Contact-free material transfer between a truck and a driving road construction vehicle
AssigneeJoseph Voegele AG
InventorJens Holfelder
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Abstract
In the method for transferring material between a truck and a driving road construction vehicle, a distance between the driving road construction vehicle and a truck driving in front of the road construction vehicle without contact to the road construction vehicle truck is kept constant by a distance control system. While the distance between the driving road construction vehicle and the truck is kept constant, material is being dumped from a loading cavity of the truck into a material hopper of the road construction vehicle. The road construction vehicle is a road finishing machine or a feeder for a road finishing machine.
Claims19
A method for transferring material between a truck and a driving road construction vehicle wherein the road construction vehicle is a road finishing machine or a feeder for a road finishing machine, the method comprising:
- keeping constant, by a distance control system, a distance between the driving road construction vehicle and a truck driving in front of the road construction vehicle without contact with the road construction vehicle;
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- dumping material from a loading cavity of the truck into a material hopper of the road construction vehicle while the distance between the driving road construction vehicle and the truck is kept constant;
- wherein the distance control system comprises a distance sensor which determines the distance between the driving road construction vehicle and the truck driving in front of the road construction vehicle;
- wherein the distance sensor is provided on one of the road construction vehicle and the truck;
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- wherein the distance control system controls the distance between the driving road construction vehicle and the truck driving in front of the road construction vehicle to a value which is selected from a lookup table based on a type of the truck and/or a type of the road construction vehicle.
A distance control system for keeping constant a distance between a driving road construction vehicle and a truck driving in front of the road construction vehicle without contact with the road construction vehicle during a material transfer between the truck and the road construction vehicle, wherein the road construction vehicle is a road finishing machine or a feeder for a road finishing machine, the system comprising:
- a distance sensor which determines the distance between the driving road construction vehicle and the truck driving in front of the road construction vehicle, wherein the distance sensor is provided on one of the road construction vehicle and the truck, wherein the distance control system controls the distance between the driving road construction vehicle and the truck driving in front of the road construction vehicle to a value which is selected from a lookup table based on a type of the truck and/or a type of the road construction vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.