Refuse vehicle with an automatically ejecting pack panel
AssigneeOshkosh Corporation
InventorsGreg Steffens, Chris Mills, Aaron Fisher, Amanda Miller
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Abstract
A refuse vehicle includes a chassis, a cab coupled to the chassis, a refuse compartment supported by the chassis and having a storage volume and a hopper volume, a packing assembly including a pack panel and a packing actuator, and an ejection input configured to automatically initiate an ejection procedure upon activation of the ejection input. The packing actuator is configured to selectively move the pack panel between a retracted position and an extended position. The ejection procedure includes extending the pack panel to a plurality of extended positions between the retracted position and the extended position.
Claims20
A refuse vehicle comprising:
- a chassis;
- a cab coupled to the chassis;
- a refuse compartment supported by the chassis and including a storage volume and a hopper volume;
- a packing assembly including a pack panel and a packing actuator, wherein the packing actuator is configured to selectively move the pack panel between a retracted position and an extended position;
- and
- an ejection input configured to automatically initiate an ejection procedure upon activation of the ejection input, wherein the ejection procedure includes extending the pack panel to a plurality of extended positions between the retracted position and the extended position.
A refuse vehicle comprising:
- a chassis;
- a cab coupled to the chassis;
- a refuse compartment supported by the chassis and including a storage volume and a hopper volume;
- a tailgate pivotally coupled to the refuse compartment and movable between an open position and a closed position;
- a tailgate sensor configured to detect a position of the tailgate and provide an indication of whether the tailgate is in the open position or the closed position;
- a packing assembly including a pack panel and a packing actuator, wherein the packing actuator is configured to selectively move the pack panel between a retracted position and an extended position during an ejection procedure;
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- a controller including a processor and at least one memory, the controller being in communication with the tailgate sensor and the packing actuator and being configured to:
- determine if the tailgate is in the open position or the closed position;
- in response to determining that the tailgate is in the closed position, prevent the packing actuator from performing the ejection procedure;
- and
- in response to determining that the tailgate is in the open position, initiate the ejection procedure upon activation of an ejection input, wherein the ejection procedure sequentially extends the pack panel to a plurality of extended positions between the retracted position and the extended position.
A method of initiating an ejection procedure on a refuse vehicle, the method comprising:
- determining if a tailgate is in an open position or a closed position;
- upon determining that the tailgate is in the closed position, preventing a packing actuator from extending past a retracted position;
- and
- upon determining that the tailgate is in the open position and receiving an activation of an ejection input, automatically initiating an ejection procedure where the packing actuator extends a pack panel to a plurality of extended positions between the retracted position and an extended position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.