Patents by Inventor Koji SHIWAKU

Koji SHIWAKU 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: 20240133157
    Abstract: Provided is a work machine control system which enables a worker to perform a work more easily in the vicinity of a work machine executing a task automatically. A work machine control system comprises: a work machine that executes a task automatically as a work to be executed; and a task control device for controlling execution of the task. The work machine comprises a vehicle body control device and a hydraulic actuator used for executing the task, wherein the vehicle body control device comprises: a task content input section for receiving input of task content information; a movement control section for calculating a speed instruction of the hydraulic actuator based on the task content information; a receiving section for receiving task control information outputted from the task control device having a task control input section for receiving input of the task control information; and a task control section for controlling execution of the task based on the task control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Shinjiro YAMAMOTO, Shinya IMURA, Koji SHIWAKU, Hiroki ISHII
  • Publication number: 20240011251
    Abstract: Provided is a work machine including a controller configured to perform area restriction control for preventing a vehicle body from deviating from a work area set in a construction area. In this work machine, it is possible to easily set an area for which operation of the work machine is to be restricted in an actual space to a desired position, and to avoid displacement of the area for which the work machine is to be actually controlled from the set area. The work machine includes a controller configured to perform area restriction control for restricting operation of a vehicle body so as to prevent the vehicle body from deviating from a work area set in a construction area. The controller sets at least a part of the work area based on design data representing a final intended shape of a construction target in the construction area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Takaaki CHIBA, Masamichi ITO, Koji SHIWAKU, Shinya KASAI, Morizo HENMI
  • Publication number: 20230358024
    Abstract: Provided is a work machine and a control system for the work machine capable of preventing reduction of a work efficiency when inputting a complicated work area. The work machine includes a work area setting device 501, a work machine position/attitude acquisition device 502 and a work device position/attitude acquisition device 503, a controller 500, and a designated area setting device 504. When a hydraulic excavator (work machine) 1 intrudes on a designated area 401, the controller 500 puts operation restriction control in a work area 111 to an enabled state or disabled state according to an enable or disable setting of the operation restriction control depending on the designated area 401 set in the designated area setting device 504.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Koji SHIWAKU, Shinya IMURA
  • Publication number: 20230323631
    Abstract: Provided is a work machine including a front work device, the work machine including a state amount sensor that senses a state amount relating to an action state of the work device and a controller that controls an action of the work machine on the basis of an operation signal transmitted from a remote device by radio communication. The controller assesses a communication status of the radio communication, and, when restricting the action of the work machine on the basis of a result of the assessment, eases the restriction on the action of the work machine, depending on a sensing result from the state amount sensor. As a result, it is possible to appropriately restrict action on the basis of a communication status, while suppressing worsening of workability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Masamichi ITO, Koji SHIWAKU, Shinya KASAI
  • Publication number: 20230304261
    Abstract: A work machine includes: a work device; a posture sensor that senses posture information of the work device; a hydraulic actuator that drives the work device; and a controller configured to generate operation plan information on the basis of task information necessary for automatic control, the task information being obtained from an external system, and perform automatic control of the hydraulic actuator on the basis of the operation plan information and a sensing result of the posture sensor. The controller outputs the operation plan information to the external system. The controller does not perform the automatic control when an approval signal indicating that the operation plan information is approved is not input from the external system. The controller performs the automatic control when the approval signal is input from the external system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki ISHII, Shinya IMURA, Shinjiro YAMAMOTO, Koji SHIWAKU
  • Publication number: 20220282459
    Abstract: Provided is an operation assistance system for a work machine having both operation assistance and work assistance functions, capable of reducing the inconvenience to an operator or the like of setting an area of the operation assistance function and an area of the work assistance function, and preventing a collision of the work machine with an object in a work area. The operation assistance system for a work machine has the operation assistance function of stopping a hydraulic excavator (work machine) 1 when an object is detected in a stop area 40 set in advance and the work assistance function of preventing the hydraulic excavator (work machine) 1 from going out of a work area 51 set in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Takaaki CHIBA, Shinya IMURA, Shinjiro YAMAMOTO, Masamichi ITO, Koji SHIWAKU
  • Publication number: 20220267998
    Abstract: There is provided a construction machine that achieves both safety and operability by lowering the possibility of an accident due to contact between the construction machine and a worker in the periphery of a vehicle body while securing operability in situations where an object required for work is present in the periphery. A controller has a normal mode as a control mode for making the operation limiting control effective and a temporary cancelation mode as a control mode for temporarily canceling the operation limiting control. The controller shifts to the temporary cancelation mode in response to operation of the control canceling device while in the normal mode. The controller shifts back to the normal mode in a case where a predetermined condition not responsive to operation of the control canceling device is satisfied while in the temporary cancelation mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Shinji NISHIKAWA, Koji SHIWAKU, Shinjiro YAMAMOTO, Ryota KAMEOKA, Akihiro NARAZAKI