Patents Assigned to Tadano Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20230211985
    Abstract: A lightweight and high-rigidity telescopic boom in which strain during manufacturing is suppressed is disclosed. In a telescopic boom, a plurality of booms forms a telescope structure, and the telescopic boom includes a boom fixing mechanism that fixes a top boom disposed relatively inside at a predetermined position with respect to a first intermediate boom disposed relatively outside. The boom fixing mechanism includes a boom fixing pin that is provided to the top boom and advances and retreats with respect to the first intermediate boom, a fixing boss that is provided to the first intermediate boom and into which the boom fixing pin is inserted and extracted, and a gap maintaining member that is provided to the fixing boss and protrudes outward to maintain a gap between the first intermediate boom and a second intermediate boom disposed further outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: TADANO LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Shimizu, Kazuhiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11691855
    Abstract: A crane is provided. A slewing base camera detects a load W that is suspended by a wire rope, the current coordinate location of the load is calculated from the location of the detected load, the current coordinate location of a tip end of a boom is calculated from the position of a crane, a target velocity signal that was inputted from a manipulation tool is converted into a target coordinate location of the load, a wire rope direction vector is calculated from the current coordinate location of the load and the target coordinate location of the load, a target location of the tip end of the boom for the target coordinate location of the load is calculated from a wire rope reel-out amount and the wire rope direction vector, and an actuator operation signal is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: TADANO LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshimasa Minami
  • Publication number: 20230192455
    Abstract: A crane for transporting a load from a transportation origin to a transportation destination, the crane being provided with: an operation function unit provided so as to be turnable; a hook suspended by a wire rope from a distal end part of the operation function unit; an information-reading unit provided to the hook or a member that moves with the hook, the information-reading unit acquiring information relating to a position of the transportation destination from an information storage unit provided to the load; a control unit for calculating, on the basis of the information relating to the position acquired from the information-reading unit, information relating to an operation of the crane for transporting the load to the transportation destination; and a display unit for displaying the information relating to the position and the information relating to the operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: TADANO LTD.
    Inventor: Shinsuke KANDA
  • Patent number: 11649143
    Abstract: The resonant frequency ?x(n) of horizontal shaking of a suspended load W suspended from the distal end of a telescopic boom 9 via wire ropes 14·16 is calculated on the basis of the suspension length Lm(n)·Ls(n) of the wire ropes 14·16; the characteristic frequency ?y(n) in the raising and lowering direction of the telescopic boom 9 is calculated; and, in accordance with an operation for raising and lowering the telescopic boom 9, the filtering control signal Cd(n) of an actuator is generated in which a frequency component in a discretionary frequency range is attenuated at a discretionary ratio with reference to the resonant frequency ?x(n) of the suspended load W, and in which a frequency component in a discretionary frequency range is attenuated at a discretionary ratio with reference to the characteristic frequency ?y(n) in the raising and lowering direction of the telescopic boom 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: TADANO LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Kanda, Kazuma Mizuki
  • Publication number: 20230128542
    Abstract: Provided is a guide display device that prevents misidentification of the same feature as a plurality of different features or the ground surface even if an occlusion area occurs. A guide display device for a crane includes: a laser scanner that scans a suspended load and a ground surface from above the suspended load; and a data processing unit that calculates a representative point for each grid using the point cloud data acquired by the laser scanner, creates a three-dimensional map based on the representative points, and updates the three-dimensional map if the newly calculated representative point differs from the existing representative point. When an occlusion area, which is a shadow of the suspended load, occurs in the three-dimensional map, the occlusion area is not updated even if the newly calculated representative point and the existing representative point are different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Iwao ISHIKAWA, Takayuki KOSAKA, Keita MASHIMA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Masaya NAKAHARA, Koki NAKAHATA
  • Patent number: 11629035
    Abstract: There is provided a crane including: a telescopic boom having an inner boom element and an outer boom element; a telescoping actuator that displaces the inner boom element or the outer boom element in the telescoping direction; a first coupling member that releasably couples the telescoping actuator to one of the boom elements; a second coupling member that releasably couples the pair of boom elements to each other; an electric drive source provided at the telescoping actuator; a first coupling mechanism that displaces the first coupling member or the second coupling member on the basis of motive power of the electric drive source, thereby switching a coupled state and a non-coupled state of the members that are releasably coupled by one of the coupling members; and a position information detection device that detects information relating to the position of one of the coupling members on the basis of output from the electric drive source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: TADANO LTD.
