Patents Assigned to KCM Corporation
  • Patent number: 10422264
    Abstract: A work machine provided with an exhaust gas purifying device includes a selective catalytic reducing device that performs treatment on exhaust gas of an engine, and a reducing agent injection device that injects a reducing agent into exhaust gas to be supplied to the selective catalytic reducing device. The work machine is provided with a housing that delimits an engine room accommodating the engine and the exhaust gas purifying device. The housing includes a top board that covers the engine room above the engine, and an exhaust duct that is provided in the top board and discharges the air in the engine room to the outside of the engine room. A part of a reducing agent supply pipe for guiding the reducing agent to the reducing agent injection device is disposed in the exhaust duct in a position above the reducing agent injection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: KCM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Itou, Hiroyuki Kizaki, Takashi Takeyama
  • Patent number: 10392781
    Abstract: To improve working efficiency in an eco mode when a power mode and the eco mode have been set in a wheel loader, the wheel loader is provided with a controller having an eco mode characteristic line, a power mode characteristic line, and a lifting operation characteristic line having a matching point C located between a matching point A between a working device operating engine torque characteristic line and the eco mode characteristic line and a matching point B between the working device operating engine torque characteristic line and the power mode characteristic line. The controller includes a control portion, which controls a HST pump in accordance with the lifting operation characteristic line when lifting operation of a lift arm is detected while the eco mode has been selected by a work mode selecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: KCM Corporation
    Inventors: Kohtaroh Uno, Shoroku Kawahara, Keigo Kikuchi, Koji Hyodo, Atsushi Shimazu
  • Publication number: 20190226179
    Abstract: To improve working efficiency in an eco mode when a power mode and the eco mode have been set in a wheel loader, the wheel loader is provided with a controller having an eco mode characteristic line, a power mode characteristic line, and a lifting operation characteristic line having a matching point C located between a matching point A between a working device operating engine torque characteristic line and the eco mode characteristic line and a matching point B between the working device operating engine torque characteristic line and the power mode characteristic line. The controller includes a control portion, which controls a HST pump in accordance with the lifting operation characteristic line when lifting operation of a lift arm is detected while the eco mode has been selected by a work mode selecting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: KCM Corporation
    Inventors: Kohtaroh UNO, Shoroku KAWAHARA, Keigo KIKUCHI, Koji HYODO, Atsushi SHIMAZU
  • Patent number: 10358794
    Abstract: A work vehicle, includes: a lift arm rotatably linked to a front portion of a vehicle body of a work vehicle so as to be allowed to swing along an up/down direction; an operation lever that can be operated within a range between a raising operation end position and a lowering operation end position, and is operated to raise and lower the lift arm; an up detent mechanism having a holding function for holding the operation lever at the raising operation end position once the operation lever is operated to the raising operation end position; and a down detent mechanism having a holding function for holding the operation lever at the lowering operation end position once the operation lever is operated to the lowering operation end position, wherein: when an angle of the lift arm becomes greater than a predetermined upper limit, the holding function of the up detent mechanism and the holding function of the down detent mechanism are disengaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: KCM Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuji Tanaka, Yasunori Miyamoto, Koji Hyodo, Isamu Aoki, Katsuyuki Kirita, Hiroaki Yada, Seiji Nakagawa, Masaki Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 10336338
    Abstract: A work vehicle has a hydraulic source; a control valve that controls a flow of the hydraulic oil discharged from the hydraulic source; and an engine starting device for starting an engine, in which a control device has: a low-temperature state determination unit that determines whether a temperature state of a working fluid of a torque converter is a low-temperature state; and a clutch control unit that when it is determined by the low-temperature state determination unit that the temperature state of the working fluid is not the low-temperature state, controls the control valve in order to switch a lock-up clutch to a non-engagement state, and when it is determined by the low-temperature state determination unit that the temperature state of the working fluid is the low-temperature state, controls the control valve in order to switch the lock-up clutch to a engagement state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: KCM Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakamura, Keisuke Naitou
  • Patent number: 10301995
    Abstract: An oxidation catalyst device is placed so that a central axis of the oxidation catalyst device may be oriented along a right and left direction of a work vehicle; a reducing agent injection device is placed so that a central axis of the reducing agent injection device may be oriented along a front and rear direction of the work vehicle; and a selective catalytic reduction device is placed so that a central axis of the selective catalytic reduction device may be oriented along the front and rear direction of the work vehicle, in which the oxidation catalyst device, the reducing agent injection device, and the selective catalytic reduction device are arranged so as to have a relationship that the central axes thereof become the same in height, and the central axis of the selective catalytic reduction device is placed so as to pass through the oxidation catalyst device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: KCM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Takeyama, Hiroyuki Kizaki, Yoshihiro Itou
