Patents by Inventor Hideki Nakajima

Hideki Nakajima 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: 20240117601
    Abstract: To avoid a large size of a direction change-over valve and enable accurate supply flow control when providing a flow control valve at an upstream side of the direction change-over valve to change the relationship between supply flow rate and discharge flow rate for a hydraulic actuator. The configuration is to control a supply flow rate to a stick cylinder based on an opening area of the stick's direction change-over valve and stick's flow control valve, calculate a target opening area of the stick's flow control valve based on a target supply flow rate from hydraulic pumps A, B to the stick cylinder, the opening area of the stick's direction change-over valve, and a target differential pressure between hydraulic pump A and a load pressure of stick cylinder, and control the stick's flow control valve so as to keep the target opening area calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki NAKAJIMA, Koichi KIYASU
  • Publication number: 20240068492
    Abstract: Problem: Calibrating a correspondence relationship between a pump control current value and a pump flow rate of the hydraulic pump in a hydraulic system including a variable capacity hydraulic pump whose capacity is variably controlled according to the pump control current value, a flow rate control valve whose opening area is variably controlled according to a valve control current value, and a pressure compensation valve that maintains differential pressure before and after the flow control valve to be constant is made in a precise and simple manner. Solution: The spool valve has a configuration in which the pump control current value is sweepingly increased and the peak of a change of pump pressure during the sweeping increase is calibrated as the pump control current value of the pump flow rate of the target flow rate, with the spool valve held in the aperture area corresponding to the spool valve output flow rate of the arbitrary target flow rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki NAKAJIMA, Koichi KIYASU
  • Patent number: 11692332
    Abstract: To improve operability and work efficiency while achieving reduction of the number of parts and simplification of circuit structure, in a hydraulic control system equipped with hydraulic actuators whose hydraulic power sources are both the first, second hydraulic pumps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki Nakajima, Koichi Kiyasu
  • Publication number: 20230183945
    Abstract: To perform a work with the same operability under a dead weight of a front work equipment in any of a float work and a normal work, when a bucket descends in the air, and after contacting the ground, to perform a work with the operability being maintained as it is when performing the float work, and to perform a work while pressurized hydraulic fluid is supplied from a hydraulic pump when performing the normal work. A lower-ing control during a float working mode is performed in a valve passage state in a first region at which the lowering control is performed under the dead weight of the from work equip-ment without being supplied with hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic pump, regardless of whether or not the bucket is in contact with the ground, and the lowering control during a normal working mode is performed in a valve passage state at the first region in a non-ground-contacting state and at a second region in which the hydraulic fluid can be supplied from the hydraulic pump n a ground-contacting state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki NAKAJIMA, Koichi KIYASU
  • Publication number: 20230167628
    Abstract: To achieve improvement of operability and reduction of energy loss, when controlling so that an upper limit pressure of a discharge line becomes a pressure corresponding to an manipulation tool manipulation amount by controlling an increase or decrease of a bypass amount, in a hydraulic control circuit equipped with a bypass valve for controlling a bypass amount flowing from a hydraulic pump to an oil tank. By using a bypass valve control map representing a relationship between a manipulation tool manipulation amount and a spool stroke, the spool stroke of a bypass valve is controlled, and an upper limit pressure of the discharge line is set so that an opening area of the bypass valve is fully closed by a manipulation amount which is larger than a manipulation tool manipulation amount at which the maximum pressure of the discharge line is reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki NAKAJIMA, Kazushi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20230119892
    Abstract: To enable to arbitrarily change a hydraulic pump which supplies pressure oil to a hydraulic actuator at first in a hydraulic control system equipped with the hydraulic actuator using both first and second hydraulic pumps as a pressure oil source. An operation means is installed which can arbitrarily change working order of the first flow rate control valves for boom and stick for controlling the supply flow rate from first hydraulic pump to boom cylinder and stick cylinder and second flow rate control valves for boom and stick for controlling the supply flow rate from second hydraulic pump to boom cylinder and stick cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki NAKAJIMA, Koichi KIYASU
  • Patent number: 11629479
