Patents by Inventor Masanori Ikari

Masanori Ikari 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: 7974756
    Abstract: A construction vehicle includes an engine, a hydraulic pump configured to be driven by the engine, a traveling hydraulic motor configured to be driven by pressured oil discharged by the hydraulic pump, a traveling wheel configured to be driven by driving force of the traveling hydraulic motor, and a control unit configured to control a vehicle velocity and a traction force by controlling rotation speed of the engine, capacity of the hydraulic pump, and capacity of the traveling hydraulic motor. In addition, the control unit is further configured to perform slip reduction control for reducing the maximum rotation speed of the engine as the vehicle velocity becomes slow in a low-velocity range in which the vehicle velocity is less than or equal to a predetermined velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventor: Masanori Ikari
  • Publication number: 20100126411
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods to produce large quantities of polycrystalline GaN for use in the ammonothermal growth of group III-nitride material. High production rates of GaN can be produced in a hydride vapor phase growth system. One drawback to enhanced polycrystalline growth is the increased incorporation of impurities, such as oxygen. A new reactor design using non-oxide material that reduces impurity concentrations is disclosed. Purification of remaining source material after an ammonothermal growth is also disclosed. The methods described produce sufficient quantities of polycrystalline GaN source material for the ammonothermal growth of group III-nitride material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: Sixpoint Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Letts, Tadao Hashimoto, Masanori Ikari
  • Publication number: 20100095882
    Abstract: The present disclosure proves for new design of reactors used for ammonothermal growth of III nitride crystals. The reactors include a region intermediate a source dissolution region and a crystal growth region configured to provide growth of high quality crystals at rates greater than 100 ?m/day. In one embodiment, multiple baffle plates having openings whose location is designed so that there is no direct path through the intermediate region, or with multiple baffle plates having differently sized openings on each plate so that the flow is slowed down and/or exhibit greater mixing are described. The disclosed designs enables obtaining high temperature difference between the dissolution region and the crystallization region without decreasing conductance through the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Inventors: Tadao Hashimoto, Masanori Ikari, Edward Letts
  • Publication number: 20100094515
    Abstract: In the construction vehicle, a controller is configured to implement a displacement rapid change suppression control for controlling the displacement of a travel hydraulic pump so that travel circuit oil pressure reaches a maximum value equal to or less than a cutoff pressure value when the vehicle has stopped regardless of engine speed, and the displacement of the travel hydraulic pump gradually increases as the travel circuit oil pressure decreases from the maximum value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Shirao, Masanori Ikari
  • Publication number: 20100068118
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a high-pressure vessel of large size formed with a limited size of e.g. Ni—Cr based precipitation hardenable superalloy. The vessel may have multiple zones. For instance, the high-pressure vessel may be divided into at least three regions with flow-restricting devices and the crystallization region is set higher temperature than other regions. This structure helps to reliably seal both ends of the high-pressure vessel, and at the same time, may help to greatly reduce unfavorable precipitation of group III nitride at the bottom of the vessel. This invention also discloses novel procedures to grow crystals with improved purity, transparency and structural quality. Alkali metal-containing mineralizers are charged with minimum exposure to oxygen and moisture until the high-pressure vessel is filled with ammonia. Several methods to reduce oxygen contamination during the process steps are presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventors: Tadao Hashimoto, Edward Letts, Masanori Ikari
  • Patent number: 7677350
    Abstract: The construction vehicle includes an engine, an accelerator pedal, a main pump configured to be driven by the engine, first and second traveling motors driven by pressured oil discharged from the main pump to generate driving force for traveling, a driving shaft configured to receive the driving force from the first traveling motor and the driving force from the second traveling motor, a clutch configured to switch between transmission and non-transmission of the driving force from the second traveling motor to the driving shaft, an accelerator opening degree detection unit, a vehicle velocity detection unit, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to determine the switchover velocity depending on the opening degree of the accelerator pedal, and to control the clutch when the vehicle velocity that is detected by the vehicle velocity detection unit reaches the switchover velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Komatsu LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Shirao, Masanori Ikari
  • Publication number: 20090315151
