Patents by Inventor Kenta Osagawa
Kenta Osagawa 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: 20240142262Abstract: An operation management system including a controller configured to execute: a position obtaining process to obtain positional information from each registered mobility; a correlating process to correlate each registered mobility and specification information stored in a storage device with each other; a travel-history storing process to store, in the storage device, a traveled route which is a travel history of each registered mobility, so as to be correlated with map information; and a road-surface-condition obtaining process to calculate a road surface condition including a position and a shape of a rut corresponding to the traveled route based on information on a detection value of a sensor of each of registered mobility, the type of a road surface included in the map information, the specification information, and the traveled route and to store, in the storage device, the road surface condition so as to be correlated with the map information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke NOZAWA, Shun Mizoo, Toru Takashima, Takahiro Okano, Kenta Osagawa, Takashi Hiranaka, Shota Konishi
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Publication number: 20240134395Abstract: A management system of a work site includes: a workplace data acquisition unit that acquires workplace data set in a workplace where an unmanned haul vehicle travels; and a sprinkling area setting unit that sets, on the basis of the workplace data, a sprinkling area on which the unmanned sprinkler vehicle sprinkles water in the workplace.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Misato Maeda, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
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Publication number: 20240126301Abstract: An unmanned vehicle management system includes: a traveling area definition unit that defines a traveling area on a traveling path of a work site; and a determination unit that determines whether or not an unmanned vehicle can enter the traveling area on the basis of a vehicle width indicating the width of the unmanned vehicle and a track width indicating the width of the traveling area.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicants: Komatsu Ltd., Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
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Publication number: 20240075928Abstract: An unmanned vehicle management system includes: an inter-vehicle distance determination unit that determines an inter-vehicle distance between a sprinkling vehicle and an unmanned vehicle traveling behind the sprinkling vehicle in a same direction as that of the sprinkling vehicle based on a sprinkling state from a sprinkling spray provided in the sprinkling vehicle traveling in a work site; and an output unit that outputs, to the unmanned vehicle, inter-vehicle distance data indicating the inter-vehicle distance determined by the inter-vehicle distance determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Kazuma Takeda, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
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Publication number: 20240068187Abstract: A sprinkling vehicle control system includes a travel control unit that switches a traveling direction of a sprinkling vehicle, and a sprinkling control unit that controls a first sprinkling spray provided at a first portion on one side in the traveling direction in the sprinkling vehicle. The sprinkling control unit controls the first sprinkling spray such that a sprinkling condition of the first sprinkling spray when the sprinkling vehicle travels to one side in the traveling direction is different from a sprinkling condition of the first sprinkling spray when the sprinkling vehicle travels to the other side in the traveling direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Misato Maeda, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
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Publication number: 20240059314Abstract: An unmanned vehicle management system includes: a traffic congestion prediction unit that predicts occurrence of a traffic congestion from travel situations of a plurality of unmanned vehicles traveling on a travel path at a work site; and a guidance command unit that, when occurrence of a traffic congestion is predicted, outputs a first guidance command so that an unmanned vehicle that causes the traffic congestion enters a side path branching from the travel path.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2021Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Yasuyuki Yamada, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
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Publication number: 20240016138Abstract: An unmanned vehicle management system includes: a protection area setting unit that sets a protection area where entry of an unmanned vehicle traveling around a sprinkler vehicle is prohibited on the basis of a sprinkling state of a sprinkle spray provided in the sprinkler vehicle moving at a work site; and an output unit that outputs the protection area set by the protection area setting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2022Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Kazuma Takeda, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
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Publication number: 20230266761Abstract: A haul vehicle management system includes: a three-dimensional data acquisition unit that acquires three-dimensional data outside an outline of a traveling area where a haul vehicle can travel; and a course data generation unit that generates a traveling course of the haul vehicle on the basis of outer shape data of the haul vehicle and the three-dimensional data, the traveling course being set in the traveling area.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2021Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Hiranaka, Atsushi Sakai, Yuji Kobashi, Kenta Osagawa
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Publication number: 20230229169Abstract: An unmanned vehicle control method for setting a permitted area where traveling is permitted for each unmanned vehicle, the unmanned vehicle control method includes: acquiring unmanned vehicle data including position data of the unmanned vehicle; acquiring road surface condition data of a travel path on which the unmanned vehicle travels; and generating data including a permitted area in the travel path of the unmanned vehicle, a stop point in the permitted area, and a target traveling speed for the unmanned vehicle to stop at the stop point on a basis of the unmanned vehicle data that has been acquired, wherein the permitted area is set on a basis of the road surface condition data of a predetermined area including the stop point.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2021Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Kenta Osagawa, Isao Toku
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Publication number: 20230205230Abstract: An unmanned vehicle control system 1 includes: a traveling condition data generation unit 322 that generates traveling condition data including a travel course of an unmanned vehicle and a traveling speed of the unmanned vehicle; and a travel control unit 124 that controls the unmanned vehicle on a basis of the traveling condition data generated by the traveling condition data generation unit 322, in which the traveling condition data generation unit 322 changes a speed limit of the traveling speed of the unmanned vehicle on the basis of information indicating a safety level when the unmanned vehicle travels on a side of a manned vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Kenta Osagawa, Yasuyuki Yamada
