Automatically guided transportation vehicle for containers and method for operating the same and also system with an automatically driven transportation vehicle

US11247672B2 · 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: Feb 12, 2018
• Grant date: Feb 15, 2022
• Expiry date: Oct 18, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G63/004
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A transportation vehicle for containers has a vehicle controller for automatically driving and controlling the speed of the transportation vehicle. The transportation vehicle includes a sensor apparatus for object identification, with the sensor apparatus interacting with the vehicle controller such that a movement region of the transportation vehicle can be ascertained. The transportation vehicle is configured to come to a standstill within the movement region by a braking process during a braking time, and that a movement region of an object that is identified by the sensor apparatus can be ascertained, with the object being moved within the movement region during the braking time of the transportation vehicle, so that the permissible speed of the transportation vehicle can be automatically reduced by the vehicle controller, and so that the two movement regions do not touch after the reduction in the permissible speed.