Patents by Inventor Yukikazu Koide

Yukikazu Koide 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: 9527496
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle that includes an engine, a hydraulic actuator, a hydraulic pump, and an instruction member operated to instruct operation of the hydraulic actuator. A supply passage supplies hydraulic oil to the hydraulic actuator. A return passage returns return the hydraulic oil to an oil tank. A controller compares an engine speed and a predetermined comparison threshold value. When the engine speed is less than the comparison threshold value, the controller opens the return passage. The comparison threshold value includes a first threshold value and a second threshold value that is lower than the first threshold value. In response to the operation of the instruction member, the controller opens the return passage, performs revving control to increase the engine speed, and changes the comparison threshold value from the first threshold value to the second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Norihiko Kato, Yukikazu Koide
  • Patent number: 9505395
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle includes an accelerator, an accelerator opening sensor which detects an opening of the accelerator, a loading unit, an engine and a torque restriction releasing unit. When the torque restriction releasing unit is set in an Eco-mode in which torque of the engine is restricted, if the opening of the accelerator detected by the accelerator opening sensor is a first predetermined value or greater and at least one of conditions that a speed of the vehicle is a second predetermined value or greater and that the loading unit is in a lifting operation, is satisfied and such conditions of the accelerator and the vehicle speed and/or lifting operation are continued for a predetermined period of time, the torque restriction releasing unit releases the torque restriction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yukikazu Koide, Norihiko Kato
  • Patent number: 9500150
    Abstract: A power control device for a cargo handling vehicle provided with a cargo handling apparatus operated by a hydraulic oil from a hydraulic pump driven by an engine includes a controller and an engine speed sensor detecting an engine speed. The controller controls an engine torque to be limited by using an engine torque limit value for limiting the engine torque, and controls the engine torque limit on the engine by an engine torque limiting unit to be canceled when the engine speed detected by the engine speed sensor is equal to or lower than a predetermined first engine speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Norihiko Kato, Yukikazu Koide, Hiroyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9469483
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle includes an engine, a hydraulic pump, a cargo handling tool, a mast, a first hydraulic actuator, a second hydraulic actuator, an instruction member, a supply oil passage, and a controller. When the mast is being tilted forward, the controller performs revving control that raises the engine speed when detecting that an operation of the instruction member instructs a load operation that applies load to the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Norihiko Kato, Yukikazu Koide
  • Patent number: 9399567
    Abstract: A vehicle control device controls a maximum velocity of a forklift by restricting a maximum speed of an engine. Further, the vehicle control device monitors a vehicle velocity. When the vehicle velocity is equal to or higher than a restriction triggering vehicle velocity obtained by subtracting a predetermined velocity from the maximum velocity, the vehicle control device restricts the maximum speed of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yukikazu Koide, Norihiko Kato
  • Patent number: 9340109
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle implements an automatic engine stop function that automatically stops an engine installed on a vehicle body. The industrial vehicle includes an engine starting battery arranged in the vehicle body to start the engine, an operator seat arranged on the vehicle body, a seating detector adapted to detect whether or not the operator seat is vacant, and a controller adapted to disable the automatic engine stop function if the engine is started when the seating detector detects that the operator seat is vacant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Norihiko Kato, Yukikazu Koide
  • Patent number: 9316167
    Abstract: A vehicle equipped with a hydraulically-operated device includes an engine that drives the hydraulically-operated device, a temperature detection unit that detects a temperature of the engine or hydraulic oil and a control unit that controls the engine. The control unit is allowed to control torque of the engine in accordance with a predetermined specified torque limit value when the control unit is in an Eco-mode, and does not control the torque of the engine in accordance with the specified torque limit value in the Eco-mode when the temperature detected by the temperature detection unit is a predetermined specified release temperature or lower. The release temperature is set as a temperature at which output of the engine is hard to be stabilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Norihiko Kato, Yukikazu Koide
  • Patent number: 9261035
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle has an engine, a drive wheel, and a power transmission mechanism that transmits power of the engine to the drive wheel wherein the power transmitted through the power transmission mechanism causes creeping of the vehicle. The industrial vehicle includes a control unit that controls an engine speed of the engine and a vehicle speed detection unit that detects a vehicle speed of the vehicle. The control unit controls the engine speed at a first engine speed when the vehicle is in a non-traveling state, and when the vehicle speed has exceeded a predetermined vehicle speed, the control unit controls the engine speed at a second engine speed that is lower than the first engine speed, and the second engine speed is set to generate a desired creeping speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yukikazu Koide, Norihiko Kato
  • Publication number: 20150275798
    Abstract: A vehicle equipped with a hydraulically-operated device includes an engine that drives the hydraulically-operated device, a temperature detection unit that detects a temperature of the engine or hydraulic oil and a control unit that controls the engine. The control unit is allowed to control torque of the engine in accordance with a predetermined specified torque limit value when the control unit is in an Eco-mode, and does not control the torque of the engine in accordance with the specified torque limit value in the Eco-mode when the temperature detected by the temperature detection unit is a predetermined specified release temperature or lower. The release temperature is set as a temperature at which output of the engine is hard to be stabilized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Norihiko KATO, Yukikazu KOIDE
  • Publication number: 20150275799
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle has an engine, a drive wheel, and a power transmission mechanism that transmits power of the engine to the drive wheel wherein the power transmitted through the power transmission mechanism causes creeping of the vehicle. The industrial vehicle includes a control unit that controls an engine speed of the engine and a vehicle speed detection unit that detects a vehicle speed of the vehicle. The control unit controls the engine speed at a first engine speed when the vehicle is in a non-traveling state, and when the vehicle speed has exceeded a predetermined vehicle speed, the control unit controls the engine speed at a second engine speed that is lower than the first engine speed, and the second engine speed is set to generate a desired creeping speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yukikazu KOIDE, Norihiko KATO
