Patents by Inventor Nobuhiro FUKUO

Nobuhiro FUKUO 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: 20250003196
    Abstract: A management system is provided that is capable of grasping a motion situation of each of a plurality of work machines. The management system includes: a reception device that receives information regarding a motion situation of each of a plurality of work machines; a display device that displays an image according to a command signal to be input; and a display control unit that inputs, to the display device, the command signal corresponding to the motion situation of each of the plurality of work machines based on the information received by the reception device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro FUKUO, Takayuki DOI
  • Publication number: 20240401304
    Abstract: A work machine capable of continuing work by automatic operation over a large area includes a controller that makes an upper turning body and a work device perform a series of motions including processing motion a plurality of times. The controller performs: shifting the start position of the processing motion in the next series of motions in the turning direction of the upper turning body when a processing work performed by a series of motions reaches a predetermined stage; making a lower traveling body perform an area change movement when the processing work reaches a predetermined stage while the start position has reached a change limit plane; and setting an after-movement start position so as to make the processing work after the area change movement continued with the processing work before the area change movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryunosuke MIYAZAKI, Takayuki DOI, Daisuke NODA, Nobuhiro FUKUO, Kenichi TERAUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240287769
    Abstract: A work machine system includes a lower travelling body, an upper slewing body slewably attached to an upper portion of the lower travelling body, an attachment having a bucket that is capable of holding a work object and is rotatably attached to the upper slewing body, and a controller. The controller controls the upper slewing body and the attachment so that the upper slewing body and the attachment perform a series of operations having a plurality of operation phases, detects an amount of the work object held by the bucket, sets a target amount that is a target of the amount of the work object, and specifies, as an abnormal phase, an operation phase in which the amount of the work object held by the bucket is smaller than the target amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro FUKUO, Koji YAMASHITA, Daisuke NODA
  • Publication number: 20240183123
    Abstract: Provided is a work machine capable of loading a transport object at a fixed point of a loading target. A controller is included that automatically performs an operation of discharging soil and sand held by a bucket (33) by driving a boom (31), an arm (32), and the bucket (33) based on a target loading point (P) set above a loading bed (56). After the controller rotates the bucket (33) such that the opening surface of the bucket (33) becomes vertical at the target loading point (P), the controller drives the boom (31), the arm (32), and the bucket (33) such that the opening surface of the bucket (33) faces downward while maintaining the position (T), with respect to the machine body, of the leading end of the bucket (33) in a front-and-rear direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke NODA, Nobuhiro FUKUO, Masaki AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240183122
    Abstract: A controller (30) of an excavation system controls a bucket (15c) to excavate an excavation object (O) along an excavation row (C). In a case where the bucket (15c) is located forward (X1) of a border (53) at completion of one excavation performed by the bucket (15c), the controller (30) causes the bucket (15c) to perform next excavation without changing the excavation row (C). In a case where the bucket (15c) is located on the border (53) or rearward (X2) of the border (53) at the completion of one excavation performed by the bucket (15c), the controller (30) changes the excavation rows (C) and causes the bucket (15c) to perform the next excavation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke NODA, Nobuhiro FUKUO, Masaki AKIYAMA, Takayuki DOI
  • Publication number: 20230383500
    Abstract: A technology that further facilitates automatic driving control of working machines includes a working area setting system that includes an area setting unit. The area setting unit is provided to set a working area. The working area is a predetermined range in which an operation target of a working machine is stacked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke NODA, Nobuhiro FUKUO, Masaki AKIYAMA, Sho FUJIWARA
  • Patent number: 11828607
    Abstract: A memory stores, in advance, target line information indicating an arrangement target of an object to be conveyed and related to a target line denoted by at least one of a curve or a polyline. A controller is configured to: calculate, based on the target line information, target information which is at least one of information about a target coordinate of the object and information about a target direction of the object; calculate, based on the at least one of the coordinate of the object and the direction of the object detected by the detector, detection information which is comparable with the target information; calculate a deviation of the detection information from the target information; and cause a display to display a moving direction of the object which allows the deviation to decrease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Fukuo, Yoichiro Yamazaki, Koji Yamashita, Yusuke Kamimura, Shingo Sekiguchi, Takayuki Iino, Hiroshi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230313489
