Patents by Inventor Kazuo Sakaguchi

Kazuo Sakaguchi 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: 20190249991
    Abstract: A travel route generation device includes circuitry configured to calculate positions of a starting point, an end point, and intermediate points from a start vehicle position, an end vehicle position, and intermediate vehicle positions, respectively, based on a distance from a contour point to a reference point. The circuitry is configured to define the shape of the target work region by calculating a line connecting the starting point, the intermediate points, and the end point, the line defining the shape of the target work region. The circuitry is configured to generate a travel route along which the work vehicle is to travel in the target work region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhisa UOYA, Izuru SHIMAMOTO, Kenji TAMATANI, Megumi SUZUKAWA, Atsushi SHINKAI, Kazuo SAKAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10303175
    Abstract: A work vehicle management system includes a memory, first circuitry, second circuitry, third circuitry, and fourth circuitry. The memory is to store at least one halt record with respect to a halt status at a timing when a work vehicle is halted while traveling along a travel route in a work field. The first circuitry is configured to record the at least one halt record in the memory. The second circuitry is configured to extract the at least one halt record from the memory to display in a display the at least one halt record from which a resuming basis record is to be selected. The third circuitry is configured to generate resuming information based on the resuming basis record. The fourth circuitry is configured to control the work vehicle based on the resuming information to resume from the halt status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Sakaguchi, Izuru Shimamoto, Kenji Tamatani, Megumi Suzukawa, Atsushi Shinkai
  • Publication number: 20190146513
    Abstract: This autonomous work vehicle travel system is provided with: a satellite positioning module 80 that outputs positioning data indicating a vehicle position of a work vehicle 1; an area setting unit that sets an area CA to be worked in a work site; a route managing unit that calculates a travel route element set, which is an aggregate of multiple travel route elements constituting a travel route that covers the area CA to be worked, and storing the travel route element set so as to be readable; a route element selecting unit that selects a next travel route element to be traveled in sequence from the travel route element set; and an autonomous travel controlling unit that causes the work vehicle 1 to travel autonomously on the basis of the next travel route element and the vehicle position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Sakura Tomita, Tomohiko Sano, Kazuo Sakaguchi, Tetsuya Nakajima, Makoto Oshitani, Kenichi Iwami, Osamu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10231374
    Abstract: A travel support system for a work vehicle including a vehicle body and a work device provided on the vehicle body includes a first calculator to calculate a vehicle body occupied area including the vehicle body in a plan view. A second calculator is to calculate a work device occupied area including the work device in the plan view. A third calculator is to calculate a work vehicle occupied area including the work vehicle in the plan view, the work vehicle occupied area including the vehicle body occupied area and the work device occupied area. A position calculator is to calculate a position of the work vehicle in a work field based on positioning data. A controller is to control the work vehicle to move in the work field based on the position of the work vehicle and the work vehicle occupied area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Sakaguchi, Yasuhisa Uoya, Takafumi Morishita, Kotaro Yamaguchi, Hiroki Suga, Megumi Suzukawa
  • Patent number: 10219423
    Abstract: A travel route generation device includes a memory, an input interface, and circuitry. The memory is to store field data including shape information on a shape of a field in which a work vehicle is to work. A field operation parameter is input via the input interface. The field operation parameter includes headland information on a headland in the field. The circuitry is configured to generate, based on the field data and the field operation parameter, a travel route along which the work vehicle is to travel in the field. The circuitry is configured to estimate a work status of the work vehicle in the field. The circuitry is configured to display the shape of the field, the travel route, and the work status in a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Sakaguchi, Izuru Shimamoto, Kenji Tamatani, Megumi Suzukawa, Atsushi Shinkai
  • Publication number: 20190050947
    Abstract: An agricultural field management system includes a map data recording section having a field map layer for recording field map data, a field work data recording section having a machine-type-specific field work layer for recording field work data generated for each work implemented by various kinds of farm work machine on the field, a data management section 60 for executing data management on the field map data and the field work data at a common coordinate position, and an evaluation section 70 for effecting farming evaluation of the field based on the field work data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ARAKI, Yasushi WATABE, Kazuo SAKAGUCHI, Kazuki AOTA
  • Patent number: 10194473
    Abstract: An access point device for a work machine is configured to connect a work machine and a mobile terminal via wireless communication. The access point includes a memory, a controller, and a communicator. The memory is to store data of the work machine. The controller is to set a request as a communication identifier to be received by a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal is configured to obtain the data stored in the memory in accordance with the request. The communicator is to transmit the communication identifier to the mobile terminal and to transmit the data stored in the memory to the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Miura, Isao Tanaka, Izuru Shimamoto, Kazuo Sakaguchi, Yoshito Hayakawa
