Patents by Inventor Kaoru Tokunaga

Kaoru Tokunaga 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: 6705030
    Abstract: A wheel loader, which reduces fuel consumption and eliminates lack of output power of an engine, is provided. For this purpose, the wheel loader is a wheel loader performing operations by driving a hydraulic pump (8) for driving a working machine and driving wheels (6) of a vehicle (101) by an engine (1), and includes a first electric motor (11) capable of transmitting torque to the driving wheels, an electricity accumulation device (13) for transferring electric energy to and from the first electric motor, and a controller (10, 20) for controlling a generating operation of the first electric motor that receives torque transmission from the driving wheels and generates electric power at the time of a decelerating operation of the vehicle, and storing generated electric energy into the electricity accumulation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventor: Kaoru Tokunaga
  • Publication number: 20020148144
    Abstract: A wheel loader, which reduces fuel consumption and eliminates lack of output power of an engine, is provided. For this purpose, the wheel loader is a wheel loader performing operations by driving an hydraulic pump (8) for driving a working machine and driving wheels (6) of a vehicle (101) by an engine (1), and includes a first electric motor (11) capable of transmitting torque to the driving wheels, electricity accumulation means (13) for transferring electric energy to and from the first electric motor, and a controller (10, 20) for controlling a generating operation of the first electric motor that receives torque transmission from the driving wheels and generates electric power at the time of a decelerating operation of the vehicle, and storing generated electric energy into the electricity accumulation means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Inventor: Kaoru Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 4327436
    Abstract: A supervisory and control system for a time division switching system supervising and controlling signals transferring to and from all or some of line interface equipment such as a digital trunk, analog trunk equipment, the intra-office line concentrators or remote line concentrator through a signal path. In the signal control, the signal is classified into two kinds of signals: one for cyclically controlling a state and the other for randomly controlling the same. Those signals are multiplexed in a single time slot to control the various line interfaces. Signal time slots having different multiframes and signal time slots with a plurality of periods are supervised depending on a signal path class thereby to reduce the number of laying cables among interframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1982
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Ohara, Akira Horiki, Katsuyuki Miyazaki, Kaoru Tokunaga