Patents by Inventor Masaaki Murayama

Masaaki Murayama 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: 20230380322
    Abstract: A combine is a working vehicle that performs automatic traveling on a work route preset in an agricultural field, and includes a control device. The control device functions as a return traveling control part to make the combine automatically perform return traveling toward the work route in response to a return operation for the combine within the agricultural field during breakaway of the combine 1 from the work route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Suzuki, Masaaki Murayama, Yuji Yamaguchi, Yasuto Nishii
  • Publication number: 20230311654
    Abstract: A control portion includes a vehicle-position acquiring portion, a field-contour setting portion, a region setting portion, and a display processing portion. The vehicle-position acquiring portion acquires position information indicating a position of the combine harvester traveling on a field. The field-contour setting portion sets a contour of a field on the basis of a plurality of pieces of the position information. The region setting portion sets a region not subject to a work indicating a region which is not a target for the work by the combine harvester inside the field or outside the field on the basis of the contour. The display processing portion causes a field image showing the field and an identification image for identifying the region not subject to the work, to be displayed on a display portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Suzuki, Masaaki Murayama, Yuji Yamaguchi, Yasuto Nishii
  • Publication number: 20230315109
    Abstract: A control portion includes a vehicle-position acquiring portion, a field-contour setting portion, a region setting portion, and a start-position setting portion. The vehicle-position acquiring portion acquires position information indicating a position of a combine harvester. The field-contour setting portion sets a contour of a field on the basis of a plurality of pieces of the position information. The region setting portion sets an unworked region inside the contour on the basis of the plurality of pieces of the position information. The start-position setting portion sets a corner closest to a position of the combine harvester among a plurality of corners of the unworked region to an automated-travel start position on the basis of the position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Suzuki, Masaaki Murayama, Yuji Yamaguchi, Yasuto Nishii
  • Publication number: 20230311655
    Abstract: A control device includes a first acquiring portion, a second acquiring portion, a generating portion, and a display processing portion. The first acquiring portion acquires first information on a work target region in which a work vehicle travels and works in a field. The second acquiring portion acquires second information on a worked region in which the work vehicle has worked. The generating portion generates progress information indicating progress of a work by the work vehicle on the basis of the first information and the second information. The display processing portion causes an index indicating the progress information to be displayed on the display portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Suzuki, Masaaki Murayama, Yuji Yamaguchi, Yasuto Nishii
  • Publication number: 20230255131
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an automatic traveling method, a work vehicle, and an automatic traveling system that enable to proceed automatic traveling smoothly without creating a short automatic traveling route. [Solution] A combine harvester 1 includes a control device 30 and a portable terminal 40. The control device 30 functions as an automatic traveling control unit 35 that performs automatic traveling on the basis of a created automatic traveling route 64. The portable terminal 40 is provided with a control device 41, and the control device 41 functions as a route creation unit 53 that creates, when a field outline 60 or an outline of an unworked region 61 is set as a target outline and one side that constitutes the target outline is set as a reference line 63, the automatic traveling route 64 as a route that is parallel to the reference line 63.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Suzuki, Masaaki Murayama, Yuji Yamaguchi, Yasuto Nishii
  • Publication number: 20230259129
    Abstract: An acquisition processing unit acquires position information of a work vehicle traveling in a predetermined area in response to a traveling operation by an operator. A recording processing unit records the position information, as a traveling trajectory of the work vehicle, and temporarily stops recording processing of recording the position information, in a case where the work vehicle is brought to a state in which the position information cannot be acquired during traveling. A notification processing unit notifies the operator of information indicating that the recording processing is temporarily stopped. A setting processing unit registers a field, based on the position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Takahashi, Yasuto Nishii, Yuji Yamaguchi, Hidetaka Suzuki, Masaaki Murayama
  • Publication number: 20230255130
