Patents Assigned to Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
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Patent number: 11970258Abstract: An outboard motor includes a bracket, an outboard motor body, a harness, and a seal. The bracket is attached to a transom of a boat. The outboard motor body is supported by the bracket. The harness extends from the outboard motor body through an opening of the transom into the boat. The seal is detachably attached to the opening to hold the harness.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kentaro Takeda
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Patent number: 11974402Abstract: A component supply device includes a reel placement portion capable of supporting a plurality of reels each on which a component supply tape is wound, and a feeder configured to feed the component supply tape toward a component supply position. The reel placement portion includes a first reel placement portion and a second reel placement portion including a first support configured to support an outer peripheral portion of a reel. The second reel placement portion is configured to change a position of the first support with respect to the feeder so as to change a distance between the feeder and the first support.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuyoshi Oyama, Ryouta Masuda
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Patent number: 11968786Abstract: A component replenishment management system includes an emergency device extraction unit, an emergency time setting unit, a replenishable device identification unit, and a replenishment target extraction unit. The emergency device extraction unit extracts, as first and second emergency devices, top two component supply devices having highest degree of emergency for performing the component replenishment work. The emergency time setting unit sets an emergency time zone from a first emergency time for the component replenishment work for the first emergency device to a second emergency time for the component replenishment work for the second emergency device. The replenishable device identification unit identifies, as a replenishable device, a component supply device that can be replenished with a component storage member.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoichi Matsushita
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Patent number: 11964742Abstract: A hull behavior control system includes a memory and at least one controller coupled to the memory. The at least one controller is configured or programmed to control a propulsion force of the marine vessel using a propeller of the marine vessel, obtain a water surface shape around the marine vessel, estimate movement of a wave based on the water surface shape, and reduce the propulsion force by controlling the propeller when it is determined that an impact force equal to or greater than a threshold value will act on the hull after the hull travels over the wave whose movement has been estimated.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ritsu Kadota, Tomoyoshi Koyanagi, Shuichi Moromi, Sadao Miyano
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Publication number: 20240124234Abstract: In a component warehousing support apparatus, the stock quantity which is the number of target components to be warehoused, which are actually stored in each of component storages, is acquired for each of the plurality of component storages. Then, the warehousing destination candidate information indicating a candidate of the warehousing destination of the target component among the plurality of component storages is calculated on the basis of the stock quantity of the target component in each of the plurality of the component storages. Therefore, a candidate of the warehousing destination in accordance with the stock quantity of the target component in each component storage can be confirmed with reference to the warehousing destination candidate information. As a result, it becomes possible to easily determine an appropriate component storage as the warehousing destination of the component from among the plurality of component storages.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoichi MATSUSHITA
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Publication number: 20240130098Abstract: A feeder insertion/removal device includes an insertion and removal movement mechanism, a detection unit, and an insertion and removal control unit. The insertion and removal movement mechanism moves the feeder along an insertion and removal direction with respect to the holder. The detection unit detects a load index value that is an index of a load applied to the feeder by movement of the feeder at the time of insertion and removal of the feeder into and from the holder by the insertion and removal movement mechanism. The insertion and removal control unit controls the movement of the feeder at the time of insertion and removal into and from the holder by inputting at a drive signal to the insertion and removal movement mechanism based on the load index value detected by the detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yukinari AWANO
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Patent number: 11958561Abstract: A straddled vehicle having a body frame including a head pipe, a front cover disposed in front of the head pipe, a duct disposed in front of the head pipe and extending rearward from an opening in the front cover, to thereby form a traveling wind pathway for traveling wind taken in through the opening, and an aero-stabilizing member. The aero-stabilizing member includes a middle portion disposed below a lower distal end of the front cover, directly below the opening in a front view, a lateral portion extending from the middle portion to a more outer side than the opening in a width direction, apart from the front cover with a gap therebetween in an up-and-down direction, and a front edge slanted forward and downward from the middle portion and the lateral portion, the front edge being partially disposed further forward than a lower front end of the duct.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Souichirou Imazeki
