Patents by Inventor Kenichi Muramoto
Kenichi Muramoto 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: 11673447Abstract: An operator seat is arranged in a cab. An air-conditioning unit is arranged in front of the operator seat. A lower window through which the outside can be seen from the inside of the cab is arranged in front of the operator seat and laterally to the air-conditioning unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2018Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi Wada, Masato Kitashou, Yuuki Shimasaki, Kazunari Shinagawa, Takushi Izawa, Kenichi Muramoto, Junichirou Imai, Izumi Nakade, Hidenori Tatsuta, Masahiko Hamaguchi
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Publication number: 20210354766Abstract: An operator seat is arranged in a cab. An air-conditioning unit is arranged in front of the operator seat. A lower window through which the outside can be seen from the inside of the cab is arranged in front of the operator seat and laterally to the air-conditioning unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2018Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi WADA, Masato KITASHOU, Yuuki SHIMASAKI, Kazunari SHINAGAWA, Takushi IZAWA, Kenichi MURAMOTO, Junichirou IMAI, Izumi NAKADE, Hidenori TATSUTA, Masahiko HAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 10744948Abstract: A climbing device body (21) can assume by a rotation operation an erect, retracted position allowing a first end portion (21A) to be positioned above and a second end portion (21B) to be positioned below and a tilted, deployed position allowing the second end portion (21B) to be positioned sideways of the vehicular body outer than the first end portion (21A). A handrail (22) is engaged with the rotation operation to be capable of assuming a raised state allowing a gripping portion (22a) to assume a first position distant from the climbing device body (21) in a deployed position and a folded state allowing the gripping portion (22a) to assume a second position close to the climbing device body (21) in a retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Masahiko Hamaguchi, Kenichi Muramoto, Yuuki Shimasaki, Masataka Setoguchi, Jun Ito
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Patent number: 10562564Abstract: A work vehicle is articulated with a front frame and a rear frame linked to the front frame. The work vehicle includes a hydraulic actuator, a control valve, an operation member and a force imparting component. The hydraulic actuator is configured to be hydraulically driven to change a steering angle of the front frame with respect to the rear frame. The control valve is configured to control flow of fluid supplied to the hydraulic actuator. The operation member is linked to the control valve and configured to be operated by an operator. The force imparting component is configured to impart an assist force or a counterforce to an operation of the operation member.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Masanori Ikari, Masanobu Nakabayashi, Yuita Takenaka, Masahiko Hamaguchi, Jun Itou, Kenichi Muramoto
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Patent number: 10392777Abstract: An operator's compartment is located above a climbing device and has a door. A sensing unit recognizes an operator. A door driving unit automatically opens the door in response the sensing unit sensing the operator.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Masahiko Hamaguchi, Kenichi Muramoto, Yuuki Shimasaki, Masataka Setoguchi, Jun Ito
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Patent number: 10370821Abstract: A work vehicle includes a console box disposed to a side of an operator's seat, and a support including a rotational axis disposed in a left and right direction below the console box. The console box is configured to be rotatable in a forth and back direction. The support rotatably supports the console box around the rotational axis and between an operating position in which the console box is horizontally disposed and a retracted position in which the console box is inclined at a position in which the console box has been rotated rearward from the operating position. A spacing in a horizontal direction between front and rear ends of the console box disposed in the retracted position is less than a spacing in the horizontal direction between front and rear ends of the console box disposed in the operating position.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2015Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Kenichi Muramoto, Yasunari Kato, Yuuki Shimasaki, Jun Itou, Masahiko Hamaguchi
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Publication number: 20180361938Abstract: A climbing device body (21) can assume by a rotation operation an erect, retracted position allowing a first end portion (21A) to be positioned above and a second end portion (21B) to be positioned below and a tilted, deployed position allowing the second end portion (21B) to be positioned sideways of the vehicular body outer than the first end portion (21A). A handrail (22) is engaged with the rotation operation to be capable of assuming a raised state allowing a gripping portion (22a) to assume a first position distant from the climbing device body (21) in a deployed position and a folded state allowing the gripping portion (22a) to assume a second position close to the climbing device body (21) in a retracted position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Masahiko HAMAGUCHI, Kenichi MURAMOTO, Yuuki SHIMASAKI, Masataka SETOGUCHI, Jun ITO
