Patents by Inventor Shigehiro Hidaka

Shigehiro Hidaka 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: 6408960
    Abstract: A mobile cultural machine including right and left traction members, a transmission, and a main speed change device operable to transmit, at any speed ratio, a driving force from an engine through the transmission to the traction members so that they are driven at any traveling speed. A steerage and a steering device operate to cause the steerage to differentiate the traveling speeds between traction members. The traveling speeds are reduced in response to the extent to which the steering device is operated, so that a machine running straight may smoothly be controlled to enter a spinning turn at the end of a row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Yanmar Agricultural Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigehiro Hidaka, Daigo Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 6152248
    Abstract: A mobile agricultural machine has a pair of right and left traction members (2), a transmission (23,24), a main speed change device (68) operable to transmit at any speed ratio a driving force from an engine (21) through the transmission to the traction members so that the traction members are driven at any traveling speeds. The machine further has a steerage (26,27), and a steering device (19) operable to cause the steerage to differentiate the traveling speeds between the traction members (2). The traveling speeds are reduced in response to an extent to which the steering device (19) is operated, so that the agricultural machine running straight for an agricultural work along its running course that is being adjusted may smoothly be controlled merely by a continuous manual operation to make a spinning turn on a bare end of the farm for the next course of the work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: Yanmar Agricultural Equipment, Lts.
    Inventors: Shigehiro Hidaka, Daigo Yokoyama