US Patent Issued to Kobe Steel, KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY on April 7 for "Crane slewing control device and crane equipped with same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,160, issued on April 7, was assigned to Kobe Steel Ltd. (Kobe, Japan) and KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Crane slewing control device and crane equipped with same" was invented by Naoki Sugano (Kobe, Japan), Yasuo Ichikawa (Hyogo, Japan), Hitoshi Kurotsu (Hyogo, Japan), Takuya Watanabe (Hyogo, Japan) and Kazufumi Kudara (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slewing control device includes an attachment information acquisition unit, an angular velocity setting unit and a slewing control unit. The attachment information acquisition unit acquires attachment information for setting the maximum slewi...