Patents by Inventor Yoshiki Kami

Yoshiki Kami 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: 11414839
    Abstract: A control line determinator determines whether or not a work state of a work implement is a predetermined work state. A display controller generates a display signal including a target surface of a construction object or a control line indicating a surface which is different from the target surface and which a bucket is to be prevented from entering. The display controller makes a display form of the control line or the target surface in the display signal different according to whether or not the work state is the predetermined work state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Shintani, Yoshiki Kami, Yoshito Kumakura
  • Publication number: 20210332566
    Abstract: A control line determinator determines whether or not a work state of a work implement is a predetermined work state. A display controller generates a display signal including a target surface of a construction object or a control line indicating a surface which is different from the target surface and which a bucket is to be prevented from entering. The display controller makes a display form of the control line or the target surface in the display signal different according to whether or not the work state is the predetermined work state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Satoru SHINTANI, Yoshiki KAMI, Yoshito KUMAKURA
  • Patent number: 10480160
    Abstract: A main controller controlling an operation of a work vehicle includes a determination unit and an abnormal condition determination unit. The determination unit determines whether or not an attachment has a sensor based on information on an attachment. When the determination unit determines that the attachment has the sensor and when the abnormal condition determination unit cannot receive a signal from the sensor, the abnormal condition determination unit determines that an abnormal condition has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Tanishige, Yoshiki Kami, Takashi Yokoo, Yuto Fujii, Haruki Nishiguchi
  • Patent number: 10443214
    Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle includes at least one sensor, an operating device, and a controller. The operating device includes at least one operating member. The controller is programmed to control a work implement of the work vehicle based on signals from the at least one sensor and the operating device. The controller is further programmed to use the signals to obtain a distance between the work implement and a design terrain which represents a target shape of a work object, and to determine whether a surface compaction determination condition indicating that work performed by the work implement is surface compaction work is satisfied. The controller executes a surface compaction control in which a velocity of the work implement toward the design terrain is limited in response to the distance between the work implement and the design terrain when the surface compaction determination condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Shimano, Jin Kitajima, Yoshiki Kami, Masashi Ichihara
  • Patent number: 10145088
    Abstract: A control system comprising a position information generation unit configured to operate three modes to output position information: a first mode in which information about the position detected by a position detection apparatus is output as position information related to the position of a work machine, when the position determination is normal, a second mode in which information about a position obtained by using both of a particular point as a reference of the work machine obtained before a position determination becomes abnormal and operation information detected by a status detection apparatus is output as the position information, when the position determination is abnormal and the work machine is a static status, and a third mode in which the position information is not output, when the position determination is abnormal and the work machine is in a non-static status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kanemitsu, Yoshiki Kami
  • Publication number: 20180266082
    Abstract: A main controller controlling an operation of a work vehicle includes a determination unit and an abnormal condition determination unit. The determination unit determines whether or not an attachment has a sensor based on information on an attachment. When the determination unit determines that the attachment has the sensor and when the abnormal condition determination unit cannot receive a signal from the sensor, the abnormal condition determination unit determines that an abnormal condition has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Akira TANISHIGE, Yoshiki KAMI, Takashi YOKOO, Yuto FUJII, Haruki NISHIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9938694
    Abstract: A control device for a work machine is a device for controlling a working unit of a work machine to excavate an object to be excavated. The control device includes a control unit for controlling the working unit to prevent a working implement of the working unit from crossing a predetermined target profile, and a switching unit for defining the target profile as an offset profile separated by a predetermined distance from a target excavation profile that is a target profile for finishing of the object to be excavated or the target excavation profile, based on an attitude of the working implement relative to the target excavation profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Matsuyama, Yuki Shimano, Masashi Ichihara, Yoshiki Kami
  • Publication number: 20180002901
    Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle includes at least one sensor, an operating device, and a controller. The operating device includes at least one operating member. The controller is programmed to control a work implement of the work vehicle based on signals from the at least one sensor and the operating device. The controller is further programmed to use the signals to obtain a distance between the work implement and a design terrain which represents a target shape of a work object, and to determine whether a surface compaction determination condition indicating that work performed by the work implement is surface compaction work is satisfied. The controller executes a surface compaction control in which a velocity of the work implement toward the design terrain is limited in response to the distance between the work implement and the design terrain when the surface compaction determination condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Yuki SHIMANO, Jin KITAJIMA, Yoshiki KAMI, Masashi ICHIHARA
  • Patent number: 9803340
    Abstract: A control deciding unit for deciding to execute a leveling control for controlling a work implement so that the work implement moves along a design terrain when a leveling determination condition is satisfied. The control deciding unit decides to execute a surface compaction control for limiting the velocity of the work implement toward the design terrain in response to the distance between the work implement and the design terrain when a surface compaction determination condition is satisfied. The control deciding unit maintains the surface compaction control when the leveling determination condition is satisfied while the surface compaction control is being executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Shimano, Jin Kitajima, Yoshiki Kami, Masashi Ichihara
  • Patent number: 9797111
