Patents by Inventor Mamoru Tochizawa

Mamoru Tochizawa 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: 8577562
    Abstract: The construction vehicle is provided with an engine, a clutch, a travel device, a work equipment, a drive force setting dial, and a controller that includes: a theoretical value determination unit that determines a theoretical value, for the degree of engagement to make the upper limit value of the drive force equal to a set drive force; an operational state determination unit that determines whether the work equipment is outputting the drive force in a predetermined travel direction; a drive force determination unit that determines whether the drive force is greater than the set drive force; and a degree of engagement reduction unit that, if of operational state determination and of drive force determination are both affirmative, causes the degree of engagement to approach the theoretical value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Tochizawa, Koji Takahashi, Yoshiaki Saito
  • Publication number: 20120003070
    Abstract: The construction vehicle is provided with an engine, a clutch, a travel device, a work equipment, a drive force setting dial, and a controller that includes: a theoretical value determination unit that determines a theoretical value, for the degree of engagement to make the upper limit value of the drive force equal to a set drive force; an operational state determination unit that determines whether the work equipment is outputting the drive force in a predetermined travel direction; a drive force determination unit that determines whether the drive force is greater than the set drive force; and a degree of engagement reduction unit that, if of operational state determination and of drive force determination are both affirmative, causes the degree of engagement to approach the theoretical value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Mamoru Tochizawa, Koji Takahashi, Yoshiaki Saito
  • Patent number: 5903988
    Abstract: A control device for working machines capable of controlling the moving of a tool continuously over a wide range, and capable of moving it accurately along a desired path. Out of not less than three control shafts (3a, 4a, 5a), a first combination of two control shafts (3a, 5a) is selected, and a bucket (6) is moved in a first section (A-B) out of travelling path thereof with the driving of the two selected shafts (3a, 5a) controlled. A second combination of two control shafts (3a, 4a) which is different from the selected first combination of two control shafts (3a, 5a) is then selected, and the bucket (6) is moved in a second section (B-C), which is continuous from the first section (A-B), with the driving of the two selected shafts (3a, 4a) controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Tochizawa, Atsushi Nagira
  • Patent number: 5735066
    Abstract: A construction machinery having a first boom 1 rotatably mounted on a vehicle frame, a second boom 4 rotatably mounted on the first boom 1, a first boom cylinder 2 connecting the vehicle frame 3 and the second boom 4, and a second boom cylinder 5 connecting the second boom 4 and the first boom 1, characterized in that it is arranged in such a way that the drive of the working machines in the new link mechanism is controlled simply and with high precision by indicating the position or the velocity of the working machine leading end by subjecting a working machine leading end target value to coordinate conversion to the target angles for the first and second boom angles, determining the target cylinder length for the first boom cylinder 2 from the target angles for the first and second boom angles obtained by the coordinate conversion, and driving the first boom cylinder 2 according to the target cylinder length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Tochizawa, Atsushi Nagira
  • Patent number: 5446981
    Abstract: Even when a bucket is changed to an optional special bucket, path control as intended by an operator can be automatically performed without making a correction of the angle of the original bucket. For this purpose, in an operation mode determining section (9), there is calculated the possibility (U2) of an operation mode being a nose-fixed mode, depending on how much a bucket attitude angle (.gamma.) deviates from a predetermined angle, and there is also calculated the possibility (U1) of the operation mode being the fixed-angle to the ground mode, depending on the magnitude of a computed value of the allowable angle held with respect to the ground, whereby the operation mode during the automatic path control can be automatically determined by comparing these possibilities (U1, U2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho
    Inventors: Seiji Kamada, Kazunori Kuromoto, Mamoru Tochizawa, Shuh Takeda