Patents by Inventor Kazuo Fujishima
Kazuo Fujishima 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: 11640425Abstract: An inspection support system for a construction machine including a camera 416 and a display (monitor) 414 and acquiring image data of the construction machine provided in an inspection report includes a guidance display section 432 that displays a guidance image on the display 414, the guidance image showing a composition of a photographing object photographed as the image data, a photographing section 450 that acquires a photographic subject image photographed by the camera 416 as image data, and a transmitting section that transmits the image data acquired to a management server 300 that manages the inspection report.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Takami Kusaki, Tomohiro Yoshida, Masutaka Kumasaka, Kazuo Fujishima, Satoshi Inose
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Publication number: 20200142923Abstract: An inspection support system for a construction machine including a camera 416 and a display (monitor) 414 and acquiring image data of the construction machine provided in an inspection report includes a guidance display section 432 that displays a guidance image on the display 414, the guidance image showing a composition of a photographing object photographed as the image data, a photographing section 450 that acquires a photographic subject image photographed by the camera 416 as image data, and a transmitting section that transmits the image data acquired to a management server 300 that manages the inspection report.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2017Publication date: May 7, 2020Inventors: Takami KUSAKI, Tomohiro YOSHIDA, Masutaka KUMASAKA, Kazuo FUJISHIMA, Satoshi INOSE
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Patent number: 9863124Abstract: To provide construction machinery capable of more efficiently utilizing the energy of return hydraulic oil from a hydraulic actuator.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Ishihara, Masatoshi Hoshino, Kazuo Fujishima
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Patent number: 9816252Abstract: This invention is a hydraulic work machine having an electric assist motor coupled to an engine and a hydraulic pump, in the hydraulic work machine of which, a rotational speed and torque of the engine are controlled so that an operating point of the engine moves along a predetermined route for yielding a combustion state of the engine under a transient state that the engine changes in speed and torque. A target speed and torque of the engine 7 are set so that the rotational speed and torque of the engine 7 will change along a predetermined route F in a running region of the engine, respective rates of change of the target rotational speed and torque of the engine 7 are limited, and the engine 7 is controlled to yield the target engine speed. In addition, torque of the assist motor 10 is controlled to yield the target torque of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2013Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masatoshi Hoshino, Shinji Ishihara, Kazuo Fujishima
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Publication number: 20160289923Abstract: To provide construction machinery capable of more efficiently utilizing the energy of return hydraulic oil from a hydraulic actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Shinji ISHIHARA, Masatoshi HOSHINO, Kazuo FUJISHIMA
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Patent number: 9421873Abstract: Construction machine capable of incorporating an engine and using an external power source. The construction machine includes an electrical storage device performing a charge with the external power source, uses the electrical storage device to provide assist when the power of the engine is insufficient, uses an electrical charge in the electrical storage device systematically in accordance with work time, and efficiently uses the electrical storage device by controlling its discharge amount in accordance with load status. The construction machine includes the engine, accessory loads connected to the engine, an assist electric motor driven by the engine, electrical power converters for converting an AC current, which is the output current of the assist electric motor, to a DC current, and the electrical storage device connected to the DC side of each electrical power converter. The electrical storage device becomes charged through a charging device from the external power source.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2011Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Seiji Ishida, Masataka Sasaki, Yusuke Kajita, Hidetoshi Satake, Takako Satake, Manabu Edamura, Kazuo Fujishima, Shiho Izumi
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Patent number: 9399856Abstract: A hydraulic working machine has an assist electric motor connected to an engine and a hydraulic pump. The emissions of air pollutants in the exhaust gas from the engine are minimized regardless of fluctuations in the load torque of the hydraulic pump. A specific revolution speed suitable for reducing the emissions of air pollutants is stored, and an engine is controlled using the specific revolution speed as a target revolution speed. The absorption torque of a hydraulic pump is subjected to high-pass filtering whereby a high-frequency component devoid of a trend component is obtained. Target assist torque is computed from the high-frequency component, and the assist electric motor is subjected to power running/generation control accordingly. A specific output torque range suitable for reducing the emissions of air pollutants is stored, and the target assist torque is corrected so that the trend component does not exceed the specific output torque range.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuo Fujishima, Yusuke Kajita, Mitsuo Sonoda, Masatoshi Hoshino, Akira Nakayama, Junji Yamamoto, He Bao, Seiji Ishida, Shiro Yamaoka, Takashi Okada
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Patent number: 9284718Abstract: A power regeneration device for an operating machine has a hydraulic cylinder and a return line through which fluid returning to a tank flows when the hydraulic cylinder contracts. The return line branches into a plurality of hydraulic lines through a branching part and includes a regeneration line that which leads returning fluid to the tank via a hydraulic motor to which a generator is connected. A control valve line is connected to the branching part and leads the returning fluid to the tank via a control valve. An electricity storage device stores electric power generated by the generator, and an electric amount detector detects the electric amount of the electricity storage device. A flow rate calculator calculates the flow rate of the returning fluid flowing through the regeneration line and the flow rate of the returning fluid flowing through the control valve line depending on an electric amount signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2012Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Seiji Hijikata, Kazuo Fujishima
