GB1377885A

GB1377885A – Automatic levelling apparatus for elevational alignment of a vehicle floor with a loading platform
– Google Patents

GB1377885A – Automatic levelling apparatus for elevational alignment of a vehicle floor with a loading platform
– Google Patents
Automatic levelling apparatus for elevational alignment of a vehicle floor with a loading platform

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Publication number
GB1377885A

GB1377885A
GB2428973A
GB2428973A
GB1377885A
GB 1377885 A
GB1377885 A
GB 1377885A
GB 2428973 A
GB2428973 A
GB 2428973A
GB 2428973 A
GB2428973 A
GB 2428973A
GB 1377885 A
GB1377885 A
GB 1377885A
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GB
United Kingdom
Prior art keywords
loading platform
vehicle floor
automatic levelling
levelling apparatus
floor
Prior art date
1972-06-07
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)

Expired

Application number
GB2428973A
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)

LTV Aerospace Corp

Original Assignee
LTV Aerospace Corp
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
1972-06-07
Filing date
1973-05-22
Publication date
1974-12-18

1973-05-22
Application filed by LTV Aerospace Corp
filed
Critical
LTV Aerospace Corp

1974-12-18
Publication of GB1377885A
publication
Critical
patent/GB1377885A/en

Status
Expired
legal-status
Critical
Current

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Classifications

H—ELECTRICITY

H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY

H03K—PULSE TECHNIQUE

H03K17/00—Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking

H03K17/94—Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking characterised by the way in which the control signals are generated

H03K17/965—Switches controlled by moving an element forming part of the switch

H03K17/968—Switches controlled by moving an element forming part of the switch using opto-electronic devices

B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL

B60G—VEHICLE SUSPENSION ARRANGEMENTS

B60G17/00—Resilient suspensions having means for adjusting the spring or vibration-damper characteristics, for regulating the distance between a supporting surface and a sprung part of vehicle or for locking suspension during use to meet varying vehicular or surface conditions, e.g. due to speed or load

B60G17/015—Resilient suspensions having means for adjusting the spring or vibration-damper characteristics, for regulating the distance between a supporting surface and a sprung part of vehicle or for locking suspension during use to meet varying vehicular or surface conditions, e.g. due to speed or load the regulating means comprising electric or electronic elements

B60G17/017—Resilient suspensions having means for adjusting the spring or vibration-damper characteristics, for regulating the distance between a supporting surface and a sprung part of vehicle or for locking suspension during use to meet varying vehicular or surface conditions, e.g. due to speed or load the regulating means comprising electric or electronic elements characterised by their use when the vehicle is stationary, e.g. during loading, engine start-up or switch-off

B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL

B60G—VEHICLE SUSPENSION ARRANGEMENTS

B60G17/00—Resilient suspensions having means for adjusting the spring or vibration-damper characteristics, for regulating the distance between a supporting surface and a sprung part of vehicle or for locking suspension during use to meet varying vehicular or surface conditions, e.g. due to speed or load

B60G17/015—Resilient suspensions having means for adjusting the spring or vibration-damper characteristics, for regulating the distance between a supporting surface and a sprung part of vehicle or for locking suspension during use to meet varying vehicular or surface conditions, e.g. due to speed or load the regulating means comprising electric or electronic elements

B60G17/019—Resilient suspensions having means for adjusting the spring or vibration-damper characteristics, for regulating the distance between a supporting surface and a sprung part of vehicle or for locking suspension during use to meet varying vehicular or surface conditions, e.g. due to speed or load the regulating means comprising electric or electronic elements characterised by the type of sensor or the arrangement thereof

B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL

B60P—VEHICLES ADAPTED FOR LOAD TRANSPORTATION OR TO TRANSPORT, TO CARRY, OR TO COMPRISE SPECIAL LOADS OR OBJECTS

B60P1/00—Vehicles predominantly for transporting loads and modified to facilitate loading, consolidating the load, or unloading

B60P1/02—Vehicles predominantly for transporting loads and modified to facilitate loading, consolidating the load, or unloading with parallel up-and-down movement of load supporting or containing element

