US 12,304,328 B2
Product integrated manufacturing of emission free vehicles
Douglas Herbert Bartow, Signal Mountain, TN (US)
Assigned to Industrial Project Innovation, Greenville, SC (US)
Filed by Industrial Project Innovation, Greenville, SC (US)
Filed on Oct. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/050,953.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/274,627, filed on Nov. 2, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0135613 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. B60L 50/50 (2019.01); B60L 15/20 (2006.01); B60W 30/16 (2020.01)
CPC B60L 50/50 (2019.02) [B60L 15/20 (2013.01); B60W 30/16 (2013.01); B60L 2240/12 (2013.01); B60L 2240/622 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Method comprising:
initiating a control route for a vehicle by GPS; receiving inputs from a plurality of first sensors; receiving inputs from a plurality of second sensors; transporting a skateboard to a paint shop location; attaching a cabin to the skateboard in a marriage station; utilizing one or more post marriage stationary lift stations to complete underbody work; transporting the cabin with the skateboard through an assembly line in continuous flow to complete assembly of the vehicle;
powering on the skateboard;
limiting travel speed of the vehicle by a production mode program attached to the vehicle;
installing one or more cabin attached components; routing the vehicle through vehicle test stations; removing the production mode program from the vehicle; and relocating the vehicle to a shipment area.