intake pressure sensor to detect an air intake pressure of the engine, and a controller. The controller is configured or programmed to compute a command fuel injection amount so that the engine performs a combustion operation at an air/fuel ratio in a lean-burn range (lean-combustion range) according to the rotation speed detected by the rotation speed sensor and the air intake pressure detected by the air intake pressure sensor, and to drive the fuel injector based on the computed command fuel injection amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11673642
    Abstract: An outboard motor includes a first exhaust passage connected to an exhaust port and extending downward from the exhaust port through a support frame on a lateral side of a cylinder head. A first case accommodates an engine. A second case accommodates a propeller shaft. A third case is between the first case and the second case in a vertical direction. An exhaust pipe is between the first case and the second case in the vertical direction. The exhaust pipe is connected to the first exhaust passage. At least a portion of the exhaust pipe is outside the third case as seen in a side view of the outboard motor. An exterior cover is between the first case and the second case in the vertical direction. The exterior cover covers the exhaust pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kimitaka Saruwatari, Shuhei Okamoto, Seiji Arai, Daisuke Koyama, Yu Wakamizu
  • Patent number: 11674482
    Abstract: An outboard motor includes an engine, a pressure charger, an intercooler, a bypass air passage, and an air bypass valve to open and close the bypass air passage. The engine includes a cylinder block and an air intake passage and an exhaust passage both of which are connected to the cylinder block. The pressure charger is located in the air intake passage. The intercooler is located in the air intake passage between the cylinder block and the pressure charger. A first end of the bypass air passage is connected to a region of the air intake passage upstream of the pressure charger. A second end of the bypass air passage is connected to a region of the air intake passage downstream of the pressure charger. The air bypass valve is directly attached to the intercooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11667361
    Abstract: A vessel propulsion system includes an on-board network, a plurality of propulsion apparatuses provided on a hull and connected to the on-board network, and a network connector to connect a diagnosis device to the on-board network. Each of the propulsion apparatuses includes a controller configured or programmed to transmit operating state information showing an operating state of the respective propulsion apparatus to the diagnosis device via the network connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takaaki Bamba
  • Patent number: 11661137
    Abstract: A drive unit includes a decelerator rotatably supported by a housing, the decelerator including a first transmission gear, a second transmission gear having teeth of a smaller number than that of the first transmission gear, and a transmission shaft to transmit a rotation of the first transmission gear to the second transmission gear; and a bearing supporting the first transmission gear in the housing such that the first transmission gear is rotatable. A distance, in a first direction in which the transmission shaft extends in the housing, from a reference plane to teeth of the first transmission gear is less than a distance in the first direction from the reference plane to an innermost portion of the bearing, in which the reference plane passes through an outermost portion of the bearing and is perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shota Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11661133
    Abstract: A front two-wheel leaning vehicle, including a handle, a steering shaft, a linkage mechanism and a load transfer mechanism. The load transfer mechanism includes a left-foot-placing part and a right-foot-placing part located between the left front wheel and the rear wheel, for left and right feet of the driver to be respectively placed thereon. The load transfer mechanism transfers a load to the left and right portions of the linkage mechanism through the left-foot-placing part and the right-foot-placing part, or through the right-foot-placing part and the left-foot-placing part, respectively. The steering shaft includes a handle adjusting mechanism configured to adjust, with respect to the left-foot-placing part and the right-foot-placing part, at least one of a handle height, which is a distance from a midpoint between the left and right front wheels to the grip, or an offset amount of the handle with respect to a rotation axis of the steering shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Haruhito Kurakake
  • Publication number: 20230158667
    Abstract: A machine learning method for learning an action of a robot including a hand to pick out a workpiece from a container containing a plurality of the workpieces stacked in bulk and install the workpiece such that the workpiece is in a predetermined installation state includes learning a reverse-order action of removing, by the hand, the workpiece in the predetermined installation state after completion of installation, and learning an installation order of the workpiece based on a learning result of the reverse-order action of removing the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi URATA
