Patents Assigned to Yanmar Co., Ltd.
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Patent number: 10562013Abstract: This oxidation catalyst for diesel engines is divided into an upstream-side catalyst layer and a downstream-side inner catalyst layer in the flow direction of the exhaust gas, and a downstream-side outer catalyst layer is additionally formed so as to cover the surface of the downstream-side inner catalyst layer. The upstream-side catalyst layer and the downstream-side inner catalyst layer contain Pd, and the downstream-side outer catalyst layer contains Pt. The amounts of Pt and Pd contained in the upstream-side catalyst layer and the amounts of Pt and Pd contained in the downstream-side inner catalyst layer are constantly set to certain values, while the amount of Pt contained in the downstream-side outer catalyst layer is set to a value which enables the oxidation efficiency to be at a predetermined value or higher.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2015Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignees: YANMAR CO., LTD., JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANYInventors: Ken Kawabe, Shohei Hoshino, Masahito Shibata, Yoshihito Hashimoto
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Patent number: 10562443Abstract: A purpose of the invention is to provide a tractor that includes a rear lamp with high designability. A tractor of the present invention includes a rear lamp, a cabin, a lamp housing that is provided along a longitudinal direction of a rear pillar of the cabin, and a light source that is housed in the lamp housing, wherein the rear lamp is provided from a vicinity of one end to a vicinity of the other end of the rear pillar in the longitudinal direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventor: Junko Kudo
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Patent number: 10563761Abstract: A work vehicle such as a tractor including an engine, a battery, a hydraulic continuously variable transmission, and an electric cylinder, and a power transmission mechanism. The hydraulic continuously variable transmission changes an output of the engine, and changes an angle of a movable swash plate to change a gear ratio thereof. The electric cylinder is driven by electric power supplied from the battery at least while the engine is stopped. With the power generated in the electric cylinder and transmitted, the power transmission mechanism changes the angle of the movable swash plate of the hydraulic continuously variable transmission.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventors: Taihei Daiyakuji, Hitoshi Nomura
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Publication number: 20200047606Abstract: A tractor including: an engine mounted on a traveling body; a post-processing device configured to purify exhaust gas of the engine; and a tail pipe long in an up-down direction and configured to emit exhaust gas having passed through the post-processing device to the outside. The post-processing device is arranged in a standing posture in front of an operation unit on the traveling body so that the exhaust gas flows from the bottom to the top. An upwardly protruding outlet pipe is provided on an upper surface side of the post-processing device. The inner diameter of an exhaust gas inlet side of the tail pipe is set larger than the outer diameter of the outlet pipe which is inserted and communicated with the exhaust gas inlet side of the tail pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2018Publication date: February 13, 2020Applicant: Yanmar Co., LtdInventor: Kazuo NOMURA
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Publication number: 20200049390Abstract: A hybrid heat pump system including, as a compressor for a refrigerant circuit, an engine-driven compressor and an electric-motor-driven compressor to achieve a rational structure with redundancy. The hybrid heat pump system further includes an operation control unit and a power source unit. The operation control unit is comprised of an engine control unit controlling the operation of an engine and an electric-motor control unit controlling the operation of an electric motor, which are individually provided. The power source unit converts commercial electric power into operating electric power and supplies the operating electric power to the operation control unit. The power source unit is comprised of an engine-side power source unit supplying the operating electric power to the engine control unit and an electric-motor-side power source unit supplying the operating electric power to the electric-motor control unit, which are individually provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2018Publication date: February 13, 2020Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takayuki IKEDA
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Publication number: 20200049100Abstract: An engine device having gas injectors attached to an intake manifold fixed to a side surface of a cylinder head. A fuel gas injected from the gas injectors is premixed in the intake manifold, and the resulting gas is supplied to a plurality of cylinders and ignited by ignition devices. The intake manifold has a configuration in which a plurality of intake branch pipes communicating with the cylinders are branched from an intake collecting pipe at an air supply side. The intake branch pipes include bent portions. In the bent portions of the intake branch pipes, inside inner walls near the cylinder head are bent at an acute angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2018Publication date: February 13, 2020Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masato SUGIMOTO, Kota TAKAMATSU
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Patent number: 10557395Abstract: A thermoelectric generating unit is configured to generate based on a temperature difference between a cold side and a hot side. A heating part includes a plate-like hollow member and tubular member. The hollow member is provided along a hot-side surface of a thermoelectric transducer, and forms a plate-like cavity inside. The tubular member forms a tubular cavity which communicates the plate-like cavity, with two open ends of the tubular member being positioned distantly from each other and connected to the plate-like hollow member. The tubular member is heated from outside by a hot fluid. The plate-like cavity and the tubular cavity form a circulation path in which a heating medium charged in the cavities circulates.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTDInventor: Jiro Fukudome
