Patents by Inventor Koichi Kuroda
Koichi Kuroda 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).
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Publication number: 20250113759Abstract: A work vehicle includes an exterior sensor to output sensor data indicating geographic features around the work vehicle, and a controller configured or programmed to control self-traveling of the work vehicle in an inter-row travel mode of travel along a target path between adjacent crop rows detected based on the sensor data, and in a turning travel mode of turning in a headland before and after the inter-row travel mode. In the turning travel mode, the controller calculates amounts of positional and directional deviations with respect to a target path in a next instance of the inter-row travel mode based on the sensor data, and switches from the turning travel mode to the inter-row travel mode upon satisfying a first condition that the amount of positional deviation is smaller than a first threshold and a second condition that the amount of directional deviation is smaller than a second threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Inventors: Koichi KURODA, Tomohiro KINOSHITA, Takuya TAMAI
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Publication number: 20250098563Abstract: A work vehicle includes an exterior sensor to output sensor data indicating a distribution of geographic features around the work vehicle, and a controller configured or programmed to control self-traveling of the work vehicle, detect two crop rows existing on opposite sides of the work vehicle based on the sensor data, and cause the work vehicle to travel along a path between the two crop rows. During travel, if an end of at least a crop row that corresponds to a turning direction between the two crop rows is detected based on the sensor data, the controller is configured or programmed to set a coordinate system for turning travel that is fixed to a ground surface and a target point for the turning travel. The controller is configured or programmed to control the turning travel toward the target point based on the coordinate system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Takuya TAMAI, Tomohiro KINOSHITA, Koichi KURODA
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Patent number: 12072014Abstract: A power transmission device for a work vehicle includes: a transmission case; a gear transmission contained in the transmission case and configured to receive motive power from a power source; a differential mechanism contained in the transmission case and configured to receive motive power from the gear transmission and transmit the motive power to a left wheel and a right wheel; and a gear cover covering a lower portion of a ring gear of the differential mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Jinnai, Sota Kitamura, Koichi Kuroda, Hiroshi Yachi
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Patent number: 12064798Abstract: A method disclosed herewith is a method for producing a first seamless metal tube with a first wall thickness and a second seamless metal tube with a second wall thickness by using a three-roll-type inclined rolling mill, and the method includes a first inclination rolling step (#5), a setting changing step (#10), and a second inclination rolling step (#15). At the first inclination rolling step, a first workpiece is rolled by the inclined rolling mill. At the setting changing step, a setup condition of the inclined rolling mill is changed in a manner (a) or (b) as described below. At the second inclined rolling step, a second workpiece is rolled by the inclined rolling mill under the changed condition. (a) When the second wall thickness is smaller than the first wall thickness, the cross angle of each of the inclined rolls is made greater than the cross angle set for the first inclination rolling step.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Shimoda, Kouji Yamane, Koichi Kuroda, Yuji Inoue, Shusuke Shimooka, Kazuyuki Murakami, Kota Shindo
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Publication number: 20240242928Abstract: Provided is a charged particle beam device that makes it possible to perform a high-speed autofocus operation which reduces damage to a sample by eliminating the need for a focus sweep operation or reducing the number of focus sweep operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2021Publication date: July 18, 2024Inventor: Koichi KURODA
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Publication number: 20230054014Abstract: A method disclosed herewith is a method for producing a first seamless metal tube with a first wall thickness and a second seamless metal tube with a second wall thickness by using a three-roll-type inclined rolling mill, and the method includes a first inclination rolling step (#5), a setting changing step (#10), and a second inclination rolling step (#15). At the first inclination rolling step, a first workpiece is rolled by the inclined rolling mill. At the setting changing step, a setup condition of the inclined rolling mill is changed in a manner (a) or (b) as described below. At the second inclined rolling step, a second workpiece is rolled by the inclined rolling mill under the changed condition. (a) When the second wall thickness is smaller than the first wall thickness, the cross angle of each of the inclined rolls is made greater than the cross angle set for the first inclination rolling step.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2020Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Kazuhiro SHIMODA, Kouji YAMANE, Koichi KURODA, Yuji INOUE, Shusuke SHIMOOKA, Kazuyuki MURAKAMI, Kota SHINDO
