Patents by Inventor Yasuto Nishii

Yasuto Nishii 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: 20240138300
    Abstract: A combine harvester comprises a control device. The control device functions as a travel route creation unit, a discharge route creation unit, and an autonomous driving control unit. The travel route creation unit creates a travel route R for an unharvested area of a field. The discharge route creation unit creates a discharge route D that extends from an end position E, of the travel route R, at which automatic harvesting of the unharvested area is completed, to a discharge position which is preset for the field. The autonomous driving control unit controls the automatic harvesting travel according to the travel route R or the automatic discharge travel according to the discharge route D.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuto Nishii, Masaaki Murayama
  • Publication number: 20240085906
    Abstract: A reception processing unit receives a user operation performed with respect to an operation tool that causes a work vehicle to execute a predetermined motion. A motion processing unit causes the work vehicle to execute a motion corresponding to the user operation performed with respect to the operation tool. A travel processing unit switches from autonomous travel to manual travel when a change amount relating to the operation tool corresponding to the user operation exceeds a threshold while the work vehicle is performing autonomous travel. A setting processing unit sets the threshold based on at least one of setting information and work information of the work vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Miyake, Yasuto Nishii, Kenichi Miyai
  • Patent number: 11919448
    Abstract: A work screen display system including a position information obtaining unit for obtaining position information on a work vehicle based on positioning correction information supplied from a first reference station; a region shape determination unit for determining a shape of a specific region where the work vehicle performs autonomous travel, based on positioning correction information supplied from a second reference station; and a display control unit for displaying, on a display unit, a specific region indication section indicating the specific region determined by the region shape determination unit. The display control unit displays the specific region indication section in a display mode that varies between a case where the first and second reference stations are identical and a case where the first and second reference stations are not identical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuto Nishii
  • Publication number: 20240046716
    Abstract: A detection process unit detects an error of at least any of a plurality of work vehicles. A report process unit causes, when an error of a work vehicle among the plurality of work vehicles is detected, specific information on the work vehicle to be reported at an operation terminal communicable with each of the plurality of work vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuto NISHII, Masaaki MURAYAMA, Akifumi KURODA, Shinya NISHIBEPPU, Masahito ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20240040947
    Abstract: A combine harvester is a work vehicle that pre-creates a plurality of travel routes parallel to a preset outline of a field and performs autonomous travel based on the travel routes, and includes a control device and a mobile terminal. The control device functions as the autonomous travel controller to control autonomous travel on the basis of the travel route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuto Nishii, Masaaki Murayama, Yuji Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20240040948
    Abstract: A setting process unit sets an inter-area route that causes a work vehicle to automatically run on a road that connects a plurality of fields, and sets, as an automatic run permission area that permits the automatic run of the work vehicle, a given range including the plurality of fields and the road which is for entering each of the plurality of fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akifumi KURODA, Yasuto NISHII, Masaaki MURAYAMA, Shinya NISHIBEPPU, Masahito ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20240032452
    Abstract: A combine harvester includes a control device configured to function as a travel route creation unit, an automatic drive control unit, a course movement unit, and a course correction unit. The travel route creation unit creates, in a yet-to-be-reaped area of a field, a travel route that includes parallel first and second straight-line courses. The automatic drive control unit performs control on automatic driving and automatic reaping based on the travel route. While automatic reaping travel is conducted on the first straight-line course, the course movement unit modifies the travel route by moving the first straight-line course in a direction intersecting with the traveling direction. When movement of the first straight-line course results in movement of the first straight-line course in one direction, the course correction unit corrects a portion of the second straight-line course toward the same one direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetaka SUZUKI, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Yasuto NISHII
  • Publication number: 20240028037
    Abstract: An autonomous travel system causes a work vehicle to autonomously travel along an inter-field route preset for a road connecting a field and a field. A travel processor causes the work vehicle to be stopped at a route start position of the inter-field route and to resume autonomous travel when a user is within a predetermined distance from the work vehicle in the field corresponding to the stop position of the work vehicle. An announcement process unit causes the work vehicle to announce travel information about travel on the inter-field route in the field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuto NISHII, Masaaki Murayama, Akifumi Kuroda, Shinya Nishibeppu, Masahito Adachi
  • Publication number: 20240016087
    Abstract: This combine is provided with: a body part including a mowing part for mowing grain culms; a travel part for supporting the body part and traveling; a detection part for detecting an abnormality in the body part; and a control part which executes automatic mowing work for causing the mowing part to mow grain culms while causing the travel part to autonomously travel and carries out control such that, when the detection part detects an abnormality during the automatic mowing work, the automatic mowing work is interrupted and subsequently the travel part is made to travel backward by a first predetermined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuto NISHII, Masaaki MURAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240016088
    Abstract: A combine generates an unworked land of an agricultural field through round reaping by which a reaping work is carried out while the vehicle body repeats straight travel and turning. The combine is provided with: a positioning unit that obtains a measurement point indicating a position of a vehicle body; a straight line generating unit that generates a work straight line on the basis of measurement points obtained between a work starting position and a work finishing position of one reaping work; and an unworked land generating unit that calculates, every time the work straight line is generated, an intersection point between the work straight lines intersecting each other, and that, when at least three work straight lines intersect to constitute a closed area, generates an unworked land in a polygonal shape with at least three intersection points being vertices thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuto Nishii, Yuji Yamaguchi, Hidetaka Suzuki, Masaaki Murayama
  • Publication number: 20240016074
