With Scoop Or Blade Patents (Class D15/25)
  • Patent number: 9975750
    Abstract: Compact tool carriers having a loader mounted to a low-profile mainframe are disclosed. In some embodiments, the pivot points of the mainframe about which the loader is pivoted are low relative to the mainframe to reduce the mainframe size and to lower the center of gravity to improve the stability of the compact tool carrier during use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Vermeer Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Brad Thomas, Louis Hartke, Greg Langenfeld, Matt Hutchinson
  • Patent number: 8731784
    Abstract: A blade control system of the present invention includes an angle obtaining part, an open ratio setting part and a lift cylinder controlling part. The angle obtaining part is configured to obtain an angle of a lift frame with respect to a designed surface. The open ratio setting part is configured to set an open ratio based on the angle. The lift cylinder controlling part is configured to open a proportional control valve at the open ratio for elevating the blade when a distance between the designed surface and an edge of a blade is determined to be less than or equal to a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Hayashi, Kenjiro Shimada, Kenji Okamoto
  • Patent number: D682888
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd
    Inventor: Teruhisa Iwata
  • Patent number: D682889
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd
    Inventor: Teruhisa Iwata
  • Patent number: D682890
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd
    Inventors: Teruhisa Iwata, Kouhei Miyazaki
  • Patent number: D682891
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd
    Inventor: Hayato Kinoshita
  • Patent number: D684598
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigehisa Hagura, Tomoyuki Miyata, Kazuhiko Hiraoka, Akira Saito, Teruo Irino, Makoto Motozu, Seiichi Kihara, Tomoyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: D684599
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Saito, Kazuhiko Hiraoka, Shigehisa Hagura, Tomoyuki Miyata, Teruo Irino, Katsuhiro Sasaki, Kohei Urase, Tomoyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: D684600
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Saito, Kazuhiko Hiraoka, Shigehisa Hagura, Tomoyuki Miyata, Teruo Irino, Katsuhiro Sasaki, Kohei Urase, Tomoyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: D685394
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Nagata, Yasuyuki Oyamada, Hideki Seino, Mineaki Ogata, Takaaki Kuroda, Takuzo Kawamura
  • Patent number: D692028
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Hiraoka, Tsuyoshi Ueki, Yukihiro Tatsuno, Hidefumi Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: D692029
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Hiraoka, Masashi Nakanishi, Koji Kawasaki, Tsuyoshi Takayama
  • Patent number: D692924
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuyuki Hatanaka, Masami Miyanishi, Masamitsu Uemura, Hiroyuki Otsuki, Zenzo Uchida, Hisayuki Ishii
  • Patent number: D693853
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Hiraoka, Kouji Kimijima, Akira Shimohira, Hiroaki Yada, Kouji Takehi, Katsuhisa Onoguchi, Seiji Nakagawa, Yuuji Akutsu, Tadashi Koseki, Wataru Isaka, Hirofumi Oouchi
  • Patent number: D695791
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigehisa Hagura, Tomoyuki Miyata, Nozomu Tanaka, Takeo Manabe
  • Patent number: D705273
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Taiki Furuki, Teruhiko Iwamoto, Masahiko Kobayashi
  • Patent number: D708232
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Taiki Furuki, Yoshihiro Kushita, Teruhiko Iwamoto, Hitoshi Oono, Shinobu Nakanishi
  • Patent number: D711927
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouichi Yoshita, Yuuki Saitou, Akira Misu, Yoshiyuki Takano, Kouhei Miyazaki
  • Patent number: D716844
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Hayami, Masamitsu Uemura, Masataka Miyoshi, Hisayuki Ishii, Masaru Shimada
  • Patent number: D716845
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Hayami, Masamitsu Uemura, Masataka Miyoshi, Hisayuki Ishii, Masaru Shimada
  • Patent number: D725680
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Mishio, Kazuya Hokimoto, Keiichi Nishihara
  • Patent number: D728631
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Richard, Marcus J. Rachowicz, Eric Zieser, Robert J. Van der Linde, Russell Meyer, Carl J. Hagele
  • Patent number: D742424
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: J.C. BAMFORD EXCAVATORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Michael Turner, Toby Mellor, Duncan MacMillan, Luke Tracey, Neil Hyde, Andy Gaskin, Laurie Pay, Mark Prince, Jason Burgess, Simon Davies, Stuart Jones, Juan Carlos Ramires, John Boughton, Damian Underwood
  • Patent number: D742934
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kushita, Masaaki Ueda, Kasumi Inagaki, Yoshitaka Higashikawa
  • Patent number: D747747
