Placement of tracking devices on pallets
AssigneeBXB Digital Pty Limited
InventorsDaniel J. Lantz, Sandeep K. Bandil, Ryan Daigle, Jun Shi
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Abstract
Various approaches for attaching tracking devices to pallets allow pallets to be remotely tracked through any phase of a transportation lifecycle. In a first approach, one or more electronic components of a tracking device may be disposed within a cavity of a block of a pallet. In a second approach, one or more electronic components of a tracking device may be disposed within a strut that interfaces between two beams of a pallet. In a third approach, one or more electronic components of a tracking device may be disposed within a cavity of a beam.
Claims10
A trackable transport structure comprising:
- a pallet including a plurality of blocks and a plurality of beams, the pallet comprising:
- a block having a device cavity and an antenna cavity that is separate from the device cavity;
- a lower longitudinal beam coupled to a bottom side of the block;
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- an upper longitudinal beam coupled to a top side of the block, the upper longitudinal beam being substantially perpendicular to the lower longitudinal beam;
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- a tracking device coupled to a portion of the pallet, the tracking device comprising:
- one or more electronic components disposed within the device cavity;
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- an antenna coupled to the one or more electronic components and disposed within the antenna cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.