Patents by Inventor Atsushi Sasada
Atsushi Sasada has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10059372Abstract: A bulldozer is provided with left and right steering brakes that brake the rotations of left and right drive wheels, and a control unit for hydraulically controlling the braking state of the respective left and right steering brakes. The control unit executes protection processing on the left steering brake or the right steering brake when a state of the degree of engagement of the left steering brake or the right steering brake being within a predetermined range and the vehicle speed being equal to or greater than a predetermined vehicle speed continues for a predetermined time.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Sasada, Hiroaki Takeshima, Osamu Takatori
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Publication number: 20180118261Abstract: A bulldozer is provided with left and right steering brakes that brake the rotations of left and right drive wheels, and a control unit for hydraulically controlling the braking state of the respective left and right steering brakes. The control unit executes protection processing on the left steering brake or the right steering brake when a state of the degree of engagement of the left steering brake or the right steering brake being within a predetermined range and the vehicle speed being equal to or greater than a predetermined vehicle speed continues for a predetermined time.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2016Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi SASADA, Hiroaki TAKESHIMA, Osamu TAKATORI
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Patent number: 8997595Abstract: A transmission includes an input shaft, an output shaft and an intermediate shaft, a power transmission mechanism and a control unit. The power transmission mechanism includes a forward travelling lower speed clutch, a forward travelling higher speed clutch, a rearward travelling clutch and a plurality of speed stage switching clutches. The control unit is configured to switch a gear state into a shiftable rearward travelling gear stage by turning off either the forward travelling lower speed clutch or the forward travelling higher speed clutch and by turning on the rearward travelling clutch in executing an operation of switching from forward travelling to rearward travelling, and to switch a gear stage into a shiftable forward travelling gear stage by turning off the rearward travelling clutch and turning on the forward travelling lower speed clutch in executing an operation of switching from rearward travelling to forward travelling.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Sasada, Hiroaki Takeshima, Yoshito Komatsu
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Publication number: 20130239719Abstract: A transmission includes an input shaft, an output shaft and an intermediate shaft, a power transmission mechanism and a control unit. The power transmission mechanism includes a forward travelling lower speed clutch, a forward travelling higher speed clutch, a rearward travelling clutch and a plurality of speed stage switching clutches. The control unit is configured to switch a gear state into a shiftable rearward travelling gear stage by turning off either the forward travelling lower speed clutch or the forward travelling higher speed clutch and by turning on the rearward travelling clutch in executing an operation of switching from forward travelling to rearward travelling, and to switch a gear stage into a shiftable forward travelling gear stage by turning off the rearward travelling clutch and turning on the forward travelling lower speed clutch in executing an operation of switching from rearward travelling to forward travelling.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2012Publication date: September 19, 2013Inventors: Atsushi Sasada, Hiroaki Takeshima, Yoshito Komatsu
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Patent number: 8499657Abstract: A multi-shaft transmission is mounted on a work vehicle for performing loader work, and includes a power transmission mechanism for transmitting power from an input shaft through a countershaft to an output shaft. A shifting part shifts a drivetrain from the input shaft to the output shaft. The power transmission mechanism includes a forward clutch and a reverse clutch for forward-reverse shifting, and a plurality of speed stage shifting clutches for changing speed stages, wherein at least one of the forward clutch and the reverse clutch has a plurality of speed region shifting clutches. The shifting part shifts only one clutch among the plurality of speed stage shifting clutches and the plurality of speed region shifting clutches to change speeds when a plurality of speed stages are used in be loader work.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2012Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Sasada, Hiroaki Takeshima, Yoshito Komatsu
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Publication number: 20130174682Abstract: A multi-shaft transmission is mounted on a work vehicle for performing loader work, and includes a power transmission mechanism for transmitting power from an input shaft through a countershaft to an output shaft. A shifting part shifts a drivetrain from the input shaft to the output shaft. The power transmission includes a forward clutch and a reverse clutch for forward-reverse shifting, and a plurality of speed stage shifting clutches for changing speed stages, wherein at least one of the forward clutch and the reverse clutch has a plurality of speed region shifting clutches. The shifting part shifts only one clutch among the plurality of speed stage shifting clutches and the plurality of speed region shifting clutches to change speeds when a plurality of speed stages are used in the loader work.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Inventors: Atsushi Sasada, Hiroaki Takeshima, Yoshito Komatsu
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Patent number: 8430216Abstract: A brake device lubrication device includes a lubricant supply unit and a control unit. The control unit includes a braking timer, a release timer and a storage unit. The control unit is configured to control the lubricant supply unit so as to supply a predetermined first supply amount of lubricant to a brake device when the brake device is in a braking state, to acquire a delay time corresponding to a braking time counted by the braking timer from a relationship of correspondence between the braking time and the delay time stored by the storage unit when the brake device is switched from the braking state to a released state, and to switch a supply amount of lubricant from the first supply amount to a second supply amount which is smaller than the first supply amount when the release time counted by the release timer reaches the acquired delay time.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2009Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Taneaki Fujino, Atsushi Sasada, Kenjiro Shimada
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Patent number: 8147959Abstract: A color-change laminate in which a color tone derived from a porous layer is visually perceived in a dry state and a metallic lustrous property is visually perceived in a liquid-absorbed state of the porous layer caused by water application is excellent in luminance and which satisfies both of changing properties and decorative properties in the dry state and in the liquid-absorbed state. A color-change laminate includes a support having a metallic lustrous property and a porous layer provided on the surface of the support. The porous layer includes a low-refractive-index pigment and a transparent metallic lustrous pigment formed by coating a transparent core material with a metal oxide and/or a transparent metallic lustrous pigment having a color-flopping property all fixed onto a binder resin in a dispersed state and is different in transparency in a liquid-absorbed state and in a liquid-unabsorbed state.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2008Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: The Pilot Ink Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akio Nakashima, Atsushi Sasada
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Publication number: 20110214952Abstract: A brake device lubrication device includes a lubricant supply unit and a control unit. The control unit includes a braking timer, a release timer and a storage unit. The control unit is configured to control the lubricant supply unit so as to supply a predetermined first supply amount of lubricant to a brake device when the brake device is in a braking state, to acquire a delay time corresponding to a braking time counted by the braking timer from a relationship of correspondence between the braking time and the delay time stored by the storage unit when the brake device is switched from the braking state to a released state, and to switch a supply amount of lubricant from the first supply amount to a second supply amount which is smaller than the first supply amount when the release time counted by the release timer reaches the acquired delay time.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2009Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Taneaki Fujino, Atsushi Sasada, Kenjiro Shimada
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Publication number: 20090155498Abstract: A color-change laminate in which a color tone derived from a porous layer is visually perceived in a dry state and a metallic lustrous property is visually perceived in a liquid-absorbed state of the porous layer caused by water application is excellent in luminance and which satisfies both of changing properties and decorative properties in the dry state and in the liquid-absorbed state. A color-change laminate includes a support having a metallic lustrous property and a porous layer provided on the surface of the support. The porous layer includes a low-refractive-index pigment and a transparent metallic lustrous pigment formed by coating a transparent core material with a metal oxide and/or a transparent metallic lustrous pigment having a color-flopping property all fixed onto a binder resin in a dispersed state and is different in transparency in a liquid-absorbed state and in a liquid-unabsorbed state.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2008Publication date: June 18, 2009Applicant: THE PILOT INK CO., LTD.Inventors: Akio NAKASHIMA, Atsushi SASADA