Patents by Inventor Masanobu Seki

Masanobu Seki 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: 11532162
    Abstract: A vehicle recognition unit of an information presenting device specifies a position of each of a plurality of vehicles, based on images captured by a plurality of imaging devices installed at a construction site. A vehicle designating unit receives designation of a designated vehicle, among the plurality of specified vehicles. A display control unit outputs a signal for displaying in an overlapping manner a proximity plot representing a position of another vehicle whose distance from the designated vehicle is less than a threshold on an overhead image of the construction site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanobu Seki, Shunsuke Miyamoto, Kaoru Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20220074459
    Abstract: A resinous spring includes ring-shaped members disposed with gaps interposed therebetween in the direction of the spring axis and link members connecting adjacent ones of the ring-shaped members. Each ring-shaped member has vertex portions to each of which a first link member or a second link member is connectable, thin portions at which the ring-shaped member is reduced in thickness in the direction of the spring axis, and tapered portions at which the ring-shaped member is reduced in thickness in the direction of the spring axis gradually from the vertex portions to the thin portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Takayuki KAWAZOE, Kotaro TANAKA, Masanobu SEKI
  • Publication number: 20210150900
    Abstract: An information presenting device predicts a travel route of a first manned driving vehicle and outputs a signal for displaying the travel route of the first manned driving vehicle to a display device mounted on a second manned driving vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Masanobu Seki, Shunsuke Miyamoto, Kaoru Yasuda
  • Patent number: 10968607
    Abstract: When correcting an error caused by deviation of an attitude detection device with respect to a work machine including a swing body which swings, a working implement being attached to the swing body, the attitude detection device outputting an attitude of the work machine, the error is corrected by using a first position which is a position of a part of the work machine when the work machine is in a first attitude and a second position which is a position of the part when the work machine is in a second attitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Iwamura, Masanobu Seki, Masashi Ichihara, Kenjiro Shimada, Satoru Shintani, Yuki Shimano, Eiji Ishibashi
  • Publication number: 20200327336
    Abstract: A vehicle recognition unit of an information presenting device specifies a position of each of a plurality of vehicles, based on images captured by a plurality of imaging devices installed at a construction site. A vehicle designating unit receives designation of a designated vehicle, among the plurality of specified vehicles. A display control unit outputs a signal for displaying in an overlapping manner a proximity plot representing a position of another vehicle whose distance from the designated vehicle is less than a threshold on an overhead image of the construction site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanobu Seki, Shunsuke Miyamoto, Kaoru Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20180171598
    Abstract: When correcting an error caused by deviation of an attitude detection device with respect to a work machine including a swing body which swings, a working implement being attached to the swing body, the attitude detection device outputting an attitude of the work machine, the error is corrected by using a first position which is a position of a part of the work machine when the work machine is in a first attitude and a second position which is a position of the part when the work machine is in a second attitude.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Tsutomu IWAMURA, Masanobu SEKI, Masashi ICHIHARA, Kenjiro SHIMADA, Satoru SHINTANI, Yuki SHIMANO, Eiji ISHIBASHI
  • Patent number: 9976286
    Abstract: A work machine includes: first working equipment with first working equipment parameter; second working equipment including a parallel link and being attachable to the first working equipment; a swing angle detector that detects swing angle information of the first working equipment; an attitude calculating unit that calculates an attitude of the first working equipment based on the detected swing angle information of the first working equipment; a working equipment parameter storage that stores the first working equipment parameter defined for a component of the first working equipment; a correction information acquiring unit that acquires information on the second working equipment as correction information; and a working equipment parameter correction unit that corrects the first working equipment parameter based on the correction information on the second working equipment acquired by the correction information acquiring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanobu Seki, Tsutomu Iwamura, Katsuhiro Ikegami, Masashi Ichihara
  • Publication number: 20170260717