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Patent number: 11958562Abstract: A drive activation control unit in a control apparatus of a motorcycle controls a drive apparatus. An identification signal transmission unit intermittently transmits an identification signal without any operation by an operator who carries a portable terminal. A response signal reception unit receives a response signal transmitted from the portable terminal in response to the identification signal. In response to reception of the response signal, a request signal transmission unit makes a request of the portable terminal for key information. The key-information signal reception unit receives a key information signal including the key information. A drive-activation permission determination unit determines whether or not to permit activation of a drive control unit based on the key information.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kotaro Onishi
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Patent number: 11958563Abstract: A straddled vehicle including a communication module configured to communicate with a mobile communication terminal, a display that displays infotainment information received by the communication module from the mobile communication terminal, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive temperature data relating to a temperature of the mobile communication terminal from the mobile communication terminal via the communication module, and display an image corresponding to the temperature data on the display.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuichi Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20240112929Abstract: A processing device that processes a workpiece of a plate shape having a thickness direction along an upper-bottom direction includes a controller configured to control an operation of the processing device, a storing section storing the workpiece, a transfer section including a transfer hand on which the workpiece is placed and that moves the workpiece from and into the storing section, a processing section processing the workpiece, a holding section holding an upper surface of the workpiece, and a moving section horizontally moving the holding section between the transfer hand and the processing section. The holding section receives and places the workpiece from and on the transfer hand above the transfer hand. The processing section processes the workpiece from below and the workpiece is held by the holding section.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2021Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshikuni SUZUKI, Shigeyuki UCHIYAMA
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Patent number: 11945535Abstract: A leaning vehicle including a vehicle body frame that is configured to lean leftward and rightward respectively when the leaning vehicle is turning left and right, a steerable wheel supported by the vehicle frame body, a steering mechanism steering the steerable wheel, and a posture control actuator device. The posture control actuator device includes a posture control actuator that outputs power to control posture of the vehicle body frame, and an angular rate sensor that detects an amount of change per unit time of a rotation angle of the vehicle body frame around a rotation axis thereof, the rotation angle changing as the vehicle body frame is rotating around the rotation axis. The posture control actuator device is supported by the vehicle body frame, and is attachable to and detachable from the vehicle body frame. The posture control actuator and the angular rate sensor are not displaceable relative to each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuo Hara, Hidekazu Tsuboi
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Patent number: 11945115Abstract: An action of a robot included in a robot system is controlled based on a learning result of a machine learning device. The machine learning device includes a behavior observing unit, a displaced amount observing unit, and a learning unit. The behavior observing unit observes a behavior pattern of the robot picking out a workpiece from a container. The displaced amount observing unit observes, based on pieces of image data captured before and after the pick-out action of the robot and output from an image capturing device, a workpiece displaced amount indicating a displaced amount of an untargeted workpiece in the container caused by picking out a targeted workpiece from the container. The learning unit learns an influence rate on the untargeted workpiece with an associated behavior pattern of the robot for picking out the targeted workpiece from the container, the influence rate depending on the workpiece displaced amount.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kunimune Komaike
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Patent number: 11945556Abstract: A posture control system for a hull includes trim tab main bodies as posture control plates attached to a stern of the hull to control the posture of the hull. Trim tab actuators drive the trim tab main bodies. Engines generate a propulsive force on the hull. A controller controls the trim tab actuators. Based on a throttle opening angle of the engines, the controller determines a time when the trim tab main bodies are to be lowered by the trim tab actuators.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Jun Nakatani
