Patents by Inventor Yasutaka Tsuruga

Yasutaka Tsuruga 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: 20200189541
    Abstract: A hydraulic oil resupply device (40) is provided between first accumulators (15F, 15R) in a manual braking operation circuit (11) and a second accumulator (25) in an automatic brake circuit (24). The hydraulic oil resupply device (40) resupplies hydraulic oil accumulated in the second accumulator (25) to the first accumulators (15F, 15R) at the operating of a manual braking operation by an operator. This configuration can suppress a rising speed of a brake pressure at the manual operation braking from being slow. Accordingly, in a vehicular brake system, it is possible to enhance a braking capability by the manual braking operation and improve the reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Takaaki TANAKA, Takanobu IKARI, Yasutaka TSURUGA, Takayuki SATOU, Takashi SASAKI
  • Patent number: 10633825
    Abstract: The construction machine includes: a work implement driven by a first hydraulic actuator and a second hydraulic actuator; a first directional control valve controlling a flow rate and a direction of a hydraulic fluid supplied to the first hydraulic actuator; a first speed-up directional control valve provided in a second pump line and controlling a flow rate and a direction of a hydraulic fluid supplied to the first hydraulic actuator; a second directional control valve controlling a flow rate and a direction of a hydraulic fluid supplied to the second hydraulic actuator; an excavation load sensor that detects an excavation load imposed on the work implement; and a first speed-up control section that drives the first speed-up directional control valve, and the first speed-up control section is configured to control a driving amount of the first speed-up directional control valve in response to the excavation load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Moriki, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Hiroaki Tanaka, Yasutaka Tsuruga
  • Patent number: 10626575
    Abstract: A control system for a construction machine includes an electric lever operating device that outputs a command to a hydraulic actuator, a travel control lever device that outputs a command to a travel device, and a controller that outputs a drive command to a solenoid proportional valve that decompresses hydraulic fluid supplied from a pilot hydraulic source. The control system includes a machine body state judgment part that judges the state of the machine body based on an electric signal from the electric lever operating device and an operation amount of the travel control lever device and a dead zone calculation part that calculates a dead zone for the electric signal from the electric lever operating device based on the state of the machine body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Yoshiyuki Tsuchie, Hidekazu Moriki, Yasutaka Tsuruga
  • Patent number: 10604914
    Abstract: The control system for the hydraulic construction machine includes: a hydraulic actuator; a work device driven by the hydraulic actuator; a hydraulic pump supplying a hydraulic fluid to the hydraulic actuator; a pump flow rate control section controlling the delivery flow rate of the hydraulic pump; a pump horsepower control section controlling the horsepower of the hydraulic pump; and a target surface distance acquiring section measuring or computing a target surface distance that is the distance between a construction target surface on which the work device works and the work device. The pump flow rate control section is configured to perform control such that as the target surface distance decreases, the delivery flow rate decreases, and the pump horsepower control section is configured to perform control such that as the target surface distance decreases, the horsepower of the hydraulic pump increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Moriki, Ryu Narikawa, Hiroaki Tanaka, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Yasutaka Tsuruga
  • Publication number: 20200032485
    Abstract: A hydraulic circuit (11) of a hydraulic excavator (1) is provided with a main hydraulic circuit (11A) including a boom cylinder (5D), a pilot hydraulic circuit (11B) for operating the boom cylinder (5D) and a recovery hydraulic circuit (11C) including an accumulator (29). In this case, the recovery hydraulic circuit (11C) is provided with a recovery control valve (31) that recovers pressurized oil discharged from the boom cylinder (5D) to the accumulator (29), a main supply control valve (34) for supplying pressurized oil accumulated in the accumulator (29) to the main hydraulic circuit (11A) and a pilot supply control valve (37) for supplying pressurized oil accumulated in the accumulator (29) to the pilot hydraulic circuit (11B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Seiji HIJIKATA, Yasutaka TSURUGA, Kouji ISHIKAWA, Kiwamu TAKAHASHI, Masatoshi HOSHINO
  • Patent number: 10533303
