Patents by Inventor Yasuhisa Uoya
Yasuhisa Uoya 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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Patent number: 11168992Abstract: A travel route generation device for a field work vehicle includes a memory and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to generate, based on field data stored in the memory, a travel route. The circuitry is configured to determine a getting-off point in the travel route at which a driver gets off the field work vehicle. The circuitry is configured to determine a getting-on point in the travel route at which the driver gets on the field work vehicle. The circuitry is configured to define a first partial route in the travel route between the entrance and the getting-off point and a second partial travel route in the travel route between the getting-on point and the entrance as a manual travel route. The circuitry is configured to define a third partial travel route in the travel route between the getting-off point and the getting-on point as an automatic travel route.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhisa Uoya, Izuru Shimamoto, Kenji Tamatani, Megumi Suzukawa, Atsushi Shinkai, Kazuo Sakaguchi
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Patent number: 10989541Abstract: A travel route generation device includes circuitry configured to calculate positions of a starting point, an end point, and intermediate points from a start vehicle position, an end vehicle position, and intermediate vehicle positions, respectively, based on a distance from a contour point to a reference point. The circuitry is configured to define the shape of the target work region by calculating a line connecting the starting point, the intermediate points, and the end point, the line defining the shape of the target work region. The circuitry is configured to generate a travel route along which the work vehicle is to travel in the target work region.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhisa Uoya, Izuru Shimamoto, Kenji Tamatani, Megumi Suzukawa, Atsushi Shinkai, Kazuo Sakaguchi
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Patent number: 10952369Abstract: A grass management system includes a first moisture-obtaining device to obtain a first moisture value of grass in a mowing operation performed by a mower, a position-detecting device to detect a mowing position of the mower, and a creation supporting circuit to support creation of an operation plan for a working machine based on the first moisture value and the mowing position, the working machine being configured to perform an operation relating to the grass already mowed. The grass management system includes a moisture map creating circuit to create a moisture map of an agricultural field based on the first moisture value and the mowing position. The creation supporting circuit is configured to display the moisture map that is created by the moisture map creating circuit in creating the operation plan.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Araki, Yasuhisa Uoya, Yoshito Hayakawa, Yuto Kamiya, Ryuji Hashizume
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Patent number: 10788821Abstract: A wireless management system for work vehicles includes a first communication device and a second communication device. The first communication device is configured to perform wireless communication in frequency bands to control the work vehicles. The second communication device is configured to perform the wireless communication with the first communication device. The first communication device and the second communication device are configured to select a frequency band from the frequency bands based on wireless transmission data in order to perform the wireless communication for the wireless transmission data in the frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Yushi Matsuzaki, Kenichi Iwami, Yasuhisa Uoya
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Patent number: 10536851Abstract: In addition to improving security of data communication between a control device and a mobile terminal, to make it possible to easily make the data communication.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Keisuke Miura, Susumu Umemoto, Hiroyuki Araki, Yasuhisa Uoya
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Publication number: 20190249991Abstract: A travel route generation device includes circuitry configured to calculate positions of a starting point, an end point, and intermediate points from a start vehicle position, an end vehicle position, and intermediate vehicle positions, respectively, based on a distance from a contour point to a reference point. The circuitry is configured to define the shape of the target work region by calculating a line connecting the starting point, the intermediate points, and the end point, the line defining the shape of the target work region. The circuitry is configured to generate a travel route along which the work vehicle is to travel in the target work region.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2019Publication date: August 15, 2019Applicant: Kubota CorporationInventors: Yasuhisa UOYA, Izuru SHIMAMOTO, Kenji TAMATANI, Megumi SUZUKAWA, Atsushi SHINKAI, Kazuo SAKAGUCHI
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Patent number: 10231374Abstract: A travel support system for a work vehicle including a vehicle body and a work device provided on the vehicle body includes a first calculator to calculate a vehicle body occupied area including the vehicle body in a plan view. A second calculator is to calculate a work device occupied area including the work device in the plan view. A third calculator is to calculate a work vehicle occupied area including the work vehicle in the plan view, the work vehicle occupied area including the vehicle body occupied area and the work device occupied area. A position calculator is to calculate a position of the work vehicle in a work field based on positioning data. A controller is to control the work vehicle to move in the work field based on the position of the work vehicle and the work vehicle occupied area.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuo Sakaguchi, Yasuhisa Uoya, Takafumi Morishita, Kotaro Yamaguchi, Hiroki Suga, Megumi Suzukawa
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Publication number: 20180363272Abstract: A working machine includes a vehicle body configured to be coupled to a working device, a prime mover disposed on the vehicle body and configured to change a maximum output, and a control device configured to control the prime mover, the control device having a change obtaining part configured to obtain a change command to change the maximum output of the prime mover. The control device is configured to change the maximum output when the change obtaining part obtains the change command.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicants: KUBOTA DEUTSCHLAND GmbH, KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Andreas KACZMARCZYK, Burkhard DITSCHE, Tobias EICHBERG, Susumu UMEMOTO, Yasuhisa UOYA
