Patents by Inventor Robert Hammerl

Robert Hammerl has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11760614
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle, comprising a vehicle floor, three vehicle wheels and a surroundings monitoring device comprising a plurality of surroundings sensor units, in particular laser scanners, each of which has a continuous monitoring angle range in a horizontal plane below the vehicle floor, wherein the surroundings monitoring device comprises two surroundings sensor units which are arranged under the vehicle floor, within the plan view contour of the vehicle, such that the monitoring angle ranges thereof overlap one another in part and define a common horizontal scanning region in which gaps or shadowing in the monitoring angle range of a particular surroundings sensor unit, within the plan view of the vehicle, are captured by the monitoring angle range of the other surroundings sensor unit, such that the surroundings monitoring device offers 360° all-around monitoring around the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: JUNGHEINRICH AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Robert Hämmerl
  • Publication number: 20220250887
    Abstract: A system for guiding an industrial truck in a high-bay store comprising a plurality of bay posts, the system including a sensor unit configured to record vehicle position data that represent a relative or absolute current position of the truck. The system includes a bay post determination unit configured to determine at least one bay post that is to be expected in an event of further travel of the truck and bay post position data that represent a relative or absolute position of the at least one bay post. The system includes a computing unit configured to communicate with the sensor unit and with the bay post determination unit and to calculate a desired travel route of the truck based on the vehicle position data and the bay post position data. The system includes a control unit configured to guide the truck based on the desired travel route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventor: Robert HÄMMERL
  • Publication number: 20210078842
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle, comprising a vehicle floor, three vehicle wheels and a surroundings monitoring device comprising a plurality of surroundings sensor units, in particular laser scanners, each of which has a continuous monitoring angle range in a horizontal plane below the vehicle floor, wherein the surroundings monitoring device comprises two surroundings sensor units which are arranged under the vehicle floor, within the plan view contour of the vehicle, such that the monitoring angle ranges thereof overlap one another in part and define a common horizontal scanning region in which gaps or shadowing in the monitoring angle range of a particular surroundings sensor unit, within the plan view of the vehicle, are captured by the monitoring angle range of the other surroundings sensor unit, such that the surroundings monitoring device offers 360° all-around monitoring around the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventor: Robert Hämmerl
  • Patent number: 9658099
    Abstract: A method for determining or estimating a load weight of a load (28) carried by a commercial vehicle, in particular by an industrial truck such as a forklift truck (10), comprises: a) determining a speed ratio between a first speed of at least one first wheel (12) loaded by a load carried in a load carrier (18) of the vehicle and a second speed of at least one second wheel (14) of the operating vehicle (10) which has received the load in the load carrier, which second wheel is less heavily loaded or not loaded by a load carried in the load carrier or is relieved by a load carried in the load carrier; b) determining or estimating the load weight of the carried load (28) on the basis of the determined speed ratio and predetermined reference data. A commercial vehicle (10) comprising a control system (22) carrying out a method of this kind is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: JUNGHEINRICH AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Robert Hammerl
  • Publication number: 20160041028
    Abstract: A method for determining or estimating a load weight of a load (28) carried by a commercial vehicle, in particular by an industrial truck such as a forklift truck (10), comprises: a) determining a speed ratio between a first speed of at least one first wheel (12) loaded by a load carried in a load carrier (18) of the vehicle and a second speed of at least one second wheel (14) of the operating vehicle (10) which has received the load in the load carrier, which second wheel is less heavily loaded or not loaded by a load carried in the load carrier or is relieved by a load carried in the load carrier; b) determining or estimating the load weight of the carried load (28) on the basis of the determined speed ratio and predetermined reference data. A commercial vehicle (10) comprising a control system (22) carrying out a method of this kind is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: JUNGHEINRICH AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Robert Hammerl
  • Patent number: 7735586
    Abstract: An industrial truck and a method for its delivery are proposed, the mobile base of the industrial truck being transported to the delivery destination on a load transport vehicle. At the delivery destination, an operating device that is also supplied is used as a mobile operating device for issuing control instructions for the traction operations of the base vehicle, in order to drive the base vehicle with its own drive units off the load transport vehicle over a ramp or the like and thus to set it down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Jungheinrich Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Robert Hämmerl
  • Patent number: 7712572
    Abstract: The invention relates to a steering actuation device for a vehicle, in particular for an industrial truck, having an operating element for inputting steering commands by exerting torques on the operating element, having a sensor arrangement for monitoring the steering command input state of the operating element and having a control device for converting the steering command input data detected by the sensor arrangement into control information for a steering drive apparatus of a wheel, which can be steered, of the vehicle, the sensor arrangement detecting the respective steering command input state of the operating element by means of monitoring the elastic material deformation, in particular torsion, of an element, which is subjected to elastic deformation by means of a steering command input torque on the operating element and is coupled to or associated with the operating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Jungheinrich Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Schönauer, Robert Hämmerl
  • Patent number: 7370540
