Patents Assigned to Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11554760
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Tanaka, Takanobu Ikari, Yasutaka Tsuruga, Takayuki Sato, Takashi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11506246
    Abstract: A first rotating shaft (22) and a second rotating shaft (43) are connected so as to be capable of transmitting rotation by engagement of a first pawl portion (38) of a piston (32) and a second pawl portion (47) of the second rotating shaft (43) based upon delivery of hydraulic oil to an oil chamber (37). The first pawl portion, when in engagement with the second pawl portion based upon the delivery of the hydraulic oil, is engaged with a third pawl portion (52) of a synchronizer ring (51) prior to the engagement with the second pawl portion. Engagement surfaces of the first and second pawl portions are formed as inclination surfaces so that a force is applied to the first pawl portion and the second pawl portion in a direction of axially moving away from each other when the rotation is transmitted between the first and second rotating shafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takuma Koinuma
  • Patent number: 11505921
    Abstract: A wheel loader configured to reduce the traveling distance required for a raise and run operation, and reduce fuel consumption includes: an engine 3; a torque converter 41; a forward and reverse switch 62; a stepping amount sensor 610; an operation amount sensor 73; and a controller 5. The controller 5 determines whether a specific condition for specifying an operation of the lift arm 21 in an upper direction during forward travel of the vehicle body, on the basis of a forward and reverse switching signal, the stepping amount on the accelerator pedal 61, and a pilot pressure Ti pertaining to the lifting operation amount for the lift arm 21. When the specific condition is satisfied, the vehicle speed is limited by reducing the maximum rotational speed of the engine 3 in response to increase in the pilot pressure Ti.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Hyodo, Isamu Aoki, Tetsuji Tanaka, Koji Shimazaki, Hironao Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11505923
    Abstract: A construction machine that can display various work devices including a bucket on a display device without causing a sense of discomfort is provided. A display controller is configured to deform a first drawing figure to create a first post-deformation drawing figure such that a triangle having vertexes at a first coupling point, a second coupling point and a first monitor point in the first drawing figure becomes congruent with a triangle having vertexes at the first coupling point, the second coupling point and the first monitor point in a coordinate system on an image on a display device, and arrange the first post-deformation drawing figure on a screen of the display device such that positions of the first coupling point, the second coupling point and the first monitor point in the first post-deformation drawing figure are arranged correspondingly to positions of the first coupling point, the second coupling point and the first monitor point, respectively, in the coordinate system on the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Hiromatsu, Shiho Izumi, Daito Sakai
  • Patent number: 11499296
    Abstract: To provide a construction machine that has a hydraulic system mounted thereon in which a closed-circuit pump, and an open-circuit pump and a proportional valve are arranged as a pair, and that makes it possible to use an unused open-circuit pump or proportional valve to accelerate the speed of a single rod hydraulic cylinder when the single rod hydraulic cylinder and a hydraulic motor are driven simultaneously. A controller (51) controls a cap-side selector valve (46) and a rod-side selector valve (47) such that a particular open-circuit pump (15) not connected to a single rod hydraulic cylinder (3) is connected to the single rod hydraulic cylinder, and controls an opening area of a particular proportional valve (49) provided on a flow line that connects a delivery port of the particular open-circuit pump to a tank, when the single rod hydraulic cylinder and a hydraulic motor (7) are driven simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takamasa Kai, Juri Shimizu, Kenji Hiraku, Hiromasa Takahashi, Teppei Saitou
  • Patent number: 11479108
    Abstract: A vehicle drive unit (11) includes a spindle (12) on which a female spline portion (12G) is formed, a wheel (15) disposed on an outer peripheral side of the spindle (12), wheel bearings 17, 18 that rotatably support the wheel (15) in relation to the spindle (12), an electric motor (21) located on an axial one side of the spindle (12), a shaft (22) connected to an output shaft (21B) of the electric motor (21), a planetary gear reduction device (25) disposed between the shaft (22) and the wheel (15), and a shaft bearing (46) that rotatably supports the shaft (22) in relation to the spindle (12). A retainer (42) retaining the shaft bearing (46) is disposed on an inner peripheral surface side of the spindle (12), and a male spline portion (42E), which is spline-coupled to a female spline portion (12G) of the spindle (12), is disposed on the retainer (42).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuutarou Iwabuchi, Shinichirou Hagihara
  • Patent number: 11479941
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator includes a controller having an actuator control section that executes machine control of operating a work implement in accordance with a predetermined condition in a case in which a work implement is positioned in a deceleration area, and that does not execute machine control in a case in which the work implement is positioned in a non-deceleration area. The controller further includes an operation deciding section that decides operation of the work implement on the basis of an operation amount of an operation device, and a display control section that displays, on a display device, a positional relationship among the work implement, a target surface and a boundary line between the deceleration area and the non-deceleration area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teruki Igarashi, Shiho Izumi