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Publication number: 20220397189Abstract: A power transmission device for a work vehicle includes: a transmission case; a gear transmission contained in the transmission case and configured to receive motive power from a power source; a differential mechanism contained in the transmission case and configured to receive motive power from the gear transmission and transmit the motive power to a left wheel and a right wheel; and a gear cover covering a lower portion of a ring gear of the differential mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi JINNAI, Sota KITAMURA, Koichi KURODA, Hiroshi YACHI
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Patent number: 11517359Abstract: In order to apply, with a simple and easy means, proper pressure between bone segments spaced apart as a result of osteotomy or a bone fracture, without lowering the fixing force at the screw meshing portion, without increasing a dead space, and without increasing the thickness of the plate, the present invention provides a bone plate having an upper face, which is to be in contact with bone, a lower face, which is to be in contact with the bone, and a plurality of holes arranged to receive bone screws and connecting the upper face and the lower face. In at least one of the holes, a portion of an edge, on the upper face, of the hole is formed so as to be raised in the form of a protrusion higher than the upper face around the hole.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: OLYMPUS TERUMO BIOMATERIALS CORP.Inventors: Koichi Kuroda, Yasuharu Yokoyama, Tomohiko Fukuhara, Masaki Atarashi, Kitaru Suzuki, Minoru Harada, Toshihisa Iwanaga, Mitsuya Urata
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Publication number: 20220378986Abstract: An implant including an implant body to be inserted into biological tissue, the implant body having a hollow portion that penetrates the implant body, and an antibacterial property-imparting means that imparts an antibacterial property to at least the hollow portion of the implant body.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: OLYMPUS TERUMO BIOMATERIALS CORP.Inventors: Masaki ATARASHI, Kimiaki TAKAMI, Koichi KURODA
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Patent number: 11317925Abstract: An osteotomy surgical apparatus according to the present invention includes a bone cutting blade used for cutting bone tissue and a guard disposed so as to overlap the bone cutting blade in a side view of the bone cutting blade. A distal end of the guard is disposed at a position retracted rearward relative to a blade edge of the bone cutting blade.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: OLYMPUS TERUMO BIOMATERIALS CORP.Inventors: Koichi Kuroda, Mitsuya Urata, Ryohei Takeuchi
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Patent number: 11253295Abstract: Provided is a vertebral spacer including a columnar main-body portion attached to individual cut end portions of the cut vertebral arch by screws, wherein the main-body portion is provided with two accommodating holes formed inside the main-body portion at positions spaced in a longitudinal direction of the main-body portion, and individually accommodating head portions of the screws, the individual accommodating holes are provided with openings through which the head portions are inserted into the accommodating holes from outside the main-body portion, and the openings have diameters greater than diameters of shaft portions of the screws, smaller than diameters of the head portions, and increased to a size that is greater than the diameters of the head portions.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: OLYMPUS TERUMO BIOMATERIALS CORP.Inventors: Tomohiko Fukuhara, Koji Nishiyama, Koichi Kuroda, Mitsuya Urata, Katsuyoshi Sobue, Ryunosuke Seki
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Patent number: 11076899Abstract: A pressing tool for bone surgery according to the present invention includes a pressing member formed substantially columnar shape having, at one end, a pressing surface formed of a convex and substantially spherical surface; and a hook member formed to have a hook shape that is to be engaged with a surface of a bone, the hook member having a support portion at a first end, the support portion supporting the pressing member so that the pressing surface is directed toward a second end, and a projection portion at the second end, the projection portion projecting toward the supporting portion and being to be bited into the surface of the bone, wherein the support portion supports the pressing member in state of the pressing member is movable in a longitudinal direction toward the projection portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: OLYMPUS TERUMO BIOMATERIALS CORP.Inventors: Koichi Kuroda, Mitsuya Urata, Ryohei Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20210229153Abstract: Method for bend straightening in which a steel pipe having a bend is placed in a state where the steel pipe is convex upward, the steel pipe is pressed from above by a press unit at a target load value, whereby the steel pipe is straightened, the method including: (a) measuring a bottom-dead-center load value Pk when the press unit is at a bottom dead center in the pressing; (b) measuring an amount of change 46 in amount of bend between an amount of bend of the steel pipe before the pressing in step (a) and an amount of bend of the steel pipe after the pressing in the step (a); (c) repeating step (a) and step (b) a plurality of times to create a relational expression Pk=(??); and (d) determining a target load value for next pressing from the relational expression Pk =(??).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2019Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi KURODA, Shuji OTAO
