EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE AND MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE IN SHIPPING TERMINALS

• US 20100214056A1
• Filed: 03/26/2010
• Published: 08/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Paceco Corporation (Mitsui E&S Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Paceco Corporation (Mitsui E&S Company Limited)
• Inventors: Takehara, Toru, King, Henry
• Application Number:
  US12/748,364
• Publication Number:
  US 20100214056A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/3.440
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 63/004 for containers
• CPC Class Codes: B66C 13/46 Position indicators for suspended loads or for crane elements
• CPC Class Codes: B66C 13/48 Automatic control of crane drives for producing a single or repeated working cycle; Programme control
• CPC Class Codes: B66C 19/002 Container cranes B66C19/007 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B66C 19/007 for containers
• CPC Class Codes: B66F 9/065 non-masted mobile jacks of the garage type mounted on wheels or rollers B66F5/00
• CPC Class Codes: B66F 9/24 Electrical devices or systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 3/00 Registering or indicating the condition or the working of machines or other apparatus, other than vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link

Abstract

Apparatus and methods are disclosed for a shipping yard and/or a container yard that is configured to communicate with at least one status reporting device to create at least one status report for a container handling device and/or the status reporting device. The status report may be processed to create at least one system action request and/or it may be logged to maintain at least one system log for the container handling device and/or the status reporting device. The container handling device may include any of an optical characteristic system and means for sensing the machine state of the handling device and/or any component coupled to it.

Claims

1. An apparatus for a shipping yard, comprising:

means for communicating with at least one status reporting device to create at least one status report for an instance of at least one of a container handling device and said status reporting device;

means for processing said status report to create at least one system action request; and

means for logging said status report to maintain at least one system log for at least one of said container handling device and said status reporting device.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said means for communicating includes at least one instance of at least one of a wireless transceiver, a removable memory device and a wireline network interface.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said system action request includes at least one instance of at least one member of the list comprising

a fault condition problem for at least one of said status reporting device and said container handling device, and

maintenance scheduling request for at least one of said status reporting device and said container handling device.