Patents by Inventor Hironobu Okamoto

Hironobu Okamoto 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: 11939197
    Abstract: A forklift-truck remote operation system includes a forklift truck and a remote operation device. The forklift-truck remote operation system further includes: a camera mounted to the forklift truck and configured to capture an image of an area around the forklift truck; a display disposed in the remote operation device and configured to display the image captured by the camera; a pallet detector configured to perform image recognition processing of the image captured by the camera and detect a plurality of pallets; a display controller configured to control the display to display the image captured by the camera with an indication for pallet selection from the pallets detected by the pallet detector; and a travel controller configured to control the forklift truck to move to a position of the selected pallet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Junji Inoue, Koji Hika, Hironobu Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20230417581
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle control device for controlling an industrial vehicle includes: a first signal acquisition unit that acquires a first signal; a second signal acquisition unit that acquires a second signal; a data processing unit that performs data processing based on time-series data of the first signal and the second signal; and a state estimation unit that estimates a state of the industrial vehicle by distinguishing results of the data processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Mitsuru KAWAMOTO, Hironobu OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230393585
    Abstract: An anomaly detection device includes processing circuitry and a memory. The memory stores map data and association data. The map data defines a map. The map receives, as input data, manipulation value data and the image data of the vehicle, thereby outputting, as output data, a state ID corresponding to an anomaly state related to the vehicle. The association data associates an anomaly state related to the vehicle with the state ID. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire the manipulation value data, acquire the image data from a camera mounted in the vehicle, input, as the input data, the manipulation value data and the image data, to the map, thereby acquiring, as the output data, the state ID from the map, and identify the anomaly state related to the vehicle based on the state ID acquired from the map and the association data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Shinichi MAE, Yukikazu KOIDE, Hironobu OKAMOTO, Ryusuke SAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230331527
    Abstract: A control device for an industrial vehicle is a control device for an industrial vehicle for estimating a working state of the industrial vehicle, which includes a working state estimation unit that estimates the working state of the industrial vehicle, and the working state estimation unit receives operation information regarding an operation state with respect to the industrial vehicle and photographing information obtained by photographing a package, performs a determination as to whether or not a packing form of the package is in an abnormal state, and outputs the working state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicants: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Jouh Yeong CHEW, Misuru KAWAMOTO, Takashi OKUMA, Eiichi YOSHIDA, Yukikazu KOIDE, Hironobu OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230242386
    Abstract: A controlling device of a forklift executes a stopping process of stopping lowering of a fork by a lift device when a detection sensor is separated from a first facing surface while the fork is being lowered by the lift device in a placing operation, a forward tilting process executed after execution of the stopping process, the forward tilting process controlling the tilt device to tilt the fork forward until the tilt angle reaches a limit value, and a returning process of sequentially obtaining values of the tilt angle during execution of the forward tilting process and tilting the fork rearward when the value of the tilt angle stops changing before the tilt angle reaches the limit value. The returning process is not executed in a case in which the tilt angle reaches the limit value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takuro Kato, Yukikazu Koide, Hironobu Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11524881
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle remote operation system includes a forklift truck that includes a vehicle communication unit, a remote operation device that includes a remote communication unit performing wireless communication with the vehicle communication unit and is used for remotely operating the industrial vehicle, and a forced stop control unit configured to decelerate and forcibly stop traveling of the industrial vehicle while maintaining a steering angle of the industrial vehicle formed when a forced stop condition is met, in a case where the forced stop condition is met during a remote operation of traveling of the industrial vehicle using the remote operation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hironobu Okamoto, Takuma Ono, Koji Hika
  • Publication number: 20220363528
    Abstract: An operation assisting apparatus for a load handling vehicle conveying a load carried on a load handling apparatus includes a sensor, an object extraction unit configured to extract, as objects, a group of points representing parts of the objects from a result detected by the sensor in a coordinate system in a real space, a load handling space derivation unit configured to derive a load handling space occupied by the load during load handling work performed by the load handling apparatus in the coordinate system in the real space, a clearance derivation unit configured to derive a value of a clearance between the load handling space and an adjacent object adjacent to the load handling space, and an informing unit configured to inform an operator of the load handling vehicle of information about the value of the clearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hironobu OKAMOTO, Tomonori KAMIYA, Koji HIKA, Junji INOUE
  • Patent number: 11454965
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle remote control system includes a forklift that has a vehicle communication unit and a remote control device that has a remote communication unit and is used to remotely control the forklift. A vehicle wireless CPU of the industrial vehicle remote control system acquires the received radio wave intensity of a remote control signal by which the two communication units wirelessly communicate, and, on the basis of the results thereof, determines whether the forklift is positioned in a permission range or in a prohibition range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tomonori Kamiya, Koji Hika, Hironobu Okamoto, Nobutoshi Kajiya, Shinya Goto
  • Patent number: 11358844
