Patents by Inventor Hisami NAKANO

Hisami NAKANO 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: 11851854
    Abstract: An hydraulic excavator calculates an estimated excavation volume Va defined by a bucket claw tip position (first position) at an excavation start, a bucket claw tip position (second position) at an excavation end set in advance, a current landform, a first target surface, and a bucket width w. A second target surface is generated at a position superior to the first target surface when the estimated excavation volume Va exceeds a limit volume Vb; and the second target surface is generated at a position at which the excavation volume defined by the first position, the second position, the current landform, the second target surface, and the bucket width is closer to the limit volume Vb. The hydraulic actuators are controlled such that an operating range of a work implement is limited on the second target surface and to an area superior to the second target surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Chiba, Hisami Nakano, Hiroaki Tanaka, Manabu Edamura
  • Patent number: 11840822
    Abstract: A work machine capable of assisting in an operator's operation to allow a work tool move along a design surface indicating a target shape of an object to be worked irrespectively of an angle of the design surface and a posture of a work implement is provided. A controller determines an excavation actuator in charge of an excavation action and determines an alignment actuator in charge of an alignment action for a work tool out of a plurality of actuators on the basis of the design surface set by a work execution target setting device and the posture of the work implement measured by a work implement posture/position measurement device, determines a target velocity of the excavation actuator on the basis of operation signals outputted from an operation device, and limits a target velocity of the alignment actuator in a direction in which the work tool approaches the design surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Tanaka, Hisami Nakano, Yuusuke Suzuki, Hiroshi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11655612
    Abstract: To provide a work machine that can maintain the construction precision of semi-automatic control irrespective of excavation depths and differences in soil nature. A controller acquires soil-nature information on the basis of an operation command given to a work implement, a bucket-claw-tip position outputted from a bucket-position measuring device, and a drive load of the work implement outputted from a load measuring device; generates a soil-nature map on the basis of the bucket-claw-tip position, and the soil-nature information; calculates an estimated load that is an estimate of an excavation load on the basis of the soil-nature map and a bucket-claw-tip target position; and corrects the operation command in accordance with the estimated load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Tanaka, Hisami Nakano, Yuusuke Suzuki, Hiroshi Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20230091185
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator includes a traveling body, a slewing body, a working front having a boom, an arm, and a bucket, an operation amount detector, a posture detector, a load detector, a drive controller, and a drive unit. The drive controller calculates a target operation speed of the actuator based on the operation amount, the posture of the working front, and the target surface distance so that the bucket excavates along the construction target surface, and determines soil hardness of a place to be excavated based on a result detected by the load detector, corrects the target operation speed based on the soil hardness, and generates a motion command value. The drive controller determines a target jack-up speed when the hydraulic excavator jacks up based on the target surface distance, and corrects the target operation speed based on the determined target jack-up speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Yusuke SUZUKI, Hiroaki TANAKA, Hisami NAKANO
  • Patent number: 11591769
    Abstract: A controller mounted in a work machine limits a velocity at which a work device approaches a design surface to be equal to or lower than a predetermined limiting velocity in such a manner that the work machine is located above the design surface when an operation device is operated. The controller determines whether a work phase of the work device is compaction work on the basis of a posture of a bucket with respect to the design surface in a case in which the operation device instructs the work device to approach the design surface, and sets the limiting velocity when determining that the work phase of the work device is the compaction work to be higher than the limiting velocity when determining that the work phase of the work device is other than the compaction work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Chiba, Hiroaki Tanaka, Hisami Nakano
  • Publication number: 20220259834
    Abstract: An hydraulic excavator calculates an estimated excavation volume Va defined by a bucket claw tip position (first position) at an excavation start, a bucket claw tip position (second position) at an excavation end set in advance, a current landform, a first target surface, and a bucket width w. A second target surface is generated at a position superior to the first target surface when the estimated excavation volume Va exceeds a limit volume Vb; and the second target surface is generated at a position at which the excavation volume defined by the first position, the second position, the current landform, the second target surface, and the bucket width is closer to the limit volume Vb. The hydraulic actuators are controlled such that an operating range of a work implement is limited on the second target surface and to an area superior to the second target surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Takaaki CHIBA, Hisami NAKANO, Hiroaki TANAKA, Manabu EDAMURA
