Systems and methods for home position and cart acquisition with a materials handling vehicle

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11897693
APP PUB NO 20210002074A1
SERIAL NO

17028368

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A variety of vehicle-based and warehouse-based solutions are provided to increase the adaptability, utility, and efficiency of materials handling vehicles in the warehouse environment, such as a goods storage and retrieval system, comprising a multilevel warehouse racking system, a mobile storage cart, a cart home position, and a materials handling vehicle disposed on a vehicle transit surface and comprising a fork carriage assembly, a navigation subsystem, a cart engagement subsystem, and one or more vehicular controllers to use the navigation subsystem to navigate the materials handling vehicle along the vehicle transit surface to a localized engagement position where the cart home position is within a cart engagement field of view, and use the cart engagement subsystem to engage the mobile storage cart in the cart home position with the fork carriage assembly.

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  • CROWN EQUIPMENT CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Addison, Mark E Ludlow Falls, US 25 108
Garmann, Gregory S Maria Stein, US 20 72
Otto, Matthew J New Bremen, US 22 78

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