Patents by Inventor Yuichi Kodama
Yuichi Kodama 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: 10352165Abstract: A mine mining system mining ore from a vein in a mine including a mining area provided inside an ore body, a first mine shaft provided inside the ore body, and a second mine shaft connecting the mining area and the first mine shaft to each other, the mine mining system includes: a transporting machine which loads the ore mined in the mining area and transports the ore to a soil discharge area while traveling in the first mine shaft; and a loading machine which stays in the second mine shaft, excavates the ore in the mining area, conveys the excavated ore in a direction moving away from the mining area, and loads the ore on the transporting machine.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignees: Komatsu Ltd., The University of TokyoInventors: Yuichi Kodama, Masaaki Uetake, Kazunari Kawai, Shinichi Terada, Rui Fukui
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Patent number: 10240457Abstract: A mine management system includes a carrying machine that is loaded with ore and travels from a mining area to an earth removal area in underground of a mine, a loading machine that mines ore in the mining area and loads the ore onto the carrying machine, and a management device that sets a work mode in the underground based on an input signal, and changes a work parameter of the carrying machine and a work parameter of the loading machine.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2015Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Kazunari Kawai, Shinichi Terada, Taito Fujita, Yuichi Kodama, Masaaki Uetake
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Publication number: 20190084580Abstract: In a communication system, an in-vehicle relay device relays data between ECUs, which are each connected to a communication line in a vehicle, by communicating with each of the ECUs. Data received by a communication device from a server outside the vehicle is input to an out-of-vehicle relay device. Data to be transmitted by the communication device to the server is output to the communication device by the out-of-vehicle relay device. The out-of-vehicle relay device relays data between the server and the ECUs by passing data to and from the in-vehicle relay device. The out-of-vehicle relay device outputs, to the in-vehicle relay device, data input to the out-of-vehicle relay device, or associated data that is associated with data that was output. The in-vehicle relay device determines whether the relaying performed by the out-of-vehicle relay device is to be suspended, based on associated data output by the out-of-vehicle relay device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2016Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Yuichi Kodama, Takeshi Fujimoto, Satoshi Horihata, Hiroshi Ueda, Tomohiro Mizutani, Yoshiaki Matsutani, Masakatsu Moriguchi, Akihiro Natsume, Tomoyuki Mishima, Hideaki Tsuriya
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Publication number: 20180258608Abstract: An excavation machine includes a detector detecting a state of an object to be excavated a storage storing a plurality of pieces of excavation information in which a state of a first portion before excavated by a learning excavation device, and a first operation of when the learning excavation device excavates the first portion are associated with each other, and a processor including an estimation unit obtaining a state of a second portion intended to be excavated the state having been detected by the detector, an operation determining unit selecting the state of the first portion corresponding to the state of the obtained second portion, from among the states of the first portions of the excavation information, and determining the first operation corresponding to the selected state, as a second operation of when excavating the second portion, and an excavation controller operating an excavation device with the second operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2016Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Masaaki Uetake, Nobuki Hasegawa, Kazunari Kawai, Taito Fujita, Yuichi Kodama, Rui Fukui, Takayoshi Niho
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Patent number: 9873365Abstract: A transport machine is provided with a traveling device, a vehicle body, a vessel, a support device and a load detection device. At least a portion of the vehicle body is arranged above the traveling device. The vessel is provided on the vehicle body. The support device includes a slide mechanism that moves the vessel in a lateral direction with respect to the vehicle body, the lateral direction intersecting with a traveling direction of the traveling device when the transport machine travels straight. The load detection device detects a state of a load on the vessel. The slide mechanism is controlled based on a result of detection by the load detection device.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Masaaki Uetake, Yuichi Kodama, Kazunari Kawai, Shinichi Terada
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Patent number: 9828856Abstract: A conveyance machine that conveys a load, the conveyance machine includes: a traveling unit; a vehicle body arranged above the traveling unit; a vessel provided on the vehicle body; a first detecting unit that detects a loading machine that loads a load on the vessel; and a processing unit that adjusts a position of the vessel according to a detected result of the first detecting unit so as the vessel to be positioned at a loading point where the loading machine performs loading.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignees: Komatsu Ltd., The University of TokyoInventors: Yuichi Kodama, Masaaki Uetake, Kazunari Kawai, Shinichi Terada, Rui Fukui
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Publication number: 20170138193Abstract: A mine management system includes a carrying machine that is loaded with ore and travels from a mining area to an earth removal area in underground of a mine, a loading machine that mines ore in the mining area and loads the ore onto the carrying machine, and a management device that sets a work mode in the underground based on an input signal, and changes a work parameter of the carrying machine and a work parameter of the loading machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2015Publication date: May 18, 2017Inventors: Kazunari Kawai, Shinichi Terada, Taito Fujita, Yuichi Kodama, Masaaki Uetake
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Publication number: 20160237820Abstract: A conveyance machine that conveys a load, the conveyance machine includes: a traveling unit; a vehicle body arranged above the traveling unit; a vessel provided on the vehicle body; a first detecting unit that detects a loading machine that loads a load on the vessel; and a processing unit that adjusts a position of the vessel according to a detected result of the first detecting unit so as the vessel to be positioned at a loading point where the loading machine performs loading.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2014Publication date: August 18, 2016Inventors: Yuichi Kodama, Masaaki Uetake, Kazunari Kawai, Shinichi Terada, Rui Fukui
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Publication number: 20160229326Abstract: A transport machine is provided with a traveling device, a vehicle body, a vessel, a support device and a load detection device. At least a portion of the vehicle body is arranged above the traveling device. The vessel is provided on the vehicle body. The support device includes a slide mechanism that moves the vessel in a lateral direction with respect to the vehicle body, the lateral direction intersecting with a traveling direction of the traveling device when the transport machine travels straight. The load detection device detects a state of a load on the vessel. The slide mechanism is controlled based on a result of detection by the load detection device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2014Publication date: August 11, 2016Applicant: KOMATSU Ltd.Inventors: Masaaki Uetake, Yuichi Kodama, Kazunari Kawai, Shinichi Terada
