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).
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Patent number: 12195949Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuki Morita, Yoichiro Yamazaki, Seiji Saiki, Yusuke Fujiwara
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Patent number: 12195948Abstract: There is provided a technique capable of appropriately controlling a warm-up completion timing of a work machine in view of scheduled use of the work machine. A warm-up period elapsed until a measurement value of an internal state variable satisfies a designated condition, i.e., warm-up is completed since a warm-up operation of a work machine 40 was started is predicted based on a measurement value of an external state variable with an operation of the work machine 40 stopped. The warm-up operation of the work machine 40 is started at a first designated time t1 as an appropriate timing based on the predicted warm-up period such that the measurement value of the internal state variable of the work machine 40 satisfies the designated condition by a second designated time t2.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., LtdInventors: Masaki Otani, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20250003201Abstract: An object is to provide an image display system capable of causing a user to know interaction relationships between work machines and operators related to the work machines. On an output interface 620 of an information terminal apparatus 60, face picture images and face illustration images as indicator images M1i, which are associated with the positions of work machines Qi existing in a specified area in a specified area image, or pieces of identification information about operators of the work machines Qi, and pieces of operation history information about the work machines Qi of the operators are displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: Ryuichi HIROSE, Seiji SAIKI
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Patent number: 12163312Abstract: The remote operation system has a mutual communication function of communicating with each of plural work machines and a remote operation device which remotely operates a cooperating work machine as a remote operation target among the plural work machines. The remote operation system includes a first support process element that acquires captured image which is captured by an actual machine image-capturing device of a first work machine establishing communication by a first communication path and transmits the captured image to the remote operation device and a second support process element that recognizes that one designation operation is performed, which is a portion of plural operations for causing a second work machine establishing communication by a second communication path and in which a changing situation corresponding to the operation appears in the captured image and that transmits a command signal corresponding to the one designation operation to the second work machine.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryuichi Hirose, Yuki Morita, Yuya Matsuda, Masaki Otani, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20240355007Abstract: A remote operation system has respective mutual communication functions of communicating with a work machine (40) and a remote operation apparatus (20) and includes a support processing element (101) configured to transmit, to the remote operation apparatus (20), a combined image in which an index image is superimposed at least partially on the work machine (40) or a region around the work machine (40) in a captured image obtained through an imaging device disposed around the work machine. The index image is generated based on a mode of appearance of the lower traveling body (430) in the captured image and a mode of appearance of a designated component in the captured image. The designated component is unevenly disposed in a front or back direction of the lower traveling body (430). The index image indicates at least one of the front and back directions of the lower traveling body (430).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2022Publication date: October 24, 2024Inventors: Hitoshi SASAKI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
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Patent number: 12123175Abstract: A display mode of a picked-up image in a central image output device 2210 (specified image output device) is variably controlled so as to display all of respective specified portions PPL and PPR of a pair of pillars 4240L and 4240R configuring a cab 424 in the central image output device 2210 (specified image output device). The specified portions PPL and PPR are part of the pillars 4240L and 4240R overlapping a specified image region R that extends in a belt shape between left and right bezels 2210L and 2210R.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaki Otani, Yusuke Fujiwara, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
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Patent number: 12077946Abstract: A construction machine capable of suppressing deterioration in work efficiency includes an angle detecting device that detects a relative angle between a lower travelling body and an upper slewing body, a travel lever that can be manipulated to make the lower travelling body travel, a display, a directional information generating unit that generates information related to a travelling direction of the lower travelling body based on a detected result of the angle detecting device, and a display controller. The display controller causes the display to display an arrow image indicating the travelling direction of the lower travelling body generated by the directional information generating unit when the travel lever is manipulated and does not permit the display to display the arrow image when the travel lever is not manipulated.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2019Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaru Ito, Hitoshi Sasaki, Seiji Saiki
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Patent number: 12077943Abstract: There is provided a system and the like capable of assisting remote operation of a work machine performed by a remote operator in such a way that contact between the work machine and an actual machine operator and other unfavorable situations can be avoided. Even in a situation in which a first evaluation result is affirmative and a work machine 40 can be remotely operated via a remote operation apparatus 20, but in a situation in which a second evaluation result is affirmative and it is highly probable that a worker carrying a portable terminal 60, such as an actual machine operator OP2, is so close to the work machine 40 or on the work machine 40 that short-range wireless communication between the work machine 40 and the portable terminal 60 is established, remote operation of the work machine 40 is inhibited.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryota Hama, Hitoshi Sasaki, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
