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US 12,630,997 B2Granted
Excavator and excavator control system
AssigneeSumitomo Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
InventorsKeiji Honda, Takeya Izumikawa
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Abstract
An excavator includes a lower traveling body; an upper slewing body that is slewably mounted on the lower traveling body; a boom that is attached to the upper slewing body; an arm that is attached to an end of the boom; an end attachment that is attached to an end of the arm; a tilt sensor configured to detect a tilt of the excavator; and a control part configured to control a height of the end attachment during slewing of the upper 10 slewing body, in accordance with a detection result obtained by the tilt sensor.
Claims15
An excavator, comprising:
- a lower traveling body;
- an upper slewing body that is slewably mounted on the lower traveling body;
- a boom that is attached to the upper slewing body;
- an arm that is attached to an end of the boom;
- an end attachment that is attached to an end of the arm;
- a tilt sensor configured to detect a tilt of the excavator;
- and
- a control part including a memory and a processor connected to the memory, the processor being configured to control a height of the end attachment during slewing of the upper slewing body, in accordance with a detection result obtained by the tilt sensor.
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An excavator control system, comprising:
- an excavator including a lower traveling body, an upper slewing body that is slewably mounted on the lower traveling body, a boom that is attached to the upper slewing body, an arm that is attached to an end of the boom, an end attachment that is attached to an end of the arm, and a tilt sensor configured to detect a tilt of the excavator;
- an operation device configured to receive pressing of a predetermined switch;
- and
- a control part including a memory and a processor connected to the memory, the processor being configured to, in response to the pressing of the predetermined switch, control a height of the end attachment during slewing of the upper slewing body, in accordance with a detection result obtained by the tilt sensor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.