US Patent Issued to Hitachi Construction Machinery on Dec. 16 for "Autonomous travelling mine vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,073, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Autonomous travelling mine vehicle" was invented by Kimiyoshi Machii (Tokyo) and Shinichi Uotsu (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the invention of the application is to provide an autonomous travelling mine vehicle that can suppress a decrease in work efficiency when dust is generated at a work site. Therefore, the autonomous travelling mine vehicle includes a surrounding monitoring sensor that measures a three-dimensional point cloud of a terrain profile around the vehicle body, and a travelling route setting device ca...