Patents Assigned to Kubota Corporation
  • Publication number: 20250012049
    Abstract: A working machine includes a machine body; a seat on the machine body; and a communication unit including an information processing device and a communication device to receive data from and transmit data to the information processing device, the communication device containing a communication antenna and configured to transmit data. The communication unit is located at a position rearward of the seat and lower than an upper end of the seat such that the communication unit overlaps the seat in rear view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiki TAKADA, Takuya SAKUTA, Hironobu KONISHI, Yusuke MITSUI, Shintaro NAKABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20250013810
    Abstract: A buried piping probability-of-water-leakage-accidents prediction apparatus includes: an exceedance-probability-of-pipe-wall-thickness calculation unit; and a probability-of-water-leakage-accidents calculation unit. The exceedance-probability-of-pipe-wall-thickness calculation unit calculates an exceedance probability of pipe wall thickness of buried piping by inputting a burial environment, a burial period of time and a pipe wall thickness of the buried piping to an exceedance-probability-of-pipe-wall-thickness prediction model. The probability-of-water-leakage-accidents calculation unit calculates a probability of water leakage accidents of the buried piping using the exceedance probability of pipe wall thickness and a conversion coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: KUBOTA Corporation
    Inventors: Goro FUNAHASHI, Yuta OKUMURA, Tomo KAWAKATSU, Satoshi TAKIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20250012042
    Abstract: Provided is an attitude maintenance mechanism of a front loader capable of improving visibility. An attitude maintenance mechanism of a front loader that maintains an attitude of a bucket coupled to a boom by operating according to rocking of the boom including a pair of left and right boom frames includes a first link member rockable with respect to a side frame of the front loader and a second link member rockably provided with respect to the boom frames and coupled to the first link member and a bucket cylinder, and the first link member and the second link member are provided as a left and right pair with each of the boom frames interposed therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoichi NISHI, Shin TORII
  • Publication number: 20250012048
    Abstract: A working machine includes a machine body; a seat on the machine body; a console located outward of the seat in a machine-body width direction; a meter provided at a front portion of the console; a communication unit located forward of the meter; and a unit support to support the communication unit. The unit support includes a unit bracket to which the communication unit is attached, a support bracket located outward of the meter in the machine-body width direction and attached directly or indirectly to the machine body, and an attachment tool to attach the unit bracket to the support bracket. The unit bracket includes an attached section. The support bracket includes an attaching section with which the attached section overlaps in the machine-body width direction. The attachment tool attaches the attached section to the attaching section in the machine-body width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiki TAKADA, Takuya SAKUTA, Hironobu KONISHI, Yusuke MITSUI, Takuto MIMURA, Shohei TANAKA, Shintaro NAKABAYASHI, Atsushi KASHIWAGI, Issei YANAGISAWA, Yuta YAMADA, Tokio SAKATA
  • Patent number: 12187358
    Abstract: A work machine includes in its driver section, a driver's seat; and a tool container disposed below the driver's seat and configured to store a tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Ono, Nozomu Akiyama
  • Patent number: 12187214
    Abstract: A ROPS frame for a work vehicle includes: a first pipe having an end; a second pipe having an end facing the end of the first pipe; a plate-shaped first joint coupled to the end of the first pipe and oriented orthogonally to a longitudinal direction of the pipes; a plate-shaped second joint coupled to the end of the second pipe and oriented orthogonally to the longitudinal direction of the pipes, the second joint being placed on the first joint; and a bolt extending through the first and second joints and fastening the first and second joints to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Kohta Nakao, Yuki Monde
  • Patent number: 12190602
    Abstract: Provided is a working vehicle capable of operation and driving that includes a plurality of image capture devices 4 that capture an image of surroundings of a vehicle body; a direction detection unit 51 that detects an advancement direction of the operation and driving; an image selection unit 52 that acquires, as a detection image, a surrounding area image captured by one image capture device 4 of the plurality of image capture devices 4 capturing a front advancement direction detected by the direction detection unit 51; and a detection unit 53 that analyzes the detection image acquired by the image selection unit 52 and detects an obstacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nakabayashi, Toshiki Watanabe, Shunsuke Edo, Shunsuke Miyashita, Kenichi Iwami
  • Publication number: 20250003183
    Abstract: A working machine includes a machine body; a prime mover mounted on the machine body; a cooling fan to generate cooling air for cooling the prime mover; a cooler having a ventilation surface portion on which the cooling air hits, to cool a coolant to be circulated and supplied to the prime mover; and a controller. The cooler and the controller are disposed upstream of the prime mover in a flow direction of the cooling air. The controller is disposed at a position not overlapping the ventilation surface portion when viewed in the flow direction of the cooling air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi MIURA, Junichi FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20250003184
    Abstract: A working machine includes a machine body; a tank including a tank body to store a liquid, and a tubular portion protruding from an outer surface of the tank body in a protruding direction inclined from the outer surface; a fixing piece having a through hole through which the tubular portion is inserted, to fix the tank to the machine body; and an elastic member sandwiched between the fixing piece and the tubular portion. The tubular portion has one end connected to the tank body and another end defining a liquid supply opening. The elastic member is fitted on the tubular portion substantially in parallel to the outer surface and non-perpendicularly to the protruding direction. The fixing piece is fitted on the elastic member fitted on the tubular portion, substantially in parallel to the outer surface, and is fixed to the machine body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori TORII, Yusuke NISHIRA
  • Publication number: 20250003185
