System for transporting containers, particularly ISO containers, using heavy goods vehicles

US11524851B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Konecranes Global Corporation · FI

Inventors

• Armin Wieschemann · Oberhausen, DE
• Heiko Schulz · Leverkusen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 21, 2017
• Grant date: Dec 13, 2022
• Expiry date: Apr 8, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G2201/0235
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system for transporting containers using heavy goods vehicles having a separate operating region in which the heavy goods vehicles can be operated includes at least one first lane for at least one external heavy goods vehicle, and at least one second lane for at least one internal heavy goods vehicle are reserved in the separate operating region. The heavy goods vehicles can be operated together in a mixed traffic situation, and the first and second lanes are each guided through a transition region of a handling unit of a storage region and each arranged laterally in relation tothe storage region.