Patents by Inventor Naoya Yokomachi
Naoya Yokomachi 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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Publication number: 20250019215Abstract: A cargo handling system includes: a first detection unit configured to detect a cargo on a pallet held by a fork of a forklift as a loaded state together with the pallet using at least one type of sensor before cargo handling work is started; a first abnormality determination unit configured to determine whether the loaded state detected by the first detection unit is abnormal; a second detection unit configured to detect a work situation using a plurality of types of sensors after the cargo handling work is started; and a second abnormality determination unit configured to determine whether the work situation detected by the second detection unit is abnormal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Yukikazu KOIDE, Hironobu OKAMOTO, Shinichi MAE, Naoya YOKOMACHI, Koji FUJII, Takashi OKUMA, Hirokatsu KATAOKA, Mitsuru KAWAMOTO, Ryusuke SAGAWA, Eiichi YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20240104768Abstract: An article detection device includes: an image acquiring unit acquiring a surroundings image; a first information image preparing unit preparing a first information image by converting information on a load/unloading target portion of the article to an easily recognizable state based on the surroundings image; a first calculation unit calculating at least one of a position and a posture of the load/unloading target portion; a second information image preparing unit preparing a second information image by converting information on a pitch angle detection portion of the article to an easily recognizable state; and a second calculation unit configured extracting at least two edge candidates for the article extending in a specific direction and included in the second information image based on a calculation result from the first calculation unit and calculating a three-dimensional direction vector indicating a pitch angle of the article from the edge candidates.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicants: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Nobuyuki KITA, Takuro Kato, Daisuke Okabe, Eiichi Yoshida, Yukikazu Koide, Norihiko Kato, Naoya Yokomachi, Tatsuya Komuro
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Patent number: 11440583Abstract: A hydraulic drive device for an industrial vehicle includes a variable displacement pump, a displacement control valve, a power steering cylinder, a power steering valve, a loading cylinder, a loading valve, a hydraulic oil passage, and a pilot line. The displacement control valve controls the variable displacement pump to increase displacement of the variable displacement pump when differential pressure between discharge pressure of hydraulic oil discharged from the variable displacement pump and pilot pressure generated in the pilot line is smaller than a predetermined set pressure. A spool of the loading valve is provided with a groove portion that forms a communication passage that makes communication between the hydraulic oil passage and the pilot line at a neutral position of the loading valve when the power steering valve is located in a neutral position.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Takashi Uno, Naoya Yokomachi, Yuki Ueda, Tsutomu Matsuo
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Patent number: 11053929Abstract: Provided is a variable displacement pump which sucks and discharges a working fluid by moving a piston with a stroke in response to an inclination angle of a swash plate, the variable displacement pump including: a control piston which includes a columnar piston portion pressing the swash plate and adjusts the inclination angle of the swash plate between a maximal inclination angle in which a discharge capacity of the working fluid becomes maximal and a minimal inclination angle in which the discharge capacity of the working fluid becomes minimal; a piston accommodation portion which is formed in the housing and accommodates the piston portion; and a pressed portion which is disposed between the swash plate and the piston portion and is pressed toward the swash plate by the piston portion, in which when the inclination angle of the swash plate is an intermediate inclination angle in which the discharge capacity of the working fluid becomes an intermediate amount between the maximal amount and the minimal amouType: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Tsutomu Matsuo, Naoya Yokomachi, Yuki Ueda, Takashi Uno
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Publication number: 20200283061Abstract: A hydraulic drive device for an industrial vehicle includes a variable displacement pump, a displacement control valve, a power steering cylinder, a power steering valve, a loading cylinder, a loading valve, a hydraulic oil passage, and a pilot line. The displacement control valve controls the variable displacement pump to increase displacement of the variable displacement pump when differential pressure between discharge pressure of hydraulic oil discharged from the variable displacement pump and pilot pressure generated in the pilot line is smaller than a predetermined set pressure. A spool of the loading valve is provided with a groove portion that forms a communication passage that makes communication between the hydraulic oil passage and the pilot line at a neutral position of the loading valve when the power steering valve is located in a neutral position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2018Publication date: September 10, 2020Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Takashi UNO, Naoya YOKOMACHI, Yuki UEDA, Tsutomu MATSUO
