Apparatus and method responsive to the on-board measuring of haulage parameters of a vehicle

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United States Patent [191
.[11] Patent Number: 5,650,930
Hagenbuch [45] Date of Patent: Jul. 22, 1997
[54] APPARATUS AND METHOD RESPONSIVE FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS
TO THE ON-BOARD MEASURING OF
493628 9/1977 Australia .
HAULAGE PARAMETERS OF A VEHICLE 0060074 9/1982 European Pat OE. '
[7 6] Inventor: NLoerRtohgya tGe. RHCaLg, ePnebornicah, .1 115.0 621 W6.1 4 2562659 1O/1985 France _
8405278 10/1985 France .
[21] APPL No_; 398,654 58-48187 3/1983 Japan .
59-14540 1/1984 Japan .
[22] Filed: Apr. 12, 1995 59-16133 10/1984 Japan .
1049751 10/1983 U.S.S.R. .
Related Us. Application Data 1215275 12/1970 United Kingdom .
2025185 1/1980 United Kingdom .
62 Division of sci. No. 206,531, Mat. 4, 1994, Pat. No. 2043921 10/1980 United Kingd‘mi
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[56] References Cited Primary Examiner-Michael 23116111
Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.
U . S . PATEN T D OCUMENTS [57] ABSTRACT
1,113,609 10/1914 Gamble ..................................... .. 177/4
1,261,508 4/1918 Gamble . 346/7 The invention is directed to an apparatus and method for
1,986,308 1/1935 Wal1ace 177/4 monitoring a load of material carried by a vehicle wherein
2,586,137 2/1952 Yoder et a1. ..... .. 177/141 weight data is associated with data from either an inclinom
2,756,983 7/1956 Furcini .... .. 177/141 X eter or a sensor that senses the status of the vehicle’s drive
3,036,663 5/1962 Burka ......... .. 177/141 train The resulting data is ?l'ne stamped and recorded to 3
3,154,160 10/1964 Rockwell 177/141 database containing historical values of the weight of the
3,279,550 10/1966 Kersten 177/136 load. The recording of the time-stamped data to the memory
313067384 2/1967 Ross --- " 177/141 may be selective and responsive to one or more events such
3,321,035 ....... .. ... 177/136 as the lapse of a predetcnnined time period~ a change in the
4 M et a]. Weight of the load or a change in the status of the drive train
3545558 12/1970 Maugh """ " 177,141 of the vehicle. The apparatus and method of the invention
3,559,820 2/1971 MllIlSOIt ...... .. 340/686 may also Include downloadmg ‘h? hme'stamped Welght data
3,603,418 9/1971 Schmidt et a1. ...................... .. 177/136 frm“ the memory to a ‘6mm Slic
(List continued on next page.) 24 Claims, 34 Drawing Sheets
AHlliu] mb lS\PELY
5,650,930
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