Patents by Inventor Kazunori Nakamura

Kazunori Nakamura 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).

  • Publication number: 20080209903
    Abstract: [Object] To materialize a reduction in pump loss, the assurance of sufficient working device speeds and the priority assurance of an adequate steering capacity with simpler construction and at lower cost than a load sensing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Applicant: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Itoga, Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Kazunori Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20080193129
    Abstract: It is an objective to provide a video transmission system enabling easy acquisition and addition of any video signal. According to the ring network, optical wavelength multiplexing and transmission of video signal to be utilized for this network is carried out, so that it is possible to implement an environment, in which all necessary video signals flow on the network. Consequently, by acquiring any video signal from the video signals flowing on the network, it is possible to acquire new video source, or by adding new video source to the network, it is possible to utilize the added video source by all apparatuses connected to the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventors: Takaaki Morita, Kazunori Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7370475
    Abstract: A modification torque ?T and a torque converter speed ratio e is computed from input and output revolution speeds of a torque converter 31. A first determination coefficient ? corresponding to the speed ratio e, and a second determination coefficient ? corresponding to a pump pressure are computed. A selector 87 selects the smaller one of these coefficients as a determination coefficient ?, and the modification torque ?T is multiplied by ? to provide a modification torque ?TA. An adder 89 adds the modification torque ?TA (negative value) to a pump base torque TR to provide a modified pump base torque TRA, whereby a maximum pump absorption torque TRA is controlled so as to become TRA. The maximum pump torque reducing control can then be performed while accurately confirming a work situation during the combined operation of travel and a working actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Kazunori Nakamura, Toichi Hirata, Genroku Sugiyama, Kentaro Itoga
  • Publication number: 20080072588
    Abstract: When a mode selection command selects an economy mode, a mode selector 700e is turned on and outputs an engine revolution speed modification value ?N0 (?N1=?N0) computed by an engine-revolution-speed modification value computing section 700d. A subtracter 700f subtracts the engine revolution speed modification value ?N1 from a rated target revolution speed Nmax, thereby computing a target engine revolution speed NR2. The computing section 700d computes the engine revolution speed modification value ?N0 depending on a pump delivery pressure mean value Pm. In a table stored in a memory, the relationship between Pm and ?N0 is set such that when Pm is not higher than PA near a midpoint pressure, ?N0 is 0 and when Pm exceeds PA, ?N0 is increased with an increase of Pm. Thus, the revolution speed of a prime mover is reduced by mode selection so as to improve fuel economy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Inventors: Nobuei Ariga, Kazunori Nakamura, Kouji Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20070204605
    Abstract: A traveling working vehicle maintains fuel economy while ensuring a sufficient work rate in heavy-load work A torque control regulator 26 controls the absorption torque of a hydraulic pump 22 to ensure that it does not exceed a preset maximum absorption torque, and an accelerator pedal 12 commands a target revolution speed of an engine 1. Revolution speed deviation computing sections 52 and 62, a modification torque computing section 53, a modification revolution speed computing section 63, speed ratio computing sections 54 and 64, traveling state determining sections 55 and 65, and working state determining sections 56 and 66 determine an operating state of the traveling working vehicle. Both the pump base torque of the hydraulic pump 22 and the target revolution speed of the engine 1 are modified depending on the determination result of the state determining sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2005
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Itoga, Kazunori Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Motoyuki Yabuuchi
  • Patent number: 7255088