    Abstract: A work vehicle, such as a combine harvester, includes a portable terminal, and the portable terminal comprises a control device. The control device functions as an outline setting section for setting a field outline, a creation-capable area setting section for setting a creation-capable area that is provided inside the field outline and in which an automatic traveling route can be created, and a range changing section for changing a range of the creation-capable area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Suzuki, Masaaki Murayama, Yuji Yamaguchi, Yasuto Nishii
  • Publication number: 20230200299
    Abstract: A combine harvester includes a control device and a portable terminal. The control device functions as a discharge run control unit for doing an automatic discharge run based on a discharge route or a return run control unit for doing an automatic return run based on a return route. The portable terminal is provided with a control device, and the control device functions as a discharge route creation unit that creates a discharge route for doing an automatic discharge run in a non-work state from a given transfer position, where a work run is interrupted, to a discharge position as a target position, or a return route creation unit that creates a return route for doing an automatic return run in a non-work state from the discharge position as the given target position to a given return position for returning to the work run.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Suzuki, Masaaki Murayama, Yuji Yamaguchi, Yasuto Nishii
  • Publication number: 20230176583
    Abstract: A combine harvester includes a control device and a portable terminal. The control device functions as an automatic traveling control part for controlling the combine harvester to perform automatic traveling on the basis of an automatic traveling route comprising a plurality of set straight traveling routes and a plurality of set turning routes, and as a discharge traveling control part for controlling the combine harvester to perform discharge traveling from a predetermined transition position on the automatic traveling route to a discharge position. The portable terminal includes the control device, and the control device functions as the transition position change part for changing, as the transition position, the first transition position that is set on the basis of the storage amount of harvested grain, to the new second transition position in response to the operation of the discharge transition operation part such as the discharge advance button and the discharge postpone button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Suzuki, Masaaki Murayama, Yuji Yamaguchi, Yasuto Nishii
  • Publication number: 20230165192
    Abstract: A combine harvester is a work vehicle that performs automatic traveling in a field and is equipped with a control device and a portable terminal. The portable terminal includes the control device and the display part. The control device functions as the display control part to display, on the display part, the automatic traveling route for performing automatic traveling to the unworked region in the field, the start point that is the target point indicating the target position of the combine harvester in the field, the own vehicle marker indicating the own vehicle position of the combine harvester, and the guideline connecting the start point and the own vehicle marker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuto Nishii, Masaaki Murayama, Tomomasa Hori
  • Publication number: 20230114806
    Abstract: A management terminal of a worker that manages a combine harvester as a work vehicle capable of performing an automatic travel performs the following operation: a controller, by the management terminal, starts an application that manages the combine harvester, and then a display control unit, by the application, selectably displays, on a display unit of the management terminal, a plurality of work items related to work performed by the combine harvester in a farm field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuto Nishii, Yuji Yamaguchi, Hidetaka Suzuki, Susumu Kawai, Shogo Otomo, Nobuyuki Araki, Yonosuke Miki, Masaaki Murayama
  • Publication number: 20230085285
    Abstract: A combine harvester is provided with a controller, and the controller functions as an automatic traveler and a switch. The automatic traveler executes the automatic traveling of the combine harvester in the automatic straight work. The switch switches automatic traveling of the combine harvester to manual traveling, during the performing of the automatic traveling, when detecting a shift from an un-mowed area to an already mowed area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seungkyu Lee, Taketoshi Nakahira, Masaaki Murayama, Yasunori Omori
  • Publication number: 20230072812
    Abstract: A combine includes a control device and a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a control device, and when the control device detects movement to one field where automatic travel is to be performed, the control device functions as a parameter setting unit that sets a field parameter corresponding to the one field. The control device functions as a travel control unit that executes automatic travel of the combine on the basis of a work route set for the one field and the field parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Suzuki, Hirokazu Shimamoto, Masaaki Murayama, Yuji Yamaguchi, Yasuto Nishii
  • Publication number: 20220382278
