Patents by Inventor Takashi Hiranaka
Takashi Hiranaka 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).
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Publication number: 20240321095Abstract: An operation management system configured to manage operations of registered mobilities in a limited specific area, including a computer configured to: generate a road surface map data such that a position in map data and road surface information are associated with each other, based on positional information and road surface information obtained from at least one of the registered mobilities on which a road surface condition detecting device is installed; compute a positon where a puddle is formed, based on i) one of water sprinkling information that is information on water sprinkling over a road surface by a sprinkler vehicle or weather information of the specific area and ii) the road surface map data; designate a designation mobility from among the registered mobilities and modify a target route of the designation mobility based on the puddle position; and send a command regarding the modified target route to the designation mobility.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Yusuke NOZAWA, Shun MIZOO, Toru TAKASHIMA, Takashi HIRANAKA, Kenta OSAGAWA, Shota KONISHI
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Publication number: 20240295883Abstract: An operation management system including a computer configured to manage operations of registered mobilities. The computer stores road surface information in association with a position in map data based on at least a detection result of a surroundings monitoring device and positional information received from a measurement mobility. The computer stores, as a detail detection area, at least one of a poor detection area in the map data in which detection of the road surface information by the measurement mobility is poor and a predetermined area in the map data. The computer transmits, to the measurement mobility that is scheduled to travel or that is traveling the detail detection area, a speed change command, such that the measurement mobility, which travels at a normal command speed by automated driving, travels the detail detection area at a specific speed lower than the normal command speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2024Publication date: September 5, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Takahiro OKANO, Toru TAKASHIMA, Yusuke NOZAWA, Shun MIZOO, Takashi HIRANAKA, Kenta OSAGAWA, Shota KONISHI
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Publication number: 20240262384Abstract: A traveling control system configured to control traveling of a movable body includes: a traveling control portion configured to control traveling of the movable body such that a wheel of the movable body passes a protrusion of a road surface, based on an unevenness condition of the road surface of a travel region where the movable body travels.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2024Publication date: August 8, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Yusuke NOZAWA, Shun Mizoo, Toru Takashima, Takahiro Okano, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa, Shota Konishi
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Publication number: 20240249620Abstract: A management system configured to manage a plurality of movable bodies that travels a travel region, including: a work plan generating device configured to generate a work plan of the plurality of movable bodies based on a run-through ability of each of the plurality of movable bodies and a road surface condition that is a condition of a road surface of the travel region.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2024Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Toru TAKASHIMA, Takahiro Okano, Shun Mizoo, Yusuke Nozawa, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa, Shota Konishi
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Publication number: 20240231389Abstract: A management system of a work site includes: a workplace data acquisition unit that acquires workplace data set in a workplace where an unmanned haul vehicle travels; and a sprinkling area setting unit that sets, on the basis of the workplace data, a sprinkling area on which the unmanned sprinkler vehicle sprinkles water in the workplace.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2022Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Misato Maeda, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
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Patent number: 12017579Abstract: A work site management system includes: a travel course data acquisition unit that acquires travel course data of an unmanned vehicle which includes course type data indicating a type of an intersection at a work site where the unmanned vehicle travels; and a turn signal control unit that determines whether to normally operate or non-normally operate a direction indicator of the unmanned vehicle based on the course type data.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
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Publication number: 20240142262Abstract: An operation management system including a controller configured to execute: a position obtaining process to obtain positional information from each registered mobility; a correlating process to correlate each registered mobility and specification information stored in a storage device with each other; a travel-history storing process to store, in the storage device, a traveled route which is a travel history of each registered mobility, so as to be correlated with map information; and a road-surface-condition obtaining process to calculate a road surface condition including a position and a shape of a rut corresponding to the traveled route based on information on a detection value of a sensor of each of registered mobility, the type of a road surface included in the map information, the specification information, and the traveled route and to store, in the storage device, the road surface condition so as to be correlated with the map information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke NOZAWA, Shun Mizoo, Toru Takashima, Takahiro Okano, Kenta Osagawa, Takashi Hiranaka, Shota Konishi
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Publication number: 20240134395Abstract: A management system of a work site includes: a workplace data acquisition unit that acquires workplace data set in a workplace where an unmanned haul vehicle travels; and a sprinkling area setting unit that sets, on the basis of the workplace data, a sprinkling area on which the unmanned sprinkler vehicle sprinkles water in the workplace.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Misato Maeda, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
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Publication number: 20240126301Abstract: An unmanned vehicle management system includes: a traveling area definition unit that defines a traveling area on a traveling path of a work site; and a determination unit that determines whether or not an unmanned vehicle can enter the traveling area on the basis of a vehicle width indicating the width of the unmanned vehicle and a track width indicating the width of the traveling area.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicants: Komatsu Ltd., Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
