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).

  • Patent number: 11884305
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenta Ikenori
  • Patent number: 11396295
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Yanmar Power Technology Inc., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenta Ikenori
  • Patent number: 11186170
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouhei Ogura, Toshiyuki Miwa, Kenta Ikenori
  • Publication number: 20210362718
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenta Ikenori
  • Publication number: 20210197866
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenta Ikenori
  • Patent number: 10829115
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouhei Ogura, Toshiyuki Miwa, Kenta Ikenori
  • Patent number: 10626660
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: SHIROKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta Ikenori, Junya Kurita
  • Patent number: 10486697
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouhei Ogura, Toshiyuki Miwa, Kenta Ikenori
  • Patent number: 10400485
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: SHIROKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junya Kurita, Kenta Ikenori
  • Publication number: 20180326845
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouhei OGURA, Toshiyuki MIWA, Kenta IKENORI
  • Publication number: 20180319398
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouhei OGURA, Toshiyuki MIWA, Kenta IKENORI
  • Publication number: 20170218677
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: SHIROKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta IKENORI, Junya KURITA
  • Publication number: 20170058573
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: SHIROKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junya KURITA, Kenta IKENORI