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Patent number: 11939894Abstract: An outboard motor with improved maintainability and attachable to a hull of a marine vessel includes an internal combustion engine and a cowl to cover the internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine includes an oil filler to feed oil thereto and an oil filter to filter the oil. In a case that a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a bottom of the hull is a vertical direction, the cowl is separable into a top cowl to cover an upper portion of the internal combustion engine and a side cowl to cover a side portion of the internal combustion engine. At least a portion of the oil filler or at least a portion of the oil filter is located above a separating line which is a boundary between the top cowl and the side cowl.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroto Matsue, Shinya Maekawa
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Fuel management system capable of freely performing transfer of fuel among a plurality of fuel tanks
Patent number: 11939033Abstract: A fuel management system including a fuel pump and a flow meter to transfer and control remaining amounts fuel among fuel tanks mounted on a hull of a marine vessel includes first fuel flow channels corresponding to the fuel tanks to connect the fuel tanks to an upstream side of the fuel pump and the flow meter, and second fuel flow channels corresponding to the fuel tanks to connect the fuel tanks to a downstream side of the fuel pump and the flow meter.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroshi Inoue -
Patent number: 11939035Abstract: An outboard motor that significantly reduces or prevents discoloration around an exhaust opening includes an engine, a drive shaft, a propeller shaft, a housing, an exhaust passage, a water intake passage, and a valve. The exhaust passage guides an exhaust gas from the engine toward the discharge chamber inside the housing. The water intake passage guides water, which enters an inside of the housing, to the discharge chamber when a forward propulsive force is generated. The valve regulates passage of the exhaust gas at the first opening due to water pressure when a forward propulsive force is generated. The valve permits the passage of exhaust gas at the first opening due to exhaust pressure when a backward propulsive force is generated.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shuhei Okamoto, Naoki Sugita
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Patent number: 11933259Abstract: An ignition timing controller includes a storage and a processor configured or programmed to function as an ignition timing control section and a knocking determining section. The storage stores at least one of a first ignition timing map associated with a first fuel or a second ignition timing map associated with a second fuel more likely to cause knocking of an internal combustion engine than the first fuel. The ignition timing control section controls the ignition timing based on the first ignition timing map by executing a timing retardation based on the first ignition timing map when it is determined that knocking of the internal combustion engine has occurred. The ignition timing control section controls the ignition timing of the internal combustion engine based on the second ignition timing map by executing a timing advancement correction based on the second ignition timing map when it is determined that the knocking of the internal combustion engine has not occurred.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shintaro Aoyagi, Yuya Ichikawa
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Patent number: 11926057Abstract: A robot system includes a robot including a hand portion which grips and takes out a workpiece from an accommodation unit in which a plurality of workpieces are accommodated, and transports the workpiece to a predetermined position; a robot control unit which controls conveyance operation of the robot of taking out the workpiece from the accommodation unit and transporting the workpiece to the predetermined position; and a conveyance condition setting unit which sets a conveyance condition regarding the conveyance operation and including, in the workpiece, at least a grip prohibited region that is prohibited from being gripped by the hand portion. The robot control unit controls the robot based on the conveyance condition set by the conveyance condition setting unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kota Yamaguchi, Toshihiro Michizoe
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Patent number: 11919613Abstract: In a rescue network system for a watercraft, a transmitter transmits a first distress signal of the watercraft to which it belongs. A receiver receives a second distress signal from another watercraft. An output outputs emergency information indicating the existence of the second distress signal from the another watercraft. A controller is configured or programmed to control the output to output the emergency information when the receiver has received the second distress signal from the another watercraft.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kohei Terada
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Patent number: 11912388Abstract: A marine vessel power supply system for a marine vessel including an electric motor to rotate a propeller includes an inverter to supply electric power to the electric motor, a battery to supply electric power to the inverter, and an electronic control unit configured or programmed to control the inverter. The inverter includes an inverter circuit to convert DC electric power supplied from the battery to AC electric power, a voltage detector to detect the voltage in a wiring between the battery and the inverter circuit, and a microcomputer configured or programmed to communicate with the electronic control unit and to control the inverter circuit according to a command supplied from the electronic control unit. The electronic control unit calculates an SOC estimate indicative of an estimated state-of-charge value of the battery based on a value of the voltage detected by the voltage detector and acquired from the microcomputer.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuta Miyagi