Patents by Inventor Kentaro Murakami

Kentaro Murakami 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: 9145658
    Abstract: A hybrid hydraulic excavator includes: an engine; a generator motor; an electric storage device; a commanding system being configured to command at least activation of a service mode for maintenance and execution of a charge-release process for the electric storage device; a display being configured to provide at least information on the charge-release process for the electric storage device; and a display controller being configured to control displaying of the display. The display controller commands the display to display charge-release-failure information when the charge-release process is ongoing at the elapse of a predetermined duration of time since the activation of the service mode was commanded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Kitamura, Kentaro Murakami
  • Publication number: 20150202979
    Abstract: A battery charge/discharge control device which performs battery charge/discharge control in a working machine with a battery capable of storing electric energy generated by a generator motor coupled to an engine and driving the generator motor or at least one of other electric actuators by the stored electric energy and a controller which controls a distribution of the electric energy among the battery, the generator motor, and the electric actuator, wherein the controller performs the charge/discharge control in which the electric energy of the battery is discharged when the engine is driven and recharging to the battery is permitted on a condition that a state in which an engine speed is equal to or lower than a predetermined engine speed is maintained for a predetermined time after the battery is completely discharged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Kentaro Murakami, Tadashi Kawaguchi, Makoto Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 9045044
    Abstract: A battery charge/discharge control device which performs battery charge/discharge control in a working machine with a battery capable of storing electric energy generated by a generator motor coupled to an engine and driving the generator motor or at least one of other electric actuators by the stored electric energy and a controller which controls a distribution of the electric energy among the battery, the generator motor, and the electric actuator, wherein the controller performs the charge/discharge control in which the electric energy of the battery is discharged when the engine is driven and recharging to the battery is permitted on a condition that a state in which an engine speed is equal to or lower than a predetermined engine speed is maintained for a predetermined time after the battery is completely discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Murakami, Tadashi Kawaguchi, Makoto Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20150135693
    Abstract: The present invention includes an information generator to set a lever manipulation amount total sum decrease flag during a period when a lever manipulation amount total sum is decreasing, a first processor to process an engine actual output, an engine actual output latching function block to output the maximum value of the engine actual output until the present during a period in which a lever manipulation amount total sum decrease flag is not set, and output the present engine actual output during a period in which the flag is set, a second processor to output an engine target output based on the engine output, and a controller to control the engine speed under limitation of the engine target output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Murakami, Tadashi Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 9004206
    Abstract: An engine control device is provided including: detection units for detecting a driving state of a work machine using a generator, target engine speed setting units for causing, on the basis of the driving state, a target engine speed set for a case where electric power generation by the generator is OFF to be the same as a target engine speed set for a case where the electric power generation by the generator is ON, and engine target output calculation units for calculating an engine target output during electric power generation OFF that can be output at most when the electric power generation by the generator is OFF, and calculates an engine target output obtained by adding an output corresponding to an electric power generation amount by the generator to the engine target output when the electric power generation by the generator is ON.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kawaguchi, Takao Suehiro, Kentaro Murakami, Jun Morinaga
  • Publication number: 20150046004
    Abstract: A hybrid hydraulic excavator includes: an engine; a generator motor; an electric storage device; a commanding system being configured to command at least activation of a service mode for maintenance and execution of a charge-release process for the electric storage device; a display being configured to provide at least information on the charge-release process for the electric storage device; and a display controller being configured to control displaying of the display. The display controller commands the display to display charge-release-failure information when the charge-release process is ongoing at the elapse of a predetermined duration of time since the activation of the service mode was commanded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Kitamura, Kentaro Murakami
  • Publication number: 20140303198
