Patent ID: 11913194
Assignee: SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
Field: Civil engineering (Other fields)
Classification: CPC E | IPC E

Claim 0:
1. A shovel comprising:
an undercarriage;
an upper swing structure swingably mounted on the undercarriage;
an object detector provided on the upper swing structure;
a body tilt sensor configured to detect an inclination of the shovel; and
a hardware processor configured to automatically brake a drive part of the shovel according to a predetermined braking pattern, in accordance with a distance between the shovel and an object, the distance being detected by the object detector,
wherein the hardware processor has a plurality of braking patterns that are according to the distance between the shovel and the object, the distance being detected by the object detector, and
the hardware processor is configured to switch the braking pattern based on an output of the body tilt sensor.