Patents by Inventor Tadayoshi Aoki

Tadayoshi Aoki 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: 9453326
    Abstract: A work machine includes: a vehicle body frame of the work machine; an engine mounted on the vehicle body frame; an engine cover covering over a top of the engine and fixed to the vehicle body frame via a column; a first exhausting device having a tubular appearance; a second exhausting device having a tubular appearance and having a function different from that of the first exhausting device; and a bracket holding the first exhausting device in an upper holding part and the second exhausting device in a lower holding part to attach them on a bottom surface of the engine cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Shimohira, Tadayoshi Aoki, Hiroaki Yada
  • Publication number: 20160010308
    Abstract: A work machine includes: a vehicle body frame of the work machine; an engine mounted on the vehicle body frame; an engine cover covering over a top of the engine and fixed to the vehicle body frame via a column; a first exhausting device having a tubular appearance; a second exhausting device having a tubular appearance and having a function different from that of the first exhausting device; and a bracket holding the first exhausting device in an upper holding part and the second exhausting device in a lower holding part to attach them on a bottom surface of the engine cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Akira SHIMOHIRA, Tadayoshi AOKI, Hiroaki YADA
  • Patent number: 9091221
    Abstract: An engine speed control device for an industrial vehicle includes an approach detector that detects an approach of the industrial vehicle to an object to be approached; and an engine speed controller that restricts an upper limit of a rotation speed of an engine when the approach detector detects an approach of the industrial vehicle to an object to be approached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Hyodo, Masaki Yoshikawa, Tadayoshi Aoki, Katsutaka Hara
  • Patent number: 8775034
    Abstract: A shift control system for an industrial vehicle includes: a vehicle speed detection device that detects a vehicle speed; a transmission device that shifts up and shifts down a speed stage of a transmission; a shift control device that permits shift up when a vehicle speed becomes equal to or greater than a shift up permission vehicle speed; a height position detection device that detects a height position of a working machine device; a forward/backward switch device that switches the industrial vehicle between forward travel and backward travel; and a shift up control switch selection device that switches between normal control, in which shift up is performed by the transmission device when the vehicle speed becomes equal to or greater than the shift up permission vehicle speed, and delay control, in which shift up timing is delayed with respect to the normal control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Hyodo, Atsushi Shimazu, Hirofumi Oouchi, Tadayoshi Aoki
  • Patent number: 8655557
    Abstract: A working vehicle motor control device includes: a rotational speed control device that controls a motor rotational speed in accordance with an operation amount of an accelerator pedal; a travel drive device that transmits rotation of the motor to wheels through a torque converter and a transmission; a speed ratio detection device that detects a speed ratio of an input shaft and an output shaft of the torque converter; and a speed restriction device that restricts a maximum rotational speed of the motor in accordance with a speed ratio detected by the speed ratio detection device. In the working vehicle motor control device, the speed restriction device restricts the maximum rotational speed when a detected speed ratio is in an acceleration region of the motor rotational speed to less than the maximum rotational speed when a detected speed ratio is in a non-acceleration region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Hyodo, Hiroki Nakazono, Masaki Yoshikawa, Tadayoshi Aoki, Isamu Aoki
  • Patent number: 8468818
    Abstract: There are provided: an HST hydraulic circuit that is formed through a closed circuit connection of a variable displacement hydraulic pump 2 and first and second variable displacement hydraulic motors 3 and 4; a charge pump 6 that replenishes the HST hydraulic circuit with hydraulic oil; a cooling circuit through which an excess of the hydraulic oil that has been replenished from the charge pump 6 to the HST hydraulic circuit is returned to a reservoir through the hydraulic pump 2, the first hydraulic motor 3, and the second hydraulic motor 4; a hydraulic source 7 that supplies hydraulic oil to an hydraulic device other than the first and second hydraulic motors; and a merge circuit through which a portion of hydraulic oil from the hydraulic source 7 is merged into an intermediate oil line 22 that lies downstream of the first hydraulic motor 3 and upstream of the second hydraulic motor 4 in the cooling circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Hyodo, Kazuo Ishida, Tsuyoshi Takeyama, Tadayoshi Aoki, Takehiko Katsuragi, Shoroku Kawahara
  • Publication number: 20120296531
    Abstract: A shift control system for an industrial vehicle includes: a vehicle speed detection device that detects a vehicle speed; a transmission device that shifts up and shifts down a speed stage of a transmission; a shift control device that permits shift up when a vehicle speed becomes equal to or greater than a shift up permission vehicle speed; a height position detection device that detects a height position of a working machine device; a forward/backward switch device that switches the industrial vehicle between forward travel and backward travel; and a shift up control switch selection device that switches between normal control, in which shift up is performed by the transmission device when the vehicle speed becomes equal to or greater than the shift up permission vehicle speed, and delay control, in which shift up timing is delayed with respect to the normal control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Hyodo, Atsushi Shimazu, Hirofumi Oouchi, Tadayoshi Aoki
  • Publication number: 20120095655
    Abstract: A working vehicle motor control device includes: a rotational speed control device that controls a motor rotational speed in accordance with an operation amount of an accelerator pedal; a travel drive device that transmits rotation of the motor to wheels through a torque converter and a transmission; a speed ratio detection device that detects a speed ratio of an input shaft and an output shaft of the torque converter; and a speed restriction device that restricts a maximum rotational speed of the motor in accordance with a speed ratio detected by the speed ratio detection device. In the working vehicle motor control device, the speed restriction device restricts the maximum rotational speed when a detected speed ratio is in an acceleration region of the motor rotational speed to less than the maximum rotational speed when a detected speed ratio is in a non-acceleration region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Hyodo, Hiroki Nakazono, Masaki Yoshikawa, Tadayoshi Aoki, Isamu Aoki
  • Publication number: 20120094803
    Abstract: An engine speed control device for an industrial vehicle includes an approach detector that detects an approach of the industrial vehicle to an object to be approached; and an engine speed controller that restricts an upper limit of a rotation speed of an engine when the approach detector detects an approach of the industrial vehicle to an object to be approached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Hyodo, Masaki Yoshikawa, Tadayoshi Aoki, Katsutaka Hara
  • Publication number: 20100095664
    Abstract: There are provided: an HST hydraulic circuit that is formed through a closed circuit connection of a variable displacement hydraulic pump 2 and first and second variable displacement hydraulic motors 3 and 4; a charge pump 6 that replenishes the HST hydraulic circuit with hydraulic oil; a cooling circuit through which an excess of the hydraulic oil that has been replenished from the charge pump 6 to the HST hydraulic circuit is returned to a reservoir through the hydraulic pump 2, the first hydraulic motor 3, and the second hydraulic motor 4; a hydraulic source 7 that supplies hydraulic oil to an hydraulic device other than the first and second hydraulic motors; and a merge circuit through which a portion of hydraulic oil from the hydraulic source 7 is merged into an intermediate oil line 22 that lies downstream of the first hydraulic motor 3 and upstream of the second hydraulic motor 4 in the cooling circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicants: TCM Corporation, Hitachi Construction Machinery CO., Ltd
    Inventors: Koji Hyodo, Kazuo Ishida, Tsuyoshi Takeyama, Tadayoshi Aoki, Takehiko Katsuragi, Shoroku Kawahara
  • Patent number: D652061
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., KCM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Hiraoka, Ei Takahashi, Yoshihiro Ito, Kazunori Komatsu, Hiroki Nakazono, Takashi Takeyama, Tadayoshi Aoki, Akira Shimohira, Hirofumi Oouchi