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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2015
Wirtgen Gmbh, Windhagen, DE;
Christian Berning, Zuelpich, DE;
Sebastian Winkels, Windeck, DE;
Harald Kroell, Unkel, DE;
Tobias Krista, Bonn, DE;
Wirtgen GmbH, , DE;
Abstract
In an automotive milling machine, comprising a machine frame, comprising a controller for the travelling and milling operation, comprising a working drum, comprising a transport conveyor slewable relative to the machine frame, where the transport conveyor discharges the milled material onto a point of impingement on a loading surface of different transport vehicles, where the controller comprises a detection and control unit which monitors the alterable position of the loading surface of the transport vehicle by an image-recording system comprising no less than one sensor which continuously generates no less than one digital image of, as a minimum, the loading surface, it is provided for the following features to be achieved: the detection and control unit comprises an analysis device which detects faults or errors in the image generated by the no less than one sensor.