Patents by Inventor Norihide Iwata

Norihide Iwata 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: 20220225556
    Abstract: A tractor includes: a three-point linkage to which a tiller is mountable a hydraulic lifting/lowering driver to lift and lower the three-point linkage, and a mechanical linkage to transmit a lifting/lowering operation amount of the three-point linkage to the lifting/lowering driver. The mechanical linkage includes a load detector to detect an amount of change in traction load via the three-point linkage, a cable to interlock according to the amount of change in the traction load detected by the load detector, and a mechanical linkage interlocked and connected to the cable and the lifting/lowering driver, the mechanical linkage being capable of transmitting the lifting/lowering operation amount according to the amount of change in the traction load to the lifting/lowering driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Daisuke NAKAYAMA, Hironobu NOGAMI, Norihide IWATA, Katsumi YANAGIHARA, Naoto MANTOKU, Keita ONO
  • Patent number: 8894135
    Abstract: A floor arrangement of a driver's section of a vehicle includes a floor frame, an acoustic absorbent placed on the floor frame and a floor mat placed on the acoustic absorbent. A wire harness is placed in an acoustic absorbent-free space formed between the floor frame and the floor mat. A protector is provided inside the acoustic absorbent-free space in the vicinity of the wire harness and extends upward from the floor frame. This protector is affixed to the floor frame and configured to receive a load applied to the floor harness from the upper side thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Togo, Koji Masumoto, Ryuji Kitagawa, Norihide Iwata, Kengo Satoh
  • Patent number: 8695748
    Abstract: An improvement in a work vehicle having an exhaust gas treatment unit is disclosed. An engine is disposed in an engine room formed in a vehicle body and supported by the vehicle body. A support unit includes right and left vertical struts mounted on the vehicle body across the engine along a vehicle body transverse direction. The exhaust gas treatment unit is disposed inside the engine room and attached to the support unit upwardly of the engine, under a posture elongate along the vehicle body transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Togo, Norihide Iwata, Keita Ono
  • Publication number: 20130213725
    Abstract: An improvement in a work vehicle having an exhaust gas treatment unit is disclosed. An engine is disposed in an engine room formed in a vehicle body and supported by the vehicle body. A support unit includes right and left vertical struts mounted on the vehicle body across the engine along a vehicle body transverse direction. The exhaust gas treatment unit is disposed inside the engine room and attached to the support unit upwardly of the engine, under a posture elongate along the vehicle body transverse direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Togo, Norihide Iwata, Keita Ono
  • Patent number: 6752228
    Abstract: A tractor with a cab disposed rearwardly of a hood, the cab being mounted on a tractor body (T) including a body forming unit, the cab including a bottom wall defining left and right footrests. The cab has a total length larger than a total height thereof. The cab is arranged to have the footrests substantially level with a lower end of the body forming unit. The cab has an intermediate height level (x) lower than a height level of the hood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Aoyama, Seiichi Ishiizumi, Katsumi Yanagihara, Kuninosuke Iwata, Norihide Iwata, Takahiro Komine, Yutaka Inubushi, Shigeo Shoen
  • Publication number: 20030015363
    Abstract: A tractor with a cab (C) disposed rearwardly of a hood (8), the cab being mounted on a tractor body (T) including a body forming unit (100; 3, 4, 5, 6), the cab including a bottom wall (27) defining left and right footrests (27a, 27a). The cab (C) has a total length (L) larger than a total height (H3) thereof. The cab (C) is arranged to have the footrests (27a, 27a) substantially level with a lower end of the body forming unit (100; 3, 4, 5, 6). The cab (C) has an intermediate height level (x) lower than a height level (H4) of the hood (8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Aoyama, Seiichi Ishiizumi, Katsumi Yanagihara, Kuninosuke Iwata, Norihide Iwata, Takahiro Komine, Yutaka Inubushi, Shigeo Shoen
  • Patent number: D674411
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Kouji Masumoto, Norihide Iwata, Akari Kakudate
  • Patent number: D710911
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Norihide Iwata, Akari Kakudate, Junta Kuwae