Patent ID: 11959233
Assignee: JOSEPH VOEGELE AG
Field: Civil engineering (Other fields)
Classification: CPC E | IPC E

Claim 14:
15. A distance control system for keeping constant a distance between a driving road construction vehicle and a truck driving in front of the road construction vehicle without contact with the road construction vehicle during a material transfer between the truck and the road construction vehicle, wherein the road construction vehicle is a road finishing machine or a feeder for a road finishing machine, the system comprising: a distance sensor which determines the distance between the driving road construction vehicle and the truck driving in front of the road construction vehicle, wherein the distance sensor is provided on one of the road construction vehicle and the truck, wherein the distance control system controls the distance between the driving road construction vehicle and the truck driving in front of the road construction vehicle to a value which is selected from a lookup table based on a type of the truck and/or a type of the road construction vehicle.