Kubota Corporation

Ryosuke Kinugawa

Yuji Fukuda

Keisuke Miura

Jun Tomita

Kazuyoshi Arii

Ryota Hamamoto

Keisuke Egashira

Hiroaki Nakagawa

Atsushi Matsumoto

Satoshi Tajima

Yoshimitsu Tanaka

Ikuhiro Uotani

Ryuki Nishimoto

Daisuke Sakurai

Yuji Yamashita

Ryohei Sumiyoshi

Keigo Honda

Daiki Abe

Tsuyoshi Gono

Kunihiro Suzuki

Yuya Konishi

Ryo Ikeda

Nozomu Minagawa

Ryuzo Fujita

Atsushi Mima

Isao Tanaka

Masahiro Kuroda

Teruo Kunizawa

Katsuhiko Watanabe

Yuki Kubota

Makoto Noguchi

Hiroshi Tatsumi

Naohiro Saijo

Masaru Soejima

Yoshiaki Hiruta

Tsuyoshi Matsumoto

Kenji Ishihara

Koichi Fujimoto

Shinji Hayashi

A management system includes a working vehicle and a server. The working vehicle includes a setting switch to enable or disable a setting mode of performing setting before a start of automatic steering, a first memory to store correspondence information in which setting mode information indicating whether the setting mode is enabled or disabled, time information measured by a timer, and position information of a vehicle body are associated with each other, and a first communicator to transmit the correspondence information stored in the first memory to the server. The server includes a second communicator to receive the correspondence information transmitted by the first communicator, a second memory to store the correspondence information received by the second communicator, and an information manager to manage the correspondence information stored in the second memory, based on the setting mode information.

Management system

A monitoring system for a working machine includes: a position detector to determine a position of a working machine based on radio waves from positioning satellite(s); an area setter to set work area information indicating whether work area(s) is/are in a shielded environment or an unshielded environment, the work area(s) being area(s) where work is to be done by the working machine, the shielded environment being an environment in which the radio waves are likely to be blocked, the unshielded environment being an environment in which the radio waves are unlikely to be blocked; and a monitor to evaluate a state of position determination by the position detector based on a result of the position determination by the position detector, and provide a notification if there is a predetermined change in the state of the position determination compared to a state of position determination corresponding to the work area information.

Monitoring system for working machine

A working machine includes a traveling vehicle that is a first moving entity, a working device that is a second moving entity coupled to the first moving entity, and a sub battery loaded on the second moving entity to store an energy source to drive the traveling vehicle. Therefore, it is not necessary to newly provide a configuration to load the sub battery on the traveling vehicle, and a battery can be easily loaded. In a case where the traveling vehicle includes a main battery, the traveling and work can be continued according to a capacity of the sub battery without being stopped in order to charge the main battery that has a decreased remaining charge level.

Working machine

A management system includes a working vehicle and a server. The working vehicle includes a working device, a vehicle body capable of traveling by either automatic steering based on a reference line or manual steering, a position detector to detect a position of the vehicle body, a first memory to store, in a case where the vehicle body is automatically steered, correspondence information in which setting information of the working vehicle and position information of the vehicle body are associated with each other, and a first communicator to transmit the correspondence information stored in the first memory to the server. The server includes a second communicator to receive the correspondence information transmitted by the first communicator, and a second memory to store the correspondence information received by the second communicator.

A support system for a working vehicle includes a working vehicle including a vehicle body to travel selectively under manual steering or automatic steering, a controller, and a communicator, the controller is configured or programmed to define a planned travel line for and control the automatic steering based on a reference line, the communicator receiving a replacement line for replacing the reference line, and a server to transmit the replacement line to the communicator. The controller includes a status acquirer to acquire a status of a device provided in or on the working vehicle, and is configured or programmed to, in accordance with the status acquired by the status acquirer, switch between a first mode in which the controller replaces the reference line with the replacement line transmitted from the server and a second mode in which the controller does not replace the reference line with the replacement line.

Support system for working vehicle

A hydraulic system for a work machine includes a hydraulic pump to supply a pilot fluid, and a hydraulic switch valve to be switched to a plurality of switching positions based on a pilot pressure. The pilot pressure is a pressure of the pilot fluid supplied from the hydraulic pump. The hydraulic system includes a direction switch valve to apply a first pilot pressure to the hydraulic switch valve to switch the hydraulic switch valve into one of the plurality of switching positions. The hydraulic system includes a pressure applying device to apply a second pilot pressure to the hydraulic switch valve. The second pilot pressure is lower than the first pilot pressure.

