Patents by Inventor Teppei SAITOU

Teppei SAITOU 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: 11499296
    Abstract: To provide a construction machine that has a hydraulic system mounted thereon in which a closed-circuit pump, and an open-circuit pump and a proportional valve are arranged as a pair, and that makes it possible to use an unused open-circuit pump or proportional valve to accelerate the speed of a single rod hydraulic cylinder when the single rod hydraulic cylinder and a hydraulic motor are driven simultaneously. A controller (51) controls a cap-side selector valve (46) and a rod-side selector valve (47) such that a particular open-circuit pump (15) not connected to a single rod hydraulic cylinder (3) is connected to the single rod hydraulic cylinder, and controls an opening area of a particular proportional valve (49) provided on a flow line that connects a delivery port of the particular open-circuit pump to a tank, when the single rod hydraulic cylinder and a hydraulic motor (7) are driven simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takamasa Kai, Juri Shimizu, Kenji Hiraku, Hiromasa Takahashi, Teppei Saitou
  • Publication number: 20220074170
    Abstract: To provide a construction machine that has a hydraulic system mounted thereon in which a closed-circuit pump, and an open-circuit pump and a proportional valve are arranged as a pair, and that makes it possible to use an unused open-circuit pump or proportional valve to accelerate the speed of a single rod hydraulic cylinder when the single rod hydraulic cylinder and a hydraulic motor are driven simultaneously. A controller (51) controls a cap-side selector valve (46) and a rod-side selector valve (47) such that a particular open-circuit pump (15) not connected to a single rod hydraulic cylinder (3) is connected to the single rod hydraulic cylinder, and controls an opening area of a particular proportional valve (49) provided on a flow line that connects a delivery port of the particular open-circuit pump to a tank, when the single rod hydraulic cylinder and a hydraulic motor (7) are driven simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Takamasa KAI, Juri SHIMIZU, Kenji HIRAKU, Hiromasa TAKAHASHI, Teppei SAITOU
  • Patent number: 11118328
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a construction machine capable of suppressing lugging down of an engine irrespective of contents of operation of an operator and the load state of a hydraulic actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Juri Shimizu, Kenji Hiraku, Hiromasa Takahashi, Teppei Saitou, Shouhei Sugiki
  • Patent number: 11111651
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a construction machine that has a hydraulic closed-circuit system mounted therein and capable of selectively connecting some of a plurality of hydraulic pumps driven by two engines to any one of a plurality of hydraulic actuators and that can downsize the engines while maintaining high work efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Juri Shimizu, Kenji Hiraku, Hiromasa Takahashi, Teppei Saitou
  • Publication number: 20210246634
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a construction machine capable of suppressing lugging down of an engine irrespective of contents of operation of an operator and the load state of a hydraulic actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Juri SHIMIZU, Kenji HIRAKU, Hiromasa TAKAHASHI, Teppei SAITOU, Shouhei SUGIKI
  • Publication number: 20210230839
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a construction machine that has a hydraulic closed-circuit system mounted therein and capable of selectively connecting some of a plurality of hydraulic pumps driven by two engines to any one of a plurality of hydraulic actuators and that can downsize the engines while maintaining high work efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Juri SHIMIZU, Kenji HIRAKU, Hiromasa TAKAHASHI, Teppei SAITOU
  • Patent number: 10914053
    Abstract: Provided is a work machine which makes it possible, in a hydraulic closed-circuit system, to prevent occurrence of cavitation when reverse lever operation which is an instruction for a swing in a direction opposite to a swing direction is performed during swing deceleration. A controller is configured to perform control such that a rate of a flow supplied from a bidirectionally tiltable hydraulic pump to a swing motor becomes lower than a pump flow rate according to an operation amount of the swing operation lever when a swing direction corresponding to a swing velocity sensed at a velocity sensor is different from a swing direction corresponding to operation of a swing operation lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takamasa Kai, Teppei Saitou, Kenji Hiraku, Juri Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20200291612
    Abstract: Provided is a work machine which makes it possible, in a hydraulic closed-circuit system, to prevent occurrence of cavitation when reverse lever operation which is an instruction for a swing in a direction opposite to a swing direction is performed during swing deceleration. A controller is configured to perform control such that a rate of a flow supplied from a bidirectionally tiltable hydraulic pump to a swing motor becomes lower than a pump flow rate according to an operation amount of the swing operation lever when a swing direction corresponding to a swing velocity sensed at a velocity sensor is different from a swing direction corresponding to operation of a swing operation lever.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Takamasa KAI, Teppei SAITOU, Kenji HIRAKU, Juri SHIMIZU