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Publication number: 20210177473Abstract: In order to apply, with a simple and easy means, proper pressure between bone segments spaced apart as a result of osteotomy or a bone fracture, without lowering the fixing force at the screw meshing portion, without increasing a dead space, and without increasing the thickness of the plate, the present invention provides a bone plate having an upper face, which is to be in contact with bone, a lower face, which is to be in contact with the bone, and a plurality of holes arranged to receive bone screws and connecting the upper face and the lower face. In at least one of the holes, a portion of an edge, on the upper face, of the hole is formed so as to be raised in the form of a protrusion higher than the upper face around the hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2020Publication date: June 17, 2021Applicant: OLYMPUS TERUMO BIOMATERIALS CORP.Inventors: Koichi KURODA, Yasuharu YOKOYAMA, Tomohiko FUKUHARA, Masaki ATARASHI, Kitaru SUZUKI, Minoru HARADA, Toshihisa IWANAGA, Mitsuya URATA
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Patent number: 11002647Abstract: A stress test the jig 10 includes an upper cylinder 12, a lower cylinder 14, and a frame 16. The frame 16 has an accommodating space 16a, an upper through hole 16b, and a lower through hole 16c. A test specimen 20 is disposed in the accommodating space 16a, the upper cylinder 12 is inserted into the upper through hole 16b, and the lower cylinder 14 is inserted into the lower through hole 16c. The upper cylinder 12 and the lower cylinder 14 fix the test specimen 20 such that the test specimen 20, the upper cylinder 12, and the lower cylinder 14 are positioned coaxially.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Koichi Kuroda, Daisaku Yanaga, Yuhei Suzuki
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Patent number: 10932831Abstract: A bone plate includes: a band-shaped body section that is fixed along a longitudinal direction of the tibia; a transverse section that is fixed along a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction of the tibia; a joining section for joining the body section and the transverse section; and screw holes. The body section, the joining section, and the transverse section have a curved surface shape, a first plane on which the axial line of a screw hole in the joining section is disposed and a second plane on which the axial line of a screw hole in the body section is disposed are substantially parallel to each other, the angles between a straight line connecting a longitudinal direction upper-end portion and lower-end portion of the bone plate and the first plane and the second plane are predetermined angles, and an axial line and an axial line are at twisted positions.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi Kuroda, Mitsuya Urata
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Patent number: 10905480Abstract: The bone plate of the present invention includes a body portion to be fixed to an obliquely anterior medial surface of the tibia below the osteotomy surface; a wide portion to be fixed to an outer peripheral surface of the tibia at a higher position than the osteotomy surface; a connecting portion that connects the body portion and the wide portion; and a plurality of screw holes arrayed in the body portion, the wide portion and the connecting portion. An inner surface that extends from the wide portion to the connecting portion and faces the tibia has a continuous curved shape twisted about an axis along the longitudinal direction of the tibia. The wide portion is offset in an outward plate thickness direction with respect to the body portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi Kuroda, Mitsuya Urata, Ryohei Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20200000499Abstract: Provided is a vertebral spacer including a columnar main-body portion attached to individual cut end portions of the cut vertebral arch by screws, wherein the main-body portion is provided with two accommodating holes formed inside the main-body portion at positions spaced in a longitudinal direction of the main-body portion, and individually accommodating head portions of the screws, the individual accommodating holes are provided with openings through which the head portions are inserted into the accommodating holes from outside the main-body portion, and the openings have diameters greater than diameters of shaft portions of the screws, smaller than diameters of the head portions, and increased to a size that is greater than the diameters of the head portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: OLYMPUS TERUMO BIOMATERIALS CORP.Inventors: Tomohiko FUKUHARA, Koji NISHIYAMA, Koichi KURODA, Mitsuya URATA, Katsuyoshi SOBUE, Ryunosuke SEKI
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Publication number: 20190242799Abstract: A stress test the jig 10 includes an upper cylinder 12, a lower cylinder 14, and a frame 16. The frame 16 has an accommodating space 16a, an upper through hole 16b, and a lower through hole 16c. A test specimen 20 is disposed in the accommodating space 16a, the upper cylinder 12 is inserted into the upper through hole 16b, and the lower cylinder 14 is inserted into the lower through hole 16c. The upper cylinder 12 and the lower cylinder 14 fix the test specimen 20 such that the test specimen 20, the upper cylinder 12, and the lower cylinder 14 are positioned coaxially.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2017Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Koichi Kuroda, Daisaku Yanaga, Yuhei Suzuki
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Patent number: D1069797Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: PFU LimitedInventors: Koichi Nakamura, Satoshi Kuroda, Hiroshi Shiraiwa, Shinya Orita