Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Sakamoto

Hiroshi Sakamoto 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: 20250198128
    Abstract: In the work support system equipped with a front work device provided on a hydraulic excavator, an angle sensor that detects the posture information of the front work device, and a controller that provides work support for the hydraulic excavator based on a predetermined and stored work area, a camera capable of imaging the appearance of the hydraulic excavator at the work site, and a touch display capable of specifying any position within the image captured by the camera, the controller configured to extract the image area occupied by the hydraulic excavator from the image captured by the camera and based on the number of pixels in the longitudinal direction of the hydraulic excavator in the extracted image area, the posture information of the hydraulic excavator, and the actual dimensions of the hydraulic excavator, convert the position specified in the image by the touch display into the coordinate values of real space coordinates, and controller set the work area such that the position of the converted co
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Kazushige KUROKAMI, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Shigeki TOKITA
  • Publication number: 20250182188
    Abstract: A message processing apparatus, comprising: a terminal device interface part configured to be connected to a plurality of terminal devices with a first API provided by each of the plurality of terminal devices; an order processing apparatus interface part configured to be connected to a self-ordering system with a second API different from the first API via a mobile order interface; an event workflow database configured to have correspond each of a plurality of events and each of a plurality of workflows to each other to store the events and the workflows; and a message generation part configured to receive an event message(s) of the first API and generate a message(s) corresponding to the second API.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2024
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Naomi KAKINAGA, Masaru Kubota, Hikaru UDAGAWA
  • Patent number: 12286768
    Abstract: The invention of the present application has as its object the provision of a work machine that is equipped with a function to prevent a work device thereof from going into an entry prohibited area and can satisfy both working precision and working efficiency of the work device. A controller is therefore configured to start work range limiting control to decelerate or stop an action of a machine main body or the work device when a distance between a monitor point set beforehand on the work device and the entry prohibited area decreases to a first distance, to end the work range limiting control when the distance between the monitor point and the entry prohibited area increases to a second distance greater than the first distance, and to change the second distance according to an operation amount of an operation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Tanaka, Yusuke Suzuki, Akihiro Narazaki, Yasuhiko Kanari, Hiroshi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 12286928
    Abstract: A compressed air supply system that extracts compressed air from a gas turbine engine and supplies the compressed air to an air conditioning pack of an airframe. The compressed air supply system includes: a low-pressure bleed air port that extracts compressed air from an upstream side of a high-pressure compressor; a high-pressure bleed air port that extracts compressed air from a downstream side of a front-stage portion of the high-pressure compressor; a main pipe extending from the low-pressure bleed air port toward the air conditioning pack; an auxiliary compressor that is located at the main pipe and increases pressure of the compressed air; a high-pressure bleed air pipe that couples the main pipe to the high-pressure bleed air port; a high-pressure bleed air valve located at the high-pressure bleed air pipe; and circuitry that opens the high-pressure bleed air valve when the circuitry determines that an insufficient pressure state occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takami, Naoya Sekoguchi, Katsuhiko Ishida, Kenta Umezaki, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Tatsuhiko Goi
  • Publication number: 20250100462
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator includes a controller that determines the start of loading work for a dump truck and the end of the loading work on the basis of the operation state of the hydraulic excavator at the time of sensing of a work instruction by a horn, integrates a work-target-object weight measured since the start of the loading work until the end of the loading work, and calculates a loaded amount of the dump truck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Satoshi NAKAMURA, Youhei TORIYAMA, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 12241236
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a work machine capable of providing operation assistance matching an operator's intent in consideration of a rotating motion. A control device includes a storage device and a central processing device. The storage device has stored therein construction target information for a work device and determination criteria information for the work content of the work device based on the amount of operation of a rotating device. The central processing device, based on the position and attitude of the work device detected by a sensor, the amount of operation of the rotating device detected by an operation amount detection device, and the determination criteria information stored in the storage device, determines the work content of the work device, calculates a correction value for the construction target information based on the determined work content, and controls a drive device based on the construction target information and the correction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Tanaka, Hisami Nakano, Yusuke Suzuki, Hiroshi Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20240400064
