Patents Assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
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Patent number: 11932506Abstract: The present invention provides a sheet stacking device, a counter-ejector, and a carton former and is provided with: a hopper unit that stacks cardboard boxes; feed rollers that feed a cardboard box to the hopper unit; a first blower device that blows air from above the hopper unit toward the cardboard box fed by the feed rollers; and a second blower device that blows air between the cardboard box stacked in the hopper unit and the cardboard box fed by the feed roller.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Yoshitomo Noda, Tomohiro Akaki, Koshi Tanimoto, Hideaki Nagai, Makoto Shimohatsubo
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Patent number: 11890829Abstract: A cardboard box dividing device and a cardboard box production device are provided with: lower conveyors on which a plurality of connected cardboard box bodies are stacked and transported; a pressing device pressing the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors from above; a cutting knife disposed along a width direction of the connected cardboard box bodies and dividing the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors into a front part and a rear part; and a lifting/lowering device lifting and lowering the lower conveyors and the pressing device.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Takanori Iwai, Naoki Shigeyama, Masakazu Ohira, Yasunari Suzuki
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Patent number: 11875582Abstract: A vehicle number identification device includes a registration-number-information acquisition part configured to acquire registration number information associated with an identification media installed in a vehicle; a number-plate-image acquisition part configured to acquire a number-plate image of the vehicle; an OCR processing part configured to acquire OCR resultant information representing a result of an optical character recognition with respect to the number-plate image; an estimation processing part configured to input the number-plate image into a machine-learning model and to acquire estimation result information output from the machine-learning model; and a matching determination part configured to determine whether at least two types of information out of the registration number information, the OCR resultant information, and the estimation result information indicate a same vehicle number and to identify the same vehicle number as a vehicle number of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2018Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventor: Kenta Hara
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Publication number: 20230398763Abstract: A panel structure includes: a sheet-shaped core member having a thermoplastic property and provided with a plurality of protruding portions in at least one surface; a sheet-shaped faceplate having a thermoplastic property and disposed on the plurality of protruding portions; and a fusing portion which is selectively formed between the faceplate and the plurality of protruding portions and which bonds the core member and the faceplate to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Takayuki Koyama, Kiyoka Takagi, Katsuya Sennyu, Yoshinao Takakuwa, Takayuki Miyake, Katsuhide Aikawa
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Patent number: 11766843Abstract: A printing unit includes a support frame that is supported to face a transfer passage for a sheet; an inkjet head that is fixed to the support frame and performs printing on a printing surface of the sheet; drive bodies that are rotatably supported on the support frame on both sides of the inkjet head in a width direction of the sheet and come into contact with the printing surface of the sheet; and a drive device that drives and rotates the drive bodies.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Norifumi Tasaka, Makoto Kaji, Shuichi Takemoto, Toshiaki Miyakura, Eikichi Tanaka
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Patent number: 11740365Abstract: This positional error prediction device (1) is provided with: a satellite position acquisition unit (154) which acquires a receivable position of a satellite on a target date at a target time and a target point at which a positional error prediction is performed; a relative relationship value acquisition unit (151) which acquires a value of the relative relationship between the position of the satellite and an observation start position of the satellite at the target point; and an error prediction unit (155) which predicts, on the basis of the relative relationship value and a positional error prediction model generated in advance, a positional error on the target date at the target time and the target point.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Yamada, Kenji Takao, Takeshi Korenaga
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Patent number: 11727696Abstract: A number plate information specifying device includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a number plate image, a feature point extraction unit that extracts a feature point from the number plate image, a degree of similarity calculation unit that references a learning data set in which a plurality of feature points are recorded in association with a plurality of pieces of number plate information and calculates degrees of similarity for the feature points recorded in the learning data set that correspond to the feature point extracted from the number plate image, a vote value calculation unit that, on the basis of the degrees of similarity, calculates vote values for the pieces of number plate information recorded in the learning data set, and a specifying unit that specifies the piece of number plate information that has the highest vote value as the number plate information displayed in the number plate image.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Kenta Hara, Rie Hasegawa