    Inventors: Masahide Zushi, Kazu Nagahama
  • Publication number: 20230106308
    Abstract: The present invention provides a guide display device capable of recognizing a feature in a work area while distinguishing whether the feature is a moving body or not. In a guide display device of a crane, 3D maps are created for continuous frames; an altitude value for each grid in a 3D map that is created at time closest to the current time is obtained as a first altitude value; altitude values for respective corresponding grids in a predetermined number of 3D maps other than the 3D map that is created at time closest to the current time are obtained, and the average of the altitude values is calculated as a second altitude value; and it is determined that the feature is a moving body when the difference between the first altitude value and the second altitude value exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Iwao ISHIKAWA, Takayuki KOSAKA, Keita MASHIMA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Masaya NAKAHARA, Koki NAKAHATA
  • Publication number: 20230094743
    Abstract: Provided is a guide display device with which incorrect recognition of a place having small features as a ground surface having no features can be suppressed in generating and updating a three-dimensional map. A data processing unit (70): detects an edge (Eg) of a feature (E) on the basis of a result of subjecting image data captured by a camera (61) to image processing, and recognizes the feature (E) on the basis of the edge (Eg); and accumulates, from a predetermined number of frames from before the time at which the image data was captured, point group data (P) of a nearby range (Ma) of the edge (Eg) of the feature (E) that was recognized as a ground surface (F), and generates, on the basis of the accumulated point group data (P), a three-dimensional map (M) of the feature (E) the edge (Eg) of which has been recognized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Iwao ISHIKAWA, Takayuki KOSAKA, Keita MASHIMA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Masaya NAKAHARA, Koki NAKAHATA
  • Publication number: 20230097473
    Abstract: A guide display unit for a crane, wherein a data processing unit: calculates a measurement area corresponding to the measurement area of a camera; the measurement area from the viewpoint of the camera and generates a first image; performs mosaic-processing on the image captured by the camera according to the particle size of the three-dimensional map and generates a second image; performs registration processing on the first image and the second image and calculates the amount of deviation between the first image and the second image; corrects the position of a guide frame figure with respect to the image of a suspended load and a feature on the basis of the calculated amount of deviation; and overlays the guide frame figure on the images of the suspended load and the feature and displays the result on the data display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Iwao ISHIKAWA, Takayuki KOSAKA, Keita MASHIMA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Masaya NAKAHARA, Koki NAKAHATA
  • Publication number: 20230087971
    Abstract: A control device equipped with a first acquisition unit for acquiring information pertaining to the location of the center of gravity of cargo transported by a work machine, a second acquisition unit for acquiring information pertaining to the location of a first section of the cargo which differs from the location of the center of gravity thereof, and a calculation unit for calculating information pertaining to the orientation of the cargo on the basis of the information pertaining to the location of the center of gravity of the cargo and the information pertaining to the location of the first section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: TADANO LTD.
    Inventor: Shinsuke KANDA
  • Publication number: 20230065923
    Abstract: This crane is provided with a counterweight which includes an engaging part, a swivel body which is configured to be capable of swiveling, and a fixing unit which is provided on the swivel body, includes an engaged part that can connect with the engaging part, and can adopt a front position and a rear position; in each of the front position and the rear position, the fixing unit and the counterweight are linked by the engaged part being arranged in a position corresponding to that of the engaging part and being connected to the engaging part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: TADANO LTD.
    Inventor: Masanori OSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20230063720
    Abstract: The performance information server includes: a request acquisition unit that acquires, from a work machine display operation application operating on a terminal capable of displaying an image including a work machine, a request including a conveyance condition under which the work machine conveys a load; a storage unit that stores specification data of the work machine in mapping with model information of a work machine; a control unit that acquires model information of a work machine having a capability to convey the load under the conveyance condition by referring to the specification data; and a response presentation unit that presents a response including the model information acquired by the control unit to the work machine display operation application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: TADANO LTD.
    Inventor: Shunsuke UENO
  • Publication number: 20230055311
    Abstract: Provided is a guide display device with which it is possible to track a hung load and display guide information. Also provided is a crane including such a guide display device. A guide display device of a crane including a data processing unit that creates a plurality of surfaces using point cloud data, which is acquired by a laser scanner from above a hung load and which includes the hung load, and creates a three-dimensional map according to the plurality of surfaces, the three-dimensional map being created for each prescribed period, wherein the data processing unit is configured to set a reference position at the hung load in the three-dimensional map and also set a current surface present within a prescribed distance from a past reference position as the surface of the hung load, thereby tracking the hung load in the three-dimensional map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Iwao ISHIKAWA, Takayuki KOSAKA, Keita MASHIMA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Masaya NAKAHARA, Koki NAKAHATA
  • Patent number: 11579581
    Abstract: Provided are a server for maintenance, a remote monitoring system, and a remote monitoring method. The server is connected, via a network, to a plurality of working machines each including a working machine display device that displays machine state information and a working machine operating device to be used for predetermined operation, and to a monitoring terminal that includes a display part and remotely monitors information on the working machines. Communication between each of the plurality of working machines and the server is one-way communication from the working machines to the server. The server includes a first storage part, a second storage part, and a display processing part. The display processing part generates a display part simulated image, and causes the display part of the monitoring terminal to display a maintenance screen including the display part simulated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: TADANO LTD.
