ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,643, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).
"Work machine, measurement method, and system" was invented by Shota Yamawaki (Tokyo) and Yuita Takenaka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A running wheel is attached to a machine main body. A boom is attached to the machine main body. A bucket is attached to the boom. A boom cylinder is attached to the machine main body and drives the boom. A controller calculates a mass of a load within the bucket based on boom cylinder force of the boom cylinder and a ground acceleration of a wheel loader."
The patent was filed on Dec. 2, 2020, under Application No. 17/773,294.
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