Patents by Inventor Kazuhisa Yokoyama
Kazuhisa Yokoyama 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).
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Patent number: 11945318Abstract: The power supply apparatus includes a power transmission apparatus configured to transmit power to a power reception apparatus of the vehicle by non-contact and a processor configured to control the power transmission apparatus, detect a pickup/dropoff operation at the vehicle when power is being supplied by non-contact from the power supply apparatus to the vehicle, and detect a number of surrounding vehicles being supplied with power by non-contact in a predetermined range at surroundings of the power supply apparatus. The processor is configured to decrease power transmitted from the power transmission apparatus to the power reception apparatus when detecting a pickup/dropoff operation, and determine an amount of decrease of the transmitted power based on the number of surrounding vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki Yokoyama, Toshiya Hashimoto, Shuntaro Okazaki, Shogo Tsuge, Kazuhisa Matsuda
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Patent number: 11692592Abstract: A low surface-roughness part is formed at a first tapered part, and, as a result, the roughness of an opening-edge of a groove part of an internal spline part that opens at the first tapered part is reduced, and surface pressure applied by the opening edge to a tooth of an external spline part can be reduced. As a result, the opening edge of the groove part of the internal spline part can be kept from digging into the tooth, and variation, between products, in the insertion load of a second shaft part can be suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Yasushi Akita, Kazuhisa Yokoyama, Kenichiro Ishikura, Tatsuya Shimoda
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Publication number: 20220316533Abstract: According to the present invention, a low surface-roughness part (114a) is formed at a first tapered part (114), and, as a result, the roughness of an opening-edge of a groove part (113a) of an internal spline part (113) that opens at the first tapered part (114) is reduced, and surface pressure applied by the opening edge to a tooth (123b) of an external spline part (123) can be reduced. As a result, the opening edge of the groove part (113a) of the internal spline part (113) can be kept from digging into the tooth (123b), and variation, between products, in the insertion load of a second shaft part (12) can be suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Yasushi AKITA, Kazuhisa YOKOYAMA, Kenichiro ISHIKURA, Tatsuya SHIMODA
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Publication number: 20220269263Abstract: A wireless communication terminal device for operating a work vehicle that autonomously travels includes: a device main body 70 having a display 74 that is capable of accepting a touch panel operation; and an emergency-stop remote controller 71 having an emergency stop button 72 that is used to stop autonomous travel of the work vehicle. The device main body 70 and the emergency-stop remote controller 71 perform wireless communication with the work vehicle via different wireless communication networks having different communication schemes, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhisa Yokoyama
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Patent number: 11365765Abstract: A low surface-roughness part is formed at a first tapered part, as a result, the roughness of an opening-edge of a groove part of an internal spline part that opens at the first tapered part is reduced, and surface pressure applied by the opening edge to a tooth of an external spline part can be reduced. As a result, the opening edge of the groove part of the internal spline part can be kept from digging into the tooth, and variation, between products, in the insertion load of a second shaft part can be suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Yasushi Akita, Kazuhisa Yokoyama, Kenichiro Ishikura, Tatsuya Shimoda
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Patent number: 11353864Abstract: A wireless communication terminal device for operating a work vehicle that autonomously travels including: a device main body having a display that is capable of accepting a touch panel operation; and an emergency-stop remote controller having an emergency stop button that is used to stop autonomous travel of the work vehicle. The device main body and the emergency-stop remote controller perform a wireless communication with the work vehicle via different wireless communication networks having different communication schemes, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhisa Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20220091271Abstract: The obstacle detection system for a work vehicle enables an obstacle, present in the surroundings of a work vehicle, to be accurately detected. This obstacle detection system for a work vehicle has: a plurality of imaging devices that take images of the surroundings of a work vehicle; and an image processing device that performs, according to a time division system, an obstacle identification process for identifying an obstacle on the basis of the images from the plurality of imaging devices. The image processing device changes a to-be-processed cycle per unit time for the plurality of imaging devices in the time division system in accordance with the vehicle speed and the traveling direction of the work vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2019Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takuya Iwase, Kazuhisa Yokoyama, Shiro Sugita
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Publication number: 20210165858Abstract: A control terminal includes: a storage unit for storing, in association with identification information of an apparatus, app use permitted/prohibited information that indicates whether the use of each of a plurality of applications by the apparatus is permitted or prohibited; and an app use control unit that receives the apparatus identification information from the apparatus each time wireless communication connection with the apparatus begins, and that controls the use of the plurality of applications on the basis of the app use permitted/prohibited information that is stored in the storage unit in association with the received identification information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2019Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sosuke Murata, Kazuhisa Yokoyama, Keiji Nakamura
