686 patents
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Utility
Method of Administering Coagulant
19 Oct 23
Defining one treatment cycle as comprising a filtration step J for using a filter membrane to filter water to be treated in a filtration tank and a filtration stopping step K for stopping filtration, this method, for administering a coagulant in water treatment that involves repeating the treatment cycle C1 to C5 to treat water to be treated, starts administration of the coagulant into the filtration tank when the membrane load index becomes greater than or equal to a first threshold value, wherein the membrane load index is defined as the amount of increase in transmembrane pressure per unit time in the filtration step J.
Yasunobu OKAJIMA, Ken TANAKA
Filed: 5 Jul 21
Utility
Work Vehicle
19 Oct 23
Provided is a work vehicle including left and right front wheels located in a front portion of a vehicle body of the work vehicle; left and right rear wheels located in a rear portion of the vehicle body; a driver section located at an intermediate position of the vehicle body in a front-rear direction, and including a driver seat; a ROPS frame including left and right front columns and left and right rear columns, and covering the driver section; and a plurality of suspension mechanisms supporting the front wheels and the rear wheels to the vehicle body in such a manner that the front wheels and the rear wheels are individually movable up and down, and wherein the ROPS frame is attached to positions immediately above, or in a vicinity of, vehicle body-side support sections of the suspension mechanisms.
Ryota Shimizu, Hiroyuki Suzuki
Filed: 5 Apr 23
Utility
Working Vehicle
19 Oct 23
A working vehicle includes a steering handle, a vehicle body to travel with either manual steering by the steering handle or automatic steering of the steering handle based on a traveling reference line, and a display including a line orientation display portion to indicate an orientation of the traveling reference line, and a vehicle orientation display portion to indicate an orientation of the vehicle body.
Shunsuke MIYASHITA, Yasuaki MORIOKA, Kunihiko NISHINO, Kumiko KOBAYASHI, Misako KAWAI
Filed: 9 Jun 23
Utility
Electric Working Machine
12 Oct 23
An electric working machine includes battery packs, a working device to be driven by electric power discharged from the battery packs, one or more battery monitors to monitor states of the battery packs, and a controller to control charging and discharging of the battery packs, wherein, in a discharging mode for driving the working device, the controller selects one of the battery packs as a discharging battery pack for supplying electric power to the working device, based on a result of monitoring the battery packs by the one or more battery monitors, and in a charging mode, the controller selects one of the battery packs as a charging battery pack to be charged, based on a result of monitoring the battery packs by the one or more battery monitors.
Takahiro TAKAKI, Yukifumi YAMANAKA, Akihiro KISHIMOTO
Filed: 14 Jun 23
Utility
Work Vehicle
12 Oct 23
A work vehicle includes an output pedal that controls the output of a motive section, a biasing member that biases the output pedal to return, and a brake pedal that operates a travel brake to a braking state.
Tomoyuki Ukai
Filed: 5 Apr 23
Utility
Working Machine
12 Oct 23
A working machine includes a machine body, a cabin on the machine body, an air conditioner body for air conditioning in the cabin, and a prime mover room to contain a prime mover on the machine body.
Hiroshi HORII, Masaaki UEDA, Yoichi NISHIGORI, Kazuyuki HATTA, Kazuaki SYOBU
Filed: 5 Jun 23
Utility
Work Vehicle
12 Oct 23
A work vehicle includes a lower frame 15, support frames 21 joined to left and right portions of the lower frame 15 and extending upward, suspension arms 25 and 26 supported by the support frames 21, and uprights supported by the suspension arms 25 and 26 and supporting wheels.
Yuji Ishii
Filed: 15 Mar 23
Utility
Hydraulic System for Working Machine, and Working Machine
12 Oct 23
A hydraulic system for a working machine includes: a first hydraulic pump; a first hydraulic device; a hydraulic fluid tank; a first discharge fluid passage to allow hydraulic fluid discharged from the first hydraulic device to flow into the tank; a second hydraulic pump to suck fluid from the tank through a suction fluid passage; a second hydraulic device in which difference between flow rate of fluid from the second hydraulic pump device and that of discharged fluid changes according to actuation; a second discharge fluid passage connected to a suction port of the first hydraulic pump and allowing fluid discharged from the second hydraulic device to flow into the first hydraulic pump; a connecting fluid passage branching from the second discharge fluid passage and connected to the suction fluid passage between the tank and the second hydraulic pump; a supplier to supply fluid to the second discharge fluid passage.
Masaki INAOKA, Daiki ABE, Takumi USUI
Filed: 17 Mar 23
Utility
Agricultural Support System and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
12 Oct 23
An agricultural support system includes an unmanned aerial vehicle including a sensor, and an agricultural machine to travel in an agricultural field.
Tomohiro KINOSHITA, Takanori MORIMOTO, Susumu UMEMOTO, Shinnosuke ISHIKAWA
Filed: 12 Jun 23
Utility
Neutral Return Mechanism
12 Oct 23
A neutral return mechanism includes an interlocking shaft to be pushed and pulled in an axial direction in conjunction with a swinging operation of an operation member; a housing member to support the interlocking shaft such that the interlocking shaft is movable in the axial direction and accommodate the interlocking shaft such that one of opposite end portions thereof protrudes; a neutral return spring to return the interlocking shaft from a post-movement position to an initial position, the neutral return spring being accommodated in the housing member such that the neutral return spring extends in the axial direction of the interlocking shaft, wherein the housing member includes a supported portion between a spring accommodation portion in which the neutral return spring is accommodated and a protrusion opening through which the interlocking shaft protrudes, the supported portion being supported at a bracket member.