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Publication number: 20180303031Abstract: A grass management system includes a first moisture-obtaining device to obtain a first moisture value of grass in a mowing operation performed by a mower, a position-detecting device to detect a mowing position of the mower, and a creation supporting circuit to support creation of an operation plan for a working machine based on the first moisture value and the mowing position, the working machine being configured to perform an operation relating to the grass already mowed. The grass management system includes a moisture map creating circuit to create a moisture map of an agricultural field based on the first moisture value and the mowing position. The creation supporting circuit is configured to display the moisture map that is created by the moisture map creating circuit in creating the operation plan.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2018Publication date: October 25, 2018Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki ARAKI, Yasuhisa UOYA, Yoshito HAYAKAWA, Yuto KAMIYA, Ryuji HASHIZUME
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Publication number: 20180209799Abstract: A travel route generation device for a field work vehicle includes a memory and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to generate, based on field data stored in the memory, a travel route. The circuitry is configured to determine a getting-off point in the travel route at which a driver gets off the field work vehicle. The circuitry is configured to determine a getting-on point in the travel route at which the driver gets on the field work vehicle. The circuitry is configured to define a first partial route in the travel route between the entrance and the getting-off point and a second partial travel route in the travel route between the getting-on point and the entrance as a manual travel route. The circuitry is configured to define a third partial travel route in the travel route between the getting-off point and the getting-on point as an automatic travel route.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2017Publication date: July 26, 2018Applicant: Kubota CorporationInventors: Yasuhisa UOYA, Izuru SHIMAMOTO, Kenji TAMATANI, Megumi SUZUKAWA, Atsushi SHINKAI, Kazuo SAKAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20180210456Abstract: A travel route generation device includes circuitry configured to define a shape of a work field by calculating a first line connecting a starting point and one of intermediate points, and a second line connecting another of the intermediate points and an end point. The circuitry is configured to calculate a shape of an entrance passage in the work field though which a work vehicle is to enter a target work region in which the work vehicle is to work in the work field. The entrance passage has a shape of a substantially quadrangle including a first side extending along the first line from the starting point and a second side extending along the second line from the end point. The circuitry is configured to generate a travel route along which the work vehicle is to travel in the target work region.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2017Publication date: July 26, 2018Applicant: Kubota CorporationInventors: Yasuhisa UOYA, Izuru SHIMAMOTO, Kenji TAMATANI, Megumi SUZUKAWA, Atsushi SHINKAI, Kazuo SAKAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20180210440Abstract: A wireless management system for work vehicles includes a first communication device and a second communication device. The first communication device is configured to perform wireless communication in frequency bands to control the work vehicles. The second communication device is configured to perform the wireless communication with the first communication device. The first communication device and the second communication device are configured to select a frequency band from the frequency bands based on wireless transmission data in order to perform the wireless communication for the wireless transmission data in the frequency band.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2017Publication date: July 26, 2018Applicant: Kubota CorporationInventors: Yushi MATSUZAKI, Kenichi IWAMI, Yasuhisa UOYA
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Patent number: 10003910Abstract: Data on agricultural machines can be outputted to mobile terminals easily and properly. A data collection device is provided separately from a control device that controls the operation of an agricultural machine and is connected to a vehicle communication network installed in the agricultural machine, and is removably connected to the vehicle communication network. The data collection device includes a data collection unit for collecting agricultural machine data outputted to the vehicle communication network, an authorization determination unit for implementing authentication with a mobile terminal to determine whether or not the collected data is transmitted to the mobile terminal by wireless communication, and a data communication unit for transmitting data to the mobile terminal by wireless communication when the authorization determination unit authorizes data transmission.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2013Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Keisuke Miura, Isao Tanaka, Yasuhisa Uoya, Takafumi Morishita, Yoshito Hayakawa
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Publication number: 20180011495Abstract: A route search system for a work vehicle includes a receiver, a processor, and a controller. The receiver is to obtain a reference position of the work vehicle. The processor is to define, as a search area, an area around a vehicle reference point in a plan view. The vehicle reference point indicates the reference position of the work vehicle. The controller is to determine a guidance travel route along which the work vehicle is to travel and which is closest to the vehicle reference point in the search area among travel route candidates stored in a memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2016Publication date: January 11, 2018Applicant: Kubota CorporationInventors: Kazuo SAKAGUCHI, Yasuhisa UOYA, Takafumi MORISHITA, Kotaro YAMAGUCHI, Hiroki SUGA, Megumi SUZUKAWA
