ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,885, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).
"Work machine and control method for work machine" was invented by Akira Takeno (Tokyo), Shinichi Kitao (Tokyo) and Akihiro Koyama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine includes a vehicle body, a travel direction detecting section that detects a travel direction of the vehicle body, an object detecting section that detects an object in a predetermined direction of the vehicle body, a braking section, a setting section. and a control section. The braking section is able to implement automatic braking of the vehicle body and exert a braking force based on a de...