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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1994
Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A steering system for a bulldozer, comprising a steering direction indicating device for indicating a lateral direction in which a vehicle body is to be steered, a dozing operation detector for judging by detection whether the bulldozer is in dozing operation, a steering controller for controlling the vehicle body to be steered in the lateral direction indicated by the steering direction indicating device when the dozing operation detector judges that the bulldozer is in dozing operation, by tilting a blade in the indicated lateral direction in order to impose offset load on the vehicle body, and by causing a difference between the relative travel speeds of right and left crawler belts attached to the vehicle body at least when light load occurs in the dozing operation.