    Abstract: An engine control system includes pressure sensors (73, 74), position sensors (75, 76), pressure sensors (77, 78), a target revolution speed modification value computing unit (90), and a modification value adder (70r). A target revolution speed NR2 for use in control is computed based on changes of status variables such that the target revolution speed NR2 increases from the target revolution speed NR1 applied from an input unit (71), and then moderately returns to the target revolution speed NR1. In accordance with the computed target revolution speed NR2 for use in control, a target fuel injection amount FN1 is computed and a fuel injection amount is controlled. As a result, a drop of an engine revolution speed attributable to an abrupt increase of an engine load can be suppressed without sacrificing the work efficiency, and lowering of durability caused by an excessive increase of the engine revolution speed can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Nakamura, Yasushi Arai, Yoichi Kowatari, Kouji Ishikawa, Hideo Karasawa
  • Publication number: 20070168101
    Abstract: A display device for a construction machine has a display switching means, output control means, operation detecting means, and display prohibiting means. The display switching means switches information displayed on a monitor placed in an operation cabin, where the switching is made to prevent display of unnecessary information on the monitor while the construction machine is performing work. The output control means selects display information recorded in information recording means and outputs the selected information to the monitor. The operation detecting means detects whether or not the construction machine is in a working state. When the operation detecting means detects that the construction machine is in the working state, display switching operation of the monitor is performed by the display switching means, and the display prohibiting means prohibits the display of specific information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shibamori, Keiichiro Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Sakyo, Kazunori Nakamura, Tadatoshi Shimamura, Genroku Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20070128608
    Abstract: [Problems] To provide a novel mixture for assaying a target nucleic acid, characterized by enabling a nucleic acid assay while: 1) requiring no step of diluting the target nucleic acid; 2) requiring no procedure of changing a probe concentration depending on a concentration of the target nucleic acid. [Means for Solving Problems] 1) A mixture which comprises one internal standard nucleic acid and two nucleic acid probes labeled with a fluorescent dye; 2) a mixture for measuring Km value which comprises one internal standard nucleic acid having a partial mutation and one nucleic acid probe labeled with a fluorescent dye; 3) a mixture which comprises one internal standard nucleic acid and one double nucleic acid probe labeled with two fluorescent dyes; and a method for assaying a nucleic acid by making use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Applicants: Kankyo Engineering Co., Ltd., National Institute of Adv. Industrial Sci. & Tech.
    Inventors: Kazunori Nakamura, Takahiro Kanagawa, Naohiro Noda, Satoshi Tsuneda, Hidenori Tani, Shinya Kurata
  • Publication number: 20070028607
    Abstract: To permit using hold-side pressure oil in a first hydraulic cylinder for the acceleration of a second hydraulic cylinder upon performing a combined operation of the first and second hydraulic cylinders, a hydraulic drive system is provided with a main hydraulic pump 21, a boom cylinder 6 and an arm cylinder 7, a directional control valve 23 for a boom and a directional control valve 24 for an arm, and a boom control device 25 and an arm control device 26. The hydraulic drive system is also provided with a pressure oil feed means for feeding pressure oil in a rod chamber 6b of the boom cylinder 6 to an upstream side of the directional control valve 24 for the arm when a bottom pressure of the arm cylinder 7 has increased to a high pressure equal to or higher than a predetermined pressure. This pressure oil feed means includes a flow combiner valve 44 arranged in a reservoir line 42 which can communicate to the rod chamber 6b of the boom cylinder 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Applicant: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouji Ishikawa, Yusuke Kajita, Kazunori Nakamura, Genroku Sugiyama, Hideo Karasawa
  • Patent number: 7127888
