Tadano Ltd.

Shoji Nishimoto

Shinsuke Kanda

Kazuma Mizuki

Provided is an estimation apparatus for estimating a number of wound layers of a wire rope in a crane including a boom, a winch drum, and the wire rope wound around the winch drum, the estimation apparatus being mounted on the crane, the estimation apparatus including: a calculation unit that calculates a delivery length of the wire rope; a detection unit that detects a rotational amount of the winch drum; and a control unit that estimates the number of wound layers, based on a difference in the delivery length of the wire rope and a difference in the rotational amount of the winch drum between a first orientation and a second orientation of the boom.

Estimation apparatus and crane

There is provided a method for controlling a crane, with which the position of a hook is automatically adjusted before lift-off, where a freely-derricking telescopic boom is provided to a swivel base, a main hook is suspended with a main wire rope from a distal end section of the telescopic boom, and a suspended load is suspended on a main hook with slinging wire ropes, wherein post-slinging lift-off is preceded by a hook position adjustment control involving repeating: a first process where the control device controls so as to reel in the main wire rope to a position where the main wire rope is tensed; and a second process where the control device controls so as to move the distal end section of the telescopic boom in the same direction of a horizontal direction component of the movement of the main hook in the first process.

Method for controlling crane, and crane

A boom attitude detection device is equipped with: a GPS device that measures the position of the leading end of the boom; attitude detectors and that detect the attitude of the boom; and a calculation device. If the positioning reliability of the GPS device is high, the calculation device determines a correction value for correcting detection values of the attitude detectors to the attitude of the boom determined from the positioning value of the GPS device. If the positioning reliability of the GPS device is low, the calculation device corrects the detection values of the attitude detectors using correction values and determines the attitude of the boom.

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Kagawa, Japan

Shoji Nishimoto