  • Patent number: 10286894
    Abstract: A hybrid work machine includes: an engine configured to drive a hydraulic pump as a hydraulic source of a hydraulic actuator; an engine-assist motor generator attached to the engine; an electric motor for use in a part of a driving system of the work machine; an electricity storage device configured to store generated power of the motor generator; a power converter disposed between the electric motor and DC buses; and a buck-boost converter disposed between the DC buses and the electricity storage device, and configured to perform power transfer between the DC buses and the electricity storage device by raising and lowering a voltage of the DC buses, the hybrid work machine, further comprises: a controller configured to temporarily raise the voltage of the DC buses when a torque required for the electric motor exceeds a torque outputtable at the voltage of the DC buses connected to the power converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: KCM Corporation
    Inventors: Tomonori Takada, Takashi Ikimi, Kazuya Sekine, Masaki Higurashi
  • Patent number: 10272900
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a hybrid working vehicle that enables enhancing efficiency of an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: KCM Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Kaneko, Takashi Ikimi, Noritaka Itou, Yuuichi Kunitomo
  • Patent number: 10207700
    Abstract: A hybrid type work vehicle includes a power source, a traveling unit, a hydraulic work unit, an accelerator pedal, a brake pedal, an operation lever device, and a control apparatus. The control apparatus is configured such that when the current operation state is determined to be that of an excavation work which is a combined operation of the traveling unit and the hydraulic work unit and the output power limitation signal is outputted, the control apparatus limits the output power of the traveling unit. The control apparatus is also configured to decrease the tilting angle of the hydraulic pump, such that a ratio between the output power of the traveling unit and the output power of the hydraulic work unit is maintained at a preset ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: KCM Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Kaneko, Kazuo Ishida, Noritaka Ito, Takashi Ikimi
  • Patent number: 10202986
    Abstract: A hydraulic drive system (1) including a meter-in compensator (37) and a bleed-off compensator (42) comprises a plurality of sensors (64 to 68), a controller (62), and an outlet pressure switching valve (61). The controller (62) determines whether or not the state of a wheel loader (2) which is detected based on the signals output from the sensors (64 to 68) meets a predetermined steering limiting condition. When the controller (62) determines that the state of the wheel loader (2) meets the steering limiting condition, it outputs a command signal to the outlet pressure switching valve (61). The outlet pressure switching valve (61) reduces the flow rate of the hydraulic oil flowing to steering cylinders (18L, 18R), in response to the command signal in such a manner that the flow rate becomes lower than that corresponding to the operation amount of a handle of a steering device (35).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: KCM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Tanaka, Hiroyasu Kodera
  • Patent number: 10173594
    Abstract: A step of an industrial vehicle according to the present invention includes: an upper footboard fixed to a side surface of the industrial vehicle; a turning mechanism provided at a rear side of the upper footboard; a front suspension member extending downward from a front portion of the upper footboard and having elasticity; a rear suspension member extending downward from the turning mechanism and having elasticity; and a lower footboard held by the front suspension member and the rear suspension member, wherein: an upper portion of the front suspension member is fixed to the front portion of the upper footboard so as to be non-turnable; a lower portion of the front suspension member is fixed to a front portion of the lower footboard so as to be non-turnable; a lower portion of the rear suspension member is fixed to a rear portion of the lower footboard so as to be non-turnable; and an upper portion of the rear suspension member is coupled to a rear portion of the upper footboard through the turning mechanis
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: KCM Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichiro Tanaka, Takatomo Ohno
  • Publication number: 20180375445
    Abstract: A converter includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a dielectric elastomer film, and a high-dielectric-constant film. The dielectric elastomer film is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and has relative dielectric constant ?1. The high-dielectric-constant film is disposed at one or both of: a location between the first electrode and the dielectric elastomer film; and a location between the second electrode and the dielectric elastomer film. The high-dielectric-constant film has relative dielectric constant ?2 that is higher than the relative dielectric constant ?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicants: KCM CORPORATION, ADEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki OYA, Hideyuki YOKOTA, Masatoshi HOMMA, Keiichi ODAGIRI, Hiromi TAKENOUCHI, Tomoaki SAIKI, Seiki CHIBA, Mikio WAKI
  • Patent number: 10150360
    Abstract: A cooling structure of an operating machine, such as a wheel loader, which structure cools an engine of the operating machine includes: a cover (such as a rear cover) forming a part of an outer surface of a vehicle body of the operating machine and including a large number of ventilation opening portions; a radiator provided at the vehicle body so as to be opposed to the cover; and a cooling fan arranged between the cover and the radiator and close to the cover with an interval corresponding to a size of the ventilation opening portion and provided so as not to be turnable relative to the vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: KCM Corporation
