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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2019
Deutsche Post Ag, Bonn, DE;
Felix Orth, Aachen, DE;
DEUTSCHE POST AG, Bonn, DE;
Abstract
A method for locating at least one object transported in a load compartment of a delivery van, wherein the load compartment has a plurality of doors for removing the at least one object from the load compartment and the delivery van has a controller, includes determining a current position of the at least one object in the load compartment during a journey of the delivery van with a position determination device communicatively connected to the controller, and, for removing the at least one object from the load compartment, determining that door from the plurality of doors with the shortest distance to the current position, indicating the determined door with an indication device communicatively connected to the controller and/or opening the determined door and indicating the current position of the at least one object in the load compartment with the indication device.