Patents Assigned to Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 12263929
    Abstract: A watercraft maneuvering system includes watercraft maneuvering stations to steer and adjust a propulsive force of a watercraft and including a main station including a steering wheel to steer the watercraft and an acceleration lever to adjust the propulsive force, and a substation spaced apart from the main station and including a joystick to both steer the watercraft and adjust the propulsive force. By operating a joystick button provided in the substation, an operative station may be switched from the main station to the substation. At the same time, a control mode may be switched to a joystick mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiya Tsuchiya, Kento Sakurada
  • Patent number: 12259728
    Abstract: A marine vessel propulsion control system includes a controller to control a movement of a marine vessel and propulsion devices each including a power source and a thrust generator to generate a thrust based on a drive force of the power source. The controller controls the movement of the marine vessel to navigate according to a preset sea route including a target position. The controller reduces the drive force of the power source of each of the propulsion devices when the marine vessel reaches a deceleration start position that is spaced apart from the target position by a required deceleration distance, and, after reducing the drive force of the power source of each of the propulsion devices, cuts off transmission of the drive force from the power source to the thrust generator in at least one of the propulsion devices depending on a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuji Ikegaya
  • Patent number: 12257872
    Abstract: A vehicle, including: a pair of front wheels; a pair of rear wheels; a saddle-style seat, positioned at an intermediate region in a width direction of the vehicle; a steering shaft provided ahead of the seat; a bar handle connected with an upper portion of the steering shaft, the bar handle having a pair of grips; a front fender provided above the pair of front wheels, striding over the pair of front wheels in a plan view of the vehicle; and a pair of suspensions, top ends of which are located ahead of the two grips, and are positioned, in the plan view of the vehicle, more inboard than widthwise ends of the two grips in the width direction of the vehicle. Each suspension includes, at an upper portion thereof, a suspension adjusting portion. The front fender includes a pair of openings through which the suspension adjusting portions are accessible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kensuke Kamada, Tatsuya Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12258091
    Abstract: A headlight device including a headlight configured to emit light frontward of a leaning vehicle to form a lower light beam, an upper central light beam, an upper left light beam and an upper right light beam, and a control device that controls light emission from the headlight without any user operation. The control device forms both the upper left and the upper right light beams while the leaning vehicle is traveling straight, and reduces a brightness of the upper left and upper right light beams, responsive to a vehicle being illuminated by the upper left and upper right light beams respectively, and forms the upper left and upper right light beams respectively while the leaning vehicle is turning left and right, and maintains the brightness of the formed upper left or upper right light beam regardless of whether any vehicle is illuminated by the upper left or upper right light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yumi Kimura, Takehiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 12258107
    Abstract: An overboard detection system includes a fob to be carried by a user on a watercraft, an overboard sensor to detect a user overboard event when the user carrying the fob falls overboard, and a communicator on the watercraft to wirelessly communicate with the fob and to transmit a rescue intention notification indicating a rescue intention to the fob carried by the user involved in the overboard event. The fob includes a transmitter operable to provide the rescue intention notification to the overboard user upon reception of the rescue intention notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoju Takano, Makoto Ito
  • Patent number: 12258112
    Abstract: A system includes an outboard motor, a lift actuator, a sensor, and a controller. The sensor detects motion information indicating an up-and-down directional motion of a bow of a watercraft. The controller is configured or programmed to selectively set either a lift-up direction or a lift-down direction as a lift direction in accordance with the up-and-down directional motion of the bow based on the motion information. The controller is configured or programmed to control the lift actuator to cause the outboard motor to perform the lift motion in the lift direction, and set a duration of the lift motion to be different between when the outboard motor is caused to perform the lift motion in the lift-up direction and when the outboard motor is caused to perform the lift motion in the lift-down direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoru Hamada
  • Patent number: 12258890
