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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 07, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Shigeru Yamamoto, Osaka, JP;
Hideki Yamada, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
172-3 ; 172-7 ; 180197 ; 36443101 ; 36442407 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for controlling a power output of an engine of a crawler vehicle; such as, large sized bulldozers, at a time when shoe slip of such crawler vehicle occurs in operation, the crawler vehicle being provided with working equipments; such as, dozing units or blades, ripping units or rippers or the like. More particularly, the present invention relates to an adaptive engine power output mode setting method for automatically keeping the engine of the crawler vehicle in an optimum power output condition according to rates of the shoe slip or shoe slip rates of the crawler vehicle.