Patents by Inventor Yoshimasa MINAMI
Yoshimasa MINAMI 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: 11981548Abstract: A crane includes a boom and a hook suspended from the boom by a wire rope and transports a load in a state in which the load W is suspended from the hook, and further includes a sensor that detects the position of an obstacle, and a control device that generates a transport path CR by arranging a plurality of node points in an area containing a lifting-up point and a lifting-down point of the load and connecting the node points. The control device generates a new transport path after increasing a number of node points arranged around the obstacle when the sensor detects movement of the obstacle.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TADANO LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Yamauchi, Yoshimasa Minami, Soichiro Fukamachi, Kazuma Mizuki, Shohei Nakaoka
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Patent number: 11981547Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a crane capable of detecting a suspension location of a payload, in order to enable accurate positioning of a hook at the suspension location of the payload. This crane comprises: a freely derricking boom provided to a swivel; and a sub-hook block and a sub-hook suspendedly provided from the boom. The crane also comprises: a boom camera capable of imaging a payload that is to be carried by the crane; hook cameras capable of imaging the payload from different viewpoints than the boom camera; and a control device for controlling the crane. The control device acquires images obtained by imaging the payload with the boom camera and the hook cameras, runs image processing on the images, and calculates a suspension location of the payload.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TADANO LTD.Inventor: Yoshimasa Minami
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Patent number: 11965222Abstract: A method of producing a hot-rolled steel sheet and a method for producing a cold-rolled full hard steel sheet are provided. The methods comprising heating a steel slab having a composition containing, in terms of mass %, C: 0.010% or more and 0.150% or less, Si: 0.20% or less, Mn: 1.00% or less, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.0500% or less, Al: 0.001% or more and 0.100% or less, N: 0.0100% or less, and the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, in which 0.002%?[% P]+[% S]?0.070% ([% M] denotes a content (mass %) of M element in steel) is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Hidekazu Minami, Yoshimasa Funakawa
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Patent number: 11946111Abstract: A steel sheet is provided, having a tensile strength of 590 MPa or more, a particular composition and a steel structure that contains, in terms of area fraction, particular amounts of ferrite and martensite, in which the ferrite average crystal grain size is 20 ?m or less, the martensite average size is 15 ?m or less, the ratio of the average crystal grain size of the ferrite to the average size of the martensite (ferrite average crystal grain size/martensite average size) is 0.5 to 10.0, the ratio of the hardness of the martensite to the hardness of the ferrite (martensite hardness/ferrite hardness) is 1.0 or more and 5.0 or less, and, in the texture of the ferrite, the inverse intensity ratio of ?-fiber to the ?-fiber is 0.8 or more and 7.0 or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2017Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Hidekazu Minami, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Shinjiro Kaneko
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Publication number: 20240084412Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method for producing a hot-rolled steel sheet, a method for producing a cold-rolled full hard steel sheet, and methods for producing a heat-treated steel sheet that serve as the methods for producing intermediate products for obtaining a steel sheet having a tensile strength of 590 MPa or more, a particular composition and a particular steel structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Hidekazu Minami, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Shinjiro Kaneko
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Publication number: 20240077840Abstract: This control system for controlling an actuator of a crane is provided with a signal processing unit for generating a signal related to a target operating amount of the actuator, a feedback control unit for controlling the actuator on the basis of the difference between the signal relating to the target operating amount, and a fed-back signal relating to the operating amount of the actuator, and a feed-forward control unit which controls the actuator on the basis of the signal relating to the target operating amount, in cooperation with the feedback control unit, and learns the characteristics of the actuator by adjusting a weighting factor on the basis of a teaching signal, wherein the signal processing unit converts an input signal into the signal relating to the target operating amount by removing a pulse-shaped component from the input signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2020Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: TADANO LTD.Inventor: Yoshimasa MINAMI
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Patent number: 11858784Abstract: A crane that controls an actuator on the basis of a target speed signal Vd of cargo W includes: a control device having a feedback control unit that calculates a target path signal Pd? of the cargo from the target speed signal Vd by integration to correct the target path signal Pd? on the basis of the differential of current position coordinates p(n) of the cargo W corresponding to the target path signal Pd?; and a feedforward control unit that adjusts a weight coefficient of a transfer function G(s) expressing the characteristics of the crane on the basis of a target path signal Pd1? that has been corrected. The target path signal Pd1? corrected by the feedback control unit is corrected using the transfer function G(s) for which the weight coefficient has been adjusted by the feedforward control unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: TADANO LTD.Inventor: Yoshimasa Minami
