Work vehicle
AssigneeKubota Corporation
InventorsTomohiko Hisakuni, Masahiro Yamada, Hirokazu Ito
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Abstract
A work vehicle capable of traveling on a public road and in a working field includes, a vehicle body, a public road traveling determination unit, and a vehicle speed limiter. The public road traveling determination unit is configured to generate vehicle body position information regarding a position at which the vehicle body is located, determine, based on the vehicle body position information, whether or not the vehicle body is traveling on the public road, and output a determination result. The vehicle speed limiter is configured to limit a vehicle speed in accordance with the determination result.
Claims8
A work vehicle capable of traveling on a public road and in a working field, the work vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body;
- a ROPS frame having a gate-like shape whose lower end is coupled to the vehicle body;
- a surrounding image generation unit configured to generate a surrounding image relative to the vehicle body;
- a surrounding public road information generator configured to generate, as vehicle body position information regarding a position at which the vehicle body is located, surrounding public road information indicating a positional relationship between the vehicle body and the public road that is recognized within the surrounding image based on the surrounding image;
- a public road traveling determination unit configured to determine based on the vehicle body position information whether or not the vehicle body is traveling on the public road, and output a determination result;
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- a vehicle speed limiter configured to limit a vehicle speed in accordance with the determination result,
- wherein the surrounding image generation unit is attached to a top portion of the ROPS frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.