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US 12,706,006 B2Granted
Locating a device on a shelf rail
AssigneeVusionGroup GmbH
InventorsAndreas Rössl, Nikola Gmajnic
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Abstract
Shelf-rail system comprising one shelf rail and at least one shelf-rail device attached to the shelf rail, wherein the shelf rail system comprises at least one sensor that is provided and designed to automatically determine the position of at least one shelf-rail device attached to the shelf rail along the longitudinal extension of the shelf rail and/or to automatically determine the sequential order of at least two shelf-rail devices attached to the shelf rail along the longitudinal extension of the shelf rail.
Claims20
Shelf-rail system, which comprises
- a shelf rail and
- at least one shelf-rail device attached to the shelf rail,
- wherein the shelf-rail system comprises at least one sensor which is provided and designed to automatically determine the position of at least one of the at least one shelf-rail device attached to the shelf rail along the longitudinal extension of the shelf rail and/or to automatically determine the sequential order of at least two shelf-rail devices attached to the shelf rail along the longitudinal extension of the shelf rail, and
- wherein the sensor is designed to detect a signal propagating along the shelf rail to measure the time-of-flight measurement of a mechanically excited signal.
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Shelf-rail system, which comprises
- a shelf rail and
- at least one shelf-rail device attached to the shelf rail,
- wherein the shelf-rail system comprises at least one sensor which is provided and designed to automatically determine the position of at least one of the at least one shelf-rail device attached to the shelf rail along the longitudinal extension of the shelf rail and/or to automatically determine the sequential order of at least two shelf-rail devices attached to the shelf rail along the longitudinal extension of the shelf rail,
- wherein the sensor is installed in the shelf-rail device and is designed to detect a plurality of coding elements of the shelf rail, and
- wherein the coding elements are formed by recesses in the shelf rail, along the longitudinal extension of the shelf rail.
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Shelf-rail system, which comprises
- a shelf rail and
- at least one shelf-rail device attached to the shelf rail,
- wherein the shelf-rail system comprises at least one sensor which is provided and designed to automatically determine the position of at least one of the at least one shelf-rail device attached to the shelf rail along the longitudinal extension of the shelf rail and/or to automatically determine the sequential order of at least two shelf-rail devices attached to the shelf rail along the longitudinal extension of the shelf rail,
- wherein the sensor is installed in the shelf-rail device and is designed to detect a plurality of coding elements of the shelf rail, and
- wherein the coding elements differ in terms of one of their characteristics and each characteristic occurs only once.
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Shelf-rail system, which comprises
- a shelf rail and
- at least one shelf-rail device attached to the shelf rail,
- wherein the shelf-rail system comprises at least one sensor which is provided and designed to automatically determine the position of at least one of the at least one shelf-rail device attached to the shelf rail along the longitudinal extension of the shelf rail and/or to automatically determine the sequential order of at least two shelf-rail devices attached to the shelf rail along the longitudinal extension of the shelf rail, and
- wherein each shelf-rail device comprises at least one transmitter as the sensor for inter-shelf-rail device communication and the respective shelf-rail device is designed to provide the result of a communication and/or signal transmission between two adjacent shelf-rail devices for the purpose of determining the position and/or sequential order.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.