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).

  • Patent number: 10563374
    Abstract: A current terrain acquisition device acquires current terrain information indicating the current terrain to be worked. A controller is configured to decide a virtual design surface that is located below the current terrain and has an inclination angle. The controller is configured to generate a command signal to the work implement of the work vehicle to move the work implement along the virtual design surface. The controller is configured to update the current terrain information with the current terrain acquisition device as the movement proceeds, and change the inclination angle with the updated current terrain information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Hashimoto, Kenjiro Shimada
  • Publication number: 20190389629
    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: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10508412
    Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle includes a controller. The controller decides a target profile of a work site. The controller generates a command signal to move a work implement according to the target profile. The controller acquires the load to which the work vehicle is subjected. The controller modifies the target profile according to the magnitude of the load. The controller generates a command signal to operate the work implement according to the modified target profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20190218747
    Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle includes a controller. The controller decides a target profile of a work site. The controller generates a command signal to move a work implement according to the target profile. The controller acquires the load to which the work vehicle is subjected. The controller modifies the target profile according to the magnitude of the load. The controller generates a command signal to operate the work implement according to the modified target profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventor: Kazuhiro HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190218745
    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: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventor: Kazuhiro HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190078298
    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: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Eiji ISHIBASHI, Kazuhiro HASHIMOTO, Akifumi INAMARU, Yosuke KOGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190049973
    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: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HASHIMOTO, Kenjiro SHIMADA, Kazuhiko HAYASHI, Yousuke YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180355587
    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: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180038070
    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: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HASHIMOTO, Kenjiro SHIMADA, Kota BEPPU
  • Publication number: 20180038068
    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: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HASHIMOTO, Kenjiro SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20180038067
    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 form 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: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HASHIMOTO, Kenjiro SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20180038069
    Abstract: A current terrain acquisition device acquires current terrain information indicating the current terrain to be worked. A controller is configured to decide a virtual design surface that is located below the current terrain and has an inclination angle. The controller is configured to generate a command signal to the work implement of the work vehicle to move the work implement along the virtual design surface. The controller is configured to update the current terrain information with the current terrain acquisition device as the movement proceeds, and change the inclination angle with the updated current terrain information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HASHIMOTO, Kenjiro SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20180038082
    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: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HASHIMOTO, Kenjiro SHIMADA, Kota BEPPU, Masayuki NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20140171874
    Abstract: An indwelling needle assembly has a hollow outer needle, an outer-needle hub fixed to the base of the outer needle, an inner needle in the outer needle, an inner-needle hub fixed to the base of the inner needle, a tube connected to the base of the outer-needle hub, and a protector that, when the inner needle is removed from the outer needle, covers at least the point of the inner needle and disconnectably connected to the outer-needle hub. A finger hold is formed in a projecting manner on a protector cover of the protector, and the finger hold is pressed by a finger to move the outer needle in the direction of its tip relative to the inner needle. The finger hold causes force applied in the direction in which the finger hold projects relative to the center axis of the outer needle to act on the finger hold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidenori TANABE, Ryoji Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Hashimoto, Takato Murashita
  • Patent number: 8617112
    Abstract: An indwelling needle assembly has a hollow outer needle, an outer-needle hub fixed to the base end of the outer needle, an inner needle inserted into the outer needle, an inner-needle hub fixed to the base end of the inner needle, a tube connected to the base end (or a side section) of the outer-needle hub so that the inner cavity of the tube is communicated with the inner cavity of the outer needle, and a protector that, when the inner needle is removed from the outer needle, covers at least the point of the inner needle and disconnectably connected to the outer-needle hub. A finger hold is formed in a projecting manner on a protector cover of the protector, and the finger hold is pressed by a finger to move the outer needle in the direction of its tip relative to the inner needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidenori Tanabe, Ryoji Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Hashimoto, Takato Murashita
  • Patent number: 8500696
    Abstract: A method of producing an indwelling needle assembly formed by assembling an inner needle having a point only at its tip, an inner needle hub fixed to the base end of the inner needle, a hollow outer needle through which the inner needle is insertable, an outer needle hub fixed to the base end of the outer needle, and an elastic seal member on the outer needle hub effecting sealing when the inner needle is withdrawn. The method involves: inserting the inner needle into the seal member to set the inner needle to an inserted state; applying, in the inserted state, lubricant to the outer peripheral surface of at least that portion of the inner needle which protrudes from the seal member; and axially reciprocating at least one time the inner needle relative to the seal member to cause the lubricant to penetrate the inside of the seal member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryoji Kobayashi, Hidenori Tanabe, Kazuhiro Hashimoto, Takato Murashita
  • Patent number: 8501998
    Abstract: A method for producing a polyoxyalkylene derivative represented by the following general formula (1): Z(OA)n-OH]m??(1) wherein Z is a residue of glycerin or diglycerin, OA is an oxyalkylene group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, n is an average number of moles of the oxyalkylene group added and is 80 to 800, and m is 3 to 4, the method comprising steps (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), and (F) defined in the present description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: NOF Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Matsuo, Kazuhiro Hashimoto, Ken-ichiro Nakamoto, Chika Itoh
  • Patent number: 8067526
    Abstract: A method for producing a polyoxyalkylene derivative including: step (A) in which a polyoxyalkylene derivative having hydroxyl group(s) is reacted with a phthalimide derivative in the presence of an azo reagent and a phosphine reagent; step (B) in which the phthalimide groups of the compound obtained in step (A) are deprotected using a compound having a primary amino group; and step (C) in which impurities derived from the phthalimide derivative and the deprotection reagent are removed by adsorption or extraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: NOF Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Yoshioka, Takashi Matani, Shuichi Yoshimura, Kazuhiro Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20110060286
    Abstract: An indwelling needle assembly comprises an inner needle secured to an inner needle hub, a hollow outer needle in which the inner needle is positioned, an outer needle hub secured to the outer needle and having a projection at the proximal end, and an elastic protector which has a connection member with a projecting part engageable with the projection and which is detachably connected to the outer needle hub by the engagement of the projecting part with the projection. The projection of the outer needle hub comprises a tilted sliding surface on which the projecting part slidingly moves. The connection member can take a first state in which the projecting part engages the projection and a second state in which the projecting part is disengaged from the projection. When changing from the first state to the second state, the projecting part slidingly moves along the sliding surface of the projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: Termumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidenori Tanabe, Kazuhiro Hashimoto, Takato Murashita
  • Publication number: 20110054403
    Abstract: An indwelling needle assembly, includes an inner needle having a sharp needle point at a distal end thereof, an inner needle hub fixed to a proximal portion of the inner needle, a hollow outer needle into which the inner needle is inserted, and an outer needle hub fixed to a proximal portion of the outer needle. The indwelling needle assembly is designed to be used with a thumb in contact with a proximal portion of the inner needle hub. The inner needle hub is provided with a finger hold at the proximal portion thereof. At least a part of the finger hold is formed from a material less liable to slip on a medical glove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidenori Tanabe, Kazuhiro Hashimoto, Takato Murashita