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Patent number: 11712867Abstract: A single facer equipped with a plurality of corrugated roll units each composed of a pair of corrugated rolls is provided with: a lifting/lowering device that causes each of the corrugated roll units to be lifted and lowered between a use position at which a core sheet is to be corrugated, a first position adjacent to and directly under the use position, and a second position adjacent to and directly under the first position; a horizontal movement device that causes each of the corrugated roll units to be moved horizontally between the first position, a third position adjacent to the first position on one side in a sheet transfer direction, and a fourth position adjacent to the first position on the other side in the sheet transfer direction; and a control device that controls the lifting/lowering device and the horizontal movement device to move the corrugated roll units.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Hideki Mizutani, Takashi Nitta
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Patent number: 11703374Abstract: A charging system includes load meters mounted in a vehicle, the load meters each measuring a load exerted on an axle or a wheel and deciding a measurement result and an onboard unit that acquires the measurement results of the load meters and is capable of communicating weight information on the weight of the vehicle based on the measurement results to a roadside machine.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2017Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Nakayama, Kenta Nakao, Takaaki Sunagawa, Koichi Kanehara
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Patent number: 11691376Abstract: A sheet humidifying device, a method, and a cardboard sheet manufacturing device are provided with: a pre-heating roll that has an outer peripheral surface on which a corrugating medium is wrapped; and a humidified water jetting device that jets humidified water onto the outer peripheral surface of the pre-heating roll on which the corrugating medium has not been wrapped.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventor: Takashi Nitta
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Patent number: 11642830Abstract: Provided is a novel container sterilization method in which no liquid agent is used. A container sterilization method is a method of performing sterilization by supplying a sterilization component to a container that is continuously conveyed along a predetermined conveyance path, the container sterilization method including supplying a humid ozone gas to a sterilization area, the humid ozone gas being an ozone gas that has humidity, the sterilization area being partitioned by a sterilization chamber that contains the conveyance path. The humidity of the humid ozone gas to be supplied to the sterilization region is regulated, depending on a temperature of the containers to be conveyed to the sterilization region.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Ueda, Kohichi Aoki, Daisuke Tanaka, Yasue Takeuchi, Kohichi Tamura, Takashi Minamihonoki
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Patent number: 11642865Abstract: The corrugated cardboard sheet manufacturing system including a production state information acquisition device; a control value information acquisition device for acquiring control value information of a control element of a corrugated cardboard sheet manufacturing apparatus exerting an influence on the warp of a corrugated cardboard sheet; a warp information acquisition device for acquiring information of a warp amount of the corrugated cardboard sheet; a storage device for storing a performance data set including at least production state information, the control value information, and the warp information; a pre-control table storing a standard control value of the control element set in accordance with a production state; a correction table for correcting the standard control value to set an initial control value; an update device for updating the correction table by reflecting the performance data set; and control device for performing feedforward control of the control element using the initial controlType: GrantFiled: February 23, 2018Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Koki Tateishi, Akira Ogino, Yusuke Hazui, Hiroshi Ishibuchi, Takaharu Hiroe
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Patent number: 11613094Abstract: A cardboard sheet manufacturing system includes an information editing unit storing production state information, operation state information, and warping state information as acquisition information in a storage unit, the information editing unit deleting, in a case where the stored acquisition information includes prescribed information to be deleted, the information to be deleted from the storage unit and outputting the acquisition information stored in the storage unit as editing information. The system also includes an editing information storage unit storing the editing information output from the information editing unit, a prediction model calculation unit calculating a prediction model of the warping state based on the editing information stored in the editing information storage unit; and a control table update unit updating a target value of a control value of a control element in the cardboard sheet manufacturing apparatus, based on the prediction model.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Takumi Fujita, Koki Tateishi, Hideki Mizutani, Akira Ogino, Koshi Tanimoto
