US Patent Issued to KOMATSU on Nov. 25 for "Fall evaluation system, fall evaluation method, and work machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,283, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Fall evaluation system, fall evaluation method, and work machine" was invented by Tomoki Hirayama (Tokyo), Takahiro Noyori (Tokyo) and Yoshihiro Iwanaga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy calculation unit calculates an energy amount for each of a plurality of sides of a support polygon of a work machine in which the energy amount is required to cause the work machine to fall when the side serves as a rotation axis. An evaluation unit evaluates a possibility of the work machine falling based on the calculated energy amount for each of the sides."

The patent w...