Patents by Inventor Ken SAKUTA
Ken SAKUTA 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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Publication number: 20240081167Abstract: An agricultural work assistance system includes a display to display a map representing an agricultural field, and a controller configured or programmed to define or function as an area setter to set a first area and a second area located inward of the first area in the map displayed by the display, and a route creator to create, in at least one of the first area or the second area, a travel route along which an agricultural machine is to travel. The route creator is configured or programmed to set at least a portion of the travel route as an automatic steering route on which the agricultural machine is to be automatically steered and a travel speed of the agricultural machine is to be changed manually.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Takanori MORIMOTO, Takafumi MORISHITA, Kenji TAMATANI, Fumiya YOSHIMURA, Ryota KIKUCHI, Ken SAKUTA
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Patent number: 11832548Abstract: In an agricultural machine, a route creator creates a planned traveling route for a traveling vehicle body in a work area where a working device works using a material. An area setter sets, outside the work area, a replenishment area to replenish the material. A charge amount acquirer acquires a charge amount of the material. A remaining amount calculator calculates a remaining amount of the material based on the charge amount acquired and a material consumption of the material consumed by the work. A position setter sets a replenishment position to replenish the material in the replenishment area set by the area setter based on the remaining amount calculated by the remaining amount calculator. A position changer changes the replenishment position when a change reception switch receives change of the replenishment position. A display displays the changed replenishment position.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Shinnosuke Ishikawa, Fumiya Yoshimura, Ken Sakuta
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Publication number: 20230380327Abstract: An agricultural work assistance apparatus includes a route creator to create a travel route along which an agricultural machine is to travel in a registered agricultural field, and a display to display a predicted work portion where the agricultural machine is predicted to perform agricultural work with a working device connected thereto while traveling based on the travel route and/or a predicted non-work portion where the agricultural machine is predicted not to perform agricultural work with the working device. An agricultural work assistance system includes an agricultural work assistance apparatus, and an agricultural machine. An agricultural machine includes an agricultural work assistance apparatus, a traveling vehicle body, a connector to connect a working device to the traveling vehicle body, and a position detector to detect a position of the traveling vehicle body.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Ryo KUBOSHIMA, Ken SAKUTA, Kenji TAMATANI, Fumiya YOSHIMURA
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Publication number: 20230200283Abstract: An agricultural assistance system includes an input to receive size information of a working device linked to an agricultural machine and job setting(s) for an agricultural job performed on an agricultural field, a route creator to create a travel route for the agricultural machine on a map representing the agricultural field based on the size information and the job setting(s), a status detector to detect a status of the agricultural job, a recorder to, when the agricultural job is interrupted, record interruption data including the size information, the job setting(s), and a result of detection by the status detector associated with identification information of the working device, and a notifier to, if the size information is changed during interruption of the agricultural job, provide a notification indicating that the size information has been changed, when the agricultural job is to be resumed based on the interruption data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Ken SAKUTA, Fumiya YOSHIMURA, Masaya TATESHIMA, Ryo KUBOSHIMA
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Publication number: 20230200282Abstract: An agricultural assistance system includes a route creator to create, on a map representing an agricultural field, a travel route along which an agricultural machine travels, an input to receive input of a turn mode which is one of turn modes differing in terms of how a traveling device of the agricultural machine is driven, a position detector to detect a position of the agricultural machine, an automatic operation controller to perform automatic operation in which the automatic operation controller automatically causes the agricultural machine to travel and automatically steers the agricultural machine, and a turn mode changer to, during automatic operation of the agricultural machine, allow the input to receive input of another turn mode to change the turn mode, and output, to the automatic operation controller, a change command to cause the agricultural machine to turn in the other turn mode inputted via the input.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Kotaro YAMAGUCHI, Ken SAKUTA, Ryo KUBOSHIMA, Kuya KAIHORI
