Patents by Inventor EIKI INABA

EIKI INABA 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).

  • Patent number: 12342752
    Abstract: The autonomous travel working machine includes a working body unit, a cover unit, and a connecting structure unit connecting the working body unit and the cover unit. The connecting structure unit includes a body connecting section attached to the working body unit and a cover connecting section attached to the cover unit. When the cover unit is lifted, a shaft portion of the cover unit is slid upwardly with respect to a head portion of the working body unit so that the cover unit is moved upwardly or lifted with respect to the working body unit. When the working machine hits against an obstacle, an intermediate portion of the body connecting section is resiliently deformed in a lateral direction so that the cover unit is moved with respect to the working body unit substantially only in the lateral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Yamabiko Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki Inaba, Kenji Nakano
  • Publication number: 20230381600
    Abstract: A ball collecting system includes a picker, and a pit configured to enable balls discharged from the picker to be collected in a ball-collecting space. At least one basket whose upper part is open is disposed in the ball-collecting space to allow the discharged balls to be dropped and stored in the basket. The ball-collecting space is configured such that one end thereof in a horizontal direction is formed as an open zone, to allow the basket to be taken out from the ball-collecting space through the open zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Eiki INABA, Kenji NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20220322603
    Abstract: The autonomous travel working machine includes a working body unit, a cover unit, and a connecting structure unit connecting the working body unit and the cover unit. The connecting structure unit includes a body connecting section attached to the working body unit and a cover connecting section attached to the cover unit. When the cover unit is lifted, a shaft portion of the cover unit is slid upwardly with respect to a head portion of the working body unit so that the cover unit is moved upwardly or lifted with respect to the working body unit. When the working machine hits against an obstacle, an intermediate portion of the body connecting section is resiliently deformed in a lateral direction so that the cover unit is moved with respect to the working body unit substantially only in the lateral direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Eiki INABA, Kenji NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20220280842
    Abstract: There is provided a dispersed object collection apparatus including an electric machine configured to run by itself along a set running route is an activity area. The machine is caused to start from a collection place and run by itself is a set working area to accommodate dispersed objects dispersed in the working area into an accommodation section provided in or outside the machine and collect the dispersed objects is the collection place. The working area is set as a closed region along outer edges of the dispersed objects in an aggregation region in which a plurality of dispersed objects are close together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: YAMABIKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiharu KOSHIKAWA, EIKI INABA, KENJI NAKANO, YOICHI FUSE, RYOTA YAMADA