Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Akaki

Tomohiro Akaki 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: 20220106146
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sheet stacking device, a counter-ejector, and a carton former and is provided with: a hopper unit that stacks cardboard boxes; feed rollers that feed a cardboard box to the hopper unit; a first blower device that blows air from above the hopper unit toward the cardboard box fed by the feed rollers; and a second blower device that blows air between the cardboard box stacked in the hopper unit and the cardboard box fed by the feed roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KANAZAWA, Yoshitomo NODA, Tomohiro AKAKI, Koshi TANIMOTO, Hideaki NAGAI, Makoto SHIMOHATSUBO
  • Patent number: 8718843
    Abstract: A control method for an industrial vehicle can appropriately set a charge amount for a battery, and an industrial vehicle are provided. The control method includes an estimation step that estimates the charge rate of a battery by calculating the current that is charged to the battery and the current that is discharged from the battery; a charge amount determining step that determines the charge amount of the battery based on the estimated charge rate; a correction amount determining step that determines the charge power that is necessary for motors to generate the determined charge amount as a correction amount for the power that is supplied by the engine; and an addition step that adds the charge power to the supplied power of the engine that has been determined based on the state of the traveling and load-handling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Nichiyu Forklift Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kubota, Tomohiro Akaki, Kensuke Futahashi
  • Patent number: 8165738
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle having a hybrid system controls a distribution of power generated by an engine and power generated by an electric motor. The vehicle includes an engine for supplying power to one of a running unit and a loading-and-unloading unit; a first motor for supplying power to one of the running unit and the loading-and-unloading unit; a second motor for supplying power to the running unit; a required-power calculating unit for calculating running power, and loading-and-unloading power; a clutch unit for controlling the power transmitted from the engine to the running unit; and a power-distribution calculating unit for selecting a destination to be supplied with power from the engine and the first motor based on the control status of the clutch unit, and for calculating a distribution of power which the engine, the first motor, and the second motor supply based on the calculating running power and loading-and-unloading power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Akaki, Kensuke Futahashi, Takaharu Hiroe, Kiyomitsu Ogawa, Yoshimi Okazaki
  • Patent number: 7770697
    Abstract: An energy recovering system in a hydraulic lift device of a battery operated industrial truck. With the system, working oil can be supplied to other hydraulic actuators while energy recovering operation is performed by the hydraulic lift device, occurrence of pressure pulsation in the working oil can be prevented, and energy recovering efficiency is increased. The hydraulic lift device comprises a lift cylinder (1) for lifting a fork F, an electric motor (4) rotated by power supply from a battery (5), a hydraulic pump (3) for supplying pressurized oil to the lift cylinder (1), a control valve (14) disposed in a pressurized oil supply path (23), and a controller (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kensuke Futahashi, Hiroshi Satou, Masataka Kawaguchi, Tomohiro Akaki, Fujio Eguchi, Keizo Ogino, Shingo Yuguchi, Kazuhito Kawashima, Michio Akao
  • Publication number: 20090222158
    Abstract: A control method for an industrial vehicle can appropriately set a charge amount for a battery, and an industrial vehicle are provided. The control method includes an estimation step that estimates the charge rate of a battery by calculating the current that is charged to the battery and the current that is discharged from the battery; a charge amount determining step that determines the charge amount of the battery based on the estimated charge rate; a correction amount determining step that determines the charge power that is necessary for motors to generate the determined charge amount as a correction amount for the power that is supplied by the engine; and an addition step that adds the charge power to the supplied power of the engine that has been determined based on the state of the traveling and load-handling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kubota, Tomohiro Akaki, Kensuke Futahashi
  • Publication number: 20090174538
    Abstract: A display device of a hybrid cargo handling vehicle and a hybrid cargo handling vehicle equipped with the display device are provided, with which whether operation is performed by engine drive or motor drive or engine plus motor drive and whether driving operation, i.e. energy consuming operation or energy recovering operation is performed is indicated on a monitor screen, and also fuel consumption rate of the engine, state of charge of the battery, and position of center of gravity of the vehicle are indicated on the monitor screen in both traveling and cargo handling operations, so that the operator is possible by monitoring the displayed indications to perform safe operation of the cargo handling vehicle with high efficiency and high cargo handling power without occurrence of slip down of the cargo or fall down of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Shibata, Kumiko Shibata, Tomohiro Akaki, Masataka Kawaguchi
  • Publication number: 20090057065
    Abstract: A forklift which is capable of controlling overturning and a method of controlling safety against overturning for a forklift are provided. In a forklift having a controller (20) for controlling the traveling state of a vehicle, the controller (20) is characterized by estimating the traveling state at a predetermined time ahead and, when the vehicle velocity at that time exceeds a maximum allowable vehicle velocity before generating a likelihood of overturning, applying the brakes and, when a no-overturning state is achieved thereafter, releasing the brakes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Tomohiro Akaki, Masataka Kawaguchi, Kensuke Futahashi, Fujio Eguchi, Shinjiro Murata
  • Publication number: 20080133077
    Abstract: The present invention provides an industrial vehicle having a hybrid system capable of readily controlling a distribution of power generated by an engine and power generated by an electric motor, and a method of controlling; the power of the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Akaki, Kensuke Futahashi, Takaharu Hiroe, Kiyomitsu Ogawa, Yoshimi Okazaki
  • Patent number: 6009708
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a control apparatus for a construction machine such as a hydraulic shovel, and the control apparatus for a construction machine includes a revolving operation member for operating a construction machine revolving unit (14), a fluid pressure pump (2) and an accumulator (5) for accumulating working oil from the fluid pressure pump (2), a fluid pressure actuator (7) for driving the construction machine revolving unit (14) to revolve with the working oil from the fluid pressure pump (2) and the accumulator (5), a first control valve (8) interposed between the fluid pressure actuator (7) and the fluid pressure pump (2), a second control valve (11) for controlling an inflow condition of the fluid from the fluid pressure actuator (7) into the accumulator (5), and control means (9) including first valve control means (9a) for controlling the first control valve (8) and second valve control means (9b) for controlling the second control valve (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Shin Caterpillar Mitsubishi Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Miki, Kazunori Yoshino, Makoto Samejima, Tomohiro Akaki, Shigeyoshi Mitsumori
  • Patent number: 5397968
    Abstract: Deflection yoke of self-convergence system for deflecting electron beams of a color picture tube, has a pair of saddle type horizontal deflection coils and a pair of saddle type vertical deflection coils of first and second coils connected in series each other, a winding of each of the first and the second coils has a start, a finish and a tap provided between the start and the finish, the deflection yoke further has a diode block composed of diodes connected in parallel and reversed polarity each other. The deflection yoke features that the diode block is connected between the start and the tap of the respective first and second coils, or between the taps of the respective first and second coils, or between the start of the first coil and the start of the second coil, so that misconvergence of the electron beams is minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1995
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Ito, Tomohiro Akaki