    Abstract: A combine harvester is a work vehicle capable of switching between a manual travel mode to travel based on operation of an operation tool including a steering wheel which is a turning operation tool and an autonomous traveling mode to travel based on a predetermined travel route, which includes a controller to function as an autonomous travel controller to control travel of the combine harvester through the autonomous travel mode based on the travel route. The combine harvester is switched from the autonomous travel mode to the manual travel mode without stopping the vehicle when the steering wheel is operated during the autonomous travel mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuto Nishii, Yuji Yamaguchi, Masaaki Murayama
  • Publication number: 20220382277
    Abstract: A combine harvester that works in a farm field in cooperation with a combine harvester is a work vehicle capable of automatically traveling based on a travel path created in the farm field, and includes a portable terminal that functions as a work allocator that divides a work area of the farm field into a plurality of work blocks based on the combine harvesters and, and allocates any of the combine harvesters and, and a controller that functions as a self-driving controller that performs a work of the work blocks' work block allocated to combine harvester.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuto Nishii, Masaaki Murayama
  • Publication number: 20220365537
    Abstract: To provide an automatic driving method, a work vehicle, and an automatic driving system, by which it is possible to perform automatic travel with improved operability. A combine is a work vehicle executing an automatic travel, based on a preset travel route, and includes a steering wheel being a turn operation tool that accepts a turn operation to instruct turning of the combine, a control device that functions as an automatic travel control unit that controls the automatic travel of the combine, based on a travel route, and an override button being a turn operation permission unit that permits a turn operation on the steering wheel during execution of the automatic travel. The travel unit does not accept the turn operation under a normal circumstance during execution of the automatic travel but once the override button is operated, accepts the turn operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuto Nishii, Yuji Yamaguchi, Masaaki Murayama
  • Patent number: 9059429
    Abstract: A simple manufacturing method for an organic electroluminescent panel in which organic electroluminescent elements are arranged and sealed by a sealing adhesive. The electroluminescent panel has excellent sealing properties and excellent durability as a result of the organic electroluminescent elements being adhered to one another by a heat-curable adhesive. The manufacturing method is for an organic electroluminescent panel in which at least a first electrode, an organic functional layer containing a light-emitting layer, an organic electroluminescent element having a second electrode, and a sealing substrate are bonded together on a substrate by the heat-curable adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Masaaki Murayama, Nobuaki Takahashi, Daisuke Numakura
  • Patent number: 9017128
    Abstract: A simple manufacturing method for an organic electroluminescent panel in which organic electroluminescent elements are arranged and sealed by a sealing adhesive. The electroluminescent panel has excellent sealing properties and excellent durability as a result of the organic electroluminescent elements being adhered to one another by a heat-curable adhesive. The manufacturing method is for an organic electroluminescent panel in which at least a first electrode, an organic functional layer containing a light-emitting layer, an organic electroluminescent element having a second electrode, and a sealing substrate are bonded together on a substrate by the heat-curable adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Masaaki Murayama, Nobuaki Takahashi, Daisuke Numakura
  • Patent number: 8445899
    Abstract: Provided is an organic electronic panel wherein warping (deformation) of a metal member is suppressed when the metal member is used as a packaging board, an electrical short-circuit due to the warping is eliminated, and generation of light emission failure and deterioration of power generating performance are eliminated. In the organic electronic panel, the packaging board is composed of a metal foil, and a polymer film is laminated on the metal foil surface on the reverse side of the side having the adhesive layer. The thickness of the polymer film is not more than that of the metal foil, and heat is applied at the time of bonding/laminating the packaging board or at the time of hardening the adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Masaaki Murayama, Kazuo Genda, Takahiko Nojima
  • Publication number: 20130026910
    Abstract: A simple manufacturing method for an organic electroluminescent panel in which organic electroluminescent elements are arranged and sealed by a sealing adhesive. The electroluminescent panel has excellent sealing properties and excellent durability as a result of the organic electroluminescent elements being adhered to one another by a heat-curable adhesive. The manufacturing method is for an organic electroluminescent panel in which at least a first electrode, an organic functional layer containing a light-emitting layer, an organic electroluminescent element having a second electrode, and a sealing substrate are bonded together on a substrate by the heat-curable adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Inventors: Masaaki Murayama, Nobuaki Takahashi, Daisuke Numakura