SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING MAINTENANCE OF TRAVELLING PATH FOR CONSTRUCTION VEHICLE

• US 20100191415A1
• Filed: 08/11/2008
• Published: 07/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
• Original Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
• Inventors: Hara, Yuuki
• Application Number:
  US12/677,737
• Publication Number:
  US 20100191415A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/35
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 23/01 Devices or auxiliary means for setting-out or checking the configuration of new surfacing, e.g. templates, screed or reference line supports form rails E01C19/50; Applications of apparatus for measuring, indicating, or recording the surface configuration of existing surfacing, e.g. profilographs E01C23/07 takes precedence; measuring roughness or irregularity in general G01B

Abstract

The present invention provides a system for supporting maintenance of a travelling path for a construction vehicle, which system enables efficient maintenance of a vehicle travelling path so that drop of loaded stuff, deterioration of durability of the vehicle and the tires, and the like can be effectively prevented. A construction vehicle 11 is provided with a travel position sensor 1, an acceleration sensor 2, and a memory 3 for storing data continually acquired by the sensors during the running of the vehicle, and the system further includes: a controller 5 for reading the aforementioned data out from the memory 3 to express a travelling path graphically, and specifying a maintenance-required travelling path portion in the travelling path thus graphically expressed; and a display portion 6 for displaying the travelling path thus graphically expressed and the maintenance-required travelling path portion extracted therefrom, wherein the controller 5 is adapted to specify a portion of the travelling path corresponding to the acceleration data beyond a predetermined given range of acceleration condition as the maintenance-required travelling path portion.

Claims

1. A system for supporting maintenance of a travelling path on which a construction vehicle travels, comprising:

a travel position sensor provided in the construction vehicle, for continually acquiring travel position data of the construction vehicle;

an acceleration sensor provided in the construction vehicle, for continually acquiring data of acceleration applied to the construction vehicle;

a memory provided in the construction vehicle, for storing data acquired by the sensors; and

a controller for reading the travel position data out from the memory to express the travelling path graphically, mapping the acceleration data on the travelling path thus graphically expressed, and specifying a portion of the travelling path corresponding to the acceleration data out of a predetermined, given range of acceleration condition, as a maintenance-required travelling path portion.

2. The system for supporting maintenance of a travelling path for a construction vehicle of claim 1, wherein the acceleration sensor is adapted to acquire data of acceleration in either the left hand side or the right hand side direction of the construction vehicle.

3. The system for supporting maintenance of a travelling path for a construction vehicle of claim 2, wherein the predetermined, given range of acceleration condition is 0.05 G or less.

4. The system for supporting maintenance of a travelling path for a construction vehicle of claim 2, wherein the controller is adapted to calculate a radius of curvature of the maintenance-required travelling path portion, based on the travel position data thereof, and obtain, based on the radius of curvature thus calculated and a predetermined, prescribed vehicle speed at which the vehicle is supposed to run on the maintenance-required travelling path portion, either a bank gradient angle at which acceleration in either the left hand side or the right hand side of the vehicle can be suppressed within the predetermined range of acceleration condition or a new combination of a bank gradient angle and a radius of curvature of the maintenance required travelling path portion.

5. The system for supporting maintenance of a travelling path for a construction vehicle of claim 1, wherein the acceleration sensor is adapted to detect acceleration in either the upward direction or downward direction of the construction vehicle.

6. The system for supporting maintenance of a travelling path for a construction vehicle of claim 3, wherein the controller is adapted to calculate a radius of curvature of the maintenance-required travelling path portion, based on the travel position data thereof, and obtain, based on the radius of curvature thus calculated and a predetermined, prescribed vehicle speed at which the vehicle is supposed to run on the maintenance-required travelling path portion, either a bank gradient angle at which acceleration in either the left hand side or the right hand side of the vehicle can be suppressed within the predetermined range of acceleration condition or a new combination of a bank gradient angle and a radius of curvature of the maintenance-required travelling path portion.