US 11,805,718 B2
Docking apparatus having a docking receptacle and a docking insert, and method for coupling a vehicle
Stefan Putz, Bad Goisern (AT)
Assigned to SYN TRAC GMBH, Bad Goisern (AT)
Filed by SYN TRAC GmbH, Bad Goisern (AT)
Filed on May 8, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/870,593.
Application 16/870,593 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2018/080817, filed on Nov. 9, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 102017126476.0 (DE), filed on Nov. 10, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0267884 A1, Aug. 27, 2020
Int. Cl. A01B 59/06 (2006.01); B60D 1/62 (2006.01)
CPC A01B 59/063 (2013.01) [A01B 59/062 (2013.01); B60D 1/62 (2013.01)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A docking assembly with a first docking device and a second docking device, wherein the first docking device has an approximately U-shaped pilot centring device with a conically tapering insertion trough or at least one first and one second centring device, wherein the first and the second centring device each comprise coupling elements or coupling counter-elements, and having a second docking device with a pilot centring body having an insertion tray extending in the horizontal direction and tapering approximately conically in an insertion direction having at least one first and one second centring device, wherein the first and the second centring devices each comprise two coupling elements and/or coupling counter-elements for centring the second docking device in the first docking device,
wherein a fixing device is provided in a fixing region of the first centring recesses, wherein the fixing device is designed for axially fixing first centring pins of a docking insert in the correspondingly designed first centring recesses of the docking receptacle and wherein the fixing device has, for the purposes of fixing, hydraulically actuated wedge forks which can be displaced vertically in such a manner that fixing faces of the wedge forks engage in corresponding fixing grooves in the centring pins.