Hydraulic system for work machine, and work machine

A working machine is provided, which includes a machine body, a prime mover, a pair of traveling devices, a pair of traveling motors to be switched between a first speed and a second speed higher than the first speed, a pair of traveling pumps driven by the prime mover to supply operation fluid to the pair of traveling motors, respectively, a controller configured to automatically shift down the pair of traveling motors from the second speed to the first speed, a mode switch configured for an operator to select an ON position allowing the controller to automatically shift down the first traveling motor from the second speed to the first speed and an OFF position preventing the controller to automatically shift down the first traveling motor from the second speed to the first speed, and a display to display that the operator selects the ON position of the mode switch.

A work support system includes a positioning device to measure a position of a working object based on a signal of a positioning satellite, a notifier to issue notification of the working object based on whether the position of the working object measured by the positioning device is in an area, and an area changer to change a size of the area based on a number of the positioning satellite included in the signal received by the positioning device.

Work support system and work support device

A working machine includes a prime mover, a traveling pump to be driven by the prime mover to output operation fluid, a traveling motor to be driven by the operation fluid outputted from the traveling pump and to change a motor speed between a first speed and a second speed higher than the first speed, a machine body on which the prime mover, the traveling pump, and the traveling motor are arranged, a traveling switching valve to be switched between a first state allowing the traveling motor to rotate at the first speed and a second state allowing the traveling motor to rotate at the second speed, and a controller to reduce a revolving speed of the prime mover based on a traveling condition of the machine body in switching the traveling switching valve between an accelerating state to switch the traveling switching valve from the first state to the second state and a decelerating state to switch the traveling switching valve from the second state to the first state.

A working machine is provided, which includes a prime mover, a first traveling pump driven by power of the prime mover to supply operation fluid through a connector fluid tube, a traveling motor including first and second ports connected to the connector fluid tube, the traveling motor configured to be switched in a first speed and a second speed higher than the first speed, a first pressure detector to detect first traveling-pump pressure near the first port, a second pressure detector to detect second traveling-pump pressure near the second port, and a controller configured, with the traveling motor switched in the second speed, to automatically shift down the traveling motor from the second speed to the first speed, when a differential pressure between the first traveling-pump pressure and the second traveling-pump is equal to or more than a deceleration threshold.

A communication system for a working machine includes a communication device disposed on the working machine, and a mobile terminal to be connected to the communication device. The communication device transmits a service universal unique identifier (UUID) to the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal transmits unique information to the communication device. The communication device issues connection request to the mobile terminal after receiving the unique information. The mobile terminal requests transmission of authentication information after issuing the connection request, the authentication information being used for paring. The communication device transmits the authentication information to the mobile terminal in response to the request. And, the mobile terminal judges whether the paring is established based on the authentication information, and executes a program based on the service universal unique identifier (UUID) when the paring is established.

Communication system for working machine and communication processing method for working machine

A working machine includes a pair of traveling devices, a pair of traveling motors having a first speed and a second speed higher than the first speed, a pair of traveling pumps to supply operation fluid to the traveling motors, a connector fluid tube connecting the traveling motors and the traveling pumps, a traveling-pump pressure detector to detect a traveling-pump pressure that is pressure generated in the connector fluid tube, a revolving speed detector to detect a prime-mover revolving speed, a third storage to store a second decelerating judgment table representing a relation between the prime-mover revolving speed and a second decelerating judgment pressure, and a controller having: an automatic decelerator portion to perform an automatic deceleration process for reducing a speed of the traveling motor, and a differential pressure calculator portion to calculate a traveling differential pressure between one traveling pump pressure and another traveling pump pressure.

A hydraulic system for a working machine includes a hydraulic actuator having a first fluid chamber and a second fluid chamber, an accumulator, an outputting fluid tube to output an operation fluid, and a switching valve to be switched between a first position and a second position. The first position allows the first fluid chamber and the second fluid chamber to be communicated with the outputting fluid tube and thereby allowing a floating operation. The second position allows the first fluid chamber and the accumulator to be communicated with each other, allows the second fluid chamber and the outputting fluid tube to be communicated with each other, and thereby allows an anti-vibration operation.

Hydraulic system for working machine

A hydraulic system for a work machine includes a travel hydraulic device which changes a travel speed in accordance with switching positions of a hydraulic switch valve. A controller controls a proportional valve so as to change a pressure of an operation fluid at an increasing rate over a time while the hydraulic switch valve is switched from a first switching position to a second switching position to increase the travel speed from a first speed to a second speed, and at a decreasing rate over the time while the hydraulic switch valve is switched from the second switching position to the first switching position to decrease the travel speed from the second speed to the first speed. A magnitude of the increasing rate is different from one of the decreasing rate to output an operation fluid.

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Osaka, Japan

Ryosuke Kinugawa