Patents by Inventor Shiho Izumi

Shiho Izumi 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: 11970840
    Abstract: An articulated-type front work implement has a boom, an arm, and a bucket that are driven members coupled to each other; a boom cylinder, an arm cylinder and a bucket cylinder that are hydraulic actuators each of which drives a corresponding one of the plurality of driven members on the basis of an operation signal; a plurality of operation members each outputting the operation signal to one of the hydraulic actuators; and a controller that outputs the operation signal to at least one of the plurality of hydraulic actuators or executes area limiting control of correcting the output operation signal such that the front work implement moves on a target surface preset for a work target of the front work implement or within an area above the target surface, and corrects the operation signal on the basis of information related to operation of the hydraulic actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Takeuchi, Shiho Izumi, Ryu Narikawa, Shuuichi Meguriya, Teruki Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20240134064
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic control device capable of suppressing variations in the position of a work machine calculated based on satellite signals received by a GNSS terminal due to changes in the GNSS communication environment, and eliminating the position error after improvement of the communication environment in a shorter time than before. The electronic control device includes: a positioning quality determination section 211 that determines whether the positioning quality is good or poor based on GNSS information; a traveling state determination section 212 that determines the traveling state, including a stop state, based on the velocity of the work machine; and a smoothing section 213 that performs smoothing processing to the GNSS information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Shinji ISHIHARA, Shiho IZUMI, Kenta NAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20240102266
    Abstract: A construction machine includes an angle measuring apparatus that sense acceleration and angular velocities of installation portions on a machine body and a work implement and that compute angles of the installation portions relative to a reference plane based on sensing results, and a controller that executes operation assistance of a work implement based on postural information on the machine body and the work implement computed on the basis of the angles from the angle measuring apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Shinji ISHIHARA, Shiho IZUMI, Yasuhiko KANARI
  • Publication number: 20240084556
    Abstract: A construction assisting system including a controller that performs construction assistance processing on the basis of positional relation between a worker and a hydraulic excavator, the construction assisting system including: an approach intention detecting device that detects an intention of the worker to approach the hydraulic excavator; an approach intention presenting device that presents a detection result of the approach intention detecting device to an operator of the hydraulic excavator; and an approach confirmation obtaining device that obtains a confirmation state of the operator of the hydraulic excavator for contents presented by the approach intention presenting device, the controller performing the construction assistance processing on the basis of position information of the worker when the operator of the hydraulic excavator denies the approach of the worker or when the operator of the hydraulic excavator does not confirm the intention of the worker to approach.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyuki YAMADA, Shinya IMURA, Shiho IZUMI
  • Patent number: 11906641
    Abstract: A coordinate conversion system including a controller that converts geographic-coordinate-system coordinates of a certain point into site-coordinate-system coordinates includes: an image-capturing device that captures an image of a reference point; and a GNSS antenna that receives a navigation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Hayakawa, Shiho Izumi
  • Patent number: 11891776
    Abstract: When an automatic operation is finished, a detection process for detecting a ground contactable range where a work implement can be set is carried out on a basis of terrain profile information acquired by laser scanners, and, when the ground contactable range is detected, an automatic operation command signal for placing the work implement in contact with the ground contactable range is generated, whereas when the ground contactable range is not detected, an automatic operation command signal for placing the work implement in a predetermined standby posture is generated. As a result, a suitable standby posture can be taken according to the surrounding conditions when the automatic operation is finished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamada, Yoshiyuki Tsuchie, Shiho Izumi
  • Patent number: 11891783
    Abstract: A calibration work support system includes an input device for inputting machine information including machine rank data on a hydraulic excavator and specification data on a front work implement, a display controller that generates a target posture image that is an image of the case in which the front work implement that takes target measurement posture is viewed with a point-of-view position and a line-of-sight direction of an operator M on the basis of the machine information input from the input device and target posture data defined in advance as the target measurement posture of the front work implement when an inertial measurement device is calibrated, and an HMD that displays the target posture image generated in the display controller. The HMD executes displaying in such a manner that the target posture image is superimposed on the actual front work implement viewed with the point-of-view position and the line-of-sight direction of the operator M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Nakagi, Yasuhiko Kanari, Shiho Izumi
  • Patent number: 11885097
    Abstract: A controller 20 mounted on a hydraulic excavator 1 that is able to perform machine control transmits work situation parameters (machine body position, hydraulic working fluid temperature, bucket weight, and target surface gradient) to a management server 71, receives, from the management server, control command correction values that are calculated by the management server on the basis of the work situation parameters and that represent correction values for correcting control commands, and controls hydraulic actuators 5, 6, and 7 with corrected control commands that represent the control commands corrected on the basis of the control command correction values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuuichi Meguriya, Shiho Izumi
  • Publication number: 20230374757
    Abstract: A controller provided to a work machine stores a plurality of mask ranges which are used to select positioning satellites to be used by a receiver to compute a position of an antenna and are set with reference to an antenna on the basis of the postures of a work device and an swing structure. The controller computes each of a plurality of positioning precisions on the basis of satellite related data on the positioning satellites each of which is selected through use of each of the plurality of mask ranges and satellite related data on the positioning satellites which are selected through use of none of the plurality of mask ranges. The receiver computes the position of the antenna on the basis of satellite signals of the positioning satellites selected in a case of having the highest positioning precision out of the plurality of computed positioning precisions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Hyejeoung LEE, Shinichi KOTAKE, Shiho IZUMI, Shinji ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20230313504
    Abstract: The invention of the present application intends to provide a completed-work information processing system that can generate terrain profile data that is easy to associate with the contents of work and a work area, on the basis of working history data that can be acquired in work execution by a work machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Naoki HAYAKAWA, Shiho IZUMI
  • Publication number: 20230313503
    Abstract: A work machine management system includes a terrain profile data generating system configured to generate terrain profile data representing a finished shape produced by a work device of a work machine, on the basis of a sensing result of a posture sensor that senses a posture of the work machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Naoki HAYAKAWA, Shiho IZUMI
  • Publication number: 20230316917
    Abstract: The present invention intends to provide a risk management system that can accurately extract information necessary for analysis of a variety of accidents in which a machine is involved. For this purpose, a controller calculates a main risk that is the degree at which a main factor of an accident contributes to the occurrence of the accident on the basis of an evaluation value of the main factor, and calculates a subsidiary risk that is the degree at which a subsidiary factor of the accident contributes to the occurrence of the accident on the basis of an evaluation value of the subsidiary factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Akira KANAZAWA, Hiroyuki YAMADA, Shiho IZUMI, Shinya IMURA, Mariko MIZUOCHI
  • Publication number: 20230235532
    Abstract: A construction machine includes: a work device attached to a machine body in a raiseable and lowerable manner; an antenna that is attached to the machine body and receives positioning signals from satellites; a machine body IMU that senses information on a posture and motion of the machine body; an IMU that senses information on a posture of the work device; and a computing device that computes posture information indicating the postures of the machine body and the work device. The computing device performs positioning computation to compute a position of the machine body and a variance value thereof based on the positioning signals received by the antenna, subjects the position as a result of the positioning computation to first smoothing processing that is to increase a degree of smoothing as the variance value as a result of the positioning computation becomes larger, and computes the posture information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Shinji ISHIHARA, Shiho IZUMI, Yasuhiko KANARI
  • Patent number: 11708682
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator includes a computer-aided construction controller for performing machine control to operate a front work implement based on detected results from posture sensors and predetermined conditions. The computer-aided construction controller has a calibration posture storing section that stores at least one predetermined calibration posture of the front work implement for calibrating the posture sensors, and a calibration posture controlling section that carries out the machine control to inactivate the hydraulic actuators if detection target values of the posture sensors in the calibration posture and the detected results from the posture sensors are equal to each other. The time required for calibration can thus be shortened by increasing the operability for adjusting a calibration posture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichirou Yoshida, Shiho Izumi, Kouichi Shibata
  • Patent number: 11505923
    Abstract: A construction machine that can display various work devices including a bucket on a display device without causing a sense of discomfort is provided. A display controller is configured to deform a first drawing figure to create a first post-deformation drawing figure such that a triangle having vertexes at a first coupling point, a second coupling point and a first monitor point in the first drawing figure becomes congruent with a triangle having vertexes at the first coupling point, the second coupling point and the first monitor point in a coordinate system on an image on a display device, and arrange the first post-deformation drawing figure on a screen of the display device such that positions of the first coupling point, the second coupling point and the first monitor point in the first post-deformation drawing figure are arranged correspondingly to positions of the first coupling point, the second coupling point and the first monitor point, respectively, in the coordinate system on the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Hiromatsu, Shiho Izumi, Daito Sakai
  • Patent number: 11479941
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator includes a controller having an actuator control section that executes machine control of operating a work implement in accordance with a predetermined condition in a case in which a work implement is positioned in a deceleration area, and that does not execute machine control in a case in which the work implement is positioned in a non-deceleration area. The controller further includes an operation deciding section that decides operation of the work implement on the basis of an operation amount of an operation device, and a display control section that displays, on a display device, a positional relationship among the work implement, a target surface and a boundary line between the deceleration area and the non-deceleration area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teruki Igarashi, Shiho Izumi
  • Publication number: 20220333338
    Abstract: A controller determines whether or not a work device is in a ground contact state, by using detection data of a pressure sensor and at least one balance relation between forces or moments acting on the work device, and generate partial shape data of a work object formed by the work device, on the basis of a movement locus of a monitoring point set to the work device and an external shape of the work device in a ground contact period in which the work device is determined to be in the ground contact state, and update the present-condition shape data of the work object on the basis of the partial shape data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Naoki HAYAKAWA, Shiho IZUMI
  • Patent number: 11466435
    Abstract: A work machine (1) having a controller (40) that can perform area limiting control, the work machine further includes a machine control ON/OFF switch (17) that alternatively selects an ON position permitting execution of the area limiting control and an OFF position prohibiting execution of the area limiting control. The controller (40) has an engine control section (63) that performs automatic idling control when a predetermined period of time (T1) has elapsed after a point in time when all of operation levers (1, 23) have attained a neutral state. The engine control section (63) is configured to execute the automatic idling control during when the switch (17) is in the OFF position and not to execute the automatic idling control during when the switch (17) is in the ON position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shiho Izumi, Shuuichi Meguriya, Ryuu Narikawa, Kouji Ishikawa, Tarou Akita
  • Publication number: 20220307232
    Abstract: A construction management device computes a risk indicative of a degree of danger with which an accident occurs on the basis of information relating at least to a position of a worker measured by a worker position measuring device and a worker biometrical information measuring device, information relating at least to a position of a hydraulic excavator measured by a machine body position measuring device, a machine body posture measuring device, a machine front implement posture measuring device, and a machine operator biometrical information measuring device, personal information on a worker and an operator registered in a worker information registration device, and information on a construction environment from an environment information registration device, and outputs the computed risk as a coordinate risk associated with coordinates of the construction environment to a risk display device such that the computed risk is displayed in a map format on the risk display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Akira KANAZAWA, Hiroyuki YAMADA, Shiho IZUMI, Shinya IMURA
  • Patent number: 11434623
    Abstract: A measurement controller (20): computes the position of a plane (S1) representing a side surface of a work implement (1A) in an image-capturing-device coordinate system (Co1) on the basis of an image of the side surface of the work implement captured by an image-capturing device (19) and an internal parameter of the image-capturing device; computes the coordinate values of a point on the work implement in the image-capturing-device coordinate system (Co1), the point corresponding to any pixel constituting the work implement on the captured image, on the basis of positional information on the pixel on the captured image and the position of the plane (S1); and converts the coordinate values of the point on the work implement in the image-capturing-device coordinate system, the point corresponding to the pixel, to coordinate values in a work-implement coordinate system (Co3) to output the coordinate values in the work-implement coordinate system (Co3) to a work-machine controller (50) of a hydraulic excavator (1
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Hayakawa, Kohei Hiromatsu, Daito Sakai, Shiho Izumi