Patents Assigned to Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20230374749
    Abstract: A system for setting a target trajectory of an attachment allows for an efficient operation of the attachment. The system includes a target trajectory setting unit which sets a target trajectory of a specific part of an attachment between a target start point at which an operation for moving the attachment holding a load extracted from a work object to above an object to be loaded is started and a target end point at which this operation is finished, an imaging device which images the surroundings of a work machine including the object to be loaded as ambient information, an end point moving unit which moves the target end point based on the ambient information, and a target trajectory resetting unit which resets the target trajectory between the target start point and a target end point after movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke NODA, Koji YAMASHITA, Masaki AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11821170
    Abstract: A remote operation system for a working machine includes a control device enabling an operator wearing a wearable display to grasp the surrounding situation of himself/herself. The control device includes an operation intention judgment section judging the presence/absence of an operator's operation intention to a remote operation lever based on the contents of acquired judgment information, and a display image switching section. With judgment of presence of the operation intention, the display image switching section makes a working area image taken by a working area image taking camera be displayed in a particular display area of the wearable display. With judgment of absence of the operation intention, the display image switching section stops the display of the working area image in the at least a part of the particular display area and switches it to a surrounding visual-recognition allowing area allowing the operator to visually recognize the surroundings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Otani, Yoichiro Yamazaki, Seiji Saiki, Hitoshi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11821171
    Abstract: A work machine 10 includes: a load detection unit 22a that detects a load on an operation mechanism 100; information output devices 43, 44, and 41a that output at least one of an image, a sound, and a vibration to an operator; and a control unit 47a that controls, according to the magnitude of a load detected by the load detection unit 22a, one or more of the level of at least one of the color intensity, the brightness, and the transparency of an image output by the information output device 44, at least one of the intensity and the level of frequency of a sound output by the information output device 43, and at least one of the intensity and the level of frequency of a vibration output by the information output device 41a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki, Hitoshi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20230358015
    Abstract: An excavation position determination system achieves appropriate determination of an excavation start position in accordance with a shape or contour of an excavation target. The excavation position determination system includes: a photographing device that photographs an excavation target having a mountain shape and a bucket included in a working machine; a start position determinator that determines an excavation start position of the bucket to the excavation target. The start position determinator determines, on the basis of detected data from the photographing device, a position of the bucket where the bucket is not wholly hidden by the excavation target but a part of the excavation target and a part of the bucket overlap each other when the bucket is seen from a machine body of the working machine as the excavation start position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryunosuke MIYAZAKI, Daisuke NODA, Koji YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 11808008
    Abstract: A construction machine is capable of reducing a decrease in work efficiency due to maintenance for capturing dust. The construction machine includes: an engine; a heat exchanger; a cooling fan that sucks air into an engine chamber to pass the air through the heat exchanger; an intake chamber independent of the engine chamber; an intake tube connected to the intake chamber; and a dust receiving part. The intake tube has a curved part, which has an outside inner wall surface allowing dust in the air to contact it. The dust receiving part is located downstream of the outside inner wall surface to be capable of receiving dust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD., HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hideki Hayashi, Ryota Nakahara, Michio Hirayama, Kenjiro Kumitani, Taira Iji, Manabu Shimada
  • Publication number: 20230348241
    Abstract: A crane includes a jib posture retention device that retains a jib in a frontward tilt posture to a boom. The jib posture retention device includes a jib mast that holds a rope connection part at a tensioning position separate from a jib proximal end and a boom distal end backward thereof to render a jib-side support rope and a boom-side support rope linearly tensioned with the jib in the frontward tilt posture. The jib mast is shiftable to a tension form of holding the rope connection part at a tensioning position in an uprise posture and a looseness allowing form of locating the rope connection part at a looseness allowing position closer to the boom distal end than the tensioning position and closer to the jib proximal end than the tensioning position to allow the jib-side support rope and the boom-side support rope to be loosened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi NAKATSUKA, Koji SUMIMOTO, Shingo KURIHARA, Takao ETO, Tsukasa WAMATA, Daisuke TAKAOKA, Takuya WATANABE, Teppei IKAWA, Hiromitsu HAMAGUCHI, Yukio KOIZUMI