    Abstract: A hydraulic drive unit is provided with a boom cylinder, an arm cylinder, a communication line communicating a rod chamber of the boom cylinder and a bottom chamber of the arm cylinder with each other, and a switching valve arranged on the communication line for communicating or shutting off the communication line in accordance with a rod pressure of the boom cylinder. When an arm-crowding single operation is performed and by its digging counterforce, a rod pressure of the boom cylinder rises to a high pressure of at least a predetermined pressure, the switching valve is changed over from a shut-off position to a communicating position to feed pressure oil from the rod chamber to the bottom chamber. The boom cylinder is hence caused to automatically extend, thereby avoiding lifting of a hydraulic excavator body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Kajita, Kazunori Nakamura, Toichi Hirata
  • Publication number: 20060201147
    Abstract: A modification torque computing unit 83 computes a modification torque ?T and a torque converter speed ratio e is computed from input and output revolution speeds of a torque converter 31. A first determination coefficient ? corresponding to the speed ratio e, and a second determination coefficient ? corresponding to a pump pressure are computed. A selector 87 selects the smaller one of these coefficients as a determination coefficient ?, and the modification torque ?T is multiplied by ? to provide a modification torque ?TA. An adder 89 adds the modification torque ?TA (negative value) to a pump base torque TR to provide a modified pump base torque TRA, whereby a maximum pump absorption torque TRA is controlled so as to become TRA. The maximum pump torque reducing control can then be performed while accurately confirming a work situation during the combined operation of travel and a working actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Kazunori Nakamura, Toichi Hirata, Genroku Sugiyama, Kentaro Itoga
  • Publication number: 20060185141
    Abstract: In a multilayer wiring board comprising a core board, and a wiring layer and an electrically insulating layer that are stacked on one surface of said core board, a thermal expansion coefficient of said core board in XY directions falls within a range of 2 to 20 ppm, a core member for said core board is a core member selected from silicon, ceramics, glass, a glass-epoxy composite, and metal, said core board is provided with a plurality of through holes that are made conductive between the front and the back by a conductive material, and a capacitor is provided on one surface of said core board, wherein said capacitor comprises an upper electrode being the conductive material in said through hole, and a lower electrode disposed so as to confront said upper electrode via a dielectric layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Mori, Kazunori Nakamura, Satoru Kuramochi, Miyuki Akazawa, Koichi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 7091589
    Abstract: In a multilayer wiring board comprising a core board, and a wiring layer and an electrically insulating layer that are stacked on one surface of said core board, a thermal expansion coefficient of said core board in XY directions falls within a range of 2 to 20 ppm, a core member for said core board is a core member selected from silicon, ceramics, glass, a glass-epoxy composite, and metal, said core board is provided with a plurality of through holes that are made conductive between the front and the back by a conductive material, and a capacitor is provided on one surface of said core board, wherein said capacitor comprises an upper electrode being the conductive material in said through hole, and a lower electrode disposed so as to confront said upper electrode via a dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Mori, Kazunori Nakamura, Satoru Kuramochi, Miyuki Akazawa, Koichi Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20060172293
    Abstract: A novel method is provided to assay at least one nucleic acid. According to this method, a nucleic acid polymerization reaction is conducted in a nucleic acid polymerization reaction system, which contains (A) the at least one nucleic acid as a template, (B) at least one nucleotide monomer labeled with at least one label selected from the group consisting of (a) fluorescent dyes, (b) quenchers and (c) immune related substances with a fluorescent dye or quencher contained therein, and (C) at least one nucleic acid-synthesizing enzyme. The template nucleic acid or a nucleic acid, which has been synthesized using the template nucleic acid as a template, is then assayed from a change or an amount of a change in an optical character of the nucleic acid polymerization system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Applicants: Kankyo Engineering Co, Ltd., Nat Institute of Advance Indust Science & Tech.
