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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 1986
Filed:
May. 20, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
Katsumi Ito, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Kubota, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; B62D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364424 ; 180168 ; 364449 ;
Abstract
An automatic running work vehicle which is adapted to repeat a running travel reciprocatingly and which has means for teaching the running course of one travel by sampling the running direction detected by an orientation sensor every predetermined running distance detected by a distance sensor during the travel and for steering the work vehicle based on the information of running course taught by the preceding travel when follower sensors fail to detect the boundary of the running course for a predetermined period of time.