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Patent number: 11858785Abstract: A target trajectory signal is calculated by integrating a target speed signal inputted from a suspended-load moving operation tool and passing the integrated signal through a lowpass filter. Target position coordinates of a load are calculated from the target trajectory signal. The current position coordinates of a leading end of a boom are calculated from the attitude of a crane device. An unwinding amount of a wire rope is calculated from the current position coordinates of the load and the current position coordinates of the boom. A direction vector of the wire rope is calculated from the current position coordinates of the load and the target position coordinates of the load. Target position coordinates of the boom are calculated from the unwinding amount and the direction vector. An actuation signal of an actuator is generated from the target position coordinates of the boom.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: TADANO LTD.Inventor: Yoshimasa Minami
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Publication number: 20230373761Abstract: This crane is capable of transporting cargo and includes: a feedback control unit for feedback control of the crane or an object to be controlled that is a component of the crane; a learning model that has a weighting factor and learns the characteristics of the object to be controlled in real time by adjusting the weighting factor on the basis of a teacher signal including a first signal generated by the feedback control unit; and a communication control unit that transmits the weighting factor to an external device that is communicatively connected to the crane.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2021Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: TADANO LTD.Inventor: Yoshimasa MINAMI
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Publication number: 20230264927Abstract: This dynamic lift-off control device is mounted in a crane including a boom and a winch that winds a wire rope, the dynamic lift-off control device controlling dynamic lift-off of a suspended load, wherein the dynamic lift-off device comprises a rotation detection unit that detects the rotation speed of the winch, a pressure detection unit that detects a pressure value of a derricking cylinder that raises/lowers the boom, an estimation unit that estimates the derricking angular velocity of the boom on the basis of the respective detection values from the rotation detection unit and the pressure detection unit, and a control unit that controls the derricking operation of the boom on the basis of the estimated value estimated by the estimation unit and a target derricking angular velocity of the boom that is calculated on the basis of the detection value from the pressure detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2021Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: TADANO LTD.Inventor: Yoshimasa MINAMI
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Patent number: 11718510Abstract: The invention addresses the problem of providing a crane and a crane control method that can suppress load swaying when controlling an actuator on the basis of the load.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: TADANO LTD.Inventor: Yoshimasa Minami
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Publication number: 20230227290Abstract: A dynamic lift-off control device that is mounted on a crane including a boom and a winch for winding a wire rope and that controls dynamic lift-off of a suspended load, wherein: the dynamic lift-off control device comprises a load detection unit that detects a load acting on the boom, and a control unit that controls a winding action of the winch and a hoisting action of the boom; and the control unit controls the hoisting of the boom by using a control signal, which is generated on the basis of the change over time in the value detected by the load detection unit and to which a filter for attenuating a frequency component in a prescribed range, to suppress swaying of the suspended load is applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2021Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: TADANO LTD.Inventor: Yoshimasa MINAMI
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Patent number: 11691855Abstract: A crane is provided. A slewing base camera detects a load W that is suspended by a wire rope, the current coordinate location of the load is calculated from the location of the detected load, the current coordinate location of a tip end of a boom is calculated from the position of a crane, a target velocity signal that was inputted from a manipulation tool is converted into a target coordinate location of the load, a wire rope direction vector is calculated from the current coordinate location of the load and the target coordinate location of the load, a target location of the tip end of the boom for the target coordinate location of the load is calculated from a wire rope reel-out amount and the wire rope direction vector, and an actuator operation signal is generated.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2019Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: TADANO LTD.Inventor: Yoshimasa Minami
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Publication number: 20220411233Abstract: This control system comprises: a signal processing unit generating a signal related to the target operating amount of an actuator; a feedback control unit that controls the actuator based on the difference between the signal related to the target operating amount and a signal related to the fed-back operating amount; a feed-forward control unit that controls the actuator based on the signal related to the target operating amount in cooperation with the feedback control unit, and learns the characteristics of the actuator by adjusting a weighting factor based on a teacher signal; and a calculation unit that calculates information related to the deflection of the work machine. The signal processing unit corrects intermediate information, which is generated in the process of generating the signal related to the target operating amount, based on the information related to the deflection, and generates the signal related to the target operating amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2020Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: TADANO LTD.Inventor: Yoshimasa MINAMI
