Dump truck with obstacle detection mechanism and method for detecting obstacle

摘要

Docket No. PKOA-12559-PCT In order to provide a dump truck with an obstacle detection mechanism capable of detecting an obstacle in the side of the vehicle including the side area of a vessel, 5 the dump truck includes radars 24, 27 attached, facing backward, to a position projected sideward a front fender extended from a lower deck to an upper deck of a front side of the vehicle, in which an irradiation beam has an angle of dip to cross at least a front wheel 5; and radars 23, 28 10 attached, facing sideward, to the side of the lower deck, and the radars 24, 27 and the radars 23, 28 are arranged such that a horizontal forward detection limit line of each of the radar 24, 27 and a horizontal backward detection limit line of each of the radar 23, 28 overlap and the 15 horizontal backward detection limit lines L24, L27 of the radar 24, 27 are directed to a side of a center plane C of the vehicle to detect the obstacle in the side of the vehicle.