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a new testing method of group III-nitride wafers. By utilizing the ammonothermal method, GaN or other Group III-nitride wafers can be obtained by slicing the bulk GaN ingots. Since these wafers originate from the same ingot, these wafers have similar properties/qualities. Therefore, properties of wafers sliced from an ingot can be estimated from measurement data obtained from selected number of wafers sliced from the same ingot or an ingot before slicing. These estimated properties can be used for product certificate of untested wafers. This scheme can reduce a significant amount of time, labor and cost related to quality control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Inventors: Tadao Hashimoto, Masanori Ikari, Edward Letts
  • Publication number: 20090309105
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods to create higher quality group III-nitride wafers that then generate improvements in the crystalline properties of ingots produced by ammonothermal growth from an initial defective seed. By obtaining future seeds from carefully chosen regions of an ingot produced on a bowed seed crystal, future ingot crystalline properties can be improved. Specifically, the future seeds are optimized if chosen from an area of relieved stress on a cracked ingot or from a carefully chosen N-polar compressed area. When the seeds are sliced out, miscut of 3-10° helps to improve structural quality of successive growth. Additionally a method is proposed to improve crystal quality by using the ammonothermal method to produce a series of ingots, each using a specifically oriented seed from the previous ingot. When employed, these methods enhance the quality of Group III nitride wafers and thus improve the efficiency of any subsequent device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventors: Edward Letts, Tadao Hashimoto, Masanori Ikari
  • Publication number: 20090265065
    Abstract: A construction vehicle includes an engine, a hydraulic pump configured to be driven by the engine, a traveling hydraulic motor configured to be driven by pressured oil discharged by the hydraulic pump, a traveling wheel configured to be driven by driving force of the traveling hydraulic motor, and a control unit configured to control a vehicle velocity and a traction force by controlling rotation speed of the engine, capacity of the hydraulic pump, and capacity of the traveling hydraulic motor. In addition, the control unit is further configured to perform slip reduction control for reducing the maximum rotation speed of the engine as the vehicle velocity becomes slow in a low-velocity range in which the vehicle velocity is less than or equal to a predetermined velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Masanori Ikari
  • Publication number: 20090256240
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a production method for group III nitride ingots or pieces such as wafers. To solve the coloration problem in the wafers grown by the ammonothermal method, the present invention composed of the following steps; growth of group III nitride ingots by the ammonothermal method, slicing of the ingots into wafers, annealing of the wafers in a manner that avoids dissociation or decomposition of the wafers. This annealing process is effective to improve transparency of the wafers and/or otherwise remove contaminants from wafers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Inventors: Tadao HASHIMOTO, Edward Letts, Masanori Ikari
  • Publication number: 20090045003
    Abstract: The construction vehicle includes an engine, an accelerator pedal, a main pump configured to be driven by the engine, first and second traveling motors driven by pressured oil discharged from the main pump to generate driving force for traveling, a driving shaft configured to receive the driving force from the first traveling motor and the driving force from the second traveling motor, a clutch configured to switch between transmission and non-transmission of the driving force from the second traveling motor to the driving shaft, an accelerator opening degree detection unit, a vehicle velocity detection unit, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to determine the switchover velocity depending on the opening degree of the accelerator pedal, and to control the clutch when the vehicle velocity that is detected by the vehicle velocity detection unit reaches the switchover velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Shirao, Masanori Ikari
  • Patent number: 7392125
    Abstract: The invention provides a working unit control apparatus of an excavating and loading machine which can always judge a start of an excavation control at a proper timing. The working unit control apparatus has excavating state detecting means (43, 44) detecting an excavating state of a vehicle, and a controller (25) has a load judging portion (48) judging on the basis of a detecting amount, and automatic excavation control means (51) setting and outputting an automatic excavation command value to each of control valves on the basis of the judgement of said load judging portion, and an automatic excavation control is started when a boom lever is operated and it is judged that a vehicle is under excavation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventor: Masanori Ikari
  • Patent number: 7289896
    Abstract: The invention provides a working unit control apparatus of an excavating and loading machine which can always judge a start of an excavation control at a proper timing. The working unit control apparatus has excavating state detecting means (43, 44) detecting an excavating state of a vehicle, and a controller (25) has a load judging portion (48) judging on the basis of a detecting amount, and automatic excavation control means (51) setting and outputting an automatic excavation command value to each of control valves on the basis of the judgement of said load judging portion, and an automatic excavation control is started when a boom lever is operated and it is judged that a vehicle is under excavation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventor: Masanori Ikari
  • Patent number: 7209820
