Patents by Inventor Seiji Saiki

Seiji Saiki 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: 20240052594
    Abstract: A remote operation system communicates with work machines and with a remote operation device which remotely operates one work machine as a target among the work machines. An actual machine image-capturing device capturing an image and an actual machine identification information of which is captured to be included in the image, are mounted on the work machine as a candidate of the target among the work machines. The system includes a first assistance process element which connects a cooperating work machine with the remote operation device, the work machine being identified by an identifier corresponding to selection information of the selected work machine, and acquires the image captured by the actual machine image-capturing device of the work machine and a second assistance process element which causes an output interface of the remote operation device to output the image captured by the actual machine image capturing device of the work machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Ryuichi HIROSE, Yuki MORITA, Yuya MATSUDA, Masaki OTANI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11898322
    Abstract: A master-side device is provided outside a working machine and transmits, to a slave-side device, a command for controlling activation of an actuator. The master-side device is provided with a master-side lever and an operation pattern switching unit. The operation pattern switching unit switches a master-side operation pattern in which a first command according to an operation of the master-side lever is combined with a second command for an operation of a machine-side lever. The slave-side device transmits, to the master-side device, information of a machine-side operation pattern selected by an operation pattern switching valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Sasaki, Seiji Saiki
  • Patent number: 11885101
    Abstract: Provided is a system which can avoid instability of an operating state of a working machine, when switching a remote operation actor of the working machine. In a case where a state of one or both of a working machine 40 or a first operator is a specified state when the working machine 40 is remotely operated through a first remote operation apparatus 10, a first notification corresponding to the specified state is transmitted to a remote operation server 30. In the remote operation server 30, a second remote operation apparatus 20 which is appropriate in view of content of the first notification is selected as the remote operation actor of the working machine 40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Otani, Hitoshi Sasaki, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11873620
    Abstract: A turning control apparatus, for a turning-type working machine, includes: a target stop position setting unit setting the target stop position of the turning body and a turning command unit. The target stop position setting unit includes an image taking device, an image processing device forming an overhead view image of the work machine and surrounding objects based on the taken image; an image display command unit making a target stop position setting image including the overhead view image be displayed on a display screen of the image display device, a setting operation member to which a position setting operation for setting a target stop position with reference to the position of the image of the work machine and surrounding objects included in the overhead view image is applied, and a target stop position determination unit that determines a target stop position based on the position setting operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seiji Saiki
  • Patent number: 11876033
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a technique capable of relaxing the stress to be applied around the attachment hole of the resin case at the time of fixing the resin case accommodating the semiconductor element to the heat dissipation component with a bolt. A semiconductor device includes a base plate, a heat dissipation component, and a resin case. In a state where the resin case is disposed on the heat dissipation component via the base plate, the resin case is attached to the heat dissipation component with a bolt. The resin case has a recess portion, an attachment hole formed below the recess portion, and at least one groove formed between a wall portion on an inner peripheral side forming the recess portion and the attachment hole. One end of the at least one groove reaches an outer peripheral end of the resin case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takuro Mori, Masaru Furukawa, Takamasa Oda, Seiji Saiki
  • Patent number: 11821170
    Abstract: A remote operation system for a working machine includes a control device enabling an operator wearing a wearable display to grasp the surrounding situation of himself/herself. The control device includes an operation intention judgment section judging the presence/absence of an operator's operation intention to a remote operation lever based on the contents of acquired judgment information, and a display image switching section. With judgment of presence of the operation intention, the display image switching section makes a working area image taken by a working area image taking camera be displayed in a particular display area of the wearable display. With judgment of absence of the operation intention, the display image switching section stops the display of the working area image in the at least a part of the particular display area and switches it to a surrounding visual-recognition allowing area allowing the operator to visually recognize the surroundings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Otani, Yoichiro Yamazaki, Seiji Saiki, Hitoshi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11821171
