US 12,125,323 B2
Recording of equipment of an emergency vehicle
Stefan Traub, Friedrichshafen (DE); and Alan Dittrich, Friedrichshafen (DE)
Assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Friedrichshafen (DE)
Filed by ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Friedrichshafen (DE)
Filed on Mar. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/123,575.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2022 202 875.9 (DE), filed on Mar. 24, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0306798 A1, Sep. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. G07C 5/08 (2006.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC G07C 5/08 (2013.01) [G06K 7/10366 (2013.01); G07C 5/008 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for registering items of equipment to be transported by a vehicle and designed to be removed from the vehicle during use, the method comprising:
providing a system comprising a recording means and items of equipment, and each of the items of equipment comprising at least one transmission means;
assigning an ID code to each of the items of equipment;
transmitting the ID code by the at least one transmission means of one or more of the items of equipment;
receiving, at the recording means, the ID code of the one or more of the items of equipment;
registering, by the recording means, the ID code of the one or more of the items of equipment;
positioning each of the one or more items of equipment within a detection range of the recording means; and
determining a time span of how long each one of the one of the items of equipment, designed to be removed from the vehicle, remains out of the detection range of the recording means.