Patents by Inventor Yoichiro Yamazaki

Yoichiro Yamazaki 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: 20220391811
    Abstract: Provided are a server and a system which enable a worker of a work machine to intuitively recognize work contents and the like to be performed using the work machine in each of a plurality of work locations. In response to a first designated operation through a remote input interface 210 of a remote operation device 20, a remote output interface 220 of the remote operation device 20 outputs a work environment image showing positions of designated work locations Q1 and Q2, and information about at least one of a designated work period and a designated work content. The designated work location, the designated work period and the designated work content are included in designated work information that is work information fitting a designated position depending on the first designated operation among a plurality of pieces of work information registered in a database 102.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Yusuke SAWADA, Hitoshi SASAKI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220389683
    Abstract: Provided are a server and a system which enable one operator driving or operating a work machine to intuitively recognize advice or instruction from another operator. A route guidance request from a first work machine 40 cooperating a first client (first remote operation device 20) is accepted. A guided route R extending between a first designated position P1 and a second designated position P2 may be designated through an input interface 210 of a second client (second remote operation device 20). Then, route guidance information depending on the guided route R is outputted to an output interface 220 of the first client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Yusuke SAWADA, Hitoshi SASAKI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220372732
    Abstract: A periphery monitoring device calculates an expected passage range indicating a range of a locus of a machine body when a lower travelling body travels in an imaging direction of a camera, based on a slewing angle of an upper slewing body and an attitude of an attachment, and superimposes a range image indicating the calculated expected passage range on an image captured by the camera to display the superimposed image on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki NAGAI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220363520
    Abstract: To allow a worker to visually recognize information for assisting transportation of a transport object and the transport object at the same time. A guidance system includes a guidance device and a controller. The guidance device has a display portion. The controller stores information of a target position of a transport object. The controller calculates a detected position which is a current position of the transport object based on a detection result of a detection portion, and further calculates a position deviation which is a deviation of the detected position from a target position. The display portion displays information of the position deviation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke KAMIMURA, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI, Koji YAMASHITA, Nobuhiro FUKUO, Norio TAKAGI, Takayuki IINO, Kaisuke SOGA
  • Patent number: 11486116
    Abstract: A remote operation device includes an image generating section that generates, when an operation determining section determines that an operation by an operator is a fine operation, and a posture determining section determines that a posture of the operator has changed from a reference posture to a watching posture, an enlarged image by enlarging a part of a work image of a construction machine, the part being related to a line-of-sight position acquired by an eye tracking device, and causes a display device to display the enlarged image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Otani, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20220341131
    Abstract: A point generating unit of a mobile terminal generates teaching point information associating a teaching position that teaches the work machine a position of the attachment in a series of movements to be performed by the work machine with orientation information indicating a target orientation at the teaching position, based on a slewing angle of an upper slewing body and on orientation information on the attachment. A point changing unit changes the generated teaching point information. When the teaching point information is changed, an instruction generating unit of the work machine generates an automatic operation instruction for automatically operating a slewing device and the attachment, based on the changed teaching point information. An operation control unit of the work machine automatically operates the slewing device and the attachment, based on the automatic operation instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke KAMIMURA, Daisuke NODA, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11466431
    Abstract: A correction value for matching an operation characteristic of a slave operating device with an operation characteristic of a master operating device is registered in advance in a correction table for each combination of type information of a construction machine and type information of the slave operating device. A controller acquires, from correction information, a correction value corresponding to a combination of the type information of the construction machine and the type information of the slave operating device received by a communication unit, corrects an amount of operation accepted by an operating lever based on the acquired correction value, and transmits the corrected amount of operation to the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Sasaki, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20220316181
    Abstract: According to the remote operation system or a remote operation server 20 included in the remote operation system, a “communication resource allocation process” is performed according to the skill or the like of the operator to allocate communication resources to a plurality of remote operation devices 10. When the “environment information control process” is performed, a data amount of environment data is reduced such that a reduction in the information amount of one or a plurality of low environment information factors is greater than the reduction in the information amount of one or a plurality of high environment information factors (meaning the reduction in the information amount of the environment information due to a change in the environment information factor). The environment information control process is performed in different modes according to a difference in an allocation resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Yusuke FUNAHARA, Hitoshi SASAKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220307224
    Abstract: The remote operation system has a mutual communication function of communicating with each of plural work machines and a remote operation device which remotely operates a cooperating work machine as a remote operation target among the plural work machines. The remote operation system includes a first support process element that acquires captured image which is captured by an actual machine image-capturing device of a first work machine establishing communication by a first communication path and transmits the captured image to the remote operation device and a second support process element that recognizes that one designation operation is performed, which is a portion of plural operations for causing a second work machine establishing communication by a second communication path and in which a changing situation corresponding to the operation appears in the captured image and that transmits a command signal corresponding to the one designation operation to the second work machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Ryuichi HIROSE, Yuki MORITA, Yuya MATSUDA, Masaki OTANI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220298747
    Abstract: It is possible to notify an operator of a change in radio wave intensity in addition to the radio wave intensity received by a remotely operating vehicle. A radio wave is transmitted to and received from a vehicle to operate the vehicle. A communication device 14 includes a display unit 21 configured to display information, in which the display unit 21 is capable of displaying a first image 22 representing first radio wave intensity which is radio wave intensity of a radio wave being currently received by the vehicle, and a second image 32 representing information on a change in the first radio wave intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Daiki ISHIDA, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220303472
