US Patent Issued to HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY on Nov. 11 for "Work machine assisting operation of operator by performing semi-automatic control" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,225, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Work machine assisting operation of operator by performing semi-automatic control" was invented by Masamichi Itoh (Ushiku, Japan), Teruki Igarashi (Tsuchiura, Japan) and Akihiro Narazaki (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a bucket 10 is grounded on soil, an operation signal is outputted or corrected such that a relative angle of the bucket 10 with respect to a target surface is maintained if a distance D between the bucket 10 and the target surface 60 is equal to or less than a preset first threshold value D1. When the bucket 10...