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Publication number: 20170367252Abstract: A travel support system for a work vehicle including a vehicle body and a work device provided on the vehicle body includes a first calculator to calculate a vehicle body occupied area including the vehicle body in a plan view. A second calculator is to calculate a work device occupied area including the work device in the plan view. A third calculator is to calculate a work vehicle occupied area including the work vehicle in the plan view, the work vehicle occupied area including the vehicle body occupied area and the work device occupied area. A position calculator is to calculate a position of the work vehicle in a work field based on positioning data. A controller is to control the work vehicle to move in the work field based on the position of the work vehicle and the work vehicle occupied area.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2016Publication date: December 28, 2017Applicant: Kubota CorporationInventors: Kazuo SAKAGUCHI, Yasuhisa UOYA, Takafumi MORISHITA, Kotaro YAMAGUCHI, Hiroki SUGA, Megumi SUZUKAWA
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Patent number: 9839174Abstract: A work vehicle cooperation system includes: a master traveling track calculation unit that calculates a traveling track of a master work vehicle (1P) based on a detection position at which the master work vehicle (1P) was detected; a slave traveling target calculation unit that calculates a target traveling position of the slave work vehicle (1C) based on the traveling track of the master work vehicle (1P); a master parameter generation unit that generates a master work/driving parameter relating to work/driving executed by the master work vehicle (1P), the master work/driving parameter being linked with the detection position; a slave parameter generation unit that generates a slave work/driving parameter for the slave work vehicle (1C) based on the master work/driving parameter, the slave work/driving parameter being linked with the target traveling position for the slave work vehicle (1C); and a navigation control unit that navigates the slave work vehicle in an unmanned manner based on a detection positioType: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: Kubota CorporationInventors: Yoshitomo Fujimoto, Hiroyuki Araki, Yasuhisa Uoya
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Patent number: 9526199Abstract: A work vehicle coordinating system includes a main vehicle position detection module for detecting a position of a main work vehicle, a sub vehicle position detection module for detecting a position of a sub work vehicle, a central work land path calculation section for calculating a central work land traveling path to be used by the sub work vehicle in an unmanned steered work traveling in a central work land, a first steering control section for unmanned-steering the sub work vehicle ahead of the main work vehicle based on the position of the sub work vehicle detected by the sub vehicle position detection module and the central work land traveling path, a headland path calculation section for calculating a headland traveling path, and a second steering control section for unmanned-steering the sub work vehicle to follow the main work vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Kubota CorporationInventors: Yushi Matsuzaki, Atsushi Shinkai, Yasuhisa Uoya
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Patent number: 9448561Abstract: A work vehicle cooperation system includes: a master traveling tack calculation unit that calculates a traveling track of a master work vehicle (1P) based on its position; a loop traveling detection unit that detects loop traveling in a loop work area (B); a redirection traveling target calculation unit that calculates a redirection traveling start point and a redirection traveling end point (Pc3) of a slave work vehicle (1C) based on a redirection traveling track including a redirection traveling start point (Pp1) and a redirection traveling end point of redirection traveling of the master work vehicle (1P); and a loop work traveling target calculation unit that calculates a target traveling position in loop work traveling of the slave work vehicle (1C) for the redirection traveling end point (Pc3) to a next redirection traveling start point (Pc1).Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Kubota CoporationInventors: Yoshitomo Fujimoto, Hiroyuki Araki, Yasuhisa Uoya
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Patent number: 9386449Abstract: A management server includes a user management database in which mobile terminal identification information on the mobile terminal and working machine identification information on a sold working machine are registered in association with each other, a user registration determination unit adapted to determine whether or not the mobile terminal and the working machine are registered in association with each other on the basis of the mobile terminal identification information and the working machine identification information outputted from the mobile terminal and the mobile terminal identification information and the working machine identification information stored in the user management database, and an authorization information output unit adapted to output an authorization key necessary for wireless communication between the mobile terminal and the working machine in the case where the user registration determination unit determines that the mobile terminal and the working machine are registered in associaType: GrantFiled: September 25, 2013Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Keisuke Miura, Isao Tanaka, Yasuhisa Uoya, Takafumi Morishita
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Publication number: 20160174453Abstract: A work vehicle coordinating system includes a main vehicle position detection module for detecting a position of a main work vehicle, a sub vehicle position detection module for detecting a position of a sub work vehicle, a central work land path calculation section for calculating a central work land traveling path to be used by the sub work vehicle in an unmanned steered work traveling in a central work land, a first steering control section for unmanned-steering the sub work vehicle ahead of the main work vehicle based on the position of the sub work vehicle detected by the sub vehicle position detection module and the central work land traveling path, a headland path calculation section for calculating a headland traveling path and a second steering control section for unmanned-steering the sub work vehicle (to follow the main work vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2015Publication date: June 23, 2016Inventors: Yushi Matsuzaki, Atsushi Shinkai, Yasuhisa Uoya