    Abstract: A prediction accuracy evaluation method is executed by a computer. The prediction accuracy evaluation method includes a process of acquiring detection information. The detection information indicates a detected position, a detected velocity, an error range of the detected position, and an error range of the detected velocity of an obstacle detected by using a sensor mounted on a moving body. The prediction accuracy evaluation method further includes: a predicted distribution generation process that generates a predicted distribution of a position of the obstacle at a second time later than a first time, based on first detection information that is the detection information at the first time; and a prediction abnormality determination process that determines whether or not the predicted distribution is abnormal based on the predicted distribution and a second detected position that is the detected position of the obstacle at the second time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke HAYASHI, Taichi Kawanai, Sadayuki Abe, Daichi Hotta, Hiroshi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 12134989
    Abstract: A compressed air supply system includes: a bleed air passage; an auxiliary compressor structure including a compressor inlet and a compressor outlet, the compressor inlet being fluidly connected to the bleed air passage; a supply passage which is fluidly connected to the compressor outlet and through which compressed air from the auxiliary compressor structure is supplied to an air cycle machine; an accessory gear box; and a continuously variable transmission structure that changes speed of rotational driving force output from the accessory gear box and rotates the auxiliary compressor structure. The continuously variable transmission structure and the auxiliary compressor structure are fixed to the accessory gear box, and the accessory gear box is fixed to the gas turbine engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takami, Naoya Sekoguchi, Katsuhiko Ishida, Kenta Umezaki, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Tatsuhiko Goi
  • Patent number: 12110828
    Abstract: A core engine including a core casing covering a low-pressure rotary structure and a high-pressure rotary structure and includes a passage of air flowing through the low-pressure and the high-pressure rotary structures; a fan located in front of the core engine; an inner cowl serving as an inner peripheral surface of a bypass passage that extends through the fan and bypasses the core engine; an accessory gear box that extracts power from the low-pressure or the high-pressure rotary structure and supplies the power to accessories; an auxiliary compressor attached to the accessory gear box, is driven by power of the accessory gear box, and increases pressure of compressed air extracted from the core engine; and a compressed air pipe that extends through an inside of a strut connecting the core engine and an airframe and supplies the compressed air having an increased pressure by the auxiliary compressor to the airframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takami, Naoya Sekoguchi, Katsuhiko Ishida, Kenta Umezaki, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Tatsuhiko Goi
  • Patent number: 12110662
    Abstract: A work machine includes: an informing device that informs an operator; an input device for inputting predetermined information; a notification device that gives a notification to a worker around the work machine; a controller; and a communication device that communicates with a mobile terminal carried by the worker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushige Kurokami, Takaaki Ishii, Shigeki Tokita, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Yoshiyuki Tsuchie
  • Publication number: 20240329216
    Abstract: The external recognition apparatus for an autonomous driving vehicle includes an external sensor, at least one processor, and at least one memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor and storing executable a plurality of instructions. The plurality of instructions is configured to cause the at least one processor to estimate a self-location of an ego-vehicle, acquire registration information of a known stationary object associated with the self-location, acquire sensor information corresponding to the stationary object by the external sensor, and adjust a value of a specific parameter related to the sensor information among parameters of a recognition algorithm based on a deviation between the registration information and the sensor information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuya MIGISHIMA, Taichi KAWANAI, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Hayato ITO
  • Patent number: 12098520
    Abstract: A site management system manages the positions of workers and work areas of work machines. The workers can recognize the work areas of the work machines at a work site in which the work machines and the workers carry out work. A site management device is connected to a worker terminal carried by a worker and a work machine processor is mounted on a work machine 1. The site management device generates worker information 360 on the basis of a signal transmitted from the worker terminal and generates work machine information 350 based on a signal transmitted from the work machine processor. Work area information 380 including the position and the work area of a work machine is generated on the basis of the pieces of information 350 and 360 and a work area notification signal is transmitted with the work area information to the worker terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mariko Mizuochi, Hiroyuki Yamada, Hiroshi Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20240293379
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising, in combination with a chemotherapeutic agent, an MYT1 inhibitor as an active ingredient for treatment or prevention of cancer of a patient with a decrease in RB1 function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Yuki OHTE, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Eigo SUYAMA, Kiyomoto OGASAWARA, Mayumi SOGA, Takahiro GOTO
  • Publication number: 20240292266
