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: 20240321095
    Abstract: An operation management system configured to manage operations of registered mobilities in a limited specific area, including a computer configured to: generate a road surface map data such that a position in map data and road surface information are associated with each other, based on positional information and road surface information obtained from at least one of the registered mobilities on which a road surface condition detecting device is installed; compute a positon where a puddle is formed, based on i) one of water sprinkling information that is information on water sprinkling over a road surface by a sprinkler vehicle or weather information of the specific area and ii) the road surface map data; designate a designation mobility from among the registered mobilities and modify a target route of the designation mobility based on the puddle position; and send a command regarding the modified target route to the designation mobility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke NOZAWA, Shun MIZOO, Toru TAKASHIMA, Takashi HIRANAKA, Kenta OSAGAWA, Shota KONISHI
  • Publication number: 20240295883
    Abstract: An operation management system including a computer configured to manage operations of registered mobilities. The computer stores road surface information in association with a position in map data based on at least a detection result of a surroundings monitoring device and positional information received from a measurement mobility. The computer stores, as a detail detection area, at least one of a poor detection area in the map data in which detection of the road surface information by the measurement mobility is poor and a predetermined area in the map data. The computer transmits, to the measurement mobility that is scheduled to travel or that is traveling the detail detection area, a speed change command, such that the measurement mobility, which travels at a normal command speed by automated driving, travels the detail detection area at a specific speed lower than the normal command speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro OKANO, Toru TAKASHIMA, Yusuke NOZAWA, Shun MIZOO, Takashi HIRANAKA, Kenta OSAGAWA, Shota KONISHI
  • Patent number: 12060696
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignees: Komatsu Ltd., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yusuke Maeda, Yudai Ogawa, Kenta Osagawa, Atsushi Sakai, Yasuchika Matsui
  • Publication number: 20240262384
    Abstract: A traveling control system configured to control traveling of a movable body includes: a traveling control portion configured to control traveling of the movable body such that a wheel of the movable body passes a protrusion of a road surface, based on an unevenness condition of the road surface of a travel region where the movable body travels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke NOZAWA, Shun Mizoo, Toru Takashima, Takahiro Okano, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa, Shota Konishi
  • Publication number: 20240249620
    Abstract: A management system configured to manage a plurality of movable bodies that travels a travel region, including: a work plan generating device configured to generate a work plan of the plurality of movable bodies based on a run-through ability of each of the plurality of movable bodies and a road surface condition that is a condition of a road surface of the travel region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Toru TAKASHIMA, Takahiro Okano, Shun Mizoo, Yusuke Nozawa, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa, Shota Konishi
  • Publication number: 20240231389
    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: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Misato Maeda, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
  • Patent number: 12017579
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
  • 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: 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