Patents by Inventor Kenta IKENORI
Kenta IKENORI 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: 11884305Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to avoid the risk of a brake operation system for emergency stopping not operating normally during autonomous travel of a work vehicle. A work vehicle is provided with: a foot brake for braking left and right rear wheels; an autonomous travel unit that enables autonomous travel of the vehicle; and an electric actuator for switching the foot brake between a braking state and a release state. The autonomous travel unit comprises a control unit for controlling the operation of the electric actuator.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenta Ikenori
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Patent number: 11396295Abstract: This work vehicle is provided with an emergency brake function for quickly bringing said work vehicle to an emergency stop when an abnormality has occurred inside of the vehicle. The work vehicle comprises: a foot brake for braking left and right rear wheels; an autonomous travel unit that enables autonomous travel of the vehicle; and an electric actuator for switching the foot brake between a braking state and a release state. The autonomous travel unit comprises a control unit that controls the operation of the electric actuator.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Yanmar Power Technology Inc., Ltd.Inventor: Kenta Ikenori
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Patent number: 11186170Abstract: A work vehicle according to an aspect of the present invention is configured to shift, in a transmission unit, a speed of a driving force from an engine mounted on a traveling body and to transfer the shifted driving force to a traveling unit and a work unit. The work vehicle includes: a mode shift switch that is configured to shift a maximum vehicle speed by the traveling unit or a maximum number of revolutions of the engine, the maximum vehicle speed and the maximum number of revolutions being set for each of a plurality of modes; and a work unit operation lever that is configured to be used for operating the work unit. The work unit operation lever is provided with the mode shift switch.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2016Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kouhei Ogura, Toshiyuki Miwa, Kenta Ikenori
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Publication number: 20210362718Abstract: This work vehicle is provided with an emergency brake function for quickly bringing said work vehicle to an emergency stop when an abnormality has occurred inside of the vehicle. The work vehicle comprises: a foot brake for braking left and right rear wheels; an autonomous travel unit that enables autonomous travel of the vehicle; and an electric actuator for switching the foot brake between a braking state and a release state. The autonomous travel unit comprises a control unit that controls the operation of the electric actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2019Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenta Ikenori
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Publication number: 20210197866Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to avoid the risk of a brake operation system for emergency stopping not operating normally during autonomous travel of a work vehicle. A work vehicle is provided with: a foot brake for braking left and right rear wheels; an autonomous travel unit that enables autonomous travel of the vehicle; and an electric actuator for switching the foot brake between a braking state and a release state. The autonomous travel unit comprises a control unit for controlling the operation of the electric actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenta Ikenori
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Patent number: 10829115Abstract: A work vehicle includes an engine mounted on a traveling body including traveling wheels; a hydraulic stepless transmission that shifts a speed of the driving force from the engine; a gear shift pedal that performs an acceleration/deceleration operation of a shifted output from the hydraulic stepless transmission; and a control section that controls the engine and the hydraulic stepless transmission based on the operation amount of the gear shift pedal. When an operation on a set switch is received in a state where the gear shift pedal is pressed by a foot operation in an auto-cruise standby mode, the control section stores the vehicle speed and the number of engine revolutions in accordance with the foot operation position of the gear shift pedal and shifts to an auto-cruise mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2016Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kouhei Ogura, Toshiyuki Miwa, Kenta Ikenori
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Patent number: 10626660Abstract: An opening-and-closing body is configured to open and close an opening and to move in a closing direction across a first section of movement in which the opening-and-closing body moves against the weight of the opening-and-closing body and a second section of movement in which the weight of the opening-and-closing body assists the movement of the opening-and-closing body in the closing direction. A driver is configured to drive the opening-and-closing body in the closing direction. A predictor is configured to predict when the opening-and-closing body will shift from the first section of movement to the second section of movement as the driver drives the opening-and-closing body in the closing direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2015Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: SHIROKI CORPORATIONInventors: Kenta Ikenori, Junya Kurita
