A mobile apparatus includes a main frame with displacing means, a rotating sub-frame rotatably connected to the main frame such that the sub-frame is rotatable around a rotation axis relative to the main frame, and a working arm connected to the sub-frame. The sub-frame includes a standing or seating position for an operator. The working arm includes at least two arm segments, and a first arm segment of the at least two arm segments is pivotally connected to the sub-frame around a pivot point located at a distance of the rotation axis. The first arm segment and the sub-frame are configured such that the first arm segment can be moved rearwards onto the sub-frame in the direction of the rotation axis to a rearward position in which the first segment extends over the rotation axis.

A working machine including front and rear wheels or a pair of endless tracks supporting a body. A first working arm with a first implement mount is connected to the body. An apparatus with a collector having a first opening and a sweeper trailing the collector is mounted to the first implement mount. A second implement mount connected to the body, and a milling device is mounted to the second implement mount. The sweeper is configured and arranged to move surface material broken up by the milling device into the collector via the first opening.

This construction machine comprises: includes a work machine; an automatic controller for automatically controlling the work machine according to design information; an operation lever for manually controlling the work machine; and an automatic switch mounted on the operation lever and alternatively switching between activation and deactivation of the automatic control. The manual control of the work machine has higher priority than the automatic control.

A hydraulic excavator as an electric work machine includes a lower traveling body, an upper swivel body located above the lower traveling body and provided to be swivelable with respect to the lower traveling body, an electric motor arranged in the upper swivel body, a hydraulic pump arranged in the upper swivel body and driven by the electric motor, a battery unit arranged in the upper swivel body and storing electric power to drive the electric motor, and a hydraulic actuator driven by hydraulic oil supplied from the hydraulic pump. The upper swivel body has a swivel frame at a bottom portion thereof. The battery unit is arranged on the swivel frame. The electric motor and the hydraulic pump are arranged on the swivel frame, side by side in a left-right direction of the upper swivel body.

This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of navigating through a dig site and carrying out an excavation routine using a system of sensors physically mounted to the excavation vehicle. The sensors collects any one or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data representing the status of the excavation vehicle and its surrounding environment. Based on the collected data, the excavation vehicle executes instructions to carry out an excavation routine. The excavation vehicle is also able to carry out numerous other tasks, such as checking the volume of excavated earth in an excavation tool, and helping prepare a digital terrain model of the site as part of a process for creating the excavation routine.

Provided is a sample collecting method for collecting a sample of soil at a predetermined depth by excavation on an extraterrestrial body or the earth. The method comprises forming a first borehole 70 that reaches a first depth from a land surface 69 by preliminary excavation of soil, the first depth being less than a predetermine sampling depth from the land surface 69; and forming a second borehole 73 that has a smaller opening than the first borehole and reaches a second depth from the land surface by further excavation of soil in the first borehole, the second depth being equal to or greater than the sampling depth, wherein, while forming the second borehole 73, part of soil present at the sampling depth in the second borehole 73 is transferred to the land surface 69 as a sample for analysis.

A transmission system includes a transmission assembly having clutches to transmit power from an input shaft to an output shaft at a plurality of gear ratios. A traction motor drives the input shaft and propels the work vehicle, while a controller controls operation of the transmission assembly and the traction motor. A hydraulic circuit controls actuation of the clutches responsive to commands from the controller. The hydraulic circuit includes a hydraulic pump driven by the traction motor, an accumulator connected to the hydraulic pump and that holds hydraulic fluid therein under pressure, and an unloading valve positioned in a secondary fluid path running from an outlet of the hydraulic pump to a sump. The unloading valve operates in a closed state to direct hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic pump to the accumulator and operates in an open state to direct hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic pump to the sump.

An operation control device for a working vehicle comprises a hydraulic actuator to drive the hydraulic working device, operating oil supply source for driving the hydraulic actuator, an operating oil supply control device that performs control to supply operating oil to the hydraulic actuator, an operating device to be operated to make the hydraulic actuator work and a working gain setting device that sets a gain of working speed of the hydraulic actuator corresponding to the operation of the operating device. The operating oil supply control device controls operating oil supply from the operating oil supply source to the hydraulic actuator based on the operation output signal from the operating device and the working speed gain set by the working gain setting device.

In a hydraulic drive system performing the load sensing control by using a pump device having two delivery ports whose delivery flow rates are controlled by a single pump controller, surplus flow is prevented and energy loss at an unload valve and a pressure compensating valve is reduced in combined operations in which two actuators are driven at the same time while producing a relatively large supply flow rate difference therebetween. A boom cylinder 3a is connected so that the hydraulic fluids delivered from delivery ports P1 and P2 of a pump device 1a are merged and supplied to the boom cylinder 3a. An arm cylinder 3h is connected so that the hydraulic fluids delivered from delivery ports P3 and P4 of a pump device 1b are merged and supplied to the arm cylinder 3h. A travel motor 3d is connected so that the hydraulic fluid delivered from one (delivery port P2) of the delivery ports of the pump device 1a and the hydraulic fluid delivered from one (delivery port P4) of the delivery ports of the pump device 1b are merged and supplied to the travel motor 3d. A travel motor 3e is connected so that the hydraulic fluid delivered from the other (delivery port P1) of the delivery ports of the pump device 1a and the hydraulic fluid delivered from the other (delivery port P3) of the delivery ports of the pump device 1b are merged and supplied to the travel motor 3e.

A working machine includes either front and rear wheels or a pair of endless tracks supporting an undercarriage, a drive arrangement including a prime mover configured to provide motive power to propel the working machine, a superstructure connected to the undercarriage via a rotary connector, and a working arm connected to the superstructure. The machine also includes a fuel tank assembly comprising at least one fuel tank defining an internal volume for storing fuel to be supplied to the prime mover, wherein the at least one fuel tank is interposed between the superstructure and the undercarriage.