Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Horii

Hiroshi Horii 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: 20240328117
    Abstract: A hydraulic system of a working machine includes a hydraulic actuator to be driven by a hydraulic fluid, a control valve to perform a switching operation for switching a flow rate of the hydraulic fluid supplied to the hydraulic actuator, and a controller to control the control valve. The control valve includes a solenoid and performs the switching operation in accordance with a current supplied to the solenoid. The controller supplies, to the solenoid, a shift current for causing the control valve to perform the switching operation and intermittently supplies a standby current when the shift current is not supplied, the standby current having a current value smaller than the shift current and within a range in which the control valve does not perform the switching operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi HORII, Hiroya MORI
  • Publication number: 20240328118
    Abstract: In a working machine, a controller controls actuation of control valves for hydraulic actuators in response to operations performed on operation members. The controller is capable of performing second control for controlling the actuation of each of the control valves based on the amount of an operation performed on a corresponding one of the operation members and the correspondence between a preset operation amount for the operation member and the actuation amount of the control valve and first control for controlling, in accordance with the amount of the operation performed on the operation member, the actuation of the control valve such that the flow rate of the hydraulic fluid supplied from the control valve to the corresponding hydraulic actuator increases to be greater than that in the second control. The controller performs the first control when the operation on the operation member is performed to realize a predetermined operation state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi HORII
  • Publication number: 20240328120
    Abstract: In a hydraulic system of a working device, a controller includes a first calculator that calculates a first electric current value for decelerating an angular velocity of a movable member, a second calculator that calculates a second electric current value for decreasing a supply flow rate of a hydraulic fluid to a hydraulic cylinder, and an electric current restrictor that corrects an electric current supplied to an electromagnetic proportional valve by the second electric current value if a determination distance of an operation length from a current operation position of the hydraulic cylinder to a stroke end is longer than a first threshold value and is not more than a second threshold value and corrects the electric current supplied to the electromagnetic proportional valve by either the selected first or second electric current value if the determination distance is not more than the first threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroya MORI, Hiroshi HORII
  • Publication number: 20240328119
    Abstract: A hydraulic system of a working machine includes a hydraulic actuator to be driven with a hydraulic fluid; a solenoid proportional valve to control the hydraulic actuator in accordance with a current that is supplied; and a controller to control the current that is supplied to the solenoid proportional valve. The controller changes a dither amplitude of the current that is supplied to the solenoid proportional valve in accordance with a temperature of the hydraulic fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi HORII, Hiroya MORI
  • Publication number: 20240328121
    Abstract: The control valve includes a valve body; a spool hole formed in the valve body; a spool slidably fitted in the spool hole; a pilot chamber into which a pilot fluid to actuate the spool is led; a discharge passage to discharge a hydraulic fluid to an outside of the valve body; a spiral groove to communicate with the discharge passage, the spiral groove being formed in a spiral shape on an outer periphery of the spool; and at least one axial groove to cause the pilot chamber and the spiral groove to communicate with each other, the axial groove being formed along an axial direction of the spool on an inner surface of the spool hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicants: KUBOTA CORPORATION, KYB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi HORII, Syunsuke FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20240328122
    Abstract: A hydraulic system of a working machine includes: a hydraulic actuator; a direction switching valve; the solenoid proportional valve; a controller to control a current to be supplied to the solenoid proportional valve; an operation member for a worker to operate the hydraulic actuator; and a permission operation actuator capable of performing a switching operation between a permission operation for permitting driving of the hydraulic actuator and a non-permission operation for not permitting the driving, in which, when the permission operation actuator is subjected to the non-permission operation and a temperature of the hydraulic fluid is lower than a predetermined temperature, the controller supplies, to the solenoid proportional valve, a first standby current of a first current value defined in a range in which a switching position of the direction switching valve is not switched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi HORII, Hiroya MORI
  • Patent number: 12066852