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Patent number: 12043982Abstract: A system or the like capable of making an operator recognize an environment around a working machine in an appropriate form in consideration of a state of the working machine. In the case where a working machine 40 is in a first state (an operable state), a display magnification of a captured image (environment image) outputted to a remote output interface 220 is controlled only in a range of a specified display magnification or lower, or is fixed at a value of the specified display magnification or lower. On the other hand, in the case where the working machine 40 is in a second state (an inoperable state), a zoom function of an actual machine image capturing device 412 is demonstrated according to a zoom operation through a remote input interface 210 by the operator.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Daiki Ishida, Ryota Hama, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
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Patent number: 12031297Abstract: A first operating mechanism 7 of a work machine 1 includes a first guide member 74 which tilts a fourth operating lever 5 in the right-left direction, and a first actuator 72 which generates a driving force for tilting a first direction guide member 74 on the basis of an operation command. The first actuator 72 is disposed at a position on the opposite side of the fourth operating lever 5 from a slave-side seat 3.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hitoshi Sasaki, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11993922Abstract: Provided is a system which can supply appropriate information to one operator from a viewpoint that the one operator grasps a remotely operational mode for a working machine by the other operator. In a first remote operation apparatus 10, a passive mode detector 112 detects a passive mode of a first operation mechanism 111, and transmits operational mode data corresponding to the passive mode. In a second remote operation apparatus 20, an operation of an actuator 212 is controlled in accordance with the passive mode of the first operation mechanism 111 in response to the operational mode data, and thereby, a second operation mechanism 211 actively operates.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaki Otani, Hitoshi Sasaki, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11989674Abstract: Provided are a server and a system which enable a worker of a work machine to intuitively recognize work contents and the like to be performed using the work machine in each of a plurality of work locations. In response to a first designated operation through a remote input interface 210 of a remote operation device 20, a remote output interface 220 of the remote operation device 20 outputs a work environment image showing positions of designated work locations Q1 and Q2, and information about at least one of a designated work period and a designated work content. The designated work location, the designated work period and the designated work content are included in designated work information that is work information fitting a designated position depending on the first designated operation among a plurality of pieces of work information registered in a database 102.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke Sawada, Hitoshi Sasaki, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11970837Abstract: A working machine control device includes a camera that obtains a captured image by imaging a particular part that is a part of a lower travelling body, and a controller, in which the controller includes a setting unit that sets a target slewing angle of an upper slewing body with respect to the lower travelling body, and a display control unit that causes a display unit to display a display screen in which a target image indicating a target position of the particular part is displayed in a superimposed manner at a position on the captured image, the position being where the particular part is displayed when a slewing angle of the upper slewing body with respect to the lower travelling body reaches the target slewing angle.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Ueda, Seiji Saiki, Hideki Yoshihara
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Patent number: 11959250Abstract: A first operation mechanism 3 includes a first driving source 30 which generates a driving force based on a drive command and a first driving mechanism 32 which inclines a left-side traveling pedal 1c by the driving force from the first driving source 30. The first driving mechanism 32 has a first abutting portion 32a which abuts a pedal surface of the left-side traveling pedal 1c and a first driving unit 32b which inclines the left-side traveling pedal 1c by inclining the first abutting portion. The first driving unit 32b is arranged in a position shifted to a lateral side from a space in which the first abutting portion 32a moves.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., Asahi Intecc Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hitoshi Sasaki, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki, Kohei Nakamizo
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Publication number: 20240052594Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Ryuichi HIROSE, Yuki MORITA, Yuya MATSUDA, Masaki OTANI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
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Patent number: 11898322Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hitoshi Sasaki, Seiji Saiki
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Patent number: 11885101Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaki Otani, Hitoshi Sasaki, Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11873620Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Seiji Saiki
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Patent number: 11876033Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takuro Mori, Masaru Furukawa, Takamasa Oda, Seiji Saiki
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Patent number: 11821170Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki Otani, Yoichiro Yamazaki, Seiji Saiki, Hitoshi Sasaki