  • Publication number: 20230339733
    Abstract: Provided is a jack device easily storable in a storage space of a machine body of a work machine. The jack device includes an arm, a cylinder, a float and a pin. The arm is rotatably connected to the machine body. The cylinder is connected to the arm rotatably about a cylinder rotary axis so as to have an upright posture and a tilt posture. The pin rotatably connects the float to a rod of the cylinder. The jack device is stored in a state where the cylinder is contracted and in the tilt posture and the bottom surface of the float lies along a facing part of the machine body that faces the storage space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuichi ARITA, Takuro KISHI
  • Publication number: 20230331198
    Abstract: Provided is a jack device rendering an operation of changing the posture of a jack cylinder easy without using a device that actively changes the posture. The jack device includes an arm, a jack body including the jack cylinder, and a reaction-force application unit supported by the arm. The reaction-force application unit makes a reaction-force moment act on the jack body in all postures from the upright posture to the storage posture in response to a force applied from the jack body. The reaction-force application unit makes a reaction-force moment greater than a self-weight moment act on the jack body in the storage posture and makes a reaction-force moment smaller than the self-weight moment act on the jack body in the upright posture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryuichi ARITA
  • Patent number: 11787672
    Abstract: A lattice structure is mounted on a work machine, and is detachably coupled to a counterpart lattice structure adjacent to the lattice structure. The lattice structure includes a connector to which an end portion of any main pipe among a plurality of main pipes is connected and to which an end portion of at least one inclined pipe among a plurality of inclined pipes is connected, the connector being detachably coupled to a counterpart connector included in a counterpart lattice structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazufumi Kudara
  • Publication number: 20230322530
    Abstract: A crane includes: a machine body; a tiltable body having a tiltable body proximal end supported on the machine body and being turnable in a tilting direction; a counterweight; a base weight having a placement surface that allows placement of the counterweight and being detachably attached to the machine body in either at least a front position or a rear position located behind the front position with the base weight projecting rearward further from the machine body than in the front position; and an auxiliary coupling member for coupling a portion of the base weight located in the rear position and the machine body to each other, the portion projecting rearward from the machine body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira KOYAHATA, Dairo MATSUI
  • Publication number: 20230322532
    Abstract: When an engine is started in a state where a support member of a multi-coupler is attached to a mating support member, the pressure of hydraulic oil increases in a detection target pipeline part. A pressure detection unit detects the pressure of the hydraulic oil in the detection target pipeline part. A connection state determining unit determines whether a tank-side pipeline part and a motor-side pipeline part are connected to each other, based on the pressure. When the connection state determining unit determines that the tank-side pipeline part and the motor-side pipeline part are not connected to each other in a state where the engine is started, a pressure increase suppression unit carries out an operation for suppressing an increase in the pressure of a hydraulic motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki OKUBO, Hitoshi SAKURAI, Yoshiki KAMON, Taisuke TSUNOO
  • Publication number: 20230323638
    Abstract: A controller is installed in a work machine and configured to perform loading control based on a detection result of a position detection unit. An external system is arrangeable outside the work machine and communicable with the controller. The external system is configured to output a loading control start signal for starting the loading control. The controller starts the loading control on condition that the loading control start signal has been input from the external system to the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke NODA
  • Publication number: 20230313489
    Abstract: Provided is an automatic leveling system restraining leveling-objects from collapsing. The automatic leveling system includes a work machine that performs leveling motion, an imaging device, and a controller. The imaging device acquires three-dimensional information about the shape and position of at least one of the leveling-objects and a peripheral object. The work machine is provided with a work attachment including a tip attachment. The controller sets a leveling area based on the acquired three-dimensional information and makes the work machine perform the leveling motion by the tip attachment within the leveling area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro FUKUO, Daisuke NODA
  • Publication number: 20230304264
