Patents by Inventor Ryo Ikeda

Ryo Ikeda 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: 20250117866
    Abstract: An energy support system for an agricultural machine, to and from which a package body charged with energy is attachable and detachable and which is driven by the energy charged in the package body, includes a management computer configured or programmed to compute an energy consumption of the agricultural machine in a case where the agricultural machine performs an agricultural work and compute a number of package bodies required to cover the energy consumption based on the energy consumption computed by the management computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Ryosuke KINUGAWA, Ryo IKEDA, Keisuke MIURA, Kenji ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20250115130
    Abstract: A working machine includes a traveling vehicle that is a first moving entity, a working device that is a second moving entity coupled to the first moving entity, and a sub battery loaded on the second moving entity to store an energy source to drive the traveling vehicle. Therefore, it is not necessary to newly provide a configuration to load the sub battery on the traveling vehicle, and a battery can be easily loaded. In a case where the traveling vehicle includes a main battery, the traveling and work can be continued according to a capacity of the sub battery without being stopped in order to charge the main battery that has a decreased remaining charge level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Ryosuke KINUGAWA, Ryo IKEDA, Keisuke MIURA, Kenji ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20250113760
    Abstract: A working machine includes a tractor, a battery to store an energy source to drive the tractor, a working device provided in the tractor and that performs work by using a material, a route creator configured or programmed to create a scheduled travel route of the tractor in a work area where the working device performs the work by using the material, an area setter configured or programmed to set a replenishment area in which replenishment with the material and the energy source are performed outside the work area, and a position setter configured or programmed to set a first replenishment position, which is a position for the replenishment with the material, and a second replenishment position, which is a position for the replenishment with the energy source, in the replenishment area set by the area setter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Ryosuke KINUGAWA, Ryo IKEDA, Keisuke MIURA, Kenji ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20250115156
    Abstract: A monitoring system includes a battery to store an energy source to drive a working machine, and a monitoring computer including an area setter configured or programmed to set an area for the battery, and a first monitoring section configured or programmed to monitor the battery by providing a notification for the battery or a restriction for the battery in a case where the battery is not located in the set area. With this configuration, in a case where the battery is not located in the area determined for the battery, the notification or restriction is provided. Therefore, the battery can be easily monitored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Ryosuke KINUGAWA, Ryo IKEDA, Keisuke MIURA, Kenji ISHIHARA
  • Patent number: 12268122
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a work vehicle that can be controlled automatically. The work vehicle includes HST's for feeding power for traveling to at least either front wheels or rear wheels mounted on a traveling vehicle body, traveling levers for operating driving of at least either the front wheels or the rear wheel, traveling links operably coupling the traveling levers with the HST's, traveling drive sections for driving either the traveling levers or the traveling links, and a traveling control section configured to activate the traveling drive sections in response to receipt of a traveling instruction for the traveling levers in the automatic control mode for automatically controlling the traveling vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuaki Matsuda, Katsuhiko Uemura, Yasuhiro Manji, Ryo Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20250108682
    Abstract: A working machine includes a storage to store an energy source to drive the working machine. The storage includes a main battery in the working machine and a sub battery at a position different from the main battery. At least one of the main battery or the sub battery is attachable to and detachable from the working machine. Therefore, it is possible to replace a storage that stores an energy source and to reduce or prevent deterioration of working efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Ryosuke KINUGAWA, Ryo IKEDA, Keisuke MIURA, Kenji ISHIHARA
  • Patent number: 12228059
    Abstract: A gas turbine facility includes: a gas turbine; an ammonia supply device that supplies ammonia to a combustor of the gas turbine; a flow path forming frame forming an exhaust gas flow path through which exhaust gas from the gas turbine flows; a sprinkling device having a sprinkler that sprinkles water into the exhaust gas flow path; and a sprinkling controller that controls an operation of the sprinkling device. The sprinkling controller instructs the sprinkling device to start sprinkling the water on condition that an instruction to start supply of the ammonia to the combustor from the ammonia supply device or an instruction to stop the supply of the ammonia is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi Ishii, Ryo Ikeda, Akira Hattori, Hiroyuki Takeishi
  • Patent number: 12173645