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Patent number: 10557437Abstract: A fuel injection pump (100) provided in a diesel engine, including: an electromagnetic spill valve (20) configured to adjust a fuel injection amount by releasing a pressurized fuel with opening/closing of a spill valve body (23); and an ECU (Engine Control Unit, 50) configured to form a current waveform of drive current of the electromagnetic spill valve (20). The ECU (50), during the warm state, detects a valve-close timing of the electromagnetic spill valve (20), forms an optimum current waveform of drive current based on the detected valve-close timing, and applies drive current with thus formed optimum current waveform to the electromagnetic spill valve (20), whereas, during the cold state, the ECU (50) applies only drive current with a pre-set current waveform to the electromagnetic spill valve (20).Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2016Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryota Iwano, Satoshi Hiroya, Hiroyuki Machiyama, Kosuke Hara, Ryosuke Okamoto
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Publication number: 20200040789Abstract: An exhaust gas purifier including a casing, SCR catalysts (comprising a first SCR catalyst and a second SCR catalyst), a first backflow prevention plate, and a second backflow prevention plate. In the casing, at least a part of the catalyst passage and at least a part of the bypass passage are formed. The SCR catalysts are disposed in the catalyst passage and selectively reduce NOx included in an exhaust gas flowing in the catalyst passage. The first backflow prevention plate prevents or reduces a backflow of an exhaust gas from a second exhaust passage to the catalyst passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2017Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryota KOBAYASHI, Shunji HAMAOKA, Tsuyoshi INOUE, Tetsuya YOKOYAMA, Yoshinori FUKUI, Seita AKIMOTO, Kenya ONISHI, Kazuki HIRAI
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Publication number: 20200040553Abstract: A control device for a hydraulic machine such as a revolving excavator work machine having a structure that can cope with such an engine output decreasing environment as a work under a low atmospheric pressure at a high altitude without generating noise caused by engine rotation number increase. The control device corrects a control output value to be applied to an electromagnetic proportional valve for load-sensing valve control in a load-sensing type pump control system, based on a detected state quantity related to the engine output decreasing environment. When an engine speed-sensitive pump control system is adopted, a control output value generated based on a detected decrease in the actual engine rotation number is combined with a control output value generated by the load-sensing type pump control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2018Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki SHIROUZU, Hiroshi MATSUYAMA, Masahiro ITANI
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Patent number: 10549626Abstract: A working vehicle includes an engine mounted in a front portion of a travelling vehicle, and a post-processing device configured to purify exhaust gas from the engine. The engine and the post-processing device are covered with a hood. An upper surface side of the hood is inclined to extend diagonally upward from a front side to a rear side. The post-processing device is mounted on an upper side of the engine, and is positioned on a rear and inner side of the inclined upper surface side of the hood.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshiaki Kurokawa
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Patent number: 10550787Abstract: This disclosure includes engines that are capable of controlling an air-fuel ratio responsive to rapid changes in the calorific value of a fuel gas. Some engines include an A/F valve, a solenoid valve, and a control unit configured to close the A/F valve when an average opening degree of the solenoid valve is lower than a preset target opening degree, and open the A/F valve when the average opening degree is equal to or higher than the target opening degree. In some engines, when the opening degree of the solenoid valve has been an upper limit opening degree or a lower limit opening degree of the solenoid valve over a predetermined number of times, the control unit is configured to compare with the upper or lower limit opening degree, in lieu of the average opening degree, against the target opening degree to open or close the A/F valve.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuma Kishio, Hiroyuki Otsubo, Yoshinori Mizukami
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Publication number: 20200031222Abstract: A tractor including: a traveling body having an engine; a post-processing device configured to purify exhaust gas of the engine; and a reductant tank configured to store a reductant to be supplied to the post-processing device. A pair of left and right fuel tanks are arranged respectively on left and right sides of a longitudinally midway portion of the traveling body. A tank-accommodation recess for accommodating a reductant tank is formed at a lower-front portion of one of the left and right fuel tanks. While the reductant tank is accommodated in the tank-accommodation recess, an upper front portion of the fuel tank and the reductant tank are aligned up and down.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2018Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshiaki KUROKAWA
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Publication number: 20200033856Abstract: A travel route determination system including: a route generating unit generating planned travel routes including work routes along which a work vehicle performs autonomous travel; a control unit capable of causing the work vehicle to perform autonomous travel along the planned travel routes; an information obtaining unit obtaining position information and orientation information on the work vehicle; and a determination unit determining an autonomous travel candidate route at which the work vehicle can start autonomous travel, before the work vehicle starts autonomous travel. The determination unit sets a candidate determination region based on the position information and orientation information on the work vehicle, and the determination unit determines, among the work routes, a work route in the candidate determination region as the autonomous travel candidate route.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2018Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yasuto NISHII
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Publication number: 20200033143Abstract: A route generating system in which a work vehicle setting unit sets a vehicle information on a tractor. An altitude information obtaining unit of the route generating system obtains an altitude information on a field where an autonomous travel route is to be generated, and a traveling direction setting unit thereof sets a traveling direction of the tractor in the field. A region setting unit of the route generating system sets, in the field, a plurality of regions including a work region where autonomous work paths in parallel with the traveling direction are generated and headlands where connection paths each connecting corresponding ones of the autonomous work paths are generated. The region setting unit sets the widths of the headlands (headland widths) based on the vehicle information, the altitude information, and the traveling direction, the widths of the headlands extending in parallel with the traveling direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2017Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventor: Toshifumi HIRAMATSU
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Patent number: 10543843Abstract: This work vehicle (tractor), which is provided with an engine and an accelerator pedal capable of changing the operational state of the engine, and is configured to be free to travel by means of an operation of the accelerator pedal by an operator, is equipped with a display near an operator's seat, said display being configured to be capable of displaying a screen (travel customization screen) for selecting whether or not to allow travel in conjunction with the accelerator.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2015Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiyuki Miwa, Kouhei Ogura
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Patent number: 10543744Abstract: The working vehicle includes an engine installed in a front portion of a traveling machine body, and a post-processing device configured to purify exhaust gas from the engine. The post-processing device is mounted on an upper side of the engine. The engine and the post-processing device are covered with a hood. A hood shield plate is disposed on a rear surface side of the hood and covers at least the post-processing device from a rear surface. A heat insulating layer is formed between an operating seat disposed on a rear side of the hood and the hood shield plate.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2016Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshiaki Kurokawa
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Patent number: 10539089Abstract: A control unit performs perturbation using the solenoid valve under a specific engine operation condition by a standard fuel gas, by moving the solenoid valve from a predetermined opening degree to a lean side or a rich side while the A/F valve is opened at a predetermined opening degree. During an actual operation in a period in which the operation condition of the gas engine is deemed to be stable, when an output average value b obtained from an upstream oxygen sensor disposed on an exhaust passage of the gas engine deviates from an output target value a of the upstream oxygen sensor set in the control unit under the above operation condition, the control unit adjusts the opening degree of the A/F valve so that the output average value b equals the output target value a.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Otsubo, Kazuma Kishio
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Patent number: 10533474Abstract: In the engine device having an exhaust gas purification device which removes particulate matters in exhaust gas of the engine or nitrogen oxides in the exhaust gas of the engine, the exhaust gas purification device is firmly fixed to a support base, and an exhaust gas outlet pipe of the engine is provided with an exhaust connection portion which connects an exhaust gas inlet of the exhaust gas purification device, and a support base connection portion which connects the support base.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventor: Tomoyuki Kimura
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Publication number: 20200010162Abstract: An underwater propulsion unit including a propeller, a motor, and a housing. The motor is disposed further forward in a propulsion direction than the propeller and drives the propeller into rotation. The housing that accommodates the motor and the propeller includes a first portion and a second portion. In the second portion disposed further rearward in the propulsion direction than the first portion, an introduction inlet and a spout outlet are provided. The introduction inlet (21) introduces water into the housing, and water introduced from the introduction inlet and delivered by the propeller is spouted out of the housing. When viewed in a direction parallel to the propulsion direction, the introduction inlet is disposed further outward than the first portion and introduces water into the housing in a direction parallel to the axis of the propeller.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2018Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki AOKI, Takeshi OUCHiDA