ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,238, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).
"Shovel and shovel control device" was invented by Masaru Onodera (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Sano (Kanagawa, Japan) and Keiji Honda (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper turning body turnably mounted on the lower traveling body, an attachment attached to the upper turning body, and an attitude detection device (a boom angle sensor, an arm angle sensor, a bucket angle sensor, a machine attitude sensor, and a turning angle sensor), and a controller configured to calculate a target angle related to ...