    Abstract: A combine (work vehicle) is provided with: a positioning unit that obtains a measurement point indicating a position of a vehicle body; an initial external shape generating unit that generates an initial external shape of an agricultural field on the basis of a travel trajectory of the vehicle body constituted of a plurality of measurement points obtained when the vehicle body was manually driven along an external edge of the agricultural field; and an obstacle identification unit that identifies an obstacle for travel on the basis of the travel trajectory and generates an obstacle area including the identified obstacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuto NISHII, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Hidetaka SUZUKI, Masaaki MURAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240016089
    Abstract: A combine is provided with a control device configured to function as a route generation unit, a position setting unit, a mid-work route generation unit, or a self-driving control unit. The route generation unit generates a travel route by combining a plurality of routes for an unreaped region in a field. To perform mid-work corresponding to the work amount of reaping traveling at a preset mid-work position, the position setting unit sets an interruption position at which automatic reaping traveling is interrupted to the end point of a predetermined interruption route based on the work amount. To perform the mid-work, the mid-work route generation unit generates a mid-work route extending from the interruption position to the mid-work position. The self-driving control unit controls traveling and reaping based on the travel or mid-work route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetaka SUZUKI, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Yasuto NISHII, Masaaki MURAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240008383
    Abstract: A combine includes a control device configured to function as a travel route creating unit which creates a travel route corresponding to an agricultural field, and as an automatic operation control unit which controls automatic traveling and automatic reaping along the travel route. The travel route creating unit, when creating a travel route for carrying out automatic reaping travel in which, with respect to a work area with a plurality of rows in an agricultural field, a plurality of trips are made back and forth along a row direction, creates the travel route by setting, on the basis of a total number of rows, a maximum number of rows to be reaped, and a lower-limit number of rows to be reaped in the work area, the lower-limit number of rows to be reaped or more for each trip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetaka SUZUKI, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Yasuto NISHII, Masaaki MURAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240012414
    Abstract: A reception processing unit receives a traveling operation performed by an operator. An acquisition processing unit acquires position information of a work vehicle traveling on a road that connects a field and a field, based on the traveling operation. A generation processing unit generates an inter-field route on which the work vehicle is caused to automatically travel between the field and the field, based on the position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuto NISHII, Masaaki Murayama, Hidetaka Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240004384
    Abstract: A detection process unit detects obstacles while the work vehicle is traveling on the road connecting the fields. A travel processor causes the work vehicle to perform avoidance travel when the obstacles are registered as the avoidance travel target that is a subject to be avoided by the work vehicle's avoidance travel, while it causes the work vehicle not to perform the avoidance travel when the obstacles are registered as the non-avoidance travel target that is a subject not to be avoided by the work vehicle's avoidance travel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuto NISHII, Masaaki Murayama, Akifumi Kuroda, Shinya Nishibeppu, Masahito Adachi
  • Publication number: 20240000013
    Abstract: A combine includes a control device configured to function as a travel route creation unit which creates a travel route in an operation region of a field, and an automatic operation control unit which controls automatic traveling and automatic reaping along the travel route. The travel route creation unit, when creating the travel route in which automatic reaping traveling is performed by reciprocal movement over a plurality of courses along a row direction in the operation region having a plurality of rows of the agricultural field, performs: calculates a recommended number of divisions of the operation region based on the size of the operation region, reaping information per one course of a reaping unit, and turning information according to a state between courses; divides the operation region into multiple divided regions based on the recommended number of divisions; and creates the travel route over the multiple divided regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetaka SUZUKI, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Yasuto NISHII, Masaaki MURAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230397519
    Abstract: A work support method that supports work that uses a work vehicle includes: switching a run mode to an automatic run mode in which the work vehicle is caused to automatically run in a farm field; switching, when a given condition is met in the automatic run mode, the run mode to a manual run mode in which the work vehicle is caused to manually run; and performing a switch notification to notify that the run mode is switched from the automatic run mode to the manual run mode. A mode of the switch notification differs depending on the work vehicle's state at the time of the switching to the manual run mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuto NISHII, Masaaki MURAYAMA, Yuji YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230380322
    Abstract: A combine is a working vehicle that performs automatic traveling on a work route preset in an agricultural field, and includes a control device. The control device functions as a return traveling control part to make the combine automatically perform return traveling toward the work route in response to a return operation for the combine within the agricultural field during breakaway of the combine 1 from the work route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Suzuki, Masaaki Murayama, Yuji Yamaguchi, Yasuto Nishii
  • Publication number: 20230376039
    Abstract: A farm field setting processing unit sets an inner peripheral work region and an outer peripheral work region in a farm field having a shape where a right side and a left side that face each other are not parallel to each other. A work-direction setting processing unit sets a work direction for a work vehicle within the inner peripheral work region. A path setting processing unit sets, within the inner peripheral work region, a travel path as a work initiating path at a location adjacent to the right side that is parallel to said work direction, from among a plurality of sides that define the inner peripheral work region. On the basis of the work direction and the travel path, a path generation processing unit generates a travel path for the work vehicle within the inner peripheral work region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuto Nishii, Mamoru Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20230359200
    Abstract: A work area management method includes storing first area information that represents a first work area that determines a first work route along which a first work device moves to perform a first work in a field, and that is determined on the basis of a positioning position of the first work device. The work area management method also includes outputting the first area information as information that represents an area for determining a second work route along which a second work device different from the first work device moves to perform a second work in the field. The outputting the first area information may include outputting warning information representing that the first area information is unsuitable for determining the second work route when the first area information does not satisfy a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Nishida, Yasuto Nishii