Patents by Inventor Satoshi Kitahara

Satoshi Kitahara 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: 20240067033
    Abstract: In order to achieve a charging service using an outlet of 100 V or 200V, the present invention provides a management server 10 including an acquisition unit 11 that acquires, from a user terminal, apparatus specifying information specifying a control apparatus that controls power supply to an outlet, and a control execution unit 12 that executes processing of controlling the control apparatus specified by the apparatus specifying information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki ISHIUJI, Hiromi SUZUKI, Yutaka OKANO, Sayaka ISHIMOTO, Shoko YOKOTE, Satoshi TANAKA, Koji KITAHARA, Megumi YAMAMOTO, Chieko KURIBAYASHI, Tomohide TOYODA
  • Publication number: 20230415611
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a configuration for cooling both an electric motor as a drive source and a device for supplying electric power to the electric motor using a cooling medium such as water with a view to achieving efficient cooling without any cost increase. The present invention comprises: an electric motor serving as a drive source; a power feeder for supplying electric power to the electric motor from outside; a cooling flow channel through which coolant water is circulated for cooling the electric motor and the power feeder; and a radiator which cools the coolant water flowing through the cooling flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuma Moriguchi, Jun Terashima, Satoshi Kitahara, Keishi Yamanaka, Kensuke Kaneda
  • Publication number: 20230417022
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator provided as an electric work machine includes an electric motor, an electric instrument connected to the electric motor via a power supply path, a first heat exchanger that cools a refrigerant passing through the electric instrument, a hydraulic pump driven by the electric motor and discharges a hydraulic oil, a second heat exchanger that cools the hydraulic oil, a fan, and first and second flow paths. The first flow path has a first flow path one-end-side opening at one end thereof. The second flow path has a second flow path one-end-side opening at one end thereof. The first flow path one-end-side opening is located at the flow path of wind generated by driving the fan and crossing the first heat exchanger. The second flow path one-end-side opening is located at the flow path of wind generated by driving the fan and crossing the second heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi KITAHARA
  • Publication number: 20230417014
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to, in a configuration provided with electrical components such as an inverter device for controlling an electric motor, obtain a high degree of freedom with regard to the layout of the electrical components and efficiently place the electrical components in a limited space. An excavator comprises: an electric motor; a hydraulic fluid tank in which hydraulic fluid is stored; a hydraulic pump that is driven by the electric motor and supplies the hydraulic fluid within the hydraulic fluid tank to an actuator; and an inverter device that, with respect to the hydraulic fluid tank, is provided at a position away from a left-side surface part of the hydraulic fluid tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kitahara, Jun Terashima
  • Publication number: 20230417015
    Abstract: In a configuration in which a battery unit for supplying power to an electric motor is provided, the present invention effectively suppresses the vibration of the battery unit using a simple and inexpensive configuration. The present invention comprises: an electric motor; a battery unit for supplying power to the electric motor; a lower-side vibration-damping support part that, with respect to an upper turning body in which the battery unit is installed, dampens the vibration of and supports the lower side of the battery unit; and an upper-side vibration-damping support part that, with respect to the upper turning body, dampens the vibration of and supports the upper side of the battery unit. The lower-side vibration-damping support part is provided to one side of the battery unit in the front-rear direction, and the upper-side vibration-damping support part is provided to the other side of the battery unit in the front-rear direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kitahara, Jun Terashima
  • Publication number: 20230417019
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator as an electric work machine includes: an electric motor, a battery unit that stores electric power for driving the electric motor, an electric component to which the electric power is supplied from the battery unit, a first heat exchanger that cools a refrigerant which passes through the battery unit, a hydraulic pump that is driven by the electric motor thereby to discharge a hydraulic oil, a second heat exchanger that cools the hydraulic oil, a fan that has a rotary shaft, and a partition plate. The electric component, viewed from above, is positioned between the fan and the battery unit. The first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger, viewed from a direction of the rotary shaft, are positioned overlapping the fan, and are so positioned as to be displaced from each other in one direction intersecting the rotary shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi KITAHARA
  • Publication number: 20230167623
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator as an electric working machine includes: a lower traveling body; an upper turning body that is positioned above the lower traveling body and provided to be turnable with respect to the lower traveling body; an electric motor that is arranged in the upper turning body; and a battery unit that is arranged in the upper turning body and stores electric power for driving the electric motor. The upper turning body includes a turning frame at a bottom. The battery unit is arranged on the turning frame. The electric motor is arranged above the battery unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20230131436
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator as an electric work machine includes a lower traveling body, an upper swivel body located above the lower traveling body and provided to be swivelable with respect to the lower traveling body, an electric motor arranged in the upper swivel body, a hydraulic pump arranged in the upper swivel body and driven by the electric motor, a battery unit arranged in the upper swivel body and storing electric power to drive the electric motor, and a hydraulic actuator driven by hydraulic oil supplied from the hydraulic pump. The upper swivel body has a swivel frame at a bottom portion thereof. The battery unit is arranged on the swivel frame. The electric motor and the hydraulic pump are arranged on the swivel frame, side by side in a left-right direction of the upper swivel body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20210070062
    Abstract: A printer includes a thermal print head, a supply shaft, a winding shaft, a light emitting device, and a photodetector. The light emitting device and the photodetector are aligned along a line parallel to a line passing through rotational axes of the supply and winding shafts at a predetermined distance. The predetermined distance is greater than a radius of the supply shaft and a radius of the winding shaft. The predetermined distance is less than a radial distance from the rotational axis of the supply shaft to an outer surface of the ink ribbon on the supply shaft and a radial distance from the rotational axis of the winding shaft to an outer surface of the ink ribbon on the winding shaft when a length of the ribbon on the supply shaft is equal to a length of the ribbon on the winding shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventor: Satoshi KITAHARA
