SURVEILLANCE APPARATUS FOR TRANSPORTATION VEHICLE

• US 20170274824A1
• Filed: 06/12/2017
• Published: 09/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ishimoto, Hidefumi, Kowatari, Yoichi, Inanobe, Yoshihiro
• Application Number:
  US15/619,727
• Publication Number:
  US 20170274824A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/23 with a predetermined field of view
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/27 providing all-round vision, e.g. using omnidirectional cameras
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/261 Surveying the work-site to be treated
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

An object is to bring an operation to recognize precisely situation of an underneath of a vessel provided at a transportation vehicle and rearward situation on the basis of camera image which is attached to the transportation vehicle. Surveillance system of the transportation vehicle according to the present invention comprises a lamp unit 13 mounted at a position under the vessel and rear end of a frame of a dump truck 1, a rearward camera 10B mounted above the lamp unit 13 directing an optical axis toward obliquely downward and having a field of view including at least partially of an axle 11 provided rear wheels 6 of the dump truck 1, a shield plate 16 provided between the lamp unit 13 and the rearward camera 10B to be extended at a position to be included at least partially in the rearward camera 10B, a monitor device provided in the cab 2 of the dump truck 11 to display camera image taken by the rearward camera 10B.

Claims

1. A surveillance apparatus for a dump truck having a plurality of rear wheels connected to an axle and having a frame on which a vessel for loading substances is mounted and which is configured to be tilted up and down, comprising:

a lamp unit mounted to a rear end position of the frame at a position under the vessel;

an underneath camera installed at a position above the lamp unit, above the axle connected to the rear wheels, underneath the vessel, and between a rear end of the rear wheels and the axle, the underneath camera positioned to have an angle of view that includes a part of the rear end of the axle connected to the rear wheels, and the underneath camera configured to capture a rearward camera image in a rearward direction of the dump truck with an optical axis directed in an obliquely downward direction, where the rearward camera image includes the part of the rear end of the axle and the rear wheels; and

a display device provided in a cab of the dump truck to show the rearward camera image taken by the underneath camera.

2. The surveillance apparatus for a dump truck according to claim 1, further comprising:

a camera mount disposed to hold the underneath camera at the position above the lamp unit.

3. The surveillance apparatus for a dump truck according to claim 1, further comprising:

a left side camera for imaging a left side of the dump truck and a right side camera for imaging a right side of the dump truck;

a view point converting section to create individual bird'"'"'s eye view images by converting respective view points to upper view points of the images taken by at least the underneath camera, the left side camera and the right side camera; and

a composite bird'"'"'s eye view image creating section to create a composite bird'"'"'s eye view image for composing these individual bird'"'"'s eye view image, and disposing around a symbol image symbolized the transportation vehicle,

wherein the display device displays the rearward camera image and the composite bird'"'"'s eye view image on divided display areas on a screen of the display device.

4. The surveillance apparatus for a dump truck according to claim 3, wherein the divided display areas respectively display the composite bird'"'"'s eye view image and an enlarged image of the rearward camera image.

5. The surveillance apparatus for a dump truck according to claim 3, wherein the divided display areas respectively display the composite bird'"'"'s eye view image and an enlarged image of the rearward bird'"'"'s eye view image from the rearward camera image instead of the rearward camera image.

6. The surveillance apparatus for a dump truck according to claim 1, further comprising:

a shield member provided at a position above the lamp unit and under the underneath camera, extended to a position where a part of the rear end of the axle is included within a visual field of the underneath camera, and configured to block light from the lamp unit from entering into the underneath camera.

7. The surveillance apparatus for a dump truck according to claim 1, wherein the underneath camera is installed at the position which is above the lamp unit and between the rear wheels.

8. The surveillance apparatus for a dump truck according to claim 1, wherein the rearward camera image further includes a plurality of link mechanisms which are connected between the frame and the vessel.