Patents by Inventor Kazunari Sakurai

Kazunari Sakurai 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: 9126523
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle that elevates a working beam installed between a pair of booms with a working beam elevating unit and can ensure the area of a load receiving surface where a load is loaded. The working beam elevating unit is received in a working beam and one end of a chain is fixed to a boom. Therefore, the working beam is moved up/down by loosening and retracting the chain. Therefore, as the working beam elevating unit is installed at the working beam, it is not necessary to ensure a space for installing the working beam on a vehicle body. Therefore, it is correspondingly possible to enlarge the space (area of the load receiving surface) on the vehicle for loading a load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignees: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, NIPPON SHARYO, LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Ogita, Kazunari Sakurai, Ryou Maeda, Kazuki Kobayashi, Koshu Yamashita, Akihiko Go, Toshihiko Nishio, Yoshio Masuda
  • Patent number: 9085259
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle which can stably load or unload a long heavy load and lower a height of a working space necessary for loading or unloading the weight body. The loading/unloading apparatus suspends and maintains a load in a working beam installed between a pair of booms and rotates the pair of booms toward the left or right direction of a vehicle body, such that the load is unloaded from the vehicle body in a construction field or loaded from the construction field onto the vehicle body. Thus, the height of the working space necessary when the load is loaded or unloaded can be reduced as compared with a crane structure for loading and unloading the load by the fluctuation of a boom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY NIPPON SHARYO, LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Ogita, Kazunari Sakurai, Ryou Maeda, Kazuki Kobayashi, Koshu Yamashita, Akihiko Go, Toshihiko Nishio, Yoshio Masuda
  • Patent number: 8678408
    Abstract: Travel devices for a transport vehicle are arranged in a longitudinal direction and a width direction of a loading platform to allow traveling of the loading platform. In this travel device, an arm includes an upper end turnably supported at a lower portion of the loading platform. The arm includes a lower end where an axle box is supported swingably in up and down directions. A wheel has a mid-plane that intersects with a swing plane of an axle shaft disposed at the axle box, and is supported at the axle shaft. Accordingly, this ensures a small vehicle width L2 of the transport vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignees: Nippon Sharyo, Ltd., Central Japan Railway Company
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Kazunari Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20130341883
    Abstract: Travel devices for a transport vehicle are arranged in a longitudinal direction and a width direction of a loading platform to allow traveling of the loading platform. In this travel device, an arm includes an upper end turnably supported at a lower portion of the loading platform. The arm includes a lower end where an axle box is supported swingably in up and down directions. A wheel has a mid-plane that intersects with a swing plane of an axle shaft disposed at the axle box, and is supported at the axle shaft. Accordingly, this ensures a small vehicle width L2 of the transport vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Kazunari Sakurai
  • Patent number: 8612049
    Abstract: When the load factor of a loading/unloading apparatus reaches a second reference value that is smaller in load factor than the first reference value, the operation speed of the loading/unloading apparatus becomes a reduction state. It is possible to make load vibration difficult to be generated in a load. Further, fine adjustment of the manipulation becomes easy, such that it is possible to prevent the load factor from reaching the first reference value due to careless manipulation of the operator. Even if the load factor reaches the first reference value, the operation speed of the loading/unloading apparatus has been reduced, such that it is possible to prevent load vibration of the load W when stopping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignees: Central Japan Railway Company, Nippon Sharyo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Ogita, Kazunari Sakurai, Ryou Maeda, Kazuki Kobayashi, Koshu Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20130034414
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle that elevates a working beam installed between a pair of booms with a working beam elevating unit and can ensure the area of a load receiving surface where a load is loaded. The working beam elevating unit is received in a working beam and one end of a chain is fixed to a boom. Therefore, the working beam is moved up/down by loosening and retracting the chain. Therefore, as the working beam elevating unit is installed at the working beam, it is not necessary to ensure a space for installing the working beam on a vehicle body. Therefore, it is correspondingly possible to enlarge the space (area of the load receiving surface) on the vehicle for loading a load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicants: NIPPON SHARYO, LTD., CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Noriyuki OGITA, Kazunari SAKURAI, Ryou MAEDA, Kazuki KOBAYASHI, Koshu YAMASHITA, Akihiko GO, Toshihiko NISHIO, Yoshio MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20130034417
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle which can stably load or unload a long heavy load and lower a height of a working space necessary for loading or unloading the weight body. The loading/unloading apparatus suspends and maintains a load in a working beam installed between a pair of booms and rotates the pair of booms toward the left or right direction of a vehicle body, such that the load is unloaded from the vehicle body in a construction field or loaded from the construction field onto the vehicle body. Thus, the height of the working space necessary when the load is loaded or unloaded can be reduced as compared with a crane structure for loading and unloading the load by the fluctuation of a boom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicants: NIPPON SHARYO, LTD., CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Noriyuki OGITA, Kazunari SAKURAI, Ryou MAEDA, Kazuki KOBAYASHI, Koshu YAMASHITA, Akihiko GO, Toshihiko NISHIO, Yoshio MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20130034415
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle that controls operation of a loading/unloading apparatus based on a manipulation instruction from a manipulation remote control unit and can ensure safety when loading/unloading a load. An opening window is formed to be open on the rear side of an operator cab and an LCD displaying the operation state of a loading/unloading apparatus is installed, with the display surface facing the opening window, in the operator cab. Therefore, it is possible to check the display of the LCD from the outside of the operator cab through the opening window. Therefore, an operator can perform manipulation while acquiring the information on the operation state of the loading/unloading apparatus from the LCD, such that it is possible to ensure safety when loading/unloading a load by manipulating the manipulation remote control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicants: NIPPON SHARYO, LTD., CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Noriyuki OGITA, Kazunari SAKURAI, Ryou MAEDA, Kazuki KOBAYASHI, Koshu YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20130034413
    Abstract: When the load factor of a loading/unloading apparatus reaches a second reference value that is smaller in load factor than the first reference value, the operation speed of the loading/unloading apparatus becomes a reduction state. It is possible to make load vibration difficult to be generated in a load. Further, fine adjustment of the manipulation becomes easy, such that it is possible to prevent the load factor from reaching the first reference value due to careless manipulation of the operator. Even if the load factor reaches the first reference value, the operation speed of the loading/unloading apparatus has been reduced, such that it is possible to prevent load vibration of the load W when stopping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicants: NIPPON SHARYO, LTD., CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Noriyuki OGITA, Kazunari SAKURAI, Ryou MAEDA, Kazuki KOBAYASHI, Koshu YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20130034416
    Abstract: First and second connection terminals that are connection places of manipulation remote control units are installed at the front and rear of a vehicle. Therefore, it is possible to manipulate the manipulation remote control units at positions (ahead of and behind the vehicle) according to the amount of sunlight by changing the connection position. In this case, the rotation direction of the loading/unloading apparatus is reversed in accordance with the connection place of the manipulation remote control unit, such that it is possible to prevent miss-manipulation of the manipulation remote control unit by an operator who manipulates ahead of and behind the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicants: NIPPON SHARYO, LTD., CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Noriyuki OGITA, Kazunari SAKURAI, Ryou MAEDA, Kazuki KOBAYASHI, Koshu YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 7974818
    Abstract: A solidification analysis method of a cast that can predict a molten temperature drop history with fine precision is disclosed. The analysis is performed by considering different latent heat emitting patterns according to the differences of the cooling speeds. An analysis model having a plurality of elements is used. A cooling speed is calculated in each element by performing a calculation of heat transfer between the elements adjacent to each other. A temperature fluctuation range is revised in each element when a temperature fluctuates from emission of solidification latent heat based on the calculated cooling speed and a predetermined fraction solid-temperature curve of a molten alloy. A solidification analysis of the analysis model is performed by using the revised temperature fluctuation range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunari Sakurai, Hiroshi Onda
  • Publication number: 20080169074
    Abstract: A solidification analysis method of a cast that can predict a molten temperature drop history with fine precision is disclosed. The analysis is performed by considering different latent heat emitting patterns according to the differences of the cooling speeds. An analysis model having a plurality of elements is used. A cooling speed is calculated in each element by performing a calculation of heat transfer between the elements adjacent to each other. A temperature fluctuation range is revised in each element when a temperature fluctuates from emission of solidification latent heat based on the calculated cooling speed and a predetermined fraction solid-temperature curve of a molten alloy. A solidification analysis of the analysis model is performed by using the revised temperature fluctuation range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunari Sakurai, Hiroshi Onda