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle remote operation system includes an industrial vehicle that includes a vehicle communication unit performing wireless communication; and a remote operation device that includes a remote communication unit performing wireless communication with the vehicle communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hironobu Okamoto, Takehito Sakakibara, Koji Hika
  • Publication number: 20210221664
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle remote operation system includes an industrial vehicle that includes a vehicle communication unit performing wireless communication; and a remote operation device that includes a remote communication unit performing wireless communication with the vehicle communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hironobu OKAMOTO, Takehito SAKAKIBARA, Koji HIKA
  • Publication number: 20210171329
    Abstract: A forklift-truck remote operation system includes a forklift truck and a remote operation device. The forklift-truck remote operation system further includes: a camera mounted to the forklift truck and configured to capture an image of an area around the forklift truck; a display disposed in the remote operation device and configured to display the image captured by the camera; a pallet detector configured to perform image recognition processing of the image captured by the camera and detect a plurality of pallets; a display controller configured to control the display to display the image captured by the camera with an indication for pallet selection from the pallets detected by the pallet detector; and a travel controller configured to control the forklift truck to move to a position of the selected pallet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Junji INOUE, Koji HIKA, Hironobu OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210009392
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle remote operation system includes an industrial vehicle including a vehicle communication unit that performs wireless communication, a remote operation device that includes a remote communication unit for exchanging signals with the vehicle communication unit through wireless communication by establishing a communication connection state with the vehicle communication unit, and that is used to remotely operate the industrial vehicle, and a mode control unit that controls a control mode of the industrial vehicle. The control mode includes a remote mode, an abnormal stop mode, and a neutral mode. At least during the remote mode, the vehicle communication unit and the remote communication unit are in the communication connection state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tomonori KAMIYA, Hironobu OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200247652
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle remote operation system includes a forklift truck that includes a vehicle communication unit, a remote operation device that includes a remote communication unit performing wireless communication with the vehicle communication unit and is used for remotely operating the industrial vehicle, and a forced stop control unit configured to decelerate and forcibly stop traveling of the industrial vehicle while maintaining a steering angle of the industrial vehicle formed when a forced stop condition is met, in a case where the forced stop condition is met during a remote operation of traveling of the industrial vehicle using the remote operation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hironobu OKAMOTO, Takuma ONO, Koji HIKA
  • Publication number: 20200012274
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle remote control system includes a forklift that has a vehicle communication unit and a remote control device that has a remote communication unit and is used to remotely control the forklift. A vehicle wireless CPU of the industrial vehicle remote control system acquires the received radio wave intensity of a remote control signal by which the two communication units wirelessly communicate, and, on the basis of the results thereof, determines whether the forklift is positioned in a permission range or in a prohibition range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tomonori KAMIYA, Koji HIKA, Hironobu OKAMOTO, Nobutoshi KAJIYA, Shinya GOTO
  • Patent number: 8105517
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a figure-forming composition which enables the initiation of hardening even with a small amount of water and can attain a prescribed hardness, and which is suitable particularly for the production of three-dimensional living body models for surgical training by a rapid prototype process; and provide a three dimensional figure and a three-dimensional structure which are formed by using the composition. The figure-forming composition, for example, comprises a calcium-based material such as hemihydrate gypsum and polyvinyl alcohol resin, wherein the content of the polyvinyl alcohol resin is 2 to 20 weight parts when the total weight of the calcium-based material and the polyvinyl alcohol resin is 100 weight parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Next21 K.K.
    Inventors: Shigeki Suzuki, Koutaro Shimizu, Shinya Wasada, Hironobu Okamoto, Shinro Takai
  • Publication number: 20090298033
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a figure-forming composition which enables the initiation of hardening even with a small amount of water and can attain a prescribed hardness, and which is suitable particularly for the production of three-dimensional living body models for surgical training by a rapid prototype process; and provide a three dimensional figure and a three-dimensional structure which are formed by using the composition. The figure-forming composition, for example, comprises a calcium-based material such as hemihydrate gypsum and polyvinyl alcohol resin, wherein the content of the polyvinyl alcohol resin is 2 to 20 weight parts when the total weight of the calcium-based material and the polyvinyl alcohol resin is 100 weight parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: NEXT21 K.K.
    Inventors: Shigeki Suzuki, Koutaro Shimizu, Shinya Wasada, Hironobu Okamoto, Shinro Takai
  • Patent number: 4986384
    Abstract: A remote control system for a mobile object, comprising radio beacons each consisting of a master station and some substations, a mobile communication station mounted on each auto-pilot mobile for receiving the radio wave, such as millimetric, from each radio beacon, to let the mobile recognize its own position on the route map, and a control station for transmitting and receiving signals by radio waves to and from the mobile station so as to instruct and correct the moving route of the mobile. Each mobile station is equipped for detecting any corrugations on the route immediately ahead of it, for detecting the ground speed of the mobile, and preferably, for detecting the direction of the mobile so that each mobile station can manage the speed of the mobile object as its master, and can correct and change the route of the mobile on the map by the discriminated signals from these detectors, and the instructions from the control station on the basis of discrimination signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1991
    Assignee: Robotech Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironobu Okamoto, Tetsujirou Izumi, Hiroo Kishi, Naoki Okamoto