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Patent number: 10487811Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate type piston pump includes first and second housing members fastened to each other by fastening members, a rotary shaft, a swash plate. A section of the inner circumferential surface of the first housing member has a recess. A bulging portion is arranged in a section of the outer circumferential wall of the first housing member. A section of the outer circumferential wall of the second housing member has a closing portion that closes the opening of the recess. The fastening members include first and second fastening members arranged at positions that are on the opposite sides of the recess, inside the width of the swash plate in a direction along the inclination axis of the swash plate, and closer to the rotary shaft than the distal ends of the bulging portion and the closing portion in the bulging direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Tsutomu Matsuo, Naoya Yokomachi, Yuki Ueda, Takashi Uno
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Patent number: 10465667Abstract: Provided is a variable displacement pump which includes a cylinder block including a plurality of cylinder bores formed in a rotation shaft in a circumferential direction and rotating together with the rotation shaft, a piston provided inside each of the plurality of cylinder bores to be slidable, and a swash plate supported to be tiltable with respect to the rotation shaft while a distal end portion of the piston is slidable thereon and which sucks and discharges a working fluid by moving the piston in a reciprocating manner with a stroke in accordance with an inclination angle of the swash plate, the variable displacement pump including: a control piston which includes a piston portion pressing the swash plate and controls the inclination angle of the swash plate; a piston accommodation portion which is formed in the housing and accommodates the piston portion; and a hollow cylindrical guide portion which is disposed between the piston accommodation portion and the piston portion and includes an inner peripType: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Tsutomu Matsuo, Naoya Yokomachi, Yuki Ueda, Takashi Uno
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Patent number: 10358329Abstract: A hydraulic control device of a forklift truck includes a first hydraulic cylinder, a first instructing member, a second hydraulic cylinder, a second instructing member, a hydraulic pump, an electric motor, a first oil passage, a lowering control valve, a second oil passage that is branched from the first oil passage at a junction, a flow control valve, a first pilot passage through which pressure in the first oil passage at a position between the first hydraulic cylinder and the lowering control valve is applied to a first accommodating chamber of the flow control valve as the pressure upstream of the lowering control valve, and a second pilot passage through which pressure in the first oil passage at a position between the lowering control valve and the hydraulic pump is applied to a second accommodating chamber of the flow control valve as the pressure downstream of the lowering control valve.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Yuki Ueda, Naoya Yokomachi, Tsutomu Matsuo, Takashi Uno
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Patent number: 10215226Abstract: A hydraulic pump having a rotary shaft rotatably supported with respect to a casing, the hydraulic pump including: a bearing part provided to one end side and the other end side of the rotary shaft; and a first annular member provided around the rotary shaft on at least one side of the one end side and the other end side of the rotary shaft. The bearing part on the one side has a support part which rotatably supports the rotary shaft, and a preload applying member which applies a preload in the axial direction to the support part. The first annular member is interposed between the bearing part of the one side and a receiving part of the rotary shaft in the axial direction, and an inner diameter of the first annular member is larger than a diameter of the rotary shaft.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Tsutomu Matsuo, Naoya Yokomachi, Yuki Ueda, Takashi Uno
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Publication number: 20190032645Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate type piston pump includes first and second housing members fastened to each other by fastening members, a rotary shaft, a swash plate. A section of the inner circumferential surface of the first housing member has a recess. A bulging portion is arranged in a section of the outer circumferential wall of the first housing member. A section of the outer circumferential wall of the second housing member has a closing portion that closes the opening of the recess. The fastening members include first and second fastening members arranged at positions that are on the opposite sides of the recess, inside the width of the swash plate in a direction along the inclination axis of the swash plate, and closer to the rotary shaft than the distal ends of the bulging portion and the closing portion in the bulging direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2016Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Tsutomu MATSUO, Naoya YOKOMACHI, Yuki UEDA, Takashi UNO
