Equipment for maintaining the spacing of track-bound vehicles
CA 1196076 A · Owner: Inventio Ag · Inventors: Schick, Jean-Claude
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An equipment for maintaining the spacing of trackbound vehicles shall prevent collisions of the vehicles. For this purpose light emitters radiating rearwardly and laterally in desired directions are provided at the rear of the vehicles and light receivers receiving from in front and from the sides in desired directions are provided at the front on the vehicles. A drive control reduces the speed of a vehicle with increasing received light intensity i.e. with decreasing spacing from the vehicle travelling immediately ahead. The equipment is usable for floor conveying plants with vehicles travelling at small spacings one behind the other. An embodiment of the equipment is suitable for vehicles …
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- Granted October 29, 1985. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended October 29, 2002.
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