    Abstract: Provided is an agent for treating and/or preventing obesity. An agent for suppressing expression of NPC1L1 (Niemann-Pick disease, type C1, gene-like 1) and/or LIPG (Lipase, endothelial) mRNA, and an agent for preventing and/or treating obesity, each comprising, as an active ingredient, a compound having CETP inhibitory activity, or a salt thereof, or a solvate thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: KOWA COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Murakami, Kentaro Murakami, Tadaaki Ohgiya, Kimiyuki Shibuya
  • Publication number: 20140230785
    Abstract: An engine control apparatus for controlling an engine which drives a hydraulic pump to discharge operation oil, the engine control apparatus includes: a pump driving power limit unit configured to limit pump driving power, which is power used to drive the hydraulic pump, based on pressure of the operation oil discharged by the hydraulic pump when in a state in which a part of the operation oil discharged by the hydraulic pump is released because pressure of the operation oil discharged by the hydraulic pump has become equal to or higher than preset relief pressure; and an engine output control unit configured to control output of the engine so that target speed, which is speed of the engine set as a target, becomes equal to or higher than a value of a point of time when limiting of the pump driving power is started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kawaguchi, Kentaro Murakami
  • Publication number: 20140214250
    Abstract: A battery charge/discharge control device which performs battery charge/discharge control in a working machine with a battery capable of storing electric energy generated by a generator motor coupled to an engine and driving the generator motor or at least one of other electric actuators by the stored electric energy and a controller which controls a distribution of the electric energy among the battery, the generator motor, and the electric actuator, wherein the controller performs the charge/discharge control in which the electric energy of the battery is discharged when the engine is driven and recharging to the battery is permitted on a condition that a state in which an engine speed is equal to or lower than a predetermined engine speed is maintained for a predetermined time after the battery is completely discharged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Murakami, Tadashi Kawaguchi, Makoto Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20140200795
    Abstract: An engine control device is provided including a detection unit for detecting the operating state of a working machine; a no-load maximum speed computation unit for computing a no-load maximum speed being an engine speed to be increased to the maximum upon a load of the working machine being released, based on the operating state; a target matching speed computation unit for computing a target matching speed being an engine speed to be increased upon a load being applied to the working machine, separately from the no-load maximum speed, based on the operating state; a target engine output computation unit for computing target engine output EL that can be outputted to the maximum, based on the operating state; and an engine control unit for controlling the engine speed between the no-load maximum speed and the target matching speed under a restriction of the target engine output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kawaguchi, Takao Suehiro, Kentaro Murakami, Jun Morinaga
  • Publication number: 20140188373
    Abstract: It is determined that assisting is required when a deviation of a target matching engine speed and a current engine speed is equal to or more than a predetermined value, and for a predetermined period of time since the time point at which it is determined that assisting is required, a target assist engine speed is set at a high rotation target matching engine speed which is more than the target matching engine speed, and thereafter the target assist engine speed is set gradually closer to the target matching engine speed, and an assist torque command value is output to the generator assisting output of the engine, and the engine speed is controlled, so that the engine speed attains the target assist engine speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kawaguchi, Kentaro Murakami, Jun Morinaga
  • Publication number: 20140054902
    Abstract: An engine control device is provided including: detection units for detecting a driving state of a work machine using a generator, target engine speed setting units for causing, on the basis of the driving state, a target engine speed set for a case where electric power generation by the generator is OFF to be the same as a target engine speed set for a case where the electric power generation by the generator is ON, and engine target output calculation units for calculating an engine target output during electric power generation OFF that can be output at most when the electric power generation by the generator is OFF, and calculates an engine target output obtained by adding an output corresponding to an electric power generation amount by the generator to the engine target output when the electric power generation by the generator is ON.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kawaguchi, Takao Suehiro, Kentaro Murakami, Jun Morinaga
  • Publication number: 20130098033
    Abstract: In an intake controller for an internal combustion engine, an opening controlling unit performs, when a light load operation is performed during a manual forced regeneration process of a diesel particulate filter which reduces an amount of particulate matter included in exhaust gas exhausted from the internal combustion engine, control to form a bypass passage by setting an open-close valve to a fully closed state and a variable turbo nozzle to a fully closed state and which performs, when an amount of the injected fuel detected by a fuel injection amount detecting unit becomes zero, control to set the open-close valve from the fully closed state to a fully opened state and the variable turbo nozzle from the fully closed state to a fully opened state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventors: Kentaro Murakami, Yoshiki Kanzaki