    Abstract: This gas turbine plant is provided with a gas turbine and a fuel supply facility. The fuel supply facility is provided with: a liquid ammonia line; a warm water line through which warm water can flow; a vaporizer which can perform the heat exchange between the warm water coming from the warm water line and liquid ammonia coming from the liquid ammonia line to heat and vaporize the liquid ammonia; a heat exchanger which can perform the heat exchange between the warm water in the warm water line and a medium; a heat exchange amount controller which can control the amount of heat exchange between the warm water and the medium to control the temperature of the warm water flowing into the vaporizer; and a gaseous ammonia line which can introduce gaseous ammonia that is ammonia vaporized by the vaporizer into the gas turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Ikeda, Hiromi Ishii, Akira Hattori, Michio Sasaki, Takahiro Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20240337207
    Abstract: A gas turbine facility includes: a gas turbine; an ammonia supply device that supplies ammonia to a combustor of the gas turbine; a flow path forming frame forming an exhaust gas flow path through which exhaust gas from the gas turbine flows; a sprinkling device having a sprinkler that sprinkles water into the exhaust gas flow path; and a sprinkling controller that controls an operation of the sprinkling device. The sprinkling controller instructs the sprinkling device to start sprinkling the water on condition that an instruction to start supply of the ammonia to the combustor from the ammonia supply device or an instruction to stop the supply of the ammonia is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Hiromi ISHII, Ryo IKEDA, Akira HATTORI, Hiroyuki TAKEISHI
  • Publication number: 20240212398
    Abstract: An operation data support system for industrial machinery includes a first memory, a second memory, a communication device, and a control device. The first memory stores, with a ring buffer, operation data regarding a backhoe. The second memory is different from the first memory and stores operation data. The communication device transmits, outward from the backhoe, the operation data stored in either the first memory or the second memory. The control device controls the first memory, the second memory, and the communication device. When acquiring a transmission command for operation data, the control device stops storage of operation data with the ring buffer in the first memory and additionally causes the communication device to transmit first operation data stored in the first memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke MIURA, Ryo IKEDA, Yoshihito IIDA, Kenji ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20240214789
    Abstract: A communication system of an industrial machine includes an in-vehicle network, an information communication network, and a communication device of an information collecting unit. The in-vehicle network N1 performs data communication in a plurality of electronic devices 7 mounted on the industrial machine (backhoe 1). The information communication network is an external network of the backhoe and is a network different from the in-vehicle network. The communication device connects the in-vehicle network to the information communication network. The communication device 30C transmits the in-vehicle data D when data communication is performed by the plurality of electronic devices 7 in the in-vehicle network N1 to the information communication network N. As a result, the in-vehicle data configured via the in-vehicle network in the backhoe can be transmitted without any change to the information communication network outside the backhoe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke MIURA, Ryo IKEDA, Yoshihito IIDA, Kenji ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20240188485
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a work vehicle that can be controlled automatically. The work vehicle includes HST's for feeding power for traveling to at least either front wheels or rear wheels mounted on a traveling vehicle body, traveling levers for operating driving of at least either the front wheels or the rear wheel, traveling links operably coupling the traveling levers with the HST's, traveling drive sections for driving either the traveling levers or the traveling links, and a traveling control section configured to activate the traveling drive sections in response to receipt of a traveling instruction for the traveling levers in the automatic control mode for automatically controlling the traveling vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuaki Matsuda, Katsuhiko Uemura, Yasuhiro Manji, Ryo Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20240114818
    Abstract: In an agricultural machine to perform an agricultural work in a field, data relating to the agricultural work or the agricultural machine is transmitted from a mobile terminal to a stationary base station included in an external communication network. The agricultural machine includes an agricultural base station connectable to at least one of the mobile terminal and the stationary base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Ryo IKEDA, Keisuke MIURA, Ryosuke KINUGAWA, Kenji ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20240114817
    Abstract: A monitoring system of a work machine includes a monitor to monitor whether or not a work machine is within an area when a first signal is received and stop monitoring when a second signal is received. The work machine includes at least a communication terminal to transmit the first signal and the second signal to the monitor, a first instruction generator operable to instruct the communication terminal to transmit the first signal, and a second instruction generator operable to instruct the communication terminal to transmit the second signal when the monitor is monitoring the work machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Keisuke MIURA, Yoshihito IIDA, Atsushi MATSUMOTO, Ryo IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20240117610
