Kubota Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited

Tsubaki Nakashima Co., Ltd.

Nikkato Corporation

Hoya Corporation

Komori Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Sakamura Kikai Seisakusho

Hiroshi Ikeda

Kazuhiro Takahara

Hirotsugu Inoue

Kazunori Matsufuji

Takeshi Nakayama

Kiyofumi Abe

Shinichi Tanimoto

Yukihiro Fukumoto

Katsuhide Kato

Takeshi Tanaka

Hiroshi Onishi

Hiroshi Uemura

Takashi Sugimoto

Yoshihiro Matsuno

Takeo Watanabe

Hideki Ono

Hiroki Takimoto

Kenji Yamada

Hiroyuki Matsuyama

Tadashi Hamanishi

Kenji Saito

Yasuhiro Saito

Takumi Hasebe

Masaki Maeda

Junji Kurachi

Kazuishi Mitani

Satoshi Hasako

Mao Ueda

Kazutaka Nishio

Shoma Deguchi

Yukihiro Iname

Hiroshi Miyahara

A combine including a grain tank that retains grain conveyed from a threshing device; a discharge auger; a temporary retention unit within the grain tank that temporarily retains part of the grain and has a discharge port; a quality measurement unit that detects quality of the grain retained in the temporary retention unit; a shutter transitionable between a position where the discharge port is open and a position where the discharge port is closed; a control unit that opens the shutter when the measurement by the quality measurement unit is completed and closes the shutter when all of the grain in the temporary retention unit is discharged; a volume measurement unit that detects the retention volume of the grain retained in the grain tank; and a determination unit that determines whether the retention volume exceeds a predetermined value, and if so, the control unit stops the opening/closing control.

Combine having a temporary retention unit and a shutter

Provided is a combine capable of harvesting an appropriate amount of grains according to a free capacity of a drier, while reducing trouble for a worker. A harvest amount sensor is capable of a first determination Ufor determining the grain storage amount intermittently during reaping traveling of a traveling vehicle body and a second determination Ufor determining the grain storage amount based on a manual operation during stopped state of the traveling vehicle body. A calculation section is configured to calculate the total harvest amount based on a first determination amount Mby the first determination Uand a second determination amount Mby the second determination U. A decision section is provided for deciding whether the total harvest amount has exceeded the target storage amount MI based on a requested grain amount requested by a drier, or not. An informing section is provided for effecting completion informing Tif the decision section decides that the total harvest amount has exceeded the target storage amount MI.

Combine

A farm work machine () operable in a variety of work modes includes a communications unit () that reads farm work information for a selected target farm work sector from a database of a management center storing the farm work information for each farm work sector, a work mode setting unit () which sets work modes, a work mode comparison unit () that effects comparison between a set work mode set by the work mode setting unit and a registered work mode included in farm work information read from the database, and a display data generation unit () that generates display data in order to display, on a display, the read farm work information and a result of the comparison effected by the mode comparison unit.

Farm work machine, farm work management method, farm work management program, and recording medium recording the farm work management program

A combine includes: a yield measurement container () having a yield receiving opening () for receiving at least some of grains supplied to a grain tank () which accumulates grains obtained by threshing, a yield discharge opening () for discharging received grains, and a yield shutter () for opening and closing the yield discharge opening (); a yield measurement section for detecting, while the yield shutter () is closed, that a predetermined volume of grains has been accumulated in the yield measurement container () and then outputting a detection signal; a time calculation section for calculating, based on the detection signal, an accumulating time required to accumulate the predetermined volume of grains; and a yield calculation section for calculating a yield per unit travel based on a travel speed and the accumulation time.

A combine including: a measurement sensor that measures a retention volume amount of a grain retained in a grain tank; a determination unit that determines whether or not the retention volume amount measured by the measurement sensor exceeds a preset threshold; a notification unit that, if it is determined by the determination unit that the retention volume amount exceeds the threshold, notifies an operator of information indicating that the amount of the grain exceeds the threshold; a change unit that can change the threshold; and a communication unit that communicates with an external server. The change unit changes the threshold based on data received from the external server.

There are provided an engine controlling section for controlling a rotational speed of an engine, a horizontal posture controlling section for rendering a vehicle body frame to a horizontal posture by controlling a posture changing mechanism configured to change a posture of the vehicle body frame by an operation of an actuator utilizing power from the engine, a yield measuring section for measuring a yield of grains stored in a grain tank based on measurement result of a load cell configured to measure a weight of the grain tank, an activation operational tool for outputting an activation signal for activating yield measurement by the yield measuring section, and a yield controlling section configured to provide the engine controlling section with a high speed rotation instruction for driving the engine at a rated rotational speed in response to the activation signal and also to provide the horizontal posture controlling section with a horizontal posture instruction for rendering the vehicle body frame to the horizontal posture.

