Traveling system for a driving vehicle
AssigneeKomatsu Ltd.
InventorsSatoshi OGAWA, Kyoji Uranaka, Koichi Okamoto, Takao Nagai
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AssigneeKomatsu Ltd.
InventorsSatoshi OGAWA, Kyoji Uranaka, Koichi Okamoto, Takao Nagai
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An assistance vehicle is connected to a dump truck on or at bases of ascending paths and power is supplied as auxiliary power from the assistant vehicle A to a driving motor in the dump truck. Because of this features a driving unit of the dump truck (a generator for supplying power to the driving motor in the dump truck or a generating engine for driving the generator) is required only to have the performance sufficient for running on horizontal paths, which enables size reduction of the driving unit and as a result cost reduction of the dump truck. Further the assistant vehicle is connected to the dump truck and moves together with the dump truck, so that a freedom degree of the dump truck for a traveling path can substantially be improved.
A traveling system comprising:
A traveling assisting method for a driving vehicle traveling on a traveling path, wherein the driving vehicle includes a driving unit and a driving motor, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.