Patents by Inventor Susumu Umemoto

Susumu Umemoto 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
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20210084825
    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: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Ryo KURATA, Susumu UMEMOTO, Shinnosuke ISHIKAWA, Zerbino FULVIO
  • Publication number: 20210079622
    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: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Shinnosuke ISHIKAWA, Susumu UMEMOTO, Ryo KURATA
  • Publication number: 20210031624
    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: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Shinnosuke ISHIKAWA, Susumu UMEMOTO, Ryo KURATA
  • Patent number: 10687473
    Abstract: A grass management system includes a prohibition determination circuit and a baler. The prohibition determination circuit is configured to determine a prohibition position. The baler is configured to acquire the prohibition position from the prohibition determination circuit, and eject a bale of grass at a position except for the prohibition position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Kurata, Susumu Umemoto, Yoshitomo Fujimoto, Shinnosuke Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10687471
    Abstract: A controller for a baler, includes an ejecting position acquisition circuit, a prohibited position acquisition circuit, and a control circuit. The ejecting position acquisition circuit is configured to acquire an ejecting position at which an ejecting unit of the baler is configured to eject a bale of grass. The prohibited position acquisition circuit is configured to acquire a prohibited position. The control circuit is configured to control the ejecting unit to eject the bale at the ejecting position if the ejecting position is different from the prohibited position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Kurata, Susumu Umemoto, Yoshitomo Fujimoto, Shinnosuke Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10569783
    Abstract: Work vehicle having a coupling member which is switchable between a coupled state where left/right brake operation tools are integrally coupled and a released state releasing the coupling. A coupled state detector is utilized. A controller controls a traveling state and is switchable between a first or normal mode and a second or vehicle speed suppression mode. The second or vehicle speed suppression mode can be switched back to the first or normal mode when the coupled state is detected and a predetermined releasing operation is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Kuroshita, Susumu Umemoto, Yoshitomo Fujimoto, Takashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10536851
    Abstract: In addition to improving security of data communication between a control device and a mobile terminal, to make it possible to easily make the data communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Miura, Susumu Umemoto, Hiroyuki Araki, Yasuhisa Uoya
  • Patent number: 10363890
    Abstract: To easily perform setting (connection and non-connection) of a termination resistor. An electronic device configured to be connected to an in-vehicle network of a working machine and to work for the working machine, includes: a termination resistor configured to be connected to the in-vehicle network; a switch part configured to be switched between a connection state where the termination resistor is connected to the in-vehicle network and a non-connection state where the termination resistor is not connected to the in-vehicle network; and a control part configured to control an switching operation of the switch part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takao Nakagawa, Susumu Umemoto, Keisuke Miura, Yushi Matsuzaki
  • Publication number: 20180368331
    Abstract: A grass management system includes a prohibition determination circuit and a baler. The prohibition determination circuit is configured to determine a prohibition position. The baler is configured to acquire the prohibition position from the prohibition determination circuit, and eject a bale of grass at a position except for the prohibition position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo KURATA, Susumu UMEMOTO, Yoshitomo FUJIMOTO, Shinnosuke ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180368330
    Abstract: A controller for a baler, includes an ejecting position acquisition circuit, a prohibited position acquisition circuit, and a control circuit. The ejecting position acquisition circuit is configured to acquire an ejecting position at which an ejecting unit of the baler is configured to eject a bale of grass. The prohibited position acquisition circuit is configured to acquire a prohibited position. The control circuit is configured to control the ejecting unit to eject the bale at the ejecting position if the ejecting position is different from the prohibited position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo KURATA, Susumu UMEMOTO, Yoshitomo FUJIMOTO, Shinnosuke ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180363272
    Abstract: A working machine includes a vehicle body configured to be coupled to a working device, a prime mover disposed on the vehicle body and configured to change a maximum output, and a control device configured to control the prime mover, the control device having a change obtaining part configured to obtain a change command to change the maximum output of the prime mover. The control device is configured to change the maximum output when the change obtaining part obtains the change command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicants: KUBOTA DEUTSCHLAND GmbH, KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andreas KACZMARCZYK, Burkhard DITSCHE, Tobias EICHBERG, Susumu UMEMOTO, Yasuhisa UOYA