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US 11,959,254 B2Granted
Shovel
AssigneeSumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
InventorYusuke Sano
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Abstract
A shovel includes a traveling lower body; a revolving upper body rotatably installed on the traveling lower body; an excavation attachment attached to the revolving upper body; and a control device, wherein the control device includes a setting unit to set a target trajectory as a trajectory to be followed by a predetermined part of the excavation attachment, based on information on a landform before excavation is started, and a target excavation volume.
Claims13
A shovel comprising:
- a traveling lower body;
- a revolving upper body rotatably installed on the traveling lower body;
- an excavation attachment attached to the revolving upper body;
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- a control device including a memory and a processor, wherein the processor sets a target trajectory as a trajectory to be followed by a predetermined part of the excavation attachment, based on information on a landform before excavation is started, and a target excavation volume;
- wherein the processor calculates the target excavation volume every time before an individual excavation operation is performed, and resets the target trajectory based on information on a landform every time before the individual excavation operation is performed, and the calculated target excavation volume, and
- wherein the target excavation volume is a volume of excavated matter to be taken in the bucket by the individual excavation operation, and is less than a maximum volume of the excavated matter that can be excavated in the individual excavation operation.
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