Patents Assigned to Komatsu Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11585073
    Abstract: A construction system includes: a position data acquisition unit configured to acquire position data of a bottom of water; a current-terrain data generation unit configured to generate current terrain data of the bottom of water based on the position data; a target-terrain data generation unit configured to generate target terrain data of the bottom of water based on the current terrain data; and a working equipment control unit configured to control a working equipment of a work vehicle based on the target terrain data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Chikashi Shike, Ryoichi Togashi, Akinori Onodera
  • Patent number: 11585219
    Abstract: A mining system includes: a first tunnel that reaches a dump site and includes a first road surface; a second tunnel that crosses the first tunnel, reaches a mining site, and includes a second road surface positioned above the first road surface; a frame that includes a lower surface provided above the first road surface of the first tunnel and forming a transport passage between the first road surface and the lower surface and an upper surface forming a work road surface, on which a loading machine operates, together with the second road surface; and a moving vehicle that is capable of traveling on the first road surface and is capable of passing through the transport passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Uetake, Yuichi Kodama, Kazunari Kawai, Shinichi Terada
  • Patent number: 11585490
    Abstract: A management system includes a position detection unit which obtains a position of a work machine, a posture detection unit which obtains a posture of the work machine, an object detection unit which obtains a three-dimensional shape of a buried object, a position calculation unit which obtains a position of the buried object by using the position of the work machine obtained by the position detection unit, the posture of the work machine obtained by the posture detection unit, and the three-dimensional shape of the buried object obtained by the object detection unit, and an information acquisition unit which acquires buried object information including at least the position of the buried object obtained by the position calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Nakano, Toyohisa Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20230050500
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a vehicular body and a work implement including a blade. The vehicular body includes a controller that controls an operation of the work implement and an acceleration sensor. The controller controls a blade propulsive angle ? of the blade based on an output from the acceleration sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Hirohito HAGIWARA
  • Publication number: 20230050071
    Abstract: A work machine includes: a vehicle body; a first imaging device that is disposed in the vehicle body and images a first imaging range; a second imaging device that is disposed in the vehicle body and images a second imaging range; and a communication device that transmits a first image in the first imaging range and a second image in the second imaging range to a remote place. At least a part of the second imaging range is set below the first imaging range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Morinaga, Yasuhiro Ibusuki, Atsuhito Kawahara, Masanori Minagawa
  • Publication number: 20230052077
    Abstract: A management system includes a course data generation unit that generates course data for each of a plurality of unmanned vehicles such that loading work for the plurality of unmanned vehicles by a loader is sequentially performed on a work site where a plurality of the loaders operates; and a priority determination unit that determine a passage order at an intersection on the work site of the plurality of unmanned vehicles traveling according to the course data so as to reduce a total loading loss indicating a total of loss amounts in operation of each of the plurality of the loaders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicants: Komatsu Ltd., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yusuke Maeda, Yudai Ogawa, Kenta Osagawa, Atsushi Sakai, Yasuchika Matsui
  • Patent number: 11578473
    Abstract: At least a portion of a first target design topography is positioned below an actual topography. At least a portion of a second target design topography is positioned below the actual topography and is inclined with respect to the first target design topography. A controller generates a command signal to operate a work implement according to the first target design topography in an area where the first target design topography is positioned above the second target design topography. The controller generates a command signal to operate the work implement according to the second target design topography in an area where the second target design topography is positioned above the first target design topography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Yukihisa Takaoka, Kazuki Kure
  • Patent number: 11578470
    Abstract: A control system for the work vehicle includes a display, an input device, and a controller. The controller displays a current position of a work vehicle on a screen of a display. The controller receives a first input signal indicating an input operation by an operator from a input device. The controller determines, as a first position, the position of the work vehicle when the first input signal is received. The controller displays the first position on the screen of the display. The controller receives a second input signal indicating an input operation by an operator from the input device. The controller determines, as the second position, the position of the work vehicle when the second input signal is received. The controller determines a target design surface indicating a target trajectory of a work implement based on reference position information including at least the first position and the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Junji Harada, Shigeru Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230036534
    Abstract: A remote operation system for a work machine includes, at a remote place of the work machine: an image data reception unit that receives a first image in a first imaging range and a second image in a second imaging range at least partially overlapping the first imaging range; and a display control unit that causes a display device to display the first image and the second image including an object whose state changes in an overlapping range between the first imaging range and the second imaging range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventor: Masanori Minagawa
  • Publication number: 20230022248
    Abstract: A control system for a work machine includes a plurality of hydraulic pumps that discharge hydraulic oil, a hydraulic cylinder that moves a working equipment element, a plurality of flow rate control valves that are respectively connected to the hydraulic pumps and adjust a flow rate of the hydraulic oil supplied to the hydraulic cylinder, a plurality of supply flow paths respectively connected to the of flow rate control valves, a meter-in flow path that connects a collective part of the supply flow paths and an inlet of the hydraulic oil in the hydraulic cylinder, a plurality of discharge flow paths respectively connected to the flow rate control valves, a meter-out flow path that connects a collective part of the discharge flow paths and an outlet of the hydraulic oil in the hydraulic cylinder, and a throttle disposed in the meter-out flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuji Shibata, Yusuke Fujii
