Patents by Inventor Shigeru Komatsu

Shigeru Komatsu 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: 9943023
    Abstract: A lift control apparatus includes a height sensor that outputs a height detection signal after a height of a ground work apparatus is detected. The ground work apparatus is coupled to a traveling work vehicle via a lift mechanism. An upper limit manager sets an upper limit position of the ground work apparatus based on an operation input signal from an input operation device for an upper limit setting USD. A setting prohibitor prohibits, when the upper limit position being set by the operation input signal is lower than the height of the ground work apparatus based on the height detection signal, the setting of the upper limit position from the operation input signal, and setting the upper limit position to the height of the ground work apparatus based on the height detection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Komatsu, Keiji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9759319
    Abstract: A traveling work vehicle includes a gear-shifting control unit that outputs a gear-shifting control command to a main gear-shifting apparatus for shifting gears without cutting off power transmission, a sub gear-shifting apparatus for shifting gears by cutting off power transmission, and a first operation unit and a second operation unit that provide gear-shifting, upshifting or downshifting, operation commands to the gear-shifting control unit. The gear-shifting control unit has a first travel control section that generates a gear-shifting control command for shifting gears in the main gear-shifting apparatus in response to the gear-shifting operation command from the first operation unit in a work traveling mode, and a second travel control section that generates a gear-shifting control command for shifting gears in the sub gear-shifting apparatus in response to the gear-shifting operation command from the second operation unit in the work traveling mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Komatsu, Keiji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9725090
    Abstract: A speed control device in a traveling work vehicle changes a speed of rotational drive power from an engine to drive vehicle wheels and includes: a target speed calculator determining a target speed, based on operation deflection of a speed change device. A vehicle speed controller adjusting a speed change ratio based on the target speed. A vehicle speed obtainer obtaining an actual vehicle speed. A forcible target speed modifier forcibly modifying the target speed to a lower speed based on operation of a braking device. A release can treat an operation of the speed change device as a trigger to cancel the target speed forcibly modified by the forcible target speed modifier, and conforming the target speed to the actual vehicle speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Komatsu, Keiji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9670939
    Abstract: An operation control system for a work apparatus equipped to a work vehicle includes a controller controlling the work apparatus. A first hydraulic valve and a second hydraulic valve control hydraulic pressure supply to the work apparatus. An operation unit provides an operation input signal to the controller. A first mounting base and a second mounting base are provided adjacently to each other in the operation unit. A first single-operation tool is formed mountable on the first mounting base and a second single-operation tool is formed mountable on the second mounting base. Further, a multi-operation tool is mountable so as to straddle both the first mounting base and the second mounting base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Komatsu, Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20160053779
    Abstract: An operation control system for a work apparatus equipped to a work vehicle includes a controller controlling the work apparatus. A first hydraulic valve and a second hydraulic valve control hydraulic pressure supply to the work apparatus. An operation unit provides an operation input signal to the controller. A first mounting base and a second mounting base are provided adjacently to each other in the operation unit. A first single-operation tool is formed mountable on the first mounting base and a second single-operation tool is formed mountable on the second mounting base. Further, a multi-operation tool is mountable so as to straddle both the first mounting base and the second mounting base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru KOMATSU, Atsushi MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160033033
    Abstract: A traveling work vehicle includes a gear-shifting control unit that outputs a gear-shifting control command to a main gear-shifting apparatus for shifting gears without cutting off power transmission, a sub gear-shifting apparatus for shifting gears by cutting off power transmission, and a first operation unit and a second operation unit that provide gear-shifting, upshifting or downshifting, operation commands to the gear-shifting control unit. The gear-shifting control unit has a first travel control section that generates a gear-shifting control command for shifting gears in the main gear-shifting apparatus in response to the gear-shifting operation command from the first operation unit in a work traveling mode, and a second travel control section that generates a gear-shifting control command for shifting gears in the sub gear-shifting apparatus in response to the gear-shifting operation command from the second operation unit in the work traveling mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru KOMATSU, Keiji TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20160031443
    Abstract: A speed control device in a traveling work vehicle changes a speed of rotational drive power from an engine to drive vehicle wheels and includes: a target speed calculator determining a target speed, based on operation deflection of a speed change device. A vehicle speed controller adjusting a speed change ratio based on the target speed. A vehicle speed obtainer obtaining an actual vehicle speed. A forcible target speed modifier forcibly modifying the target speed to a lower speed based on operation of a braking device. A release can treat an operation of the speed change device as a trigger to cancel the target speed forcibly modified by the forcible target speed modifier, and conforming the target speed to the actual vehicle speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru KOMATSU, Keiji TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20160031447
