Patents by Inventor Koichi KIYASU

Koichi KIYASU 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: 20240117601
    Abstract: To avoid a large size of a direction change-over valve and enable accurate supply flow control when providing a flow control valve at an upstream side of the direction change-over valve to change the relationship between supply flow rate and discharge flow rate for a hydraulic actuator. The configuration is to control a supply flow rate to a stick cylinder based on an opening area of the stick's direction change-over valve and stick's flow control valve, calculate a target opening area of the stick's flow control valve based on a target supply flow rate from hydraulic pumps A, B to the stick cylinder, the opening area of the stick's direction change-over valve, and a target differential pressure between hydraulic pump A and a load pressure of stick cylinder, and control the stick's flow control valve so as to keep the target opening area calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki NAKAJIMA, Koichi KIYASU
  • Publication number: 20240068492
    Abstract: Problem: Calibrating a correspondence relationship between a pump control current value and a pump flow rate of the hydraulic pump in a hydraulic system including a variable capacity hydraulic pump whose capacity is variably controlled according to the pump control current value, a flow rate control valve whose opening area is variably controlled according to a valve control current value, and a pressure compensation valve that maintains differential pressure before and after the flow control valve to be constant is made in a precise and simple manner. Solution: The spool valve has a configuration in which the pump control current value is sweepingly increased and the peak of a change of pump pressure during the sweeping increase is calibrated as the pump control current value of the pump flow rate of the target flow rate, with the spool valve held in the aperture area corresponding to the spool valve output flow rate of the arbitrary target flow rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki NAKAJIMA, Koichi KIYASU
  • Patent number: 11885099
    Abstract: To provide a drift-prevention valve device, a blade device, and a working machine capable of operating an actuated unit and preventing the machine body from drifting with a simple configuration. The drift-prevention valve device is provided with a non-return valve 41 that allows the flow of hydraulic oil from a control valve 28 to a head chamber 34h of a blade cylinder 34 and blocks the flow of the hydraulic oil in the reverse direction; and a piston accommodation part 42 separately disposed from an accommodation part 70 of the non-return valve 41, configured to movably accommodate a power piston 43. The power piston 43 defines a first piston chamber 42p1 communicating with a rod chamber of 34r of the blade cylinder 34 and a second piston chamber 42p2 for drain positioned on a poppet 71 side of the non-return valve 41 and communicating with a tank 52.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Shuhei Orimoto, Koichi Kiyasu, Hiroshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 11692332
    Abstract: To improve operability and work efficiency while achieving reduction of the number of parts and simplification of circuit structure, in a hydraulic control system equipped with hydraulic actuators whose hydraulic power sources are both the first, second hydraulic pumps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki Nakajima, Koichi Kiyasu
  • Publication number: 20230183945
    Abstract: To perform a work with the same operability under a dead weight of a front work equipment in any of a float work and a normal work, when a bucket descends in the air, and after contacting the ground, to perform a work with the operability being maintained as it is when performing the float work, and to perform a work while pressurized hydraulic fluid is supplied from a hydraulic pump when performing the normal work. A lower-ing control during a float working mode is performed in a valve passage state in a first region at which the lowering control is performed under the dead weight of the from work equip-ment without being supplied with hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic pump, regardless of whether or not the bucket is in contact with the ground, and the lowering control during a normal working mode is performed in a valve passage state at the first region in a non-ground-contacting state and at a second region in which the hydraulic fluid can be supplied from the hydraulic pump n a ground-contacting state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki NAKAJIMA, Koichi KIYASU
  • Publication number: 20230119892
    Abstract: To enable to arbitrarily change a hydraulic pump which supplies pressure oil to a hydraulic actuator at first in a hydraulic control system equipped with the hydraulic actuator using both first and second hydraulic pumps as a pressure oil source. An operation means is installed which can arbitrarily change working order of the first flow rate control valves for boom and stick for controlling the supply flow rate from first hydraulic pump to boom cylinder and stick cylinder and second flow rate control valves for boom and stick for controlling the supply flow rate from second hydraulic pump to boom cylinder and stick cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki NAKAJIMA, Koichi KIYASU