  • Publication number: 20230021713
    Abstract: A hydraulic pump/motor includes: a cylinder block rotating about a rotation axis; a piston in a cylinder bore; and a valve plate facing a cylinder port. The valve plate includes: a high pressure port through which hydraulic oil discharged from the cylinder port flows; a low pressure port through which the oil to be sucked into the cylinder port flows; a region disposed between the high and low pressure ports in a circumferential direction of the rotation axis and including a top dead center position facing the cylinder port of the cylinder bore in which the piston moved to a top dead center is disposed; and a residual pressure release port between the top dead center position and the low pressure port in the region. The residual pressure release port includes first and second ports disposed at a positions different from each other in the radial direction of the rotation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Koide, Yuuichirou Tanikawa, Hideaki Usami, Kenta Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20230028422
    Abstract: An oil cooler is disposed on the vehicle body and includes a fan that creates an air flow and a housing that houses the fan. The housing has a first side surface which is disposed on the upstream side of the air flow, a second side surface which is disposed on the downstream side of the air flow, and a third side surface which is connected to the first side surface and the second side surface. The vehicle body is provided with a first passage which is disposed on the side of the first side surface, a second passage which is disposed on the side of the second side surface and on an outer edge of the vehicle body in a top view, and a third passage which is disposed on the side of the third side surface and is connected to the first passage and the second passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Masatoshi UCHIMARU, Yuusuke KONDOU, Kozo OKUDA
  • Patent number: 11562635
    Abstract: A work vehicle periphery monitoring system includes: an alarm range storage unit that stores an alarm range, in which an alarm output is required when an object is present, in a detection range of an object detection device that detects an object present in a periphery of a work vehicle; a work mode determination unit that determines a work mode of the work vehicle; an alarm range changing unit that changes the alarm range in the detection range when it is determined that the work mode is a specific work mode; and an alarm control unit that causes an alarm device to output an alarm when an object is present in the alarm range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Imaizumi, Masataka Ozaki, Takeshi Kurihara
  • Patent number: 11560692
    Abstract: A work machine includes: a vehicle body front part to which a front wheel is attached; a vehicle body rear part which is coupled to the vehicle body front part through an articulated mechanism and to which a rear wheel is attached; a working equipment coupled to the vehicle body front part; a headlight supported by the vehicle body front part and arranged above the front wheel; and a three-dimensional measurement device arranged on an outer side of the headlight in a vehicle width direction that is in parallel with a rotation axis of the front wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohei Seki, Masataka Ozaki, Kota Imanishi
  • Patent number: 11556739
    Abstract: A method is performed by a computer. The method includes obtaining motion data indicating a motion change of a work vehicle, and determining an operation classification of the work vehicle from the motion data by performing image classification using a trained classification model. The motion data is generated from a plurality of images indicating the work vehicle in operation in time series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Masanori Aizawa
  • Patent number: 11549237
    Abstract: A monitor controller configured to control a display content on a display unit is configured to keep displaying a bird's-eye-view image when an operation of an operation device is sensed in the state where the display unit displays the bird's-eye-view image, and to cause the display unit to display the bird's-eye-view image when the operation of the operation device is sensed in the state where the display unit does not display the bird's-eye-view image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mizuno, Satoru Ide
  • Patent number: 11549238
    Abstract: A system includes a processor and a display. The processor acquires shape data indicative of a shape of the surroundings in a traveling direction of a work machine. The processor generates a guide line. The guide line is disposed spaced from the work machine. The guide line indicates the shape of the surroundings in the traveling direction of the work machine. The processor synthesizes a surrounding image and the guide line and generates an image including the surroundings image and the guide line. The display displays the image including the surroundings image and the guide line based on a signal from the processor. The system may further include the work machine, a camera that captures the surrounding image, and a sensor that measures the shape of surroundings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Nakazawa, Osamu Yatsuda
  • Publication number: 20220412041
    Abstract: A work machine includes a work implement including a bucket and a boom, a revolving body on which the work implement is mounted and that executes a revolving operation, a first operation setting unit that sets a first operation in which movement of the boom in a vertical direction is large and a second operation in which the movement of the boom in the vertical direction is small, the first operation and the second operation being executed in a period from the end of excavation to the start of unloading, a first operation control unit that controls at least one of the work implement or the revolving body to execute the first operation and the second operation, and a load measurement processing unit that measures a load inside the bucket in a period of the second operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki KONDA, Koji KUSAKA
  • Publication number: 20220410694
    Abstract: A work machine includes: a partition member provided with an intake port and an exhaust port and forming an engine room; an engine disposed in the engine room; a cooling fan disposed on an intake port side of the engine in the engine room; an exhaust pipe discharging exhaust gas from the engine; and an exhaust duct disposed in the engine room and having an inflow port into which air from the cooling fan flows, and an outflow port. At least a portion of the exhaust duct is disposed above the engine and has a facing surface facing the engine and a through-hole provided in the facing surface. At least a portion of the exhaust pipe is disposed in the through-hole. A gap is formed between an outer surface of the exhaust pipe and an inner surface of the through-hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Ikeda, Kazuya Imamura, Takaaki Mizokami, Naotsuna Matsuda, Takeshi Nakagawa, Naoya Ando
  • Patent number: 11535374
    Abstract: A management system of a work site includes an image data acquisition unit that acquires image data of an unmanned vehicle stopped at the work site due to generation of a trouble, the image data being imaged by an imaging device mounted in a movable body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsugio Sudou