    Abstract: A driving support system includes a device control unit that outputs operation control signals to a travel operation device causing a traveling vehicle body to travel and a work operation device causing a ground work apparatus to operate. A recorder records control data in execution processing order as a work/travel sequence. A reproducer reads out the control data recorded by the recorder and transmits the control data to the device control unit. A screen processor converts the control data for each execution processing unit to an icon and displays in a display a work/travel sequence screen displaying the icon in the execution processing order. The system manages a plurality of the work/travel sequences on the same work/travel sequence screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi KOBAYASHI, Shigeru KOMATSU, Eiji NISHI, Keiji TAKAHASHI, Shinnosuke ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20160029546
    Abstract: A lift control apparatus includes a height sensor that outputs a height detection signal after a height of a ground work apparatus is detected. The ground work apparatus is coupled to a traveling work vehicle via a lift mechanism. An upper limit manager sets an upper limit position of the ground work apparatus based on an operation input signal from an input operation device for an upper limit setting USD. A setting prohibitor prohibits, when the upper limit position being set by the operation input signal is lower than the height of the ground work apparatus based on the height detection signal, the setting of the upper limit position from the operation input signal, and setting the upper limit position to the height of the ground work apparatus based on the height detection signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru KOMATSU, Keiji TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20110082806
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a product sale processing apparatus includes an emission amount acquisition unit that acquires the amount of carbon-dioxide emission over the entire course from the procurement of the raw materials of products processed for sale to the disposal or recycling, and a notification unit that provides notification of the carbon-dioxide emission amount acquired by the emission amount acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigeru Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20100110286
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a receiving unit, which is configured to receive video data, caption data, and program information data, a first on-screen unit, which is configured to display a caption, upon a basis of a second on-screen unit, which is configured to display program information, a format converting unit, and a display unit. When a video on which a caption is displayed is displayed by the display unit, a picture format of a caption is converted by the format converting unit in accordance with conversion of a picture format of a video, and when a video on which program information is displayed by the display unit, a picture format of a program information is not converted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Masuo Oku, Hironori Komi, Keisuke Inata, Ryosuke Toya, Kenji Katsumata, Shigeru Komatsu, Shinobu Torikoshi, Takaaki Matono, Fumihito Tanaka, Masaaki Hisanaga
  • Patent number: 7702413
    Abstract: The present invention provides a solution for interleaving data frames, in a semiconductor device manufacturing system in which the processing apparatus for conducting a process on any one of a semiconductor substrate and a thin film on a surface thereof; a self-diagnostic system for diagnosing a state of the processing apparatus; and a parameter fitting apparatus for maintaining a parameter of the self-diagnostic system when an inspection result of the semiconductor substrate having undergone the process has been determined to be correct, and for changing the parameter of the self-diagnostic system when the inspection result has been determined to be incorrect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yukihiro Ushiku, Akira Ogawa, Hidenori Kakinuma, Shunji Shuto, Masahiro Abe, Tatsuo Akiyama, Shigeru Komatsu
  • Patent number: 7643089
    Abstract: A decoder apparatus which includes a de-multiplexer, which is configured to divide motion picture data from a transport stream, a video decoder, which is configured to decode the divided motion picture data, and a first re-formatter on-screen unit, which is configured to display motion picture data and at least one of first and second graphic data on a screen. The first re-formatter on-screen unit converts motion picture data of a first aspect ratio, which is decoded by the video decoder, and first graphics data, which is produced by applying information relating to a caption corresponding to the motion picture data, into a second aspect ratio, when outputting the motion picture data of the first aspect ratio after conversion into the second aspect ratio, without converting the aspect ratio of second graphic data, which is produced by applying information relating to a program guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi ULSI Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masuo Oku, Hironori Komi, Keisuke Inata, Ryosuke Toya, Kenji Katsumata, Shigeru Komatsu, Shinobu Torikoshi, Takaaki Matono, Fumihito Tanaka, Masaaki Hisanaga
  • Patent number: 7623937
    Abstract: The present invention provides a solution for interleaving data frames, in a semiconductor device manufacturing system in which the processing apparatus for conducting a process on any one of a semiconductor substrate and a thin film on a surface thereof; a self-diagnostic system for diagnosing a state of the processing apparatus; and a parameter fitting apparatus for maintaining a parameter of the self-diagnostic system when an inspection result of the semiconductor substrate having undergone the process has been determined to be correct, and for changing the parameter of the self-diagnostic system when the inspection result has been determined to be incorrect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yukihiro Ushiku, Akira Ogawa, Hidenori Kakinuma, Shunji Shuto, Masahiro Abe, Tatsuo Akiyama, Shigeru Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20080218628
    Abstract: A decoder apparatus which includes a de-multiplexer, which is configured to divide motion picture data from a transport stream, a video decoder, which is configured to decode the divided motion picture data, and a first re-formatter on-screen unit, which is configured to display motion picture data and at least one of first and second graphic data on a screen. The first re-formatter on-screen unit converts motion picture data of a first aspect ratio, which is decoded by the video decoder, and first graphics data, which is produced by applying information relating to a caption corresponding to the motion picture data, into a second aspect ratio, when outputting the motion picture data of the first aspect ratio after conversion into the second aspect ratio, without converting the aspect ratio of second graphic data, which is produced by applying information relating to a program guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Masuo Oku, Hironori Komi, Keisuke Inata, Ryosuke Toya, Kenji Katsumata, Shigeru Komatsu, Shinobu Torikoshi, Takaaki Matono, Fumihito Tanaka, Masaaki Hisanaga
  • Patent number: 7375761
    Abstract: A receiver includes a motion picture data decoder which decodes motion picture data to obtain decoded motion picture data, a memory which stores the decoded motion picture data, a video processing unit which mixes the decoded motion picture data with first graphics data and converts the motion picture data to obtain first on-screen data mixed and first format-converted motion picture data, and a second on-screen data multiplexer which mixes the decoded motion picture data with second graphics data to obtain second on-screen data-mixed motion picture data. A first output device outputs the first on-screen data mixed and first format-converted motion picture data, a second output device outputs the second on-screen data mixed motion picture data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi ULSI Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masuo Oku, Hironori Komi, Keisuke Inata, Ryosuke Toya, Kenji Katsumata, Shigeru Komatsu, Shinobu Torikoshi, Takaaki Matono, Fumihito Tanaka, Masaaki Hisanaga
  • Patent number: 7272460
    Abstract: A method for designing a manufacturing process of an electronic device includes calibrating a technology computer-aided design system by fitting simulation parameters of manufacturing process and electrical characteristic simulations, using first feature of commercial manufacturing process of first electronic device manufactured by first manufacturing facilities, and first electrical characteristic of the first electronic device; acquiring second feature of trial manufacturing process of second electronic device manufactured by second manufacturing facilities, and second electrical characteristic of the second electronic device; calculating simulation electrical characteristic of the second electronic device by substituting the second feature to the manufacturing process simulation corresponding to the trial manufacturing process; comparing the second electrical characteristic with the simulation electrical characteristic; and creating design specification of commercial manufacturing process of the second man
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tatsuo Akiyama, Masahiro Abe, Kenji Hirakawa, Shigeru Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20070147609
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for processing video and audio information therein, comprising: an encrypting circuit for coping with a copyright management system, which adopts an encrypting method differing from each other depending on a region where it is used; and an input portion, through which information of the region of use is inputted, wherein an encrypting method of said encrypting circuit is selected, upon basis of said information of the region of use, which is obtained from said input portion, through which information of the region of use is inputted, thereby processing the video and audio information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Takaharu Noguchi, Akira Shibata, Shigeru Komatsu, Atsushi Ogawa, Goro Umeda
  • Publication number: 20050113951
    Abstract: A method for designing a manufacturing process of an electronic device includes calibrating a technology computer-aided design system by fitting simulation parameters of manufacturing process and electrical characteristic simulations, using first feature of commercial manufacturing process of first electronic device manufactured by first manufacturing facilities, and first electrical characteristic of the first electronic device; acquiring second feature of trial manufacturing process of second electronic device manufactured by second manufacturing facilities, and second electrical characteristic of the second electronic device; calculating simulation electrical characteristic of the second electronic device by substituting the second feature to the manufacturing process simulation corresponding to the trial manufacturing process; comparing the second electrical characteristic with the simulation electrical characteristic; and creating design specification of commercial manufacturing process of the second man
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventors: Tatsuo Akiyama, Masahiro Abe, Kenji Hirakawa, Shigeru Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20050095774
    Abstract: The present invention provides a solution for interleaving data frames, in a semiconductor device manufacturing system in which the processing apparatus for conducting a process on any one of a semiconductor substrate and a thin film on a surface thereof; a self-diagnostic system for diagnosing a state of the processing apparatus; and a parameter fitting apparatus for maintaining a parameter of the self-diagnostic system when an inspection result of the semiconductor substrate having undergone the process has been determined to be correct, and for changing the parameter of the self-diagnostic system when the inspection result has been determined to be incorrect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Inventors: Yukihiro Ushiku, Akira Ogawa, Hidenori Kakinuma, Shunji Shuto, Masahiro Abe, Tatsuo Akiyama, Shigeru Komatsu