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Publication number: 20230069372Abstract: A travel control system includes a permission unit that permits outermost periphery automatic traveling if predetermined permission conditions are satisfied. The permission conditions include a first condition and a second condition. The first condition is that a reference value corresponding to a working width W1 of a work device 30 is larger than a lateral width W2 of the work device. The second condition is that the reference value is larger than a threshold value determined by a threshold value determination unit. The threshold value determination unit determines the threshold value based on a reference distance D1 between a front end position of a work vehicle 1 and a reference position SP at which the work device 30 is switched from a working state to a non-working state.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Takanori Morimoto, Kotaro Yamaguchi, Ryota Kikuchi, Ken Sakuta, Fumiya Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20230018138Abstract: An agricultural machine includes a vehicle body, an obstacle detector to detect obstacles, an autonomous travel controller to perform autonomous travel of the vehicle body, the autonomous travel controller being configured or programmed to, when performing the autonomous travel, stop the vehicle body based on detection information about an obstacle detected by the obstacle detector, and a mode switch to switch a mode during the autonomous travel in an agricultural field between an effective mode in which the stopping of the vehicle body based on the detection information is allowed and an ineffective mode in which the stopping of the vehicle body based on the detection information is not allowed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Koichi SHINTANI, Takanori MORIMOTO, Tomohiro KINOSHITA, Ken SAKUTA, Fumiya YOSHIMURA, Tsuyoshi HARADA, Sho WATANABE
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Publication number: 20220304216Abstract: A working machine includes a machine body, a lifting device to link a working device to the machine body, the lifting device being capable of moving up and down with the working device between a grounding state in which the working device is in contact with a ground and an ungrounding state in which the working device is out of contact with the ground, and an automatic travel controller to cause the machine body to perform automatic travel according to a planned travel route. The automatic travel controller includes a lifting controller to control the lifting device to move up with the working device from the grounding state to the ungrounding state, and cause the machine body to turn or travel rearward after the lifting controller controls the lifting device to move up with the working device from the grounding state to the ungrounding state.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Fumiya YOSHIMURA, Kotaro YAMAGUCHI, Kenji TAMATANI, Takanori MORIMOTO, Ken SAKUTA
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Publication number: 20220279698Abstract: A working machine includes a machine body, a linkage capable of linking a working device including a spreader to the machine body, an automatic travel controller to cause the machine body to perform automatic travel according to a planned travel route, a range acquirer to acquire a spreading work range that is a range where spreading work is done by the spreader in a front-rear direction thereof, and a work setter to set a work start position and a work end position for the spreader so that the work start position and the work end position are at different positions according to the spreading work range acquired by the range acquirer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Fumiya YOSHIMURA, Kotaro YAMAGUCHI, Kenji TAMATANI, Takanori MORIMOTO, Ken SAKUTA
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Publication number: 20220272889Abstract: A working machine includes a machine body capable of traveling, a position detector to detect a position of the machine body, and a controller to control the machine body based on the position of the machine body detected by the position detector and a planned travel route. The planned travel route includes a straight section on which the machine body travels straight, and the controller includes a threshold setter to set a threshold according to work, and causes the machine body to perform a recovery movement to make a deviation between the position of the machine body detected by the position detector and the planned travel route less than the threshold when the machine body is at a start point of the straight section or is about to enter the start point of the straight section.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Fumiya YOSHIMURA, Kotaro YAMAGUCHI, Kenji TAMATANI, Takanori MORIMOTO, Ken SAKUTA
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Publication number: 20220167545Abstract: In an agricultural machine, a route creator creates a planned traveling route for a traveling vehicle body in a work area where a working device works using a material. An area setter sets, outside the work area, a replenishment area to replenish the material. A charge amount acquirer acquires a charge amount of the material. A remaining amount calculator calculates a remaining amount of the material based on the charge amount acquired and a material consumption of the material consumed by the work. A position setter sets a replenishment position to replenish the material in the replenishment area set by the area setter based on the remaining amount calculated by the remaining amount calculator. A position changer changes the replenishment position when a change reception switch receives change of the replenishment position. A display displays the changed replenishment position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Shinnosuke ISHIKAWA, Fumiya YOSHIMURA, Ken SAKUTA
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Publication number: 20190045006Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display unit, a communication unit configured to periodically receive synchronization information for synchronizing a screen of the display unit with a screen of another display apparatus, and a control unit configured to control the display unit to display a first screen corresponding to the received synchronization information when the control unit is not carrying out a predetermined operation, and a second screen that does not correspond to the synchronization information when the control unit is carrying out the predetermined operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Akihiro Mizutani, Takahiro Hagiwara, Shinji Makishima, Toshihiro Ida, Yusuke Hamada, Hiroshi Watanabe, Ken Sakuta
