Patents by Inventor Toshinori Kirihata

Toshinori Kirihata 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: 6962222
    Abstract: A mobile agricultural machine, particularly for use as a combine, which demonstrates improved operational movement and travel performance characteristics, and is capable of easily changing direction during operation, includes right and left travel crawlers, supported by drive sprockets and tension rollers, which are installed on right and left track frames through track rollers. Right and left travel frames are capable of being controllably elevated through crawler elevation arms. Tension rollers provide movement to the travel crawlers in a vertical direction, perpendicular to the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Yanmar Agricultural Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshinori Kirihata
  • Publication number: 20030161687
    Abstract: A mobile agricultural machine for achieving improvement in travel performance during direction change. In a combine where right and left travel crawlers (3) and (4) supported by drive sprockets (39) and tension rollers (42) are installed to right and left track frames (1) and (2) through track rollers (40), and where the right and left travel frames (1) and (2) are provided through crawler elevation arms (31) and (32) in an elevation action controllable manner tension rollers (42) are provided in a ground contact direction of the travel crawlers (3) and (4) in a movable manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2003
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Inventor: Toshinori Kirihata
  • Patent number: 6361435
    Abstract: A general purpose combined harvester and thresher comprising a first rotor (51) and a second rotor (52) provided in a thresh unit (5) and arranged longitudinally in parallel to each other with axes thereof right and left, and a first receiving net (55) and a second receiving net (56) arranged below the respective rotors to define a first treating chamber (D1) and second treating chamber (D2). A grain tank (79) is arranged above the threst unit (5), a base end of a discharge auger (83) is arranged outside the grain tank (79), an engine (84) is arranged behind the grain tank (79), and a transmission casing (85) is arranged below the engines A tooth bar (T1) is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the first rotor (51) facing a grain rod inlet (36), and a screw vane (53) has a pitch (P) equal to a width of a rear end of a feeder housing (35). A terminal end of a return conveyor (81) for returning of a second product communicates with the first treating chamber (D1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Yanmar Agricultural Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akito Yamamoto, Kenji Hamada, Masami Nakamura, Toshinori Kirihata, Jun Terashima, Junichi Masano, Yuichi Shinpuku
  • Patent number: 5699656
    Abstract: A tracked agricultural combine vehicle for harvesting, hulling and sorting grain includes a grain working section driven via a tension roller clutch controlled power transmission belt and further including integrated control means for left and right side propulsion track assemblies wherein individual track steering commands in the form of differential track speed control are derived from a common steering wheel input; vehicle speed is controlled by a single input means which controls the speed of both tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: Yanmar Agricultural Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Hamada, Toshinori Kirihata, Keita Kamikubo, Mikio Takagi, Masami Nakamura, Youzaburo Narahara, Koichi Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 5584167
    Abstract: A tracked agricultural combine vehicle for harvesting, hulling and sorting grain includes integrated control means for left and right side propulsion track assemblies wherein individual track steering commands in the form of differential track speed control are derived from a common steering wheel input and vehicle speed is controlled by a single input means which controls the speed of both tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1996
    Assignee: Yanmar Agricultural Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Hamada, Toshinori Kirihata, Masami Nakamura, Youzaburo Narahara, Keita Kamikubo, Mikio Takagi, Koichi Kawasaki