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Patent number: 10486697Abstract: A work vehicle including: a hydraulic stepless transmission that shifts a speed of a driving force from an engine; a gear shift pedal that performs an acceleration/deceleration operation of a shifted output from the hydraulic stepless transmission; a control section that controls the engine and the hydraulic stepless transmission based on an operation amount of the gear shift pedal; and acceleration/deceleration switches that increase and reduce a vehicle speed in performing an auto-cruise mode. The control section stores a set maximum vehicle speed. In a case where the acceleration/deceleration switches are operated in the auto-cruise mode, the control section increases and reduces the vehicle speed stored in shifting to the auto-cruise mode based on the amount of change in accordance with the maximum vehicle speed.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2016Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kouhei Ogura, Toshiyuki Miwa, Kenta Ikenori
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Patent number: 10400485Abstract: A drive control apparatus includes an opening-and-closing body. A first driver drives the opening-and-closing body in a closing direction. A second driver moves the opening-and-closing body from a half-latched position to a fully-latched position. A fully-latched detector detects that the opening-and-closing body has reached the fully-latched position. A stop detector detects whether a predetermined stopping condition has been satisfied for stopping the driving of the opening-and-closing body in the closing direction. A drive controller is configured to drive the opening-and-closing body via the first driver in the closing direction. Upon the fully-latched detector detecting that the opening-and-closing body has reached the fully-latched position, the second driver ends operation and the first driver continues to drive the opening-and-closing body in the closing direction until the stop detector detects that the predetermined stopping condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: SHIROKI CORPORATIONInventors: Junya Kurita, Kenta Ikenori
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Publication number: 20180326845Abstract: A work vehicle (1) according to an aspect of the present invention is configured to shift, in a transmission unit (17), a speed of a driving force from an engine (5) mounted on a traveling body (2) and to transfer the shifted driving force to a traveling unit (3, 4) and a work unit (70). The work vehicle (1) includes: a mode shift switch (303) that is configured to shift a maximum vehicle speed by the traveling unit (3, 4) or a maximum number of revolutions of the engine (5), the maximum vehicle speed and the maximum number of revolutions being set for each of a plurality of modes; and a work unit operation lever (51) that is configured to be used for operating the work unit (70). The work unit operation lever (51) is provided with the mode shift switch (303).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2016Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kouhei OGURA, Toshiyuki MIWA, Kenta IKENORI
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Publication number: 20180319398Abstract: A work vehicle (1) including: a hydraulic stepless transmission (500) that shifts a speed of a driving force from an engine (5); a gear shift pedal (41) that performs an acceleration/deceleration operation of a shifted output from the hydraulic stepless transmission (500); a control section (813) that controls the engine (5) and the hydraulic stepless transmission (500) based on an operation amount of the gear shift pedal (41); and acceleration/deceleration switches (65b, 65c) that increase and reduce a vehicle speed in performing an auto-cruise mode. The control section (813) stores a set maximum vehicle speed. In a case where the acceleration/deceleration switches (65b, 65c) are operated in the auto-cruise mode, the control section (813) increases and reduces the vehicle speed stored in shifting to the auto-cruise mode based on the amount of change in accordance with the maximum vehicle speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2016Publication date: November 8, 2018Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kouhei OGURA, Toshiyuki MIWA, Kenta IKENORI
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Publication number: 20170218677Abstract: An opening-and-closing body configured to open and close an opening moves across a first section in which the opening-and-closing body moves in the closing direction against its own weight and a second section in which the opening-and-closing body moves in the closing direction according to its own weight. The driver drives the opening-and-closing body in the closing direction continuously from the first section to the second section. The predictor predicts that the drive section of the opening-and-closing body will shift from the first section to the second section when the driver drives the opening-and-closing body in the closing direction toward the second section from the first section. The drive controller decreases the driving output of the driver for driving the opening-and-closing body in the closing direction according to the result of the prediction made by the predictor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2015Publication date: August 3, 2017Applicant: SHIROKI CORPORATIONInventors: Kenta IKENORI, Junya KURITA
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Publication number: 20170058573Abstract: A drive control apparatus for an opening-and-closing body includes an opening-and-closing body; a first driver which drives the opening-and-closing body in a closing direction; a second driver which draws in the opening-and-closing body from a half-latched position to a fully-latched position; a fully-latched detector which detects that the opening-and-closing body has reached the fully-latched position; a stop detector which detects whether a predetermined stopping condition has been satisfied for stopping a driving of the opening-and-closing body in the closing direction; and a drive controller configured to drive the opening-and-closing body via the first driver in the closing direction, when the fully-latched detector detects that the opening-and-closing body has reached the fully-latched position, after the detection of a fully-latched state until the stop detector detects that a predetermined stopping condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: SHIROKI CORPORATIONInventors: Junya KURITA, Kenta IKENORI