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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2017
Applicant:
Hand Held Products, Inc., Fort Mill, SC (US);
Inventor:
Scott Xavier Houle, Edmonds, WA (US);
Assignee:
Hand Held Products, Inc., Fort Mill, SC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B66F 9/075 (2006.01); B66F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B66F 9/07559 (2013.01); B66F 9/0755 (2013.01); B66F 17/003 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of self-stabilizing a forklift having a volume dimensioning device, a weight sensor, and a gyroscopic disc when the forklift is lifting an object, comprises: determining dimensions and volume of the object with the volume dimensioning device; determining a weight of the object with the weight sensor; calculating an approximate center of gravity of the object; and stabilizing the forklift when lifting the object by rotating the gyroscopic disc at a rotational speed based on the determined weight and calculated approximate center of gravity of the object.