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: 9145658Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 23, 2013Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Kitamura, Kentaro Murakami
-
Publication number: 20150202979Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: July 23, 2015Inventors: Kentaro Murakami, Tadashi Kawaguchi, Makoto Hashimoto
-
Patent number: 9045044Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Kentaro Murakami, Tadashi Kawaguchi, Makoto Hashimoto
-
Publication number: 20150135693Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Kentaro Murakami, Tadashi Kawaguchi
-
Patent number: 9004206Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 17, 2012Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Tadashi Kawaguchi, Takao Suehiro, Kentaro Murakami, Jun Morinaga
-
Publication number: 20150046004Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Kitamura, Kentaro Murakami
-
Publication number: 20140303198Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2012Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: KOWA COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Murakami, Kentaro Murakami, Tadaaki Ohgiya, Kimiyuki Shibuya
-
Publication number: 20140230785Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Tadashi Kawaguchi, Kentaro Murakami
-
Publication number: 20140214250Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Kentaro Murakami, Tadashi Kawaguchi, Makoto Hashimoto
-
Publication number: 20140200795Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2012Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Tadashi Kawaguchi, Takao Suehiro, Kentaro Murakami, Jun Morinaga
-
Publication number: 20140188373Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Tadashi Kawaguchi, Kentaro Murakami, Jun Morinaga
-
Publication number: 20140054902Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2012Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Tadashi Kawaguchi, Takao Suehiro, Kentaro Murakami, Jun Morinaga
-
Publication number: 20130098033Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2011Publication date: April 25, 2013Inventors: Kentaro Murakami, Yoshiki Kanzaki
-
Publication number: 20120165377Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2010Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: Kowa Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiaki Takizawa, Kentaro Murakami
-
Patent number: 7244036Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 14, 2005Date of Patent: July 17, 2007Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kentaro Murakami, Masayasu Ito
-
Patent number: 7081708Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 14, 2003Date of Patent: July 25, 2006Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayasu Ito, Hiroki Ishibashi, Kentaro Murakami, Hitoshi Takeda
-
Publication number: 20050179393Abstract: A vehicular lamp that illuminates a plurality of light source units adequately.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2005Publication date: August 18, 2005Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kentaro Murakami, Masayasu Ito
-
Patent number: 6930472Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 9, 2003Date of Patent: August 16, 2005Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayasu Ito, Hitoshi Takeda, Kentaro Murakami
-
Patent number: 6876153Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 14, 2003Date of Patent: April 5, 2005Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayasu Ito, Hitoshi Takeda, Kentaro Murakami
-
Patent number: 6847169Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 7, 2003Date of Patent: January 25, 2005Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayasu Ito, Hiroki Ishibashi, Kentaro Murakami, Hitoshi Takeda