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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2017
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Casey Charles Regan, Corona, CA (US);
Stephen William Ayres, Belgrade, MT (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A system for determining load distribution of pieces of cargo in a cargo hold of a vehicle may include a plurality of tags, each of the plurality of tags mounted on a different piece of the pieces of cargo in the cargo hold and carrying information indicative of a weight of the different piece of cargo on which it is mounted; a plurality of sensors mounted in a spaced array along a length of the cargo hold, each of the sensors capable of reading from the tags the information indicative of the weights of the pieces of cargo; and a computer connected to receive from the plurality of sensors the information indicative of the weights and information indicative of the locations of the pieces of cargo in the cargo hold, the computer programmed to calculate therefrom a weight and/or center of gravity of the plurality of the pieces of cargo.