Patents by Inventor Hidekazu Moriki

Hidekazu Moriki 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: 11920325
    Abstract: A construction machine is provided that can cause each hydraulic actuator to accurately operate according to operation by an operator in combined operation in which a hydraulic fluid of a hydraulic pump is subjected to flow dividing and is supplied to plural hydraulic actuators. A controller 10, in a case of determining that combined operation is being carried out, controls a regulator 7a in such a manner that the delivery flow rate of a hydraulic pump 7 becomes larger than the total target flow rate of plural hydraulic actuators 4a, 5a, and 6a, and controls the respective opening amounts of plural directional control valves 8a1, 8a3, and 8a5 in such a manner that the difference between the respective target flow rates of the plural hydraulic actuators and the respective inflow flow rates of the plural hydraulic actuators sensed by velocity sensors 12 to 14 becomes small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Kanazawa, Hidekazu Moriki, Takaaki Chiba, Shinya Imura
  • Patent number: 11879233
    Abstract: A work machine includes a plurality of actuators that drive a work device; a posture sensor that senses postural data about the work device; and a controller having a degree-of-proximity calculating section that computes a degree of proximity that is an index value indicating proximity between an intrusion prohibition region and the work device on the basis of positional data about the intrusion prohibition region and the postural data. A command section executes, when the proximity specified by the degree of proximity is closer than proximity specified by a degree-of-proximity threshold, operating area limiting control to decelerate at least one of the plurality of actuators such that an intrusion of the work device into the intrusion prohibition region is prevented. History of the data about the degree of proximity calculated at the degree-of-proximity calculating section is stored and the degree-of-proximity threshold is altered on the basis of the history data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryu Narikawa, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Hidekazu Moriki
  • Publication number: 20230304254
    Abstract: Provided is a wheel loader capable of evenly loading a target object for loading onto a target area for loading with simple operation to thus mitigate a burden on an operator. The wheel loader 100 includes a travel device 120 that causes a vehicle body to travel, a drive device 150 that actuates a lift arm and a bucket, an area detection device 160 that detects a loading area, and a control device 170. The control device 170 recognizes the loading area on the basis of a detection result of the area detection device 160 and controls the travel device 120 and the drive device 150, so that the target object for loading contained in the bucket is distributed to be loaded in a plurality of different positions of the loading area while changing the position of the vehicle body in the front-back direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Yoko TSUKADA, Hidekazu MORIKI, Yoshiaki TSUTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20230306536
    Abstract: Provided is a work and function content change determination system that leaves a responsible person to make a determination whether or not to change work content and function content in a timely manner. A work and function content change determination system 35 is configured to determine whether or not to change work content and function content at a civil engineering and construction site, and includes a determination device 34 that is communicable with a first terminal 47 and a second terminal 33. When receiving information on an application for change of the work content and function content from the first terminal 47, the determination device 34 transmits, to the second terminal 33 of the authorized person having authority to approve the application for change, information on the application content for change and authority information on the authorized person identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Yuho SAITO, Hidekazu MORIKI, Shinya IMURA
  • Publication number: 20230295898
    Abstract: A work machine control system includes: a monitoring apparatus that detects a position and an action of a person in a monitored area set around a hydraulic excavator; and a controller that generates a control signal for limiting an action of the hydraulic excavator on the basis of a positional relation between the hydraulic excavator and a detected person detected by the monitoring apparatus, and controls the hydraulic excavator on the basis of the control signal. The controller determines which of a cooperating worker and a non-cooperating worker the detected person is, on the basis of an action of the detected person; and changes an allowable velocity of the work machine at a time of limiting an action of the work machine on the basis of a result of the determination or on the basis of the result of the determination and the action of the work machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Ryu NARIKAWA, Hidekazu MORIKI, Shinya IMURA, Shinjirou YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11668069
    Abstract: A construction machine that can make a depressing force of a bucket during compaction work to be uniform without requiring an operator to perform a complicated operation is provided. A controller 18 determines whether or not compaction work is in progress, calculates a front distance R that represents a distance between a rotational pivot of a boom 4 and a predetermined position B in a back surface of a bucket 6, determines a target velocity of the bucket such that a velocity with which the bucket approaches a leveling target surface decreases with increasing values of the front distance, and, during the compaction work, notifies the operator of details of an operation of operation devices 9a and 9b for achieving the target velocity of the bucket or controls hydraulic actuators 4a to 6a so as to achieve the target velocity of the bucket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Ishihara, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Hidekazu Moriki, Ryu Narikawa
  • Patent number: 11649612
