Patents by Inventor Takeshi Takaura

Takeshi Takaura 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: 10794047
    Abstract: Provided is a display system including: a display unit which displays an image; a vehicle body position data acquisition unit which acquires vehicle body position data indicating a position of a vehicle body supporting a work machine; a process position data storage unit which stores process position data indicating a process position of a process target processed by the work machine; and a display controller which displays an image indicating the process position based on the process position data and an image indicating a specific position of the vehicle body on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Daiki Arimatsu, Yuki Shimano, Takeshi Takaura, Jason Anetsberger
  • Patent number: 10161111
    Abstract: A display system of an excavation machine including a work machine having a bucket and a body portion on which the work machine is mounted. The display system includes a bucket position information generator which generates position information of the bucket; a storage which stores information of a dimension of the bucket and information of a target construction surface indicating a target shape of a construction object; a display which displays an image of the target construction surface on a screen; and a processor which displays a straight line image that is generated by extracting a part corresponding to a bottom surface of the bucket, viewed from a side surface, along with the image of the target construction surface on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Daishi Iwanaga, Takeshi Takaura, Daiki Arimatsu
  • Patent number: 9702119
    Abstract: There is provided a hydraulic excavator in which the highly-accurate land leveling work is possible. A boom-lowering pilot conduit connected to a boom-lowering pilot port is provided with a boom-lowering proportional solenoid valve. When an arm dump signal for performing dump operation of an arm is included in a hydraulic pressure signal, a controller sharply increases a current value outputted to the boom-lowering proportional solenoid valve, as compared with when an arm excavation signal for performing excavation operation of the arm is included in the hydraulic pressure signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Matsuyama, Takeshi Takaura
  • Patent number: 9689140
    Abstract: A construction machine control system for a construction machine that includes a work machine including a boom, an arm, and a bucket includes: an adjusting device having a movable spool and being capable of adjusting an amount of operating oil supplied to a hydraulic cylinder that drives the work machine with movement of the spool; an operation command unit adjusting the spool; a storage unit storing a plurality of pieces of correlation data indicating a relation between a cylinder speed of the hydraulic cylinder and an operation command value of operating the hydraulic cylinder according to a type of the bucket; an acquiring unit acquiring type data indicating the type of the bucket; and a control unit selecting one piece of correlation data from the plurality of pieces of correlation data based on the type data and controlling the operation command value based on the selected correlation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Akinori Baba, Katsuhiro Ikegami, Takeshi Takaura, Masashi Ichihara, Yuki Shimano
  • Publication number: 20170175362
    Abstract: A display system of an excavation machine including a work machine having a bucket and a body portion on which the work machine is mounted, the display system of the excavation machine includes: a bucket position information generation unit which generates position information of the bucket; a storage unit which stores information of a dimension of the bucket and information of a target construction surface indicating a target shape of a construction object; a display unit which displays an image of the target construction surface on a screen; and a processing unit which displays a straight line image that is generated by extracting a part corresponding to a bottom surface of the bucket viewed from a side surface along with the image of the target construction surface on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Daishi Iwanaga, Takeshi Takaura, Daiki Arimatsu
  • Patent number: 9605412
    Abstract: A control system includes: a data acquisition unit that acquires an operation command value and data on a cylinder speed in a state where an operation command of operating a hydraulic cylinder is output; a deriving unit that derives an operation start operation command value when the hydraulic cylinder in a stopped state starts operating and slow-speed operation characteristics indicating a relation between the operation command value and the cylinder speed in a slow-speed area based on the data acquired by the data acquisition unit; a storage unit that stores the operation start operation command value and the slow-speed operation characteristics derived by the deriving unit; and a work machine control unit that controls a work machine based on information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Ikegami, Yoshiki Kami, Akinori Baba, Takeshi Takaura
  • Patent number: 9556594
    Abstract: A stop control unit carries out control, when a moving speed of a bucket in a direction toward target design topography is the same in both of a first specifying state in which a bucket weight specifying portion specifies a weight of the bucket as large and a second specifying state in which the bucket weight specifying portion specifies a weight of the bucket as small, such that the moving speed of the bucket in the direction toward the target design topography is reduced from a position more distant from the target design topography in the first specifying state than in the second specifying state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Shimano, Yuto Fujii, Takeshi Takaura
  • Patent number: 9551129
