US Patent Issued to Hitachi Construction Machinery on Sept. 8 for "Hauling vehicle and traffic control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,854, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Hauling vehicle and traffic control system" was invented by Hiroki Obara (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Shinichi Uotsu (Tsuchiura, Japan) and Yuuma Honjou (Tsuchiura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hauling vehicle includes a storage device that stores map information including a route gradient and a route limiting speed, and a vehicle controller that generates a target speed on the basis of the position, the orientation, and the travelling speed of a vehicle body and the map information. The vehicle controller calculates a protection limiting spee...