    Abstract: A work machine 10 includes: a load detection unit 22a that detects a load on an operation mechanism 100; information output devices 43, 44, and 41a that output at least one of an image, a sound, and a vibration to an operator; and a control unit 47a that controls, according to the magnitude of a load detected by the load detection unit 22a, one or more of the level of at least one of the color intensity, the brightness, and the transparency of an image output by the information output device 44, at least one of the intensity and the level of frequency of a sound output by the information output device 43, and at least one of the intensity and the level of frequency of a vibration output by the information output device 41a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki, Hitoshi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11732444
    Abstract: An image of a work attachment (operation mechanism) of a work machine and the periphery of the work attachment, which corresponds to captured image data acquired by an imaging device, is displayed on an image output device by means of a first communication mode established between a slave control device mounted in the work machine and a master control device. When the first communication mode is interrupted, instead of the image of the operation mechanism of the work machine and the periphery of the operation mechanism, a point cloud image corresponding to distance image data acquired by a distance sensor is displayed on the image output device by means of a second communication mode established between the slave control device and the master control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryota Hama, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11732439
    Abstract: A master acquires, from a slave, a surrounding image obtained by capturing an image of surroundings of a construction machine from inside a cab seat of the construction machine, determines whether or not a working device is included in the surrounding image, and in a case of determining that the working device is not included in the surrounding image, calculates a position of the working device from a posture of the construction machine and displays, on a display device, a display object for informing an operator of the calculated position, together with the surrounding image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Sasaki, Seiji Saiki, Kazuhiro Ueda
  • Patent number: 11732440
    Abstract: Provided is a system which can supply appropriate information to one operator from a viewpoint that the one operator grasps a remotely operated action of a working machine by another operator. In a first remote operation apparatus 10, a sight line detector 112 detects a sight line of a first operator, and transmits sight line detection data corresponding to the sight line of the first operator. In a second remote operation apparatus 20, a second image output device 221 displays a designated image region spreading with reference to the sight line of the first operator corresponding to the sight line detection data in an environmental image corresponding to captured image data acquired by an imaging device 401 of a working machine 40, in a form different from a form of an image region around the designated image region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Otani, Hitoshi Sasaki, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20230219791
    Abstract: A notification system includes: a notifier which notifies an operator of a state of a lifting magnet; a sensor which detects at least one of a voltage, an electric current, and an electric power supplied for exciting the lifting magnet; a determination part which determines, based on detection data from the sensor, whether an attraction quantity of the lifting magnet reaches a maximum attraction quantity after excitation of the lifting magnet is started; and a notification control part which causes the notifier to notify that the attraction quantity reaches the maximum attraction quantity when the determination part determines that the attraction quantity reaches the maximum attraction quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke FUJIWARA, Seiji SAIKI, Natsuki YUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11680383
    Abstract: On detection of a difference between the operation amount detected by a first sensor and the operation amount received by a first communication unit from a slave, a master side controller executes at least one of stop control to automatically stop a construction machine and alarm control to cause a warning device to issue an alarm. On detection of a difference between the operation amount detected by a second sensor and the operation amount received by a communication unit from the master, a slave side controller executes at least one of the stop control to automatically stop the construction machine and the alarm control to cause the warning device to issue the alarm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ueda, Yoichiro Yamazaki, Seiji Saiki, Ryota Hama
  • Publication number: 20230177732
    Abstract: A device or the like capable of improving continuity of a moving image outputted to an image output device of a remote operation device even in circumstances where an inter-frame difference of the moving image becomes large. When it is predicted that a data amount of a captured image is to exceed a threshold in consideration of a detection result of a moving mode of a working machine, high frequency components exceeding a specified frequency in a second specified image area excluding a first specified image area of the captured image are eliminated Thus, the data amount of the captured image is reduced so that the data amount becomes equal to or smaller than the threshold. Then, not only inter-frame continuity of the first specified image area of an environment image outputted to an image output device of a remote operation device but also visibility by an operator is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Ryota HAMA, Yusuke FUJIWARA, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI, Seiji SAIKI
  • Publication number: 20230169422
