Patents by Inventor Eiji Akahane

Eiji Akahane 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).

  • Publication number: 20230081006
    Abstract: A work machine comprises a main body, a cab riser, and a shaft. The cab riser includes a cab and a frame, the cab being uprightly positioned on the work machine in a first position, and being tilted forward in a second position, and the frame comprising a first plate to contact a second plate provided on the main body in the first position. The cab riser is rotatable about the shaft in clockwise and counterclockwise directions to and from the first position and the second position. The first plate and the second plate can be clamped together by a clamping assembly in the first position, the clamping assembly including one or more clamps to clamp the first plate and the second plate, and the clamping assembly is mounted on the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Tetsuji TAKAOKA, Masaya YORIFUJI, Tomohiro FUJII, Kimikage TANAKA, Kazumasa MATSUMURA, Takeshi TSUNEYOSHI, Takayuki NAITO, Tetsuo NISHIGUCHI, Kunitomo SHIMIZU, Eiji AKAHANE, Shuji KIDOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220379811
    Abstract: To provide a stowing device, cab, and working machine, that may hardly make an operation cabin dirty by something stored such as outdoor shoes and prevent something stored from being made dirty or lost. A stowing device is disposed accessibly from behind an operator's seat in an operation cabin on an inside of a cab comprising an entrance at a back part and comprises a stowing part capable of storing something. As it is possible to store outdoor shoes in the stowing part (40) and change into indoor shoes when getting on the operation cabin through the entrance, the operation cabin will be hardly made dirty by the dust attached on the outdoor shoes and others. As something such as outdoor shoes may be stored in the cab, something stored will not get dirty in the rainy weather and be prevented from being lost during work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Rie ADACHI, Eiji AKAHANE
  • Publication number: 20200248432
    Abstract: Provided is an operating device for a construction machine that prevents an operator from accidentally gripping the blocking bar when the operator walks through the passage in front of the console box and that also prevents work clothes of the operator from being caught in the blocking bar. An operating device for a construction machine includes: a console box having an operating lever attached to an upper surface thereof, wherein the operating lever outputs a signal for operating the construction machine in response to a manual operation; and a blocking bar that is swingably attached to the console box about an axis extending widthwise between a block position at which to block a passage provided in front of the console box and a retreat position at which the blocking bar retreats from the passage. A recess is formed in a front end of a lateral side of the console box. The blocking bar is housed in the recess when it is positioned at the retreat position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Eiji AKAHANE, Naoya OKADA
  • Patent number: 9780547
    Abstract: Fixture including a band and a holding member enables a long-size object to be held on a mounting member regardless of the holding member thickness. With the locking member on one side of the mounting member, one end of the band extends through a slot in the mounting member and through a first through-slot of the holding member, a contact surface of the holding member abuting the mounting member. The band extends around the long-size object held on a holding member holding surface, and through a second through-slot to a surface away from the holding surface and the abutting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Eiji Akahane, Kunitomo Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20170110864
    Abstract: Fixture including a band and a holding member enables a long-size object to be held on a mounting member regardless of the holding member thickness. With the locking member on one side of the mounting member, one end of the band extends through a slot in the mounting member and through a first through-slot of the holding member, a contact surface of the holding member abuting the mounting member. The band extends around the long-size object held on a holding member holding surface, and through a second through-slot to a surface away from the holding surface and the abutting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Eiji Akahane, Kunitomo Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20170009425
    Abstract: A regulation device including a stopper receiving part mounted on the machine frame and/or the bottom of the cab includes a through hole formed at the center part, a shaft penetrating the through hole of the stopper receiving part and a stopper supported by the shaft. A spherical surface is formed on the side surface of a stopper where a stopper receiving part contacts. When the cab displaces in the direction away from the machine frame, the spherical surface of the stopper contacts in vicinity of a through hole of the receiving part to inhibit detachment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hidenobu Tajima, Eiji Akahane, Takahiro Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20160333550
    Abstract: A rubber stopper is formed with a body part having an attach surface part to attach a cover body, a mounting leg part to put into a mounting part hole formed on the mounting part penetratingly and a recessed portion for tucking formed on the attach surface part positioned aligned with the mounting leg part in the front back direction, and the rubber stopper is mounted to the mounting part by putting the mounting leg part to the mounting part hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Kazumasa Matsumura, Eiji Akahane
  • Publication number: 20160177541
    Abstract: A catwalk has outer and inner tilt up portions at most outer end from swing center. The outer tilt up portion is installed around first axis near the side, and has outer walkway above the axis and outer from the side, and is installed to rotate between horizontal and upper positions. The inner tilt up portion is installed around second axis above the first axis, and has inner walkway on the same plain with outer walkway, and is installed to rotate between horizontal and upper positions with the push up movement of the outer tilt up portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Kunitomo Shimizu, Eiji Akahane, Tomohiro Akizuki
  • Publication number: 20160153171
    Abstract: A catwalk for a machine is disclosed. The machine may have an upper slewing body. The catwalk may be a passage extending from a front end to a rear end. The catwalk may be installed along a side surface of the upper slewing body. The catwalk may have a fixed portion. The fixed portion may extend from adjacent the front end to adjacent a central location disposed between the front end and the rear end. The catwalk may also have a movable portion. The movable portion may extend from adjacent the central location to adjacent the rear end. The movable portion may be pivotable about an axis positioned generally parallel to the upper slewing body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: Caterpiller SARL
    Inventors: Kunitomo SHIMIZU, Eiji AKAHANE, Tomohiro AKIZUKI
  • Patent number: 8403377
    Abstract: A locking device includes a lock body that includes an engagement groove with or from which the closing-side and opening-side lock receivers are engaged or disengaged, the lock body being variable between a neutral posture in which the closing-side and opening-side lock receivers are allowed to be engaged with or disengaged from the engagement groove; a closing-side locking posture in which the closing-side lock receiver that is engaged with the engagement groove is regulated so as not to be disengaged from the engagement groove; or an opening-side locking posture in which the opening-side lock receiver that is engaged with the engagement groove is regulated so as not to be disengaged from the engagement groove; a holding member and a release operation lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Caterpillar Japan Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Akahane, Teruyuki Yamada, Tomoya Hirano, Yusuke Harayama
  • Patent number: 8267467
    Abstract: A cab in a construction machine, the cab including frame members including a hollow first frame member connected to a second frame member in order to form a corner portion, the first frame member including a pass-through portion formed at a first side surface portion of the first frame member; a reinforcing member that is installed at the corner portion, wherein at least one of two sides of the reinforcing member passes through the pass-through portion and abuts against an inner surface of a second side surface portion of the first frame member that is at an opposite side of the first side surface portion; and a reinforcing plate that abuts against an outer surface of the second side surface portion, wherein the at least one of two sides of the reinforcing member is supported and reinforced by the reinforcing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignees: Caterpillar Japan Ltd., Press Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuji Takaoka, Eiji Akahane, Kazushige Tasaki, Masayoshi Nakajima, Teruyuki Yamada, Yusuke Harayama, Tomoya Hirano
  • Publication number: 20120038186
    Abstract: A cab in a construction machine, the cab including frame members including a hollow first frame member connected to a second frame member in order to form a corner portion, the first frame member including a pass-through portion formed at a first side surface portion of the first frame member; a reinforcing member that is installed at the corner portion, wherein at least one of two sides of the reinforcing member passes through the pass-through portion and abuts against an inner surface of a second side surface portion of the first frame member that is at an opposite side of the first side surface portion; and a reinforcing plate that abuts against an outer surface of the second side surface portion, wherein the at least one of two sides of the reinforcing member is supported and reinforced by the reinforcing plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicants: PRESS KOGYO CO., LTD., CATERPILLAR JAPAN LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuji Takaoka, Eiji Akahane, Kazushige Tasaki, Masayoshi Nakajima, Teruyuki Yamada, Yusuke Harayama, Tomoya Hirano
  • Patent number: 8028787
    Abstract: To provide a work machine in which traveling devices and an implement device can be operated by common operating levers, wherein switching operation is easy and a changeover is easily confirmed. Inside a cab of the work machine, there are provided travel pedals, with which the traveling devices can be operated, and operating levers, with which the traveling devices and the implement device can be operated. A changeover switch is provided on a console positioned in the vicinity of one side of an operating sheet. The changeover switch switches over between a traveling mode, in which traveling operation is possible by the operating levers, and a work mode, in which implement operation is possible by the operating levers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Caterpillar S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Eiji Akahane, Christopher Michael Burton, Nobumi Toyoura, Shigeru Kojima, Masayuki Takano
  • Patent number: 8029044