    Inventor: Ryosuke Yakushi
  • Patent number: 11560292
    Abstract: To estimate the top surface of a measurement target on the basis of a data point group that corresponds to the top surface of a measurement target and is obtained using a laser scanner. This top surface estimation method for hoisting loads and by acquiring, using the laser scanner, data point groups in a hoisting load region which includes a hoisting load and an object from above the hoisting load and the object, dividing the hoisting load region into layers which constitute a plurality of groups which have a prescribed thickness in the vertical direction, and allocating the acquired data point groups to the plurality of layer groups, and estimating the top surfaces of the hoisting load and the object in each layer group on the basis of the data point groups allocated to the plurality of layer groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignees: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takayuki Kosaka, Iwao Ishikawa, Satoshi Kubota, Shigenori Tanaka, Kenji Nakamura, Yuhei Yamamoto, Masaya Nakahara
  • Patent number: 11542126
    Abstract: This crane is provided with: a boom; a wire rope suspended down from a leading end section of the boom; a suspender that is fixed to a lower end of the wire rope and is for suspending a slinging tool for hanging a load; a calculation unit that calculates a first load, which is the weight of a member that is suspended down from the suspender; a slinging tool database unit that stores information pertaining to the slinging tool corresponding to the first load; a determination unit that determines whether a load is being suspended from the suspender; and a control unit that acquires the information pertaining to the slinging tool corresponding to the first load from the slinging tool database unit if the load is being suspended, and sets the vertical length of the slinging tool on the basis of the acquired information pertaining to the slinging tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: TADANO LTD.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Goto, Shinsuke Kanda, Kazuma Mizuki
  • Patent number: 11542131
    Abstract: This crane is configured by being provided with: a telescopic boom having an inside boom element and an outside boom element that overlap each other in an extendable and contractible manner; an extension/contraction actuator that displaces one boom element among the inside boom element and the outside boom element in the extending and contracting directions; at least one electric drive source provided in the extension/contraction actuator; a first coupling mechanism that operates on the basis of power from the electric drive source and that switches between the coupled state and the uncoupled state of the extension/contraction actuator and one of the boom elements; and a second coupling mechanism that operates on the basis of power from the electric drive source and that switches between the coupled state and the uncoupled state of the inside boom element and the outside boom element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: TADANO LTD.
    Inventors: Masahide Zushi, Kazu Nagahama
  • Patent number: 11542127
    Abstract: To accurately present guide information which expresses the shape and height of a hoisting load and an object located near the hoisting load. A guide information display device is equipped with: a data acquisition unit provided with a camera for capturing an image of a hoisting load region which includes at least a hoisting load and the ground surface below the hoisting load from above the hoisting load, and a laser scanner for obtaining a data point group in the hoisting load region; a data processing unit for estimating the top surface of the hoisting weight, the ground surface, and the top surfaces of objects, on the basis of the obtained data point group, and generating guide frames which surround the top surfaces of the hoisting weight and objects; and a data display unit which displays guide information obtained by overlapping the generated guide frames and the captured image with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takayuki Kosaka, Iwao Ishikawa, Satoshi Kubota, Shigenori Tanaka, Kenji Nakamura, Yuhei Yamamoto, Masaya Nakahara
  • Publication number: 20220411233
    Abstract: This control system comprises: a signal processing unit generating a signal related to the target operating amount of an actuator; a feedback control unit that controls the actuator based on the difference between the signal related to the target operating amount and a signal related to the fed-back operating amount; a feed-forward control unit that controls the actuator based on the signal related to the target operating amount in cooperation with the feedback control unit, and learns the characteristics of the actuator by adjusting a weighting factor based on a teacher signal; and a calculation unit that calculates information related to the deflection of the work machine. The signal processing unit corrects intermediate information, which is generated in the process of generating the signal related to the target operating amount, based on the information related to the deflection, and generates the signal related to the target operating amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: TADANO LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshimasa MINAMI
  • Patent number: 11530119
    Abstract: To accurately obtain the shapes of a hoisting load and an object located near the hoisting load, and the height of the ground surface, and present an accurate warning display when the hoisting load approaches the object. A guide information display device is equipped with a data processing unit which: estimates the top surface of a hoisting load, the ground surface, and the top surface of the object, on the basis of a data point group obtained by a laser scanner; generates guide frames representing guide frames that surround the top surface of the hoisting load and the top surface of the object, and also generates height information and height information which represent the elevation of the hoisting load and the object; calculates the distance between the hoisting load and the object on the basis of the estimated top surfaces of the hoisting load and object; and outputs a warning display when the distance is equal to or less than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignees: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takayuki Kosaka, Iwao Ishikawa, Satoshi Kubota, Shigenori Tanaka, Kenji Nakamura, Yuhei Yamamoto, Masaya Nakahara