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Patent number: 10165147Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a scanner, a communication interface, and a controller. The controller is configured to generate property and setting data of image data that is generated based on image scanning by the scanner, and control the communication interface to transmit the image data and the property and setting data thereof to a server connected to the image processing apparatus through a network, so that the image data and the property and setting data thereof are stored therein in association with each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshihiro Ida, Hiroshi Watanabe, Kazuhiro Ogura, Takahiro Hagiwara, Shinji Makishima, Akihiro Mizutani, Yusuke Hamada, Ken Sakuta
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Publication number: 20180063360Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a scanner, a communication interface, and a controller. The controller is configured to generate property and setting data of image data that is generated based on image scanning by the scanner, and control the communication interface to transmit the image data and the property and setting data thereof to a server connected to the image processing apparatus through a network, so that the image data and the property and setting data thereof are stored therein in association with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2016Publication date: March 1, 2018Inventors: Toshihiro IDA, Hiroshi WATANABE, Kazuhiro OGURA, Takahiro HAGIWARA, Shinji MAKISHIMA, Akihiro MIZUTANI, Yusuke HAMADA, Ken SAKUTA
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Publication number: 20150242369Abstract: A document data distribution server includes a storage unit, a communication unit configured to receive document data of a document, image data of an image added to the document, and a request for integrated document data, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to compress the document data and control the storage unit to store the compressed document data when the communication unit receives the document data, control the storage unit to store the image data when the communication unit receives the image data, generate, as the integrated document data, data of a first layer that includes the compressed document data and data of a second layer to be superimposed on the first layer, that includes the image data of the added image, and control the communication unit to output the integrated document data, when the communication unit receives the request.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Takahiro HAGIWARA, Akihiro MIZUTANI, Shinji MAKISHIMA, Toshihiro IDA, Yusuke HAMADA, Hiroshi WATANABE, Ken SAKUTA
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Publication number: 20150242075Abstract: A method for providing document data includes storing document data of a document having a plurality of pages and page management data associated with the document data, the page management data indicating page numbers of one or more pages that are replacement pages of the document or inserted pages of the document, displaying a user interface including a plurality of selectable items, wherein each corresponds to one or more pages and indicating whether the pages are replacement pages or inserted pages, receiving a user input selecting one of the selectable items, extracting data from the document data, with reference to the page management data, of the one or more of pages corresponding to the item selected through the user interface, and outputting the extracted data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Hiroshi WATANABE, Takahiro HAGIWARA, Shinji MAKISHIMA, Toshihiro IDA, Yusuke HAMADA, Akihiro MIZUTANI, Ken SAKUTA
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Publication number: 20150242064Abstract: An information display apparatus includes a display unit and a control unit. The display unit is configured to display a document page with a plurality of layers superimposed thereon. The plurality of layers includes a first layer that includes a first image that is accessible by the information display apparatus and not by an apparatus external to the information display apparatus, and a second layer that includes a second image that is accessible by the information display apparatus and the apparatus external to the information display apparatus. The control unit is configured to set one of the plurality of layers as a writing layer in which a user can add an image, and control the display unit such that a density of the first image is different from a density of the second image when the first layer is set as the writing layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Yusuke HAMADA, Hiroshi WATANABE, Akihiro MIZUTANI, Takahiro HAGIWARA, Shinji MAKISHIMA, Toshihiro IDA, Ken SAKUTA
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Publication number: 20150244800Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display unit, a communication unit configured to periodically receive synchronization information for synchronizing a screen of the display unit with a screen of another display apparatus, and a control unit configured to control the display unit to display a first screen corresponding to the received synchronization information when the control unit is not carrying out a predetermined operation, and a second screen that does not correspond to the synchronization information when the control unit is carrying out the predetermined operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Akihiro MIZUTANI, Takahiro HAGIWARA, Shinji MAKISHIMA, Toshihiro IDA, Yusuke HAMADA, Hiroshi WATANABE, Ken SAKUTA