    Abstract: A control method controlling a work machine including a working unit with a working tool, comprising: obtaining a position of the working unit based on a detected position information item of the work machine and generating a target excavation ground shape information item indicating a target shape of an excavation target of the working unit from an information item of a design face indicating the target shape; and performing an excavation control of restraining the working unit from performing an excavation beyond the target shape based on the target excavation ground shape information item and, when the target excavation ground shape information item is not able to be acquired during the excavation control, continuing the excavation control by storing the target excavation ground shape information item obtained before a time point at which the target excavation ground shape information item is not able to be acquired, for a predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Kami, Masashi Ichihara, Takeshi Takaura
  • Publication number: 20170016211
    Abstract: Provided is a display system including: a display unit which displays an image; a vehicle body position data acquisition unit which acquires vehicle body position data indicating a position of a vehicle body supporting a work machine; a process position data storage unit which stores process position data indicating a process position of a process target processed by the work machine; and a display controller which displays an image indicating the process position based on the process position data and an image indicating a specific position of the vehicle body on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Daiki Arimatsu, Yuki Shimano, Takeshi Takaura, Jason Anetsberger
  • Patent number: 9540793
    Abstract: A work machine control method of controlling a work machine including a work unit with a working tool, the work machine control method includes: detecting a position of the work unit; obtaining the position of the work unit based on the detected position information item and generating a first target excavation ground shape information item as an information item of an intersection portion of at least one target construction face indicating a target shape with respect to a first cut face which intersects a work unit operation plane as an operation plane for the work unit and is parallel to a vertical direction; and controlling a velocity in a direction in which the work unit approaches an excavation target so that the velocity becomes equal to or less than a limitation velocity based on the first target excavation ground shape information item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Kami, Takeshi Takaura
  • Patent number: 9481976
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a boom, an arm, a bucket, an arm control member, a speed limit determination portion, and a target speed determination portion. The speed limit determination portion determines a speed limit for limiting a speed of a cutting edge of the bucket in accordance with a distance between a cutting edge and a design surface. The target speed determination portion determines a target speed of the boom based on the speed limit. The speed limit determination portion decides on a speed limit calculated based on correlation between the speed limit and the distance between the design surface and the cutting edge when an amount of operation of the arm control member is equal to or greater than a prescribed amount and decides on a speed limit lower than the speed limit calculated based on the correlation when the amount of operation is smaller than the prescribed amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Kami, Takeo Yamada, Yuto Fujii, Takeshi Takaura
  • Patent number: 9476180
    Abstract: There is provided a hydraulic excavator in which occurrence of minute vibrations in a control lever can be suppressed. A boom-raising proportional solenoid valve is provided in a boom-raising pilot conduit. A boom-lowering proportional solenoid valve is provided in a boom-lowering pilot conduit. A controller controls an opening degree of the boom-lowering proportional solenoid valve based on a pressure generated in the boom-lowering pilot conduit between the control lever and the boom-lowering proportional solenoid valve, and controls an opening degree of the boom-raising proportional solenoid valve. An amount of increase in current per unit time when the controller outputs, to the boom-lowering proportional solenoid valve, an instruction signal for instructing an increase in opening degree is smaller than an amount of increase in current per unit time when the controller outputs, to the boom-raising proportional solenoid valve, an instruction signal for instructing an increase in opening degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Takaura
  • Patent number: 9458598
    Abstract: There is provided a work vehicle in which sudden operation of a work implement can be suppressed. The work vehicle includes a design surface information acquiring unit for acquiring data of a design surface indicative of a target shape of a work object by the work implement; a cutting edge position computing unit for computing a position of a cutting edge of a bucket; and an operation restricting unit for executing operation restriction control by which a boom is forcibly raised in accordance with a relative position of the cutting edge to the design surface, and the position of the cutting edge is restricted to an upper part of the design surface. In a state where the cutting edge is located away from the design surface in a downward perpendicular direction by a prescribed distance or longer, the operation restricting unit does not execute the operation restriction control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Takaura, Yoshiki Kami, Jin Kitajima
  • Publication number: 20160281331
