Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Hashimoto

Kazuhiro Hashimoto 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).

  • Publication number: 20240087787
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a coil component that includes a coil part embedded in a magnetic element body. The coil part has a structure in which plural interlayer insulating films and plural conductor layers having a coil pattern are alternately stacked. At least one of the conductor layers has a clearance area having no coil pattern and extending radially outward from a center axis of the coil part. The magnetic element body includes a first magnetic resin layer provided in an inner diameter area of the coil part, a second magnetic resin layer provided in a radially outside area of the coil part, and a fifth magnetic resin layer filled in the clearance area and contacting the first and second magnetic resin layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Yuki HASHIMOTO, Toshiyuki ABE, Takeshi OKUMURA, Tomonaga NISHIKAWA, Naoaki FUJII, Kazuhiro YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11542066
    Abstract: Proposed is a tube container in which generation of scratches on a surface of the container can be prevented. The present tube container (100) includes a tube body (30) that defines a container space (S) for contents and that has a laminated structure. The tube body (30) includes: a cylindrical laminated sheet (31) in which both edges (31a, 31b) of the sheet are butted together; and a reinforcing tape portion (reinforcing tape 35) provided on an inner surface of the laminated sheet (31) along a butted portion (32). The laminate sheet (31) includes a high hardness protective layer (18) constituting an outermost layer, an outer polyethylene-based resin layer (21) formed on an inner side of the high hardness protective layer (18), and an inner polyethylene-based resin layer (11) constituting an innermost layer, and the high hardness protective layer (18) has a pencil hardness of 3B or greater than 3B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Hashimoto, Takashi Miya
  • Patent number: 11512452
    Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle includes a controller. The controller acquires actual topography data indicating an actual topography to be worked. The controller determines a target design topography indicating a target trajectory of a work implement of the work vehicle based on the actual topography. The controller acquires an uneven surface parameter indicating the degree of surface unevenness of the actual topography. The controller changes the target design topography according to the uneven surface parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11459733
    Abstract: A control system for a work includes an operating device and a controller. The operating device outputs an operation signal indicative of an operation by an operator. The controller is in communication with the operating device. The controller determines a target profile of a terrain to be worked on. The controller generates a command signal to operate the work implement according to the target profile. The controller receives the operation signal from the operating device. The controller determines an operation of the work implement based on the operation signal. The controller corrects the target profile according to the operation by the operator when the operation of the work implement by the operator is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Hashimoto, Kenjiro Shimada, Toshihiro Kawano, Yosuke Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11401697
    Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle includes a controller. The controller acquires actual topography data indicating an actual topography to be worked. The controller determines a target design topography indicating a target trajectory of a work implement based on the actual topography. The controller determines whether the actual topography is an upward gradient or a downward gradient based on the actual topography data. The controller changes the target design topography according to a result of determination of the gradient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11180903
    Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle includes a storage device and a controller in communication with the storage device. The storage device stores target parameter data defining a relationship between a movement distance of the work vehicle and a target parameter related to a target digging amount of a work implement of the work vehicle. The target parameter data includes digging time data defining a relationship between the movement distance of the work vehicle within a predetermined digging area and the target parameter. The controller determines a target return distance from a distance of the digging area defined in the target parameter data, and determines a position returned from a predetermined reference position by the target return distance as a recommended digging start position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11111653
    Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle includes a controller. The controller acquires the travel direction of the work vehicle. The controller acquires current terrain data indicating a current terrain existing in the travel direction of the work vehicle. The controller decides a target profile of a work site based on the current terrain data. The controller generates a command signal to operate a work implement according to the target profile. The controller updates the travel direction of the work vehicle. The controller updates the target profile based on the updated travel direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20210245930
    Abstract: Proposed is a tube container in which generation of scratches on a surface of the container can be prevented. The present tube container includes a tube body that defines a container space for contents and that has a laminated structure. The tube body includes: a cylindrical laminated sheet in which both edges of the sheet are butted together; and a reinforcing tape portion provided on an inner surface of the laminated sheet. The laminate sheet includes a high hardness protective layer constituting an outermost layer, an outer polyethylene-based resin layer formed on an inner side of the high hardness protective layer, and an inner polyethylene-based resin layer constituting an innermost layer, and the high hardness protective layer has a pencil hardness of 3B or greater than 3B. The reinforcing tape portion includes a polyethylene-based resin layer as an outermost layer abutting against the inner surface of the laminate sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HASHIMOTO, Takashi MIYA
  • Patent number: 11040803
    Abstract: The laminated tube container has a tube body that includes a light blocking layer between an innermost layer and an outermost layer made of resin. The tube body has a butted portion in which both side edges of a laminated sheet constituting the tube body butt against each other and a reinforcing tape portion provided on an inner surface of the tube body along the butted portion. The reinforcing tape portion has a pair of resin layers and an intermediate layer that includes an aluminum layer and is disposed between the pair of resin layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20210148090
    Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle includes a storage device and a controller in communication with the storage device. The storage device stores target parameter data defining a relationship between a movement distance of the work vehicle and a target parameter related to a target digging amount of a work implement of the work vehicle. The target parameter data includes digging time data defining a relationship between the movement distance of the work vehicle within a predetermined digging area and the target parameter. The controller determines a target return distance from a distance of the digging area defined in the target parameter data, and determines a position returned from a predetermined reference position by the target return distance as a recommended digging start position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventor: Kazuhiro HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210131074
    Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle includes a controller. The controller acquires actual topography data indicating an actual topography to be worked. The controller determines a target design topography indicating a target trajectory of a work implement of the work vehicle based on the actual topography. The controller acquires an uneven surface parameter indicating the degree of surface unevenness of the actual topography. The controller changes the target design topography according to the uneven surface parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventor: Kazuhiro HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10968598
    Abstract: A controller is configured to acquire current terrain information indicating the current terrain in the travel direction of a work vehicle. The controller is configured to generate an inclined virtual surface extending from the current position of the work vehicle. The controller is configured to decide the soil volume of the current terrain located above the virtual surface. The controller is configured to set the virtual surface in which the soil volume of the current terrain becomes a predetermined target soil volume to be a virtual design surface. The controller is configured to generate a command signal to a work implement of the work vehicle to move the work implement along the virtual design surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Hashimoto, Kenjiro Shimada
  • Patent number: 10954651
    Abstract: A terrain information acquisition device acquires terrain information about a work site. A controller is configured to decide an inclination angle of the current terrain along a travel direction of the work vehicle from the terrain information. The controller is configured to decide a virtual design surface that is inclined at an inclination angle smaller than the inclination angle of the current terrain. The controller is configured to generate a command signal to a work implement of the work vehicle to move the work implement along the inclined virtual design surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Hashimoto, Kenjiro Shimada
  • Publication number: 20210079629
    Abstract: A control system for a work includes an operating device and a controller. The operating device outputs an operation signal indicative of an operation by an operator. The controller is in communication with the operating device. The controller determines a target profile of a terrain to be worked on. The controller generates a command signal to operate the work implement according to the target profile. The controller receives the operation signal from the operating device. The controller determines an operation of the work implement based on the operation signal. The controller corrects the target profile according to the operation by the operator when the operation of the work implement by the operator is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HASHIMOTO, Kenjiro SHIMADA, Toshihiro KAWANO, Yosuke YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10822771
    Abstract: A sensor outputs a signal indicating an excavation start position at which a work implement starts excavation. A controller determines an inclination angle of a virtual design surface so that an amount of soil between the virtual design surface extending from the excavation start position and a current landscape matches a predetermined target amount of soil. The controller generates a command signal that causes the work implement to move along the virtual design surface extending from the excavation start position in a direction inclined at the inclination angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Ishibashi, Kazuhiro Hashimoto, Akifumi Inamaru, Yosuke Kogawa
  • Patent number: 10767341
    Abstract: A control system includes a controller. The controller acquires current terrain data that indicates the current terrain to be worked. The controller decides on a target design terrain that is displaced vertically from the current terrain by referring to target displacement data. The target displacement data indicates the target displacement of a work implement according to the amount of movement from a work start position. The controller generates a command signal to move the work implement toward the target design terrain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10669699
    Abstract: A current terrain acquisition device acquires current terrain information. The current terrain information indicates the current terrain to be worked, and includes the height of the current terrain at a plurality of points. A controller is configured to decide the smoothed height for each of the plurality of points. The controller is configured to decide a smoothed current terrain that includes the smoothed height of the plurality of points. The controller is configured to decide a virtual design surface on the basis of the smoothed current terrain. The controller is configured to generate a command signal to a work implement of the work vehicle to move the work implement along the virtual design surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Hashimoto, Kenjiro Shimada, Kota Beppu, Masayuki Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10671074
    Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle includes a sensor and a controller. The sensor outputs a signal indicating an actual traveling direction of the work vehicle. The controller communicates with the sensor. The controller is programmed so as to execute the following processing. The controller acquires the actual traveling direction of the work vehicle. The controller sets the actual traveling direction as a target traveling direction when a condition that indicates that the work vehicle has started straight travel has been met. The controller calculates a bearing difference between the target traveling direction and the actual traveling direction. The controller moves the work implement at a target tilt angle corresponding to the bearing difference so as to reduce the bearing difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Hashimoto, Kenjiro Shimada, Kazuhiko Hayashi, Yousuke Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20200131740
    Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle includes a controller. The controller acquires actual topography data indicating an actual topography to be worked. The controller determines a target design topography indicating a target trajectory of a work implement based on the actual topography. The controller determines whether the actual topography is an upward gradient or a downward gradient based on the actual topography data. The controller changes the target design topography according to a result of determination of the gradient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Kazuhiro HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10604912
    Abstract: A current terrain acquisition device acquires current terrain information indicating a current terrain to be worked. A controller is configured to generate an inclined virtual surface extending from a current position of the work vehicle. The controller is configured to decide an estimated held soil volume of a work implement of the work vehicle when the work implement is moved along the virtual surface in the current terrain. The controller is configured to decide whether the estimated held soil volume has reached a predetermined held soil volume threshold. The controller is configured to set the virtual surface extending from the current position of the work vehicle when the estimated held soil volume has reached the held soil volume threshold as a first virtual design surface, and generate a command signal to the work implement to move the work implement along the virtual design surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Hashimoto, Kenjiro Shimada, Kota Beppu