Patents by Inventor Junichi Ishikawa

Junichi Ishikawa 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: 12617479
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a body 1; a plurality of travel wheels 2 at front and back portions of the body 1 on each of left and right sides; a plurality of holder mechanisms A held by the body 1 and holding the respective travel wheels 2 in such a manner as to be capable of moving the travel wheels 2 independently of one another relative to the body 1; and a plurality of crawler travel devices E attachable to and detachable from the respective holder mechanisms A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Hiraoka, Tomoyoshi Sakano, Junichi Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20260084847
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a body including a takeoff and landing section on which an unmanned aerial vehicle is capable of taking off and landing, a travel device supporting the takeoff and landing section and capable of traveling on the ground, and a tilt acquirer configured or programmed to acquire a tilt of the takeoff and landing section from a horizontal plane, and an attitude adjustment mechanism configured to adjust an attitude of the body in accordance with the tilt acquired by the tilt acquirer such that, in a case where the tilt is equal to or more than a threshold, the attitude adjustment mechanism is operable to adjust the attitude of the body to reduce the tilt below the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2025
    Publication date: March 26, 2026
    Inventors: Yuhei HAZAWA, Minoru HIRAOKA, Yukifumi YAMANAKA, Junichi ISHIKAWA, Kaichiro YOSHII, Yusuke IDA, Katsutoshi JINNOUCHI, Ryota NIKI, Ryota YAMAGISHI
  • Publication number: 20260084581
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a hydraulic device and a battery. The battery is held by a lower portion of a body, below the hydraulic device and between right and left travel devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2025
    Publication date: March 26, 2026
    Inventors: Junichi ISHIKAWA, Minoru HIRAOKA, Yukifumi YAMANAKA, Kaichiro YOSHII, Yusuke IDA, Yuhei HAZAWA, Katsutoshi JINNOUCHI, Ryota NIKI, Ryota YAMAGISHI
  • Patent number: 12527257
    Abstract: An agricultural robot includes a machine body, a wheeled traveling device to support the machine body such that the machine body is capable of traveling, the traveling device including at least three wheels, a manipulator including an arm and a robot hand, the arm being attached to the machine body, the robot hand being attached to the arm and capable of holding an object, and a balance controller to control positions of the at least three wheels, respectively, to achieve a balance between the machine body and the manipulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2026
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Hiraoka, Tomoyoshi Sakano, Jumpei Miyamoto, Junichi Ishikawa, Takuya Tamai, Shunsuke Edo
  • Patent number: 12427824
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes: a body 1; a plurality of travel wheels 2 at front and back portions of the body 1 on each of left and right sides; a plurality of holder mechanisms A held by the body 1 and holding the respective travel wheels 2 in such a manner as to be capable of moving the travel wheels 2 independently of one another relative to the body 1; a detector B configured to detect a state of a travel surface; and a controller C configured to, based on the state that the detector B has detected, control the holder mechanisms A to move the travel wheels 2 relative to the body 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2025
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Ida, Minoru Hiraoka, Junichi Ishikawa, Shunya Takase
  • Publication number: 20250276732
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a vehicle body including a loading portion that is able to load a load, drive wheels located in front and rear on both right and left sides of the vehicle body and steerable separately, a steering angle detector to detect respective orientations of the drive wheels, and a controller configured or programmed to perform drive control to drive each of the drive wheels and control to change the respective orientations of the drive wheels separately. The controller is configured or programmed such that the respective orientations of a first of the drive wheels located on one of right and left sides of the vehicle body and a second of the drive wheels located on the other of the right and left sides of the vehicle body are different from each other when the drive control is stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2025
    Publication date: September 4, 2025
    Inventors: Yusuke IDA, Minoru HIRAOKA, Yukifumi YAMANAKA, Junichi ISHIKAWA, Kaichiro YOSHII, Yuhei HAZAWA, Katsutoshi JINNOUCHI, Ryota NIKI, Ryota YAMAGISHI
  • Patent number: 12397867
    Abstract: A work machine includes a front wheel, a rear wheel, an intermediate wheel between the front wheel and the rear wheel, and a transmission to receive a driving force from a drive source and transmit the driving force to the intermediate wheel and at least one of the front wheel or the rear wheel that is drivable as a driving wheel. The intermediate wheel has an outside diameter smaller than an outside diameter of the driving wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2025