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Patent number: 10099623Abstract: A climbing device body can assume by a rotation operation an erect, retracted position allowing a first end portion to be positioned above and a second end portion to be positioned below and a tilted, deployed position allowing the second end portion to be positioned sideways of the vehicular body outer than the first end portion. A handrail is engaged with the rotation operation to be capable of assuming a raised state allowing a gripping portion to assume a first position distant from the climbing device body in a deployed position and a folded state allowing the gripping portion to assume a second position close to the climbing device body in a retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2016Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Masahiko Hamaguchi, Kenichi Muramoto, Yuuki Shimasaki, Masataka Setoguchi, Jun Ito
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Publication number: 20180105202Abstract: A work vehicle is articulated with a front frame and a rear frame linked to the front frame. The work vehicle includes a hydraulic actuator, a control valve, an operation member and a force imparting component. The hydraulic actuator is configured to be hydraulically driven to change a steering angle of the front frame with respect to the rear frame. The control valve is configured to control flow of fluid supplied to the hydraulic actuator. The operation member is linked to the control valve and configured to be operated by an operator. The force imparting component is configured to impart an assist force or a counterforce to an operation of the operation member.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2016Publication date: April 19, 2018Inventors: Masanori IKARI, Masanobu NAKABAYASHI, Yuita TAKENAKA, Masahiko HAMAGUCHI, Jun ITOU, Kenichi MURAMOTO
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Publication number: 20180100289Abstract: An operator's compartment is located above a climbing device and has a door. A sensing unit recognizes an operator. A door driving unit automatically opens the door in response the sensing unit sensing the operator.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2016Publication date: April 12, 2018Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Masahiko HAMAGUCHI, Kenichi MURAMOTO, Yuuki SHIMASAKI, Masataka SETOGUCHI, Jun ITO
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Publication number: 20180093614Abstract: A climbing device body can assume by a rotation operation an erect, retracted position allowing a first end portion to be positioned above and a second end portion to be positioned below and a tilted, deployed position allowing the second end portion to be positioned sideways of the vehicular body outer than the first end portion. A handrail is engaged with the rotation operation to be capable of assuming a raised state allowing a gripping portion to assume a first position distant from the climbing device body in a deployed position and a folded state allowing the gripping portion to assume a second position close to the climbing device body in a retracted position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2016Publication date: April 5, 2018Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Masahiko HAMAGUCHI, Kenichi MURAMOTO, Yuuki SHIMASAKI, Masataka SETOGUCHI, Jun ITO
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Patent number: 9931686Abstract: A box-shaped protective cover that covers an upper structural portion of a body of a vibrating compactor is manufactured by executing a cutting process for fashioning a single metal plate into a shape including a first planar portion, a second planar portion, an intermediate portion, and a plurality of side flaps, a bending process for bending or curving the side flaps and the intermediate portion, and a welding process for welding a side flap of the first planar portion to a side flap of the second planar portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2013Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: MIKASA SANGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Hisaharu Sunaga, Hideki Mochiki, Kenichi Nagasawa, Kenichi Muramoto, Yoshinori Miura, Yoshio Iguchi
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Publication number: 20180058037Abstract: A work vehicle includes a console box disposed to a side of an operator's seat, and a support including a rotational axis disposed in a left and right direction below the console box. The console box is configured to be rotatable in a forth and back direction. The support rotatably supports the console box around the rotational axis and between an operating position in which the console box is horizontally disposed and a retracted position in which the console box is inclined at a position in which the console box has been rotated rearward from the operating position. A spacing in a horizontal direction between front and rear ends of the console box disposed in the retracted position is less than a spacing in the horizontal direction between front and rear ends of the console box disposed in the operating position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2015Publication date: March 1, 2018Inventors: Kenichi MURAMOTO, Yasunari KATO, Yuuki SHIMASAKI, Jun ITOU, Masahiko HAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20140283645Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a sufficiently strong, box-shaped protective cover for a vibrating compactor inexpensively using a small number of processes and only simple processes, and provides a protective cover for a vibrating compactor. A box-shaped protective cover that covers an upper structural portion of a body of a vibrating compactor is manufactured by executing a cutting process for fashioning a single metal plate into a shape including a first planar portion 1, a second planar portion 2, an intermediate portion 3, and a plurality of side flaps 5 (5a to 5d), a bending process for bending or curving the side flaps 5 and the intermediate portion 3, and a welding process for welding a side flap 5a (or 5b) of the first planar portion 1 to a side flap 5c (or 5d) of the second planar portion 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2013Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: MIKASA SANGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Hisaharu Sunaga, Hideki Mochiki, Kenichi Nagasawa, Kenichi Muramoto, Yoshinori Miura, Yoshio Iguchi
