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Title:
TRAVEL SYSTEM FOR SELF-PROPELLED VEHICLE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2004289884
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a travel system for self-propelled vehicle which can promote the cost reduction of the self-propelled vehicle and can easily enlarge the latitude of a track without taking a time and cost.

For a dump truck D, an assist vehicle A is connected at the foot or in the middle of up-hill roads T1 and T2 with the dump truck D, and the self-propelled vehicle of the dump truck D is supplied supplementarily with power from the assist vehicle A. Therefore, it only has to possess the performance of such an extent that it can travel on flat roads H1-H3 as a self-propelled means (a generator in the dump truck D which supplies a motor for self travelling with power and an engine for the generator which drives it), so the self-propelled means can be downsized to reduce the cost of the dump truck D. Moreover, since the assist vehicle A shifts together with the dump truck D coupled thereto, the latitude of the travel track for the dump truck D can be improved significantly.


Inventors:
OGAWA SATORU
URANAKA KYOJI
OKAMOTO KOICHI
NAGAI TAKAO
Application Number:
JP2003075605A
Publication Date:
October 14, 2004
Filing Date:
March 19, 2003
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
KOMATSU MFG CO LTD
International Classes:
B60L11/18; B60K7/00; B60L7/10; B60L9/00; B60L50/16; B62D59/04; G06F17/00; (IPC1-7): B60L11/18; B60L7/10; B60L11/14
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kinoshita Minoru
Kanji Nakayama
Tsuyoshi Ishizaki