  • Publication number: 20180338408
    Abstract: A controller for a master work vehicle, includes a wireless circuit, an acquisition circuit, a message generation circuit, and a display control circuit. The wireless circuit is to receive, from a slave work vehicle configured to travel automatically, first information indicating a state of work travel of the slave work vehicle. The master work vehicle is configured to work in cooperation with the slave work vehicle. The acquisition circuit is configured to acquire second information indicating a state of work travel of the master work vehicle. The message generation circuit is configured to generate a first message based on the first information and a second message based on the second information. The display control circuit is configured to control a display to display the first message and the second message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi SHINKAI, Megumi SUZUKAWA, Kenji TAMATANI, Izuru SHIMAMOTO, Takafumi MORISHITA, Kazuo SAKAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180310461
    Abstract: A control apparatus for an automatic traveling vehicle includes a position sensor and circuitry. The position sensor is to detect a vehicle position of the automatic traveling vehicle. The circuitry is configured to control the automatic traveling vehicle to travel along a first route, a first turn route connected to the first route, a straight route connected to the first turn route, a second turn route connected to the straight route, and a second route connected to the second turn route in this order, and to calculate the straight route extending from a reference point on the first turn route to the second turn route such that the straight route is tangent to the second turn route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi SHINKAI, Kazuo SAKAGUCHI, Kotaro YAMAGUCHI, Hiroki SUGA
  • Publication number: 20180276587
    Abstract: A farm work planning assistance system includes a field information storage section 6 configured to individually take in farm work information of fields of farming entities distributed over a wide area and to store the information as field information in combination with agro-environment information assigned to the respective fields, a farm work plan calculation section 7 configured to use, as an input parameter, farm work target information sent from each farming entity for a subject field as a subject for a farm work to be done by this farming entity and to extract farm work plan information for the subject field by referring to the field information, and an information output section 52 configured to output the extracted farm work plan information to the farming entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ARAKI, Yasushi WATABE, Kazuo SAKAGUCHI, Kazuki AOTA
  • Publication number: 20180208242
    Abstract: An automatic traveling work vehicle includes a memory to store work traveling information including information on work which a work device is configured to perform and on a state of a work field in which the automatic traveling work vehicle is configured to automatically travel along a target travel route. Circuitry is configured to calculate a vehicle position of the automatic traveling work vehicle, to calculate a track deviation of a vehicle body from the target travel route based on the target travel route and the vehicle position, to calculate a steering sensitivity based on at least one of the information on the work and the information on the state of the work field, and to calculate, based on the track deviation and the steering sensitivity, a steering control amount according to which the steering is controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo SAKAGUCHI, Kotaro YAMAGUCHI, Hiroki SUGA, Atsushi SHINKAI
  • Publication number: 20180206389
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a touch-panel display, at least one first physical button, and the circuitry. The touch-panel display is to display at least one first touch button, at least one first function, and work information. The at least one function is displayed in the at least one first touch button to which the at least one first function is assigned. The work information includes a state of work which the work vehicle performs. The at least one first physical button is provided outside the touch-panel display. The at least one first function is assigned to the at least one first physical button. The circuitry is configured to change the at least one first function assigned to the at least one first touch button and the at least one first physical button in accordance with the work information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo SAKAGUCHI, Izuru SHIMAMOTO, Kenji TAMATANI, Megumi SUZUKAWA, Atsushi SHINKAI
  • Publication number: 20180208059
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a display, communication circuitry, and circuitry. The display is to display information. The communication circuitry is configured to communicate with a cooperative work vehicle that is configured to work cooperatively with the work vehicle. The circuitry is configured to acquire from the cooperative work vehicle through the communication circuitry traveling work parameters manually set via operation tools provided on an operation panel in the cooperative work vehicle. The circuitry is configured to display in the display a setting confirmation screen based on the traveling work parameters acquired through the communication circuitry, the setting confirmation screen showing the operation panel in the cooperative work vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi SHINKAI, Kazuo SAKAGUCHI, Izuru SHIMAMOTO, Kenji TAMATANI, Megumi SUZUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180210444