    Abstract: To facilitate the production of a cab in the form of a box by joining side, rear and roof panels to pillars, and to improve the productivity. Pillars forming the cab (2) include composite pillars (16, 18) obtained by juxtaposing and joining together the pairs of pillar members (20, 22), and panel assemblies (4, 6, 8) adjacent to the pillar members (20, 22) are joined to the pillar members (20, 22) of the composite pillars (16, 18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignees: Caterpillar Japan Ltd., Press Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Akahane, Takayuki Yuasa, Kazushige Tasaki, Masayoshi Nakajima, Robert D. Clausen, Teruyuki Yamada, Hideo Kosaka, Yusuke Harayama
  • Patent number: 7922237
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a cab; a front window that is capable of moving between a closed position where a window opening at a front surface of the cab is closed and an open position where the front window is housed in a ceiling portion of the cab and the window opening is open; and a guide structure for the front window that guides the front window between the closed position and the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignees: Catepillar Japan Ltd., Press Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Akahane, Kazushige Tasaki, Masayoshi Nakajima, Tetsuji Takaoka, Teruyuki Yamada, Tomoya Hirano, Yusuke Harayama
  • Patent number: 7854291
    Abstract: In a work machine equipped with a switchover means enabling selective operation of traveling devices and a work device by means of common operating levers, switchover can easily be performed and also easily recognized. In a work machine having traveling devices and a work device, operating levers that are capable of operating the traveling devices and the work device are respectively disposed at the sides of an operating seat. A foot switch connected to a controller is disposed in the proximity of and operable with a foot of an operator seated at the operating seat. While the foot switch is being operated with the foot, the traveling devices are operated by the operating levers through the controller. While the foot switch is not being operated, the work device is operated by means of the operating levers through the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Caterpillar S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Eiji Akahane, Nobumi Toyoura, Shigeru Kojima, Masayuki Takano
  • Publication number: 20100283290
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a cab; a front window that is capable of moving between a closed position where a window opening at a front surface of the cab is closed and an open position where the front window is housed in a ceiling portion of the cab and the window opening is open; and a guide structure for the front window that guides the front window between the closed position and the open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicants: CATERPILLAR JAPAN LTD., PRESS KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Akahane, Kazushige Tasaki, Masayoshi Nakajima, Tetsuji Takaoka, Teruyuki Yamada, Tomoya Hirano, Yusuke Harayama
  • Publication number: 20100186533
    Abstract: A console upturnably provided adjacent to an access area for gaining access to a seat installed in a work machine is provided with a release lever, to disengage a console securing locking portion and enabling the console to be upturned. The console has a hydraulic locking lever. Shifting the hydraulic locking lever to an opening position unblocks the access area, and performs a locking function to disable operation of the work machine; shifting the hydraulic locking lever to a blocking position to block the access area performs an unlocking function, thereby enabling operation of the work machine. Provided in relation to the release lever is a lever operation restraining mechanism that disengages the release lever and enables the console to be upturned when the hydraulic locking lever is in the opening position, and prevent upturning operation when the hydraulic locking lever is in the blocking position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: Caterpillar Japan Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Akahane, Tetsuji Takaoka, Teruyuki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20100127513
    Abstract: A locking device includes a lock body that includes an engagement groove with or from which the closing-side and opening-side lock receivers are engaged or disengaged, the lock body being variable between a neutral posture in which the closing-side and opening-side lock receivers are allowed to be engaged with or disengaged from the engagement groove; a closing-side locking posture in which the closing-side lock receiver that is engaged with the engagement groove is regulated so as not to be disengaged from the engagement groove; or an opening-side locking posture in which the opening-side lock receiver that is engaged with the engagement groove is regulated so as not to be disengaged from the engagement groove; a holding member and a release operation lever.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: Caterpillar Japan Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Akahane, Teruyuki Yamada, Tomoya Hirano, Yusuke Harayama
  • Publication number: 20100117399
    Abstract: To facilitate the production of a cab in the form of a box by joining side, rear and roof panels to pillars, and to improve the productivity. Pillars forming the cab (2) include composite pillars (16, 18) obtained by juxtaposing and joining together the pairs of pillar members (20, 22), and panel assemblies (4, 6, 8) adjacent to the pillar members (20, 22) are joined to the pillar members (20, 22) of the composite pillars (16, 18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: Eiji Akahane, Takayuki Yuasa, Kazushige Tasaki, Masayoshi Nakajima, Robert D. Clausen, Teruyuki Yamada, Hideo Kosaka, Yusuke Harayama