    Abstract: A catalyst deterioration diagnosis device, including: a processor to execute, when a cycle of reversal between increasing and decreasing of a fuel amount is disturbed such that the increasing/decreasing of the fuel amount is reversed three or more times in a period that is identical in length with a period in which the increasing/decreasing of the fuel amount is reversed twice when the reversal between increasing and decreasing of the fuel amount is normal, a process of diagnosing the deterioration state of a catalyst based on plural sets of data of the output signal of a downstream oxygen concentration sensor obtained in each unit period during a diagnosis period. The sets of data obtained in each unit period during the diagnosis period is not susceptible to an influence of variations including both increase and decrease of the output signal of the downstream oxygen concentration sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Kumagai, Yuta Shimizu
  • Patent number: 12258894
    Abstract: A marine propulsion device includes an engine, an exhaust pipe to allow exhaust gas of the engine to pass through the exhaust pipe, and a cooling water supply passage to supply cooling water for the engine into the exhaust pipe toward a downstream side in a flow direction of the exhaust gas and cause the cooling water to flow circumferentially along an inner peripheral surface of the exhaust pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kimitaka Saruwatari, Kenji Yukishima, Yu Wakamizu
  • Patent number: 12258919
    Abstract: A marine propulsion device includes a controller configured or programmed to perform a control to suppress an engine rotation speed. The controller is configured or programmed to perform an initial misfire control to determine whether or not a cylinder of the engine is caused to misfire in order to suppress the engine rotation speed when it is determined that an initial sudden increase in the engine rotation speed that causes over-revving has occurred based on a detection result from a rev-up detector, and perform a subsequent misfire control to determine whether or not the cylinder is caused to misfire in order to suppress the engine rotation speed when it is determined that a subsequent sudden increase in the engine rotation speed that causes the over-revving has occurred following the initial sudden increase in the engine rotation speed based on the detection result from the rev-up detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryutaro Iwaki, Junsei Suzuki, Taichiro Nannichi, Tomoyuki Kashiwayama
  • Publication number: 20250095856
    Abstract: An emotion estimation device including a storage device and a controller. The controller acquires the biological information of a user and store the biological information in the storage device, obtain an emotion estimation model used for estimation an emotion based on the biological information, and estimate the emotion of the user using the emotion estimation model. The emotion estimation model includes a total number m of models that are: a primary model that is used for estimating the emotion based on a plurality of types of the biological information and generates first-order knowledge information, and a nth-order-biological-information-distillation model that generates a nth-order knowledge information, 2<=n<=m, the nth-order-biological-information-distillation model being created based on a (n?1)th-order knowledge information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keisuke SHIMA, Tsubasa NISHIHARA, Prasetia UTAMA PUTRA, Akikatsu KAMIYA, Shigenobu MINAMI, Shinichi INOUE, Yoshikazu KOIKE, Akira SAMESHIMA
  • Patent number: 12252227
    Abstract: A marine propulsion system includes a controller configured or programmed to perform a rudder angle change control to change a rudder angle of an auxiliary propulsion device by a predetermined angle to one side in a right-left direction of a hull with respect to a forward-rearward direction of the hull so as to move the hull along the forward-rearward direction without rotating the hull when motorized forward-rearward movement is performed to move the hull along the forward-rearward direction by driving the auxiliary propulsion device that is provided to one side of the hull in the right-left direction without generating a thrust from a main propulsion device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuji Ikegaya
  • Publication number: 20250083904
    Abstract: The support mechanism has a conveyor support member attached to the end portion of the movable linear conveyor and a single axis robot that is attached to a fixed linear conveyor and guides the conveyor support member in the Y direction. By the support mechanism having the conveyor support member and the single axis robot, the end portion of the movable linear conveyor can be firmly supported with respect to the fixed linear conveyor. The support mechanism has the conveyor support member attached to the end portion of the movable linear conveyor and the Y-axis conveyor guide that is attached to the fixed linear conveyor and guides the conveyor support member in the Y direction. By the support mechanism having the conveyor support member and the Y-axis conveyor guide, the end portion of the movable linear conveyor can be firmly supported with respect to the fixed linear conveyor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kota YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 12249858