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes an arm. An arm cylinder drives the arm. A direction control valve operates the arm cylinder by allowing supply of a hydraulic oil to the arm cylinder as a spool moves. An oil path is connected to the direction control valve. A pilot oil for moving the spool flows through the oil path. A proportional solenoid valve for arm excavation is provided in the oil path. An arm control member is provided for an operator to operate drive of the arm. An amount of operation of the arm control member is equal to or smaller than a prescribed value in a first operation state and greater than the prescribed value in a second operation state. A command current instructing an opening of the proportional solenoid valve for arm excavation is set to a constant value in the first operation state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Kami, Takeo Yamada
  • Patent number: 9783961
    Abstract: The present invention includes a stroke sensor which is arranged on a hydraulic cylinder and measures a stroke length of the hydraulic cylinder; a rotary encoder and a magnetic force sensor which measure a reset reference point to reset a value of the stroke length measured by the stroke sensor; a stroke end detection processing unit which detects a stroke end position of the hydraulic cylinder; a calibration processing unit which calibrates the measured value of the stroke length when the reset reference point and/or the stroke end position is detected; an HMI monitor which displays an entire work machine mounted with the hydraulic cylinder when an initial calibration work for the hydraulic cylinder is carried out; and a highlight display processing unit that highlights a moving portion to drive a hydraulic cylinder to be calibrated along with an indication of a driving direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Ikegami, Yoshiki Kami, Yuki Shimano, Hayato Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20170284070
    Abstract: A control device for a work machine is a device for controlling a working unit of a work machine to excavate an object to be excavated. The control device includes a control unit for controlling the working unit to prevent a working implement of the working unit from crossing a predetermined target profile, and a switching unit for defining the target profile as an offset profile separated by a predetermined distance from a target excavation profile that is a target profile for finishing of the object to be excavated or the target excavation profile, based on an attitude of the working implement relative to the target excavation profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Toru Matsuyama, Yuki Shimano, Masashi Ichihara, Yoshiki Kami
  • Publication number: 20170121930
    Abstract: A method of controlling a construction machine including a work machine including a boom, an arm, and a bucket, the method comprising: determining a speed limit according to a distance between the bucket and a target excavation landform based on the target excavation landform and bucket position data and limiting a speed of the boom so that a speed at which the work machine approaches the target excavation landform is equal to or smaller than the speed limit; operating an operating device in order to drive a movable member including at least one of the arm and the bucket; detecting an amount of operation of the operating device; setting a limited amount of operation for limiting a speed of the movable member based on a detection result of the detection device; and outputting a control signal so that the movable member is driven with the limited amount of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Kitajima, Yoshiki Kami, Takeo Yamada
  • Patent number: 9617709
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a vehicular body, a work implement, an angle sensor, and a work implement control unit. A bucket is rotatable with respect to an arm around a bucket axis in parallel to an arm axis and a tilt axis orthogonal to a bucket axis. The angle sensor is provided in the bucket and detects an angle of inclination of the bucket with respect to a horizontal plane. The work implement control unit starts control of the work implement in which an operation of the work implement is controlled at least partially automatically when an angle of inclination of the bucket detected by the angle sensor is smaller than a first threshold value, and does not start control of the work implement when an angle of inclination of the bucket detected by the angle sensor is equal to or greater than the first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru Shintani, Yuto Fujii, Masanobu Seki, Masashi Ichihara, Yoshiki Kami
  • Patent number: 9617717
    Abstract: A construction machine control system controls a construction machine including a traveling device, a work machine having a working tool, and a swing structure to which the work machine is attached and which is attached to the traveling device to swing with respect to the traveling device. The construction machine control system includes a position detection device that detects a first position which is a position of a partial portion of the construction machine and outputs the first position as first position information; a state detection device that detects and outputs operation information indicating an operation of the construction machine; and a processing device that calculates a second position corresponding to the position of the partial portion using the first position information and the operation information and calculates a position of at least a partial portion of the work machine using second position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunichiro Kondo, Daiki Arimatsu, Yoshiki Kami, Yasuo Kanemitsu, Yuki Shimano, Yuto Fujii
  • 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: 9598841
    Abstract: A control system includes: a first pressure sensor disposed in a pilot oil passage between an operating device and a control valve and detecting pressure of pilot oil; a second pressure sensor disposed in the pilot oil passage between the control valve and a direction control valve and detecting the pressure of the pilot oil; a control valve controller controlling the control valve; a data acquisition unit acquiring data on a detection value of the first pressure sensor and a detection value of the second pressure sensor in a state where the pilot oil passage is opened by the control valve; and a correction unit correcting the detection value of the first pressure sensor or the second pressure sensor based on the data acquired by the data acquisition unit so that the detection value of the first pressure sensor is identical to the detection value of the second pressure sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Ikegami, Akinori Baba, Yoshiki Kami
  • 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
  • Patent number: 9551133
    Abstract: A stroke operation calibration control device for a hydraulic cylinder includes: movable portions; hydraulic cylinders; a stroke sensor measuring a stroke length of the hydraulic cylinder; a reset sensor measuring a reset reference point at which a measurement value of the stroke length obtained by the stroke sensor is reset; a stroke end detection process unit detecting a stroke end position of the hydraulic cylinder; a calibration process unit calibrating the measurement value of the stroke length upon the detection of the reset reference point and/or the stroke end position; a malfunction detection unit outputting an error when the stroke length is in the predetermined measurement range; and a control unit prohibiting the reset until the stroke length has passed the reset reference point at power input time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Ikegami, Yoshiki Kami, Yuki Shimano, Hayato Matsumoto
  • 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