  • Patent number: 11475388
    Abstract: A server device for generating and outputting work management information of at least one carrier. The server device comprises a storage device for storing a program for generating work management information, and a controller for reading the program from the storage device and generating work management information by executing the program. The controller performs: a process of acquiring position information about at least one carrier; a process of generating, based on the position information, work type information indicating whether the carrier is performing a predetermined work or moving; a process of calculating a required time for each work type information item of the carrier; a process of comparing the required time for each work type information item and extracting a work element with low work efficiency based on a first rule concerning required time; and a process of outputting the extracted work element with low work efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Isao Karube, Hidehiro Iizuka, Masami Kamibayashi, Ryota Niizeki, Kunitsugu Tomita, Hiroshi Watanabe, Hiroyuki Adachi
  • Patent number: 11466432
    Abstract: To provide a technique for reliably acquiring a required braking power during travel and for efficiently using a regenerative power generated during braking. A work vehicle calculates a regenerative power outputted from an electric motor and a target hydraulic driving power for driving a hydraulic pump, supplies the regenerative power to the generator motor operating as a motor and makes the generator motor consume the regenerative power in a case where the regenerative power is equal to or smaller than the target hydraulic driving power, and supplies the regenerative power to the generator motor operating as the motor and makes an exhaust brake consume a power equivalent to a difference between the regenerative power and the target hydraulic driving power in a case where the regenerative power is larger than the target hydraulic driving power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Utashiro, Akinori Kamiya, Noritaka Ito, Takatoshi Ooki, Satoshi Sekino
  • Patent number: 11468685
    Abstract: A monitor device is provided with an imaging device that shoots an overhead line and a current collector, and a controller that processes an image. The controller includes a day or night determination processing section, and an image processing section that switches a parameter for recognizing the overhead line and the current collector in the image by executing image processing different in the daylight and at night based upon the result of the day or night determination. Further, there are provided reference photographic subjects to be shot by the imaging device in positions different from the overhead line and the current collector in an image area to be shot, and the day or night determination processing section performs the determination of day or night based upon a luminance average value of the reference photographic subjects inputted into an image input section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takushi Kato, Naoki Tatsuzawa
  • Patent number: 11466435
    Abstract: A work machine (1) having a controller (40) that can perform area limiting control, the work machine further includes a machine control ON/OFF switch (17) that alternatively selects an ON position permitting execution of the area limiting control and an OFF position prohibiting execution of the area limiting control. The controller (40) has an engine control section (63) that performs automatic idling control when a predetermined period of time (T1) has elapsed after a point in time when all of operation levers (1, 23) have attained a neutral state. The engine control section (63) is configured to execute the automatic idling control during when the switch (17) is in the OFF position and not to execute the automatic idling control during when the switch (17) is in the ON position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shiho Izumi, Shuuichi Meguriya, Ryuu Narikawa, Kouji Ishikawa, Tarou Akita
  • Patent number: 11454004
    Abstract: To provide a work machine that makes it possible to drive actuators faster and more accurately by supplying flows to the actuators accurately at target rates without depending on load variations in a case where the machine body is controlled automatically by command inputs of a controller, while high operability is ensured for manual operation by an operator. In a case where a machine control function is cancelled via a machine control switch, a controller cancels limitation of the flow rate of a hydraulic fluid supplied to a plurality of directional control valves, the limitation being performed by the auxiliary flow rate control devices, and in a case where the machine control function is selected via the machine control switch, the controller causes the auxiliary flow rate control devices to limit the flow rate of the hydraulic fluid supplied to the plurality of directional control valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kento Kumagai, Shinya Imura, Genroku Sugiyama, Katsuaki Kodaka, Yasutaka Tsuruga
  • Patent number: 11454005
    Abstract: A controller (21) of a hydraulic excavator (1) performs a first determination of determining whether or not loading of an object to be worked onto a dump truck (2) by the hydraulic excavator has been conducted based on a posture of a work implement (12), calculates a first load that is a load of the object to be worked loaded onto the dump truck by the hydraulic excavator based on a thrust force of a boom cylinder (16) and on a determination result of the first determination, performs a third determination of determining whether or not the first load is to be integrated based on a determination result of a second determination of determining whether or not the loading of the object to be worked onto the dump truck by the hydraulic excavator has been conducted that is transmitted from a controller (40) of the dump truck and on the determination result of the first determination, and calculates a loaded weight on the dump truck by integrating the first load in a case where it is determined by the third determin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nakamura, Kunitsugu Tomita, Kazunori Hoshino, Shigeru Bandou