    Abstract: A construction machine includes a control device having a reaction-force correction control section. When a difference between a target operator input and an actual operator input for a front member exceeds a preset range, the reaction-force correction control section executes correction to increase an operation reaction force to be applied by a reaction-force applying device to an operating unit operating an actuator driving the front member. When the difference falls within the range, the reaction-force correction control section executes correction to decrease the operation reaction force to be applied by the reaction-force applying device to the operating unit operating the actuator driving the front member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tsuchie, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Hidekazu Moriki, Yasutaka Tsuruga
  • Publication number: 20200010060
    Abstract: An automatic brake subsystem (24) includes second accumulators (25F, 25R), a front second line (28) and a rear second line (29), second brake valves (30F, 30R), a first solenoid switching valve (32), first shuttle valves (33F, 33R), and a controller 37. A second solenoid switching valve (34F) and a pressure sensor (35F) are provided in the front second line (28), and a second solenoid switching valve (34R) and a pressure sensor (35R) are provided in the rear second line (29). In a case where it is determined that each of the second brake valve (30F, 30R) is not performing normally based upon a pressure of a hydraulic fluid detected by each of the pressure sensors (35F, 35R) and an operating signal supplied to the first solenoid switching valve (32) or each of the second brake valves (30F, 30R), a controller 37 performs control to switch each of the second solenoid switching valves (34F, 34R).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Takaaki TANAKA, Takanobu IKARI, Yasutaka TSURUGA, Takayuki SATO, Takashi SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20190345697
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator includes: a multijoint type front implement that is configured by coupling a plurality of driven members including a bucket; inertial measurement units that detect posture information about the plurality of driven members; and a calibration value computing section that computes calibration parameters used in calibration of detection results of the inertial measurement units; and a work position computing section that computes a relative position of the bucket to the machine body on the basis of the detection results of the inertial measurement units and the computation result of the calibration value computing section, and the calibration value computing section computes the calibration parameters on the basis of the detection results of the inertial measurement units in a plurality of postures of the front implement in which a reference point set on any of the plurality of driven members in advance matches a reference position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Shinji ISHIHARA, Hidekazu MORIKI, Manabu EDAMURA, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Yasutaka TSURUGA, Yuuichirou MORITA
  • Publication number: 20190338494
    Abstract: The construction machine includes: a work implement driven by a first hydraulic actuator and a second hydraulic actuator; a first directional control valve controlling a flow rate and a direction of a hydraulic fluid supplied to the first hydraulic actuator; a first speed-up directional control valve provided in a second pump line and controlling a flow rate and a direction of a hydraulic fluid supplied to the first hydraulic actuator; a second directional control valve controlling a flow rate and a direction of a hydraulic fluid supplied to the second hydraulic actuator; an excavation load sensor that detects an excavation load imposed on the work implement; and a first speed-up control section that drives the first speed-up directional control valve, and the first speed-up control section is configured to control a driving amount of the first speed-up directional control valve in response to the excavation load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Hidekazu MORIKI, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Hiroaki TANAKA, Yasutaka TSURUGA
  • Patent number: 10450725
    Abstract: A construction machine that can ensure an initial response that varies in accordance with a hydraulic actuator in a similar fashion to a case of adopting a hydraulic pilot-type operation device is provided. A controller 100 of a hydraulic excavator outputs a command current for driving the corresponding solenoid proportional valve (i.e. some of solenoid proportional valves 41a, 41b, 42a to 42d, 43a to 43d, 44a and 44b) in response to an operation signal from an electric lever-type work operation device 2a or 2b, and includes a correction function to correct the command current such that the command current is higher than a target current corresponding to an operation amount of the operation device for preset predetermined time at a time of starting to operate the operation device from a neutral position thereof. This correction function corrects only the command current to the bucket solenoid proportional valves 44a and 44b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Yasutaka Tsuruga
  • Patent number: 10450722
