Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho

Toshinori Kawahashi

Kazumori Nishida

A device for elevating the boom of a side crane has a double acting valve provided in a hydraulic circuit so as to permit natural lowering of the boom of the side crane under its own weight as well as forcible raising and lowering hydraulically, and also so as to maintain the boom without need of further fluid supply from a pump in its forcibly lowered or lifted state for a long period of time through the trapping of hydraulic fluid within the boom cylinders on both the lifting and lowering sides thereof.

Device for controlling the boom elevation of a side crane

An operating device for a double drum winch that has a hydraulically operated clutch, a brake and a hydraulic pressure variable control valve, and a single control lever connected to the hydraulic pressure variable control vavle to enable the operation of a hook and boom by one control lever so as to simplify the function and uses of the winch.

Growing community of inventors

Hirakata, Japan

Toshinori Kawahashi