B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

B61—RAILWAYS

B61C—LOCOMOTIVES; MOTOR RAILCARS

B61C7/00—Other locomotives or motor railcars characterised by the type of motive power plant used; Locomotives or motor railcars with two or more different kinds or types of motive power

B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

B61—RAILWAYS

B61J—SHIFTING OR SHUNTING OF RAIL VEHICLES

B61J1/00—Turntables; Traversers; Transporting rail vehicles on other rail vehicles or dollies

B61J1/10—Traversers

B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

B64—AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS

B64F—GROUND OR AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-DECK INSTALLATIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH AIRCRAFT; DESIGNING, MANUFACTURING, ASSEMBLING, CLEANING, MAINTAINING OR REPAIRING AIRCRAFT, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HANDLING, TRANSPORTING, TESTING OR INSPECTING AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

B64F1/00—Ground or aircraft-carrier-deck installations

B64F1/32—Ground or aircraft-carrier-deck installations for handling freight

Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS

Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

Y02T—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION

Y02T30/00—Transportation of goods or passengers via railways, e.g. energy recovery or reducing air resistance

Abstract

1377885 Adjusting suspension heights LTV AEROSPACE CORP 22 May 1973 [7 June 1972] 24289/73 Heading B7D [Also in Division B8] To align a vehicle floor 11 vertically with a loading platform 20 the platform 20 has a reflective strip 22 and the vehicle carries upper and lower emitters and detectors which send signals to a logic circuit (Fig. 2) controlling the inlet and exhaust valves of air springs 15, 16 on which the floor 11 is supported.

GB2428973A
1972-06-07
1973-05-22
Automatic levelling apparatus for elevational alignment of a vehicle floor with a loading platform

Expired

GB1377885A
(en)

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

Application Number
Priority Date
Filing Date
Title

US26057572A

1972-06-07
1972-06-07

Publications (1)

Publication Number
Publication Date

GB1377885A
true

GB1377885A
(en)

1974-12-18

Family
ID=22989718
Family Applications (1)

Application Number
Title
Priority Date
Filing Date

GB2428973A
Expired

GB1377885A
(en)

1972-06-07
1973-05-22
Automatic levelling apparatus for elevational alignment of a vehicle floor with a loading platform

Country Status (10)

Country
Link

US
(1)

US3765692A
(en)

JP
(1)

JPS5235166B2
(en)

BE
(1)

BE800525A
(en)

CA
(1)

CA1020650A
(en)

CH
(1)

CH559643A5
(en)

ES
(1)

ES414102A1
(en)

FR
(1)

FR2187571B1
(en)

GB
(1)

GB1377885A
(en)

IT
(1)

IT984953B
(en)

NL
(2)

NL7307858A
(en)

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US
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not_active
Expired – Lifetime

1973

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CA
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patent/CA1020650A/en
not_active
Expired

1973-04-24
JP
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not_active
Expired

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ES
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not_active
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IT
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active

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GB
GB2428973A
patent/GB1377885A/en
not_active
Expired

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CH
CH797873A
patent/CH559643A5/xx
not_active
IP Right Cessation

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BE
BE131932A
patent/BE800525A/en
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IP Right Cessation

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NL7307858A
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FR7320566A
patent/FR2187571B1/fr
not_active
Expired

1978

1978-01-26
NL
NL7800938A
patent/NL7800938A/en
not_active
Application Discontinuation

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(en)

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(en)

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(en)

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Also Published As

Publication number
Publication date

CH559643A5
(en)

1975-03-14

IT984953B
(en)

1974-11-20

JPS4949325A
(en)

1974-05-13

ES414102A1
(en)

1976-05-01

NL7800938A
(en)

1978-05-31

FR2187571B1
(en)

1977-02-11

US3765692A
(en)

1973-10-16

DE2328751A1
(en)

1973-12-20

FR2187571A1
(en)

1974-01-18

NL7307858A
(en)

1973-12-11

DE2328751B2
(en)

1975-05-22

BE800525A
(en)

1973-10-01

CA1020650A
(en)

1977-11-08

JPS5235166B2
(en)

1977-09-07

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Legal Events

Date
Code
Title
Description

1975-04-30
PS
Patent sealed [section 19, patents act 1949]

1989-01-11
PCNP
Patent ceased through non-payment of renewal fee

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