Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for the intralogistic transport of products
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Application No.: US17441480Application Date: 2020-03-19
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Publication No.: US11953915B2Publication Date: 2024-04-09
- Inventor: Jozef Antonius Wilhelmus Maria Van Eekelen
- Applicant: Vanderlande Industries B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Veghel
- Assignee: Vanderlande Industries B.V.
- Current Assignee: Vanderlande Industries B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL
- Agency: Carter, DeLuca & Farrell LLP
- Priority: NL 22800 2019.03.25
- International Application: PCT/NL2020/050182 2020.03.19
- International Announcement: WO2020/197383A 2020.10.01
- Date entered country: 2021-09-21
- Main IPC: G05D1/02
- IPC: G05D1/02 ; G05D1/00

Abstract:
The invention provides, inter alia, a system for the intralogistic transport of products, comprising—a number of vehicles, where each vehicle is designed to turn on a vertical turning axis where, viewed from above, there is a maximum distance amax between the vertical turning axis and a point on the periphery of the vehicle; —a central control device that is designed to transmit control signals to on-board control devices of the vehicles, wherein the central control device and/or the on-board control device of at least a portion of the number of vehicles comprise a digitized grid of grid points that represents a movement area or at least a portion thereof, which grid points are arranged at least partially according to a hexagonal pattern where the distance between neighbouring grid points is equal to distance d, which distance d is greater than 2.0 times the maximum distance amax, wherein the central control device and/or the on-board control device of at least a portion of the number of vehicles are designed to move a vehicle within a strip, which strip consists of at least two mutually connected straight strip portions that run parallel to one of three directional lines defined by pairs of grid points.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220147060A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE INTRALOGISTIC TRANSPORT OF PRODUCTS Public/Granted day:2022-05-12
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