    Abstract: A marine propulsion system includes a marine propulsion unit, a first battery for a starter of an engine, a second battery for an electric motor, a third battery for at least one of a plurality of devices in or on a marine vessel excluding the starter and the electric motor, and a charge amount acquisition controller configured or programmed to perform a control to acquire a charge amount of at least one of the first battery, the second battery, or the third battery based on a first power supplied from a power source to the first battery, the second battery, and the third battery, and a second power supplied from the first battery, the second battery, and the third battery to devices in or on the marine vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuya Hayashi, Yoshihiro Mizushima
  • Patent number: 12249888
    Abstract: A linear conveyor includes a linear motor stator including a stator including a core and a coil, and a magnetic sensor configured to detect a position of a slider. The linear conveyor further includes a magnetic shielding member arranged between the magnetic sensor and the linear motor stator and configured to shield magnetic flux from the linear motor stator toward the magnetic sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Motonori Kawauchi
  • Patent number: 12246809
    Abstract: A vessel propulsion apparatus includes an engine and a propulsion unit to be driven by the engine. The engine includes cylinders arranged in series, exhaust ports respectively connected to combustion chambers of the cylinders and curved in a predetermined downstream direction to allow exhaust gases to flow out from the combustion chambers, and a collecting exhaust pipe. The collecting exhaust pipe is integral with the exhaust ports, and extends in the downstream direction to allow exhaust gases in the exhaust ports to flow in the downstream direction. At least one of a plurality of connector portions that individually connect the exhaust ports to the collecting exhaust pipe includes a concave portion at an inner surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya Kasai, Koichi Nakayama, Jiro Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 12250775
    Abstract: A plurality of driven gears respectively provided on the plurality of nozzle shafts are arranged along the peripheral edges of the drive gears and engaged with the drive gears. Accordingly, the plurality of shafts can be turned by turning the drive gears. Moreover, since the turning of the drive gears, which are scissors gears, is transmitted to the nozzle shafts by the engagement of the drive gears and the plurality of respective driven gears, backlash between the drive gears and the driven gears is suppressed, it is not necessary to provide a backlashless gear (scissors gear) on each of the plurality of nozzle shafts, and the cost of the mounting head is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shingo Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 12240350
    Abstract: An electric vehicle includes a wheel, an electric motor to drive the wheel, a battery to supply electric power to the electric motor, the battery including battery cells and a battery casing to house the battery cells, an onboard charger to charge the battery, the onboard charger being opposed to and spaced apart from an outer surface of the battery casing so that an air flow path exists between the onboard charger and the outer surface of the battery casing, and a cooling fan to generate a flow of air passing through the air flow path between the onboard charger and the battery casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Wada, Soraki Ogawa, Masayuki Momoi, Takaaki Miyazaki, Yoshihiro Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 12233998
    Abstract: A vessel operation system includes a propulsion apparatus mountable on a hull of a vessel and that includes a prime mover, a steering to change a steering angle of a thrust generated by the propulsion apparatus with respect to the hull, a speed sensor to detect a speed corresponding to a traveling speed of the vessel or a rotational speed of the prime mover, and a controller configured or programmed to control the steering so as to change a maximum value of the steering angle in accordance with a speed data based on the speed detected by the speed sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Nakayasu, Takuma Ito, Sho Takagawa
  • Patent number: 12227277
    Abstract: A marine propulsion device includes a propeller, a propeller shaft, a bushing, a damper, and a spacer. The propeller shaft supports the propeller. The bushing is between the propeller and the propeller shaft and is unitarily rotatable with the propeller shaft. The damper is fixed to the bushing to transmit rotation of the propeller shaft to the propeller. The spacer is spaced apart from the propeller in a back-and-forth direction in front of the bushing to position the bushing in place with respect to the propeller shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Isao Tateishi
  • Patent number: 12230141
    Abstract: A watercraft share-ride system includes a cloud server, an owner terminal, and a user terminal. The owner terminal provides first share-ride condition information of an owner to the cloud server. The user terminal provides second share-ride condition information of a user to the cloud server. The cloud server provides watercraft information of the owner to the user terminal when the first share-ride condition information and the second share-ride condition information match. The cloud server acquires share-ride request information corresponding to the watercraft information when the watercraft information is selected by the user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Inoue