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Publication number: 20220332550Abstract: The present invention pertains to a control system incorporated in a work machine having an arm section including a boom that is freely raised and lowered, the control system including: an image-capturing unit that is provided at a distal end of the arm section and captures an image of an area below; a display unit that displays an image captured by the image-capturing unit; and a control unit that causes the display unit to display position-related information regarding a position directly below the distal end of the arm section so as to be superimposed on the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2020Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: TADANO LTD.Inventor: Yoshimasa MINAMI
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Publication number: 20220127116Abstract: There is provided a crane control method whereby shaking of a load can be suppressed when automatically transporting the load along a set transport path using a crane; and a crane that is controllable by this control method. The control method includes: calculating a target transport time (Ti) of a load (W), transported by a crane (1), in a section defined by two passing points adjacent in a passing order; calculating, from a distance between the passing points and the target transport time (Ti), a target speed signal of the load (W) in the section; converting a stepped target speed signal, which connects the target speed signal of the section and a target speed signal of another section adjacent to the section, to a non-stepped target speed signal using a target value filter (F); and carrying out control on the basis of the non-stepped target speed signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: TADANO LTD.Inventor: Yoshimasa MINAMI
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Publication number: 20220098009Abstract: Provided is a lifting control device that can quickly make lifting determinations while suppressing load vibration. The lifting control device D comprises: a boom 14 that is configured to be freely raised and lowered; a winch 13 to hoist and lower a suspended load via a wire rope 16; a load measurement means 22 to measure the load acting on the boom 14; and a controller 40 that controls the boom 14 and the winch 13, wherein when lifting a suspended load from the ground by winding up the winch 13, the controller 40 retains a maximum load value from a time series of load data as a variable, finds variations in the hoisting angle of the boom 14 on the basis of time variations in the maximum load value, and raises and lowers the boom 14 so as to compensate for the variation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: TADANO LTD.Inventor: Yoshimasa MINAMI
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Publication number: 20220098012Abstract: Provided are a crane and a path generation system that can generate a transport path capable of avoiding an obstacle even. if the obstacle moves. The crane (1) includes a boom (7) and a hook (10) suspended from the boom (7) by a wire rope (8) and transports a load (W) in a state in which the load W is suspended from the hook (10), the crane (1) being equipped with a sensor (camera (55)) that detects the position of an obstacle (worker X), and a control device (20) that generates a transport path CR by arranging a plurality of node points P(n) in an area containing a lifting-up point (Ps) and a lifting-down point (Pe) of the load W and connecting the node points P(n). The control device (20) generates a new transport path (CR) after increasing the number of node points P(n) arranged around the obstacle (X) when the sensor (55) detects movement of the obstacle (X).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: TADANO LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi YAMAUCHI, Yoshimasa MINAMI, Soichiro FUKAMACHI, Kazuma MIZUKI, Shohei NAKAOKA
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Publication number: 20220098008Abstract: The present invention provides a dynamic lift-off control device and a crane with which it is possible to quickly perform dynamic lift-off of a suspended load while suppressing vibration of the load. This dynamic lift-off control device D comprises: a boom (14); a winch (13); a load weight measurement means (22); and a controller (40) serving as a control unit, the controller (40) controlling operations of the boom (14) and the winch (13), deriving, when performing dynamic lift-off of the suspended load by hoisting the winch (13), an amount of change in a derricking angle of the boom (14) on the basis of the time change in the measured load weight, and raising the boom (14) so as to compensate for the amount of change.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: TADANO LTD.Inventors: Yoshimasa MINAMI, Hiroshi YAMAUCHI, Shohei NAKAOKA
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Publication number: 20220081262Abstract: Provided is a dynamic-lift-off determination device capable of quickly performing a dynamic-lift-off determination by a simple method, while suppressing swinging of a load. A dynamic-lift-off determination device C includes: a boom 14 that is configured so as to be freely raised and lowered; a winch 13 that lifts/lowers a suspended load via a wire rope 16; a load-weight measuring means 22 that measures a load weight acting on the boom 14; a rope-length and lifting-speed measuring means 24 that measures the rope length of the wire rope 16; and a control unit 40 that controls the boom 14 and the winch 13 and that determines, when the winch 13 winds up the rope to dynamically lift off the suspended load, the dynamic lift off on the basis of a temporal change in the measured load weight and a temporal change in the measured rope length.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: TADANO LTD.Inventor: Yoshimasa MINAMI