Gyroscopically stabilized vehicle system
AssigneeHand Held Products, Inc.
InventorScott Xavier Houle
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Abstract
A method of self-stabilizing a forklift having a volume dimensioning device, a weight sensor, and a gyroscopic disc when the forklift is lifting an object, comprises: determining dimensions and volume of the object with the volume dimensioning device; determining a weight of the object with the weight sensor; calculating an approximate center of gravity of the object; and stabilizing the forklift when lifting the object by rotating the gyroscopic disc at a rotational speed based on the determined weight and calculated approximate center of gravity of the object.
Claims20
A method of self-stabilizing a forklift having a volume dimensioning device, a weight sensor, and a gyroscopic disc when the forklift is lifting an object, comprising:
- determining dimensions and volume of the object with the volume dimensioning device;
- determining a weight of the object with the weight sensor;
- calculating an approximate center of gravity of the object;
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- stabilizing the forklift when lifting the object by rotating the gyroscopic disc at a rotational speed based on the determined weight and calculated approximate center of gravity of the object.
A method of stabilizing a forklift, comprising:
- determining a weight of an object with a weight sensor;
- determining dimensions and volume of the object with a volume dimensioning device;
- calculating an approximate center of gravity of the object based on the determined dimensions and volume of the object;
- rotating a gyroscopic disc positioned in a disc receiving space of the forklift at a rotational speed sufficient to stabilize the forklift when lifting the object, the rotational speed of the gyroscopic disc being based on the approximate center of gravity and the determined weight of the object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.