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US 12,692,103 B2Granted
Vehicle and vehicle logistics control method
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorsDonghee Seok, Jongbok Lee
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Abstract
An embodiment vehicle includes a freight loading box, conveyer balls installed in the freight loading box, a goods loader configured to move and load goods grouped according to a delivery destination to positions set in the freight loading box by controlling the conveyor balls, and a goods unloader configured to move the goods for the delivery destination toward an entrance side of the freight loading box by controlling the conveyor balls upon arrival of the vehicle at the delivery destination.
Claims20
A vehicle comprising:
- a display screen;
- a freight loading box;
- conveyor balls installed in the freight loading box;
- a goods loader configured to move and load goods grouped according to a delivery destination to positions set in the freight loading box by controlling the conveyor balls, wherein the goods loader is configured to set a dropped position in the freight loading box as a loading space for the grouped goods, based on a position where a graphical representation of the grouped goods is dragged and dropped into a graphical representation of the freight loading box that is displayed on the display screen of the vehicle;
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- a goods unloader configured to move the grouped goods for the delivery destination toward an entrance side of the freight loading box by controlling the conveyor balls upon arrival of the vehicle at the delivery destination.
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A vehicle comprising:
- a display screen;
- a freight loading box;
- conveyor balls installed in the freight loading box;
- a goods loader configured to move and load goods grouped according to a delivery destination to positions set in the freight loading box by controlling the conveyor balls, wherein the goods loader is configured to set a dropped position in the freight loading box as a loading space for the grouped goods, based on a position where a graphical representation of the grouped goods is dragged and dropped into a graphical representation of the freight loading box that is displayed on the display screen of the vehicle;
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- a goods unloader comprising a delivery destination checker configured to perform communication with a delivery system and compare delivery destination information of the delivery system with current location information of the vehicle to determine whether the vehicle has arrived at the delivery destination where the grouped goods are to be unloaded, wherein the goods unloader is configured to move the grouped goods for the delivery destination toward an entrance side of the freight loading box by controlling the conveyor balls upon arrival of the vehicle at the delivery destination.
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A vehicle logistics control method, the method comprising:
- loading goods grouped according to a delivery destination to positions set in a freight loading box of a vehicle in which conveyor balls are installed by controlling the conveyor balls, wherein loading the grouped goods comprises:
- setting a dropped position in the freight loading box as a loading space for the grouped goods, based on a position where a graphical representation of the grouped goods is dragged and dropped into a graphical representation of the freight loading box that is displayed on a display screen of the vehicle;
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- moving the grouped goods toward an entrance side of the freight loading box by controlling the conveyor balls in response to the vehicle arriving at the delivery destination.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.