Abstract A pavement structure examination vehicle capable of mounting all necessary equipments and instruments therein; including a body of a rear gate type having a rear door which rotates vertically to open and close, underground radar means attached to the body vertically movably relative to the face of traveling, a stand for boring operation to be removably attached to the door, a radar system comprising underground radar control means for controlling the underground radar means and observation data recording means for recording the observation data of the underground radar means, the radar system recording in the data recording means information of the distance covered by the vehicle received from covered distance detection means which detects the distance covered by the vehicle, together with the observation data of the underground radar means, and an image processing system for photographing a surface of an inner circumferential wall of a bored hole and processing images thus photographed. The vehicle can examine day and night without disturbing the traffic, and also can get the data of the underground radar and find the position of the road to be actually investigated precisely and easily
Inventors
👤 Hiroshi Tomita
Bibliographic Details
Application Number—
JurisdictionEP
Data Sourcegoogle_patents
Last Synchronized2026-11-02 09:04
CPC Classifications
G; G01; G01V; G01V3/00; G01V3/15
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 4
Claim 1
Independent Claim
145 words
A pavement structure examination vehicle comprising: a body of a rear gate type having a rear door which rotates vertically to open and close; underground radar means attached to said body vertically movably relative to the face of traveling; a stand for boring operation to be removably attached to said the door; a radar system comprising underground radar control means for controlling said underground radar means and observation data recording means for recording said observation data of said underground radar means, said radar system recording in said data recording means information of the distance covered by said vehicle received from covered distance detection means which detects the distance covered by said vehicle, together with said observation data of said underground radar means; and an image processing system for photographing a surface of an inner circumferential wall of a bored hole and processing images thus photographed.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
56 words
A pavement structure examination vehicle according to Claim 1, further comprising: a set of video cameras provided in a body of said vehicle for photographing areas in two different directions while traveling; and image recording means for recording information of images photographed by said video cameras together with information of the distance covered by said vehicle.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
43 words
A pavement structure examination vehicle according to Claim 1, further comprising; equipments and instruments provided in a body of said vehicle to be used for the boring operation and the photographing of a surface of an inner circumferential wall of a bored hole.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
43 words
A pavement structure examination vehicle according to Claim 2, further comprising; equipments and instruments provided in a body of said vehicle to be used for the boring operation and the photographing of a surface of an inner circumferential wall of a bored hole.
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