    Abstract: A sensor management device includes first circuitry and second circuitry. The first circuitry is configured to output an instruction to position a target obstacle on a detectable region of at least one obstacle sensor provided on a work vehicle to detect an obstacle. The second circuitry is configured to determine, based on an output of the at least one obstacle sensor with respect to the target obstacle, whether the at least one obstacle sensor works normally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo SAKAGUCHI, Izuru SHIMAMOTO, Kenji TAMATANI, Megumi SUZUKAWA, Atsushi SHINKAI
  • Publication number: 20180210449
    Abstract: A work vehicle management system includes a memory, first circuitry, second circuitry, third circuitry, and fourth circuitry. The memory is to store at least one halt record with respect to a halt status at a timing when a work vehicle is halted while traveling along a travel route in a work field. The first circuitry is configured to record the at least one halt record in the memory. The second circuitry is configured to extract the at least one halt record from the memory to display in a display the at least one halt record from which a resuming basis record is to be selected. The third circuitry is configured to generate resuming information based on the resuming basis record. The fourth circuitry is configured to control the work vehicle based on the resuming information to resume from the halt status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo SAKAGUCHI, Izuru SHIMAMOTO, Kenji TAMATANI, Megumi SUZUKAWA, Atsushi SHINKAI
  • Publication number: 20180209799
    Abstract: A travel route generation device for a field work vehicle includes a memory and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to generate, based on field data stored in the memory, a travel route. The circuitry is configured to determine a getting-off point in the travel route at which a driver gets off the field work vehicle. The circuitry is configured to determine a getting-on point in the travel route at which the driver gets on the field work vehicle. The circuitry is configured to define a first partial route in the travel route between the entrance and the getting-off point and a second partial travel route in the travel route between the getting-on point and the entrance as a manual travel route. The circuitry is configured to define a third partial travel route in the travel route between the getting-off point and the getting-on point as an automatic travel route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhisa UOYA, Izuru SHIMAMOTO, Kenji TAMATANI, Megumi SUZUKAWA, Atsushi SHINKAI, Kazuo SAKAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180206390
    Abstract: A travel route generation device includes a memory, an input interface, and circuitry. The memory is to store field data including shape information on a shape of a field in which a work vehicle is to work. A field operation parameter is input via the input interface. The field operation parameter includes headland information on a headland in the field. The circuitry is configured to generate, based on the field data and the field operation parameter, a travel route along which the work vehicle is to travel in the field. The circuitry is configured to estimate a work status of the work vehicle in the field. The circuitry is configured to display the shape of the field, the travel route, and the work status in a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo SAKAGUCHI, Izuru SHIMAMOTO, Kenji TAMATANI, Megumi SUZUKAWA, Atsushi SHINKAI
  • Publication number: 20180209792
    Abstract: A division map creation system includes circuitry and a memory. The circuitry is configured to acquire work field information including a shape of a work field and a position of the work field and to acquire travel routes based on the work field information. Each of work vehicles is configured to travel along each of the travel routes in the work field. The circuitry is configured to divide the work field into a plurality of sections in order to create division maps based on a travel direction in which each of the work vehicles travels along each of the travel routes and based on a work width within which each of the work vehicles works while travelling in the work field. The memory is to store the division maps such that each of the division maps corresponds to each of the work vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Megumi Suzukawa, Kazuo Sakaguchi, Atsushi Shinkai
  • Publication number: 20180210456
    Abstract: A travel route generation device includes circuitry configured to define a shape of a work field by calculating a first line connecting a starting point and one of intermediate points, and a second line connecting another of the intermediate points and an end point. The circuitry is configured to calculate a shape of an entrance passage in the work field though which a work vehicle is to enter a target work region in which the work vehicle is to work in the work field. The entrance passage has a shape of a substantially quadrangle including a first side extending along the first line from the starting point and a second side extending along the second line from the end point. The circuitry is configured to generate a travel route along which the work vehicle is to travel in the target work region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhisa UOYA, Izuru SHIMAMOTO, Kenji TAMATANI, Megumi SUZUKAWA, Atsushi SHINKAI, Kazuo SAKAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180206391
    Abstract: A travel control apparatus for a work vehicle includes a display and circuitry. The display is to display a position of the work vehicle. The circuitry is configured to display in the display a guide index via which the work vehicle is manually guided to an automatic-travel permitted area in which the work vehicle is configured to automatically travel, and to determine whether or not the work vehicle is located in the automatic-travel permitted area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi SHINKAI, Kazuo SAKAGUCHI, Izuru SHIMAMOTO, Kenji TAMATANI, Megumi SUZUKAWA