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Publication number: 20190003494Abstract: In a hydraulic driving device for a cargo handling vehicle, a power running torque limit value setting unit sets a power running torque limit value to a minimum rotation speed set in advance, in a case where a determination unit determines that operations of second hydraulic cylinders including a lowering operation of a first operating portion are simultaneously performed, a rotation speed command value setting unit sets a rotation speed command value to a maximum value from between a lowering required rotation speed based on an operation amount of the first operating portion and a second hydraulic cylinder required rotation speed based on operation amounts of the second operating portions, and the power running torque limit value setting unit sets the power running torque limit value to the second hydraulic cylinder required rotation speed based on the operation amounts of the second operating portions, and a control unit controls an electric motor to rotate at a rotation speed based on the rotation speed coType: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2016Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Yuki UEDA, Naoya YOKOMACHI, Tsutomu MATSUO, Takashi UNO, Tetsuya GOTO, Takanori KANNA
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Publication number: 20180328350Abstract: Provided is a variable displacement pump which sucks and discharges a working fluid by moving a piston with a stroke in response to an inclination angle of a swash plate, the variable displacement pump including: a control piston which includes a columnar piston portion pressing the swash plate and adjusts the inclination angle of the swash plate between a maximal inclination angle in which a discharge capacity of the working fluid becomes maximal and a minimal inclination angle in which the discharge capacity of the working fluid becomes minimal; a piston accommodation portion which is formed in the housing and accommodates the piston portion; and a pressed portion which is disposed between the swash plate and the piston portion and is pressed toward the swash plate by the piston portion, in which when the inclination angle of the swash plate is an intermediate inclination angle in which the discharge capacity of the working fluid becomes an intermediate amount between the maximal amount and the minimal amouType: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2016Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Tsutomu MATSUO, Naoya YOKOMACHI, Yuki UEDA, Takashi UNO
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Publication number: 20180306171Abstract: Provided is a variable displacement pump which includes a cylinder block including a plurality of cylinder bores formed in a rotation shaft in a circumferential direction and rotating together with the rotation shaft, a piston provided inside each of the plurality of cylinder bores to be slidable, and a swash plate supported to be tiltable with respect to the rotation shaft while a distal end portion of the piston is slidable thereon and which sucks and discharges a working fluid by moving the piston in a reciprocating manner with a stroke in accordance with an inclination angle of the swash plate, the variable displacement pump including: a control piston which includes a piston portion pressing the swash plate and controls the inclination angle of the swash plate; a piston accommodation portion which is formed in the housing and accommodates the piston portion; and a hollow cylindrical guide portion which is disposed between the piston accommodation portion and the piston portion and includes an inner peripType: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2016Publication date: October 25, 2018Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Tsutomu MATSUO, Naoya YOKOMACHI, Yuki UEDA, Takashi UNO
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Patent number: 10106386Abstract: A hydraulic control device of a forklift truck includes a first hydraulic cylinder, a first instruction member, a second hydraulic cylinder, a second instruction member, a hydraulic pump, an electric motor, a first passage which has a drain passage, a lowering control valve that controls flow of hydraulic oil, a flow rate control valve, and a controller. When a lowering operation of forks and an operation of a hydraulically-operated unit are performed simultaneously, when a required rotation speed of the hydraulic pump that is required for operating the hydraulically-operated unit at an instruction speed based on an operation of the second instruction member is a specified rotation speed or lower, the controller controls an instruction rotation speed of the electric motor so as to operate the hydraulic pump at the required rotation speed to thereby restrict the operation of the hydraulic pump.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2016Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Yuki Ueda, Naoya Yokomachi, Tsutomu Matsuo, Takashi Uno, Tetsuya Goto, Takanori Kanna
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Publication number: 20180231055Abstract: A hydraulic pump having a rotary shaft rotatably supported with respect to a casing, the hydraulic pump including: a bearing part provided to one end side and the other end side of the rotary shaft; and a first annular member provided around the rotary shaft on at least one side of the one end side and the other end side of the rotary shaft. The bearing part on the one side has a support part which rotatably supports the rotary shaft, and a preload applying member which applies a preload in the axial direction to the support part. The first annular member is interposed between the bearing part of the one side and a receiving part of the rotary shaft in the axial direction, and an inner diameter of the first annular member is larger than a diameter of the rotary shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2016Publication date: August 16, 2018Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Tsutomu MATSUO, Naoya YOKOMACHI, Yuki UEDA, Takashi UNO
