Patents Assigned to MITSUBISHI NICHIYU FORKLIFT CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 10669141
    Abstract: An object is to provide an industrial vehicle whereby it is possible to arrange an exhaust purifying apparatus in an efficient layout, and to achieve a high purifying performance. An industrial vehicle includes: a cargo loading device disposed on a front part of a vehicle; a counter weight disposed on a rear part of the vehicle; an engine housed in an engine room formed in front of the counter weight inside the vehicle; and an exhaust purifying device disposed inside the engine room and configured to purify exhaust gas of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI NICHIYU FORKLIFT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shunta Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10023451
    Abstract: A forklift includes a forklift body having a front wheel and a rear wheel, a fork supported to the front of the forklift body so as to be capable of moving vertically via a mast, a lift cylinder capable of moving the fork up and down, a hydraulic pressure supply line capable of supplying hydraulic pressure to a head-side chamber in the lift cylinder, a hydraulic pressure exhaust line capable of exhausting hydraulic pressure from a rod-side chamber in the lift cylinder, and a changeover valve provided on the hydraulic pressure exhaust line, wherein a control device changes a pressure balance between hydraulic pressure on the head-side chamber and hydraulic pressure on the rod-side chamber in the lift cylinder by the changeover valve to restrict the operation of the lift cylinder, when a weight of a load on the fork exceeds a limit load weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI NICHIYU FORKLIFT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Megumu Tsuruta, Masataka Kawaguchi, Kensuke Futahashi, Naohito Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20170137268
    Abstract: An object is to provide an industrial vehicle whereby it is possible to arrange an exhaust purifying apparatus in an efficient layout, and to achieve a high purifying performance. An industrial vehicle includes: a cargo loading device disposed on a front part of a vehicle; a counter weight disposed on a rear part of the vehicle; an engine housed in an engine room formed in front of the counter weight inside the vehicle; and an exhaust purifying device disposed inside the engine room and configured to purify exhaust gas of the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI NICHIYU FORKLIFT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shunta TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 9334881
    Abstract: A forklift (1) according to the present invention includes: an engine (7); a hydraulically-operated device for cargo handling (2); a pump for cargo handling (5) that is driven by the engine (7); hydraulic piping for cargo handling (8) that connects the pump for cargo handling (5) and the hydraulically-operated device for cargo handling (2); discharge piping (110) that branches from the hydraulic piping for cargo handling (8) and is connected to a tank (4); a switching valve (111) capable of switching the opening and closing of the discharge piping (110); a control device (13) that closes the discharge piping (110) when the rotation speed of the engine (7) is larger than a predetermined value, and opens the discharge piping (110) when the rotation speed of the engine (7) is less than or equal to a predetermined value; and a sub-relief valve (112) that adjusts the flow rate of hydraulic oil that is discharged from the discharge piping (110) to the tank (4), on the bases of the pressure or the flow rate of the h
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI NICHIYU FORKLIFT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Megumu Tsuruta, Keiji Ito, Takuya Nakada
  • Patent number: 9312685
    Abstract: A hybrid industrial vehicle (1) has as a main configuration: an engine (2); a cargo handling generator motor (3) used for cargo handling; a cargo handling apparatus (4) that can be driven by power received from both the engine (2) and the cargo handling generator motor (3); and a hybrid control system (8). The hybrid control system (8) suppresses an output of the cargo handling generator motor (3) according to a temperature of the cargo handling generator motor (3) during powering of the cargo handling generator motor (3), and suppresses a regeneration amount of the cargo handling generator motor (3) according to the temperature of the cargo handling generator motor (3) during regeneration of the cargo handling generator motor (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI NICHIYU FORKLIFT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Kinouchi, Kensuke Futahashi, Kiyomitsu Ogawa
  • Patent number: 9225080
    Abstract: A terminal connecting-and-fixing structure capable of ensuring the connection between the terminal and the bus bar even in the case of loose of the bolt and suppressing increase in the contact resistance, thereby preventing poorness of the conduction, is provided. A terminal connecting-and-fixing structure comprises a bus bar 10 having a plate-like shape, a bolt 30 penetrating the bus bar 10, and a nut 40 tightened by the bolt 30, and a terminal 20 mounted on the bolt 30, wherein the terminal 20 and the bus bar 10 is connected and fixed by fastening the nut 40 to the bolt 30, and wherein the bus bar 10 has a concave portion 12, and the terminal 20 and the bus bar 10 is connected and fixed by fastening the nut 40 to the bolt 30 while an end portion of the terminal 20 is press-fitted in the concave portion 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI NICHIYU FORKLIFT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamitsu Himeno, Atsushi Nakao, Hitoshi Tamaki, Naoto Kawauchi, Satoshi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 9150396
