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US 12,344,515 B2Granted
Driverless transport vehicle having a payload lifting apparatus and securing apparatus
AssigneeContinental Automotive Technologies GmbH
InventorsStefan Lang, Sven Mainz, Sascha Gerber
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Abstract
A driverless automatically guided transport vehicle for conveying payloads, for example a material transport vehicle in a factory, having a payload lifting apparatus. In order to offer a transport vehicle which is improved with regard to the securing of loads, it is proposed that the transport vehicle has a retaining apparatus for securing the load on the transport vehicle, the activation of which retaining apparatus is positively coupled to the lifting movement of the lifting apparatus.
Claims10
A driverless automatically guided transport vehicle for transporting a load comprising:
- a lifting apparatus which is configured to lift the load such that said load can be transported in the lifted state;
- a retaining apparatus for securing the load on the transport vehicle, wherein the activation of the retaining apparatus is positively coupled to the lifting movement of the lifting apparatus;
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- wherein the retaining apparatus has a locking fork which can be moved from a retracted parked position into a deployed locking position and which in the deployed position engages around a traverse, which is attached to the payload or to a separate payload carrier, at at least two opposite sides and thus secures said traverse in form-fitting fashion.
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