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Detection of locking devices

US11745987B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Ralf Gerdhenrichs · Erlangen, DE
Thomas Dobler · Hatzenbühl, DE
Alexander Willhoeft · Nuremberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 8, 2017
Grant date	Sep 5, 2023
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 9, 2040

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG05B2219/24097
WIPO fieldHandling
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An image-processing unit, a system, an automatic loading and/or unloading system and a method for detecting a locking device on a movable object, wherein the locking device locks a plurality of movable objects to one other and is arranged in a locking region of the movable object and the movable object is moved via a loading device, where the locking region can be sensed in a sensing region of at least one camera and an image-processing unit evaluates a signal of the camera to detect locking devices in a locking region of a movable object so as to detect locking devices efficiently and reliably.

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