    Abstract: A working machine includes a machine body; a prime mover mounted on the machine body; a peripheral device disposed in a periphery of the prime mover; and an attachment bracket to support the peripheral device. The attachment bracket includes a base member to support the peripheral device in a vicinity of a driven unit to be driven with power of the prime mover, and a pressing member coupled to the base member, to hold the peripheral device between the pressing member and the base member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi MIURA, Tokio SAKATA
  • Publication number: 20250003187
    Abstract: A working machine includes a machine body; an operator's seat mounted on the machine body; a console disposed beside the operator's seat; and a communication device disposed inside the console. Furthermore, the console includes a first side wall portion located beside the operator's seat and a second side wall portion provided beside the first side wall portion with a gap interposed therebetween on a side opposite to the operator's seat, and the communication device is disposed between the first side wall portion and the second side wall portion so as to be located closer to the second side wall portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro YOSHIDA, Yusuke NISHIRA, Hideki OMORI
  • Patent number: 12179586
    Abstract: An electric work vehicle includes a work implement, a battery, a motor driven by electric power supplied by the battery, a traveler driven by the motor, a hydraulic pump that is driven by the motor to supply oil to an operating mechanism of the work implement, a transmission to transmit motive power from the motor to the hydraulic pump, and a case that houses the transmission. The case is coupled to the motor, and the hydraulic pump his supported by the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20240423132
    Abstract: An electric mower includes: a body; a battery on the body; at least one motor drivable on electric power from the battery; a mower unit drivable on motive power from the at least one motor; at least one controller configured to control the at least one motor; and a support member disposed below the battery and fixed to the body, the at least one controller being fixed to the support member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jordan LYNN
  • Publication number: 20240423133
    Abstract: An electric mower includes: a body; a battery on the body; a cover including: a back wall backward of the battery; and a left side wall and a right side wall each extending forward from the back wall, the cover covering at least a portion of the battery; at least one motor drivable by the battery; and at least one controller disposed between the battery and at least one of the left and right side walls and configured to control the at least one motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jordan LYNN
  • Publication number: 20240423131
    Abstract: An electric mower includes: a wheel; a body frame including a right frame section and a left frame section and supported by the wheel on ground; a battery between the right frame section and the left frame section in a plan view; and a plate unit supported by the body frame and supporting the battery from below, the plate unit including: at least one first plate supported by the right frame section and the left frame section; a second plate forward of the at least one first plate; a third plate backward of the at least one first plate; and a fourth plate supported by the at least one first plate and supporting the second plate and the third plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daniel WALLON
  • Publication number: 20240423125
    Abstract: An electric mower includes: a wheel; a body frame including a right frame portion and a left frame portion and supported by the wheel on ground; a battery between the right frame section and the left frame section in a plan view; and a plurality of plates supported by the body frame, spaced from each other in a front-back direction of the electric mower, and supporting the battery from below.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jordan LYNN
  • Publication number: 20240423134
    Abstract: An electric mower includes: a body; a battery on the body; at least one motor drivable on electric power from the battery; a mower unit drivable on motive power from the at least one motor; a support member disposed below the battery and held by the body, and at least one controller supported by the support member and configured to control the at least one motor, the body including an engagement section, the support member including a hook section, the support member being attachable to and detachable from the body with the hook section engaged with the engagement section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daniel WALLON
  • Patent number: 12173472
    Abstract: A support structure includes a shroud having a substantially circular shape from a proximal end covering an outer periphery of a first surface of a heat exchanger to a distal end. A support frame supports the heat exchanger and the shroud to expose the distal end and a second surface of the heat exchanger. The vehicle body frame has an opening. A cooling fan includes a fan rotating shaft and blades to generate cooling air. When the heat exchanger is positioned at the first position facing the cooling fan, the distal end of the shroud covers a circumference of the cooling fan in a radial direction so that cooling air passes through the first and second surfaces. When the support frame is located at a second position where the heat exchanger exposes the opening to an outside of the vehicle frame, the fan rotating shaft and the blades are uncovered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Hirakawa, Satoshi Yamaki, Kiyoshi Ueda, Hiroshi Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20240418296
    Abstract: A pipe-joining attachment of a work machine includes an arm connecting unit connected to an arm of the work machine; a grip unit configured to grip a pipe; and a to-be-joined pipe contact unit located with respect to the grip unit in an axial direction of an insertion port of the pipe which is gripped by the grip unit and configured to come into contact with an outer peripheral surface of a to-be-joined pipe to be joined to the pipe on a receiving port side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi IDOMOTO, Hayato KAGEYAMA, Yasuhiro MIYAZAKI, Yusuke TAKAGI, Keiichiro YAMAMOTO, Masato TAKENONAKA
  • Patent number: 12168474
    Abstract: A working vehicle includes an inertia detector to measure inertia information of a vehicle body, a rear axle supporting a rear wheel, and a transmission case rotatably supporting the rear wheel. The inertia detector overlaps with at least a portion of the transmission case in a plan view and is capable of accurately measuring inertia information when a vehicle body changes attitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kumiko Kobayashi, Kunihiko Nishino, Yasuaki Morioka, Shunsuke Miyashita, Yuki Kubota, Misako Kawai, Shigeo Shoen