    Abstract: A control system includes: a data acquisition unit that acquires an operation command value and data on a cylinder speed in a state where an operation command of operating a hydraulic cylinder is output; a deriving unit that derives an operation start operation command value when the hydraulic cylinder in a stopped state starts operating and slow-speed operation characteristics indicating a relation between the operation command value and the cylinder speed in a slow-speed area based on the data acquired by the data acquisition unit; a storage unit that stores the operation start operation command value and the slow-speed operation characteristics derived by the deriving unit; and a work machine control unit that controls a work machine based on information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Ikegami, Yoshiki Kami, Akinori Baba, Takeshi Takaura
  • Publication number: 20160273193
    Abstract: There is provided a hydraulic excavator in which the highly-accurate land leveling work is possible. A boom-lowering pilot conduit connected to a boom-lowering pilot port is provided with a boom-lowering proportional solenoid valve. When an arm dump signal for performing dump operation of an arm is included in a hydraulic pressure signal, a controller sharply increases a current value outputted to the boom-lowering proportional solenoid valve, as compared with when an arm excavation signal for performing excavation operation of the arm is included in the hydraulic pressure signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Toru MATSUYAMA, Takeshi TAKAURA
  • Publication number: 20160273186
    Abstract: A control method controlling a work machine including a working unit with a working tool, comprising: obtaining a position of the working unit based on a detected position information item of the work machine and generating a target excavation ground shape information item indicating a target shape of an excavation target of the working unit from an information item of a design face indicating the target shape; and performing an excavation control of restraining the working unit from performing an excavation beyond the target shape based on the target excavation ground shape information item and, when the target excavation ground shape information item is not able to be acquired during the excavation control, continuing the excavation control by storing the target excavation ground shape information item obtained before a time point at which the target excavation ground shape information item is not able to be acquired, for a predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshiki Kami, Masashi Ichihara, Takeshi Takaura
  • Patent number: 9447562
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a boom, an arm, a bucket, an arm cylinder, a direction control valve, a calculation portion, and a speed determination portion. The calculation portion calculates an estimated speed of the arm cylinder based on correlation between an amount of movement of the spool of the direction control valve in accordance with an amount of operation of an arm control lever and a speed of the arm cylinder. The speed determination portion determines a target speed of the boom based on the estimated speed of the arm cylinder. When the amount of operation of the arm control lever is smaller than a prescribed amount, the calculation portion calculates a speed higher than a speed of the arm cylinder in accordance with correlation as the estimated speed of the arm cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Takaura, Yuto Fujii, Yoshiki Kami
  • Publication number: 20160265187
    Abstract: A construction machine control system for a construction machine that includes a work machine including a boom, an arm, and a bucket includes: an adjusting device having a movable spool and being capable of adjusting an amount of operating oil supplied to a hydraulic cylinder that drives the work machine with movement of the spool; an operation command unit adjusting the spool; a storage unit storing a plurality of pieces of correlation data indicating a relation between a cylinder speed of the hydraulic cylinder and an operation command value of operating the hydraulic cylinder according to a type of the bucket; an acquiring unit acquiring type data indicating the type of the bucket; and a control unit selecting one piece of correlation data from the plurality of pieces of correlation data based on the type data and controlling the operation command value based on the selected correlation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Akinori Baba, Katsuhiro Ikegami, Takeshi Takaura, Masashi Ichihara, Yuki Shimano
  • Publication number: 20160258135
    Abstract: A stop control unit carries out control, when a moving speed of a bucket in a direction toward target design topography is the same in both of a first specifying state in which a bucket weight specifying portion specifies a weight of the bucket as large and a second specifying state in which the bucket weight specifying portion specifies a weight of the bucket as small, such that the moving speed of the bucket in the direction toward the target design topography is reduced from a position more distant from the target design topography in the first specifying state than in the second specifying state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Yuki SHIMANO, Yuto FUJII, Takeshi TAKAURA
  • Publication number: 20160244950
    Abstract: A work machine control method of controlling a work machine including a work unit with a working tool, the work machine control method includes: detecting a position of the work unit; obtaining the position of the work unit based on the detected position information item and generating a first target excavation ground shape information item as an information item of an intersection portion of at least one target construction face indicating a target shape with respect to a first cut face which intersects a work unit operation plane as an operation plane for the work unit and is parallel to a vertical direction; and controlling a velocity in a direction in which the work unit approaches an excavation target so that the velocity becomes equal to or less than a limitation velocity based on the first target excavation ground shape information item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshiki Kami, Takeshi Takaura