Installation with automatic vehicles

Details Installation with automatic vehicles Installation with automatic vehicles

1979-12-07

1982-08-24

Peters, Jr., Joseph F.

Motor vehicles

With means for controlling operation responsive to...

Having controlling means adapted to interact with stationary...

180169, 250202, 250215, B60T 716, B62D 128

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043456626

ABSTRACT:
An installation for vehicles moving automatically, without human intervention, between starting and arrival points along a predetermined path consisting of stops, junctions, crossings, inlets, outlets of elevators, etc.
An installation in which each self-propelling vehicle is adapted to carry a load and has steering-wheels and a central driving-wheel as well as optical detectors designed to read an optical track laid out on the ground and furnishing passive driving signals, the vehicle also being provided with an ultrasonic emitter-receiver assembly working as a radar and operative to detect obstacles along the path of movement of the vehicle.

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patent: 2493755 (1950-01-01), Ferrill, Jr.
patent: 3749197 (1973-07-01), Deutsch
patent: 3814025 (1974-06-01), Nelson
patent: 4049961 (1977-09-01), Marcy
patent: 4077535 (1978-03-01), Oriol

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