US 11,913,825 B2
Storage system for a loading space of a commercial motor vehicle and method for monitoring a piece number and/or a volume of a commodity located in a receiving unit in a commercial motor vehicle
Detlef Kuck, Inden (DE); Marcel Grein, Geilenkirchen (DE); Alexandra Holz, Aachen (DE); Moritz Martinius, Cologne (DE); and Ramola Rege, Dearborn, MI (US)
Assigned to Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed by Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed on Jul. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/383,105.
Claims priority of application No. 102020209530.2 (DE), filed on Jul. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0034705 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. G01G 19/414 (2006.01); B60P 3/22 (2006.01); G01G 19/08 (2006.01); G01G 19/52 (2006.01); G01G 23/37 (2006.01)
CPC G01G 19/4144 (2013.01) [B60P 3/228 (2013.01); G01G 19/08 (2013.01); G01G 19/52 (2013.01); G01G 23/3735 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A storage system (1) for a loading space of a commercial motor vehicle, comprising:
a first plurality of weighing machines and a second plurality of weighing machines each with a counting scale (5) capable of being fixed in the loading space,
a first plurality of indicating units (7) and a second plurality of indicating units (7) each assigned to a corresponding one of the first plurality of weighing machines and the second plurality of weighing machines for indicating a piece number of a plurality of bulk commodities each located on the corresponding one of the first and second plurality of weighing machines and/or for indicating a volume of a plurality of liquid commodities located on the corresponding one of the first and second plurality of weighing machines,
a first shelf (3) and a second shelf (4) disposed on top of one another inside the vehicle and being capable of being fixed in the loading space, wherein the first and second shelves are configured such that the first plurality of weighing machines are fixed on the first shelf and the second plurality of weighing machines are fixed on the second shelf, wherein each of the first plurality of indicating units are arranged on the first shelf on one of the first plurality of weighing machines, and wherein each of the second plurality of indicating units are arranged on the second shelf on one of the second plurality of weighing machines, and
a first and a second plurality of bulk-commodity-receiving and/or liquid-commodity-receiving units (6) each for one of the first and second plurality of weighing machines.