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Publication number: 20210100156Abstract: To suppress an increase in the range in which obstacle detection is not executable and prevent the false detection of a movable part as an obstacle, the present invention includes: distance sensors 101, 102 provided in a work vehicle 1 and capable of measuring the distance to a measurement target; an obstacle control unit that executes collision avoidance control upon detecting a measurement target within a predetermined distance as an obstacle based on measurement results from the distance sensors 101, 102; a masking range setting unit that sets a masking range in which the detection of obstacles is not executed and the execution of the collision avoidance control is restricted; and a range-of-movement acquisition unit that acquires the range of movement of movable parts 5, 12 provided in the work vehicle 1, wherein the masking range setting unit sets the masking range corresponding to the range of movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2019Publication date: April 8, 2021Applicant: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takuya Iwase, Kazuhisa Yokoyama, Shiro Sugita
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Publication number: 20210018617Abstract: Provided is an obstacle detection system for a work vehicle, with which the reduction of costs or labor required for preparatory work can be achieved. In an obstacle detection system for a work vehicle, three left-side and three right-side ultrasonic sensors 103A-103C, 104A-104C are disposed on the left and right sides of a work vehicle 1, respectively, and the measurement ranges Na-Nc thereof are continuous in the front and rear direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2019Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takuya Iwase, Kazuhisa Yokoyama, Shiro Sugita
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Publication number: 20200341461Abstract: A wireless communication terminal device for operating a work vehicle that autonomously travels including: a device main body having a display that is capable of accepting a touch panel operation; and an emergency-stop remote controller having an emergency stop button that is used to stop autonomous travel of the work vehicle. The device main body and the emergency-stop remote controller perform a wireless communication with the work vehicle via different wireless communication networks having different communication schemes, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2017Publication date: October 29, 2020Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhisa YOKOYAMA
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Publication number: 20200040946Abstract: According to the present invention, a low surface-roughness part (114a) is formed at a first tapered part (114), and, as a result, the roughness of an opening-edge of a groove part (113a) of an internal spline part (113) that opens at the first tapered part (114) is reduced, and surface pressure applied by the opening edge to a tooth (123b) of an external spline part (123) can be reduced. As a result, the opening edge of the groove part (113a) of the internal spline part (113) can be kept from digging into the tooth (123b), and variation, between products, in the insertion load of a second shaft part (12) can be suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2017Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yasushi AKITA, Kazuhisa YOKOYAMA, Kenichiro ISHIKURA, Tatsuya SHIMODA
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Patent number: 10295998Abstract: An agricultural work vehicle capable of communicating with a host computer and capable of being steered by a remote control device so as to enable the agricultural work vehicle to link with the host computer and perform in an optimum work form, wherein the agricultural work vehicle is provided with a position calculation means measuring the position of the machine body, a steering actuator operating a steering device, a shifting means, and a control device controlling them. An optimum working speed and an optimum work driving value calculated from past and current weather information, field information, work information, work machine information, and crop information are transmitted from the host computer to the control device. The agricultural work vehicle is controlled and caused to work at the optimum working speed and the optimum work driving value along a set travel path.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2015Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhisa Yokoyama
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Patent number: 10095241Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to enable a parallel work by a first work vehicle and a second work vehicle to be achieved while measuring the locations of the work vehicles utilizing cheaper satellite location measurement systems. A first satellite location measurement system is mounted on one of a first work vehicle and a second work vehicle, a second satellite location measurement system, which has lower accuracy than that of the first satellite location measurement system, is mounted on a remote control device to be carried on the other of the work vehicles, the actual locations of the first work vehicle and the second work vehicle are measured by the first satellite location measurement system and the second satellite location measurement system, and the locations of the first work vehicle and the second work vehicle are displayed on a display device in the remote control device.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wataru Nakagawa, Kazuhisa Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20170322550Abstract: An agricultural work vehicle capable of communicating with a host computer and capable of being steered by a remote control device so as to enable the agricultural work to link with the host computer and perform in an optimum work form, wherein the agricultural work vehicle is provided with a position calculation means measuring the position of the machine body, a steering actuator operating a steering device, a shifting means, and a control device controlling them. An optimum working speed and an optimum work driving value calculated from past and current weather information, field information, work information, work machine information, and crop information are transmitted from the host computer to the control device. The agricultural work vehicle is controlled and caused to work at the optimum working speed and the optimum work driving value along a set travel path.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2015Publication date: November 9, 2017Inventor: Kazuhisa YOKOYAMA
