Crown Equipment Corporation

Robert Shearrer

Kevin Anthony Gilliland

Stefan Hannemann

Adam Wietholter

Florian Trautner

A materials handling vehicle including a vehicle-side charging contact assembly coupled to a battery, a steerable drive wheel defining a drive wheel track width W, and a pair of load wheels defining a load wheel gap G between the pair of load wheels that is larger than the drive wheel track width W. A charging station includes a pair of floor-side charging contacts configured to transfer charging current to the vehicle-side charging contact assembly. The pair of floor-side charging contacts define an inner contact spacing Sthat is larger than the drive wheel track width W, and an outer contact spacing Sthat is larger than the inner contact spacing Sand smaller than the load wheel gap G to permit passage of the steerable drive wheel between the floor-side charging contacts, followed by passage of the pair of load wheels outside of the floor-side charging contacts.

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Pullach, Germany

Robert Shearrer