  • Patent number: 11453995
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator (1) is provided with a controller (40) including an actuator control section (81) which, when an operation device (45, 46) is operated, controls at least one of a plurality of hydraulic actuators (5, 6, 7) in accordance with the velocities of the plurality of hydraulic actuators (5, 6, 7) and a predetermined condition. The controller (40) determines, based on a sensed value from a posture sensor (50), the direction of a load exerted on an arm cylinder (6) due to the weight of an arm (9), outputs, upon determining that the direction of the load is opposite to a driving direction of the arm cylinder (6), a second velocity Vamt2 to the actuator control section (81), and outputs, upon determining that the direction of the load is the same as the driving direction of the arm cylinder (6), a third velocity Vamt3 to the actuator control section (81).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamichi Ito, Ryuu Narikawa, Shinya Imura
  • Patent number: 11447936
    Abstract: A computer for a manufacturer includes: a storage device storing amount-of-change determination values specified for respective amount-of-change indexes indicative of tendencies of temporal changes in pieces of sensor data A, B, and C, about a plurality of oil properties including a viscosity, a density, and a dielectric constant of oil; an abnormality determining section determining abnormality of the oil on the basis of the pieces of sensor data A, B, and C about the plurality of oil properties and abnormality determination values SAh, SAl, SBh, and SCh prescribed for the respective pieces of sensor data A, B, and C about the plurality of oil properties; a cause identifying section identifying, when the abnormality determining section determines the oil to be abnormal, the cause of the abnormality on the basis of the type of the oil property determined to be abnormal and the amount-of-change determination value of the oil property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Takami, Akira Kurasako, Kotaro Ogura, Hideki Akita, Hiroshi Onose, Yoshiya Hamamachi
  • Patent number: 11448115
    Abstract: Two oil coolers (30, 32) are disposed so as to face each other in a front half of the inside of a heat exchanger chamber (26) defined in an upper revolving body (5), one oil cooler (31) is disposed in a rear half, and a space (E) formed between the oil coolers is used as work and passage spaces. Outside air as cooling air is allowed to pass through the respective oil coolers (30 to 32) by cooling fans (35), and cooling air that has passed through each of the two oil coolers (30, 32) disposed so as to face each other is made to mutually collide, and is discharged to the outside through a side outlet (38) of a front wall (26a) and a first upper outlet (39) of a ceiling (26e) of the heat exchanger chamber (26). Cooling air that has passed through the other one oil cooler (31) is made to collide with a left side wall (26c), and is discharged to the outside through a second upper outlet (40) of the ceiling (26e).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Seo, Nobuhiro Ishii, Kei Sato
  • Patent number: 11447934
    Abstract: The line-of-sight direction of an operator is estimated on the basis of the posture of a front work device detected by a posture sensor, and plural display regions are set on a screen of a transparent display on the basis of the estimated line-of-sight direction of the operator. Then, the display position of a display image is calculated in such a manner that the display position is located in the display region corresponding to the kind of the display image in the set plural display regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushige Kurokami, Shigeki Tokita, Hiroshi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11443081
    Abstract: In a part procurement system including a control device performing procurement of a part required by a customer, to the control device, customer's requirements information about the procured part inputted via a data input device, and at least BOM information that is part table information, CAD information that is computer-aided design information and part compatibility information, which are stored in a file server, are inputted; and the control device extracts candidate parts including candidates for the part required by the customer and alternatives for the part, based on the BOM information, the CAD information and the part compatibility information that have been inputted, and outputs a signal for displaying the extracted candidate parts on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mika Saruyama, Ayato Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 11434623
    Abstract: A measurement controller (20): computes the position of a plane (S1) representing a side surface of a work implement (1A) in an image-capturing-device coordinate system (Co1) on the basis of an image of the side surface of the work implement captured by an image-capturing device (19) and an internal parameter of the image-capturing device; computes the coordinate values of a point on the work implement in the image-capturing-device coordinate system (Co1), the point corresponding to any pixel constituting the work implement on the captured image, on the basis of positional information on the pixel on the captured image and the position of the plane (S1); and converts the coordinate values of the point on the work implement in the image-capturing-device coordinate system, the point corresponding to the pixel, to coordinate values in a work-implement coordinate system (Co3) to output the coordinate values in the work-implement coordinate system (Co3) to a work-machine controller (50) of a hydraulic excavator (1
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Hayakawa, Kohei Hiromatsu, Daito Sakai, Shiho Izumi
  • Patent number: D969173
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ninomiya, Yusuke Daimon, Hidefumi Hiramatsu, Takeo Manabe, Ei Takahashi