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Patent number: 9810131Abstract: Regarding a work vehicle configured to include an engine mounted on a travelling machine body and an exhaust gas purification device arranged in an exhaust gas path of the engine, it is an object to prevent the regeneration control of the exhaust gas purification device from being executed against an operator's will. The work vehicle of the present invention includes a regeneration switch 329 configured to cause the regeneration control of an exhaust gas purification device 50 to be executed. First, when a cumulative drive time of an engine 5 has passed in a prescribed time or longer, a regeneration control request warning is displayed on a meter panel 246. Then, only when a regeneration switch 329 is manually operated by an operator after the display of the regeneration control request warning on the meter panel 246, the regeneration control of the exhaust gas purification device 50 is started.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akimichi Iwata, Kazuhisa Yokoyama, Yuusuke Koike
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Patent number: 9763377Abstract: A parallel operation work vehicle for enabling operation of an autonomous work vehicle by a long distance operating device installed in an accompanying work vehicle for performing work while accompanying the autonomous work vehicle, wherein the accompanying work vehicle is provided with a display and a speaker as notification means, the notification means is capable of communicating with the autonomous work vehicle through a communication device, and, when a distance to the edge of the cultivated field from the autonomous work vehicle approaches a set distance, a control device transmits a signal to a control device of the accompanying work vehicle through the communication device and issues a warning through the notification means.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2015Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhisa Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20170177003Abstract: Provided is an accompanying traveling work system in which work is performed by a manned work vehicle that performs pre-process work ahead, and an unmanned first work vehicle that performs post-process work, so that the manned traveling work vehicle can work ahead, and the first work vehicle can performs post-process work while traveling in front of the second work vehicle, wherein the first work vehicle includes a control device that positions a machine body, utilizing a satellite positioning system, and causes the first work vehicle to automatically travel along a set traveling route R, and the first work vehicle traveling diagonally in front includes markers which are landmarks for an advancing direction of the manned work vehicle traveling diagonally behind.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2015Publication date: June 22, 2017Applicant: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhisa YOKOYAMA, Wataru NAKAGAWA
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Publication number: 20170160748Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to enable a parallel work by a first work vehicle and a second work vehicle to be achieved while measuring the locations of the work vehicles utilizing cheaper satellite location measurement systems. A first satellite location measurement system is mounted on one of a first work vehicle and a second work vehicle, a second satellite location measurement system, which has lower accuracy than that of the first satellite location measurement system, is mounted on a remote control device to be carried on the other of the work vehicles, the actual locations of the first work vehicle and the second work vehicle are measured by the first satellite location measurement system and the second satellite location measurement system, and the locations of the first work vehicle and the second work vehicle are displayed on a display device in the remote control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2015Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Wataru NAKAGAWAA, Kazuhisa YOKOYAMA
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Patent number: 9631530Abstract: Regarding a work vehicle that includes an engine mounted on a travelling machine body and an exhaust gas purification device arranged in an exhaust gas path of the engine, it is an object to prevent the regeneration control of the exhaust gas purification device from being executed against operators' will. The work vehicle of the present invention includes a regeneration switch 329 for executing the regeneration control of an exhaust gas purification device 50, a meter panel 246 for displaying the situation of driving operations of a travelling machine body 2, and a work device 15. Then, when it is assumed that a predetermined amount or more of particulate matter in the exhaust gas purification device 50 is accumulated, the meter panel 246 notifies a regeneration control request warning and displays characters that urge stoppages of work of the work device 15 and travelling of the travelling machine body 2.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2014Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuusuke Koike, Akimichi Iwata, Kazuhisa Yokoyama