    Abstract: The electric-vehicle control device is used in an electric vehicle which is provided with a vehicle body having a driving tire and an axle shaft and with a driving motor which imparts torque to the driving tire. The electric-vehicle control device issues a motor control command to the driving motor. The electric-vehicle control device is provided with a control unit, and the control unit gives feedback control to the driving motor by vibration parameters indicating vertical vibration of the electric vehicle at the center of the axle shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI NICHIYU FORKLIFT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuichi Umehara, Osamu Nakakita, Masataka Kawaguchi, Toshiyuki Honda, Wataru Mizunuma
  • Patent number: 9096212
    Abstract: In a vehicle and a method of controlling the same, a controller determines whether an idle-stop condition is satisfied or not when an engine is driven, and stops idling of the engine when it is determined that the idle-stop condition is satisfied. In addition, while the idling of the engine is stopped, when an operation order given to a fork driving cylinder by manipulation of a cargo handling lever is received, the controller starts the engine, and switches an oil pump for cargo handling of the fork driving cylinder to an on-load state before an engine revolution number reaches an idling revolution number region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI NICHIYU FORKLIFT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kensuke Futahashi, Kiyomitsu Ogawa, Megumu Tsuruta
  • Patent number: 9008855
    Abstract: An accumulated use time for cargo handling vehicles is accurately displayed by a time measuring device even if the time measuring device fails and is replaced. Units such as a display unit and a control unit of the cargo handling vehicle each include a time measuring device and a storage device. The device may perform in a synchronization mode in which the difference between the accumulated use times of both devices is made the same and a synchronization inhibition mode in which the accumulated use times are not changed. The accumulated use times are communicated between the function units, and the accumulated use time of the cargo handling vehicle and the absolute value of the difference between the accumulated use times of both measuring devices are taken into consideration. The appropriate mode is selected and the time measurement is carried out in the selected mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Nichiyu Forklift Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoki Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8880303
    Abstract: A vehicle control unit and a vehicle equipped with the vehicle control unit are provided, the vehicle control unit being capable of preventing a shift change from being permitted in a direction opposite to a vehicle traveling direction caused by an erroneous operation of a shift lever during a traveling mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Nichiyu Forklift Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Ishikawa, Katsumi Ueda, Masanobu Seki
  • Publication number: 20140265977
    Abstract: A hybrid industrial vehicle (1) has as a main configuration: an engine (2); a cargo handling generator motor (3) used for cargo handling; a cargo handling apparatus (4) that can be driven by power received from both the engine (2) and the cargo handling generator motor (3); and a hybrid control system (8). The hybrid control system (8) suppresses an output of the cargo handling generator motor (3) according to a temperature of the cargo handling generator motor (3) during powering of the cargo handling generator motor (3), and suppresses a regeneration amount of the cargo handling generator motor (3) according to the temperature of the cargo handling generator motor (3) during regeneration of the cargo handling generator motor (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI NICHIYU FORKLIFT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Kinouchi, Kensuke Futahashi, Kiyomitsu Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20140241840
    Abstract: A forklift includes a forklift body having a front wheel and a rear wheel, a fork supported to the front of the forklift body so as to be capable of moving vertically via a mast, a lift cylinder capable of moving the fork up and down, a hydraulic pressure supply line capable of supplying hydraulic pressure to a head-side chamber in the lift cylinder, a hydraulic pressure exhaust line capable of exhausting hydraulic pressure from a rod-side chamber in the lift cylinder, and a changeover valve provided on the hydraulic pressure exhaust line, wherein a control device changes a pressure balance between hydraulic pressure on the head-side chamber and hydraulic pressure on the rod-side chamber in the lift cylinder by the changeover valve to restrict the operation of the lift cylinder, when a weight of a load on the fork exceeds a limit load weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI NICHIYU FORKLIFT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Megumu Tsuruta, Masataka Kawaguchi, Kensuke Futahashi, Naohito Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8783434
    Abstract: A hydraulic piston is housed in a cylinder chamber that is provided in a cover plate of a transmission case and that opens toward a pressing arm so that the hydraulic piston is capable of rotating the pressing arm by abutting against a rearward arm portion of the pressing arm, and a hydraulic pipe supplying pressure oil to the cylinder chamber is connected to the cover plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Nichiyu Forklift Co., Ltd., Okamura Corporation
