Patents by Inventor Koji Takeda

Koji Takeda 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: 20190138016
    Abstract: A work machine management device includes a manned-vehicle-data acquisition unit configured to acquire position data of a manned vehicle including a first direction indicator and operation data of the first direction indicator, a target-travel-route generation unit configured to generate a target travel route for a work machine, a blinker-data setting unit configured to set blinker data for controlling a second direction indicator of the work machine on the basis of link data obtained by associating the position data of the manned vehicle and the operation data of the first direction indicator, and an output unit configured to output the blinker data to the work machine traveling along the target travel route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Ogihara, Koji Takeda, Tomonori Ozaki, Akiharu Nishijima, Ryuuen Kou
  • Publication number: 20190119837
    Abstract: Initial pattern data (50) and gauge data are stored, the pattern data is converted into knitting data based on the gauge data, and a knitted product is test-knitted. Sizes of the test-knitted product are compared with sizes indicated by the initial pattern data (50), and the pattern data or the knitting data is corrected. The correction amounts for the pattern data or for knitting data for two sizes are stored, and interpolation or extrapolation is performed based on the stored correction amounts to correct pattern data or knitting data for other sizes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: SHIMA SEIKI MFG., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi TERAI, Koji TAKEDA, Takenori TAKATSUKA, Takahiro AOKI
  • Publication number: 20190084474
    Abstract: A work machine management system includes: an obstacle data acquisition unit that acquires position data of an obstacle; a detour course setting unit that sets detour course data that is a detour course of course data along which a work machine travels based on the position data of the obstacle; a turn signal data setting unit that sets turn signal data to control a direction indicator of the work machine in the detour course; and an output unit that outputs the turn signal data to the work machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Masanori Ogihara, Koji Takeda, Tomonori Ozaki, Akiharu Nishijima, Ryuuen Kou
  • Patent number: 10155653
    Abstract: An automatic supply system of a consumable material includes: an automatic supply device that automatically supplies a consumable material to a vehicle capable of being loaded with a cargo; and a control device that obtains loading information indicating whether or not the cargo is loaded on the vehicle, and is able to control an automatic supply of the consumable material to the vehicle based on the obtained loading information, wherein, when the control device determines that the cargo is loaded on the vehicle from the obtained loading information, the control device controls the automatic supply device not to perform the automatic supply of the consumable material to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Tojima, Kouichi Yamashita, Tsugio Sudou, Koji Takeda
  • Publication number: 20180354412
    Abstract: A work machine management system includes: an operation range setting unit that sets an operation range in which a direction indicator of a work machine is operated; a traveling condition data generation unit that generates traveling condition data of the work machine; a blinker data setting unit that generates blinker data for controlling the direction indicator on the basis of the operation range and the traveling condition data; and an output device that outputs the blinker data to the work machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Masanori Ogihara, Koji Takeda, Tomonori Ozaki, Akiharu Nishijima, Ryuuen Kou
  • Publication number: 20180281656
    Abstract: A control system for a dump truck includes a signal reception unit that receives a rising command signal to cause the dump truck including a vessel and a hydraulic cylinder configured to raise and lower the vessel to start a rising action of the vessel, and a vessel control unit that varies an extension speed of the hydraulic cylinder nonlinearly with respect to elapsed time when the signal reception unit receives the rising command signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Kenta Osagawa, Koji Takeda
  • Patent number: 9879919
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a pair of end plates closing opposite ends of a cylindrical core case, and a plurality of heat exchange tubes each supported at opposite end portions by the end plates. The end plates have support holes, and opposite ends of the tubes are inserted into corresponding support holes in the end plates. Each of the tubes is formed by bending a plate material so that opposite side edge portions of the bent plate material are superimposed on each other, one of the superimposed side edge portions, located inward of the other of the superimposed side edge portions, forming an inner plate portion, the other of the superimposed side edge portions forming an outer plate portion, and then welding a weld bead through the thickness of one of the inner and outer plate portions to fuse to the other plate portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: YUTAKA GIKEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Hisanaga, Hiroshi Nagura, Koji Takeda, Kozue Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20180017332
    Abstract: A heat exchanger manufacturing method comprising: a welding step of disposing a first weld bead through a thickness of one of the inner and outer plate portions and fusing the first weld bead to other of the inner and outer plate portions for joining together the first and second case halves, to thereby provide the heat exchange tube; and a temporary tacking step of providing a temporarily-assembled end plate/tube unit by temporarily tacking the heat exchange tube to each of the end plates by means of a second weld bead and filling, with the second weld bead, a gap of a generally triangular shape defined, at each of the opposite end portions of the heat exchange tube, by an outer surface of the inner plate portion, an end surface of the outer plate portion and a corresponding one of the end plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Toru HISANAGA, Hiroshi NAGURA, Koji TAKEDA, Kozue SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 9698586
    Abstract: A power support system to an electric work machine includes: a cable holding unit configured to hold a cable that transmits power; a cable support pole configured to support the cable held by the cable holding unit at a position higher than a height of a vehicle that travels on a track that intersects at a position where the cable is disposed; and a travel device connected to the cable holding unit and the cable support pole and configured to perform a traveling operation so as to be able to move the cable holding unit and the cable support pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Tojima, Koji Takeda, Takao Nagai, Katsuhiro Kajino
  • Patent number: 9651954
    Abstract: A fuel supply system includes: a fuel supply facility capable of supplying fuel; an earth-moving machine capable of traveling toward the fuel supply facility; and a control apparatus that acquires execution permission information indicating whether or not fuel can be supplied to the earth-moving machine, and is capable of executing control based on the acquired execution permission information, wherein when the control apparatus determines that fuel cannot be supplied to the earth-moving machine based on the execution permission information at a time of supplying the fuel to the earth-moving machine, the control apparatus executes entry restriction control for restricting an entry to the fuel supply facility by the earth-moving machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Tojima, Tsugio Sudou, Koji Takeda, Kouichi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 9616433
