Patents by Inventor Isamu Aoki
Isamu Aoki has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10767342Abstract: The work vehicle includes an engine, a radiator; a hydraulic pump; a cooling fan that blows a cooling air to the radiator; a hydraulic motor which is driven by a pressure oil delivered from the hydraulic pump, and rotates the cooling fan; a directional control valve that switches a flow direction of the pressure oil from the hydraulic pump to rotate the hydraulic motor in forward and reverse directions; and a controller that controls the directional control valve so as to cause the repetitive operation of the forward and reverse rotation of the cooling fan to be performed at predetermined time intervals, in which the controller reduces the time intervals more than a normal time initially set when a relationship between the outside air temperature detected by the outside air temperature sensor and the refrigerant temperature detected by the refrigerant temperature sensor satisfies a predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Hyodo, Isamu Aoki, Tetsuji Tanaka, Koji Shimazaki
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Publication number: 20200248436Abstract: A wheel loader is provided that can reduce the traveling distance required for a raise and run operation, and reduce fuel consumption. A wheel loader 1 includes: an engine 3; a torque converter 41; a forward and reverse switch 62; a stepping amount sensor 610; an operation amount sensor 73; and a controller 5. The controller 5 determines whether a specific condition for specifying an operation of the lift arm 21 in an upper direction during forward travel of the vehicle body, on the basis of a forward and reverse switching signal, the stepping amount on the accelerator pedal 61, and a pilot pressure Ti pertaining to the lifting operation amount for the lift aim 21. When the specific condition is satisfied, the vehicle speed is limited by reducing the maximum rotational speed of the engine 3 in response to increase in the pilot pressure Ti.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2018Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Koji HYODO, Isamu AOKI, Tetsuji TANAKA, Koji SHIMAZAKI, Hironao SUZUKI
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Patent number: 10704223Abstract: Provided is a work vehicle which is capable of appropriately setting the height of a work tool as a control threshold value for a ride control device or an automatic transmission control device, and which is excellent in operability, travel stability, and work efficiency. A value detected by an angle sensor (39) when a signal import switch (46) is operated by an operator is stored in a height position storage unit (35b) of a main controller (35) as height position information about a bucket (13) for excavation work. In the height position storage unit (35b), the height position of the bucket (13) for hauling work and the height position of the bucket (13) for loading work are stored in advance as offset values from the height position information about the bucket (13) for excavation work. In this way, the ride control device or the automatic transmission control device can be appropriately controlled regardless of the preference or habit of the operator.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Isamu Aoki, Koji Hyodo, Tetsuji Tanaka, Keigo Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20200208377Abstract: Provided is a wheel loader capable of moving up a lift arm in a short time during excavation work. A wheel loader comprises a controller configured to control maximum traction force of the wheel loader and input torque of a working device hydraulic pump, and include a specific condition determination section configured to determine whether a specific condition for specifying excavation work is satisfied, an elapsed time measurement section configured to measure an elapsed time from start of the excavation work, and an input torque control section configured to limit the input torque to a first input torque value when the specific condition is satisfied and increase the input torque from the first input torque value when a second set time elapses from the elapse of a first set time.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2018Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventors: Koji HYODO, Tetsuji TANAKA, Isamu AOKI, Kouji SHIMAZAKI, Jumpei KAMIYA
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Publication number: 20200199852Abstract: A wheel loader is provided that can suppress abrupt change in vehicle speed accompanied by erroneous determination on a lift arm lifting operation. A wheel loader includes: an engine; an HST pump; an HST motor; a forward and reverse switch; a stepping amount sensor; an operation amount sensor; and a controller. The controller determines whether a specific condition for specifying an operation of the lift arm in an upper direction during forward travel of the vehicle body, on the basis of a forward and reverse switching signal, the stepping amount, and a pilot pressure pertaining to the lifting operation for the lift arm. In a case of the specific condition being satisfied, the vehicle speed is limited by controlling the displacement volume of the HST motor in conformity with increase in the pilot pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Koji HYODO, Isamu AOKI, Tetsuji TANAKA, Masaki NUKII
