Patent ID: 9026319
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: E02F

Abstract:
1. A blade control device configured to control an up-and-down position of a blade as a work implement to pivotally attached to a vehicle body, the blade control device comprising: a blade load obtaining part configured to obtain a blade load acting on the blade; a blade controlling part configured to lower the blade when the blade load is less than a first set load value, the blade controlling part being configured to elevate the blade when the blade load is greater than a second set load value greater than the first set load value, the blade controlling part being configured to allow the blade to pivot above a designed surface, the designed surface being a three-dimensional designed landform indicating a target shape of a digging object; a distance obtaining part configured to obtain a distance between the designed surface and the blade; and a virtual designed surface setting part configured to set a virtual designed surface to be closer to the blade than the designed surface based on a reference distance, the virtual designed surface being parallel to the designed surface, the reference distance being the distance obtained by the distance obtaining part at the time the blade load is reduced from a value greater than or equal to the first set load value to a value less than the first set load value, the blade controlling part being configured to allow the blade to pivot above the virtual designed surface even though the blade load is less than the first set load value when the virtual designed surface had been set by the virtual designed surface setting part.