Patents Assigned to Hitachi Transport System Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20230211780
    Abstract: A computer generates an accident risk definition model to estimate a probability of hazard occurrence as an accident risk by inputting first in-vehicle sensor data collected in the past and hazard occurrence data having information on hazard occurrence from the first in-vehicle sensor data preset therein, generates accident risk estimation data by inputting second in-vehicle sensor data collected in the past to the accident risk definition model and estimating the probability of the hazard occurrence, generates an accident risk prediction model to predict the accident risk after a predetermined time by inputting first biological index data corresponding to the second in-vehicle sensor data and the accident risk estimation data, calculates second biological index data from second biological sensor data by acquiring the second biological sensor data of a driver, and predicts the accident risk after the predetermined time by inputting second biological index data to the accident risk prediction model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: HITACHI TRANSPORT SYSTEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi TANAKA, Shunsuke MINUSA, Hiroyuki KURIYAMA, Daichi OJIRO, Kiminori SATO
  • Publication number: 20220404161
    Abstract: A system for generating guidance information for a driver includes a processor and a storage device. The storage device stores guidance history of the driver. The processor generates a feature value based on match/mismatch of guidance types abstracted from the guidance history. The processor determines a guidance type for the driver on the basis of the feature value. The processor generates information for issuing guidance of the determined guidance type to the driver according to driver monitoring information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI TRANSPORT SYSTEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi OJIRO, Shunsuke MINUSA, Takeshi TANAKA, Hiroyuki KURIYAMA, Kiminori SATO
  • Publication number: 20220270033
    Abstract: Provided is a work planning system including a processor and a storage unit connected to the processor. The storage unit stores a plurality of shipping orders, work network information pertaining to a process for work necessary for shipping, and resource information pertaining to a plurality of resources that can be used for work. The processor classifies work corresponding to the plurality of shipping orders into a plurality of tasks on the basis of a prescribed condition and the work network information, generates a process plan including allocation of the resources to the process for each of the tasks on the basis of the resource information, and outputs the generated process plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi Transport System, Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu KOMUTA, Takashi INOUE, Atsushi YANAGISAWA
  • Patent number: 11379787
    Abstract: Provided is an evaluation device which stores base information, base destination information, demand information, a route service tariff, and a route delivery tariff in a memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Transport System, Ltd.
    Inventors: Miho Isokawa, Junko Hosoda, Takaharu Sakurada, Takahiro Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20220135051
    Abstract: A driving assistance system includes a processor, a storage device, and an output device. The storage device retains traveling environment information indicating a traveling environment of a vehicle and driving characteristic information indicating driving characteristics of a driver of the vehicle. The processor generates a message corresponding to the traveling environment of the vehicle based on the traveling environment information, and generates a message corresponding to the driving characteristics of the driver of the vehicle based on the driving characteristic information. The output device outputs the message corresponding to the traveling environment and the message corresponding to the driving characteristics in different aspects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI TRANSPORT SYSTEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi NAGASUKA, Daichi OJIRO, Hiroyuki KURIYAMA, Kiminori SATO, Yuhi SHINOHARA
  • Patent number: 11279504
    Abstract: A robot system has a manipulator that conveys a conveying object to a conveyance destination having a bottom surface and a wall surface connected to the bottom surface. The system includes: a first process in which the manipulator puts a first conveying object on the bottom surface of the conveyance destination; a second process in which the manipulator conveys a second conveying object to a position that does not come into contact with the first conveying object on the bottom surface of the conveyance destination; and a third process in which the manipulator moves the second conveying object in the direction of the first conveying object from the position that does not come into contact with the first conveying object, and moves the first conveying object by further moving the second conveying object after coming into contact with the first conveying object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI TRANSPORT SYSTEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobutaka Kimura, Fumiko Beniyama, Yasuki Shimazu, Yoshihiro Nishida, Takao Ueki
  • Patent number: 11216779
    Abstract: An article management support apparatus sets coordinates indicating a position of an observation point and an observation direction from the observation point in a space including article storage spaces, acquires coordinates of an article picking opening of an article storage space within a predetermined range with respect to the position of the observation point and the observation direction, acquires information on the article stored in the article storage space corresponding to the article picking opening for which the coordinates are acquired, transforms the acquired coordinates of the article picking opening into coordinates on an image seen in the observation direction from the position of the observation point, generates an image for displaying the information on the article stored in the article storage space corresponding to the article picking opening for which the coordinates are acquired in association with a position of the transformed coordinates, and displays the generated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI TRANSPORT SYSTEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Tadayoshi Kosaka, Toshiko Matsumoto, Koji Ara, Issei Suemitsu, Tetsuhiro Horita
  • Patent number: 11214263