  • Patent number: 10919315
    Abstract: A printer includes a thermal print head, a supply shaft, a winding shaft, a light emitting device, and a photodetector. The light emitting device and the photodetector are aligned along a line parallel to a line passing through rotational axes of the supply and winding shafts at a predetermined distance. The predetermined distance is greater than a radius of the supply shaft and a radius of the winding shaft. The predetermined distance is less than a radial distance from the rotational axis of the supply shaft to an outer surface of the ink ribbon on the supply shaft and a radial distance from the rotational axis of the winding shaft to an outer surface of the ink ribbon on the winding shaft when a length of the ribbon on the supply shaft is equal to a length of the ribbon on the winding shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Kitahara
  • Patent number: 10647139
    Abstract: A printer contains a ribbon holding shaft; a ribbon winding shaft; a printing section to print using an ink ribbon and a print head; a winding motor to rotationally drive the ribbon winding shaft; a damper section, provided on a conveyance path of the ink ribbon; a controller to control an operation of the ribbon winding shaft at the start of driving by increasing an input voltage applied to the winding motor; a detection section configured to detect movement of the damper section; a calculation section to calculate a winding diameter of the ink ribbon on the ribbon winding shaft side using the input voltage when the movement of the damper section is detected and characteristics of the damper section; and a voltage determination section to determine an input voltage to be applied to the motor according to the calculated winding diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20180345690
    Abstract: A printer comprises a housing which is composed of a box-shaped main body section with an opening on one surface thereof and a cover for opening and closing the opening of the main body section and forming a paper discharge port between the cover and the main body section at the time the cover is located at a position to close the opening; a storage section houses a roll paper; a printing section carries out printing on the paper; a cutter which has a cutting edge used to cut the paper; a support section which supports the cutter in a manner of freely moving between a use position at the time of cutting the paper by the cutting edge and a non-use position close to an edge of the paper discharge port with respect to the use position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Satoshi Kitahara
  • Patent number: 10071574
    Abstract: A printer comprises a housing which is composed of a box-shaped main body section with an opening on one surface thereof and a cover for opening and closing the opening of the main body section and forming a paper discharge port between the cover and the main body section at the time the cover is located at a position to close the opening; a storage section houses a roll paper; a printing section carries out printing on the paper; a cutter which has a cutting edge used to cut the paper; a support section which supports the cutter in a manner of freely moving between a use position at the time of cutting the paper by the cutting edge and a non-use position close to an edge of the paper discharge port with respect to the use position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20180009243
    Abstract: A printer comprises a housing which is composed of a box-shaped main body section with an opening on one surface thereof and a cover for opening and closing the opening of the main body section and forming a paper discharge port between the cover and the main body section at the time the cover is located at a position to close the opening; a storage section houses a roll paper; a printing section carries out printing on the paper; a cutter which has a cutting edge used to cut the paper; a support section which supports the cutter in a manner of freely moving between a use position at the time of cutting the paper by the cutting edge and a non-use position close to an edge of the paper discharge port with respect to the use position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventor: Satoshi Kitahara
  • Patent number: 9016537
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tractor comprises a guide shaft, a first belt unit, a second belt unit, a fixing unit and a connecting unit. The first belt unit is supported by the guide shaft so as to move in an axis direction of the guide shaft. The second belt unit is arranged to face the first belt unit in the axis direction of the guide shaft and supported by the guide shaft. The fixing unit, which is movably supported by the guide shaft in the axis direction of the guide shaft and is capable of being fixed on the guide shaft. The connecting unit configured to connect the first belt unit to the fixing unit with a clearance in the axis direction of the guide shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norifumi Shishido, Satoshi Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20120318839
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tractor comprises a guide shaft, a first belt unit, a second belt unit, a fixing unit and a connecting unit. The first belt unit is supported by the guide shaft so as to move in an axis direction of the guide shaft. The second belt unit is arranged to face the first belt unit in the axis direction of the guide shaft and supported by the guide shaft. The fixing unit, which is movably supported by the guide shaft in the axis direction of the guide shaft and is capable of being fixed on the guide shaft. The connecting unit configured to connect the first belt unit to the fixing unit with a clearance in the axis direction of the guide shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norifumi Shishido, Satoshi Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20120298711
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tractor comprises a pin belt, a pair of rotating units and a roller. The pin belt configured as an endless belt, which has a plurality of pins on the outer peripheral surface thereof, wherein the pins are respectively inserted into feeding holes formed on a tractor paper, and the pin belt rotates to convey the tractor paper. The pair of rotating units configured to rotate the pin belt. The roller, which is arranged between the pair of rotating units, with a groove on the outer peripheral surface thereof, wherein the front end of the pin is fitted into the groove, so that the front end of the pin is abutted against the groove to space between the outer peripheral surface of the pin belt and the outer peripheral surface of the roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Kitahara
  • Patent number: D756420
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoyuki Okuyama, Satoshi Kitahara, Nagahiro Ogata, Tsuyoshi Nakahara, Yoshihisa Ishikawa
  • Patent number: D758457
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoyuki Okuyama, Satoshi Kitahara, Nagahiro Ogata, Tsuyoshi Nakahara, Yoshihisa Ishikawa
  • Patent number: D762740
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoyuki Okuyama, Satoshi Kitahara, Nagahiro Ogata, Tsuyoshi Nakahara, Yoshihisa Ishikawa