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Patent number: 11940802Abstract: A system for managing a work site includes: an identification unit that identifies a discharging position of a manned vehicle in the work site where an unmanned vehicle and the manned vehicle operate in a mixed manner; and an operation control unit that controls operation of the unmanned vehicle based on the discharging position.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Hiranaka
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Publication number: 20240075928Abstract: An unmanned vehicle management system includes: an inter-vehicle distance determination unit that determines an inter-vehicle distance between a sprinkling vehicle and an unmanned vehicle traveling behind the sprinkling vehicle in a same direction as that of the sprinkling vehicle based on a sprinkling state from a sprinkling spray provided in the sprinkling vehicle traveling in a work site; and an output unit that outputs, to the unmanned vehicle, inter-vehicle distance data indicating the inter-vehicle distance determined by the inter-vehicle distance determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Kazuma Takeda, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
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Publication number: 20240068187Abstract: A sprinkling vehicle control system includes a travel control unit that switches a traveling direction of a sprinkling vehicle, and a sprinkling control unit that controls a first sprinkling spray provided at a first portion on one side in the traveling direction in the sprinkling vehicle. The sprinkling control unit controls the first sprinkling spray such that a sprinkling condition of the first sprinkling spray when the sprinkling vehicle travels to one side in the traveling direction is different from a sprinkling condition of the first sprinkling spray when the sprinkling vehicle travels to the other side in the traveling direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Misato Maeda, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
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Publication number: 20240059314Abstract: An unmanned vehicle management system includes: a traffic congestion prediction unit that predicts occurrence of a traffic congestion from travel situations of a plurality of unmanned vehicles traveling on a travel path at a work site; and a guidance command unit that, when occurrence of a traffic congestion is predicted, outputs a first guidance command so that an unmanned vehicle that causes the traffic congestion enters a side path branching from the travel path.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2021Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Yasuyuki Yamada, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
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Publication number: 20240016138Abstract: An unmanned vehicle management system includes: a protection area setting unit that sets a protection area where entry of an unmanned vehicle traveling around a sprinkler vehicle is prohibited on the basis of a sprinkling state of a sprinkle spray provided in the sprinkler vehicle moving at a work site; and an output unit that outputs the protection area set by the protection area setting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2022Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Kazuma Takeda, Takashi Hiranaka, Kenta Osagawa
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Patent number: 11869355Abstract: A management system of a work site in which an unmanned vehicle and a manned vehicle operate in a mixed manner includes: a determination unit that determines whether or not the manned vehicle exists in a predetermined area of the work site; and a command unit that outputs a work command to cause the unmanned vehicle or the manned vehicle to travel to a work point set in a work place based on the determination result.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Hiranaka, Isao Toku
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Publication number: 20230339466Abstract: A control system for an autonomous travel vehicle includes: a work machine position acquisition unit that acquires a position of a work machine; an autonomous travel vehicle position acquisition unit that acquires a position of the autonomous travel vehicle; a human information acquisition unit that acquires human information indicating whether or not a person is present inside the autonomous travel vehicle; and a command generation unit that changes control of the autonomous travel vehicle based on the human information and a positional relationship between the work machine and the autonomous travel vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicants: Komatsu Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Hiranaka, Shota Konishi, Toru Takashima, Shun Mizoo, Shun Maruyama, Takahiro Okano
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Publication number: 20230341857Abstract: A work site management system includes: a traveling path generation unit that generates a traveling path; and a protection area setting unit that sets a protection area in which a target vehicle is to be present based on a position of a first unmanned vehicle traveling in a work site along the traveling path.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicants: Komatsu Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Hiranaka, Shota Konishi, Shun Mizoo, Shun Maruyama, Takahiro Okano, Toru Takashima
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Publication number: 20230339510Abstract: A management system for an autonomous travel vehicle includes: a work machine position acquisition unit that acquires a position of a work machine operated by an operator and having a travel device; and a target position determination unit that determines a target position of the autonomous travel vehicle based on the position of the work machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicants: Komatsu Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Hiranaka, Shota Konishi, Takahiro Okano, Toru Takashima, Shun Mizoo, Shun Maruyama
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Publication number: 20230341872Abstract: A management system of a work site includes: a priority storage unit that stores priority related to traveling continuation of an unmanned vehicle traveling in the work site; an input signal acquisition unit that acquires an input signal related to traveling stop of the unmanned vehicle; a decision unit that decides the traveling continuation or the traveling stop for each of a plurality of the unmanned vehicles traveling in the work site based on the priority and the input signal; and an output unit that outputs a traveling stop command to the unmanned vehicle for which the traveling stop is decided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicants: Komatsu Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Hiranaka, Shota Konishi, Shun Maruyama, Takahiro Okano, Toru Takashima, Shun Mizoo
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Publication number: 20230341858Abstract: A work site management system includes: a traveling path generation unit that generates a traveling path; and a protection area setting unit that sets, for a target vehicle, a protection area in which entry of a second unmanned vehicle is prohibited based on a position of a first unmanned vehicle traveling in a work site along the traveling path.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicants: Komatsu Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Hiranaka, Shota Konishi, Toru Takashima, Shun Mizoo, Shun Maruyama, Takahiro Okano