US 12,716,193 B2Granted

Working vehicle and attachment usage system

AssigneeKubota Corporation

InventorsYuji Fukuda, Tomoyuki Noguchi, Ryuki Matsumoto

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Abstract

A working vehicle includes a linkage, a receiver to receive wireless signal(s) from transmitter(s) in/on the attachment(s) and including identification information of the attachment(s), and a controller configured/programmed to select identification information of the attachment attached to the linkage from the identification information included in the received wireless signal(s), and start a process based on the selected identification information. The controller is configured/programmed to cause a memory and/or storage to store, for a first period of time, the identification information included in the received wireless signal(s), and when the attachment is attached to the linkage, perform a first selecting process to select identification information satisfying a first condition from the stored identification information, and, if no identification information satisfying the first condition is stored, perform a second selecting process to select identification information satisfying a second condition from identification information included in wireless signal(s) received after the attachment is attached.

Claims27

Dependent claims

A working vehicle comprising:

a linkage to attach and detach an attachment thereto and therefrom;
a receiver to receive one or more wireless signals which are transmitted periodically from one or more transmitters in or on one or more of the attachments, which include respective one or more pieces of identification information of the one or more attachments, and which are compliant with a near field communication standard;
and
a controller configured or programmed to:
select a piece of identification information of the attachment attached to the linkage from the one or more pieces of identification information included in the one or more wireless signals received by the receiver;
and
start a predetermined process based on the selected piece of identification information;
wherein
the controller is configured or programmed to:
cause a memory and/or storage to store, for a first predetermined period of time, the one or more pieces of identification information included in the one or more wireless signals received by the receiver;
and
when the attachment is attached to the linkage, perform a first selecting process to select a piece of identification information satisfying a first condition from the one or more pieces of identification information stored in the memory and/or storage, and, if the memory and/or storage stores no identification information satisfying the first condition, perform a second selecting process to select a piece of identification information satisfying a second condition from one or more pieces of identification information included in one or more wireless signals received by the receiver after the attachment is attached to the linkage.

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A working vehicle comprising:

a linkage to attach and detach an attachment thereto and therefrom;
a receiver to receive one or more wireless signals which are transmitted periodically from one or more transmitters in or on one or more of the attachments, which include respective one or more pieces of identification information of the one or more attachments, and which are compliant with a near field communication standard;
and
a controller configured or programmed to:
select a piece of identification information of the attachment attached to the linkage from the one or more pieces of identification information included in the one or more wireless signals received by the receiver;
and
start a predetermined process based on the selected piece of identification information;
wherein
the controller is configured or programmed to, when the attachment is attached to the linkage:
perform a first selecting process to select a piece of identification information satisfying a first condition from one or more pieces of identification information included in one or more wireless signals received by the receiver during a first predetermined period of time which ends when the attachment is attached to the linkage;
and
if there is no identification information satisfying the first condition, perform a second selecting process to select a piece of identification information satisfying a second condition from one or more pieces of identification information included in one or more wireless signals received by the receiver after the attachment is attached to the linkage;
and
the first condition and the second condition differ from each other in a degree of a selection criterion based on which a piece of identification information is selected.

11 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/783,746Filed 25 Jul 2024
Published: US 2026/0028795 A129 Jan 2026
Granted: 25 Aug 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

E02F 3/96
Mechanically-driven: with arrangements for alternate or simultaneous use of different digging elements
E02F 9/26
Component parts of dredgers or soil-shifting machines, not restricted to one of the kinds covered by groups E02F3/00 - E02F7/00: indicating devices
E02F 3/3631
Of the quick acting type, e.g. controlled from the operator seat: with a hook and a transversal locking element
E02F 3/3663
Of the quick acting type, e.g. controlled from the operator seat: hydraulically-operated