    Abstract: A neutral return mechanism includes an interlocking shaft to be pushed and pulled in an axial direction in conjunction with a swinging operation of an operation member; a housing member to support the interlocking shaft such that the interlocking shaft is movable in the axial direction and accommodate the interlocking shaft such that one of opposite end portions thereof protrudes; a neutral return spring to return the interlocking shaft from a post-movement position to an initial position, the neutral return spring being accommodated in the housing member such that the neutral return spring extends in the axial direction of the interlocking shaft, wherein the housing member includes a supported portion between a spring accommodation portion in which the neutral return spring is accommodated and a protrusion opening through which the interlocking shaft protrudes, the supported portion being supported at a bracket member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignees: KUBOTA CORPORATION, KYB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Horii, Tetsuya Aoki, Hirotaka Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12054916
    Abstract: In a working machine, a stroke of an arm cylinder caused when a distance of a tip portion of an arm from a machine body is equal to a predetermined limit distance is defined as a stroke Y1, a stroke of a boom cylinder caused when the stroke of the arm cylinder is equal to the stroke Y1 and a height of the tip portion of the arm is equal to a height of a boom pivot shaft is defined as a stroke X1, and when the stroke of the boom cylinder is between X1 and a stroke end thereof in a direction to swing the boom upward, the controller restricts the stroke of the arm cylinder to swing the arm in a dumping direction to prevent the arm from swinging further in the dumping direction from a position where the stroke of the arm cylinder is equal to Y1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Horii
  • Patent number: 12032632
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product are presented for reducing memory consumption in depth first search (DFS)-based cycle detection processes to detect an n-length cycle on a Pregel model. The method includes generating a graph including a plurality of vertices and edges connecting the plurality of vertices, commencing a cycle from a first vertex of the plurality of vertices, setting an ID of the first vertex to a path and the first vertex as a target vertex, and iterating the following n?1 times: send the path to out-edges starting from the first vertex and transferring the path, via out-edges, n?1 times by subsequent received vertices, find one vertex before returning to the target vertex, add an ID of a found vertex to the path, and set the found vertex as the target vertex such that n=n?1, where is a number of iterations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Horii
  • Patent number: 12024850
    Abstract: A working machine includes a controller device to set an allowable-stroke range of the arm cylinder moving the arm toward the boom depending on a turn position of the boom such that a shortest trajectory distance that is a shortest distance between the boom cylinder and a turn trajectory of the tip end portion of the bucket is kept at a predetermined value even when the turn position of the boom changes, in a case where the boom is turned in a direction separating from a boom reference position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Horii
  • Publication number: 20240202559
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for reducing the number of shots required to perform a noisy circuit simulation. A noise model, such as the Pauli noise model or the Kraus noise model, is applied to each shot of the quantum circuit, where the noise model randomly selects a gate operation to be performed in simulating the quantum circuit. A subset of shots are identified (e.g., shot numbers 1 and 3), where each of the selected subset of shots has the same gate operation(s) selected by the noise model to be performed in simulating the quantum circuit. A single simulation of the quantum circuit will then be performed for such a subset of shots using the selected gate operation (e.g., Pauli Z gate) for such a group of shots. In this manner, the number of shots required to perform a noisy circuit simulation is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Jun Doi, Hiroshi Horii
  • Patent number: 12012722
    Abstract: A working machine includes a machine body, a support bracket protruding forward from the machine body, a swing bracket pivotally supported by the support bracket to be capable of horizontally pivoting, a boom pivotally supported by the swing bracket to be capable of pivoting up and down, a swing sensor configured to detect a position of the swing bracket, and a controller configured to acquire a detection signal from the swing sensor and to control a swinging movement defined as a pivotal movement of the swing bracket. The controller includes a swinging stopper unit to stop the swinging movement when the swing bracket in the pivotal movement reaches a center position at which the boom is orientated in a forward direction of the machine body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Horii
  • Patent number: 11982068
    Abstract: A working machine includes a traveling device having a traveling frame, a turn base plate supported on the traveling frame and configured to turn around an axis extending in a vertical direction, the turn base plate having an opening portion through which the axis extends, and a swivel joint including an outer sleeve fixed to the turn base plate, and an inner shaft inserted to the opening portion and inserted to the outer sleeve so as to rotate about the axis, the inner shaft being configured to restrictively rotate with respect to the traveling frame. The outer sleeve has a flange portion fixed to the turn base plate on a periphery of the opening portion and covering the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Horii
  • Publication number: 20240127101
