Industrial truck with acquirement of utilization data

• US 8,055,405 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2007
• Issued: 11/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jungheinrich AG
• Original Assignee: Jungheinrich Atiengesellschaft
• Inventors: Baginski, Ralf, Von Werder, Martin, Manken, Frank
• Primary Examiner(s): To; Tuan C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PIPALA, EDWARD J
• Application Number:
  US11/680,310
• Publication Number:
  US 20070208476A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,714 Days
• Field of Search: 701/1, 701/29, 701/32, 701/35, 701/36, 701/50, 701/30, 701/200, 701206-208, 705/1, 705/400, 705/414, 705/417, 187/390, 187/391, 187/393, 187/394
• US Class Current: 701/35
• 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, characterized 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 for transporting a load good, the industrial truck comprising:

an electronic memory (1) and/or a data transfer unit (12);

an equipment for acquiring utilization data;

a data analyzing unit (10); and

a control unit (3) connected with the equipment for acquiring utilization data and the memory (1) and/or the data transfer unit (12);

characterised in that the load good has an RFID transponder;

the control unit (3) continuously generates a utilization protocol from the acquired utilization data and files it in the memory (1) or transmits it to the data transfer unit (12);

the data analyzing unit (10) reads out the utilization protocol from the electronic memory (1) or receives the utilization protocol from the data transfer unit (12);

the data analyzing unit (10) determines a utilization fee based on the utilization protocol; and

the utilization fee is written onto the RFID transponder of the load good.

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 includes 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 recognizing 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-transponders.

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 the data analyzing unit (10) announces when maintenance operations are due.

16. 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.

17. An industrial truck according to claim 16, 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.

18. An industrial truck according to claim 16, characterised in that the equipment for acquiring utilization data acquires the movement data of a load good and/or a load support.

19. An industrial truck according to claim 1, characterized in that at least the electronic memory (1) and/or the data transfer unit, the equipment for acquiring utilization data, and the control unit (3) are mounted onto the industrial truck.