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Publication number: 20200131739Abstract: In an unloaded state of the bucket (3), a control device (30) calculates an unloaded moment (M0) around a hinge pin G from the pressure of the lift arm cylinder that is detected by pressure sensors (15a, 15b), the angle of a lift arm that is detected by a lift arm angle sensor 14, and dimension data extracted from a vehicle body information database (35). In a loaded state of the bucket, the control device calculates a loaded moment (M1) around the hinge pin G from the pressure of the lift arm cylinder, the angle of the lift arm, and the dimension data extracted from the vehicle body information database. The control device calculates the load (W) on the bucket by dividing the difference between the unloaded moment and the loaded moment by the horizontal distance (Lw) between the hinge pin and the gravity center position of the bucket.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2018Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Tomohiro UEDA, Masaki YOSHIKAWA, Takashi ISHII, Takayoshi MURAHASHI, Masakazu KAITOU, Koji SHIMAZAKI, Isamu AOKI
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Publication number: 20200011025Abstract: The work vehicle includes an engine, a radiator; a hydraulic pump; a cooling fan that blows a cooling air to the radiator; a hydraulic motor which is driven by a pressure oil delivered from the hydraulic pump, and rotates the cooling fan; a directional control valve that switches a flow direction of the pressure oil from the hydraulic pump to rotate the hydraulic motor in forward and reverse directions; and a controller that controls the directional control valve so as to cause the repetitive operation of the forward and reverse rotation of the cooling fan to be performed at predetermined time intervals, in which the controller reduces the time intervals more than a normal time initially set when a relationship between the outside air temperature detected by the outside air temperature sensor and the refrigerant temperature detected by the refrigerant temperature sensor satisfies a predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2018Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Koji HYODO, Isamu AOKI, Tetsuji TANAKA, Koji SHIMAZAKI
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Patent number: 10358794Abstract: A work vehicle, includes: a lift arm rotatably linked to a front portion of a vehicle body of a work vehicle so as to be allowed to swing along an up/down direction; an operation lever that can be operated within a range between a raising operation end position and a lowering operation end position, and is operated to raise and lower the lift arm; an up detent mechanism having a holding function for holding the operation lever at the raising operation end position once the operation lever is operated to the raising operation end position; and a down detent mechanism having a holding function for holding the operation lever at the lowering operation end position once the operation lever is operated to the lowering operation end position, wherein: when an angle of the lift arm becomes greater than a predetermined upper limit, the holding function of the up detent mechanism and the holding function of the down detent mechanism are disengaged.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2015Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: KCM CorporationInventors: Tetsuji Tanaka, Yasunori Miyamoto, Koji Hyodo, Isamu Aoki, Katsuyuki Kirita, Hiroaki Yada, Seiji Nakagawa, Masaki Yoshikawa
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Publication number: 20190010679Abstract: The work vehicle includes: a clutch device including a forward-travel clutch and a backward-travel clutch configured to cause, when being in an engagement state, the work vehicle to travel in a forward travel direction and a backward travel direction; a forward-backward travel instruction device configured to instruct the work vehicle to travel in the forward travel direction or the backward travel direction; a clutch state detection device configured to detect whether the forward-travel clutch and the backward-travel clutch are each in the engagement state; and a torque restriction section configured to restrict a maximum absorbing torque of the hydraulic pump to be low when a restriction condition holds, the restriction condition including a condition that a traveling direction of the work vehicle, which corresponds to an engagement state of the clutch device, and a traveling direction of the work vehicle, which is instructed by the forward-backward travel instruction device are opposite to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2017Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Kazuya TAKEDA, Isamu AOKI, Kazuo ISHIDA
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Patent number: 10071629Abstract: A prime mover control device of a work vehicle equipped with a torque converter includes: a speed ratio calculation unit that calculates a speed ratio of the torque converter; and a rotational speed limit unit that, when a speed ratio falls within a preset speed ratio range, limits a maximum rotational speed of the prime mover to be lower as compared with a maximum rotational speed set when a speed ratio falls without the preset speed ratio range. When a state in which the speed ratio calculated by the speed ratio calculation unit falls within the preset speed ratio range is maintained for a predetermined time period, the rotational speed limit unit changes a maximum rotational speed of the prime mover to a higher maximum rotational speed than the limited maximum rotational speed limited to be lower by the rotational speed limit unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2015Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: KCM CorporationInventors: Isamu Aoki, Koji Hyodo, Tetsuji Tanaka, Masaki Nukii