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Patent number: 9212469Abstract: There is provided a hydraulic excavator including a hydraulic pump (6) driven by an engine (7), a boom cylinder (3a) driven by hydraulic fluid delivered from the hydraulic pump (6), a swing motor (16) driven electrically, an operating device (4A) for operating the boom cylinder (3a), an operating device (4B) for operating the swing motor (16), and a vehicle body controller (11) which limits the power of the swing motor (16) in accordance with the operation amount of the operating device (4A) when the two operating devices (4A, 4B) are operated in combination. The power limit value of the swing motor (16) varies depending on the output of the engine (7). This allows a good operational feeling to be retained in combined operation regardless of the operating state of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsutomu Udagawa, Kazuo Fujishima, Koji Ishikawa, Hidetoshi Satake, Yuichi Kunitomo
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Publication number: 20150225927Abstract: This invention is a hydraulic work machine having an electric assist motor coupled to an engine and a hydraulic pump, in the hydraulic work machine of which, a rotational speed and torque of the engine are controlled so that an operating point of the engine moves along a predetermined route for yielding a combustion state of the engine under a transient state that the engine changes in speed and torque. A target speed and torque of the engine 7 are set so that the rotational speed and torque of the engine 7 will change along a predetermined route F in a running region of the engine, respective rates of change of the target rotational speed and torque of the engine 7 are limited, and the engine 7 is controlled to yield the target engine speed. In addition, torque of the assist motor 10 is controlled to yield the target torque of the engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2013Publication date: August 13, 2015Inventors: Masatoshi Hoshino, Shinji Ishihara, Kazuo Fujishima
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Patent number: 8938338Abstract: To provide a system for controlling a construction machine, which can be implemented inexpensively, can detect a failure in any of pressure sensors, controllers, an inverter device, and an electric motor for swing, and can secure safety and required workability for an operator. Redundant hydraulic pressure sensors 20, 21 provide input to a first controller 11 for calculating a swing command, and a second controller 22 provided in an inverter device 13 for controlling an electric motor 16 for swing. The second controller 2 detects an abnormality in any of the hydraulic pressure sensors 20, 21 and the first controller 11 by a process for determining the validity of a swing command signal, and allows the swing operation to continue by using a signal from the second hydraulic pressure sensor 21 when determination is made based on the contents of the abnormality that the electric motor 16 for swing can operate normally.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2012Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kohei Sakurai, Kotaro Shimamura, Kazuo Fujishima
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Patent number: 8924100Abstract: A hybrid construction machine is provided with a variable displacement hydraulic pump 1 which supplies hydraulic oil to a hydraulic actuator, an engine 2 which is provided to be able to drive and rotate the hydraulic pump 1, an electric motor 3 which is provided to be able to drive and rotate the hydraulic pump 1, an engine control dial 4, a controller 4 and an operating lever 5. The controller changes the rotation speed of the engine 2 to reduce fuel consumption according to power generated by the engine 2, and changes displacement of the hydraulic pump 1 based on the rotation speed of the engine 2, the dial position of the engine control dial 4 and the amount of operation on the operating lever 5.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2011Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinya Imura, Seiji Ishida, Yusuke Kajita, Kazuo Fujishima, Takatoshi Ooki, Takako Satake
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Publication number: 20140371995Abstract: There is provided a hydraulic excavator including a hydraulic pump (6) driven by an engine (7), a boom cylinder (3a) driven by hydraulic fluid delivered from the hydraulic pump (6), a swing motor (16) driven electrically, an operating device (4A) for operating the boom cylinder (3a), an operating device (4B) for operating the swing motor (16), and a vehicle body controller (11) which limits the power of the swing motor (16) in accordance with the operation amount of the operating device (4A) when the two operating devices (4A, 4B) are operated in combination. The power limit value of the swing motor (16) varies depending on the output of the engine (7). This allows a good operational feeling to be retained in combined operation regardless of the operating state of the engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2012Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Tsutomu Udagawa, Kazuo Fujishima, Koji Ishikawa, Hidetoshi Satake, Yuichi Kunitomo
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Patent number: 8874327Abstract: Target rotation speed setup section for setting a target engine rotation speed; load detection for detecting a hydraulic pump load; an assist output computation section for calculating an assist output to be generated by a motor generator in accordance with a rotation speed deviation ?N, which is the difference between an actual and target rotation speed, or in accordance with the hydraulic pump load; an absorption torque upper limit computation section for calculating an absorption torque upper limit value of the hydraulic pump; and an operation signal generation section for generating the operation signal to be output to a pump displacement adjustment device. When the rotation speed deviation ?N is equal to or more than a setting NC determined in accordance with the assist output value, the absorption torque upper limit computation section reduces the absorption torque upper limit value of the hydraulic pump from the calculated value.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2012Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Ishihara, Shinya Imura, Masatoshi Hoshino, Kazuo Fujishima
