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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017
Filed:
May. 06, 2016
Crown Equipment Corporation, New Bremen, OH (US);
Daniel D. Walton, Marysville, OH (US);
Nicholas J. Sherman, Minster, OH (US);
Crown Equipment Corporation, New Bremen, OH (US);
Abstract
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, an industrial vehicle is provided comprising industrial vehicle hardware, a user interface, tag reader, reader module, and vehicle controller. The tag reader and the reader module cooperate to identify individual tags of a tag layout comprising a plurality of zone identification tags and a plurality of zone tags. Each zone identification tag occupies a position in the tag layout that corresponds to a unique set of zone tags. Each unique set of zone tags comprises a plurality of zone tags. The reader module discriminates between the plurality of zone identification tags and the plurality of zone tags identified in the tag layout, correlates an identified zone identification tag with a unique set of zone tags, and correlates vehicle functionality with an identified zone tag within the unique set of zone tags, tag-dependent positional data derived from the identified zone tag, or both.