Patents by Inventor Taiki SHIRAFUJI

Taiki SHIRAFUJI 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).

  • Publication number: 20230081284
    Abstract: An area registration method including setting information about a work vehicle that autonomously travels in a travel area; setting a work area which is included in the travel area and in which the work vehicle performs work; setting a headland area that is included in the travel area and is located on the outer side of the work area; and, when an operation for inputting the set information of the headland area is received after the work area and the headland area have been set, changing the sizes of the work area and the headland area on the basis of the inputted set information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuto Nishii, Taiki Shirafuji
  • Publication number: 20220304215
    Abstract: An automatic travel system for a work vehicle wherein: when, at the time that a work vehicle reaches an entry area for a parallel path, a condition-assessing unit determines that a starting condition for a first automatic travel control has been met, an automatic travel control unit executes the first automatic travel control for causing the work vehicle to travel automatically along the parallel path in a working state; and when the condition-assessing unit determines that the starting condition for the first automatic travel control has not been met, the automatic travel control unit executes an automatic position adjustment travel control for causing the work vehicle to make a position adjustment by a composite operation of forward/backward switching operations and steering operations of the work vehicle so that the starting condition for the first automatic travel control is met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taiki Shirafuji, Takuya Iwase
  • Publication number: 20220232750
    Abstract: This automatic travel system for a work vehicle has: an automatic travel control unit which, using a satellite positioning system, causes a work vehicle to automatically travel in accordance with a target path at a registered work site; and a standby position setting unit which sets a standby position of the work vehicle. The standby setting unit acquires an entry point at a time when the work vehicle has entered the registered work site from outside thereof, and sets the entry point as a standby position. The automatic travel control unit determines whether or not a condition for causing the work vehicle to stand by at the standby position has been met, and, in the case where the standby condition has been met, causes the work vehicle to travel automatically from the present position to the standby position and then to stand by at the standby position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taiki Shirafuji, Akifumi Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20220022361
    Abstract: This autonomous travel system is provided with a farm field acquisition unit, a reference auxiliary line creation unit, an adjacent auxiliary line creation unit, and a travel control unit. The farm field acquisition unit acquires information regarding a farm field that includes a work area and a headland area. The reference auxiliary line creation unit creates first reference auxiliary lines within the headland area at positions spaced apart from the farm field peripheral edge on the inner side thereof by a first reference interval. The adjacent auxiliary line creation unit creates, at each of auxiliary line intervals, first adjacent auxiliary lines at positions spaced apart from the first reference auxiliary lines on the inner sides thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohei OGURA, Yasuto NISHII, Taiki SHIRAFUJI