  • Patent number: 11653486
    Abstract: In a component replenishment management system, a setting unit sets work allowable time of an operator in a work area, a replenishment target identification unit identifies component replenishment target devices which are targets of component replenishment work by the operator, and a work progress determination unit determines a progress state of the component replenishment work. Then, an extraction unit extracts the component replenishment target devices for which the component replenishment work is to be performed before work time in the work area by the operator reaches the work allowable time among the component replenishment target devices whose progress state of the component replenishment work is work not performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoichi Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20230142815
    Abstract: The transfer operation C of moving the slider between one fixed linear module M2 and the movable linear module M5 while locating the movable linear module M5 in the facing range Fb2 facing toward the one fixed linear module M2, out of the plurality of linear modules M1 to M5 arranged in parallel, is performed. At this time, a judgement process (Step S105) of judging whether or not the coordinate axis A2 (one coordinate axis) of the one fixed linear module M2 and the coordinate axis A5 (other coordinate axis) of the movable linear module M5 are continuous is performed (Step S105). If it is judged in the judgment process before the transfer operation C that the coordinate axes A2, A5 are not continuous, the transfer operation C is performed (Step S107) while the speed control (not the position control) is executed for the slider 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji UENO, Takayoshi FUJITA, Shunsuke AOKI
  • Patent number: 11643035
    Abstract: A vehicle front structure basically includes a vehicle frame, an upper suspension arm, a lower suspension arm, a sway bar and a rack and pinion steering. The upper suspension arm is pivotally coupled to the vehicle frame about first and second upper pivot points. The lower suspension arm is pivotally coupled to the vehicle frame about first and second lower pivot points. The sway bar is attached to the upper suspension arm and located above the upper suspension arm. The rack and pinion steering arranged between the upper and lower suspension arms. The rack and pinion steering is located adjacent the second upper pivot point and between the first and second upper pivot points with respect to a longitudinal vehicle direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keith E. Kotrla, Michael P. Deschamps
  • Patent number: 11644850
    Abstract: An aircraft includes at least one sensor, an altitude actuator, a memory device, and an electronic controller. The at least one sensor is configured to detect altitude of the aircraft, current position of the aircraft and speed of the aircraft. The altitude actuator is configured to change the altitude of the aircraft. The memory device is configured to store predetermined terrain data of an area. The electronic controller is configured to estimate a future position of the aircraft based on a detected current position of the aircraft and a detected speed of the aircraft. The electronic controller is further configured to control the altitude actuator based on the future position, a detected altitude of the aircraft and the predetermined terrain data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideki Shibata
  • Publication number: 20230135278
    Abstract: A conveyance device includes a slider, a conveyor including a plurality of conveyance modules to convey the slider, and a connecting member provided separately from the conveyance modules and configured to connect the conveyance modules adjacent to each other such that a signal is transmittable. The conveyance device further includes a first indicator provided so as to correspond to each of the plurality of conveyance modules and configured to indicate states of the conveyance modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masayuki MUKAI
  • Patent number: 11641123
    Abstract: In a power supply system for a watercraft, a controller in a first state connects a first electric circuit to a third electric circuit to supply electric power from a first engine battery to an electric device, and disconnects a second electric circuit from the third electric circuit to charge a second engine battery by a second generator. In a second state, the controller connects the second electric circuit to the third electric circuit to supply the electric power from the second engine battery to the electric device, and disconnects the first electric circuit from the third electric circuit to charge the first engine battery by a first generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masaaki Mashimo
  • Publication number: 20230129516
    Abstract: A parts mounting system (100) includes a parts mounting device (15) configured to mount parts (E) on a board (S), a parts storage (20) configured to store the parts supplied to the parts mounting device, and a controller (30) configured or programmed to perform a control to detect whether or not an unloading order can be changed based on whether or not the parts can be supplied to the parts mounting device in time when an order in which the parts are unloaded from the parts storage is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki NITTA, Norimitsu SUZUKI, Toshihiro MICHIZOE