Patents by Inventor Teruki IGARASHI

Teruki IGARASHI 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: 11970840
    Abstract: An articulated-type front work implement has a boom, an arm, and a bucket that are driven members coupled to each other; a boom cylinder, an arm cylinder and a bucket cylinder that are hydraulic actuators each of which drives a corresponding one of the plurality of driven members on the basis of an operation signal; a plurality of operation members each outputting the operation signal to one of the hydraulic actuators; and a controller that outputs the operation signal to at least one of the plurality of hydraulic actuators or executes area limiting control of correcting the output operation signal such that the front work implement moves on a target surface preset for a work target of the front work implement or within an area above the target surface, and corrects the operation signal on the basis of information related to operation of the hydraulic actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Takeuchi, Shiho Izumi, Ryu Narikawa, Shuuichi Meguriya, Teruki Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20240026656
    Abstract: A work machine includes a swing structure, a work device, a position sensor, a posture sensor and a controller that performs machine control on the basis of a target surface set on the basis of target shape data, the position information of the swing structure, and the information about the posture of the work machine. When the controller becomes unable to obtain the position information of the swing structure, the controller stores swing angle information of the swing structure, the swing angle information being sensed by the posture sensor at that time. The controller prohibits execution of the machine control when the swing structure is positioned outside a swing range; and permits the execution of the machine control when the swing structure is positioned inside the swing range and when the swing structure is positioned inside the swing range again after being positioned outside the swing range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Shuuichi MEGURIYA, Teruki IGARASHI, Akihiro NARAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230332375
    Abstract: The invention of the present application intends to provide a work machine that can improve the work performance by keeping the work state of work equipment conforming to the intention of an operator in machine control for causing the work equipment to follow an excavation target surface. For this purpose, a controller determines the work state of the work equipment on the basis of an operation input amount inputted from an operation input device and the posture of the work equipment with respect to the target surface, computes a range of an action command value of actuators in which the work state determined is kept, and corrects, within the range, the action command value of the actuators to make the distance between the work equipment and the target surface small.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Yusuke SUZUKI, Hiroaki TANAKA, Yasuhiko KANARI, Hiroshi SAKAMOTO, Teruki IGARASHI, Akihiro NARAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11479941
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator includes a controller having an actuator control section that executes machine control of operating a work implement in accordance with a predetermined condition in a case in which a work implement is positioned in a deceleration area, and that does not execute machine control in a case in which the work implement is positioned in a non-deceleration area. The controller further includes an operation deciding section that decides operation of the work implement on the basis of an operation amount of an operation device, and a display control section that displays, on a display device, a positional relationship among the work implement, a target surface and a boundary line between the deceleration area and the non-deceleration area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teruki Igarashi, Shiho Izumi
  • Publication number: 20220275604
    Abstract: Provided is a remote control system for work machine capable of enhancing the stability and efficiently improving the operability. A remote control system for a work machine having a plurality of actuators 31 corrects all command signals for the actuators 31 being operated when a communication delay time occurs during operation with the actuators 31. This limits the operation of the actuators 31 while keeping the ratio of the command signals (operation signals) of the actuators 31.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Teruki IGARASHI, Kento KUMAGAI, Akihiro NARAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220186459
    Abstract: A hydraulic actuator includes a control valve unit that controls a flow of a hydraulic fluid supplied from a hydraulic pump to a plurality of hydraulic actuators, a plurality of control lever devices that output a pilot pressure actuating the control valve unit, with use of a discharged pressure from a pilot pump as a source pressure, a solenoid valve unit including a plurality of solenoid pressure reducing valves connected between the plurality of control lever devices and the control valve unit, and a controller configured to calculate velocity limits for the plurality of hydraulic actuators on the basis of signals from a plurality of posture sensors and control openings of the solenoid pressure reducing valves, in which the controller is configured to control the openings of the solenoid pressure reducing valves for arm crowding and arm dumping to be larger than an opening based on the velocity limits while a boom raising operation signal is being output from the control lever devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Teruki IGARASHI, Akihiro NARAZAKI, Masamichi ITOU
  • Publication number: 20220145580
    Abstract: A work machine includes a work device having a boom, an arm, and work equipment and a controller that sets a target surface, and calculates a work equipment-to-target surface distance on the basis of signals from a position sensor and a posture sensor, and controls the boom and carries out deceleration control to decelerate the arm to keep the work equipment from excavating ground beyond the target surface when operation of the arm is carried out and the work equipment-target surface distance has become shorter than a predetermined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Teruki IGARASHI, Akihiro NARAZAKI, Shuuichi MEGURIYA
  • Patent number: 11313107
