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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2022
Crown Equipment Corporation, New Bremen, OH (US);
Michael J. Corbett, Macedonia, OH (US);
Christopher R. Graunke, Piqua, OH (US);
Jamison S. Frady, Sidney, OH (US);
Trisha M. Luthman, Covington, OH (US);
Justin Bennett, Newburgh, IN (US);
Mike Ciholas, Evansville, IN (US);
Sarah Dory, Newburgh, IN (US);
Herb Hollinger, Mount Vernon, IN (US);
Casey Richardson, Evansville, IN (US);
Josh Woody, Newburgh, IN (US);
Crown Equipment Corporation, New Bremen, OH (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication between a remote control device comprising a peripheral BLE device and a controller on a materials handling vehicle comprising a central BLE device. The method comprises: polling via a plurality of connection requests, by the central BLE device, communicated with the peripheral BLE device with which the central BLE device is paired. The peripheral BLE device comprising one or more activatable switches. Based on the status of the one or more activatable switches, the peripheral BLE device sending reply messages to at least a portion of the plurality of connection requests in accordance with at least one of a first or a second communication operating mode. When operating in the first communication operating mode, the peripheral BLE device replies to only a portion of the plurality of connection requests, wherein each reply message is indicative of the status of the one or more activatable switches.