Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki

Torahiko Yamanouchi

Hisashi Ichijo

Kenichi Katae

A camera lifting apparatus is used in an industrial vehicle equipped with a cargo handling apparatus for lifting a cargo carrying carriage up and down along a mast provided on a vehicle body. The carriage has a cargo carrying apparatus. The camera lifting apparatus comprises a camera unit attached to the cargo carrying apparatus. The camera unit has a camera for picking up an image of a work area of the cargo carrying apparatus. A moving mechanism moves the camera unit relatively to the cargo carrying apparatus. An actuator drives the moving mechanism.

Camera lifting apparatus and cargo handling operation aiding apparatus in industrial vehicle and industrial vehicle

A load handling operation control apparatus for an industrial vehicle, which has a load carrying apparatus provided movably on a vehicle body, is provided. A load carrying apparatusis positioned with a load handling targetaccording to its movement. A load handling control sectionhas a display deviceand a detection device for detecting the position of the load handling target. A image control sectiondisplays positioning information for supporting positioning of the load carrying apparatuswith respect to the load handling targeton the display devicebased on a positional detection result detected by the detection device.

Industrial vehicle equipped with load handling operation control apparatus

A camerapicks up an image of a cargo handling target and acquires image data of a mark affixed to the cargo handling target. An image processing sectionperforms image recognition of the mark and acquires the position and size of the mark in a screen coordinate system. A real coordinate position calculating sectionacquires the position of the camerain a real coordinate system based on the obtained position and size of the mark. Based on the position of the cameraa deviation amount calculating sectionacquires a deviation amount between the current position of forks and a target position. A cargo handling control sectionexecutes automatic positioning control of the forks in such a way that the deviation amount becomes zero.

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Kariya, Japan

Torahiko Yamanouchi