Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Kozui
Masatoshi Kozui 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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Patent number: 11851852Abstract: A construction machine includes: a lower travelling body; an upper slewing body attached to the lower travelling body with a structure allowing the upper slewing body to slew with respect to the lower travelling body; a work device attached to the upper slewing body with a structure allowing the work device to swing in a vertical direction with respect to the upper slewing body; a motion state acquisition unit acquiring a motion state amount; an equivalent system forming unit which forms a transfer function which uses a driving force for moving the work device as an input and uses the motion state amount as an output as an equivalent system which equivalently expresses an operation of the work device; and a parameter estimation unit which estimates a system attenuation coefficient and a natural angular frequency of the transfer function as an operation skill evaluation value.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignees: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD., HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITYInventors: Masatoshi Kozui, Toru Yamamoto, Kazushige Koiwai
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Publication number: 20230257966Abstract: A hydraulic excavator specifies acceleration data being operation data in an acceleration period of a manipulation target and deceleration data being operation data in a deceleration period of the manipulation target among operation data, calculates, on the basis of the acceleration data and acceleration evaluation data, an acceleration evaluation value indicating a skill of an operator in the acceleration period, calculates, on the basis of the deceleration data and deceleration evaluation data, a deceleration evaluation value indicating a skill of the operator in the deceleration period, determines, on the basis of the acceleration evaluation value and the deceleration evaluation value, a manipulation type of the operator, and outputs support information associated with the manipulation type.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2021Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicants: HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY, KAWASAKI GAKUEN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Masatoshi KOZUI, Toru YAMAMOTO, Tomohiro HENMI, Kazushige KOIWAI
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Patent number: 11391016Abstract: A construction machine includes: a flow rate regulating part which regulates a flow rate of hydraulic oil supplied from a hydraulic pump to a hydraulic actuator, and a control device—which controls driving of a work device. The control device includes: an acquiring part for acquiring a motion state amount of a combined center of gravity of a plurality of members which constitute the work device; and a generating part which generates an instruction value for controlling an operation of the flow rate regulating part such that the motion state amount follows a predetermined first target value, the instruction value being used for executing a feedback control based on the first target value and the motion state amount, and inputs the instruction value to the flow rate regulating part.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignees: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD., HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITYInventors: Masatoshi Kozui, Toru Yamamoto, Kazushige Koiwai, Masaki Akiyama
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Publication number: 20210340736Abstract: A construction machine includes: a lower travelling body; an upper slewing body attached to the lower travelling body with a structure allowing the upper slewing body to slew with respect to the lower travelling body; a work device attached to the upper slewing body with a structure allowing the work device to swing in a vertical direction with respect to the upper slewing body; a motion state acquisition unit acquiring a motion state amount; an equivalent system forming unit which forms a transfer function which uses a driving force for moving the work device as an input and uses the motion state amount as an output as an equivalent system which equivalently expresses an operation of the work device; and a parameter estimation unit which estimates a system attenuation coefficient and a natural angular frequency of the transfer function as an operation skill evaluation value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITYInventors: Masatoshi KOZUI, Toru YAMAMOTO, Kazushige KOIWAI
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Patent number: 11162242Abstract: A slewing-type work machine includes a slewing state determination section which determines whether or not slewing motion of an upper slewing body is in a deceleration state, and a capacity control section which controls a motor capacity. The capacity control section sets the motor capacity to a capacity set for a combined operation during a performance of the combined operation in which an operation for slewing the upper slewing body and an operation for actuating an attachment are performed simultaneously, while setting the motor capacity to a preset default capacity even during the performance of the combined operation when the slewing state determination section determines that the slewing motion of the upper slewing body is in the deceleration state.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Masatoshi Kozui
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Publication number: 20210332561Abstract: A construction machine includes: a flow rate regulating part which regulates a flow rate of hydraulic oil supplied from a hydraulic pump to a hydraulic actuator, and a control device—which controls driving of a work device. The control device includes: an acquiring part for acquiring a motion state amount of a combined center of gravity of a plurality of members which constitute the work device; and a generating part which generates an instruction value for controlling an operation of the flow rate regulating part such that the motion state amount follows a predetermined first target value, the instruction value being used for executing a feedback control based on the first target value and the motion state amount, and inputs the instruction value to the flow rate regulating part.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2019Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicants: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD., HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITYInventors: Masatoshi KOZUI, Toru YAMAMOTO, Kazushige KOIWAI, Masaki AKIYAMA
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Patent number: 11131081Abstract: Provided is a slewing-type working machine including: a slewing motor; a capacity control device; a slewing control device operated by a slewing instruction operation to allow hydraulic fluid to be supplied from a hydraulic pump to the slewing motor; a slewing parking brake; a brake switching device; a brake release instruction unit which inputs a brake release instruction to the brake switching device so as to make the brake switching device switch the slewing parking brake to a brake releasing state after allowing hydraulic fluid to be supplied to the slewing motor; and a capacity limiting unit that limits the capacity of the slewing motor controlled by the capacity control device to a predetermined brake-release capacity value or less until a brake release point and allows the capacity to increase after the brake release point.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Masatoshi Kozui
