Patents by Inventor Yukio Sugano
Yukio Sugano 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: 9719433Abstract: The gross output power of an engine distributed to at least one main machine and one auxiliary machine. A total load value calculation unit calculates the value of the lost power consumed by the auxiliary machine, and calculates the value of total load power by adding to this lost power value a target value for the main output power of the engine to be distributed to the main machine. A gross output value control unit controls the value of the gross output power so that the value of the gross output power becomes equal to the value of the total load power when the value of the total load power is less than a predetermined threshold value, and so that the value of the gross output power becomes equal to the above described threshold value when the value of the total load power is greater than the threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2010Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Masaru Shizume, Yukio Sugano
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Publication number: 20110251775Abstract: The gross output power of an engine distributed to at least one main machine and one auxiliary machine. A total load value calculation unit calculates the value of the lost power consumed by the auxiliary machine, and calculates the value of total load power by adding to this lost power value a target value for the main output power of the engine to be distributed to the main machine. A gross output value control unit controls the value of the gross output power so that the value of the gross output power becomes equal to the value of the total load power when the value of the total load power is less than a predetermined threshold value, and so that the value of the gross output power becomes equal to the above described threshold value when the value of the total load power is greater than the threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2010Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Masaru Shizume, Yukio Sugano
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Patent number: 6542851Abstract: Performance data of components of a construction machine is measured by the steps of automatically operating the component mounted to the construction machine so as to satisfy one of a plurality of measurement conditions which are preliminarily set, automatically measuring performance data of the component which is preliminarily set under the above automatically operated state, and successively performing the same steps as those defined above with respect to remaining measurement conditions other than the above-mentioned one measurement condition, thus measuring the performance data of the component with one or more than one measurement conditions.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 1999Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Nobuki Hasegawa, Yukio Sugano, Shigeru Yamamoto
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Patent number: 6524207Abstract: An inter-axle differential capable of preventing a skid to achieve stable travel is provided. For this purpose, the inter-axle differential apparatus includes an inter-axle differential (13), an inter-axle differential lock (21), at least one rotation detector of a first rotation detector (27) for detecting rotational frequency of a transmission output shaft (24), a second rotation detector (28) for detecting rotational frequency of a front output shaft (25) of the inter-axle differential, and a third rotation detector (29) for detecting rotational frequency of a rear output shaft (26) of the inter-axle differential, and a controller (20) for detecting a sign of a skid occurring to driving wheels (2, 4) based on at least any one of the rotational frequency detected by the rotational detector and a rate of change with time of the detected rotational frequency and for outputting a differential lock signal to the inter-axle differential lock.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2001Date of Patent: February 25, 2003Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Takanobu Murakami, Yukio Sugano
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Publication number: 20020103623Abstract: Performance data of components of a construction machine is measured by the steps of automatically operating the component mounted to the construction machine so as to satisfy one of a plurality of measurement conditions which are preliminarily set, automatically measuring performance data of the component which is preliminarily set under the above automatically operated state, and successively performing the same steps as those defined above with respect to remaining measurement conditions other than the above-mentioned one measurement condition, thus measuring the performance data of the component with one or more than one measurement conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 1999Publication date: August 1, 2002Inventors: NOBUKI HASEGAWA, YUKIO SUGANO, SHIGERU YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 6321178Abstract: The present invention relates to a diagnosis apparatus which can plan a maintenance plan, a renewal plan, and the like of a self-propelled vehicle, by detecting a work load in addition to an engine condition. Accordingly, there is provided: engine rotating speed detecting means (11), for detecting a rotating speed N of the engine; fuel injection amount detecting means, for detecting a fuel injection amount q per rotation of the engine; loaded weight detecting means, for detecting the weight W of the loaded material; vehicle speed detecting means (14), for detecting the vehicle speed V; and trigger signal oscillating means (82), for oscillating a trigger signal d per predetermined time period to.