US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY on March 31 for "Shovel capable of preventing motion thereof from being uniformly restricted" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,436, issued on March 31, was assigned to SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Shovel capable of preventing motion thereof from being uniformly restricted" was invented by Sou Sakuta (Chiba, Japan) and Takeya Izumikawa (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shovel includes a traveling lower body; a revolving upper body rotatably installed on the traveling lower body; an object detection device provided on the revolving upper body; a control device provided in the revolving upper body; and an actuator configured to move a driven object, wherein the object detection device is configured to detect an object in a de...