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator including a controller that calculates the positional relationship between a bucket and a target surface and a display device that displays the positional relationship between the bucket and the target surface includes an actuator state sensor that detects the pressure of a hydraulic cylinder. The controller calculates the velocity of the bucket based on the position of a work implement and the operation amount of an operation device and changes the contents of informing by the display device according to the velocity of the bucket, the distance between the bucket and the target surface, and the pressure of the hydraulic cylinder. The display device displays the contents of informing changed by the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryu Narikawa, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Hidekazu Moriki, Shinji Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20230137344
    Abstract: A type of an object is determined and the movement direction of the object is predicted on the basis of a sensing result of the object sensed by an on-machine obstacle sensor. Information relating to the object that is the object sensed by the on-machine obstacle sensor and has been determined to have moved to the outside of a sensing range of the on-machine obstacle sensor is immediately deleted from an environment map on the basis of the type and the movement direction of the object. This can properly process information on the object that has gotten out of the sensing range, according to the cause of the object getting out of the sensing range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Yuho SAITO, Hidekazu MORIKI, Shinya IMURA, Takaaki CHIBA
  • Publication number: 20220412052
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator for performing cooperative work with another hydraulic excavator or a worker includes: a driving device that makes the hydraulic excavator operate; a cooperative function device that shares information about the hydraulic excavator with an inside and an outside of the hydraulic excavator; and a controller that controls the driving device that makes the hydraulic excavator operate, the controller, when there is an abnormality in the cooperative function device, controlling the driving device so as to limit operation of the hydraulic excavator, and when the hydraulic excavator is performing the cooperative work, controlling the driving device so as to make a degree of limitation on the operation of the hydraulic excavator stronger than when the hydraulic excavator is not performing the cooperative work. It is thereby possible to suppress an unnecessary decrease in work efficiency by suppressing an excessive operation limitation on the hydraulic excavator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Hidekazu MORIKI, Ryu NARIKAWA, Shinya IMURA
  • Publication number: 20220316173
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator having a plurality of front implement members, including a bucket, has a controller that controls the work implement by using: excavation assistance control that controls the work implement such that the bucket moves along a predetermined target excavation surface; and deviation prevention control that prevents deviation of the work implement from a predetermined work area by decelerating or stopping operation of a subject front implement member that is included in the plurality of front implement members and that can deviate the work implement from the work area. The controller controls the work implement such that when the controller controls the work implement by using both the excavation assistance control and the deviation prevention control, an operation direction of the bucket approximates to an operation direction of the bucket that is to be generated when the work implement is controlled by using only the excavation assistance control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Ryu NARIKAWA, Hidekazu MORIKI, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Hiroaki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220316184
    Abstract: There are provided: a monitoring apparatus that detects an obstacle located around a hydraulic excavator, and outputs obstacle information; and a controller that calculates an operation limiting command for limiting operation of the hydraulic excavator in accordance with an intrusion prohibited area set on the basis of a result of comparison between a movable range of the hydraulic excavator and a monitoring range of the monitoring apparatus and in accordance with the obstacle information from the monitoring apparatus. Thereby, it is possible to appropriately set an intrusion prohibited area, and reduce detection failures and detection errors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Hidekazu MORIKI, Takuya NAKA, Shinya IMURA
  • Publication number: 20220259832
    Abstract: Provided is an on-site monitoring apparatus and an on-site monitoring system that can appropriately set an area to be subjected to on-site monitoring. The on-site monitoring apparatus includes warning devices 104 and 309 that output a warning, peripheral object detection devices 102 and 307 that detect a position of a partition object 512, work area input devices 101 and 305 that receive an input of information indicating boundaries AB and BC to be arranged with a partition object, and control devices 103 and 308.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki TSUCHIE, Shinya IMURA, Hidekazu MORIKI
  • Patent number: 11414841
    Abstract: Provided are a work point position computing section configured to compute the relative position of a work point set on a bucket with respect to an upper swing structure on the basis of posture information, a target surface setting section configured to set a target surface as a target of excavation work on the basis of design surface information, a primary operation determining section configured to determine which of operations of a boom and an arm is a primary operation as a main operation when the work point is moved along the target surface, and a recommended operation computing section configured to compute a recommended operation amount and a recommended operation direction of a secondary operation as another operation different from the primary operation in the operations of the boom and the arm according to an operation amount and an operation direction of the primary operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Moriki, Hisami Nakano, Hiroshi Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20220145579
