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US 11,299,867 B2Granted
Shovel
AssigneeSumitomo Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
InventorsTomoki Kurokawa, Hiroyuki Tsukamoto
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Abstract
A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper turning body turnably mounted on the lower traveling body, a cab mounted on the upper turning body, an operating apparatus installed in the cab, an actuator driven with the operating apparatus, and a processor configured to restrict the movement of the actuator. The processor is configured to determine the necessity of a restriction related to the movement of the actuator in accordance with whether the operating apparatus is operated with an operator's hand.
Claims13
A shovel comprising:
- a lower traveling body;
- an upper turning body turnably mounted on the lower traveling body;
- a cab mounted on the upper turning body;
- an operating apparatus installed in the cab;
- an actuator driven with the operating apparatus, and
- a processor configured to restrict a movement of the actuator,
- wherein the processor is configured to make a determination as to whether the operating apparatus is operated with a hand of an operator based on an output of a detector and determine a necessity of a restriction related to the movement of the actuator in accordance with said determination.
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A shovel comprising:
- a lower traveling body;
- an upper turning body turnably mounted on the lower traveling body;
- a cab mounted on the upper turning body;
- an operating apparatus installed in the cab;
- an actuator driven with the operating apparatus, and
- a processor configured to restrict a movement of the actuator,
- wherein the processor is configured to make a determination as to whether the operating apparatus is operated with a hand of an operator based on an output of a detector, determine whether a restriction related to the movement of the actuator is necessary or not in accordance with said determination, and restrict the movement of the actuator in response to determining that the restriction is necessary.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.