    Abstract: Systems and techniques that facilitate expectation value calculation by grouping Pauli-strings are provided. In various embodiments, a system can comprise an expectation component that calculate expectation values of two Pauli-strings based on a first bit series of a first Pauli-string of the two Pauli-strings and a second bit series of a second Pauli-string of the two Pauli-strings, wherein bit series comprise a first value for a position of an x or y in a Pauli string and a second value for a position of a non-x or y in the Pauli-string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi Horii, Ikko Hamamura, Hitomi Chiba
  • Patent number: 11885106
    Abstract: A working machine includes: a support bracket provided on a machine body and including a boom pivotal support portion and a cylinder pivotal support portion; a boom pivotally supported by the boom pivotal support portion; a boom cylinder pivotally supported at the cylinder pivotal support portion and the boom, and causing the boom to swing upward and downward; a hydraulic hose extended through the support bracket from the rear of the support bracket to the front of the support bracket and connected to the boom cylinder; a first clamp to retain the hydraulic hose on the support bracket; and a second clamp to retain the hydraulic hose on the boom cylinder. The support bracket includes a through hole through which the hydraulic hose is passed in a fore-and-aft direction. The first clamp is disposed rearward of the through hole and forward of the rear end of the boom shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Shobu, Hiroshi Horii, Hitoshi Iwamura, Shoichi Kawano, Shohei Doi
  • Publication number: 20240019925
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes determining a location of a user of an extended reality (XR) system. The method further includes determining, based on the determined location, a location-specific layout for one or more XR objects in an XR environment for display to the user and displaying, by a display of the XR system, the location-specific layout in the XR environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Edgar Evangelista, Jaehyun Kim, Hiroshi Horii
  • Publication number: 20240019981
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes presenting, to a user in an XR environment, a persistent GUI element that includes a control deck. The control deck includes one or more first interactive elements, each first interactive element associated with a particular function. The method further includes locking, in a first control-deck mode, the control deck to the user such that the control deck appears at the same relative position to the user regardless of the user's movements in the XR environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi Horii, Edgar Evangelista, Jaehyun Kim, Stephanie Kim Ahn
  • Publication number: 20230402191
    Abstract: Examples are described herein for determining aggregate psychological states of multiple individuals. In various examples, sensor data indicative of affects of multiple individuals may be analyzed. Based on the analyzing, the multiple individuals may be partitioned into multiple distinct clusters of individuals. An aggregate psychological state of the individuals of a given cluster of the multiple distinct clusters of individuals may be determined. Data indicative of the aggregate psychological state may be transmitted to cause a computing device to render output that conveys the aggregate psychological state of the individuals of the cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Rafael Ballagas, Erika Siegel, Hiroshi Horii, Alexandre SANTOS DA SILVA, JR., Jishang Wei, Jose Dirceu Grundler RAMOS, Rafael Dal Zotto, Gabriel Lando, Srikanth Kuthuru
  • Publication number: 20230389842
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer-readable media (transitory or non-transitory) are described herein for inferring psychological states. In various examples, data indicative of a measured affect of an individual may be processed using a regression model to determine a coordinate in a continuous space. The continuous space may be indexed based on a plurality of discrete psychological labels. In a first context, the coordinate in the continuous space may be mapped to one of a first set of the discrete psychological labels associated with the first context. In a second context, the coordinate in the continuous space may be mapped to one of a second set of the discrete psychological labels associated with the second context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Erika SIEGEL, Rafael Ballagas, Srikanth Kuthuru, Jishang Wei, Hiroshi Horii, Alexandre Santos Da Silva Jr, Jose Dirceu Grundler Ramos, Rafael Dal Zotto, Gabriel Lando
  • Publication number: 20230324944
    Abstract: A neutral return mechanism includes an interlocking shaft to be pushed and pulled in an axial direction in conjunction with a swinging operation of an operation member; a housing member to support the interlocking shaft such that the interlocking shaft is movable in the axial direction and accommodate the interlocking shaft such that one of opposite end portions thereof protrudes; a neutral return spring to return the interlocking shaft from a post-movement position to an initial position, the neutral return spring being accommodated in the housing member such that the neutral return spring extends in the axial direction of the interlocking shaft, wherein the housing member includes a supported portion between a spring accommodation portion in which the neutral return spring is accommodated and a protrusion opening through which the interlocking shaft protrudes, the supported portion being supported at a bracket member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicants: KUBOTA CORPORATION, KYB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi HORII, Tetsuya AOKI, Hirotaka KOBAYASHI