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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:
Oct. 06, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 29, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Komatsu Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; E02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
701 50 ; 701-1 ; 172-45 ; 172-3 ; 172-7 ; 172 12 ; 83 13 ; 83 767 ;
Abstract
A ground leveling control system for a bulldozer, comprising: (a) a cutting edge position detector for detecting a position of a cutting edge of a blade with respect to the ground; and (b) a blade controller for controlling the blade to be lifted or lowered such that the cutting edge position of the blade detected by the cutting edge position detector is kept coincident with a preset target cutting edge position.