    Abstract: An attachment target locus setting system for efficiently operating an attachment is provided. The system includes a target locus setting part that sets a target locus for a specific portion of the attachment from a target start point being a target point where the attachment starts an operation to a target finish point being a target point where the attachment finishes the operation, an image capturing device that captures a periphery around the target finish point as peripheral information, a finish point shifting part that shifts, on the basis of the peripheral information, the target finish point, and a target locus resetting part that resets the target locus to a target locus in a range from the target start point to a target finish point having been shifted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke NODA, Koji YAMASHITA, Masaki AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11761169
    Abstract: Provided is a work machine or the like which can switch between a power supply state and a power supply cutoff state of an actual machine control device irrespective of switching on or off an actual machine switch. On switching an actual machine switch 81 from off to on, a first power supply route from an actual machine power source 80 to an actual machine control device 400 is formed. Consequently, a second power supply route from the actual machine power source 80 to the actual machine control device 400 is formed. Then, the first power supply route is cut off, while the second power supply route not through the actual machine switch 81 is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryota Hama, Yoichiro Yamazaki, Ryuichi Hirose
  • Publication number: 20230271813
    Abstract: A combination of a first unit and a second unit are to be rotatably interconnected through a pin. The first unit includes a first unit body provided with a first pin hole, a first contact member, and a fastening member. The first contact member has a first contact surface. The second unit includes a second unit body provided with a second pin hole, and a second contact surface. The second contact surface is contactable with the first contact surface. The fastening member fastens the first contact member to the first unit body so as to allow the relative position of the first contact member to the first unit body to be adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiko INADA, Daisuke TAKAOKA, Takahiro OKA
  • Patent number: 11732444
    Abstract: An image of a work attachment (operation mechanism) of a work machine and the periphery of the work attachment, which corresponds to captured image data acquired by an imaging device, is displayed on an image output device by means of a first communication mode established between a slave control device mounted in the work machine and a master control device. When the first communication mode is interrupted, instead of the image of the operation mechanism of the work machine and the periphery of the operation mechanism, a point cloud image corresponding to distance image data acquired by a distance sensor is displayed on the image output device by means of a second communication mode established between the slave control device and the master control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryota Hama, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11732439
    Abstract: A master acquires, from a slave, a surrounding image obtained by capturing an image of surroundings of a construction machine from inside a cab seat of the construction machine, determines whether or not a working device is included in the surrounding image, and in a case of determining that the working device is not included in the surrounding image, calculates a position of the working device from a posture of the construction machine and displays, on a display device, a display object for informing an operator of the calculated position, together with the surrounding image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Sasaki, Seiji Saiki, Kazuhiro Ueda
  • Patent number: 11732440
    Abstract: Provided is a system which can supply appropriate information to one operator from a viewpoint that the one operator grasps a remotely operated action of a working machine by another operator. In a first remote operation apparatus 10, a sight line detector 112 detects a sight line of a first operator, and transmits sight line detection data corresponding to the sight line of the first operator. In a second remote operation apparatus 20, a second image output device 221 displays a designated image region spreading with reference to the sight line of the first operator corresponding to the sight line detection data in an environmental image corresponding to captured image data acquired by an imaging device 401 of a working machine 40, in a form different from a form of an image region around the designated image region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Otani, Hitoshi Sasaki, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20230257966
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator specifies acceleration data being operation data in an acceleration period of a manipulation target and deceleration data being operation data in a deceleration period of the manipulation target among operation data, calculates, on the basis of the acceleration data and acceleration evaluation data, an acceleration evaluation value indicating a skill of an operator in the acceleration period, calculates, on the basis of the deceleration data and deceleration evaluation data, a deceleration evaluation value indicating a skill of the operator in the deceleration period, determines, on the basis of the acceleration evaluation value and the deceleration evaluation value, a manipulation type of the operator, and outputs support information associated with the manipulation type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicants: HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY, KAWASAKI GAKUEN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masatoshi KOZUI, Toru YAMAMOTO, Tomohiro HENMI, Kazushige KOIWAI