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Parking robot for a transportation vehicle with at least two axles and method for operating a parking robot

US11312415B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT · DE

Inventors

Theodoros Tzivanopoulos · Wolfsburg, DE
Stephan Herold · Braunschweig, DE
Juan M. Ramos · Brooks Road, US
Daniel Schütz · Lehre, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 4, 2019
Grant date	Apr 26, 2022
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 13, 2040

Classification

Technology area (CPC E)Fixed Constructions
CPC primaryE04H6/424
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A parking robot for a transportation vehicle having at least two wheel axles and a method for operating a parking robot. The parking robot includes a main robot part and a secondary robot part which each have a pair of wheel support arms on two opposite sides. The two-part parking robot then moves under the transportation vehicle with respective folded-in wheel support arms and disconnects the secondary robot part from the main robot part to position the main robot part and the secondary robot part each in a region of one of the wheel axles beneath the transportation vehicle and to lift up respective wheels of the respective wheel axle of the transportation vehicle by folding out the respective pairs of wheel support arms.

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