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Publication number: 20230099582Abstract: A management system for a transport vehicle includes a storage unit that stores a traveling path outline indicating an outline of a traveling path at a work site and an intersection outline indicating an outline of an intersection at the work site, a designation unit that designates a start point of traveling of the transport vehicle at the work site and an end point of traveling of the transport vehicle, and a connection unit that generates a traveling area outline by connecting the traveling path outline and the intersection outline on the basis of the start point and the end point designated by the designation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Sakai, Kazuma Takeda, Kenta Osagawa
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Publication number: 20230052077Abstract: A management system includes a course data generation unit that generates course data for each of a plurality of unmanned vehicles such that loading work for the plurality of unmanned vehicles by a loader is sequentially performed on a work site where a plurality of the loaders operates; and a priority determination unit that determine a passage order at an intersection on the work site of the plurality of unmanned vehicles traveling according to the course data so as to reduce a total loading loss indicating a total of loss amounts in operation of each of the plurality of the loaders.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicants: Komatsu Ltd., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Yusuke Maeda, Yudai Ogawa, Kenta Osagawa, Atsushi Sakai, Yasuchika Matsui
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Publication number: 20220148424Abstract: A management system of a work site includes a command unit that outputs a work command to an unmanned vehicle and a manned vehicle based on input data from a work machine operating at a work site in which the unmanned vehicle and the manned vehicle operate in a mixed manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
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Publication number: 20220144163Abstract: A work site management system includes: a travel course data acquisition unit that acquires travel course data of an unmanned vehicle which includes course type data indicating a type of an intersection at a work site where the unmanned vehicle travels; and a turn signal control unit that determines whether to normally operate or non-normally operate a direction indicator of the unmanned vehicle based on the course type data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
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Publication number: 20220114510Abstract: A work site management system includes: an entry-prohibited area setting unit that sets an entry-prohibited area to prohibit an entry of a manned transport vehicle at a discharging site in a work site; and a notification unit that notifies the manned transport vehicle of the entry-prohibited area.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2020Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
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Publication number: 20220105953Abstract: An unmanned vehicle control system includes: a speed limit calculation unit that calculates a speed limit of an unmanned vehicle based on inclination data of a travel path on the front side of the unmanned vehicle; and a travel control unit that causes the unmanned vehicle to travel based on the speed limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2020Publication date: April 7, 2022Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Kenta Osagawa, Tomonori Ozaki, Yuji Kobashi
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Patent number: 10802503Abstract: A control system of a transporter vehicle includes a target position data calculation unit configured to calculate target position data of a target point of the transporter vehicle based on positional relationship between a target object whose position data has been identified, and the target point of the transporter vehicle that is input by an input device, and a course data generation unit configured to generate course data of the transporter vehicle at least based on the target position data.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Masanori Minagawa, Hiroshi Fuji, Kenta Osagawa
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Patent number: 10635112Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle includes a course data generation unit that generates a traveling condition including a traveling route of the work vehicle in a workplace, a service area setting unit that sets a service area which is an area where the work vehicle is serviceable, a passage area setting unit that sets a passage area having a predetermined width along the traveling route generated by the course data generation unit, and an update data generation unit that generates update data for service area data obtained by expanding the service area when the passage area is present on an outer side of the service area.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: KOMATSU LTDInventors: Yuji Kobashi, Kenta Osagawa, Isao Toku, Tomonori Ozaki
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Patent number: 10591917Abstract: A work machine management apparatus includes: a switchback point setting unit configured to set a plurality of switchback points of a work machine in a work place of a mine; a work point setting unit configured to set at least one work point of the work machine in the work place; a travel track generating unit configured to generate a plurality of target travel tracks along which the work machine travels in the work place based on a position of the at least one work point and a position of each of the plurality of switchback points; and a travel track selecting unit configured to select, among the plurality of target travel tracks, a target travel track along which the work machine travels in the work place.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Yosuke Kadono, Takashi Hiranaka, Isao Toku, Kenta Osagawa, Takashi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10394250Abstract: A work machine management apparatus includes: a switchback point setting unit configured to set at least one switchback point of a work machine in a work place of a mine; a work point setting unit configured to set a plurality of work points of the work machine; a travel track generating unit configured to generate, based on a position of each of the plurality of work points and a position of the at least one switchback point in a loading place, a plurality of target travel tracks along which the work machine travels in the work place; and a travel track selecting unit configured to select, among the plurality of target travel tracks, a target travel track along which the work machine travels in the work place.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Yosuke Kadono, Takashi Hiranaka, Isao Toku, Kenta Osagawa, Takashi Yamamoto