  • 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: 20220220694
    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 Vfx of a front work device in a machine body coordinate system and a movement velocity (dragging velocity) Vu of a machine body in a gravity coordinate system and correct a direction of a calculated target velocity vector Vt 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 Vfx of the front work device 2 and the calculated movement velocity Vu of the machine body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Yusuke SUZUKI, Hiroaki TANAKA, Hisami NAKANO, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Akihiro NARAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11384509
    Abstract: A controller (25) of the hydraulic excavator (1) includes a signal separation section (150) that separates each of target speed signals for a plurality of front members (8, 9, 10) into a low frequency component and a high frequency component, a high fluctuation target speed calculation section (143) that allocates the separated high frequency components preferentially to a front member having a relatively small inertial load to calculate high fluctuation target speeds individually for the plurality of front members, a high fluctuation target actuator speed calculation section (141c) that calculates high fluctuation target speeds individually for the plurality of actuators from the high fluctuation target speeds for the plurality of front members, a low fluctuation target actuator speed calculation section (141b) that calculates low fluctuation target speeds individually for the plurality of actuators from the low frequency components separated by the signal separation section, and an actuator controller (200)
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisami Nakano, Hiroaki Tanaka, Yusuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11377813
    Abstract: In a work machine including a controller (500) configured to calculate respective target velocities of a hydraulic cylinder (5) for moving a plurality of work point candidates (8a and 8b) set to a work device along an optionally set target surface (60) on the basis of positional data of the target surface, posture data of the work device (15), and operation data of an operation lever (1), and control the velocity of the hydraulic cylinder (5) according to one of a plurality of the calculated target velocities, the controller calculates a candidate point velocity (VTab or VTba) occurring in a case where each of the plurality of work point candidates is moved at the corresponding target velocity (VTa or VTb) and occurring at a remaining work point candidate, selects a velocity at which an entry into the target surface is least likely from among the plurality of candidate point velocities, and controls the hydraulic cylinder according to the target velocity of the work point candidate associated with the selecte
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisami Nakano, Hiroaki Tanaka, Yusuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11352761
    Abstract: A work machine includes a controller (20) that performs an area restriction control for controlling at least one hydraulic cylinder (32a) of a plurality of hydraulic cylinders (32) in such a manner that a work device (400) is located on or on an upper side of an optionally set target surface (60) during operation of an operation lever (26). In the work machine, if a jack-up angle (?) as an inclination angle of a machine body (1A) relative to a ground is larger than a preset target value (?t), the controller, in performing the area restriction control, corrects the control of the at least one hydraulic cylinder (32a) in such a manner that the jack-up angle approaches the target value. The target value is set such as to vary according to posture of an arm (406).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Suzuki, Hiroaki Tanaka, Hisami Nakano
  • Publication number: 20220170234
    Abstract: Provided is a hydraulic excavator including a controller that can control a work device by utilizing an excavation work control for causing a claw tip of a bucket to move along a predetermined target surface and a leveling work control for causing the bucket to move along the target surface while maintaining the posture of the bucket with respect to the target surface, in which: the controller, based on posture data and size data on a work device and position data on the target surface, calculates an arm tip difference Dva that is the distance from the tip of an arm to the target surface; and the controller executes the leveling work control in a case of the calculated arm tip difference being equal to or less than a predetermined threshold dv1, there being no input of a bucket operation to an operation lever, and there being an input of an arm operation to the operation lever, and otherwise executes the excavation work control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Hisami NAKANO, Hiroaki TANAKA, Yusuke SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20220154742
    Abstract: A main controller generates a supplemented design face that passes through a junction or above the junction between a first design face and a second design face adjacent to each other, among a plurality of design faces, the supplemented design face having one end thereof positioned on the first design face and another end thereof positioned on the second design face, sets a curvature 1/R of the supplemented design face according to an arm operation amount of an operation lever device, and executes semi-automatic excavation control to control a boom cylinder with one of the faces included in the supplemented design face being set as the target face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Hisami NAKANO, Hiroaki TANAKA, Yusuke SUZUKI, Akihiro NARAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220136216
