Masaki Akase

Title: Masaki Akase: Agricultural Work Management and Autonomous Vehicle Patents

Introduction

Masaki Akase is an inventor based in Osaka, Japan, associated with Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. His work focuses on agricultural operations, including coordinating farm work plans and enabling autonomous travel for agricultural vehicles. He is credited with 2 patents.

Latest Patents

Akase’s listed patents address work management and autonomous vehicle operation.

“Work management method, work management system, and work management program” describes a method for coordinating farm work. It acquires a plan linking a field, the work a vehicle is scheduled to perform there, and the planned workday. The method then checks whether any of the plans requires an alert so the vehicle can complete the work as planned. If such a plan is identified, the system provides information about it.

“Automatic traveling method, automatic traveling program, automatic traveling system, and work vehicle” concerns a sprayer that travels automatically along a target route in a field. The method includes temporary-stop processing, which stops the sprayer at its current position when a specified condition is met while allowing travel to resume. It also includes stop-reservation processing, which lets the sprayer continue traveling before stopping in a resumable state when a reservation condition is met.

Career Highlights

The available information connects Akase’s inventions with agricultural work vehicles and operational systems. His patent topics bring together work scheduling, alerts, and automated vehicle movement in field settings.

Collaborations

Akase is associated with Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. His listed coworkers include Ryosuke Yamazaki and Terasu Homma.

Conclusion

Masaki Akase’s two listed patents focus on practical agricultural technologies, combining coordinated work planning with systems for managing the movement and stopping of autonomous sprayers.