Patents by Inventor Tetsuji Takaoka
Tetsuji Takaoka 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: 11807310Abstract: To provide a cab in which opening and closing of a door is hardly inhibited even if a cab frame or a door is deformed. A cab comprises a cab main body having a cab frame and a doorway formed in the cab frame. The cab comprises a door that opens and closes the doorway of the cab main body. The door is installed to the cab main body so as to be opposed to the side surface of the cab frame in a closed state of the doorway.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Caterpillar SARLInventors: Tetsuji Takaoka, Masaya Yorifuji, Kentaro Tabata, Yusuke Doi
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Publication number: 20230081006Abstract: A work machine comprises a main body, a cab riser, and a shaft. The cab riser includes a cab and a frame, the cab being uprightly positioned on the work machine in a first position, and being tilted forward in a second position, and the frame comprising a first plate to contact a second plate provided on the main body in the first position. The cab riser is rotatable about the shaft in clockwise and counterclockwise directions to and from the first position and the second position. The first plate and the second plate can be clamped together by a clamping assembly in the first position, the clamping assembly including one or more clamps to clamp the first plate and the second plate, and the clamping assembly is mounted on the main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2021Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: Caterpillar SARLInventors: Tetsuji TAKAOKA, Masaya YORIFUJI, Tomohiro FUJII, Kimikage TANAKA, Kazumasa MATSUMURA, Takeshi TSUNEYOSHI, Takayuki NAITO, Tetsuo NISHIGUCHI, Kunitomo SHIMIZU, Eiji AKAHANE, Shuji KIDOGUCHI
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Publication number: 20220153355Abstract: To provide a cab in which opening and closing of a door is hardly inhibited even if a cab frame or a door is deformed. A cab comprises a cab main body having a cab frame and a doorway formed in the cab frame. The cab comprises a door that opens and closes the doorway of the cab main body. The door is installed to the cab main body so as to be opposed to the side surface of the cab frame in a closed state of the doorway.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: Caterpillar SARLInventors: Tetsuji TAKAOKA, Masaya YORIFUJI, Kentaro TABATA, Yusuke Doi
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Patent number: 11072909Abstract: To provide a cab coming-off prevention structure of a working machine capable of preventing a coming-off prevention device from falling off. One end side of a stopper shaft portion 51 of a coming-off prevention device 16 is inserted through a through-hole 37a. The other end side of the stopper shaft portion 51 is inserted through an insertion hole 23b. A stopper main body portion 52 is provided on the other end of the stopper shaft portion 51. A portion of the key member 53 is fitted into a notched portion 51c provided along a direction crossing an axial direction of one end side the stopper shaft portion 51. The other part of the key member 53 protruding from the stopper shaft portion 51 is fixed to the one of the cab 14 and the revolving frame 23.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Caterpillar SARLInventors: Tetsuji Takaoka, Ryosuke Ono
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Publication number: 20200248431Abstract: To provide a cab coming-off prevention structure of a working machine capable of preventing a coming-off prevention device from falling off. One end side of a stopper shaft portion 51 of a coming-off prevention device 16 is inserted through a through-hole 37a. The other end side of the stopper shaft portion 51 is inserted through an insertion hole 23b. A stopper main body portion 52 is provided on the other end of the stopper shaft portion 51. A portion of the key member 53 is fitted into a notched portion 51c provided along a direction crossing an axial direction of one end side the stopper shaft portion 51. The other part of the key member 53 protruding from the stopper shaft portion 51 is fixed to the one of the cab 14 and the revolving frame 23.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2018Publication date: August 6, 2020Applicant: Caterpillar SARLInventors: Tetsuji TAKAOKA, Ryosuke ONO
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Patent number: 8267467Abstract: A cab in a construction machine, the cab including frame members including a hollow first frame member connected to a second frame member in order to form a corner portion, the first frame member including a pass-through portion formed at a first side surface portion of the first frame member; a reinforcing member that is installed at the corner portion, wherein at least one of two sides of the reinforcing member passes through the pass-through portion and abuts against an inner surface of a second side surface portion of the first frame member that is at an opposite side of the first side surface portion; and a reinforcing plate that abuts against an outer surface of the second side surface portion, wherein the at least one of two sides of the reinforcing member is supported and reinforced by the reinforcing plate.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2009Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignees: Caterpillar Japan Ltd., Press Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuji Takaoka, Eiji Akahane, Kazushige Tasaki, Masayoshi Nakajima, Teruyuki Yamada, Yusuke Harayama, Tomoya Hirano
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Publication number: 20120038186Abstract: A cab in a construction machine, the cab including frame members including a hollow first frame member connected to a second frame member in order to form a corner portion, the first frame member including a pass-through portion formed at a first side surface portion of the first frame member; a reinforcing member that is installed at the corner portion, wherein at least one of two sides of the reinforcing member passes through the pass-through portion and abuts against an inner surface of a second side surface portion of the first frame member that is at an opposite side of the first side surface portion; and a reinforcing plate that abuts against an outer surface of the second side surface portion, wherein the at least one of two sides of the reinforcing member is supported and reinforced by the reinforcing plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2009Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicants: PRESS KOGYO CO., LTD., CATERPILLAR JAPAN LTD.Inventors: Tetsuji Takaoka, Eiji Akahane, Kazushige Tasaki, Masayoshi Nakajima, Teruyuki Yamada, Yusuke Harayama, Tomoya Hirano
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Patent number: 7922237Abstract: A vehicle includes a cab; a front window that is capable of moving between a closed position where a window opening at a front surface of the cab is closed and an open position where the front window is housed in a ceiling portion of the cab and the window opening is open; and a guide structure for the front window that guides the front window between the closed position and the open position.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2008Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignees: Catepillar Japan Ltd., Press Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eiji Akahane, Kazushige Tasaki, Masayoshi Nakajima, Tetsuji Takaoka, Teruyuki Yamada, Tomoya Hirano, Yusuke Harayama
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Publication number: 20100283290Abstract: A vehicle includes a cab; a front window that is capable of moving between a closed position where a window opening at a front surface of the cab is closed and an open position where the front window is housed in a ceiling portion of the cab and the window opening is open; and a guide structure for the front window that guides the front window between the closed position and the open position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2008Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicants: CATERPILLAR JAPAN LTD., PRESS KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Eiji Akahane, Kazushige Tasaki, Masayoshi Nakajima, Tetsuji Takaoka, Teruyuki Yamada, Tomoya Hirano, Yusuke Harayama
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Publication number: 20100186533Abstract: A console upturnably provided adjacent to an access area for gaining access to a seat installed in a work machine is provided with a release lever, to disengage a console securing locking portion and enabling the console to be upturned. The console has a hydraulic locking lever. Shifting the hydraulic locking lever to an opening position unblocks the access area, and performs a locking function to disable operation of the work machine; shifting the hydraulic locking lever to a blocking position to block the access area performs an unlocking function, thereby enabling operation of the work machine. Provided in relation to the release lever is a lever operation restraining mechanism that disengages the release lever and enables the console to be upturned when the hydraulic locking lever is in the opening position, and prevent upturning operation when the hydraulic locking lever is in the blocking position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2008Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: Caterpillar Japan Ltd.Inventors: Eiji Akahane, Tetsuji Takaoka, Teruyuki Yamada
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Patent number: D814530Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Caterpillar SARLInventors: Tetsuji Takaoka, Ryosuke Ono, Niladri Manna
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Patent number: D974414Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Caterpillar SARLInventors: Tetsuo Nishiguchi, Tetsuji Takaoka, Kazumasa Matsumura, Yoshitaka Uchiyama, Kengo Hashimoto