    Abstract: Provided is an automatic leveling system restraining leveling-objects from collapsing. The automatic leveling system includes a work machine that performs leveling motion, an imaging device, and a controller. The imaging device acquires three-dimensional information about the shape and position of at least one of the leveling-objects and a peripheral object. The work machine is provided with a work attachment including a tip attachment. The controller sets a leveling area based on the acquired three-dimensional information and makes the work machine perform the leveling motion by the tip attachment within the leveling area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro FUKUO, Daisuke NODA
  • Publication number: 20220412751
    Abstract: A memory stores, in advance, target line information indicating an arrangement target of an object to be conveyed and related to a target line denoted by at least one of a curve or a polyline. A controller is configured to: calculate, based on the target line information, target information which is at least one of information about a target coordinate of the object and information about a target direction of the object; calculate, based on the at least one of the coordinate of the object and the direction of the object detected by the detector, detection information which is comparable with the target information; calculate a deviation of the detection information from the target information; and cause a display to display a moving direction of the object which allows the deviation to decrease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro FUKUO, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI, Koji YAMASHITA, Yusuke KAMIMURA, Shingo SEKIGUCHI, Takayuki IINO, Hiroshi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220363520
    Abstract: To allow a worker to visually recognize information for assisting transportation of a transport object and the transport object at the same time. A guidance system includes a guidance device and a controller. The guidance device has a display portion. The controller stores information of a target position of a transport object. The controller calculates a detected position which is a current position of the transport object based on a detection result of a detection portion, and further calculates a position deviation which is a deviation of the detected position from a target position. The display portion displays information of the position deviation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke KAMIMURA, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI, Koji YAMASHITA, Nobuhiro FUKUO, Norio TAKAGI, Takayuki IINO, Kaisuke SOGA
  • Publication number: 20220177278
    Abstract: Provided is a holding apparatus capable of holding a holding object with sufficient holding force from either of the outside and the inside. The holding apparatus includes a holding-apparatus body, a first and second arms, an opening and closing mechanism, a driving device, and a first and second holding elements. The opening and closing mechanism interconnects each of the first and second arms and the holding apparatus main bodies so as to allow the first and second arms to be moved in the opening and closing direction while kept in the holding posture. The first and second holding elements is pivotably connected to the arm lower region, having respective inner contact surfaces opposed to each other in the opening and closing direction and respective outer contact surfaces facing the opposite side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko SHIMAZU, Ryunosuke MIYAZAKI, Nobuhiro FUKUO, Koji YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 11111652
    Abstract: Provided is a construction machine capable of restricting halt of a function controlled by a controller when a key switch is in a key-off state. The construction machine includes an interruption switch switched between a supply allowing state of allowing supply of power from a battery to the controller and a supply interruption state of interrupting the power supply; a sensor detecting presence/absence of interruption necessary motion necessary for manipulating the interruption switch; and an alarm control device that causes an alarm device to issue an alarm only when the following conditions are all satisfied. The key switch is in the key-off state; the interruption switch is in the supply allowing state; the controller is being operated; and the sensor has detected presence of the interruption necessary motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Fukuo, Yoshiaki Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20210082268
    Abstract: A construction machine work information management system includes: a server; a transmission unit attached to the construction machine and configured to transmit a wireless signal indicating first identification information for identifying the transmission unit itself; and reception units disposed at a plurality of monitoring target positions at a work site, the reception units being configured to receive the wireless signal when the construction machine approaches, and to transmit second identification information for identifying the reception unit itself to the server together with the first identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki DOI, Nobuhiro FUKUO, Koji YAMASHITA, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20190218752
    Abstract: Provided is a construction machine capable of restricting halt of a function controlled by a controller when a key switch is in a key-off state. The construction machine includes an interruption switch switched between a supply allowing state of allowing supply of power from a battery to the controller and a supply interruption state of interrupting the power supply; a sensor detecting presence/absence of interruption necessary motion necessary for manipulating the interruption switch; and an alarm control device that causes an alarm device to issue an alarm only when the following conditions are all satisfied. The key switch is in the key-off state; the interruption switch is in the supply allowing state; the controller is being operated; and the sensor has detected presence of the interruption necessary motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro FUKUO, Yoshiaki FUJIMOTO