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Patent number: 7337765Abstract: An engine stop switch and a fuel open-close lock are accommodated in a throttle lever case so that they can be easily disassembled, and the engine stop switch is turned on and off and the fuel open-close cock is opened and closed adequately by the actuation of a rotary valve in response to the turning of a lever. An engine stop switch and a fuel open-close lock are integrally incorporated in a throttle lever case, a partially toothless driven gear is intermittently rotated via a partially toothless drive gear rotated by a lever, and the intermittent rotation of the partially toothless driven gear turns on/off the engine stop switch and opens/closes the fuel open/close cock.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2007Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Mikasa Sangyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Giichi Tanaka, Yoshinori Harashima, Kenichi Nagasawa, Kenichi Muramoto
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Publication number: 20070277772Abstract: The present invention provides a protective cover structure for a rammer for which a guard cover plate of a power engine in a rammer is molded from a synthetic resin allowing any shape to be freely obtained and having small weight, high strength, and impact absorption ability. The cover plate is configured so that it can be assembled and disassembled by simple operations, has good endurance with respect to severe vibrations and can reduce the damage of the machine body due to the adequate impact absorption ability even when the rammer tumbles. Front end sections of guard covers disposed on both sides of a power engine are joined and fixed to the front surface section of the crank chamber, lower sections of the rear portions are supported by support frames of a protective stand provided at the lower surface of the power engine, and the rear sections of the rear portions are linked integrally by a linking transverse pole.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2007Publication date: December 6, 2007Applicant: Mikasa Sangyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Giichi Tanaka, Yoshinori Harashima, Kenichi Nagasawa, Kenichi Muramoto
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Publication number: 20070234999Abstract: An engine stop switch and a fuel open-close lock are accommodated in a throttle lever case so that they can be easily disassembled, and the engine stop switch is turned on and off and the fuel open-close cock is opened and closed adequately by the actuation of a rotary valve in response to the turning of a lever. An engine stop switch and a fuel open-close lock are integrally incorporated in a throttle lever case, a partially toothless driven gear is intermittently rotated via a partially toothless drive gear 4 rotated by a lever 6, and the intermittent rotation of the partially toothless driven gear turns on/off the engine stop switch and opens/closes the fuel open/close cock.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2007Publication date: October 11, 2007Applicant: Mikasa Sangyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Giichi Tanaka, Yoshinori Harashima, Kenichi Nagasawa, Kenichi Muramoto
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Publication number: 20070137975Abstract: In a vibration compaction machine such as a rammer, a lining wear dust is prevented from accumulating inside a clutch drum due to oblique attachment of a centrifugal clutch, such that the input shaft side is high and the output shaft side is low because of a forward tilted posture of the machine body. Discharge ports for a lining wear dust are opened with a spacing therebetween in a corner section of a disk-shaped wall surface and an annular circumferential surface of a clutch drum in a centrifugal clutch that is disposed obliquely so that the input shaft is high and an output shaft is low, the discharge ports being obtained by cutting out portions of the annular circumferential surface close to the corner section.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2006Publication date: June 21, 2007Applicant: Mikasa Sangyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Giichi Tanaka, Yoshinori Harashima, Kenichi Nagasawa, Kenichi Muramoto
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Patent number: D543996Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2006Date of Patent: June 5, 2007Assignee: Mikasa Sangyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Giichi Tanaka, Yoshinori Harashima, Kenichi Nagasawa, Kenichi Muramoto
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Patent number: D571826Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2006Date of Patent: June 24, 2008Assignee: Mikasa Sangyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Giichi Tanaka, Yoshinori Harashima, Kenichi Nagasawa, Kenichi Muramoto