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Publication number: 20180252314Abstract: To curb temperature rises in a control device for a supercharger and extend the life of the control device for the supercharger, a work vehicle includes a variable geometry supercharger with variable boost pressure, and a working device driven by pressure oil discharged from a working hydraulic pump, the work vehicle further including: a supercharger control device adapted to control the supercharger; a temperature detection device adapted to detect temperature of the supercharger control device; and a main control device adapted to limit at least one of maximum rotational speed of an engine and maximum vehicle speed of the work vehicle in case the temperature of the supercharger control device is above a predetermined temperature as compared to case the temperature of the supercharger control device is below the predetermined temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2016Publication date: September 6, 2018Inventors: Koji HYODO, Masashi YAMASHITA, Tetsuji TANAKA, Katsutaka HARA, Masaki NUKII, Isamu AOKI
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Publication number: 20180251026Abstract: The present invention relates to a work vehicle including an engine, a hydraulic pump, a hydraulic motor to drive wheels, an HST circuit in which the hydraulic pump and the hydraulic motor are connected to each other in the form of a closed circuit, a reducing agent sensor that detects the state of a reducing agent used to clean exhaust gas from the engine, and an engine restrictor that restricts the rotational speed of the engine based on the output from the reducing agent sensor, and the work vehicle further includes a control unit that changes the tilting angle of the hydraulic pump or the hydraulic motor independently of the rotational speed of the engine to a tilting angle associated with minimum travel drive force necessary for self-travel of the work vehicle when the control unit determines that the engine restrictor has restricted the rotational speed of the engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2017Publication date: September 6, 2018Inventors: Masaki NUKII, Koji HYODO, Isamu AOKI, Tetsuji TANAKA
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Patent number: 9810164Abstract: A prime mover control device for a work vehicle, includes: a rotation speed control unit that controls a rotation speed of a prime mover in correspondence to an operation quantity of an accelerator operation member; a temperature detection unit that detects a temperature of cooling oil used to cool a brake; and a speed limiting unit that limits a maximum rotation speed of the prime mover by setting a lower limit for the maximum rotation speed when the temperature of the cooling oil detected by the temperature detection unit is higher than a predetermined temperature, compared to a limit set when the temperature of the cooling oil detected by the temperature detection unit is lower than the predetermined temperature, wherein: a maximum vehicle speed is limited by limiting the maximum rotation speed of the prime mover by the speed limiting unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: KCM CorporationInventors: Isamu Aoki, Koji Hyodo, Tetsuji Tanaka, Kentaro Oomae
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Publication number: 20170274770Abstract: A prime mover control device of a work vehicle equipped with a torque converter includes: a speed ratio calculation unit that calculates a speed ratio of the torque converter; and a rotational speed limit unit that, when a speed ratio falls within a preset speed ratio range, limits a maximum rotational speed of the prime mover to be lower as compared with a maximum rotational speed set when a speed ratio falls without the preset speed ratio range. When a state in which the speed ratio calculated by the speed ratio calculation unit falls within the preset speed ratio range is maintained for a predetermined time period, the rotational speed limit unit changes a maximum rotational speed of the prime mover to a higher maximum rotational speed than the limited maximum rotational speed limited to be lower by the rotational speed limit unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2015Publication date: September 28, 2017Applicant: KCM CorporationInventors: Isamu AOKI, Koji HYODO, Tetsuji TANAKA, Masaki NUKII