A harvesting machine includes: a crop tank; a measuring device that measures an amount of crop that has been stored in the crop tank; an unloader apparatus that discharges crop that has been stored in the crop tank; a device control part that executes precise measurement oriented device setting processing; a measurement control part including a precise measurement execution part that performs, precise measurement which involves the precise measurement oriented device setting processing, and a simplified measurement execution part that executes, simplified measurement; an operational instruction processing part that outputs a precise measurement instruction and a simplified measurement instruction in response to an operation performed by a manual operation device; and a measurement result recording part that rewrites a simplified measurement result recorded based on a preceding simplified measurement instruction, with a precise measurement result that is based on a succeeding precise measurement instruction.

Harvesting machine

Disclosed are a work machine and a communication monitoring method that allow recording of work information even in the event of interruption of communication in a communication path between the work machine, a mobile communication terminal and a server. There is provided a control section () configured to transmit work information to a server (Z) via a communication section () and a smartphone (Y) if a monitoring section () detects that communication is possible between the communication section () and the smartphone (Y) and also to cause a storage section () to store the work information if the monitoring section () detects that communication is not possible between the communication section () and the smartphone (Y).

Work machine and communication monitoring method

A combine that can accurately measure the weight of grain retained in a grain tank is provided. When a weight measurement signal is output from a measurement switch, a weight measurement decision unitinstructs a working state determination unitto perform working state determination. If it is determined that the combine is in the working state, the weight measurement decision unitdoes not instruct a load cellto perform weight measurement.

Combine for measuring the weight of grain retained in a grain tank

Provided are a sintered ceramic and a ceramic sphere which are inhibited from suffering surface peeling due to fatigue resulting from repetitions of loading and can attain an improvement in dimensional accuracy when subjected to surface processing and which have excellent wear resistance and durability.

Sintered ceramic and ceramic sphere

Provided are a sintered ceramic and a ceramic sphere which are inhibited from suffering surface peeling due to fatigue resulting from repetitions of loading and can attain an improvement in dimensional accuracy when subjected to surface processing and which have excellent wear resistance and durability. A ceramic-sphere inspection device is also provided with which a ceramic sphere is inspected for a flaw present in the surface layer and for snow flakes without destroying the ceramic sphere. The device is a ceramic-sphere inspection device () in which a ceramic sphere (S) is rotatably supported in a given position and illuminating light emitted from a light projector () is detected with a light receiver () to evaluate the state of the inner part of the surface layer, and has been configured so that the light receiver () does not detect the light emitted from the light projector () and reflected at the surface of the ceramic sphere.

Device for inspecting ceramic sphere

Provided is a moving picture decoding apparatus including: a picture memory that stores previously decoded picture data of a picture including macroblocks and macroblock information described on a macroblock basis, in association therebetween; an error judging unit that judges presence or absence of an error for a current picture to be decoded; a picture data replacing unit that replaces, when an error is present, picture data of the current picture to be decoded with that of a previously decoded picture in the picture memory; and a macroblock information replacing unit that replaces macroblock information in association with the current picture to be decoded including an error with macroblock information stored in association with the previously decoded picture, or a macroblock information storage unit that stores information that indicates presence of the error for the current picture to be decoded in association therewith.

Moving picture decoding apparatus

Provided is a moving picture decoding device () including a direct mode availability judging unit (), when a decoding target block should be decoded in a temporal direct mode, judging whether or not a reference picture for a decoded picture, which is in a vicinity of the decoding target block in terms of display time, is usable as a forward reference picture for the decoding target block. Further, the moving picture decoding device () includes a substitute process performing unit () decoding the decoding target block in the temporal direct mode using a picture other than the reference picture, or decoding the decoding target block in other encoding mode.

Moving picture decoding device

Provided is a moving picture decoding apparatus including: a picture memory () that stores previously decoded picture data of a picture including macroblocks and macroblock information described on a macroblock basis, in association therebetween; an error judging unit () that judges presence or absence of an error for a current picture to be decoded; a picture data replacing unit () that replaces, when an error is present, picture data of the current picture to be decoded with that of a previously decoded picture in the picture memory (); and a macroblock information replacing unit () that replaces macroblock information in association with the current picture to be decoded including an error with macroblock information stored in association with the previously decoded picture, or a macroblock information storage unit () that stores information that indicates presence of the error for the current picture to be decoded in association therewith.

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Sakai, Japan

Hiroshi Ikeda