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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2020
Bridgestone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Shingo Sugihara, Tokyo, JP;
BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A crawler traveling apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an endless rubber crawler, a drive wheel, a tension wheel, and a sensor which can acquire load information related to a load that the tension wheel receives from the rubber crawler. The rubber crawler includes an endless crawler belt and a plurality of cores, each core including a pair of core projections. The tension wheel abuts an inner surface of the rubber crawler at least, in a crawler width direction, at any of a position between the pair of core projections and both outer positions of the pair of core projections to be rotated following the rubber crawler, and the sensor can acquire tension load information in a crawler thickness direction that the tension wheel receives from the inner surface of the rubber crawler as the load information.