    Abstract: A management assistance system can include: an imaging device; a first monitoring device; a second monitoring device; an instruction terminal; and a server. The instructing terminal can be configured to determine whether or not the caution determination condition is satisfied based on first monitoring information transmitted from the first monitoring device and second monitoring information transmitted from the second monitoring device, and transmit a dashcam video cut instruction signal to the imaging device when determining that the caution determination condition is satisfied. The imaging device can extract information of a predetermined time width including a reception time of the dashcam video cut instruction signal from the continuous dashcam video information to create dashcam footage information, associates the dashcam footage information with date and time information and identification information, and transmits the dashcam footage information to the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Transport System, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiminori Sato, Yuhi Shinohara
  • Patent number: 11155412
    Abstract: A warehouse management system includes a controller provided with a storage unit which stores order information that associates items, numbers, and delivery destinations of articles, a warehousing priority calculation unit that determines warehousing priorities of a plurality of items of articles based on the items and quantities of the articles to be delivered to respective delivery destinations, as specified from the order information, and a warehousing instruction unit that outputs an instruction to store the articles based on the warehousing priorities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI TRANSPORT SYSTEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu Kondou, Ryota Kamoshida, Hiroshi Yoshitake, Yoriko Kazama
  • Patent number: 11148883
    Abstract: An article carrier system has a plurality of storage shelves and an order management unit. In the storage shelves, articles are stored. The order management unit manages a plurality of orders for shipping orders, holds receptacle information including at least information regarding a quantity of articles stored in each receptacle of each of the storage shelves, determines to provide different conditions for orders for performing picking at different workplaces, as conditions for correlating between each order and the receptacle for performing the picking in accordance with each order, and determines a storage shelf to be carried to the workplace for performing the picking in association with each order, based on the determined conditions and receptacle information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Transport System, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshitake, Ryota Kamoshida, Junichi Kimura, Emi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11138549
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a delivery plan making system that makes a delivery plan of articles, the system including: a storage unit that stores a restriction condition for making a delivery plan and cost information used for calculating a delivery cost based on the delivery plan; a delivery plan making and cost calculating unit that makes a delivery plan before alleviation of the restriction condition to satisfy the restriction condition and calculates a delivery cost of the delivery plan before the alleviation based on the cost information; and a restriction alleviating unit that alleviate the restriction condition to generate a restriction alleviation plan, wherein the delivery plan making and cost calculating unit further makes a delivery plan after alleviation of the restriction condition so as to satisfy the restriction alleviation plan and calculates a delivery cost of the delivery plan after the alleviation based on the cost information, and outputs the restriction alleviation plan if the delivery
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Transport System, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouichi Kotake, Takashi Atsumi, Takaharu Sakurada, Junko Hosoda
  • Publication number: 20210192659
    Abstract: A warehouse management system includes a controller provided with a storage unit which stores order information that associates items, numbers, and delivery destinations of articles, a warehousing priority calculation unit that determines warehousing priorities of a plurality of items of articles based on the items and quantities of the articles to be delivered to respective delivery destinations, as specified from the order information, and a warehousing instruction unit that outputs an instruction to store the articles based on the warehousing priorities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI TRANSPORT SYSTEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu Kondou, Ryota Kamoshida, Hiroshi Yoshitake, Yoriko Kazama
  • Patent number: 11027920
    Abstract: Provided is a rack management system, including a processor and a storage unit. The storage unit stores information indicating positions of sections included in an area in which storage racks that store articles can be arranged. One of the storage racks can be arranged in each of the sections. At least one of the sections is surrounded by other adjacent sections without an aisle to convey the storage racks therebetween. The processor classifies the sections into sections assigned ranks indicating a degree of efficiency of an operation to convey the storage racks placed therein to a predetermined working area, and one or more empty sections into which, if there is a need to move one or more other storage racks in order to convey a storage rack placed in a given section, the other storage racks that were moved are placed, and outputs results of the classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI TRANSPORT SYSTEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yoshimoto, Yoriko Kazama, Junichi Kimura, Ryota Kamoshida, Emi Takahashi, Haruka Terai
  • Patent number: 11014745
    Abstract: The picking system according to the present invention for executing operation assistance corresponding to an operation target relating to physical distribution receives an order designating a specific article, retrieves a first storage position at which the specific article is stored from shelf stock information, generates operation instruction data relating to a specific operation target for instructing to move the specific article from the first storage position to a second storage position, refers to operation station information and accesses the first storage position, retrieves a specific operation station capable of performing the specific operation target, transmits the operation instruction data to a terminal of the specific operation station, and transmits, to a movement device, conveyance instruction data instructing to convey a conveyance rack to the specific operation station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Transport System, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoriko Kazama, Junichi Kimura, Emi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11004018