    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 80 includes a storage device 81 and a central processing device 82. The storage device 81 has stored therein construction target information for a work device 10 and determination criteria information for the work content of the work device 10 based on the amount of operation of a rotating device 30.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroaki TANAKA, Hisami NAKANO, Yusuke SUZUKI, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO
  • 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: 11149404
    Abstract: It is determined whether a velocity estimation model is established from an actual operating velocity Vr and a target operating velocity Vt of each of actuators 20A, 21A, and 22A; in a case in which the velocity estimation model is established, a dynamic center-of-gravity position of a hydraulic excavator 1 in a case in which each of the actuators 20A, 21A, and 22A is suddenly stopped from a driven state is predicted from an estimated operating velocity Ve; in a case in which the velocity estimation model is not established, the dynamic center-of-gravity position is predicted from the actual operating velocity Vr and it is determined whether to execute control intervention using the predicted dynamic center-of-gravity position; and in a case in which it is determined to execute the control intervention, the target operating velocity Vt is corrected in such a manner that each of the actuators 20A, 21A, and 22A slowly decelerate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Suzuki, Hiroaki Tanaka, Hisami Nakano
  • Patent number: 11105066
    Abstract: Target speeds of an arm cylinder and a boom cylinder are computed in response to a distance D between a bucket tip end and a target surface in such a manner that an operating range of a work device is limited on and above the target surface at a time of operating an operation device. A second flow control valve that supplies a hydraulic operating fluid from a second hydraulic pump to the boom cylinder is controlled on the basis of the target speed of the boom cylinder while a first flow control valve that supplies a hydraulic operating fluid from a first hydraulic pump to the arm cylinder and a third flow control valve that supplies the hydraulic operating fluid from the second hydraulic pump to the arm cylinder are controlled on the basis of the target speed of the arm cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Chiba, Hiroaki Tanaka, Hisami Nakano, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Yusuke Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20210148081
    Abstract: In a work machine including a controller (500) configured to calculate respective target velocities of a hydraulic cylinder (5) for moving a plurality of work point candidates (8a and 8b) set to a work device along an optionally set target surface (60) on the basis of positional data of the target surface, posture data of the work device (15), and operation data of an operation lever (1), and control the velocity of the hydraulic cylinder (5) according to one of a plurality of the calculated target velocities, the controller calculates a candidate point velocity (VTab or VTba) occurring in a case where each of the plurality of work point candidates is moved at the corresponding target velocity (VTa or VTb) and occurring at a remaining work point candidate, selects a velocity at which an entry into the target surface is least likely from among the plurality of candidate point velocities, and controls the hydraulic cylinder according to the target velocity of the work point candidate associated with the selecte
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Hisami NAKANO, Hiroaki TANAKA, Yusuke SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20210148082
    Abstract: A work machine includes a controller (20) that performs an area restriction control for controlling at least one hydraulic cylinder (32a) of a plurality of hydraulic cylinders (32) in such a manner that a work device (400) is located on or on an upper side of an optionally set target surface (60) during operation of an operation lever (26). In the work machine, if a jack-up angle (?) as an inclination angle of a machine body (1A) relative to a ground is larger than a preset target value (?t), the controller, in performing the area restriction control, corrects the control of the at least one hydraulic cylinder (32a) in such a manner that the jack-up angle approaches the target value. The target value is set such as to vary according to posture of an arm (406).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Yusuke SUZUKI, Hiroaki TANAKA, Hisami NAKANO
  • Patent number: 11001985
    Abstract: A controller for a hydraulic excavator includes a first speed computation section that calculates a first speed of an arm cylinder from a value detected by an operation amount sensor; a second speed computation section that calculates a second speed from a value detected by a posture sensor and a third speed computation section calculates a third speed that is used as the speed of the arm cylinder in an actuator control section adapted to execute MC (machine control). The third speed computation section calculates the first speed as the third speed during the period between the detection of an input of operation for an arm by the operation amount sensor and predetermined time to, the third speed as a speed calculated from the first speed and the second speed during the period between t0 and time t1, and the second speed as the third speed at and after time t1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamichi Ito, Hisami Nakano, Yusuke Suzuki, Akihiro Narazaki, Teruki Igarashi