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Patent number: 11602915Abstract: A sheet folding device includes forming belts which are disposed on both sides in a transfer direction of a corrugated board and move to a center side in a width direction of the corrugated board toward a downstream side in the transfer direction to press both end portions in the width direction from an outside so as to bend both the end portions; and a gauge roller group including several gauge rollers which are disposed along the transfer direction and come into contact with outer sides of both bent portions in the width direction of the corrugated board bent by the forming belts. In the several gauge rollers, recessed portions are provided on outer peripheral surfaces of the gauge rollers in a circumferential direction. Positions of the recessed portions are disposed to be offset downward in a vertical direction toward a downstream side in the transfer direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Kazuya Akita, Shinya Iori, Makoto Shimohatsubo
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Patent number: 11541565Abstract: A cardboard box dividing device and a cardboard box production device include: lower conveyors on which a plurality of connected cardboard box bodies are stacked and transported; upper conveyors disposed so as to face the lower conveyors from above and supporting upper portions of the plurality of stacked connected cardboard box bodies; a pressing device pressing, from above, the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors; a cutting knife disposed along a width direction of the connected cardboard box body and dividing the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors into a front part and a rear part; and a lifting/lowering device relatively moving the cutting knife and the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies on the lower conveyors along an up-down direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Takanori Iwai, Naoki Shigeyama, Masakazu Ohira, Yasunari Suzuki
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Patent number: 11535328Abstract: This measurement device for measuring the angular velocity or acceleration of a two-wheel vehicle, is provided with a main detection unit which detects the three-axis angular velocity or three-axis acceleration, a support unit which can support the main detection unit on the body of the two-wheel vehicle, and a correction unit which cancels the lean of the body to the left and right in the main detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2017Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Korenaga, Tomokazu Shimoda, Kazuyoshi Kitajima, Hiromichi Nakamoto
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Patent number: 11485584Abstract: A tire conveying apparatus includes a conveyor for conveying a tire, a position sensor, and a controller for controlling the conveyor. The controller includes a determination unit which determines whether or not the tire is positioned within an allowable area for a reference area set in a conveyance path of the conveyor, based on a detection result of the position sensor, and a center conveyor control unit which drives the conveyor such that the tire is positioned within the allowable area, if a determination that the tire is not positioned within the allowable area is made.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Ueda, Morihiro Imamura, Makoto Tachibana
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Patent number: 11479038Abstract: A viscosity measurement device includes a measurement tool having a pump for feeding a printing liquid by pressure. The viscosity measurement device includes a passage part having a first passage part in which a flow path cross-sectional area for the printing liquid is set at a first area, and a second passage part in which a flow path cross-sectional area for the printing liquid is set at a second area smaller than the first area and which is arranged on an upstream side in a supply direction of the printing liquid with respect to the first passage part, the passage part being interposed in the supply path and arranged upward toward a downstream side in the supply direction of the printing liquid; and a sensor attached to the second passage part and measuring the fall time of the measurement tool in a prescribed vertical region in the second passage part.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Mitsuhiro Nadachi, Makoto Shimohatsubo
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Patent number: 11470458Abstract: This in-vehicle device is provided with: a determination information acquiring unit for acquiring determination information related to a vehicle; and a timing setting unit for setting, on the basis of the determination information, a timing for downloading satellite orbit information.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventor: Takeshi Korenaga
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Patent number: 11421995Abstract: A map matching device includes: a candidate spot extraction unit that extracts candidate spots onto a link based on position measurement points; a movement cost determination unit that determines the movement cost of a combination of links connecting one of first candidate spots extracted based on one position measurement point to one of second candidate spots extracted based on another position measurement point, the movement cost determined separately for each combination of a first and a second candidate spot; a movement possibility judgment unit that judges, for each combination of first and second candidate spots, whether a moving body can move from the first to the second candidate spot, based on the movement cost; and a matching spot determination unit that determines, as the position of the moving body on the map, one of the candidate spots included in a combination for which movement was determined to be possible.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Korenaga, Kenta Hara