Asphalt finisher and construction support system
AssigneeSumitomo Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
InventorsTomohiro KOBAYASHI, Touta TERAMOTO
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Abstract
An asphalt finisher includes: a tractor; a hopper installed on a front side of the tractor; a conveyor configured to transport a paving material in the hopper to a rear side of the tractor; a screw configured to spread the paving material transported by the conveyor in a vehicle-width direction on a road surface; a screed configured to level the paving material spread by the screw at a rear side of the screw; and a computer including one or more processors and a memory storing executable instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computer to perform a process including controlling traveling of the tractor based on a state of a transport vehicle that transports the paving material to be replenished to the hopper.
Claims6
An asphalt finisher comprising:
- a tractor;
- a hopper installed on a front side of the tractor;
- conveyor configured to transport a paving material in the hopper to a rear side of the tractor;
- a screw configured to spread the paving material transported by the conveyor in a vehicle-width direction on a road surface;
- a screed configured to level the paving material spread by the screw at a rear side of the screw;
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- a computer including one or more processors and a memory storing executable instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computer to perform a process including controlling traveling of the tractor based on a state of a transport vehicle that transports the paving material to be replenished to the hopper.
A construction support system for an asphalt finisher, the asphalt finisher including a tractor, a hopper installed on a front side of the tractor, conveyor configured to transport a paving material in the hopper to a rear side of the tractor, a screw configured to spread the paving material transported by the conveyor in a vehicle-width direction on a road surface, and a screed configured to level the paving material spread by the screw at a rear side of the screw, the construction support system comprising:
- a computer including one or more processors and a memory storing executable instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computer to perform a process including controlling traveling of the tractor of the asphalt finisher based on a state of a transport vehicle that transports the paving material to be replenished to the hopper of the asphalt finisher.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.