    Abstract: To make it possible to control supply, discharge, and recycled flow rates independently of each other for the stick cylinder in a construction machine comprising first and second stick spool valves respectively connected to first and second hydraulic pumps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki Nakajima, Koichi Kiyasu
  • Publication number: 20230078399
    Abstract: To achieve improvement in work efficiency of calibration work and improvement in calibration accuracy, by performing control so that the time taken to increase the sweep of an applied current becomes substantially constant, upon the calibration of a valve opening position current value when a valve operated by electrical current applied to an electrical actuator opens a flow passage. There is provided a predicted value calculating means for predicting a calibration value of a valve opening position current value on the basis of information concerning valve opening position current values, and the sweep starting current value is set so that the time taken to increase the sweep to a predicted value predicted by the predicted value calculating means from a sweep start becomes a fixed time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki NAKAJIMA, Koichi KIYASU
  • Patent number: 11585595
    Abstract: A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes a storeroom lifted when the storeroom is pulled out and giving a degree of freedom to a lifting method. The refrigerator includes a main body, a door arranged to be pulled out from the main body, a storeroom arranged to be pulled out from the main body along with the door, and a lift device arranged to lift or lower the storeroom in connection with pulling-out or pushing-in of the door, wherein the lift device includes a guide including a portion sloping upward or downward in a pull-out direction of the storeroom, and a guidee guided by the guide so that the storeroom is lifted when the guidee is moved along the guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Nakajima, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Takashi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 11585068
    Abstract: To be capable of dealing with a machine body lifting operation or a sudden operation, while improving energy efficiency, during a boom-lowering operation, and achieving the reduction of the number of parts, in a construction machine equipped with a boom. It is configured such that a first region Y1 at which a recovery valve passage 16e is opened and a supply valve passage 16f is closed and a second region Y2 at which the recovery valve passage 16e and the supply valve passage 16f are opened, are provided at an operating position of a first boom control valve 16 during the boom lowering operation, and the first boom control valve 16 is positioned at the first region Y1 when neither a machine body lifting operation nor the sudden operation is performed during the boom-lowering operation, and at the region Y2 when the machine body lifting operation or the sudden operation is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventor: Hideki Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11566640
    Abstract: To make it possible to control supply, discharge, and recycled flow rates independently of each other for the boom cylinder in a construction machine comprising first and second boom spool valves respectively connected to first and second hydraulic pumps. When the boom cylinder is contracted, the first boom spool valve is configured to control the recycled flow rate from head side oil chamber to rod side oil chamber, the second boom spool valve is configured to control the discharge flow rate from head side oil chamber to oil tank, and both first and second boom spool valves are configured not to supply pressure oil from first and second hydraulic pumps to the boom cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki Nakajima, Koichi Kiyasu
  • Publication number: 20220285023
    Abstract: There is provided a biliary atresia diagnosis support management system including a server, the server including a transmission/reception unit receiving an image of stool from a living body and a determination unit determining whether biliary atresia is contracted or not from the image, wherein the server further includes: a management unit including a usage fee saving unit saving received usage fees and a donation sending unit for sending a donation from the saved usage fees; and a doctor's determination request processing unit requesting a determination by a doctor if the determination unit determines that there is a suspected positive result; and if it is diagnosed that the living body needs treatment for biliary atresia as a result of a thorough examination, the server pays a donation for the treatment from the usage fees saved in the usage fee saving unit via the donation sending unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicants: SEKISUI MEDICAL CO., LTD., NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Takeshi URAMOTO, Tetsuaki KON, Tomoyoshi SHIROSHITA, Akira MATSUI, Hideki NAKAJIMA, Hiroyuki ABE
  • Publication number: 20220275605
    Abstract: To improve operability and work efficiency while achieving reduction of the number of parts and simplification of circuit structure, in a hydraulic control system equipped with hydraulic actuators whose hydraulic power sources are both the first, second hydraulic pumps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki NAKAJIMA, Koichi KIYASU
  • Patent number: 11421715