  • Patent number: 11629479
    Abstract: To make it possible to control supply, discharge, and recycled flow rates independently of each other for the stick cylinder in a construction machine comprising first and second stick spool valves respectively connected to first and second hydraulic pumps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki Nakajima, Koichi Kiyasu
  • Publication number: 20230078399
    Abstract: To achieve improvement in work efficiency of calibration work and improvement in calibration accuracy, by performing control so that the time taken to increase the sweep of an applied current becomes substantially constant, upon the calibration of a valve opening position current value when a valve operated by electrical current applied to an electrical actuator opens a flow passage. There is provided a predicted value calculating means for predicting a calibration value of a valve opening position current value on the basis of information concerning valve opening position current values, and the sweep starting current value is set so that the time taken to increase the sweep to a predicted value predicted by the predicted value calculating means from a sweep start becomes a fixed time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki NAKAJIMA, Koichi KIYASU
  • Patent number: 11566640
    Abstract: To make it possible to control supply, discharge, and recycled flow rates independently of each other for the boom cylinder in a construction machine comprising first and second boom spool valves respectively connected to first and second hydraulic pumps. When the boom cylinder is contracted, the first boom spool valve is configured to control the recycled flow rate from head side oil chamber to rod side oil chamber, the second boom spool valve is configured to control the discharge flow rate from head side oil chamber to oil tank, and both first and second boom spool valves are configured not to supply pressure oil from first and second hydraulic pumps to the boom cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki Nakajima, Koichi Kiyasu
  • Publication number: 20220275605
    Abstract: To improve operability and work efficiency while achieving reduction of the number of parts and simplification of circuit structure, in a hydraulic control system equipped with hydraulic actuators whose hydraulic power sources are both the first, second hydraulic pumps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki NAKAJIMA, Koichi KIYASU
  • Patent number: 11428333
    Abstract: It is to provide a control valve that can make the valve body smaller and the structure simplified and the hydraulic pressure system equipped therewith. The plural number of parallel feeder oil paths that are respectively connected to the plural number of pumps and are not cut off by displacement of spools is provided in the valve body in a linearly through all spool holes. For each section, a connection oil path is provided to connect any one side of parallel feeder oil paths to the bridge circuit B of the internal spools. Parallel feeder oil paths can be positioned in a simple shape, but also, just by properly providing connection oil paths, without depending on each section belonging to any of pump systems, positioning of section can be freely done within the valve body. Making the valve body smaller and the structure simplification can be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Shuhei Orimoto, Koichi Kiyasu
  • Publication number: 20220049463
    Abstract: [Problem to Be Solved] To make it possible to control supply, discharge, and recycled flow rates independently of each other for the boom cylinder in a construction machine comprising first and second boom spool valves respectively connected to first and second hydraulic pumps. [Solution] When the boom cylinder (8) is contracted, the first boom spool valve (16) is configured to control the recycled flow rate from head side a chamber (8A) to rod side oil chamber (8B), the second boom spool valve (17) is configured to control the discharge flow rate from head side oil chamber (8A) to oil tank (15), and both first and second boom spool valves (16, 17) are configured not to supply pressure oil from first and second hydraulic pumps (11, 12) to the boom cylinder (8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Hideki Nakajima, Koichi KIYASU
  • Publication number: 20210372085
    Abstract: To provide a drift-prevention valve device, a blade device, and a working machine capable of operating an actuated unit and preventing the machine body from drifting with a simple configuration. The drift-prevention valve device is provided with a non-return valve 41 that allows the flow of hydraulic oil from a control valve 28 to a head chamber 34h of a blade cylinder 34 and blocks the flow of the hydraulic oil in the reverse direction; and a piston accommodation part 42 separately disposed from an accommodation part 70 of the non-return valve 41, configured to movably accommodate a power piston 43. The power piston 43 defines a first piston chamber 42p1 communicating with a rod chamber of 34r of the blade cylinder 34 and a second piston chamber 42p2 for drain positioned on a poppet 71 side of the non-return valve 41 and communicating with a tank 52.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Shuhei ORIMOTO, Koichi KIYASU, Hiroshi MAEDA