    Abstract: A controller outputs a first velocity (first limiting velocity) as a limiting velocity for a boom cylinder when a boom lowering operation amount is smaller than a first operation amount, and outputs a second velocity when the boom lowering operation amount is equal to or larger than the first operation amount. The first velocity is set to decrease according to a decrease in a target surface distance. The second velocity is defined by a weighted average of the first velocity and a third velocity (second limiting velocity) set to change according to one of the target surface distance and the boom lowering operation amount of the operation device, and is set such that an increase in the boom lowering operation amount reduces a weight for the first velocity while increasing a weight for the third velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teruki Igarashi, Shiho Izumi, Ryu Narikawa, Shuuichi Meguriya, Hiroki Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20220025608
    Abstract: When a bucket 10 is grounded on soil, an operation signal is outputted or corrected such that a relative angle of the bucket 10 with respect to a target surface is maintained if a distance D between the bucket 10 and the target surface 60 is equal to or less than a preset first threshold value D1. When the bucket 10 is not grounded on soil, the operation signal is outputted or corrected such that the relative angle of the bucket 10 with respect to the target surface 60 is maintained if the distance between the bucket 10 and the target surface 60 is equal to or less than a preset second threshold value D2 set smaller than the first threshold value D1. As a result, control to maintain an angle of a work tool can be suitably started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Masamichi ITOH, Teruki IGARASHI, Akihiro NARAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20210230843
    Abstract: An articulated-type front work implement has a boom, an arm, and a bucket that are driven members coupled to each other; a boom cylinder, an arm cylinder and a bucket cylinder that are hydraulic actuators each of which drives a corresponding one of the plurality of driven members on the basis of an operation signal; a plurality of operation members each outputting the operation signal to one of the hydraulic actuators; and a controller that outputs the operation signal to at least one of the plurality of hydraulic actuators or executes area limiting control of correcting the output operation signal such that the front work implement moves on a target surface preset for a work target of the front work implement or within an area above the target surface, and corrects the operation signal on the basis of information related to operation of the hydraulic actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroki TAKEUCHI, Shiho IZUMI, Ryu NARIKAWA, Shuuichi MEGURIYA, Teruki IGARASHI
  • Patent number: 11001985
    Abstract: A controller for a hydraulic excavator includes a first speed computation section that calculates a first speed of an arm cylinder from a value detected by an operation amount sensor; a second speed computation section that calculates a second speed from a value detected by a posture sensor and a third speed computation section calculates a third speed that is used as the speed of the arm cylinder in an actuator control section adapted to execute MC (machine control). The third speed computation section calculates the first speed as the third speed during the period between the detection of an input of operation for an arm by the operation amount sensor and predetermined time to, the third speed as a speed calculated from the first speed and the second speed during the period between t0 and time t1, and the second speed as the third speed at and after time t1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamichi Ito, Hisami Nakano, Yusuke Suzuki, Akihiro Narazaki, Teruki Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20200277752
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator includes a controller having an actuator control section that executes machine control of operating a work implement in accordance with a predetermined condition in a case in which a work implement is positioned in a deceleration area, and that does not execute machine control in a case in which the work implement is positioned in a non-deceleration area. The controller further includes an operation deciding section that decides operation of the work implement on the basis of an operation amount of an operation device, and a display control section that displays, on a display device, a positional relationship among the work implement, a target surface and a boundary line between the deceleration area and the non-deceleration area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Teruki IGARASHI, Shiho IZUMI
  • Publication number: 20200181883
    Abstract: A controller outputs a first velocity (first limiting velocity) as a limiting velocity for a boom cylinder when a boom lowering operation amount is smaller than a first operation amount, and outputs a second velocity when the boom lowering operation amount is equal to or larger than the first operation amount. The first velocity is set to decrease according to a decrease in a target surface distance. The second velocity is defined by a weighted average of the first velocity and a third velocity (second limiting velocity) set to change according to one of the target surface distance and the boom lowering operation amount of the operation device, and is set such that an increase in the boom lowering operation amount reduces a weight for the first velocity while increasing a weight for the third velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Teruki IGARASHI, Shiho IZUMI, Ryu NARIKAWA, Shuuichi MEGURIYA, Hiroki TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200157768
    Abstract: A controller for a hydraulic excavator includes a first speed computation section that calculates a first speed of an arm cylinder from a value detected by an operation amount sensor; a second speed computation section that calculates a second speed from a value detected by a posture sensor and a third speed computation section calculates a third speed that is used as the speed of the arm cylinder in an actuator control section adapted to execute MC. The third speed computation section calculates the first speed as the third speed during the period between the detection of an input of operation for an arm by the operation amount sensor and predetermined time to, the third speed as a speed calculated from the first speed and the second speed during the period between t0 and time t1, and the second speed as the third speed at and after time t1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Masamichi ITO, Hisami NAKANO, Yusuke SUZUKI, Akihiro NARAZAKI, Teruki IGARASHI