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Publication number: 20160232622Abstract: A mine management system (1) is used to mine ore from a vein in a mine including mining areas provided at the downside of the vein, a first mine shaft provided at the downside of the vein, and second mine shafts connecting the mining areas to the first mine shaft and includes: a transporting machine which loads the ore mined in the mining area and transports the ore to a soil discharge area while traveling in the first mine shaft; a loading machine which stays in the second mine shaft while a space used for the transporting machine to travel therein is left inside the first mine shaft, excavates the ore in the mining area, conveys the mined ore from the mining area in the opposite direction, and loads the ore on the transporting machine; and a management device which determines the mining area toward which the transporting machine is directed so that the operability of the loading machine becomes maximal or the operability of the transporting machine becomes maximal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2014Publication date: August 11, 2016Applicants: Komatsu Ltd., The University of TokyoInventors: Yuichi Kodama, Masaaki Uetake, Kazunari Kawai, Shinichi Terada, Rui Fukui
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Publication number: 20160215621Abstract: A mine mining system mining ore from a vein in a mine including a mining area provided inside an ore body, a first mine shaft provided inside the ore body, and a second mine shaft connecting the mining area and the first mine shaft to each other, the mine mining system includes: a transporting machine which loads the ore mined in the mining area and transports the ore to a soil discharge area while traveling in the first mine shaft; and a loading machine which stays in the second mine shaft, excavates the ore in the mining area, conveys the excavated ore in a direction moving away from the mining area, and loads the ore on the transporting machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2014Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Yuichi Kodama, Masaaki Uetake, Kazunari Kawai, Shinichi Terada, Rui Fukui
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Publication number: 20160217535Abstract: A mine management system to mine ore in a mine including a mining area, a first mine shaft, and a second mine shaft connecting the mining area and the first mine shaft, the mine management system includes: a transporting machine loading the ore mined in the mining area and transporting the ore to a soil discharge area while traveling in the first mine shaft; a loading machine staying in the second mine shaft while a space for the transporting machine to travel therein is left inside the first mine shaft, excavating the ore in the mining area, conveying the mined ore from the mining area in an opposite direction, and loading the mined ore on the transporting machine; and a management device determining a mining area in which the loading machine is disposed based on a difference between a production plan and an actual production amount of the mine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2014Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicants: Komatsu Ltd., The University of TokyoInventors: Yuichi Kodama, Masaaki Uetake, Kazunari Kawai, Shinichi Terada, Rui Fukui
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Patent number: 8031928Abstract: A CT data processing apparatus and a CT data processing method capable of separating a subcutaneous fat region from a visceral fat region accurately and efficiently in CT data are provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2007Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Rigaku CorporationInventors: Yukihiro Hara, Ayuta Yamada, Yuichi Kodama
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Patent number: 7848481Abstract: In an X-ray CT apparatus, an X-ray source and an X-ray detector mounted in a guide arm are freely movable in such a direction as to approach to and separate from a sample. With respect to this movement, the center of gravity of the whole containing respective constituent elements mounted in the guide arm is kept on the rotational axis by a weight balance adjusting mechanism. The weight balance adjusting mechanism contains a movable weight which is freely movable to the guide arm. The movement of the movable weight is controlled so that a difference between the rotational moment around the rotational axis is offset and substantially equal to zero. The moving passage of the movable weight is set on a straight line which is parallel to the moving direction of the X-ray source and the X-ray detector and does not pass through the rotational axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2006Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Rigaku CorporationInventors: Yuichi Kodama, Ayuta Yamada, Manabu Noguchi
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Publication number: 20090046835Abstract: In an X-ray CT apparatus, an X-ray source and an X-ray detector mounted in a guide arm are freely movable in such a direction as to approach to and separate from a sample. With respect to this movement, the center of gravity of the whole containing respective constituent elements mounted in the guide arm is kept on the rotational axis by a weight balance adjusting mechanism. The weight balance adjusting mechanism contains a movable weight which is freely movable to the guide arm. The movement of the movable weight is controlled so that a difference between the rotational moment around the rotational axis is offset and substantially equal to zero. The moving passage of the movable weight is set on a straight line which is parallel to the moving direction of the X-ray source and the X-ray detector and does not pass through the rotational axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2006Publication date: February 19, 2009Applicant: RIGAKU CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichi Kodama, Ayuta Yamada, Manabu Noguchi
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Publication number: 20080130975Abstract: A CT data processing apparatus and a CT data processing method capable of separating a subcutaneous fat region from a visceral fat region accurately and efficiently in CT data are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2007Publication date: June 5, 2008Inventors: Yukihiro Hara, Ayuta Yamada, Yuichi Kodama
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Publication number: 20030160197Abstract: A solenoid-operated valve which has, between a moving element operated by an electromagnetic force and a valve element, a displacement converting mechanism for increasing or decreasing a displaced amount of the valve element relative to a displaced amount of the moving element, or a force converting mechanism for increasing or decreasing a driving force of the valve element relative to a driving force of the moving element. This solenoid-operated valve can reduce power consumption because it changes the displaced amount or the driving force of the valve element with a simple structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2003Publication date: August 28, 2003Inventor: Yuichi Kodama