    Inventors: Shinya Kurata, Kyoto Takatsu, Kazunori Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20060167607
    Abstract: The invention provides a control system for a working vehicle, which can realize higher work performance and better fuel economy in a compatible way. A controller 10 includes tables 10a, 10b and tables 10e, 10f for deciding maximum pump absorption torques and engine output torques based on an engine revolution speed, and selectors 10c, 10g for switching over the decided maximum pump absorption torques and engine output torques depending on a work performance mode or a fuel economy mode is selected. A pump absorption torque characteristic for the fuel economy mode is set so as to provide a relatively small maximum pump absorption torques TB in a high revolution range, and an engine output characteristic for the fuel economy mode is set so as to provide a relatively small engine output torque in the high revolution range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2004
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Inventors: Kazunori Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Kentaro Itoga
  • Publication number: 20060162543
    Abstract: A hydraulic circuit for a hydraulic working machine is composed of a main pump 21, a boom cylinder 11 arranged for extension or contraction by pressure oil from the main pump 21, a directional control valve 22 for controlling flows of pressure oil to be fed from the main pump 21 to a bottom chamber 11a and rod chamber 12b of the boom cylinder 11, a control unit 23 for performing a change-over control of the directional control valve 22, a pilot pump 24, a jack-up selector valve 25 for controlling a flow of pressure oil delivered from the pilot pump 24, a flow control valve 26 connected on an upstream side of the directional control valve 22 to a meter-in port of the directional control valve 22 such that the flow control valve 26 can be changed over by the jack-up selector valve 25, and a center bypass selector valve 27 connected on a downstream side of the directional control valve 22 to a center bypass port of the directional control valve 22 such that the center bypass selector valve 27 can be changed over
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2004
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Applicant: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Toshihiro Abe, Yusuke Kajita, Kazunori Nakamura, Kouji Ishikawa, Hideo Karasawa
  • Publication number: 20060118082
    Abstract: An engine control system includes pressure sensors (73, 74), position sensors (75, 76), pressure sensors (77, 78), a target revolution speed modification value computing unit (90), and a modification value adder (70r). A target revolution speed NR2 for use in control is computed based on changes of status variables such that the target revolution speed NR2 increases from the target revolution speed NR1 applied from an input unit (71), and then moderately returns to the target revolution speed NR1. In accordance with the computed target revolution speed NR2, a target fuel injection amount FN1 is computed and a fuel injection amount is controlled. As a result, a drop of an engine revolution speed attributable to an abrupt increase of an engine load can be suppressed without sacrificing the work efficiency, and lowering of durability caused by an excessive increase of the engine revolution speed can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventors: Kazunori Nakamura, Yasushi Arai, Yoichi Kowatari, Kouji Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20060113140
    Abstract: A traveling hydraulic working machine has input means for commanding a target revolution speed of an engine and detection means for detecting an operating situation of a hydraulic actuator and an operating situation of traveling means. A prime-mover revolution speed control means modifies the target revolution speed of the prime mover when the operating situation of the hydraulic actuator and the operating situation of the traveling means come into respective particular states, and controls the revolution speed of the prime mover. With the traveling hydraulic working machine, in the combined operation of traveling and working a hydraulic actuator, work can be performed on the basis of the engine revolution speed intended by an operator. When a working load varies, the engine revolution speed is automatically controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Genroku Sugiyama, Kazunori Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7020553
    Abstract: A machine body controller 70A includes a modification control unit 70Ab for computing a torque modification value based on detected signals from environment sensors 75 to 83, and modifies a maximum absorption torque of a hydraulic pump controlled by a basic control unit 70Aa. An engine controller 70B includes a modification control unit 70Bb for computing an injection modification value based on detected the signals from the environment sensors 75 to 83, and modifies a fuel injection state of a fuel injection device 14 controlled by a basic control unit 70Ba. The controllers 70A, 70B further include computation element altering units 171, 181. A communication controller 70C downloads alteration data obtained from an external terminal 150 to the computation element altering units 171, 181, whereby corresponding computation elements contained in the modification control units 70Ab, 70Bb are altered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Nakamura, Toichi Hirata, Yasushi Arai, Yoichi Kowatari, Gen Yasuda, Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20050160727
    Abstract: A current load rate of an engine 10 is computed and a maximum absorption torque of at least one hydraulic pump 1, 2 is controlled so that the load rate is held at a target value. Engine stalling can be prevented by decreasing the maximum absorption torque of the hydraulic pump under a high-load condition. When an engine output lowers due to environmental changes, the use of poor fuel or other reasons, the maximum absorption torque of the hydraulic pump can be decreased without a lowering of the engine revolution speed. Further, the present invention is adaptable for any kinds of factors causing a lowering of the engine output, such as those factors that cannot be predicted in advance or are difficult to detect by sensors. In addition, because of no necessity of sensors, such as environment sensors, the manufacturing cost can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Inventors: Kazunori Nakamura, Yoichi Kowatari, Kouiji Ishikawa, Yasushi Arai