    Abstract: A work machine includes: first working equipment with first working equipment parameter; second working equipment including a parallel link and being attachable to the first working equipment; a swing angle detector that detects swing angle information of the first working equipment; an attitude calculating unit that calculates an attitude of the first working equipment based on the detected swing angle information of the first working equipment; a working equipment parameter storage that stores the first working equipment parameter defined for a component of the first working equipment; a correction information acquiring unit that acquires information on the second working equipment as correction information; and a working equipment parameter correction unit that corrects the first working equipment parameter based on the correction information on the second working equipment acquired by the correction information acquiring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Masanobu Seki, Tsutomu Iwamura, Katsuhiro Ikegami, Masashi Ichihara
  • Patent number: 9689145
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator is provided with a tilt cylinder disposition data creating unit and a bucket information computing unit. The tilt cylinder disposition data creating unit creates tilt cylinder disposition data which indicates that a disposition of a tilt cylinder is either a first disposition in which a bucket is rotated in the clockwise direction due to extension or a second disposition in which the bucket is rotated in the clockwise direction due to contraction, when viewing the bucket from a vehicle body side. The bucket information computing unit obtains a tilt angle of the bucket based on the stroke length on the basis of the tilt cylinder disposition data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Yuto Fujii, Tsutomu Iwamura, Daiki Arimatsu, Katsuhiro Ikegami, Masanobu Seki
  • Publication number: 20170167116
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator is provided with a tilt cylinder disposition data creating unit and a bucket information computing unit. The tilt cylinder disposition data creating unit creates tilt cylinder disposition data which indicates that a disposition of a tilt cylinder is either a first disposition in which a bucket is rotated in the clockwise direction due to extension or a second disposition in which the bucket is rotated in the clockwise direction due to contraction, when viewing the bucket from a vehicle body side. The bucket information computing unit obtains a tilt angle of the bucket based on the stroke length on the basis of the tilt cylinder disposition data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Yuto FUJII, Tsutomu IWAMURA, Daiki ARIMATSU, Katsuhiro IKEGAMI, Masanobu SEKI
  • Patent number: 9663917
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator is equipped with a bucket, a tilt cylinder, a fourth stroke sensor, and a bucket information computing unit. The bucket is able to rotate about the center of a tilt axis. The tilt cylinder causes the bucket to rotate about the center of the tilt axis. The fourth stroke sensor detects a stroke length of the tilt cylinder. The bucket information computing unit obtains a tilt angle of the bucket on the basis of the stroke length detected by the fourth stroke sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Yuto Fujii, Tsutomu Iwamura, Masanobu Seki
  • Patent number: 9644346
    Abstract: A calibration system for an excavator includes the excavator having an upper structure swingably attached to a chassis, a working machine having a boom, an arm, and a working tool, and a current position computation unit configured to compute a current position of a working point of the working tool; a calibration device configured to calibrate parameters based on parameters indicating dimensions and rotation angles of the boom, the arm, and the working tool; an external measurement device that measures a position of the working point; and an inclination information detection device that detects inclination information of the excavator in an anteroposterior direction. The calibration device corrects positions of the working point measured by the external measurement device, based on the inclination information of the excavator in the anteroposterior direction, and computes calibrated values of the parameters based on coordinates of the working point at corrected positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanobu Seki, Masashi Ichihara
  • Publication number: 20170107688
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator is equipped with a bucket, a tilt cylinder, a fourth stroke sensor, and a bucket information computing unit. The bucket is able to rotate about the center of a tilt axis. The tilt cylinder causes the bucket to rotate about the center of the tilt axis. The fourth stroke sensor detects a stroke length of the tilt cylinder. The bucket information computing unit obtains a tilt angle of the bucket on the basis of the stroke length detected by the fourth stroke sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Yuto FUJII, Tsutomu IWAMURA, Masanobu SEKI
  • Patent number: 9617709
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a vehicular body, a work implement, an angle sensor, and a work implement control unit. A bucket is rotatable with respect to an arm around a bucket axis in parallel to an arm axis and a tilt axis orthogonal to a bucket axis. The angle sensor is provided in the bucket and detects an angle of inclination of the bucket with respect to a horizontal plane. The work implement control unit starts control of the work implement in which an operation of the work implement is controlled at least partially automatically when an angle of inclination of the bucket detected by the angle sensor is smaller than a first threshold value, and does not start control of the work implement when an angle of inclination of the bucket detected by the angle sensor is equal to or greater than the first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru Shintani, Yuto Fujii, Masanobu Seki, Masashi Ichihara, Yoshiki Kami
  • Patent number: 9540794
