Fraunhofer-gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.v.

Jan Soeren Emmerich

Michael Ten Hompel

Jan Behling

Mathias Rotgeri

Christian Hammermeister

Patrick Klokowski

Dirk Hoening

A vehicle for transporting cargo includes a cargo receiving portion which is located on a chassis, the cargo receiving portion having a retaining element that secures the cargo at the edge of the cargo receiving portion and a vehicle control unit being provided. The retaining element extends only over part of the perimeter of the cargo receiving portion and is designed to rotate about a vertical axis, the vehicle control unit being configured such that, as a result of each current or anticipated acceleration or deceleration of the chassis, it orients the retaining element about the vertical axis, relative to the current direction of travel, so that the retaining element is at least on the side of the cargo receiving portion towards which the cargo moves after overcoming the static friction between the surface of the load receiving portion and the contact surface of the load.

Vehicle for transporting cargo

According to a method for transferring a cargo from a cargo receiving portion of a vehicle onto a cargo take-up station, the vehicle is controlled by a vehicle control unit such that the vector of the velocity of the vehicle is modified immediately before, or upon its arrival at the cargo take-up station and the vehicle is oriented by the vehicle control unit and/or by at least one guide system positioned in the region of the cargo take-up station before the arrival of the vehicle at the cargo take-up station, such that the trajectory of the cargo that is moving away from the cargo receiving portion as a result of the modification in the velocity vector, ends at a receiving region of the cargo take-up station.

Method for transferring cargo from a cargo receiving portion of a vehicle, and vehicle for carrying out said method

A switch device () and its operation from an actuation side () are disclosed, the switch device having a plate-shaped main body (), a plate-shaped actuation part (), a connection device () located between the main body () and the actuation part () made from an elastic material, and at least one sensor (), which are located between the main body () and the actuation part () and viewed in the thickness direction (Z) are located at the side of the connection device (), so that each sensor () can be used to detect a position of one region, arranged on said sensor, of the second surface in the thickness direction (Z).

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Solingen, Germany

Jan Soeren Emmerich