  • Publication number: 20120165377
    Abstract: An FGF21 production promoting agent containing, as an active ingredient, a compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein each of R1 and R2, which may be identical to or different from each other, represents, for example, a hydrogen atom; each of R3a, R3b, R4a, and R4b, which may be identical to or different from one another, represents, for example, a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom, or R3a and R3b or R4a and R4b may bond together to form an alkylenedioxy group; X represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or N—R5 (R5 represents, for example, a hydrogen atom or a C1-4 alkyl group); Y represents, for example, an oxygen atom, an S(O)l group (l is a number of from 0 to 2), or a carbonyl group; Z represents CH or N; n is a number of from 1 to 6; and m is a number from 2 to 6, a salt of the compound, or a solvate of the compound or the salt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: Kowa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Takizawa, Kentaro Murakami
  • Patent number: 7244036
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp has light source units connected in parallel, an output controlling switch operable to intermittently carry an electric current by repeating on and off, an output coil operable to output electric power according to current flowing into said output controlling switch in synchronization when said output switch switches, a selection controlling unit operable to select at least one said light source unit in synchronization when said output controlling switch switches and cause said at least one selected light source to receive the power output from said output coil, and a malfunction detecting unit operable to detect malfunction of each of said light source units, wherein said selection controlling unit selects at least one said light source unit among said light source units from which malfunction is not detected when said malfunction detecting unit detects malfunction of either of said light source units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Murakami, Masayasu Ito
  • Patent number: 7081708
    Abstract: A lighting circuit for lighting a vehicular lamp including a plurality of light-emitting diodes, includes: a selection unit for selecting the number of light-emitting diodes to be connected in series in the vehicular lamp based on an instruction from the outside; a switching regulator for applying an output voltage based on a power-supply voltage output by an external DC power supply to the selected number of light-emitting diodes to be connected in series, so as to supply a supply current to the selected number of light-emitting diodes; and an output controlling unit for controlling the output voltage of the switching regulator based on the supply current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayasu Ito, Hiroki Ishibashi, Kentaro Murakami, Hitoshi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20050179393
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp that illuminates a plurality of light source units adequately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Murakami, Masayasu Ito
  • Patent number: 6930472
    Abstract: A switching regulator circuit for supplying two input potentials to a passive device that is driven by a potential difference between the two input potentials irrespective of potential differences between the two input potentials and a ground potential, includes: a low-voltage input terminal for receiving a lower input potential that is lower one of the two input potentials; a coil provided between the low-voltage input terminal and the passive device in series; and a switching device, provided between the low-voltage input terminal and the passive device to be in series with the coil, for making the coil generate a potential higher than the lower input voltage by repeatedly switching whether or not a current is allowed to flow in the coil, so as to supply the generated potential to the passive device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayasu Ito, Hitoshi Takeda, Kentaro Murakami
  • Patent number: 6876153
    Abstract: A switching regulator circuit for controlling power supplied to a load, includes: a switching device for repeatedly going on or off to control a voltage or a current applied to the load; a detector for detecting a supply voltage or a supply current supplied to the load; and a controller for controlling a duration ratio of a period in which the switching device is on or off based on the supply voltage or supply current detected by the detector, so as to control a value of the voltage applied to the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayasu Ito, Hitoshi Takeda, Kentaro Murakami
  • Patent number: 6847169
    Abstract: A lighting circuit for lighting a vehicular lamp including a light-emitting diode, includes: a switching regulator for applying an output voltage based on a power-supply voltage received from a DC power supply provided in the outside thereof to the light-emitting diode so as to supply a supply current to the light-emitting diode; an abnormal state detector for detecting an abnormal state of the lighting circuit based on at least one of the output voltage of the switching regulator, the supply current and the power-supply voltage; and an output controlling unit for controlling the output voltage of the switching regulator based on the supply current or the output voltage of the switching regulator and lowering the output voltage of the switching regulator in a case where the abnormal state detector detected the abnormal state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayasu Ito, Hiroki Ishibashi, Kentaro Murakami, Hitoshi Takeda