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).

  • Publication number: 20240142262
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke NOZAWA, Shun Mizoo, Toru Takashima, Takahiro Okano, Kenta Osagawa, Takashi Hiranaka, Shota Konishi
  • Publication number: 20240134395
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Misato Maeda, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
  • Publication number: 20240126301
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicants: Komatsu Ltd., Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
  • Publication number: 20240075928
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuma Takeda, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
  • Publication number: 20240068187
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Misato Maeda, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
  • Publication number: 20240059314
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Yamada, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
  • Publication number: 20240016138
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuma Takeda, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
  • Publication number: 20230266761
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Hiranaka, Atsushi Sakai, Yuji Kobashi, Kenta Osagawa
  • Publication number: 20230229169
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenta Osagawa, Isao Toku
  • Publication number: 20230205230
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenta Osagawa, Yasuyuki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230099582
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakai, Kazuma Takeda, Kenta Osagawa
  • Publication number: 20230052077
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicants: Komatsu Ltd., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yusuke Maeda, Yudai Ogawa, Kenta Osagawa, Atsushi Sakai, Yasuchika Matsui
  • Publication number: 20220148424
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
  • Publication number: 20220144163
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
  • Publication number: 20220114510
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
  • Publication number: 20220105953
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenta Osagawa, Tomonori Ozaki, Yuji Kobashi
  • Patent number: 10802503
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Minagawa, Hiroshi Fuji, Kenta Osagawa
  • Patent number: 10635112
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD
    Inventors: Yuji Kobashi, Kenta Osagawa, Isao Toku, Tomonori Ozaki
  • Patent number: 10591917
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Kadono, Takashi Hiranaka, Isao Toku, Kenta Osagawa, Takashi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10394250
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Kadono, Takashi Hiranaka, Isao Toku, Kenta Osagawa, Takashi Yamamoto