Patents by Inventor Saburo Senoo

Saburo Senoo 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).

  • Patent number: 9803339
    Abstract: A hydraulic control device includes: a recovery oil passage; a regenerative motor that rotates an output shaft of an engine in response to a supply of the hydraulic fluid and is driven to rotate by rotation of the output shaft of the engine; a regenerative oil passage for guiding return oil from a boom cylinder to the regenerative motor without passing the return oil through the recovery oil passage; a coupling oil passage that couples the recovery oil passage and the regenerative oil passage to each other; and a regeneration-side check valve that is provided on the coupling oil passage, and allows the hydraulic fluid to flow from the recovery oil passage toward the regenerative motor, and moreover restricts the hydraulic fluid from flowing from the regenerative motor toward the recovery oil passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignees: Kobe Steel, Ltd., KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Nanjo, Saburo Senoo, Naoki Goto
  • Publication number: 20140245729
    Abstract: A hydraulic control device includes: a recovery oil passage; a regenerative motor that rotates an output shaft of an engine in response to a supply of the hydraulic fluid and is driven to rotate by rotation of the output shaft of the engine; a regenerative oil passage for guiding return oil from a boom cylinder to the regenerative motor without passing the return oil through the recovery oil passage; a coupling oil passage that couples the recovery oil passage and the regenerative oil passage to each other; and a regeneration-side check valve that is provided on the coupling oil passage, and allows the hydraulic fluid to flow from the recovery oil passage toward the regenerative motor, and moreover restricts the hydraulic fluid from flowing from the regenerative motor toward the recovery oil passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (Kobe Steel, Ltd.), KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Nanjo, Saburo Senoo, Naoki Goto
  • Patent number: 8726649
    Abstract: A controller includes a storage unit that stores a map in which an operation amount and an upper limit value of suction torque of a hydraulic pump are associated with each other, for each operation content identified by a cylinder that is an operation object out of the cylinders, and by a direction of operation performed on this cylinder; an operation torque determination unit that determines the upper limit value of suction torque for each cylinder by using the map stored in the storage unit when an actuation command relating to at least one cylinder is input by an operation lever; a high-level selection unit that selects the maximum upper limit value of suction torque out of the upper limit values of suction torque determined by the operation torque determination unit; and a regulator that regulates a displacement of the hydraulic pump so as to obtain torque equal to or lower than the suction torque selected by the high-level selection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha (Kobe Steel, Ltd.), Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Nanjo, Saburo Senoo, Mitsunori Hirozawa
  • Publication number: 20100303642
    Abstract: A controller includes: a storage unit that stores a map in which an operation amount and an upper limit value of suction horsepower of a hydraulic pump are associated with each other, for each operation content identified by a cylinder that is an operation object out of the cylinders, and by a direction of operation performed on this cylinder; an operation horsepower determination unit that determines the upper limit value of suction horsepower for each cylinder by using the map stored in the storage unit when an actuation command relating to at least one cylinder is input by an operation lever; a high-level selection unit that selects the maximum upper limit value of suction horsepower out of the upper limit values of suction horsepower determined by the operation horsepower determination unit; and a regulator that regulates a displacement of the hydraulic pump so as to obtain horsepower equal to or lower than the suction horsepower selected by the high-level selection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel Ltd), KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Takao Nanjo, Saburo Senoo, Mitsunori Hirozawa
  • Patent number: 7059125
    Abstract: In a hydraulic controller for construction machine according to the present invention, wherein there are provided regulators for each of a first and a second capacity variable hydraulic pump, each of the regulators being controlled, detecting the discharge pressure of each pump, in such a manner that one of the pumps absorbs a part of torque while the other thereof absorbs the remaining torque, and wherein a boom raising operation causes pressure oil from the pumps to be joined together and then supplied to a boom cylinder, while also a rotating operation causes pressure oil from the second pump to be supplied to a rotating motor, is provided a flow rate distribution controller adapted to control the regulators in such a manner that a difference in flow rate is provided between the pumps so that the first pump shows a higher flow rate at the start of a combined operation of raising and rotating, and that, on a steady rotating state which results in an increase in the discharge pressure difference between the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Oka, Koji Yamashita, Saburo Senoo
  • Publication number: 20050060993
    Abstract: In a hydraulic controller for construction machine according to the present invention, wherein there are provided regulators for each of a first and a second capacity variable hydraulic pump, each of the regulators being controlled, detecting the discharge pressure of each pump, in such a manner that one of the pumps absorbs a part of torque while the other thereof absorbs the remaining torque, and wherein a boom raising operation causes pressure oil from the pumps to be joined together and then supplied to a boom cylinder, while also a rotating operation causes pressure oil from the second pump to be supplied to a rotating motor, is provided a flow rate distribution controller adapted to control the regulators in such a manner that a difference in flow rate is provided between the pumps so that the first pump shows a higher flow rate at the start of a combined operation of raising and rotating, and that, on a steady rotating state which results in an increase in the discharge pressure difference between the
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Oka, Koji Yamashita, Saburo Senoo
  • Patent number: 3933902
    Abstract: A method for obtaining an optically active .alpha.-phenylglycine benzenesulfonate by optical resolutions which comprises dissolving DL-.alpha.-phenylglycine benzenesulfonate in an aqueous solution of benzenesulfonic acid, cooling the resulting solution to a temperature sufficient to render the solution supersaturated, selectively crystallizing either optically active D- or L-.alpha.-phenylglycine benzenesulfonate in the presence of a seed of either D- or L-.alpha.-phenylglycine benzenesulfonate corresponding to the optically active .alpha.-phenylglycine benzenesulfonate to be crystallized out, and separating the resulting crystals from the liquid phase is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1972
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1976
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Teiko Watanabe, Shigeyoshi Hayashi, Shunji Ouchi, Saburo Senoo