    Abstract: A logistics prediction system includes an arithmetic device that executes a predetermined process, a storage device connected to the arithmetic device, a shipment information input section to which past shipment information is input, a constraint input section to which a calculation resource and a calculation time period are input as constraints for prediction, an integration prediction database holding shipment trends of products, a prediction method selector that selects a prediction method to be used to predict a shipment volume for each of the products from among multiple prediction methods so that the constraints input to the constraint input section are satisfied, multiple prediction method sections that predict shipment volumes using the prediction methods, an integrator that integrates the results of the prediction by the prediction method sections for each of the products, and a shipment prediction output section that outputs the result of the integration by the integrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI TRANSPORT SYSTEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Yonekawa, Junichi Hirayama, Daichi Ojiro, Koji Ara, Yoshihito Shimazu
  • Publication number: 20210133655
    Abstract: A transportation plan generation apparatus can access transported item count information that stores a transportation date, a transported item, and a transported item count, transported item information that stores the transported item and a volume, and transportation fee information that stores a transportation means, a load volume, a fee for each period. The apparatus executes: detecting a first period, among a plurality of periods, during which the transportation volume for each period based on the transported item count and the volume exceeds a threshold; identifying second periods that are prior to the first period, and that don't correspond to the first period; determining a given second period during which the fee for the transportation means is less expensive than for the first period, among the second periods, to be a period to which a portion of the transportation volume of the first period is reallocated; and outputting a determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI TRANSPORT SYSTEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Issei SUEMITSU, Kei UTSUGI, Junko HOSODA, Naoko KISHIKAWA, Yoshihito SHIMAZU, Takahiro NISHIKAWA, Akira KOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210125138
    Abstract: An order management apparatus executes reception processing to receive at least one order, the number of pieces of the articles to be issued out and delivery destinations of the articles to be issued out; determination processing to determine likelihood of conflict on a specific delivery shelf before the issuing-out operation based on whether, while the issuing-out operation is completed since the specific delivery to store the articles has been transported to a first working station, an instruction on the issuing-out operation for the articles to be issued out from the specific delivery shelf at the second working station occurs; and setting processing to set the number of pieces of the articles to be issued out to be stored within the specific delivery shelf or between the specific delivery shelf and another delivery shelf based on the determination on the likelihood of the conflict on the specific delivery shelf.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI TRANSPORT SYSTEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshitake, Yoriko Kazama, Ryota Kamoshida, Masaharu Kondou
  • Publication number: 20200078935
    Abstract: A robot system has a manipulator that conveys a conveying object to a conveyance destination having a bottom surface and a wall surface connected to the bottom surface. The system includes: a first process in which the manipulator puts a first conveying object on the bottom surface of the conveyance destination; a second process in which the manipulator conveys a second conveying object to a position that does not come into contact with the first conveying object on the bottom surface of the conveyance destination; and a third process in which the manipulator moves the second conveying object in the direction of the first conveying object from the position that does not come into contact with the first conveying object, and moves the first conveying object by further moving the second conveying object after coming into contact with the first conveying object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: HITACHI TRANSPORT SYSTEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobutaka KIMURA, Fumiko BENIYAMA, Yasuki SHIMAZU, Yoshihiro NISHIDA, Takao UEKI
  • Publication number: 20200042932
    Abstract: An article management support apparatus sets coordinates indicating a position of an observation point and an observation direction from the observation point in a space including article storage spaces, acquires coordinates of an article picking opening of an article storage space within a predetermined range with respect to the position of the observation point and the observation direction, acquires information on the article stored in the article storage space corresponding to the article picking opening for which the coordinates are acquired, transforms the acquired coordinates of the article picking opening into coordinates on an image seen in the observation direction from the position of the observation point, generates an image for displaying the information on the article stored in the article storage space corresponding to the article picking opening for which the coordinates are acquired in association with a position of the transformed coordinates, and displays the generated image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: HITACHI TRANSPORT SYSTEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Tadayoshi KOSAKA, Toshiko MATSUMOTO, Koji ARA, Issei SUEMITSU, Tetsuhiro HORITA
  • Publication number: 20190385178
    Abstract: In a prediction system, a first prediction section predicts a numerical value in a second period including a future period based on input data including numerical data at least in a first period in the past. A second prediction section acquires the input data used by the first prediction section, a numerical value in the second period predicted by the first prediction section, and change information indicative of chancre of the input data, predicts at least part of numerical values in the second period by performing a prediction process whose calculation amount is small based on at least part of changed input data based on the change information, and outputs results of the predictions by the first prediction section and second prediction section. Where the change of the input data is effective, the first prediction section predicts numerical values in the second period based on the changed input data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: HITACHI TRANSPORT SYSTEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiko MATSUMOTO, Tadayoshi KOSAKA, Koji ARA, Yoshihito SHIMAZU