    Abstract: The invention provides a working unit control apparatus of an excavating and loading machine which can always judge a start of an excavation control at a proper timing. The working unit control apparatus has excavating state detecting means (43, 44) detecting an excavating state of a vehicle, and a controller (25) has a load judging portion (48) judging on the basis of a detecting amount, and automatic excavation control means (51) setting and outputting an automatic excavation command value to each of control valves on the basis of the judgement of said load judging portion, and an automatic excavation control is started when a boom lever is operated and it is judged that a vehicle is under excavation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventor: Masanori Ikari
  • Publication number: 20060179690
    Abstract: The invention provides a working unit control apparatus of an excavating and loading machine which can always judge a start of an excavation control at a proper timing. The working unit control apparatus has excavating state detecting means (43, 44) detecting an excavating state of a vehicle, and a controller (25) has a load judging portion (48) judging on the basis of a detecting amount, and automatic excavation control means (51) setting and outputting an automatic excavation command value to each of control valves on the basis of the judgement of said load judging portion, and an automatic excavation control is started when a boom lever is operated and it is judged that a vehicle is under excavation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Masanori Ikari
  • Publication number: 20060184302
    Abstract: The invention provides a working unit control apparatus of an excavating and loading machine which can always judge a start of an excavation control at a proper timing. The working unit control apparatus has excavating state detecting means (43, 44) detecting an excavating state of a vehicle, and a controller (25) has a load judging portion (48) judging on the basis of a detecting amount, and automatic excavation control means (51) setting and outputting an automatic excavation command value to each of control valves on the basis of the judgement of said load judging portion, and an automatic excavation control is started when a boom lever is operated and it is judged that a vehicle is under excavation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Masanori Ikari
  • Patent number: 7076354
    Abstract: The invention provides a working unit control apparatus of an excavating and loading machine which can always judge a start of an excavation control at a proper timing. The working unit control apparatus has excavating state detecting means (43, 44) detecting an excavating state of a vehicle, and a controller (25) has a load judging portion (48) judging on the basis of a detecting amount, and automatic excavation control means (51) setting and outputting an automatic excavation command value to each of control valves on the basis of the judgement of said load judging portion, and an automatic excavation control is started when a boom lever is operated and it is judged that a vehicle is under excavation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventor: Masanori Ikari
  • Publication number: 20060129296
    Abstract: The invention provides a working unit control apparatus of an excavating and loading machine which can always judge a start of an excavation control at a proper timing. The working unit control apparatus has excavating state detecting means (43, 44) detecting an excavating state of a vehicle, and a controller (25) has a load judging portion (48) judging on the basis of a detecting amount, and automatic excavation control means (51) setting and outputting an automatic excavation command value to each of control valves on the basis of the judgement of said load judging portion, and an automatic excavation control is started when a boom lever is operated and it is judged that a vehicle is under excavation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Inventor: Masanori Ikari
  • Patent number: 6857986
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a plurality of hydraulic motors and a clutch is capable of reliably implementing a sequence for engaging and disengaging the clutch and for fixing and clearing a zero tilt rotation amounts of the hydraulic motors, thereby preventing a speed change shock or load slip in the hydraulic motors. The apparatus includes zero tilt rotation fixing means (10A), a clutch (5), hydraulic vehicle speed detecting means (32A), and control valve means (30A) that releases an output command pressure to a return pressure connected to a tank (19) until a vehicle speed signal pressure to be received reaches a start pressure of a predetermined value, and begins to output the command pressure to the zero tilt rotation fixing means and the clutch when the vehicle speed signal pressure exceeds a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Ikari, Nobuo Matsuyama
  • Publication number: 20040045785
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a plurality of hydraulic motors and a clutch is capable of reliably implementing a sequence for engaging and disengaging the clutch and for fixing and clearing a zero tilt rotation amounts of the hydraulic motors, thereby preventing a speed change shock or load slip in the hydraulic motors. The apparatus includes zero tilt rotation fixing means (10A), a clutch (5), hydraulic vehicle speed detecting means (32A), and control valve means (30A) that releases an output command pressure to a return pressure connected to a tank (19) until a vehicle speed signal pressure to be received reaches a start pressure of a predetermined value, and begins to output the command pressure to the zero tilt rotation fixing means and the clutch when the vehicle speed signal pressure exceeds a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Ikari, Nobuo Matsuyama