    Inventors: Takatomo Ohno, Hiroyuki Ishida, Atsushi Kondo, Tadahiro Miyagawa
  • Patent number: 10071629
    Abstract: A prime mover control device of a work vehicle equipped with a torque converter includes: a speed ratio calculation unit that calculates a speed ratio of the torque converter; and a rotational speed limit unit that, when a speed ratio falls within a preset speed ratio range, limits a maximum rotational speed of the prime mover to be lower as compared with a maximum rotational speed set when a speed ratio falls without the preset speed ratio range. When a state in which the speed ratio calculated by the speed ratio calculation unit falls within the preset speed ratio range is maintained for a predetermined time period, the rotational speed limit unit changes a maximum rotational speed of the prime mover to a higher maximum rotational speed than the limited maximum rotational speed limited to be lower by the rotational speed limit unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: KCM Corporation
    Inventors: Isamu Aoki, Koji Hyodo, Tetsuji Tanaka, Masaki Nukii
  • Patent number: 10066364
    Abstract: A construction machine includes: a cover that covers an engine and a radiator; a radiator fan that is arranged at the rear of a vehicle body frame and discharges exhaust gas toward the rear of the vehicle body frame from the inner space of the cover; an injection device that injects a reducing agent into exhaust gas of the engine; a tank housing section that is arranged at one side of the vehicle body frame, includes an introduction section for introducing outside air, and houses a tank for storing the reducing agent injected by the injection device; and a connection section that is arranged in either the cover or the vehicle body frame and in the tank housing section, connects the inner space of the tank housing section and the inner space of the cover, and allows the outside air and the pipe to pass therethrough, the outside air having been introduced from the introduction section by the suction pressure of the radiator fan, the pipe supplying the reducing agent to the injection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: KCM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Yamazaki, Takashi Takeyama, Keigo Kikuchi, Akira Shimohira, Keisuke Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10017918
    Abstract: Provided is a working machine capable of regenerating and utilizing surplus energy. The working machine related to the present invention is provided with a branching flow path (150) through which hydraulic oil flows between a hydraulic actuator (24) and a hydraulic pump-motor (14), an accumulator (30) arranged in the branching flow path, a first opening/closing valve (31) arranged between the accumulator and the hydraulic pump-motor, and a second opening/closing valve (32) arranged between the accumulator and the hydraulic actuator. A control device (41) selectively introduces the hydraulic oil from the hydraulic actuator and the hydraulic oil from the hydraulic pump-motor to the accumulator and accumulates the same by controlling opening/closing of the first opening/closing valve and the second opening/closing valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: KCM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoko Tsukada, Noritaka Itou, Takashi Ikimi, Satoru Kaneko, Takashi Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 9957695
    Abstract: An exhaust system of a work machine is equipped with a first exhaust system, a second exhaust system, and a third exhaust system. The first exhaust system and the third exhaust system are arranged to be in parallel with respective one ends directed in the same direction. In a plan view, the second exhaust system is arranged with the other end side directed in the same direction as the one end sides of the first exhaust system and the third exhaust system to be in parallel with the first exhaust system and the third exhaust system between the first exhaust system and the third exhaust system and, in a side view, is arranged above the first exhaust system and the third exhaust system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: KCM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Takeyama, Keigo Kikuchi, Katsutaka Hara, Masashi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 9945099
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle includes: an exhaust gas treatment device arranged in an engine room so as to be located above an engine, the exhaust gas treatment device including a pretreatment unit accommodating a diesel oxidation catalyst and extending in the forward/rearward direction, a selective catalytic reduction unit located adjacent to the pretreatment unit and extending in the forward/rearward direction, a connecting pipe including a mix portion, a first bent portion, and a second bent portion, the mix portion being located between the pretreatment unit and the selective catalytic reduction unit and extending in the forward/rearward direction, the first bent portion connecting the mix portion and an outlet of the pretreatment unit, the outlet being located close to a dividing wall, the second bent portion connecting the mix portion and an inlet of the selective catalytic reduction unit, the inlet being located far from the dividing wall, and a urea water injection device attached to the first bent portion o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: KCM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishida, Keisuke Kobayashi, Takatomo Ohno, Atsushi Kondo, Tadahiro Miyagawa
  • Patent number: D854055
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: KCM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Hiraoka, Tomoyuki Miyata, Wataru Isaka, Satoshi Kan, Koji Hyodo, Masaki Yoshikawa, Isamu Aoki, Tetsuji Tanaka, Yasunori Miyamoto
  • Patent number: D859448
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignees: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., KCM Corporation
    Inventors: Shunya Kokubo, Tomohiro Ueda, Takaaki Ishii, Masaki Yoshikawa, Keiichirou Nakamura, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Shigeki Tokita