US Patent Issued to KOMATSU on Feb. 17 for "Work machine surroundings monitoring system, work machine, and work machine surroundings monitoring method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,219, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Work machine surroundings monitoring system, work machine, and work machine surroundings monitoring method" was invented by Masaomi Machida (Tokyo), Yosuke Okumura (Tokyo), Natsumi Tsuda (Tokyo) and Takeshi Kurihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surroundings monitoring system for a work machine includes: an object detection device that detects an object around the work machine including a cab; an external alarm device disposed outside the cab; an operator alarm device disposed inside the cab; and a processor. The processor sets, on the basis of input data for se...