Patent ID: 11897350
Assignee: CROWN EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H  Y | IPC B

Claim 19:
20. A materials handling vehicle charging station comprising a floor-mounted charging plate assembly, a battery charger, and floor-side charging circuitry coupling the floor-mounted charging plate assembly to the battery charger, wherein:
the floor-mounted charging plate assembly comprises a pair of floor-side charging contacts defining a floor-side contact profile that is configured to complement a vehicle-side contact profile of a target materials handling vehicle, to enable direct contact transfer of charging current from the floor-side charging contacts to a vehicle-side charging contact assembly; and
the pair of floor-side charging contacts define an inner contact spacing S1 that is larger than a drive wheel track width W of the target materials handling vehicle, and an outer contact spacing S2 that is larger than the inner contact spacing S1 and smaller than a load wheel gap G of the target materials handling vehicle, to permit passage of a steerable drive wheel of the target materials handling vehicle between the pair of floor-side charging contacts, followed by passage of a pair of load wheels of the target materials handling vehicle outside of the pair of floor-side charging contacts.