Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dump truck
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Application No.: US14772909Application Date: 2014-07-09
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Publication No.: US09605959B2Publication Date: 2017-03-28
- Inventor: Mikio Bando , Takayuki Sato , Hidefumi Ishimoto
- Applicant: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Mattingly & Malur, PC
- Priority: JP2013-190676 20130913
- International Application: PCT/JP2014/068284 WO 20140709
- International Announcement: WO2015/037319 WO 20150319
- Main IPC: G01C9/02
- IPC: G01C9/02 ; G01C15/00 ; B60P1/04 ; G01C5/00

Abstract:
A dump truck includes a plurality of rear wheels (15) rotatably attached to a frame (11) and two GPS receivers (101, 102) arranged to be dislocated from each other in an anteroposterior direction of a vehicle. Any point selected from an area C, in the vehicle coordinates system B set in the dump truck, where the rear wheels contact a ground is defined as a reference point D. The two GPS receivers are arranged so that a vertical line descends from a line segment PQ, connecting two points P, Q of which positions are calculated by the two GPS receivers, to the reference point D. This makes it possible to accurately estimate an attitude of mining machinery by two position estimation means without stopping operation of the machinery.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160010988A1 DUMP TRUCK Public/Granted day:2016-01-14
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