System for transporting containers using automated and manually driven heavy goods vehicles

US11040839B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Konecranes Global Corporation · FI

Inventors

• Armin Wieschemann · Oberhausen, DE
• Stefan Aldejohann · Langenfeld, DE
• Heiko Schulz · Leverkusen, DE
• Jan-Philipp Schmidt-Ewig · Essen, DE
• Heinz Eichner · Ratingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 21, 2017
• Grant date: Jun 22, 2021
• Expiry date: Dec 25, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05D1/0289
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A system for transporting containers using heavy goods vehicles which comprises a separate operating region in which the heavy goods vehicles can be operated, with at least one automated heavy goods vehicle and at least one manually driven heavy goods vehicle being operated together in a mixed traffic situation in the separate operating region.