Hiroshi HORII, Tetsuya AOKI, Hirotaka KOBAYASHI
Filed: 2 Jun 23
Utility
Transmission and Method for Producing Transmission
12 Oct 23
A transmission includes a speed change gearbox including gears configured to be switched by a movement of a shifter having a cam pin in a guide groove and configured to be moved by a movement of the cam pin following the rotation of a shift drum.
Toshifumi Yasuda, Jun Yoshida, Yusuke Morita, Akihiro Takami
Filed: 30 Mar 23
Utility
Communication System for Agricultural Machine
12 Oct 23
A communication system for an agricultural machine includes an information terminal to transmit first information to an agricultural machine, a first communicator provided in or on an unmanned aerial vehicle to receive the first information transmitted from the information terminal, and a second communicator provided in or on the agricultural machine to receive the first information transmitted to the first communicator.
Tomohiro KINOSHITA, Takanori MORIMOTO, Shinnosuke ISHIKAWA
Filed: 26 May 23
Utility
Working Vehicle
12 Oct 23
To stably and safely perform automatic steering during rearward travel of a working vehicle, the working vehicle includes a vehicle body to be manually steered with a steering wheel or automatically steered to travel forward or rearward, a prime mover on the vehicle body, a working implement supported on the vehicle body, a power take-off (PTO) shaft to transmit power from the prime mover to the working implement, and a controller to control automatic steering of the vehicle body and driving of the PTO shaft.
Toru TAMBO, Shunsuke MIYASHITA, Yasuaki MORIOKA, Kunihiko NISHINO, Misako KIKUMOTO
Filed: 15 Jun 23
Utility
Manipulator Mechanism and Working Machine
5 Oct 23
A manipulator mechanism includes a rotary shaft rotatable about an axis extending in a first horizontal direction, an operation member disposed at one of opposite ends of the rotary shaft in an axial direction thereof to rotate together with the rotary shaft, an angle sensor disposed at the other of the opposite ends of the rotary shaft in the axial direction to detect a rotation angle of the rotary shaft, and a neutral return mechanism provided between the operation member and the angle sensor to return the operation member to a neutral position from a post-operation position which is a position to which the operation member has been moved.
Hiroshi HORII, Ryohei MASUDA, Kunihiko BITO
Filed: 6 Jun 23
Utility
Method for Determining Output Data from Crop Plant Characteristics for a Crop Plant, Method for Controlling Operation of an Agricultural Machine, Agricultural Machine, and Computer Program Product
5 Oct 23
A method for determining output data from crop plant characteristics for a crop plan comprising, in a data processing system providing measurement data detected for a crop plant; determining model data representing a three dimensional model of the crop plant from the measurement data; segmenting the three dimensional model determining first crop plant characteristics for a first subpart of the crop plant provided in a first three dimensional segment segments; and providing output data at an output device.
Masahiro KAWABATA, Max BOUTEN, Leandro O. SANTOS, Peter VAN DER VLUGT
Filed: 20 Dec 21
Utility
Lifetime Estimation System for Working Machine
5 Oct 23
A lifetime estimation system for a working machine is a lifetime estimation system for a working machine including a work portion provided on a machine body, a hydraulic actuator to actuate the work portion, and an operation detector to detect operation information obtained when the work portion and/or the hydraulic actuator is/are actuated.
Yasuhiko ARAI, Keisuke MIURA, Shinichi MORITA, Shuya UEDA
Filed: 8 Jun 23
Utility
A method for operating an agricultural machine having working tools configured for mechanical weeding and agricultural machine
5 Oct 23
A method for operating an agricultural machine having working tools configured for mechanical weeding including receiving in a control unit first weed condition data indicative of a first weed condition of weed to be mechanically weeded by the working tools; providing first control signals in response to receiving the first weed condition data, the first control signals assigned to the first weed condition according to operation control data stored in a memory device; operating the working tools according to the first control signals; receiving second weed condition data indicative of a second weed condition of the weed to be mechanically weeded; providing second control signals in the control unit in response to receiving the second weed condition data, the second control signals assigned to the second weed condition according to the operation control data; and operating the working tools according to the second control signals for mechanical weeding.
Max BOUTEN, Leandro O. SANTOS, Masahiro KAWABATA, Peter VAN DER VLUGT
Filed: 8 Sep 21
Utility
Power Transmission Mechanism and Working Vehicle
5 Oct 23
A power transmission mechanism includes a first motor, a second motor, a first input shaft to which power is transmitted from the first motor, a second input shaft to which power is transmitted from the second motor, a first output shaft to transmit power to a first driven portion, a second output shaft to transmit power to a second driven portion, and a transmission mechanism which includes a planetary gear mechanism to receive power from the first input shaft and from the second input shaft, and is operable to send power from the first input shaft and from the second input shaft to the first output shaft and the second output shaft.
Kazuto OKAZAKI, Shigeki HAYASHI, Shinichi KAWABATA
Filed: 10 May 23
Utility
Agricultural Machine
5 Oct 23
An agricultural machine includes a traveling vehicle body, a coupler to couple a working implement with the traveling vehicle body, and a takeoff/landing station to restrict a skid of an unmanned aerial vehicle when the unmanned aerial vehicle takes off or lands.
Tomohiro KINOSHITA, Takanori MORIMOTO, Susumu UMEMOTO, Shinnosuke ISHIKAWA
Filed: 12 Jun 23
Utility
Working Machine
5 Oct 23
A lock mechanism that is switchable between a locking state in which a movement of an operation member of a working machine is restricted and an unlocking state includes an engagement portion to rotate together with the operation member, a lock body including an engaged portion at its intermediate portion, a lock support shaft that supports the lock body rotatably, and a driving portion that applies a driving force to the lock body.
Kenichiro YOSHIDA, Takayoshi TAKATA, Tetsuya YOSHIDA, Kengo MIYAZAKI
Filed: 23 May 23