INDUSTRIAL TRUCK WITH ACQUIREMENT OF UTILIZATION DATA

• US 20070208476A1
• Filed: 02/28/2007
• Published: 09/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jungheinrich AG
• Original Assignee: Jungheinrich AG
• Inventors: Manken, Frank, Baginski, Ralf, von Werder, Martin
• Granted Patent: US 8,055,405 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/50
• CPC Class Codes: B66F 9/0755 Position control; Position detectors
• CPC Class Codes: B66F 9/24 Electrical devices or systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0283 Price estimation or determination

Abstract

An industrial truck with an electronic memory and/or a data transfer unit, an equipment for acquiring utilization data and a control unit, which is connected with the equipment for acquiring utilization data and the memory and/or the data transfer unit, characterised in that the control unit continuously generates an utilization protocol from the acquired utilization data and files it in the memory or transmits it to the data transfer unit.

Claims

1. An industrial truck with an electronic memory (1) and/or a data transfer unit (12), an equipment for acquiring utilization data and a control unit (3), which is connected with the equipment for acquiring utilization data and the memory (1) and/or the data transfer unit (12), characterised in that the control unit (3) continuously generates an utilization protocol from the acquired utilization data and files it in the memory (1) or transmits it to the data transfer unit (12).

2. An industrial truck according to claim 1, characterised in that the equipment for acquiring utilization data comprises a speed sensor (4) for measuring the speed of the industrial truck.

3. An industrial truck according to claim 1, characterised in that the equipment for acquiring utilization data comprises an acceleration sensor (5) for measuring the acceleration of the industrial truck.

4. An industrial truck according to claim 1, characterised in that the utilization data include the distance travelled by the industrial truck.

5. An industrial truck according to claim 1, characterised in that the equipment for acquiring utilization data comprises a load sensor for determining the weight of a load.

6. An industrial truck according to claim 1, characterised in that the equipment for acquiring utilization data comprises a device for measuring the lifting height of a load.

7. An industrial truck according to claim 1, characterised in that the equipment for acquiring utilization data comprises a device for measuring at least one parameter of the hydraulic system of the industrial truck.

8. An industrial truck according to claim 1, characterised in that equipment for acquiring utilization data comprises a sensor in the driver'"'"'s seat for recognising the presence of a driver.

9. An industrial truck according to claim 1, characterised in that the equipment for acquiring utilization data is connected to the vehicle control for acquiring control data.

10. An industrial truck according to claim 1, characterised in that the equipment for acquiring utilization data comprises a sending and receiving unit (8) for reading out RFID-transponder'"'"'s.

11. An industrial truck according to claim 10, characterised in that the RFID-transponders work in the UHF band.

12. An industrial truck according to claim 1, characterised in that the utilization protocol contains a consolidated version of the utilization data.

13. An industrial truck according to claim 1, characterised in that the electronic memory has a hard disc, a memory chip or a chip card (2).

14. An industrial truck according to claim 13, characterised in that the electronic memory is integrated into a wireless network.

15. An industrial truck according to claim 1, characterised in that a data analysing unit (10) is provided, which reads out the utilization protocol from the electronic memory (1) and/or receives it from the data transfer unit (12)

16. An industrial truck according to claim 15, characterised in that the data analysing unit (10) announces the dueness of maintenance operations.

17. An industrial truck according to claim 15, characterised in that the data analysing unit (10) predetermines an utilization fee.

18. An industrial truck according to claim 1, characterised in that the equipment for acquiring utilization data acquires data from a picked-up load good and/or load support.

19. An industrial truck according to claim 18, characterised in that the equipment for acquiring utilization data acquires at least one of the following information:

owner, consignee, proprietor and manufacturer of the ware.

20. An industrial truck according to claim 18, characterised in that the equipment for acquiring utilization data acquires the movement data of a load good and/or a load support.