US 12,116,255 B2
Modify vehicle parameter based on vehicle position information
Sebastian Theos, Vaterstetten (DE); Andreas Simon, Munich (DE); Juergen Buchmann, Pliening (DE); René Konzack, Isen (DE); Christian Molnar, Schwindegg (DE); and Alfonso Costas, Munich (DE)
Assigned to Crown Equipment Corporation, New Bremen, OH (US)
Filed by Crown Equipment Corporation, New Bremen, OH (US)
Filed on Aug. 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/450,657.
Application 18/450,657 is a division of application No. 17/249,000, filed on Feb. 17, 2021, granted, now 11,820,634.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/979,916, filed on Feb. 21, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0391593 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. B66F 9/07 (2006.01); B60Q 1/32 (2006.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B62D 15/02 (2006.01); B66F 9/075 (2006.01); G01S 7/481 (2006.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01); G05D 1/00 (2024.01); G05D 1/222 (2024.01); G05D 1/223 (2024.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01)
CPC B66F 9/0755 (2013.01) [B60Q 1/32 (2013.01); B60W 30/18009 (2013.01); B62D 15/021 (2013.01); B66F 9/07581 (2013.01); G01S 7/4815 (2013.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01); G05D 1/0038 (2013.01); G05D 1/005 (2013.01); G05D 1/223 (2024.01); G05D 1/2235 (2024.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01); B60W 2554/4041 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4049 (2020.02)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A materials handling vehicle comprising:
a power unit comprising a left side, a right side, and an operator station;
a load handling assembly coupled to the power unit and comprising a lift carriage;
a controller located on the power unit;
a sensing device on the power unit and coupled to the controller, the sensing device monitoring areas in front of and next to the power unit, wherein data from the sensing device is used by the controller to identify position information of the power unit relative to a wall or rack near which the power unit is located; and
a sensing system that detects that an operator has exited the operator station of the vehicle and whether the operator exited the operator station from a first exit on the left side of the power unit or from a second exit on the right side of the power unit, wherein when the position information indicates that one of the left or the right side of the power unit is positioned within a predefined distance from a wall or rack and the operator has exited the operator station from one of the first or the second exit on the one side, the controller modifies at least one of the following vehicle parameters: vehicle traction control, operation of the lift carriage, or remote control operation of the vehicle.