    Abstract: A system or the like capable of improving convenience of recognizing a surrounding situation of a working machine for an operator by controlling an image capturing function of an actual machine image capturing device in an appropriate manner in consideration of a state of the working machine is provided. When a working machine 40 is in the first state, an operation of a panning switch SW1 and a tilting switch SW2 is stopped, a posture ? of the actual machine image capturing device 412 when the operation is restarted is limited to an initial posture ?0. When the working machine 40 is in the second state, after the operation of the panning switch SW1 and the tilting switch SW2 is stopped, the posture ? of the actual machine image capturing device 412 when the operation is restarted is the posture ? as it is when the operation is stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Daiki ISHIDA, Ryota HAMA, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220298748
    Abstract: A system or the like capable of making an operator recognize an environment around a working machine in an appropriate form in consideration of a state of the working machine. In the case where a working machine 40 is in a first state (an operable state), a display magnification of a captured image (environment image) outputted to a remote output interface 220 is controlled only in a range of a specified display magnification or lower, or is fixed at a value of the specified display magnification or lower. On the other hand, in the case where the working machine 40 is in a second state (an inoperable state), a zoom function of an actual machine image capturing device 412 is demonstrated according to a zoom operation through a remote input interface 210 by the operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Daiki ISHIDA, Ryota HAMA, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11423341
    Abstract: A manager terminal generates work plan information that is information regarding a work plan by at least one work machine, set for each operator who remotely operates the at least one work machine, and includes a work item by the work machine that is remotely operated by the operator and work time for the work item based on contents input by a construction manager, and inputs the work plan information into a server. The server generates progress information indicating work progress of the operator for the at least one work machine based on the work plan information input from the manager terminal and work information input from at least one work information acquisition unit, inputs the progress information into the manager terminal, and presents the progress information to the construction manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11421404
    Abstract: A construction machine includes a display control section which controls a display device to display attachment relevant information generated based on attachment positional information generated by an attachment positional information generation section and three-dimensional contour information of a peripheral working area around the construction machine. The attachment relevant information is information concerning an image obtained by superimposing a peripheral image about a three-dimensional contour of the peripheral working area and a projected image about a leading end attachment which is projected to the peripheral image in a projection direction set arbitrarily or a projection direction set in accordance with a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Ito, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20220237534
    Abstract: A data amount reduction unit of a data processing system of a construction machine is configured to reduce, based on a preset first reduction rule, a data amount of first image data that is a portion corresponding to a preset first specification work among time-series image data stored in a data storage unit, and reduce, based on a preset second reduction rule, a data amount of second image data that is a portion corresponding to a preset second specification work among the time-series image data stored in the data storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingun KYU, Sho FUJIWARA, Yukihiro HOSO, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220220706
    Abstract: Provided is a system which can supply appropriate information to one operator from a viewpoint that the one operator grasps a remotely operational mode for a working machine by the other operator. In a first remote operation apparatus 10, a passive mode detector 112 detects a passive mode of a first operation mechanism 111, and transmits operational mode data corresponding to the passive mode. In a second remote operation apparatus 20, an operation of an actuator 212 is controlled in accordance with the passive mode of the first operation mechanism 111 in response to the operational mode data, and thereby, a second operation mechanism 211 actively operates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Masaki OTANI, Hitoshi SASAKI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220220701
    Abstract: Provided is a work machine or the like which can switch between a power supply state and a power supply cutoff state of an actual machine control device irrespective of switching on or off an actual machine switch. On switching an actual machine switch 81 from off to on, a first power supply route from an actual machine power source 80 to an actual machine control device 400 is formed. Consequently, a second power supply route from the actual machine power source 80 to the actual machine control device 400 is formed. Then, the first power supply route is cut off, while the second power supply route not through the actual machine switch 81 is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Ryota HAMA, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI, Ryuichi HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20220213666
    Abstract: According to the remote operation system or a remote operation server 20 included in the remote operation system, when the “environment information control process” is performed, a data amount of environment data is reduced such that the reduction in the information amount of one or a plurality of low environment information factors is greater than the reduction in the information amount of one or a plurality of high environment information factors (meaning the reduction in the information amount of the environment information due to a change in the environment information factor). The environment information control process is performed by classifying the environment information factors into the high environment information factor and the low environment information factor according to a difference in the operation state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Yusuke FUNAHARA, Hitoshi SASAKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220195698
    Abstract: A first operation mechanism 3 includes a first driving source 30 which generates a driving force based on a drive command and a first driving mechanism 32 which inclines a left-side traveling pedal 1c by the driving force from the first driving source 30. The first driving mechanism 32 has a first abutting portion 32a which abuts a pedal surface of the left-side traveling pedal 1c and a first driving unit 32b which inclines the left-side traveling pedal 1c by inclining the first abutting portion. The first driving unit 32b is arranged in a position shifted to a lateral side from a space in which the first abutting portion 32a moves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Hitoshi SASAKI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI, Kohei NAKAMIZO
  • Publication number: 20220186465
    Abstract: Provided is a system which can supply appropriate information to one operator from a viewpoint that the one operator grasps a remotely operated action of a working machine by another operator. In a first remote operation apparatus 10, a sight line detector 112 detects a sight line of a first operator, and transmits sight line detection data corresponding to the sight line of the first operator. In a second remote operation apparatus 20, a second image output device 221 displays a designated image region spreading with reference to the sight line of the first operator corresponding to the sight line detection data in an environmental image corresponding to captured image data acquired by an imaging device 401 of a working machine 40, in a form different from a form of an image region around the designated image region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Masaki OTANI, Hitoshi SASAKI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI