Patents by Inventor Shinnosuke Ishikawa

Shinnosuke Ishikawa 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: 11898323
    Abstract: A control system to control a work machine and a traveling vehicle traveling with the work machine, includes a first communication device and a second communication device each of which controls operation of the traveling vehicle and at least one of which includes an authenticator to authenticate the work machine by communicating with a third communication device to control operation of the work machine, and a notifier to notify the other one of the first communication device and the second communication device that the authenticator succeeded in authentication, the first communication device and the second communication device each being prohibited, unless the authenticator succeeds in authentication, from at least controlling operation of the traveling vehicle in accordance with information sent from the third communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinnosuke Ishikawa, Susumu Umemoto, Ryo Kurata
  • Patent number: 11832548
    Abstract: In an agricultural machine, a route creator creates a planned traveling route for a traveling vehicle body in a work area where a working device works using a material. An area setter sets, outside the work area, a replenishment area to replenish the material. A charge amount acquirer acquires a charge amount of the material. A remaining amount calculator calculates a remaining amount of the material based on the charge amount acquired and a material consumption of the material consumed by the work. A position setter sets a replenishment position to replenish the material in the replenishment area set by the area setter based on the remaining amount calculated by the remaining amount calculator. A position changer changes the replenishment position when a change reception switch receives change of the replenishment position. A display displays the changed replenishment position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinnosuke Ishikawa, Fumiya Yoshimura, Ken Sakuta
  • Publication number: 20230341861
    Abstract: An agricultural machine includes a swath information acquiring module, a first determining module to determine a traveling path of an automatic operation based on a position of a swath, a setting module to set a work continuation width based on the traveling path, a second determining module to determine, when there is a manual operation by a worker during the automatic operation, whether the agricultural machine during the manual operation is within the work continuation width, and an executing module to execute the automatic operation. The executing module restores the agricultural machine to the traveling path after a termination of the manual operation and continues the automatic operation when the agricultural machine is within the work continuation width, and cancels the automatic operation when the agricultural machine is determined to be not within the work continuation width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Shogo HAYASHIDA, Susumu UMEMOTO, Shinnosuke ISHIKAWA, Junichi YUASA
  • Publication number: 20230320247
    Abstract: A communication system for an agricultural machine includes an information terminal to transmit first information to an agricultural machine, a first communicator provided in or on an unmanned aerial vehicle to receive the first information transmitted from the information terminal, and a second communicator provided in or on the agricultural machine to receive the first information transmitted to the first communicator. The second communicator is operable to transmit second information about the agricultural machine to the first communicator, and the first communicator is operable to transmit the second information to the information terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Tomohiro KINOSHITA, Takanori MORIMOTO, Shinnosuke ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230322423
    Abstract: An agricultural support system includes an unmanned aerial vehicle including a sensor, and an agricultural machine to travel in an agricultural field. When an abnormality occurs in the unmanned aerial vehicle while the agricultural machine performs work in the agricultural field in cooperation with the unmanned aerial vehicle, the unmanned aerial vehicle or the agricultural machine performs an operation different from an operation during the work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Tomohiro KINOSHITA, Takanori MORIMOTO, Susumu UMEMOTO, Shinnosuke ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230312146
    Abstract: An agricultural machine includes a traveling vehicle body, a coupler to couple a working implement with the traveling vehicle body, and a takeoff/landing station to restrict a skid of an unmanned aerial vehicle when the unmanned aerial vehicle takes off or lands. The agricultural machine includes a protector to protect an operator's seat. The takeoff/landing station is provided on the protector. The takeoff/landing station is attached to the protector and includes an arm extending in a horizontal direction when the unmanned aerial vehicle takes off or lands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Tomohiro KINOSHITA, Takanori MORIMOTO, Susumu UMEMOTO, Shinnosuke ISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11770993
    Abstract: There is provided an agricultural field work vehicle capable of entering a work travel path intended by the driver in transition from manual turn travel to autonomous work travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Yuasa, Yushi Matsuzaki, Shinnosuke Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20230292645
    Abstract: A traveling assistance system for an agricultural machine includes a position detector to detect a position of an agricultural machine, a criterion creator to create a determination criterion located forward of the agricultural machine for determination about a turn of the agricultural machine, an area identifier to identify a first area and a second area, the first area being an area in which the agricultural machine travels in a predetermined circumferential direction and the working device performs work, the second area being an area which is a portion of an agricultural field, which is adjacent to the first area, and in which entry of the agricultural machine is prohibited in advance, and a setter to, in a case where the determination criterion is located in the second area, set a turning portion at a position in the first area and between the agricultural machine and the second area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Shinnosuke ISHIKAWA, Kenji TAMATANI, Ryota KIKUCHI
  • Patent number: 11726486
    Abstract: An agricultural machine includes a swath information acquiring module, a first determining module to determine a traveling path of an automatic operation based on a position of a swath, a setting module to set a work continuation width based on the traveling path, a second determining module to determine, when there is a manual operation by a worker during the automatic operation, whether the agricultural machine during the manual operation is within the work continuation width, and an executing module to execute the automatic operation. The executing module restores the agricultural machine to the traveling path after a termination of the manual operation and continues the automatic operation when the agricultural machine is within the work continuation width, and cancels the automatic operation when the agricultural machine is determined to be not within the work continuation width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Hayashida, Susumu Umemoto, Shinnosuke Ishikawa, Junichi Yuasa
  • Publication number: 20230104274
    Abstract: A working machine includes a vehicle body to which a working device is connectable, a driving estimator to estimate whether the vehicle body is drivable along a road based on a road condition and a device condition, a controller to control a driving operation of the vehicle body based on an estimation result obtained by the driving estimator, and a communicator to transmit to an external device driving information regarding driving the vehicle body under control of the controller. The controller is configured or programmed to drive the vehicle body based on a command received from the external device after transmission of the driving information from the communicator to the external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Susumu UMEMOTO, Yushi MATSUZAKI, Shinnosuke ISHIKAWA, Takanori MORIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11565589
    Abstract: A tractor includes a controller configured to make a determination as to whether stopping control is necessary and to start the stopping control, based on a relation between a target bale size and a current bale size and a stopping distance corresponding to a vehicle speed and a surrounding environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinnosuke Ishikawa, Susumu Umemoto, Ryo Kurata
  • Patent number: 11533901
    Abstract: A traveling vehicle includes a controller to control a posture of a work machine via a connector. The controller observes whether a farm field surface on which the traveling vehicle travels and the work machine maintain a predetermined positional relationship therebetween, and controls the posture of the work machine when a positional relationship between the farm field surface and the work machine changes from the predetermined positional relationship, so that the positional relationship thus changed is reset to the predetermined positional relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinnosuke Ishikawa, Komei Yamawaki, Ryo Kurata
  • Patent number: 11510371
    Abstract: An agricultural machine includes a baler controller configured or programmed to obtain an ejector inclination value from a positional relation between a tractor inclination sensor and a bale ejector of a baler, the ejector inclination value being a sensor value of the inclination sensor corresponding to the bale ejector, and to allow ejection of the bale when a size of the bale in the baler is larger than a first threshold value and the ejector inclination value is less than a second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Kurata, Susumu Umemoto, Shinnosuke Ishikawa, Zerbino Fulvio
  • Publication number: 20220183207
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a traveling vehicle body, a coupler capable of coupling a working device including working implements to the traveling vehicle body, an automatic operation controller configured or programmed to automatically operate the traveling vehicle body based on a planned traveling route, and a work setting controller configured or programmed to set a work start position and a work end position for the working device at different positions based on the working implements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Shinnosuke ISHIKAWA, Fumiya YOSHIMURA, Tomohiro KINOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20220167545
    Abstract: In an agricultural machine, a route creator creates a planned traveling route for a traveling vehicle body in a work area where a working device works using a material. An area setter sets, outside the work area, a replenishment area to replenish the material. A charge amount acquirer acquires a charge amount of the material. A remaining amount calculator calculates a remaining amount of the material based on the charge amount acquired and a material consumption of the material consumed by the work. A position setter sets a replenishment position to replenish the material in the replenishment area set by the area setter based on the remaining amount calculated by the remaining amount calculator. A position changer changes the replenishment position when a change reception switch receives change of the replenishment position. A display displays the changed replenishment position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Shinnosuke ISHIKAWA, Fumiya YOSHIMURA, Ken SAKUTA
  • Patent number: 11317555
    Abstract: A machine body side control device is configured to control an actuator based on information on a posture change of a machine body obtained from a machine body side sensor and information on a position of an implement relative to the ground surface obtained from an implement side sensor via an implement side control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinnosuke Ishikawa, Yoshitomo Fujimoto, Takashi Uchida, Koichiro Kan
  • Publication number: 20220078962
    Abstract: A work machine includes: a work vehicle; a work device coupled to the work vehicle; a control device that executes at least one of: a first control to control the work device based on a first command from the work vehicle; and a second control to control the work vehicle based on a second command from the work device; and a switching device that switches the control device between the first control and the second control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Okura, Shinnosuke Ishikawa, Noriyuki Koshida
  • Publication number: 20220078960
    Abstract: A coupling device includes: a first connector that connects to a work vehicle; a second connector that connects to a work device; an actuator that changes a connecting position of at least one of the first connector and the second connector; and a control device that controls the actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Okura, Shinnosuke Ishikawa, Noriyuki Koshida
  • Publication number: 20210195823
    Abstract: There is provided an agricultural field work vehicle capable of entering a work travel path intended by the driver in transition from manual turn travel to autonomous work travel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Junichi YUASA, Yushi MATSUZAKI, Shinnosuke ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210191408
    Abstract: An agricultural machine includes a swath information acquiring module, a first determining module to determine a traveling path of an automatic operation based on a position of a swath, a setting module to set a work continuation width based on the traveling path, a second determining module to determine, when there is a manual operation by a worker during the automatic operation, whether the agricultural machine during the manual operation is within the work continuation width, and an executing module to execute the automatic operation. The executing module restores the agricultural machine to the traveling path after a termination of the manual operation and continues the automatic operation when the agricultural machine is within the work continuation width, and cancels the automatic operation when the agricultural machine is determined to be not within the work continuation width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Shogo HAYASHIDA, Susumu UMEMOTO, Shinnosuke ISHIKAWA, Junichi YUASA