Abstract: An industrial truck having a battery compartment that accommodates a replaceable battery block, the battery compartment comprising at least one lateral access opening for inserting and for withdrawing the battery block, the base of the battery compartment having at least one guide track in the battery movement direction capable of supporting the battery block such that it can move relative to the battery compartment on the guide track by a support element provided on the battery block. The battery compartment base may have a plurality of roller accommodation openings into which rollers can be inserted. A separate shelf may be arranged at a distance from the battery compartment base by means of spacers, the shelf having a plurality of roller accommodation openings into which rollers can be inserted.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electric vehicle, especially an industrial truck comprising at least one securing brace (28) for a battery block (24) that is accommodated in the vehicle (10). The securing brace (28) encompasses an engaging section (30) that can be inserted into a first frame part (34) of the vehicle (10), a fastening element (38, 56) that can be hooked into a second frame part (40), and a retaining section (44) that extends therebetween. A supporting section (70) of the securing brace (28) at least partly rests against the battery block (24) in a securing position in which the securing brace (28) is inserted in the vehicle.

Abstract: An industrial truck with a load support which is adjustable in its height along a lifting frame and whose taken load is detected by a load sensor, wherein a control unit is provided in which one or several load gravity centres can be selected and which determines an admissible lifting height for the one or several selected load gravity centres on the basis of the detected load.

Abstract: In an industrial truck, in particular a fork-lift truck, having a vehicle frame and a load pickup means (16), which can be displaced in relation to the vehicle frame, at least one wheel which is closer to the load pickup means and, at a distance from this, at least one wheel (20) which is further away from the load pickup means being provided on the vehicle frame, the wheel axle (18) of at least one wheel (20) being capable of moving in relation to the vehicle frame along a movement trajectory with a movement component which is orthogonal with respect to the standing area of the industrial truck, in addition a loading force (B), which is caused by the tare weight of the industrial truck and a load (L) which may have been picked up by said industrial truck, acting on the at least one moveable wheel axle (18), which loading force changes operationally, the at least one moveable wheel axle (18) in addition has or can have an arbitrarily variable additional force applied to it.

Abstract: Industrial truck with an electric travel drive and controls that can switch the electric travel drive to regenerative operation to brake the industrial truck, wherein an eddy current brake is provided that can be controlled or regulated by the controls during regenerative operation to brake the industrial truck, wherein the controls control or regulate the eddy current brake depending on the rpm of the electric travel drive, and wherein the controls control or regulate the eddy current brake in a manner such that the braking torque of the travel drive is supplemented at high rpms by the braking torque generated by the eddy current brake.

Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle, in particular an industrial truck, with a drive motor for the traction drive, a brake system and a driving state monitoring device that comprises an electronic control device and at least one driving movement sensor responding to a traction movement of the vehicle and relaying driving movement information to the electronic control device, wherein the driving state monitoring device is designed to carry out a brake function check when the vehicle is started, wherein when the brake system is activated to brake the vehicle the monitoring device activates the drive motor.

Abstract: Industrial truck, in particular a lift truck, with a drive axle with drive wheels and a drive motor, a steering axle with two steerable wheels, a target value sensor that is connected to a steering wheel, a steering motor, a steering device which is in effective connection with a steering tie rod, a position transducer magnet whose position is recorded by two magnetic resonance sensors that are arranged in parallel, where the position transducer magnet and the resonance sensors are moved relative to each other during a steering movement of the steering device, and where the magnetic resonance sensors generate counter directional analog signals for the actual value of the steering angle of the steerable wheels, a steering control, connected to the target value sensor, the steering motor, and the magnetic resonance sensors, which evaluates the signals received from the target value sensor and the magnetic resonance sensors, and controls the vehicle steering angle to the target steering angle, where the signals

Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic apparatus comprising a hydraulic pump (30) which is connectable to a hydraulic fluid tank, an electric motor (2) as a drive means for the hydraulic pump (30), which electric motor comprises a motor shaft and a motor housing cover (4), and a control valve assembly (12) connected to the pump (30) to control at least one hydraulic consumer which is connectable to the pump (30) and is to be supplied by the pump (30) with hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic fluid tank, wherein the pump (30) is fixed on the motor housing cover (4) and the motor housing cover (4) comprises a holding adapter (10) on which the control valve assembly (12) is fixed.

Abstract: A hydraulic tank for an industrial truck having a tank lower part with a base and a side wall and produced in one piece, a tank cover which is connected to an upper edge of the side wall, is produced in one piece and defines at least one hydraulic medium receiving chamber together with the base and the side wall, at least one hydraulic medium intake pipe extending from a hydraulic medium suction connector of the tank cover, and at least one hydraulic medium return pipe extending from a hydraulic medium return connector of the tank cover, wherein the hydraulic medium intake pipe and the hydraulic medium return pipe, together with the tank cover, form a tank upper part which is assembled as a modular unit with the tank lower part to form the hydraulic tank.