    Abstract: There are provided a server and a system that can cause content of work to be achieved using a work machine at each of a plurality of work positions, and the like to be intuitively recognized by a worker of the work machine A work environment image of a worksite showing extension aspects of specified areas A1 and A2 specified through an input interface (for example, an input interface 610) of a first client (for example, a worker terminal 60) is outputted to an output interface (for example, a remote output interface 220) of a second client (for example, a remote operation device 20) together with specified area related information about the specified areas similarly specified through the input interface of the first client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Yusuke SAWADA, Hitoshi SASAKI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230167625
    Abstract: A lever drive control unit 27a of a hydraulic work machine 10 performs actuation control on a lever drive actuator 21 so as to operate an operation lever 20 to a neutral position and operation positions for a maximum operation amount and stores control values for the lever drive actuator 21 at the respective operation positions, upon receipt of a request for execution of a process in a calibration mode. The lever drive control unit 27a uses the stored control values to create data prescribing a relation between a drive command for the operation lever 20 and a control value for the lever drive actuator 21.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Ryota HAMA, Takayuki DOI, Seiji SAIKI
  • Publication number: 20230167626
    Abstract: A remote operation assistance server, or the like, capable of providing an operator of a work machine with information about influence of various regional weather conditions, such as precipitation and temperature, on the transfer and work of the work machine includes a first operation reference information Img(info1), representing weather conditions (actual measurement values or analytic values) over a first designated period in the past and weather conditions (predictive values) over a second designated period in the future at a designated area A where a work machine 40 is present, which is output to a remote output interface 220 of a remote operation apparatus 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Masaki OTANI, Hitoshi SASAKI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11657342
    Abstract: A server includes: a communication part which receives from an orderer terminal operation request information input by an orderer and including a specific operation content and an operation time set for the specific operation content; and a display data generation part which generates based on the operation request information display data on which a master device displays an operation selection image showing the operation content and the operation time set in combination with each other to allow a selection of a desired time segment of the operation time set. The master device includes: a display control part which generates the operation selection image based on the display data so that a display part displays the operation selection image; and an operation part which receives a selection instruction of the operator that the operator selects the desired time segment of the operation time set shown in the operation selection image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20230128501
    Abstract: There is provided a device or the like capable of causing a result of an operator, remotely operating a working machine, perceiving a motion aspect of the working machine to approximate to a result of the operator perceiving a motion aspect of the working machine when the operator gets on the working machine. When there is represented a relative motion of a first component (lower traveling body 410, upper revolving body 420) and a second component (upper revolving body 420, bucket 445 (working unit)) that constitute working machine 40, based on a result of detecting an operation aspect of a remote operation device 20, control is performed on individual sound output aspects of a plurality of sound output devices 2220, 2221 and 2222, each arranged at different locations in a remote operation space for the operator who operates the remote operation device 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Yuki MORITA, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI, Seiji SAIKI, Yusuke FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20230092296
    Abstract: A work assistance server 10 according to the present invention includes a first assistance processing element 121 that generates a surroundings image including a region around a work machine 40 when a request to start work by the work machine 40 is made, and a second assistance processing element 122 that permits the work by the work machine 40 on condition that the surroundings image is displayed on an image output device 221 of a remote operation apparatus 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Hitoshi SASAKI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230073325
    Abstract: There is provided a technology capable of, when a remote operation target through a remote operation apparatus is switched from one work machine to another work machine, making it easy for an operator to respond to an environmental change of the remote operation target. A first work environment image based on first picked-up image data acquired through a work machine image-pickup device 412 of a first work machine which is a current remote operation target of a remote operation apparatus 20 is outputted on a remote output interface 220. In addition, a second work environment image based on second picked-up image data acquired through a work machine image pickup apparatus of a second work machine which is the next remote operation target of the remote operation apparatus 20 is outputted on the remote output interface 220.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Hitoshi SASAKI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI