US Patent Issued to Hitachi Construction Machinery on Jan. 27 for "Hauling vehicle and hauling system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,830, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Hauling vehicle and hauling system" was invented by Masaki Kanai (Tokyo) and Katsuaki Tanaka (Tsuchiura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hauling vehicle including a vehicle body, a distance meter that measures the distance to an obstacle, an in-vehicle controller that controls the vehicle body, and a communication device that communicates with a management controller that manages the vehicle body is provided. In the hauling vehicle, the in-vehicle controller executes primary determination of whether or not the distance meter is in a dirt-...