Patents Assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
  • Patent number: 11932506
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Yoshitomo Noda, Tomohiro Akaki, Koshi Tanimoto, Hideaki Nagai, Makoto Shimohatsubo
  • Patent number: 11890829
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takanori Iwai, Naoki Shigeyama, Masakazu Ohira, Yasunari Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11875582
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenta Hara
  • Publication number: 20230398763
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Koyama, Kiyoka Takagi, Katsuya Sennyu, Yoshinao Takakuwa, Takayuki Miyake, Katsuhide Aikawa
  • Patent number: 11766843
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Norifumi Tasaka, Makoto Kaji, Shuichi Takemoto, Toshiaki Miyakura, Eikichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11740365
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamada, Kenji Takao, Takeshi Korenaga
  • Patent number: 11727696
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Hara, Rie Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11712867
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Mizutani, Takashi Nitta
  • Patent number: 11703374
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nakayama, Kenta Nakao, Takaaki Sunagawa, Koichi Kanehara
  • Patent number: 11691376
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Nitta
  • Patent number: 11642830
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ueda, Kohichi Aoki, Daisuke Tanaka, Yasue Takeuchi, Kohichi Tamura, Takashi Minamihonoki
  • Patent number: 11642865
    Abstract: 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 control
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Koki Tateishi, Akira Ogino, Yusuke Hazui, Hiroshi Ishibuchi, Takaharu Hiroe
  • Patent number: 11613094
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi Fujita, Koki Tateishi, Hideki Mizutani, Akira Ogino, Koshi Tanimoto
  • Patent number: 11602915
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Akita, Shinya Iori, Makoto Shimohatsubo
  • Patent number: 11541565
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takanori Iwai, Naoki Shigeyama, Masakazu Ohira, Yasunari Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11535328
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Korenaga, Tomokazu Shimoda, Kazuyoshi Kitajima, Hiromichi Nakamoto
  • Patent number: 11485584
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Ueda, Morihiro Imamura, Makoto Tachibana
  • Patent number: 11479038
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Nadachi, Makoto Shimohatsubo
  • Patent number: 11470458
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Korenaga
  • Patent number: 11421995
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Korenaga, Kenta Hara