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaichiro Yoshii, Minoru Hiraoka, Yukifumi Yamanaka, Junichi Ishikawa, Yusuke Ida, Yuhei Hazawa, Katsutoshi Jinnouchi, Ryota Niki, Ryota Yamagishi, Yuma Ikeda, Taichi Okumura, Tomohiro Shimazaki
  • Publication number: 20250206395
    Abstract: A work machine includes a front wheel, a rear wheel, an intermediate wheel between the front wheel and the rear wheel, and a transmission to receive a driving force from a drive source and transmit the driving force to the intermediate wheel and at least one of the front wheel or the rear wheel that is drivable as a driving wheel. The intermediate wheel has an outside diameter smaller than an outside diameter of the driving wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Inventors: Kaichiro YOSHII, Minoru HIRAOKA, Yukifumi YAMANAKA, Junichi ISHIKAWA, Yusuke IDA, Yuhei HAZAWA, Katsutoshi JINNOUCHI, Ryota NIKI, Ryota YAMAGISHI, Yuma IKEDA, Taichi OKUMURA, Tomohiro SHIMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 12065806
    Abstract: A plurality of traveling wheels are supported via expandable/contractible tubular support members to a vehicle body frame. A hydraulic operation type vehicle height adjustment mechanism is provided for each one of the traveling wheels, the vehicle height adjustment mechanism being capable of switching a relative height of the traveling wheel relative to the vehicle body frame within a predetermined length range by expanding/contracting the support member by a hydraulic cylinder. There are provided a hydraulic control valve capable of controlling feeding state of work oil to each one of the plurality of hydraulic cylinders, a controlling section for controlling an operation of the hydraulic control valve to bring the vehicle body to a target state via vehicle height adjustment by the hydraulic cylinder in response to a change in the posture of the vehicle body and a plurality of accumulators connected oil chambers of the respective plurality of hydraulic cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Tamai, Junichi Ishikawa, Minoru Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 11926184
    Abstract: In a riding work vehicle, power of an engine is transmitted to a traveling wheel via a horizontally oriented transmission shaft and a vertically oriented transmission shaft. The traveling wheel is supported to be changeable in direction about a rotational axis of the vertically oriented transmission shaft. Each of the vertically oriented transmission shaft and a vertically oriented transmission case is provided as an inner/outer double structure expandable/contractible in association with sliding movement thereof. The vertically oriented transmission case is supported to be pivotable together with the traveling wheel. There is provided a vehicle height adjustment mechanism capable of switching, in a plurality of steps, a relative height of the traveling wheel relative to a vehicle body frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Hiraoka, Junichi Ishikawa, Shinsuke Kotani, Ryota Imanishi
  • Publication number: 20240017581
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes: a body 1; a plurality of travel wheels 2 at front and back portions of the body 1 on each of left and right sides; a plurality of holder mechanisms A held by the body 1 and holding the respective travel wheels 2 in such a manner as to be capable of moving the travel wheels 2 independently of one another relative to the body 1; a detector B configured to detect a state of a travel surface; and a controller C configured to, based on the state that the detector B has detected, control the holder mechanisms A to move the travel wheels 2 relative to the body 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Yusuke Ida, Minoru Hiraoka, Junichi Ishikawa, Shunya Takase
  • Publication number: 20230415829
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes: a body 1; a plurality of travel wheels 2 at front and back portions of the body 1 on each of left and right sides; a plurality of holder mechanisms A held by the body 1 and holding the respective travel wheels 2 in such a manner as to be capable of moving the travel wheels 2 independently of one another relative to the body 1; and a plurality of crawler travel devices E attachable to and detachable from the respective holder mechanisms A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Minoru Hiraoka, Tomoyoshi Sakano, Junichi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11780813
    Abstract: The present invention provides a new production method for a chlorobenzene compound. Specifically, the present invention provides a production method in which the compound represented by formula (1) (in the formula, X1 represents a halogen atom) and chlorine are reacted in the presence of a Brønsted acid, thereby obtaining the chlorobenzene compound represented by formula (2) (in the formula, X1 represents the same as above).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Junichi Ishikawa, Tohru Inoue, Takayuki Wakamatsu, Miyuki Iguchi
  • Patent number: 11767071