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Publication number: 20170211556Abstract: A variable capacity piston pump including a control piston pressing a pressed portion of a swashplate from a cylinder block side to adjust an inclination of the swashplate between a maximum inclination and a minimum inclination, and a swashplate return spring biasing the pressed portion of the swashplate toward the cylinder block side of the sliding contact surface, wherein there is a positional relationship in which a vertical reference line passes between a first seat surface center position of the swashplate return spring when the swashplate is at the maximum inclination and a second seat surface center position of the swashplate return spring when the swashplate is at the minimum inclination.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Yuki UEDA, Naoya YOKOMACHI, Tsutomu MATSUO, Takashi UNO
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Publication number: 20170211555Abstract: A variable capacity piston pump including a piston portion of the control piston causing a pressing force to act along one direction by pressing a pressed portion of a swashplate from a cylinder block side to adjust an inclination of the swashplate between a maximum inclination and a minimum inclination, and a swashplate return spring biasing the pressed portion of the swashplate toward the cylinder block side of the sliding contact surface, wherein there is a positional relationship in which a vertical reference line passes between a first action position which is an action position of the pressing force when the inclination of the swashplate is the maximum inclination and a second action position which is an action position of the pressing force when the inclination of the swashplate is the minimum inclination.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Yuki UEDA, Naoya YOKOMACHI, Tsutomu MATSUO, Takashi UNO
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Patent number: 9631613Abstract: A hydraulic drive device for cargo handling vehicle has: a tank; a pump for drawing in a hydraulic oil from the tank and supplying the hydraulic oil to hydraulic cylinders; an electric motor for driving the pump; a solenoid-controlled proportional valve disposed between an inlet port of the pump and a bottom chamber of an up-and-down hydraulic cylinder and configured to open with a valve travel depending upon a control input of a descent control of an up-and-down control member; a pressure compensation valve disposed between a branch portion located between the pump and the solenoid-controlled proportional valve and the tank and configured to open with a valve travel depending upon a pressure difference between pressures upstream and downstream of the solenoid-controlled proportional valve; and a valve disposed between the pressure compensation valve and the tank and configured to be switched between an open position and a close position.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2014Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Yuki Ueda, Tsutomo Matsuo, Takashi Uno, Hirohiko Ishikawa, Naoya Yokomachi
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Publication number: 20160332854Abstract: A hydraulic control device of a forklift truck includes a first hydraulic cylinder, a first instruction member, a second hydraulic cylinder, a second instruction member, a hydraulic pump, an electric motor, a first passage which has a drain passage, a lowering control valve that controls flow of hydraulic oil, a flow rate control valve, and a controller. When a lowering operation of forks and an operation of a hydraulically-operated unit are performed simultaneously, when a required rotation speed of the hydraulic pump that is required for operating the hydraulically-operated unit at an instruction speed based on an operation of the second instruction member is a specified rotation speed or lower, the controller controls an instruction rotation speed of the electric motor so as to operate the hydraulic pump at the required rotation speed to thereby restrict the operation of the hydraulic pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2016Publication date: November 17, 2016Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Yuki UEDA, Naoya YOKOMACHI, Tsutomu MATSUO, Takashi UNO, Tetsuya GOTO, Takanori KANNA
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Publication number: 20160297656Abstract: A hydraulic control device of a forklift truck includes a first hydraulic cylinder, a first instructing member, a second hydraulic cylinder, a second instructing member, a hydraulic pump, an electric motor, a first oil passage, a lowering control valve, a second oil passage that is branched from the first oil passage at a junction, a flow control valve, a first pilot passage through which pressure in the first oil passage at a position between the first hydraulic cylinder and the lowering control valve is applied to a first accommodating chamber of the flow control valve as the pressure upstream of the lowering control valve, and a second pilot passage through which pressure in the first oil passage at a position between the lowering control valve and the hydraulic pump is applied to a second accommodating chamber of the flow control valve as the pressure downstream of the lowering control valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Yuki UEDA, Naoya YOKOMACHI, Tsutomu MATSUO, Takashi UNO