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Patent number: 11028559Abstract: Provided is a slewing-type hydraulic work machine including a boom raising working pressure detection unit that detects boom raising working pressure, and a capacity control device that controls a slewing motor capacity during a slewing and boom-raising operation and performs detecting an actual slewing distribution factor correspondence value corresponding to a ratio of energy distributed to a slewing motor to energy of discharged hydraulic oil, setting a boundary value of the actual slewing distribution factor correspondence value to limit the ratio more with increase in boom raising working pressure, and a capacity operation of making the slewing motor capacity higher than a limit capacity within a slewing priority allowable period until the actual slewing distribution factor correspondence value reaches the boundary value during the slewing and boom-raising operation and limiting the slewing motor capacity to the limit capacity or less after the slewing priority allowable period.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Masatoshi Kozui
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Patent number: 10876273Abstract: A control section determines a monitoring region, a region wherein an obstacle is to be monitored, the monitoring region not including the lower travelling body. The control section changes the monitoring region so as not to include the lower travelling body based on a turn angle detected by the turn angle detection section. The control section limits operation of at least one of travelling of the lower travelling body and turning of the upper slewing body when the obstacle detection section detects an obstacle being present in the monitoring region.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Masatoshi Kozui, Yusuke Kamimura, Akira Kinoshita
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Publication number: 20200370279Abstract: Provided is a slewing-type hydraulic work machine including a boom raising working pressure detection unit that detects boom raising working pressure, and a capacity control device that controls a slewing motor capacity during a slewing and boom-raising operation and performs detecting an actual slewing distribution factor correspondence value corresponding to a ratio of energy distributed to a slewing motor to energy of discharged hydraulic oil, setting a boundary value of the actual slewing distribution factor correspondence value to limit the ratio more with increase in boom raising working pressure, and a capacity operation of making the slewing motor capacity higher than a limit capacity within a slewing priority allowable period until the actual slewing distribution factor correspondence value reaches the boundary value during the slewing and boom-raising operation and limiting the slewing motor capacity to the limit capacity or less after the slewing priority allowable period.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2018Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCATION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Masatoshi KOZUI
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Publication number: 20200362538Abstract: A slewing-type work machine includes a slewing state determination section which determines whether or not slewing motion of an upper slewing body is in a deceleration state, and a capacity control section which controls a motor capacity. The capacity control section sets the motor capacity to a capacity set for a combined operation during a performance of the combined operation in which an operation for slewing the upper slewing body and an operation for actuating an attachment are performed simultaneously, while setting the motor capacity to a preset default capacity even during the performance of the combined operation when the slewing state determination section determines that the slewing motion of the upper slewing body is in the deceleration state.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2018Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Masatoshi KOZUI
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Publication number: 20200340211Abstract: Provided is a slewing-type working machine including: a slewing motor; a capacity control device; a slewing control device operated by a slewing instruction operation to allow hydraulic fluid to be supplied from a hydraulic pump to the slewing motor; a slewing parking brake; a brake switching device; a brake release instruction unit which inputs a brake release instruction to the brake switching device so as to make the brake switching device switch the slewing parking brake to a brake releasing state after allowing hydraulic fluid to be supplied to the slewing motor; and a capacity limiting unit that limits the capacity of the slewing motor controlled by the capacity control device to a predetermined brake-release capacity value or less until a brake release point and allows the capacity to increase after the brake release point.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2018Publication date: October 29, 2020Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Masatoshi KOZUI
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Publication number: 20180274206Abstract: An object is to suppress erroneous determination of a lower travelling body as an obstacle even when a turn angle is changed and to detect an obstacle being present in the vicinity of the lower travelling body. The control section 41 determines a monitoring region R, a region in which an obstacle is to be monitored, the monitoring region R not including the lower travelling body 10. The control section 41 changes the monitoring region R so as not to include the lower travelling body 10 based on a turn angle ? detected by the turn angle detection section 45. The control section 41 limits operation of at least one of travelling of the lower travelling body 10 and turning of the upper slewing body 20 when the obstacle detection section 50 detects an obstacle being present in the monitoring region R.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Masatoshi KOZUI, Yusuke KAMIMURA, Akira KINOSHITA
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Patent number: 9458803Abstract: Provided is a construction machine including an air cleaner having a cylindrical outer peripheral surface and an air intake pipe, wherein the assembly of the air cleaner and the air intake pipe can have a reduced width size in the front-rear direction. The air intake pipe has a returning portion and a downstream-side portion. The downstream-side portion has a cross section having a shape including a hypotenuse portion inclined toward the air cleaner, arranged in the state where at least a part of the hypotenuse portion is located in a space defined between the cylindrical outer peripheral surface of the air cleaner and an air-cleaner placement surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2014Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiko Ueda, Masatoshi Kozui, Yae Tanbo
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Publication number: 20150136057Abstract: Provided is a construction machine including an air cleaner having a cylindrical outer peripheral surface and an air intake pipe, wherein the assembly of the air cleaner and the air intake pipe can have a reduced width size in the front-rear direction. The air intake pipe has a returning portion and a downstream-side portion. The downstream-side portion has a cross section having a shape including a hypotenuse portion inclined toward the air cleaner, arranged in the state where at least a part of the hypotenuse portion is located in a space defined between the cylindrical outer peripheral surface of the air cleaner and an air-cleaner placement surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiko UEDA, Masatoshi Kozui, Yae Tanbo