US Patent Issued to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY on Oct. 14 for "Device for assessing position of conveyance vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,562, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Device for assessing position of conveyance vehicle" was invented by Sho Fujiwara (Hiroshima, Japan), Yukihiro Hoso (Hiroshima, Japan) and Shingun Kyu (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The transport vehicle position estimating device includes: a distance image acquiring part for acquiring a distance image of a box bed; and a calculation part. The calculation part sets a box bed scope indicative of a positional extent of the box bed on the basis of the distance image of the box bed acquired by the distance image acquirin...