Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Mitsuhisa Kawabe

Tatsuya Sato

Megumu Tsuruta

Noriyuki Hasegawa

Naoto Kawauchi

Sho Onodera

Kensuke Nishiura

Yu Shibata

Keitaro Kamata

Ei Onogawa

Yusuke Otaki

Tomoya Okuda

A forklift includes a vehicle and a cargo handling device. The cargo handling device includes a mast, a lift bracket, and a pair of forks that includes claw portions, the forks being separated from each other in a vehicle width direction. The vehicle includes a vehicle main body, and a pair of straddle legs that is provided such that the straddle legs extend to the front side from a lower portion of the vehicle main body and the cargo handling device is interposed between the straddle legs in the vehicle width direction and that supports the mast such that the cargo handling device is movable forward and backward between an advance position and a retreat position, and front ends of the claw portions are positioned behind front ends of the straddle legs when the cargo handling device is at the retreat position.

Forklift, cargo handling system, loading method, and forklift control device

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Tokyo, Japan

Mitsuhisa Kawabe