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 1998Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Sugano, Genichirou Watanabe, Nobuki Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20010027144Abstract: An inter-axle differential capable of preventing a skid to achieve stable travel is provided. For this purpose, the inter-axle differential apparatus includes an inter-axle differential (13), an inter-axle differential lock (21), at least one rotation detector of a first rotation detector (27) for detecting rotational frequency of a transmission output shaft (24), a second rotation detector (28) for detecting rotational frequency of a front output shaft (25) of the inter-axle differential, and a third rotation detector (29) for detecting rotational frequency of a rear output shaft (26) of the inter-axle differential, and a controller (20) for detecting a sign of a skid occurring to driving wheels (2, 4) based on at least any one of the rotational frequency detected by the rotational detector and a rate of change with time of the detected rotational frequency and for outputting a differential lock signal to the inter-axle differential lock.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2001Publication date: October 4, 2001Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Takanobu Murakami, Yukio Sugano
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Patent number: 6175788Abstract: It is possible to prevent generation of failure in a dump truck and to diagnose a true cause of failure in a short period of time. Thus the present failure diagnosis method diagnoses an operation and function of at least one of respective devices, such as an engine at a predetermined engine rotational speed, a transmission, respective axles, respective suspensions, hydro-pneumatic systems, and a brake while a vessel body (4) descends after evacuation of a load.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 1998Date of Patent: January 16, 2001Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Nobuki Hasegawa, Yukio Sugano, Genichirou Watanabe
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Patent number: 6115662Abstract: A brake diagnosis apparatus for a self-propelled vehicle can secure the safety of the brake and the productivity of mining and quarrying and can detect widely applicable data including the history.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1998Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Sugano, Genichiro Watanabe, Nobuki Hasegawa
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Patent number: 6047793Abstract: The present invention is a device for detecting abrasion of a brake for a vehicle, and is capable of accurately and surely detecting a time of abrasion. For this purpose, the device includes plates (3) engaged in an outer gear (2); discs (4), engaged in an inner gear (5); a piston (6), for bringing the plates (3) and the discs (4) into pressure contact to thereby brake a vehicle, a stroke sensor (26), for detecting an amount of displacement of the piston (6); an operation detecting device (27), for detecting an operation of a brake; and a computing unit (21), for computing amounts of abrasion of the plates (3) and the discs (4) based on detection signals from the operation detecting device (27) and the stroke sensor (26).Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 1998Date of Patent: April 11, 2000Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Nobuki Hasegawa, Yukio Sugano
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Patent number: 6012004Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and a method for managing time for a vehicle fault diagnostic apparatus by which temporal contradictions and errors between controllers are eliminated, and fault diagnosis is reliably performed by accurate time. To this end, the system includes a master controller (1) for transmitting a counted time as a standard time, and a plurality of controllers (11a, 11b, 11c, . . . , 11n) for determining the time relating to the fault diagnosis on the basis of the received standard time when fault data of sensors, etc., are detected.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 1997Date of Patent: January 4, 2000Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Sugano, Hiroshi Shimura
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Patent number: 5682744Abstract: A full hydraulic type steering control system is provided with a steering control valve for outputting a flow of a pressurized discharge fluid of a hydraulic pump in proportion to an amount of steering at a steering wheel, and a directional control valve for delivering the pressurized discharge fluid of the hydraulic pump into a steering control cylinder, with the output flow of pressurized fluid of the steering control valve being switched as a pilot fluid pressure. The directional control valve comprises a spool adapted to be slidably inserted in a spool bore of a valve body.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 1996Date of Patent: November 4, 1997Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Nobuki Hasegawa, Yukio Sugano
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Patent number: 5472062Abstract: A hydraulic drive system of a steerable wheel of a dump truck facilitates the attaching and detaching of a hydraulic motor and allows for a large hydraulic motor to be used. In the drive system, a wheel axle is rotatably supported within a receptacle seat supported on a yoke. The steerable wheel is rotatably mounted on the outer periphery of the receptacle seat. The steerable wheel and one end of the wheel axle are connected via a speed reducer. A motor casing 33 of a hydraulic motor is connected by bolts to the receptacle seat at an end of the seat remote from the steerable wheel so that the hydraulic motor can be attached to and detached from the receptacle seat by tightening and loosening the bolts.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 1993Date of Patent: December 5, 1995Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu SeisakushoInventors: Takao Nagai, Yukio Sugano, Nobuki Hasegawa, Masaki Mori, Yoichi Kinosita