    Abstract: Provided is a work machine that can suppress decrease in work efficiency while reducing the possibility of contacting a worker or a dump truck, etc. A movement range is set in advance so as to avoid entry of a worker or a dump truck, etc. into the set movement range. The work machine performs stop control with clearance for an obstacle having entered the movement range, but performs stop control with relatively small clearance (minimum clearance) for a movement range. Thus, the work machine can reduce the frequency of stopping a body or a work implement and suppress decrease in work efficiency. Since the work machine controls the body or the work implement to stop with clearance when the worker or the dump truck, etc. enters the movement range of the work machine, the work machine can reduce the possibility of contacting the worker or the dump truck, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Shinya IMURA, Masamichi ITO, Hidekazu MORIKI, Yuho SAITO
  • Publication number: 20220136211
    Abstract: In a case that a change instruction to instruct to change a work area A1 to a requested work area A2 is input, whether or not change of the work area A1 to the requested work area A2 is possible is judged on the basis of the work area A1, location information of a machine main body configured by an upper swing structure 10 and a lower track structure 9, and posture information of a work device 15, and the work area A1 is overwritten with the requested work area A2 to change the work area in an only case that it is judged that change is possible. This can suppress interference between plural work machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Hidekazu MORIKI, Ryu NARIKAWA, Masaki KANAI, Kouji SHIWAKU, Shinya IMURA
  • Patent number: 11280058
    Abstract: Provided is a work machine with which an operator can easily perform semi-automatic excavating shaping work at an intended excavation velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisami Nakano, Hiroaki Tanaka, Takaaki Chiba, Hidekazu Moriki
  • Patent number: 11261578
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator (1) provided with a controller (40) having a machine control section (43) that executes machine control for moving a work implement (1A) following a predetermined condition at the time of operation of operation devices (45a, 45b, and 46c) includes a level-of-intervention input device (96) that is operated by an operator. The controller includes a correction amount calculating section (43m) that calculates a correction amount of a level of intervention indicating a degree of intervention by the machine control in an operation of the work implement instructed through operation of the operation devices, based on an operation amount of the level-of-intervention input device. The machine control section executes the machine control to intervene in the operation of the work implement instructed through the operation of the operation devices at a level of intervention corrected based on the correction amount calculated at the correction amount calculating section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Ishida, Manabu Edamura, Hidekazu Moriki
  • Publication number: 20220049474
    Abstract: To provide a work machine that enables enhancement of shaping accuracy near a boundary line between two adjacent target surfaces. A controller 10 extracts, from among a plurality of target surfaces, a second target surface S2 that is a target surface adjacent to a first target surface S1, calculates a boundary line L2 between the first target surface S1 and the second target surface S2, and, prior to a work tool 6 passing the first boundary line L2, corrects a control signal for a posture control actuator 6c such that the angular difference EL between a reference line L1 set on the work tool 6 and the boundary line L2 becomes small.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Akira KANAZAWA, Hidekazu MORIKI, Shinya IMURA, Shiho IZUMI, Takaaki CHIBA
  • Patent number: 11230821
    Abstract: A construction machine that precisely enables derivation of the operation characteristics of hydraulic actuators in a high-velocity area with less calibration operation is provided. A controller (10) has a calibration mode in which the controller (10) derives operation characteristics (?(xs)) representing a relation among a spool position (xs) of a meter-in valve (8a1), an operation velocity (Va) of a hydraulic actuator (4a), and a differential pressure (?P) across the meter-in valve (8a1), and is configured to, in a case where the spool position (xs) of the meter-in valve (8a1) has changed in a direction to increase the opening area of the meter-in valve (8a1) in the calibration mode, output a command signal to increase the opening area of a bleed-off valve (8b1) to a bleed-off solenoid proportional pressure-reducing valve (8b2) as a command signal to reduce the differential pressure (?P).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Kanazawa, Hidekazu Moriki, Shinya Imura, Yasutaka Tsuruga, Takaaki Chiba
  • Patent number: 11230824
    Abstract: A work machine (1) includes a controller (40) having a notification control section (374) that exercises control as to whether to notify an operator of operation support information in accordance with a distance between a predetermined target surface, out of a plurality of discretionally set target surfaces, and a work implement (1A), the work machine including a current terrain profile acquisition device (96) that acquires a position of a current terrain profile, the controller including a target surface comparison section (62) that compares the position of the current terrain profile (800) with a position of the predetermined target surface (700) to determine a vertical position relationship between the current terrain profile and the predetermined target surface. The notification control section (374) changes content of the operation support information in accordance with a result of determination by the target surface comparison section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryu Narikawa, Hidekazu Moriki, Manabu Edamura, Shiho Izumi