ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,223, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Work vehicle apparatus for loading efficiency" was invented by Masatoshi Yoshimura (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Kobayashi (Tokyo), Satoru Kaneko (Tokyo), Noritaka Itou (Ibaraki, Japan) and Satoshi Sekino (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The work vehicle 1 includes a main controller 100 that controls a travel driving force and a work driving force. The main controller 100 includes a travel remaining time calculating unit 111 that calculates a remaining time until a target rise/run distance is reached as a travel remaining time tC, a work remai...