MUMBAI, India, Aug. 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517067961 A) filed by Nippon Steel Engineering Co. Ltd., Tokyo, on July 16, for 'refuse crane control device and information updating method.'
Inventor(s) include Tokugawa Akihiro; Koike Jun; and Onitsuka Daisuke.
The application for the patent was published on Aug. 1, under issue no. 31/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The purpose of the present invention is to correctly perform automatic control of a refuse crane by precisely ascertaining that refuse is being gripped. A refuse crane control device 1 that controls operation of a refuse crane 110 for transporting refuse in a refuse pit 130 comprises: a storage unit 14 that stores a state of refuse in the refuse pit 130; an acquisition unit 11 that acquires information in real time that pertains to the weight of the refuse crane 110; and a first determination unit 12 that determines, on the basis of the information acquired by the acquisition unit 11, that refuse is being gripped when a state in which an increase in weight of the refuse crane 110 is equal to or greater than a prescribed weight threshold value has continued for no less than a prescribed threshold value for a number of seconds of retention, the first determination unit 12 updating the information in the storage unit 14 so that a number of agitations is incremented when it is determined that refuse is being gripped."
The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 18, 2023, under International application No.PCT/JP2023/045305.
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