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Apparatus and method responsive to the on-board measuring of haulage parameters of a vehicle

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  • US 5,327,347 A
  • Filed: 08/04/1993
  • Issued: 07/05/1994
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/27/1984
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for acquisitioning and accumulating data indicative of haul cycles executed by a haulage vehicle moving between load and dump sites, where each haul cycle is a complete round trip from a load site to a dump site and back to a load site or from a dump site to a load site and back to a dump site, the system comprising:

  • first means mounted to the vehicle for providing a first set of data whose value is indicative of a loading or unloading of material into or from a body of the vehicle during each of the haul cycles;

    second means for sensing a haulage parameter related to the efficiency of work done by the vehicle whose value varies during each of the haul cycles and providing a second set of data indicative of the value;

    an electronic processor on-board the vehicle for acquiring the first and second sets of data, processing the data to detect a change in the value of either the first or second sets of data and providing a third set of data quantifying the change, which thereby defines a haulage event executed by the vehicle during a haul cycle; and

    a storage medium for accumulating the third set of data from the electronic processor so as to create a historical record of the haulage events.

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