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: J.C. BAMFORD EXCAVATORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Mike Turner, Toby Mellor, Duncan Macmillan, Luke Tracey, Neil Hyde, Andy Gaskin, Laurie Pay, Mark Prince, Jason Burgess, Simon Davies, Stuart Jones, Juan Carlos Ramires, John Boughton, Damian Underwood
  • Patent number: D750672
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: J.C. BAMFORD EXCAVATORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Samuel Payne, Michael Turner, Paul Colclough, David Morris
  • Patent number: D752112
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigehisa Hagura, Tomoyuki Miyata, Kazuhiko Hiraoka, Hiroshi Tabeta, Keiji Ahiko, Junya Kawamoto, Tomoyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: D752113
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigehisa Hagura, Tomoyuki Miyata, Kazuhiko Hiraoka, Hiroshi Tabeta, Keiji Ahiko, Junya Kawamoto, Ryozo Fujikawa
  • Patent number: D752651
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigehisa Hagura, Tomoyuki Miyata, Kazuhiko Hiraoka, Osamu Kokuryou, Keiji Ahiko, Junya Kawamoto, Tomoyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: D756420
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoyuki Okuyama, Satoshi Kitahara, Nagahiro Ogata, Tsuyoshi Nakahara, Yoshihisa Ishikawa
  • Patent number: D758457
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoyuki Okuyama, Satoshi Kitahara, Nagahiro Ogata, Tsuyoshi Nakahara, Yoshihisa Ishikawa
  • Patent number: D759127
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumikazu Higuchi, Masaaki Murakami, Jumpei Yokota, Daisuke Mochizuki, Hironori Tsukamoto, Tsuyoshi Noda, Hiroshi Kanamaru, Kaoru Adachi
  • Patent number: D761880
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taiki Furuki, Toshihiko Takemura, Yuji Yamashita, Ryohei Sumiyoshi, Toyoaki Yasuda
  • Patent number: D763928
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoyuki Okuyama, Jun Terashima
  • Patent number: D772952
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Sven Voss, Josef Woess, Martin Pfab, Franz Forster, Christian Bauer, Ashley Menges, Niladri Manna
  • Patent number: D778962
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumikazu Higuchi, Masaaki Murakami, Jumpei Yokota, Daisuke Mochizuki, Hironori Tsukamoto, Tsuyoshi Noda, Hiroshi Kanamaru, Kaoru Adachi
  • Patent number: D790598
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Taiki Furuki, Toshihiko Takemura, Yuji Yamashita, Ryohei Sumiyoshi, Toyoaki Yasuda
  • Patent number: D802027
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: J.C. BAMFORD EXCAVATORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Thomas Edward Underhill, Samuel John Jilbert
  • Patent number: D806137
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Hashimoto, Kenzo Kusama, Akihiro Ichihara
  • Patent number: D819087
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: VOLVO CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AB
    Inventors: Andreas Ulmefors, Erik Eliasson, Fredrik Bolinder, Chris Hillman
  • Patent number: D819705
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: VOLVO CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AB
    Inventors: Andreas Ulmefors, Erik Eliasson, Fredrik Bolinder, Chris Hillman
  • Patent number: D821450
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Hashimoto, Taiki Furuki, Katsuhiko Yukawa
  • Patent number: D830423
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: J.C. BAMFORD EXCAVATORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Paul Colclough, Ben Watson, Samuel Payne, Khimani Mohiki, Lee Milward, Ben Parker, Michael Turner
  • Patent number: D830424
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: J.C. BAMFORD EXCAVATORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Paul Colclough, Ben Watson, Samuel Payne, Khimani Mohiki, Lee Milward, Ben Parker, Michael Turner
  • Patent number: D830425
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: J.C. BAMFORD EXCAVATORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Paul Colclough, Ben Watson, Samuel Payne, Khimani Mohiki, Lee Milward, Ben Parker, Michael Turner
  • Patent number: D830426
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: J.C. BAMFORD EXCAVATORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Paul Colclough, Ben Watson, Samuel Payne, Khimani Mohiki, Lee Milward, Ben Parker, Michael Turner
  • Patent number: D832551
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Clark Equipment Company
    Inventor: Jan Smekal
  • Patent number: D832552
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Clark Equipment Company
    Inventor: Jan Smekal
  • Patent number: D832894
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: J.C. BAMFORD EXCAVATORS LIMITED
    Inventors: David Price, Paul Bigoney, Doug McIlwain, Douglas Davidowski, Stephen Ackermann, Christopher Nierenhausen, Justin Haddock
  • Patent number: D835160
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: J.C. BAMFORD EXCAVATORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Samuel John Jilbert, Thomas Edward Underhill, Samuel Payne