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Publication number: 20140283508Abstract: A drive system suppresses cylinder speed fluctuation at times of load inversion in a hydraulic closed circuit system in which a single rod cylinder is driven by a hydraulic pump. The drive system has a control device including: pressure detection means which detect pressure in a rod-side hydraulic chamber of the hydraulic cylinder and pressure in a head-side hydraulic chamber of the hydraulic cylinder; load calculation means which calculates the load on the hydraulic cylinder from the pressure in the rod-side hydraulic chamber and the pressure in the head-side hydraulic chamber; load switching means which calculates a first proportional gain in accordance with the polarity of the calculated load; and multiplication means which calculates a command signal by multiplying the calculated first proportional gain and an operation amount input from the operating device together and outputs the calculated command signal to the delivery flow rate control means.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2012Publication date: September 25, 2014Inventors: Kenji Hiraku, Kazuo Fujishima
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Publication number: 20140147238Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a construction machine that is capable of effectively charging electrical power into the capacitor in consideration of the drive of a swing section and hydraulic work device. To achieve the object, the present invention grasps the status of the construction machine (2) in advance to calculate energy, predicts the next operation, determines the amount of energy to be charged into a capacitor (13), and controls a DC-DC converter (15) accordingly. Consequently, the loss in a conventional battery (lead storage battery) during regeneration can be reduced to provide increased efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2011Publication date: May 29, 2014Inventors: Masataka Sasaki, Manabu Edamura, Yusuke Kajita, Seiji Ishida, Shiho Izumi, Takako Satake, Kazuo Fujishima
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Publication number: 20140103874Abstract: Construction machine capable of incorporating an engine and using an external power source. The construction machine includes an electrical storage device performing a charge with the external power source, uses the electrical storage device to provide assist when the power of the engine is insufficient, uses an electrical charge in the electrical storage device systematically in accordance with work time, and efficiently uses the electrical storage device by controlling its discharge amount in accordance with load status. The construction machine includes the engine, accessory loads connected to the engine, an assist electric motor driven by the engine, electrical power converters for converting an AC current, which is the output current of the assist electric motor, to a DC current, and the electrical storage device connected to the DC side of each electrical power converter. The electrical storage device becomes charged through a charging device from the external power source.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2011Publication date: April 17, 2014Inventors: Shiho Izumi, Manabu Edamura, Takako Satake, Yusuke Kajita, Masataka Sasaki, Seiji Ishida, Kazuo Fujishima
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Publication number: 20140090367Abstract: A power regeneration device for an operating machine has a hydraulic cylinder and a return line through which fluid returning to a tank flows when the hydraulic cylinder contracts. The return line branches into a plurality of hydraulic lines through a branching part and includes a regeneration line that which leads returning fluid to the tank via a hydraulic motor to which a generator is connected. A control valve line is connected to the branching part and leads the returning fluid to the tank via a control valve. An electricity storage device stores electric power generated by the generator, and an electric amount detector detects the electric amount of the electricity storage device. A flow rate calculator calculates the flow rate of the returning fluid flowing through the regeneration line and the flow rate of the returning fluid flowing through the control valve line depending on an electric amount signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2012Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Seiji Hijikata, Kazuo Fujishima
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Patent number: 8659177Abstract: A motive power regeneration apparatus for a working machine includes a regeneration circuit that is connected to a hydraulic line through which a returning fluid of a boom cylinder is distributed during a boom lowering operation. Also included are a hydraulic motor connected to a generator, a flow regulating circuit that is connected to the hydraulic line and provided with a control valve, an inverter that controls the flow rate on the regeneration circuit in accordance with a first flow rate setting which varies with the operation amount of an operating apparatus, and a control valve and a proportional valve that control the flow rate on the flow regulating circuit in accordance with a second flow rate setting which varies with the operation amount of the operating apparatus. Therefore, the motive power regeneration apparatus is capable of making an operator constantly feel comfortable with the working machine operations.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2012Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuo Fujishima, Mitsuo Sonoda, Seiji Hijikata
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Publication number: 20140020375Abstract: A hydraulic working machine has an assist electric motor connected to an engine and a hydraulic pump. The emissions of air pollutants in the exhaust gas from the engine are minimized regardless of fluctuations in the load torque of the hydraulic pump. A specific revolution speed suitable for reducing the emissions of air pollutants is stored, and an engine is controlled using the specific revolution speed as a target revolution speed. The absorption torque of a hydraulic pump is subjected to high-pass filtering whereby a high-frequency component devoid of a trend component is obtained. Target assist torque is computed from the high-frequency component, and the assist electric motor is subjected to power running/generation control accordingly. A specific output torque range suitable for reducing the emissions of air pollutants is stored, and the target assist torque is corrected so that the trend component does not exceed the specific output torque range.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuo Fujishima, Yusuke Kajita, Mitsuo Sonoda, Masatoshi Hoshino, Akira Nakayama, Junji Yamamoto, He Bao, Seiji Ishida, Shiro Yamaoka, Takashi Okada