    Abstract: A control system for a construction machine stops an upper swing structure at a desired swing stop angle. A main controller sets a swing stop target angle at which an upper swing structure is to be stopped. A swing stoppability determination section reads an angle signal of the upper swing structure with respect to an undercarriage and an angle of a work implement, and determines whether the swing of the upper swing structure can be stopped at the swing stop target angle. A work implement is controlled in such a manner that an extension action of the work implement in a swing radial direction is prohibited or a contraction action of the work implement in the swing radial direction is executed in response to a signal that indicates whether the swing can be stopped and that is determined by the swing stoppability determination section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Moriki, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Yasutaka Tsuruga, Tadashi Osaka, Ryu Narikawa
  • Patent number: 10435870
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator includes: a hydraulic pump driven by power generated by an engine; a work device that operates by a plurality of hydraulic cylinders driven by power generated by the hydraulic pump; an actuator control section that controls the boom cylinder in such a manner that a tip end of a bucket is located on or above a target surface; a control point position calculation section that calculates a bucket claw tip position on the basis of angle sensors; and a power generator control section that imposes more limitations on output power ranges of the engine and the hydraulic pump when a distance between the claw tip position and the target surface is equal to or smaller than a threshold D than those when the distance between the claw tip position and the target surface is larger than the threshold D.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryu Narikawa, Hidekazu Moriki, Yasutaka Tsuruga, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Shiho Izumi
  • Patent number: 10400797
    Abstract: To provide a hydraulic control system for a working machine with high fuel efficiency and higher versatility to be capable of being adapted to special work. The hydraulic control system for the working machine according to the present invention includes: a plurality of directional control valves (31, 32, . . . ), more than one of which is connected in parallel to each of a plurality of hydraulic pumps (11, 12, 13) to supply hydraulic oil from the hydraulic pump to each of the corresponding actuators (4, 5, 6, 50); operating devices (110, 120, 130, 140) to which an operator inputs manipulated variables; a connection map (182) storing a precedence order for connection between a plurality of hydraulic pumps and a plurality of directional control valves; and a controller (100) controlling the connection conditions of the pumps and the actuators on the basis of the connection a¥map and operation signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Udagawa, Hiroaki Tanaka, Yasutaka Tsuruga, Kazunori Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10329739
    Abstract: The invention provides a construction machine in which the load torque at the time of engine start-up can be reduced even when the engine stops against the will of the operator. A hydraulic excavator includes a control device (35) having a pump displacement control section (37) and an unload control section (38). The pump displacement control section (37) makes the displacement of a hydraulic pump (16) variable to a minimum displacement by controlling a regulator device (20) when the speed of an engine (14) detected by a speed sensor (41) becomes equal to or less than a preset low speed N3 at the time of driving of the engine (14). The unload control section (40) controls an unloading valve (24) to the open position at the time of start-up of the engine (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Hoshino, Yasutaka Tsuruga, Kiwamu Takahashi, Seiji Hijikata
  • Patent number: 10287751
    Abstract: A hydraulic drive system for a track device of crawler type has right and left hydraulic track motors. The hydraulic drive system is capable of correcting for skew occurring in the straight line traveling of the track device. A traveling test is conducted upon shipment from a factory. If skew is noted during the test, a plug disposed on the side of a valve opening-side pressure receiving portion of a pressure compensating valve for the track which is lower in speed is removed and, replaced with an adjusting mechanism-mounted plug having an adjusting pin. The pin is operated so as to strengthen a biasing force of a target compensating differential pressure adjusting spring. An opening in the pressure compensating valve is thereby corrected in an opening direction and a flow rate to one of the left and right track motors is thereby adjusted to be equal to the other motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Tierra Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushige Mori, Yasutaka Tsuruga, Kiwamu Takahashi, Yoshifumi Takebayashi
  • Patent number: 10273658