  • Publication number: 20150274497
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle includes an engine, a hydraulic pump, a hydraulic operation device, a supply passage, a drainage passage, an unloading valve that connects the supply passage and the drainage passage to each other, and a controller that controls open/closed state of the unloading valve. If an on-load period at the time of application of load on the engine is less than a first predetermined time, the controller performs open/close control of causing the unloading valve to enter the closed state to set an on-load state, thereby increasing pressure of hydraulic oil passing through the supply passage and then causing the unloading valve to enter the open state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Norihiko KATO, Yukikazu KOIDE
  • Publication number: 20150267632
    Abstract: A power control device for a cargo handling vehicle provided with a cargo handling apparatus operated by a hydraulic oil from a hydraulic pump driven by an engine includes a controller and an engine speed sensor detecting an engine speed. The controller controls an engine torque to be limited by using an engine torque limit value for limiting the engine torque, and controls the engine torque limit on the engine by an engine torque limiting unit to be canceled when the engine speed detected by the engine speed sensor is equal to or lower than a predetermined first engine speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Norihiko KATO, Yukikazu KOIDE, Hiroyuki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20150259184
    Abstract: A vehicle control device controls a maximum velocity of a forklift by restricting a maximum speed of an engine. Further, the vehicle control device monitors a vehicle velocity. When the vehicle velocity is equal to or higher than a restriction triggering vehicle velocity obtained by subtracting a predetermined velocity from the maximum velocity, the vehicle control device restricts the maximum speed of the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yukikazu KOIDE, Norihiko KATO
  • Publication number: 20150094936
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle which is equipped with an engine and having an Eco-mode in which torque of the engine is restricted includes an accelerator, an accelerator opening detector that detects an opening of the accelerator, a vehicle speed detector that detects a speed of the vehicle, an engine speed detector that detects a speed of the engine, and a torque restriction releasing unit which, when the torque of the engine is restricted, if conditions that the opening of the accelerator detected by the accelerator opening detector is a first predetermined value or greater, that the vehicle speed detected by the vehicle speed detector is a second predetermined value or smaller and that the engine speed detected by the engine speed detector is a third predetermined value or smaller are satisfied, releases the torque restriction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yukikazu KOIDE, Norihiko KATO
  • Publication number: 20150080176
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle includes an accelerator, an accelerator opening sensor which detects an opening of the accelerator, a loading unit, an engine and a torque restriction releasing unit. When the torque restriction releasing unit is set in an Eco-mode in which torque of the engine is restricted, if the opening of the accelerator detected by the accelerator opening sensor is a first predetermined value or greater and at least one of conditions that a speed of the vehicle is a second predetermined value or greater and that the loading unit is in a lifting operation, is satisfied and such conditions of the accelerator and the vehicle speed and/or lifting operation are continued for a predetermined period of time, the torque restriction releasing unit releases the torque restriction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yukikazu KOIDE, Norihiko KATO
  • Publication number: 20150081191
    Abstract: A vehicle speed control apparatus of an industrial vehicle has a controller that determines a target engine speed by PI control based on a deviation between a target vehicle speed and an actual vehicle speed. The controller controls an upper limit of the target engine speed according to an actual engine speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Norihiko KATO, Yukikazu KOIDE
  • Publication number: 20150012187
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle implements an automatic engine stop function that automatically stops an engine installed on a vehicle body. The industrial vehicle includes an engine starting battery arranged in the vehicle body to start the engine, an operator seat arranged on the vehicle body, a seating detector adapted to detect whether or not the operator seat is vacant, and a controller adapted to disable the automatic engine stop function if the engine is started when the seating detector detects that the operator seat is vacant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Norihiko KATO, Yukikazu KOIDE
  • Publication number: 20150012129
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle includes an engine, a hydraulic pump, a cargo handling tool, a mast, a first hydraulic actuator, a second hydraulic actuator, an instruction member, a supply oil passage, and a controller. When the mast is being tilted forward, the controller performs revving control that raises the engine speed when detecting that an operation of the instruction member instructs a load operation that applies load to the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Norihiko KATO, Yukikazu KOIDE
  • Publication number: 20140336002
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle that includes an engine, a hydraulic actuator, a hydraulic pump, and an instruction member operated to instruct operation of the hydraulic actuator. A supply passage supplies hydraulic oil to the hydraulic actuator. A return passage returns return the hydraulic oil to an oil tank. A controller compares an engine speed and a predetermined comparison threshold value. When the engine speed is less than the comparison threshold value, the controller opens the return passage. The comparison threshold value includes a first threshold value and a second threshold value that is lower than the first threshold value. In response to the operation of the instruction member, the controller opens the return passage, performs revving control to increase the engine speed, and changes the comparison threshold value from the first threshold value to the second threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Norihiko KATO, Yukikazu KOIDE
  • Publication number: 20140331659
    Abstract: An industrial vehicle includes a hydraulic mechanism, an operation lever, and a pump, a hydraulic control valve unit, a lever operation detector, an internal combustion engine controller, and a valve controller that controls the hydraulic control valve unit. When the lever operation detector detects the operation of the operation lever under a situation in which a speed of the internal combustion engine is less than or equal to a predetermined speed, the valve controller operates the hydraulic control valve unit to discharge the hydraulic oil without supplying the hydraulic oil to the hydraulic mechanism and instructs the internal combustion engine controller to increase the speed of the internal combustion engine, and subsequently operates the hydraulic control valve unit to supply the hydraulic mechanism with the hydraulic oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Norihiko KATO, Yukikazu KOIDE