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a vehicle body, a plurality of traveling devices disposed on the right and left sides on the front and rear sides of the vehicle body respectively, a plurality of bending link mechanisms configured to liftably support each one of the traveling devices to the vehicle body and a plurality of drive operating devices capable of changing the posture of each one of the plurality of bending link mechanisms. The vehicle body is split into a front side body section and a rear side body section. The front side body section and the rear side body section are configured to be bendably pivotable relative to each other via a pivot interlocking mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Ishikawa, Minoru Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 11760724
    Abstract: The present invention provides an effective production method for a pyridone compound. More specifically, the present invention provides a production method comprising: a step of reacting the compound represented by formula (1) (in the formula, X1 and X2 each independently represent a halogen atom, R1 represents a hydrogen atom, an amino group, or a group represented by NHCOR2, and R2 represents a C1-C5 alkyl group) with 4 to 10 times by mass, with respect to the compound represented by formula (1), of the compound represented by formula (2) (in the formula, R2 represents the same as described previously), in the presence of at least one of a tri(C1-C8 alkyl)amine and an alkali metal acetate, at a temperature of 100° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takayuki Wakamatsu, Miyuki Iguchi, Junichi Ishikawa, Tohru Inoue
  • Patent number: 11676439
    Abstract: A face authentication system including a storage to store a face image of each of a plurality of persons who are permitted to enter in advance and information on a zone; an image processing unit to detect a face of at least one person in an image captured by at least one camera having identification information, and generate a face cut-out image of the at least one person; a zone determination unit to determine a zone where a person in the face cut-out image is captured; a collation unit to collate the face cut-out image with the face image of each of the plurality of persons; and an output control unit to, when it is determined that there is not a face of a person appearing in the face cut-out image, superimpose a detection frame indicating a face of a person who is not permitted to enter the zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Wakako, Eisaku Miyata, Akihiko Fukada, Koji Kawamoto, Masashige Tsuneno, Junichi Ishikawa, Haru Kamada
  • Patent number: 11524735
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a plurality of traveling devices for driving traveling, a plurality of articulated link mechanisms having at least two or more joints and supporting the plurality of traveling devices to a vehicle body, with allowing the plurality of traveling devices to be elevated/lowered independently of each other, a driving mechanism capable of changing respective postures of the plurality of articulated link mechanisms independently of each other, and a plurality of turning mechanisms configured to support the respective plurality of the articulated link mechanisms, with allowing the link mechanisms to be orientation-changeable about a vertical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Ishikawa, Minoru Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 11498632
    Abstract: A work vehicle including: a first link having one end portion supported by a vehicle body so as to be pivotable; a second link having one end portion pivotally coupled to the other end portion of the first link so as to be pivotable, and another end portion that supports a travel wheel; a first hydraulic cylinder capable of changing a swing posture of the first link; and a second hydraulic cylinder capable of changing a swing posture of the second link relative to the first link. The action of the first hydraulic cylinder is controlled such that a swing position of the first link is located at a target position, based on the result of detection performed by a position detection sensor, and the action of the second hydraulic cylinder is controlled such that thrust has a target value, based on the results of detection performed by pressure sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Ishikawa, Minoru Hiraoka
  • Publication number: 20220272900
    Abstract: An agricultural robot includes a machine body, a wheeled traveling device to support the machine body such that the machine body is capable of traveling, the traveling device including at least three wheels, a manipulator including an arm and a robot hand, the arm being attached to the machine body, the robot hand being attached to the arm and capable of holding an object, and a balance controller to control positions of the at least three wheels, respectively, to achieve a balance between the machine body and the manipulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Minoru HIRAOKA, Tomoyoshi SAKANO, Jumpei MIYAMOTO, Junichi ISHIKAWA, Takuya TAMAI, Shunsuke EDO
  • Publication number: 20220213038
    Abstract: The present invention provides a new production method for a chlorobenzene compound. Specifically, the present invention provides a production method in which the compound represented by formula (1) (in the formula, X1 represents a halogen atom) and chlorine are reacted in the presence of a Brønsted acid, thereby obtaining the chlorobenzene compound represented by formula (2) (in the formula, X1 represents the same as above).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Junichi ISHIKAWA, Tohru INOUE, Takayuki WAKAMATSU, Miyuki IGUCHI