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Patent number: 9683349Abstract: A work vehicle equipped with an HST traveling drive device, includes: an operation quantity detector that detects an operation quantity representing an extent to which an accelerator pedal is operated; a rotation rate detector that detects an actual rotation rate at a prime mover; a requested rotation rate calculation unit that calculates a requested rotation rate for the prime mover based upon the operation quantity detected by the operation quantity detector; and a prime mover control unit that controls the actual rotation rate based upon the requested rotation rate calculated by the requested rotation rate calculation unit. When the requested rotation rate is higher than a predetermined value, the requested rotation rate calculation unit calculates a rate of acceleration for the requested rotation rate based upon a difference between the requested and the actual rotation rate detected by the rotation rate detector and calculates the requested rotation rate based upon the calculated rate of acceleration.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: KCM CorporationInventors: Isamu Aoki, Keigo Kikuchi, Tetsuji Tanaka, Kentaro Oomae
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Patent number: 9644547Abstract: An engine control device for a work vehicle decides that an idling stop condition is established when the front device is in the unengaged state, the steering device is in the unengaged state, the accelerator pedal is in the non-operation state, either the transmission is in the neutral state or the parking brake device is in the engaged state or the transmission is in the neutral state and also the parking brake device is in the engaged state, and the service brake device is in the unengaged state, and stops an engine when it is decided that it passes the predetermined length of time since it was decided that the idling stop condition was established.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2012Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: KCM CorporationInventors: Koji Hyodo, Masaki Yoshikawa, Isamu Aoki, Tetsuji Tanaka
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Patent number: 9617716Abstract: A work vehicle includes: a hydraulic pump driven by an engine; a rotational speed detection unit that detects an actual rotational speed of the engine; an exhaust gas purification device that purifies nitrogen oxide in exhaust gas discharged from the engine using a reducing agent solution stored in a reducing agent tank; a torque control unit that decreases output torque of the engine according to decrease of a detected remaining amount of the reducing agent solution; and a storage device that stores a threshold value not less than an engine rotational speed at which the hydraulic pump starts discharge, wherein when the actual rotational speed of the engine is not more than the threshold value, the torque control unit does not decrease the output torque of the engine regardless of the remaining amount of the reducing agent solution detected by the remaining amount detection device.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2014Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: KCM CorporationInventors: Koji Hyodo, Atsushi Shimazu, Masashi Yamashita, Tetsuji Tanaka, Isamu Aoki, Shoroku Kawahara
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Publication number: 20170073923Abstract: Provided is a work vehicle which is capable of appropriately setting the height of a work tool as a control threshold value for a ride control device or an automatic transmission control device, and which is excellent in operability, travel stability, and work efficiency. A value detected by an angle sensor (39) when a signal import switch (46) is operated by an operator is stored in a height position storage unit (35b) of a main controller (35) as height position information about a bucket (13) for excavation work. In the height position storage unit (35b), the height position of the bucket (13) for hauling work and the height position of the bucket (13) for loading work are stored in advance as offset values from the height position information about the bucket (13) for excavation work. In this way, the ride control device or the automatic transmission control device can be appropriately controlled regardless of the preference or habit of the operator.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Isamu AOKI, Koji HYODO, Tetsuji TANAKA, Keigo KIKUCHI
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Publication number: 20160369479Abstract: A work vehicle, includes: a lift arm rotatably linked to a front portion of a vehicle body of a work vehicle so as to be allowed to swing along an up/down direction; an operation lever that can be operated within a range between a raising operation end position and a lowering operation end position, and is operated to raise and lower the lift arm; an up detent mechanism having a holding function for holding the operation lever at the raising operation end position once the operation lever is operated to the raising operation end position; and a down detent mechanism having a holding function for holding the operation lever at the lowering operation end position once the operation lever is operated to the lowering operation end position, wherein: when an angle of the lift arm becomes greater than a predetermined upper limit, the holding function of the up detent mechanism and the holding function of the down detent mechanism are disengaged.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2015Publication date: December 22, 2016Inventors: Tetsuji TANAKA, Yasunori MIYAMOTO, Koji HYODO, Isamu AOKI, Katsuyuki KIRITA, Hiroaki YADA, Seiji NAKAGAWA, Masaki YOSHIKAWA
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Patent number: D854055Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: KCM CorporationInventors: Kazuhiko Hiraoka, Tomoyuki Miyata, Wataru Isaka, Satoshi Kan, Koji Hyodo, Masaki Yoshikawa, Isamu Aoki, Tetsuji Tanaka, Yasunori Miyamoto