    Inventors: Fujito Aikawa, Akihiko Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 8771132
    Abstract: A brake hub (36) and a second gear shaft (22) are rotatably supported by a bearing (42) and a bearing (43), the bearing (42) interposed between a projection (11D-1) of a support member (11D) disposed on the inner side of a recess (36a) of the brake hub and the inner peripheral surface of the recess, the bearing (43) interposed between a support member (11E) surrounding a top end portion of the brake hub and the top end portion of the brake hub. The transfer further comprises a disc pressing pin (50) inserted through a hole (11D-4) in the support member, a pressing plate (51) disposed on the outer side of the support member, and plate pressing means. The plate pressing means presses the pressing plate, the pressing plate presses the disc pressing pin, and the disc pressing pin presses a press brake disc (35C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Nichiyu Forklift Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Fujimoto, Shigeyoshi Umeda
  • Patent number: 8775026
    Abstract: A steering control device obtains a command steering reactive force according to a wheel angle based on a wheel angle and table data representing the correlation between the wheel angle and the command steering reactive force, and which controls an electric-control brake to make the steering reactive force equal to the command steering reactive force. The steering control device: obtains a correction coefficient according to vehicle state amounts based on the vehicle state amounts other than the wheel angle, which are detected by vehicle state amount detecting means, and table data representing the correlation between the vehicle state amounts and the correction coefficients; corrects the table data by using the correction coefficients; obtains a command steering reactive force according to the wheel angle based on the table data and the wheel angle; and controls the electric-control brake to make the steering reactive force equal to the command steering reactive force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Nichiyu Forklift Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kensuke Futahashi, Masataka Kawaguchi, Yasunobu Igashima, Hiroyuki Iiyama, Ryota Adachi, Takaharu Hiroe
  • Patent number: 8732029
    Abstract: A component sales system sells, a plurality of components that constitutes each of a plurality of mechanisms constituting a machine at an electronic store. The component sales system includes an electronic store providing device that provides the electronic store through a communication line to a customer terminal used by a customer. The electronic store providing device includes a selected component data receiving unit, a maintenance type specifying unit, a dismounted component specifying unit, a replacement component specifying unit, a sales page generating unit, and a web page transmitting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Nichiyu Forklift Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Watanabe, Takaharu Hiroe, Keisuke Mori, Ren Ishii
  • Patent number: 8718843
    Abstract: A control method for an industrial vehicle can appropriately set a charge amount for a battery, and an industrial vehicle are provided. The control method includes an estimation step that estimates the charge rate of a battery by calculating the current that is charged to the battery and the current that is discharged from the battery; a charge amount determining step that determines the charge amount of the battery based on the estimated charge rate; a correction amount determining step that determines the charge power that is necessary for motors to generate the determined charge amount as a correction amount for the power that is supplied by the engine; and an addition step that adds the charge power to the supplied power of the engine that has been determined based on the state of the traveling and load-handling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Nichiyu Forklift Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kubota, Tomohiro Akaki, Kensuke Futahashi
  • Patent number: 8651589
    Abstract: A control device 10 of an industrial vehicle which performs the control of actuating a parking brake 7 during operator's absence in an industrial vehicle includes a seat switch 1, a vehicle speed sensor 2, and the parking brake 7 controlled by a parking brake solenoid 6, and a counter 11 which counts the elapsed time after the seat switch 1 detects the operator's absence. The control device sets the time corresponding to the time until the operator leaves the vehicle after the operator leaves the seat as a preset absence time. When the seat switch 1 has detected absence, a control signal which validates the parking brake 7 is output to the parking brake solenoid 6, thereby actuating the parking brake 7 if the vehicle speed shows a vehicle stopped state, and the elapsed time becomes equal to or more than the set absence time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Nichiyu Forklift Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Ishikawa, Katsumi Ueda, Masanobu Seki
  • Patent number: D699911
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Nichiyu Forklift Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Kazaoka, Mitsuaki Matsukuma, Ryota Adachi
  • Patent number: D725863
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: MItsubishi Nichiyu Forklift Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Kazaoka, Hidehiko Makida, Shigeyuki Terada