    Abstract: A work machine information collection system includes a work machine including an operation hardware assembly and a server communicably connected to each other, and a data collection processor configured or programmed to include an operation data output to output an operation data corresponding to an operation state of the operation hardware assembly, a determiner configured or programmed to determine whether not the operation data satisfies a determination condition to determine whether or not to transmit the operation data output by the operation data output to the server, and a communicator configured or programmed to transmit the operation data to the server when the determiner determines that the operation data satisfies the determination condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Koichi FUJIMOTO, Ryo IKEDA, Keisuke MIURA
  • Patent number: 11951939
    Abstract: An anti-theft system for a working machine, includes: a start-operation tool to issue an order to start a prime mover; an information obtaining device to obtain first information and second information; and a controller device having: a certification storage to store certification information; a start processor to obtain the order issued by the start-operation tool and to start the prime mover when the first information obtained by the information obtaining device is related to the certification information; and a registration processor to perform a registration process for registering the second information as the certification information. The registration processor allows the registration process before starting of the prime mover, and stops allowing the registration process after the starting of the prime mover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Ikeda, Keisuke Egashira, Ryota Ando
  • Patent number: 11937538
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a work vehicle that can be controlled automatically. The work vehicle includes HST's for feeding power for traveling to at least either front wheels or rear wheels mounted on a traveling vehicle body, traveling levers for operating driving of at least either the front wheels or the rear wheel, traveling links operably coupling the traveling levers with the HST's, traveling drive sections for driving either the traveling levers or the traveling links, and a traveling control section configured to activate the traveling drive sections in response to receipt of a traveling instruction for the traveling levers in the automatic control mode for automatically controlling the traveling vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuaki Matsuda, Katsuhiko Uemura, Yasuhiro Manji, Ryo Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20240093639
    Abstract: This gas turbine plant is provided with a gas turbine and a fuel supply facility. The fuel supply facility is provided with: a liquid ammonia line; a warm water line through which warm water can flow; a vaporizer which can perform the heat exchange between the warm water coming from the warm water line and liquid ammonia coming from the liquid ammonia line to heat and vaporize the liquid ammonia; a heat exchanger which can perform the heat exchange between the warm water in the warm water line and a medium; a heat exchange amount controller which can control the amount of heat exchange between the warm water and the medium to control the temperature of the warm water flowing into the vaporizer; and a gaseous ammonia line which can introduce gaseous ammonia that is ammonia vaporized by the vaporizer into the gas turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Ryo IKEDA, Hiromi ISHII, Akira HATTORI, Michio SASAKI, Takahiro SUGAWARA
  • Publication number: 20240052604
    Abstract: A monitoring system for a working machine includes: a position detector to determine a position of a working machine based on radio waves from positioning satellite(s); an area setter to set work area information indicating whether work area(s) is/are in a shielded environment or an unshielded environment, the work area(s) being area(s) where work is to be done by the working machine, the shielded environment being an environment in which the radio waves are likely to be blocked, the unshielded environment being an environment in which the radio waves are unlikely to be blocked; and a monitor to evaluate a state of position determination by the position detector based on a result of the position determination by the position detector, and provide a notification if there is a predetermined change in the state of the position determination compared to a state of position determination corresponding to the work area information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke MIURA, Ryo IKEDA, Ryosuke KINUGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240054538
    Abstract: A working machine rental system includes: a rental setter to make one or more settings for use in renting out a working machine configured to perform a special action, the one or more settings including a selection to use or not use the special action; and a fee calculator to: calculate a rental fee for the working machine based on the one or more settings made by the rental setter; and change the rental fee for the working machine if the special action is actually used or actually not used differently from the selection to use or not use the special action included in the one or more settings made by the rental setter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke MIURA, Ryo IKEDA, Ryosuke KINUGAWA