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.
Claims17
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.
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 sensor which determines the distance between the driving road construction vehicle and the truck driving in front of the road construction vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.