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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7735248 | Piping struture of front work machine There is provided a piping structure of a front work machine which prevents an increase in total with of the front work machine caused by hydraulic piping extended from the main machine side, and enables the piping following a structure of the front work machine tur... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7325338 | Engulfment rescue device and method A device and method is provided for rescuing a person trapped in engulfing material at an engulfment site. A reduction tool is used to loosen the engulfing material in order to free or facilitate freeing a buried or partially buried victim. The loosened engulfing ma... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7320380 | Swiveling utility machine having swivel deck A swiveling utility machine includes a swivel deck, an engine disposed at a rear portion of the swivel deck, a radiator disposed adjacent the engine, a driver's seat, a right implement controller disposed on the right side of the driver's seat and a left implement c... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7296369 | Backhoe pivot joint A backhoe coupling for joining members of a backhoe attachment is provided, the coupling having a pivot pin assembly that includes a pivot pin and a retaining plate. The pin has a groove for receiving the retaining plate. The retaining plate has an edge that is size... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7293377 | Wear pad for an extendable linkage A wear pad on a linkage of a work machine is disclosed. The linkage includes a first and a second linkage member in a telescoping relationship. The wear pad includes a first end having a first thickness and a second end having a second thickness, the first thickness... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7284345 | Milling device for floors, rock, excavated material or other material The milling apparatus (1) has a bucket with a receiving chamber and has a milling unit with a milling rotor (14). The receiving chamber has a receiving opening (4) and is embodied as a bucket (2). On the bottom of the bucket (2), a... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283903 | Enabling system for an implement controller A system for reliably enabling an implement controller for a work vehicle having a swivel seat with at least two angular positions. The system includes an implement controller for controlling a work implement, seat position detector for determining the positions of ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7243756 | Earth moving machine An earth moving machine comprises a vehicle (2), a working device (10) mounted on the rear part (4) of the vehicle (2), a seat (14) rotatably attached to the vehicle (2) and able to rotate between a front position in which i... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7234252 | Method and apparatus for beneficiating soils during vacuum excavation An apparatus for soil excavation having a vacuum hose, a vacuum holding tank and at least one air lance and/or water jet, in which a soil beneficiating agent is introduced into the soil during one or more of the steps of the vacuum excavation process. ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7213716 | Crane The within invention concerns a crane with a superstructure that rotates on a vertical axle, a boom coupled to the superstructure in such manner as to luff on a horizontal axle, luffing equipment for luffing the boom, and an operating ballast that counteracts the mo... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7204047 | Compact excavator A compact excavator includes an upper rotating body mounted rotatably on a lower traveling body, an engine arranged on a rear section of the upper rotating body in a state where a drive shaft thereof is oriented in a horizontal direction, an hydraulic pump connected... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7196430 | Partial-powered series hybrid driving system A Partial-Powered Series Hybrid Driving System enables an engine to run with high power and high speed for normal or high load driving. If the load is driven under low-power, low-speed light loading conditions, the present system operates in a series hybrid driving ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7188865 | Counterweight for hydraulic shovel A counterweight for a hydraulic shovel, which is applicable to a compact to large-sized hydraulic shovels, and is capable of realizing favorable engine maintainability and assurance of sufficient mass, is provided. For this purpose, supporting column portions (12... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7188441 | Plow guide for a chain-pulled plow The subject matter of the present invention relates to a plow guide for a chain-pulled plow for use in underground mining operations, with plow guide troughs 20 and 50 having multiple parts and being connectable to one another by means of coupling elem... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7182164 | Cooling equipment for a motor vehicle, in particular for an excavator Cooling equipment for an excavator, in which a longitudinal axis of a first portion of a delivery duct is substantially parallel to the axis of the excavator, while a longitudinal axis of a second portion of the delivery duct is substantially transverse with respect... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7168191 | Service vehicle with a walk-through to the outside A hydraulic excavator is equipped with one or more downsizing scheme including at least one of: (i) a bubble removing device for removing bubbles in hydraulic fluid, (ii) a hydraulic tank including a main tank and a variable capacity tank arranged separately from ea... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7165348 | Methods and apparatus for limiting attachment access to a plow A plow security device, configured in accordance with embodiments of the invention, includes an attachment assembly that corresponds to a headgear assembly, or mounting portions, of a plow. During operation, a user couples the attachment assembly of the plow securit... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7165639 | Integrated hydraulic system for motor vehicles A hydraulic vehicle power take off system is implemented using modular components and utilizing a vehicle controller area network for integration with vehicle systems. The modular components are preferably in turn adapted from standard industry components. ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7150116 | Device and method for locating an underground object An indicator device is used for locating an underground object, for example an underground pipeline, prior to surrounding excavation by a bucket excavator. The device generally comprises a panel member buried in the ground directly above the object. The panel member... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7143794 | Construction implement for granular bed regeneration A device for assisting in granular bed reconstruction projects such as catalyst bed construction, includes a frame, a tracked drive, a turret and a boom with an actuator to move the boom relative to the turret. The boom includes a tube for fixing to a vacuum source ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7134518 | Construction machine In a construction machine comprising an engine, hydraulic device, and heat exchanger for cooling the engine and the hydraulic device, which are all disposed in an upper rotating body of the construction machine, there is formed a maintenance passage along which main... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7127838 | Universal control adapter system A universal control adapter system allows any commercial or custom snowplow controller to be quickly and easily attached and detached from any commercial or custom snowplow blade. A first adapter connects the snowplow driver's controller to a first universal control... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7093729 | Ballasting device for a crane The device combines ballast blocks (3) that can be stacked onto a base frame of the crane, and a gripper (2) for handling these blocks, the gripper being designed to be connected, during use, to a handling means. This device comprises means of nonperma... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7069677 | Method for producing a ready-mix soil material A method for producing a ready-mix soil material includes the steps of: (a) crushing earth material excavated from a work site; (b) sieving the earth material after crushing so as to obtain raw soil material; and (c) mixing metered amounts of the raw soil material a... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7063114 | Snow mitt/snow glove for snow shovel An envelope of felt (or other fabric resistant to snow adhesion) into which a regular eighteen—twenty-two inch size snow shovel may be inserted, folded over to enclose the shovel and temporarily clasped in place by snaps or Velcro—and reinforceable in the area w... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7043858 | Backhoe pivot joint A backhoe coupling for joining members of a backhoe attachment is provided, the coupling having a pivot pin assembly that includes a pivot pin and a retaining plate. The pin has a groove for receiving the retaining plate. The retaining plate has an edge that is size... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7040837 | Self-propelled road milling machine with cooling system A self-propelled road milling machine is equipped with a cooling system comprising a fan for drawing in air, a cooler, and a suction channel. The suction channel has a vent opening facing the cooler and an intake opening. In relation to the longitudinal axis of the ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7036251 | Counterweight mounting structure for construction machine A counterweight mounting structure for construction machine to which a counterweight is connected through a gap to an exterior constituting an upper rotating body is constituted such that a recessed groove is provided on an end on a connection side of the counterwei... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7036250 | Latchless controller tower A controller tower positioning system for a work vehicle for securing the controller tower to one of at least two positions. The system employs a mounting bracket fixed to the floor or a frame member of the work vehicle, a movable controller tower rotatably mounted ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7021394 | Articulating and locking mechanism for farm implement chassis An articulating and locking mechanism of agricultural implement chassis is disclosed, intended for disc harrows and other implements with great working width, which are characterized by articulation to reduce the total width so as to facilitate transportation and st... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7021668 | Hydraulic line attachment device and method A hydraulic line attachment device is provided. The hydraulic line attachment device comprises a first assembly comprising a first frame constructed for holding a plurality of first hydraulic line couplers and a first coupling member; and a second assembly comprisin... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7010874 | Mounting frame unit for attaching working implements to a tractor body A mounting frame unit attached to a tractor body for enabling working implements such as a front loader and a backhoe to be attached to the tractor body. The mounting frame unit includes a pair of right and left main frames extending longitudinally of the tractor bo... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7007416 | Flexible hose covers for a work machine A plurality of flexible hoses for supplying hydraulic oil from a main body to a traveling motor of a traveling device and discharging hydraulic oil from the traveling motor to the main body. The hoses between the main body and each traveling device are inserted thro... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6990759 | Material handling vehicle transmission A vehicle of the type described wherein the torque converter has an input shaft adapted to be driven by the engine and connected to an impeller and an output shaft adapted to drive the ground engaging device and connected to a turbine, torque being transmitted betwe... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6980896 | Earth-moving vehicle including pivotable maneuvering station An earth-moving vehicle includes a carriage, which can move on a terrain in mutually opposite directions of movement along a longitudinal axis of the vehicle, and a station for driving and maneuvering, which is able to rotate with respect to the carriage about a ver... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6977906 | System and method for provisioning broadband service in a PPPoE network using a random username According to the invention there is provided a computer implemented method for provisioning broadband service in a Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) network. A PPPoE session is established, and a username is randomly chosen from a list of usernames store... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6971194 | Modular backhoe-excavator control station A modular excavator-backhoe control station is disclosed, the station having two control towers with joystick on their upper ends that are pivotally coupled adjacent a floor of an excavator or backhoe. They have one piece polymeric boots that cover them as well as s... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6962050 | Hybrid machine with hydraulic drive device A hybrid machine with a hydraulic drive device having hydraulic actuators allowed to operate against and by external loads is provided. To this end, the hybrid machine comprises hydraulic cylinders (7), first hydraulic pumps (P1) connected, with closed... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6942041 | Self-propelled agricultural vehicle constructed using a standard row-crop tractor as a base A self-propelled agricultural vehicle is constructed by assembling the parts of a standard row-crop tractor to the point where the next step is that of mounting the cab to the chassis. At this point, a cab adapter module is mounted to the chassis using the mounting ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6922925 | Construction machine A construction machine of the present invention is provided, in a compartment formed by a cover, with an engine, a centrifugal fan, and a heat exchanger for exchanging heat between cooling air blown by the centrifugal fan and a specified medium, wherein the centrifu... | 08/02/2005 |