    Abstract: Rotation angle sensor, in particular for an electrical steering system of an industrial truck, in which two magnetic field sensitive sensor elements are arranged on orthogonal axes and a permanent magnet is attached to a shaft extending through the axis intersection point and the output signals X, Y of the sensor elements are given to an evaluation unit, which determines from the two output signals X, Y the rotation angle value by means of a function saved in the evaluation unit, characterized in that for a plurality of predetermined values of one of the output signals X or Y associated ideal values calculated from the geometrical relationship of the sensors of the other output signal Y, X are saved in the evaluation unit, the measured values of the other output signal Y, X are compared with the ideal values and a warning or stop signal is created if the difference between the measured and ideal value reaches a predetermined amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Jungheinrich Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Robert Hammerl, Frank Manken, Christoph Weber
  • Publication number: 20070247327
    Abstract: An industrial truck and a method for its delivery are proposed, the mobile base (2) of the industrial truck being transported to the delivery destination on a load transport vehicle. At the delivery destination, an operating device that is also supplied is used as a mobile operating device (14) for issuing control instructions for the traction operations of the base vehicle (2), in order to drive the base vehicle (2) with its own drive means off the load transport vehicle over a ramp or the like and thus to set it down.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Applicant: Jungheinrich Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Robert Hammerl
  • Patent number: 7266904
    Abstract: The invention relates to an industrial truck having a first load-bearing component (12) and a second load-bearing component (14) which are provided such that they can move in relation to one another for the purpose of carrying out a conveying movement, a sensor scale (22) being provided on one of the load-bearing components (14) (scale load-bearing component) for the purpose of detecting the relative movement between the two load-bearing components (12, 14), and a sensor (24), which is designed to detect the sensor scale (22), being provided on the respective other load-bearing component (12) (sensor load-bearing component). The industrial truck is characterized in that the sensor scale (22) is designed integrally on the scale load-bearing component (14) such that a section (14a) of the scale load-bearing component (14) itself is the sensor scale (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Jungheinrich Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Robert Hämmerl, Carsten Schöttke, Klaus Schröder
  • Publication number: 20070074924
    Abstract: The invention relates to a steering actuation device for a vehicle, in particular for an industrial truck, having an operating element (1) for inputting steering commands by exerting torques on the operating element (1), having a sensor arrangement (16) for monitoring the steering command input state of the operating element (1) and having a control device for converting the steering command input data detected by the sensor arrangement (16) into control information for a steering drive apparatus of a wheel, which can be steered, of the vehicle, the sensor arrangement (16) detecting the respective steering command input state of the operating element (1) by means of monitoring the elastic material deformation, in particular torsion, of an element (14), which is subjected to elastic deformation by means of a steering command input torque on the operating element (1) and is coupled to or associated with the operating element (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Michael Schonauer, Robert Hammerl
  • Publication number: 20060283268
    Abstract: Rotation angle sensor, in particular for an electrical steering system of an industrial truck, in which two magnetic field sensitive sensor elements are arranged on orthogonal axes and a permanent magnet is attached to a shaft extending through the axis intersection point and the output signals X, Y of the sensor elements are given to an evaluation unit, which determines from the two output signals X, Y the rotation angle value by means of a function saved in the evaluation unit, characterized in that for a plurality of predetermined values of one of the output signals X or Y associated ideal values calculated from the geometrical relationship of the sensors of the other output signal Y, X are saved in the evaluation unit, the measured values of the other output signal Y, X are compared with the ideal values and a warning or stop signal is created if the difference between the measured and ideal value reaches a predetermined amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2006
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Inventors: Robert Hammerl, Frank Manken, Christoph Weber
  • Publication number: 20060088044
    Abstract: Inter alia, the invention provides a node (16) for a bus network, which has a bus controller (30) having a receiving and transmitting circuit arrangement (32) and having a bus connection for transmitting and receiving messages via the bus (14), and has a node identification set device (34, 30) for setting a node identification, on the basis of which the node (16) can respond via the bus (14) and/or the node can be identified in the network and/or on the basis of which messages sent from the node and/or message contents can be identified and/or on the basis of which messages which are relevant for the node and/or message contents can be identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Inventor: Robert Hammerl
  • Publication number: 20060059702
    Abstract: For a measuring device for the incremental measurement of positions, actuating displacements or actuating angles taking into consideration the movement direction, comprising at least one first sensor arrangement (A) and at least one second sensor arrangement (B), which interact with at least one pitch track (100a), which can move in relation to the sensor arrangements, in order, during a relative movement between the sensor arrangements on the one hand and the pitch track on the other hand, to produce pulse signals which are offset with respect to one another by a defined phase, represent the relative movement in successive pulses and indicate the movement direction in the phase, the or at least one pitch track (100a) being designed to have a pitch which represents movement increments which determine the incremental measurement resolution capacity and produce pulses during the relative movement, it is proposed that the or at least one pitch track (100a) designed to have a further pitch which represents moveme
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Inventor: Robert Hammerl
  • Publication number: 20060005415
    Abstract: The invention relates to an industrial truck having a first load-bearing component (12) and a second load-bearing component (14) which are provided such that they can move in relation to one another for the purpose of carrying out a conveying movement, a sensor scale (22) being provided on one of the load-bearing components (14) (scale load-bearing component) for the purpose of detecting the relative movement between the two load-bearing components (12, 14), and a sensor (24), which is designed to detect the sensor scale (22), being provided on the respective other load-bearing component (12) (sensor load-bearing component). The industrial truck is characterized in that the sensor scale (22) is designed integrally on the scale load-bearing component (14) such that a section (14a) of the scale load-bearing component (14) itself is the sensor scale (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventors: Robert Hammerl, Carsten Schottke, Klaus Schroder