    Abstract: There are provided a plurality of radio devices detecting an interference source signal transmitted by an interference source and generating pieces of air time information showing whether the interference source signal exists or not for each predetermined time unit; and an aggregation device estimating air time of the interference source by acquiring the pieces of air time information from the plurality of radio devices and aggregating/integrating the acquired pieces of air time information for each predetermined unit time, matching timings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Junichi Iwatani, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Tomoaki Ogawa, Makoto Umeuchi, Shinya Otsuki, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Masayoshi Nabeshima
  • Patent number: 12065803
    Abstract: A work machine includes a controller that executes a semi-automatic control to correct an operation amount indicated by an instruction given by operation devices. The controller is configured to make a compaction determination to determine whether or not a bottom surface of a bucket is being pressed against a ground; and to further correct an operation amount having been corrected by the semi-automatic control, such that a force that the bucket applies to the ground increases if the bottom surface of the bucket is determined as being pressed against the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Tanaka, Hisami Nakano, Takaaki Chiba, Yuusuke Suzuki, Hiroshi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 12058078
    Abstract: A predetermined radio base station and subordinate radio terminals detect signals (beacons) regularly transmitted by other radio base stations, transmit information about radio channels and base station identifiers of the detected signals, and position information about the radio terminals to an interference area detection device to aggregate the information and the position information as a base station-base station detection list and a terminal-base station detection list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sakamoto, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Tomoaki Ogawa, Makoto Umeuchi, Shinya Otsuki, Junichi Iwatani, Masayoshi Nabeshima
  • Patent number: 12056779
    Abstract: The present invention provides a reception system, a reception method, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program that are capable of identifying a guest. The reception system (100) includes a face photo information check unit (1), and a reception terminal (2). When the reception terminal (2) receives an input indicating an application for a check-in of a guest (GS1), the face photo information check unit (1) checks passport-face-photo-at-check-in-time information scanned from a passport (P1) at the time of check-in, with face-photo-at-check-in-time information through photographing the guest (GS1) at the time of check-in. When the passport-face-photo-at-check-in-time information and the face-photo-at-check-in-time information indicate a same person as a result of checking by the face photo information check unit (1), the reception terminal (2) displays information on a room reserved by the guest (GS1), and issues a card key for the room reserved by the guest (GS1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruoki Matsumoto, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Naorni Kakinaga, Kiyokazu Otsuka
  • Patent number: 12043989
    Abstract: A working machine 1 includes a design data obtainment unit 29, a topography measuring device 30, and a controller 21. The controller 21 extracts peripheral area shape data from the design data in the construction-site coordinate system, maps similar shape portions between the extracted peripheral area shape data and the current topography data in the current topography coordinate system, calculates a coordinate transformation matrix to transform from the current topography coordinate system to the construction-site coordinate system so that a difference in coordinate values of the mapped shape portions is minimized, and transforms the self-position and posture of the working machine 1 and the current topography data from coordinates in the current topography coordinate system to coordinates in the construction-site coordinate system using the calculated coordinate transformation matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joonyoung Roh, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Youhei Toriyama, Naoki Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 12024177
    Abstract: A sensor abnormality estimation device determines whether or not a position and a speed of a sensor-mounted vehicle at an intersection fulfill a predetermined performance condition. When the position and the speed fulfill the performance condition, the sensor abnormality estimation device acquires recognition results obtained by two of a plurality of external sensors, for a target object at a designated position associated with the position of the sensor-mounted vehicle. The sensor abnormality estimation device then acquires a degree of coincidence between the recognition results, and determines that there is an abnormality in at least one of the two external sensors when the degree of coincidence is lower than a predetermined determination value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Kawaharada, Hiroshi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 12012716
    Abstract: In a hydraulic excavator including a main controller that can execute area restriction control, the main controller is configured to calculate an operation velocity Vix of a front work device in a machine body coordinate system. The controller is further configured to calculate a movement velocity (dragging velocity) of a machine body in a gravity coordinate system and correct a direction of a calculated target velocity vector upward away from a construction target surface when generation of dragging is detected during execution of the area restriction control based on the calculated operation velocity of the front work device and the calculated movement velocity of the machine body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Suzuki, Hiroaki Tanaka, Hisami Nakano, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Akihiro Narazaki