公开(公告)号：WO2022178266A1

公开(公告)日：2022-08-25

申请号：PCT/US2022/017003

申请日：2022-02-18

Applicant: OUTRIDER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Inventor： SMITH, Andrew F. ,  SOTOLA, Martin Edward ,  JAMES, Peter ,  KLEIN, Lawrence S. ,  JOHANNES, Matthew Steven ,  RECORD, Jonathan ,  MCKINNEY, Garold

IPC: B66F3/44 ,  A47F5/00 ,  B60Q5/00 ,  B60S9/04 ,  B60S9/12 ,  B60S9/22 ,  B60S11/00

Abstract: Automated jackstand systems and methods deploy a jackstand to support a front end of a trailer parked at an automated loading dock. The jackstand prevents collapse of the trailer's landing gear and prevents upending of the trailer during loading and unloading. Advantageously, by deploying the jackstand automatically, presence of personnel in the yard where tractors and trailers are moving is not required.

公开(公告)号：WO2022271978A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-29

申请号：PCT/US2022/034773

申请日：2022-06-23

Applicant: OUTRIDER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Inventor： RECORD, Jonathan ,  GRABBE, Robert ,  KLEIN, Lawrence ,  HENNING, Floyd

IPC: B62D15/02 ,  B62D53/06 ,  B60D1/01 ,  B60D1/28 ,  B62D53/10 ,  B60D1/36 ,  B60R1/003 ,  B60R2300/105 ,  G01S17/931

Abstract: Systems and methods determine an angle of an articulated trailer relative to a tractor that the trailer is hitched to. An optical encoder is positioned beneath a fifth-wheel of a tractor to couples with a kingpin of the trailer when the trailer is hitched to the tractor. The optical coupler has a rotating shaft that may include pins that physically interact with the kingpin and/or may include a magnet that magnetically attaches to the kingpin. A clearance and cleaning block may be positioned on the spring plate to interact with a bottom surface of a kingpin of the trailer during hitching of the trailer to the tractor. A LIDAR attached to the tractor may detect a front end of the trailer to determine the trailer angle relative to the tractor.