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).
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Patent number: 11760614Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: JUNGHEINRICH AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventor: Robert Hämmerl
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Publication number: 20220250887Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventor: Robert HÄMMERL
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Publication number: 20210078842Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventor: Robert Hämmerl
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Patent number: 9658099Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 5, 2015Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: JUNGHEINRICH AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventor: Robert Hammerl
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Publication number: 20160041028Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Applicant: JUNGHEINRICH AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventor: Robert Hammerl
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Patent number: 7735586Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 4, 2007Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Jungheinrich AktiengesellschaftInventor: Robert Hämmerl
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Patent number: 7712572Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 5, 2006Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Jungheinrich AktiengesellschaftInventors: Michael Schönauer, Robert Hämmerl
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Patent number: 7370540Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 1, 2006Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: Jungheinrich AktiengesellschaftInventors: Robert Hammerl, Frank Manken, Christoph Weber
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Publication number: 20070247327Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2007Publication date: October 25, 2007Applicant: Jungheinrich AktiengesellschaftInventor: Robert Hammerl
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Patent number: 7266904Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 28, 2005Date of Patent: September 11, 2007Assignee: Jungheinrich AktiengesellschaftInventors: Robert Hämmerl, Carsten Schöttke, Klaus Schröder
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Publication number: 20070074924Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2006Publication date: April 5, 2007Inventors: Michael Schonauer, Robert Hammerl
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Publication number: 20060283268Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2006Publication date: December 21, 2006Inventors: Robert Hammerl, Frank Manken, Christoph Weber
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Publication number: 20060088044Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2005Publication date: April 27, 2006Inventor: Robert Hammerl
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Publication number: 20060059702Abstract: 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 movemeType: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2005Publication date: March 23, 2006Inventor: Robert Hammerl
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Publication number: 20060005415Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2005Publication date: January 12, 2006Inventors: Robert Hammerl, Carsten Schottke, Klaus Schroder