    Abstract: In this shower apparatus, a part of an internal space thereof closer to the outer circumference thereof than an aeration unit is defined as a plurality of small spaces, and all of the small spaces have a uniform channel resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Shuhei Hayata, Koji Takeda, Yasufumi Uemura, Kiyotake Ukigai, Katsuya Nagata
  • Patent number: 9616432
    Abstract: In this shower apparatus, a part of an internal space thereof closer to the outer circumference thereof than an aeration unit is defined as a plurality of small spaces, and all of the small spaces have a uniform channel resistance, and all of the small spaces have a uniform ratio between a channel cross-sectional area at an inlet portion of each of the small spaces and a total opening area of nozzle holes that communicate the small space with an external space such that backflow water CF that returns from the respective small spaces consistently has a uniform flow rate at any point in time among the streams of the backflow water CF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Shuhei Hayata, Koji Takeda, Yasufumi Uemura, Kiyotake Ukigai, Katsuya Nagata
  • Patent number: 9507360
    Abstract: A mine power management system includes: a first power line provided at an ascent and configured to exchange electric power with an ascending vehicle traveling on the ascent; a second power line provided at a descent and configured to exchange electric power with a descending vehicle traveling on the descent; and a power supply and storage apparatus configured to exchange electric power at least between the first power line and the second power line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Tojima, Kouichi Yamashita, Tsugio Sudou, Koji Takeda, Takao Nagai, Katsuhiro Kajino, Yasuhiro Yanagida, Yasuyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9475070
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a water faucet which allows a large space to be secured above the washing area and yet can deliver a high washing performance by landing streams or waterdrops having a large cross-sectional area evenly on a piece to wash. This water faucet includes a flow velocity changing part which changes the flow velocity of the stream discharged from each of multiple water spray holes such that the cross-sectional area of the stream changes with time. The multiple water spray holes are disposed at intervals such that, when the cross-sectional area of one stream discharged from one water spray hole exceeds a predetermined size, the one stream is merged with one of the other streams discharged from the multiple other water spray holes adjacent to the one water spray hole, and such that the one of the other streams with which the one stream merges changes with time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi Akahira, Koji Takeda, Minoru Shibata
  • Patent number: 9441093
    Abstract: Provided is an acrylic rubber composition having further improved compression set resistance and comprising, based on 100 parts by mass of (a1) an acrylic rubber obtained by copolymerizing 0.1 to 10% by mass of a crosslinkable group-containing monomer, (a2) 0.4 to 50.0% by mass of a liquid fluororubber, and the crosslinked product thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatsugu Naitou, Yoshihiro Morooka, Koji Takeda
  • Patent number: 9383754
    Abstract: A management system includes a position detection device, installed in a haul machine that travels at a mine, capable of detecting position information of the haul machine, and a processing device to which the position information of the haul machine detected by the position detection device is to be output, wherein the processing device specifies, based on the position information of the haul machine output from the position detection device, at least one of a start time and an end time of each of a plurality of operations of the haul machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Takeda
  • Patent number: 9377779
    Abstract: A computer program product for setting a travel-restricted area for an unmanned traveling vehicle, where a travel of a vehicle traveling with no man attended is restricted in a workplace of an electric work machine that operates with electricity supplied via a cable from an external power supply, the computer program causing a computer to execute: estimating a position of the cable based on at least information on a position of the electric work machine, information on a position of a support body that supports the cable, and a length of the cable between the electric work machine and the support body, and setting the travel-restricted area based on the estimated position of the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Tojima, Koji Takeda
  • Patent number: 9328491
    Abstract: The present invention provides a water spouting device which enables air bubble entrained water with an increased entrainment rate of air bubbles to be discharged at a low flow rate stage even though the user adjusts the flow rate based on the same feeling as that for a conventional water spouting device, the present water spouting device further enabling, at a high flow rate stage, prevention of discharge of air bubble entrained water with such a total amount as makes the user feel that the resultant amount of water significantly exceeds that intended by the user. A spout cap BC serving as the present water spouting device includes a pressure reducing portion 30 serving as an entrainment rate adjusting portion to adjust the entrainment rate of air bubbles entrained in air bubble entrained water in an air bubble entraining portion 703.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Kitaura, Koji Takeda, Tomohiro Kudo, Ryohei Yaita
  • Patent number: 9315107
    Abstract: A transport vehicle equipped with a current collector, includes: a vessel to load a load; a current collector that extends to receive electric power from an overhead line and contracts and retracts so as to be disposed below the vessel; and a vehicle body that rotationally drives driving wheels by at least one of the electric power from the current collector and a self-propelled driving source and on which the vessel is placed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Tojima, Kouichi Yamashita, Tsugio Sudou, Koji Takeda
  • Publication number: 20150369543
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a pair of end plates closing opposite ends of a cylindrical core case; and a plurality of heat exchange tubes each supported at opposite end portions by the end plates, a first heat medium being caused to flow through the interior of the tubes, each of the tubes being formed by: bending a plate material so that opposite side edge portions of the bent plate material are superimposed on each other, one of the superimposed side edge portions, located inward of the other of the superimposed side edge portions, forming an inner plate portion, the other of the superimposed side edge portions forming an outer plate portion; and then causing a first weld bead, disposed through the thickness of one of the inner and outer plate portions, to be fused to the other plate portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Toru HISANAGA, Hiroshi NAGURA, Koji TAKEDA, Kozue SUZUKI