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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2019
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Carsten Aschpurwis, Constance, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
Driverless transport vehicles or DTVs, which are automatically guided vehicles, are gaining importance in the sorting of cargo. A method for loading a driverless transport vehicle with a cargo item in a transfer point, includes loading the DTV with the cargo item by using a known delivery system during the journey of the DTV. In order to prevent cargo items from falling during loading, a higher-level control sets the delivery speed of the cargo item and the speed of travel before the cargo item is transferred to the transport vehicle, such that the delivery speed component of the transport direction is equal to the speed of travel of the transport vehicle. In this way, the continued use of existing delivery systems such as are known under the term HSI (high speed induction) is possible. A system for loading a driverless transport vehicle is also provided.