    Abstract: To achieve reduction of fuel consumption and enhancement of operability, in a hydraulic control circuit provided with a bypass oil passage formed by being branched from a discharge line of a hydraulic pump and extending to an oil tank, and a bypass valve having variable opening area for controlling a flow rate of the bypass oil passage, and to accurately perform pump pressure control through opening area control of the bypass valve without being affected by a condition of each time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventor: Hideki Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20220112688
    Abstract: To achieve reduction of fuel consumption and enhancement of operability, in a hydraulic control circuit provided with a bypass oil passage formed by being branched from a discharge line of a hydraulic pump and extending to an oil tank, and a bypass valve having variable opening area for controlling a flow rate of the bypass oil passage, and to accurately perform pump pressure control through opening area control of the bypass valve without being affected by a condition of each time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventor: Hideki NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20220064903
    Abstract: To make it possible to control supply, discharge, and recycled flow rates independently of each other for the stick cylinder in a construction machine comprising first and second stick spool valves respectively connected to first and second hydraulic pumps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki NAKAJIMA, Kolchi KIYASU
  • Publication number: 20220049463
    Abstract: [Problem to Be Solved] To make it possible to control supply, discharge, and recycled flow rates independently of each other for the boom cylinder in a construction machine comprising first and second boom spool valves respectively connected to first and second hydraulic pumps. [Solution] When the boom cylinder (8) is contracted, the first boom spool valve (16) is configured to control the recycled flow rate from head side a chamber (8A) to rod side oil chamber (8B), the second boom spool valve (17) is configured to control the discharge flow rate from head side oil chamber (8A) to oil tank (15), and both first and second boom spool valves (16, 17) are configured not to supply pressure oil from first and second hydraulic pumps (11, 12) to the boom cylinder (8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki Nakajima, Koichi KIYASU
  • Patent number: 11242671
    Abstract: Each of left and right direction switching valves includes: a pump port connected to a pump; a first compensation port connected to an upstream side of a corresponding pressure compensation valve; a second compensation port connected to a downstream side of the corresponding pressure compensation valve; a pair of supply/discharge ports connected to a corresponding travel motor; and a communication port. The communication ports of the left and right direction switching valves are connected by a communication line. When a spool shifts from a neutral position by the travel operation device, the pump port communicates with the first compensation port and the second compensation port communicates with one of the supply/discharge ports and the communication port. Each direction switching valve is configured wherein a degree of communication between the second compensation port and communication port increases in a shifting amount of the spool from the neutral position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignees: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATERPILLAR SARL
    Inventors: Seiji Aoki, Yoshiyuki Tode, Masahiro Ohira, Hideki Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20220018595
    Abstract: A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes a storeroom lifted when the storeroom is pulled out and giving a degree of freedom to a lifting method. The refrigerator includes a main body, a door arranged to be pulled out from the main body, a storeroom arranged to be pulled out from the main body along with the door, and a lift device arranged to lift or lower the storeroom in connection with pulling-out or pushing-in of the door, wherein the lift device includes a guide including a portion sloping upward or downward in a pull-out direction of the storeroom, and a guidee guided by the guide so that the storeroom is lifted when the guidee is moved along the guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Hideki NAKAJIMA, Hiroyuki TANAKA, Takashi YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11162245
    Abstract: To achieve the improvement of recovery efficiency from a rod end oil chamber to a head end oil chamber during extending operation of a stick cylinder, and at the same time, to prevent an operation speed of the stick cylinder from being impaired when recovery is impossible, as well as to achieve the reduction of the number of parts, in a construction machine equipped with a stick. It is configured such that a first region Y1 at which a discharge valve passage 14g is opened while being throttled and a second region Y2 at which the discharge valve passage 14g is wider opened than at the first region Y1 are provided, in an operating position of a stick control valve 14 during extending operation of the stick cylinder, and if recovery from the rod end oil chamber 9b to the head end oil chamber 9a during extending operation of the stick cylinder 9 is possible, the stick control valve 14 is caused to be positioned at the first region Y1, and if the recovery is impossible, positioned at the region Y2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventor: Hideki Nakajima