Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroyoshi Iwata

Yasunori Kondo

Katsumi Inomata

Yoshio Sakai

Taso Aimi

Yasuyuki Sakai

Makoto Oda

Tooru Niihara

Isao Makiuchi

Kunihiro Nagamori

Hidekazu Anai

An abrasion detecting apparatus is configured to detect the abrasion of a component of a cutter head of a tunnel boring machine, which is configured to excavate ground using a cutter to bore a tunnel. The abrasion detecting apparatus includes an abrasion detection probe located rearward of a front end of the cutter by a predetermined distance and located forward or rearward of a front end of the component, whose abrasion is to be detected, of the cutter head by a predetermined distance, where the abrasion detection probe includes an abrasion detecting portion at a front end portion thereof. The abrasion detecting portion abrades away by contact with the ground to be excavated. The abrasion detecting apparatus also includes a detecting device configured to detect an abrasion of the abrasion detecting portion.

Abrasion detecting apparatus detecting abrasion of component of cutter head and tunnel boring machine including abrasion detecting apparatus

A shield machine including an excavator capable of excavating tunnels of various cross-sectional shapes, the excavator including: a rotary drum supported at a front end side portion of a shield machine main body to be rotatable around a first center axis; a cutter supporting frame supported by the rotary drum to be rotatable around a second center axis; a rotary cutter head supported by the cutter supporting frame to be rotatable around a third center axis and including a plurality of cutter bits on a surface thereof; a rotary auxiliary cutter head supported by the rotary drum to be rotatable around a fourth center axis; and first, third, and fourth rotating mechanisms, and a swinging drive mechanism configured to respectively cause the rotary drum, the rotary cutter head, the rotary auxiliary cutter head, and the cutter supporting frame to independently rotate.

Shield machine

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Kobe, Japan

Hiroyoshi Iwata