    Abstract: The construction machine includes: a control valve that switchingly supplies hydraulic fluid from a hydraulic pump to a hydraulic actuator; a control valve drive device that supplies pilot secondary hydraulic fluid to the control valve in accordance with an operation of an operation lever device; a pilot hydraulic pump that supplies pilot primary hydraulic fluid to the control valve drive device; a pressure accumulation device that recovers return hydraulic fluid returned from the hydraulic actuator. The construction machine further includes: a check valve provided in a line between the pilot hydraulic pump and the control valve drive device; a pressure reducing valve that supplied the hydraulic fluid accumulated in the pressure accumulation device; a flow rate reduction device; and a controller that controls the flow rate reduction device in accordance with the pressure in the line between the check valve and the control valve drive device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Hijikata, Kouji Ishikawa, Yasutaka Tsuruga, Masatoshi Hoshino, Kiwamu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10215198
    Abstract: To make it possible to efficiently utilize rated output torque of a prime mover by performing total torque control with high precision through precise detection of absorption torque of another hydraulic pump by use of a purely hydraulic structure and feedback of the absorption torque to the side of one hydraulic pump, delivery pressure of a main pump and a load sensing drive pressure are supplied to a torque feedback circuit, which modifies the delivery pressure of the main pump to achieve a characteristic simulating the absorption torque of the main pump, and outputs the modified pressure. An output pressure of the torque feedback circuit is supplied to a torque feedback piston, which controls displacement of the main pump so as to decrease the displacement of the main pump and thereby decrease maximum torque as the output pressure increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Tierra Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiwamu Takahashi, Yasutaka Tsuruga, Yoshifumi Takebayashi, Kazushige Mori, Natsuki Nakamura, Yasuharu Okazaki, Hiroyuki Nobezawa, Kenji Yamada
  • Publication number: 20180355583
    Abstract: The control system for the hydraulic construction machine includes: a hydraulic actuator; a work device driven by the hydraulic actuator; a hydraulic pump supplying a hydraulic fluid to the hydraulic actuator; a pump flow rate control section controlling the delivery flow rate of the hydraulic pump; a pump horsepower control section controlling the horsepower of the hydraulic pump; and a target surface distance acquiring section measuring or computing a target surface distance that is the distance between a construction target surface on which the work device works and the work device. The pump flow rate control section is configured to perform control such that as the target surface distance decreases, the delivery flow rate decreases, and the pump horsepower control section is configured to perform control such that as the target surface distance decreases, the horsepower of the hydraulic pump increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Hidekazu MORIKI, Ryu NARIKAWA, Hiroaki TANAKA, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Yasutaka TSURUGA
  • Publication number: 20180347150
    Abstract: A control system for a construction machine stops an upper swing structure at a desired swing stop angle. A main controller sets a swing stop target angle at which an upper swing structure is to be stopped. A swing stoppability determination section reads an angle signal of the upper swing structure with respect to an undercarriage and an angle of a work implement, and determines whether the swing of the upper swing structure can be stopped at the swing stop target angle. A work implement is controlled in such a manner that an extension action of the work implement in a swing radial direction is prohibited or a contraction action of the work implement in the swing radial direction is executed in response to a signal that indicates whether the swing can be stopped and that is determined by the swing stoppability determination section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Hidekazu MORIKI, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Yasutaka TSURUGA, Tadashi OSAKA, Ryu NARIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180305898
    Abstract: A construction machine that can ensure an initial response that varies in accordance with a hydraulic actuator in a similar fashion to a case of adopting a hydraulic pilot-type operation device is provided. A controller 100 of a hydraulic excavator outputs a command current for driving the corresponding solenoid proportional valve (i.e. some of solenoid proportional valves 41a, 41b, 42a to 42d, 43a to 43d, 44a and 44b) in response to an operation signal from an electric lever-type work operation device 2a or 2b, and includes a correction function to correct the command current such that the command current is higher than a target current corresponding to an operation amount of the operation device for preset predetermined time at a time of starting to operate the operation device from a neutral position thereof. This correction function corrects only the command current to the bucket solenoid proportional valves 44a and 44b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Yasutaka TSURUGA