FLOOR CONVEYOR, WITH REMOTE MAINTENANCE IN PARTICULAR

• US 20090216858A1
• Filed: 09/03/2008
• Published: 08/27/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jungheinrich AG
• Original Assignee: Jungheinrich AG
• Inventors: Mahler, Arne, Langlotz, Martin, Hansen, Nils-Peter
• Application Number:
  US12/203,578
• Publication Number:
  US 20090216858A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/218
• CPC Class Codes: B66F 9/24 Electrical devices or systems
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers

Abstract

A floor conveyor, with a device for the capture of operation-related data, a data memory, in which the operation-related data can be stored, and an electronic control unit, which controls the capture and the storage of the operation-related data in the data memory, characterised in that the floor conveyor has a data send/receive unit for the transmission of operation-related data from the data memory of the floor conveyor to an external data memory via a transmission link, the control unit has means for checking the availability of the transmission link, and the control unit is designed for the initiation of the data transmission from the data memory to the external data memory.

Claims

1. A floor conveyor, with a device for the capture of operation-related data, a data memory, in which the operation-related data can be stored, and an electronic control unit, which controls the capture and the storage of the operation-related data in the data memory, characterised in that the floor conveyor has a data send/receive unit for the transmission of operation-related data from the data memory of the floor conveyor to an external data memory via a transmission link, the control unit has means for checking the availability of the transmission link, and the control unit is designed for the initiation of the data transmission from the data memory to the external data memory.

2. A floor conveyor according to claim 1, characterised in that the data send/receive unit is designed for the transmission via a wireless transmission link.

3. A floor conveyor according to claim 1, characterised in that the initiation of the data transmission can be preformed by the electronic control unit depending on time, depending on event or according to a preset program.

4. A floor conveyor according to claim 1, characterised in that the initiation of the data transmission by the electronic control unit is locus-dependent.

5. A floor conveyor according to claim 1, characterised in that operation-related data comprise data concerning the travel operation and/or data concerning the lifting operation and/or data concerning state variables of the floor conveyor and/or data concerning particular events and/or data concerning merchandise management and/or data concerning persons.

6. A floor conveyor according to claim 1, characterised in that the wireless data transmission link uses a WLAN, GMS, GPRS and/or UMTS network, or other networks.

7. A floor conveyor according to claim 1, characterised in that the electronic control unit is connected to a vehicle data bus of the floor conveyor.

8. A floor conveyor according to claim 1, characterised in that the electronic control unit, the data memory on the floor conveyor and the wireless data transmission device are realised as a backfittable module.

9. A floor conveyor according to claim 1, characterised in that the external memory has a send/receive unit.

10. A floor conveyor according to claim 1, characterised in that the data send/receive unit is designed with a buffer memory for data transmission, which on its part is designed for the communication with an external main memory.

11. A floor conveyor according to claim 1, characterised in that the buffer memory is provided in a battery charging station.

12. A floor conveyor according to claim 1, characterised in that the data memory of the floor conveyor is arranged on the battery of the floor conveyor.

13. A floor conveyor according to claim 1, characterised in that at least one data analysing unit for the access to the external data memory is provided.

14. A floor conveyor according to claim 1, characterised by the application to a plurality of floor conveyors.

15. A floor conveyor according to claim 14, characterised in that the external data memory is integrated into a computer network of a logistics company.

16. A floor conveyor according to claim 1, characterised in that the external data memory is integrated into a computer network of a maintenance company.

17. A floor conveyor according to claim 1, characterised in that the external data memory is designed for the transmission of an instruction to acquire certain operation-related data to the data transmission of the floor conveyor.