    Abstract: A calibration device for a work machine includes: a measurement value acquiring unit acquiring respective measurement values of a first actuation unit and a bucket measured using an external measurement device; a working equipment parameter acquiring unit acquiring working equipment parameters of the member of the first actuation unit and the bucket; a calibration unit calibrating the working equipment parameters of the member of the first actuation unit and the bucket based on the measurement value of a reference point of the bucket acquired by the measurement value acquiring unit; and a calibration range selecting unit selecting, from among a first range where a variation in a swing angle of the bucket has a predetermined relationship with a change in swing angle information of the bucket and a second range where a variation in the swing angle increases as compared with the variation in the first range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Iwamura, Masanobu Seki, Jin Kitajima
  • Patent number: 9481984
    Abstract: A calibration device for a work machine includes: a working equipment parameter acquiring unit acquiring working equipment parameters of members of first and second actuation units; a measurement value acquiring unit acquiring respective measurement values of the work machine body and first and second actuation units measured by an external measurement device; a first calibration unit calibrating the parameter related to the member of the first actuation unit acquired by the acquiring unit based on the measurement value of the first actuation unit acquired by the acquiring unit; and a second calibration unit calibrating the working equipment parameter of the member of the second actuation unit based on the working equipment parameter of the first actuation unit calibrated by the first calibration unit and the respective measurement values of the reference points of the work machine body and first and second actuation units acquired by the acquiring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Iwamura, Jin Kitajima, Masanobu Seki, Masashi Ichihara
  • Publication number: 20160312434
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a vehicular body, a work implement, an angle sensor, and a work implement control unit. A bucket is rotatable with respect to an arm around a bucket axis in parallel to an arm axis and a tilt axis orthogonal to a bucket axis. The angle sensor is provided in the bucket and detects an angle of inclination of the bucket with respect to a horizontal plane. The work implement control unit starts control of the work implement in which an operation of the work implement is controlled at least partially automatically when an angle of inclination of the bucket detected by the angle sensor is smaller than a first threshold value, and does not start control of the work implement when an angle of inclination of the bucket detected by the angle sensor is equal to or greater than the first threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru SHINTANI, Yuto FUJII, Masanobu SEKI, Masashi ICHIHARA, Yoshiki KAMI
  • Publication number: 20160298316
    Abstract: A calibration device for a work machine includes: a measurement value acquiring unit acquiring respective measurement values of the first actuation unit and the bucket measured using an external measurement device; a working equipment parameter acquiring unit acquiring working equipment parameters of the member of the first actuation unit and the bucket; a calibration unit calibrating the working equipment parameters of the member of the first actuation unit and the bucket based on the measurement value of a reference point of the bucket acquired by the measurement value acquiring unit; and a calibration range selecting unit selecting, from among a first range where a variation in a swing angle of the bucket has a predetermined relationship with a change in swing angle information of the bucket and a second range where a variation in the swing angle increases as compared with the variation in the first range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Tsutomu Iwamura, Masanobu Seki, Jin Kitajima
  • Publication number: 20160281334
    Abstract: A calibration device for a work machine includes: a working equipment parameter acquiring unit acquiring working equipment parameters of members of first and second actuation units; a measurement value acquiring unit acquiring respective measurement values of the work machine body and first and second actuation units measured by an external measurement device; a first calibration unit calibrating the parameter related to the member of the first actuation unit acquired by the acquiring unit based on the measurement value of the first actuation unit acquired by the acquiring unit; and a second calibration unit calibrating the working equipment parameter of the member of the second actuation unit based on the working equipment parameter of the first actuation unit calibrated by the first calibration unit and the respective measurement values of the reference points of the work machine body and first and second actuation units acquired by the acquiring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Tsutomu Iwamura, Jin Kitajima, Masanobu Seki, Masashi Ichihara
  • Patent number: 9404745
    Abstract: A measurement jig is attached to a target member in a form of a blade edge and is used for measuring a position of the target point in combination with a total station. The measurement jig includes a prism mirror that reflects a projected light from the total station, and an attachment member for attaching the prism mirror to the blade edge, in which a mirror center of the prism mirror is aligned with the target point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventor: Masanobu Seki