Abstract: The invention relates to a chain pin that is for connecting to a lifting chain of an industrial truck and having a longitudinal extension and can be guided in the longitudinal direction through a boring in a fork carrier and/or lifting frame of the industrial truck, and having on its first end a head with an extension perpendicular to the longitudinal extension that is greater than the inner diameter of the boring, where an elastic bearing element is arranged on the side of the head distant from the first end and surrounds the chain pin and has a first section and a second section, where the first section has an extension perpendicular to the longitudinal extension of the chain pin that is greater than the inner diameter of the boring, and the second section is formed so that it can be inserted into the boring.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an industrial truck control system (10) for influencing the driving operation of an industrial truck (A, B) according to irregularities along the route to be travelled by the industrial truck (A, B), the system comprising a sensor device (14) for recording irregularities along the route in assignment to the position of irregularities concerned, a memory device (16) for storing the data recorded by the sensor device, and means (16) for influencing the driving operation of the industrial truck (A, B) in dependence on the respective position of the industrial truck (A, B) and according to the data of the sensor device (14) stored in the memory device (16).

Abstract: Industrial truck, in particular fork lift, having an exchangeable battery block (13) and a battery case (3) which accommodates the battery block (13), with the battery case (3) having a lateral access opening (7) to slide the battery block (13) with a first end first into the battery case (3) and pull the battery block (13) with its first end last out of the battery case (3), with the battery block (13) accommodated in the battery case (3) being supported near its first end with at least one independent roller (25) on the battery case bottom (5), characterized in that that on the battery block (13) accommodated in the battery case (3), a projection (21) at the first end opposite the second end of said battery block, which projects over a front edge section (29) of the battery case bottom (5) near the access opening (7) and over the underside of the battery case bottom (5) downward, is provided as lifting abutment for a battery transport device (33), in particular a fork lift device to lift the battery block (

Abstract: The invention relates to a battery changing system comprising an industrial truck and a battery pack, which is or can inserted into a battery compartment of the industrial truck, wherein the battery pack may be inserted into a lateral access opening of the battery compartment with a first end leading into the battery compartment and may be withdrawn from the battery compartment with its first end at the rear, wherein the battery pack accommodated in the battery compartment can be supported in the vicinity of its first end with at least one rolling body on the base of the battery compartment, and at least one transport device, on which the battery pack can be accommodated. The transport device may comprise a changeable adapter, which can be aligned in a predetermined position for a battery changing operation relative to the industrial truck by means of mutually interacting alignment means.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an industrial truck control system (10) for influencing the driving operation of an industrial truck (A, B) according to irregularities along the route to be traveled by the industrial truck (A, B), the system comprising a sensor device (14) for recording irregularities along the route in assignment to the position of irregularities concerned, a memory device (16) for storing the data recorded by the sensor device, and means (16) for influencing the driving operation of the industrial truck (A, B) in dependence on the respective position of the industrial truck (A, B) and according to the data of the sensor device (14) stored in the memory device (16).

Abstract: An industrial truck having height-adjustable load bearing means, lifting height controls in which a plurality of predetermined lifting heights are saved, a lifting height detection system for the load bearing means that detects an actual value of the lifting height and provides it to the lifting height controls, and a control unit that allows the lifting height of the load bearing means to be manually adjusted at different speeds, wherein the lifting height controls move the load bearing means to one of the predetermined lifting heights when the speed for adjusting the load bearing means specified by the control unit falls below a predetermined threshold, wherein the lifting height assumed by the lifting height controls corresponds to the lifting height of the predetermined lifting heights that most closely approximates the actual value of the lifting height in the direction in which the load bearing means is moving.

Abstract: A drive system with either a four-shaft epicyclic gearing consisting of two fixed links or one fixed link. A first shaft is coupled to an engine and a second shaft is connected to a first electric motor. The electric is coupled to the power supply of the industrial truck. A brake is coupled to a third shaft of the gearing , while a fourth shaft is coupled to a change gear. The change gear is coupled to a summing gear, the other input shaft connected to a second electric motor connected to the power supply. The output shaft is coupled to a driven wheel of the truck. A sensor device detects the speed of the engine and of the two motors. A control and regulating device sets the speeds and/or torque of the motors and of the engine according to setpoint signals and the output signals of the sensor device.

Abstract: Industrial truck with a drive part which comprises an electrical travel drive, a load part which comprises a load carrying means and which may be lifted relative to the drive part, a battery receiving space and an energy module which may be handled manually, which may be inserted into the battery receiving space and which comprises a battery for supplying power to the travel drive, the energy module having a defined installed position in the state inserted into the battery receiving space, the battery receiving space enclosing the energy module in the inserted state so that the energy module is not displaceable in the defined installed position but may only be removed from the battery receiving space after being tilted, during the tilting process an upper end of the energy module being moved by a predetermined angle about a horizontal pivot axis.

Abstract: A horizontal order picker with an operating platform and a load section which is provided for accommodating at least one order-picking container, wherein an operational control is provided in the operating platform, upon actuation of which the horizontal order picker moves for a predetermined distance (D) automatically, the length of the distance (D) corresponding to the offset between the operating platform and one of the order-picking containers

Abstract: Cover panel for a drawbar-controlled ground conveyor on the side facing the drawbar, which has a mainly U-shaped skirt formed from a blank section in the lower area, with a bar section facing the drawbar and lateral leg sections, which covers a drive unit of the ground conveyor on the side and in the back and can be welded to a frame of the ground conveyor, wherein the upper edge of the skirt runs within the surface area of the skirt, an approximately middle upper section of the bar section is embossed with respect to the neighboring outer surfaces of the bar section, and the embossed section projects upwards into a centering section.