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

Claim 0:
1. A method for transferring material between a truck and a driving road construction vehicle wherein the road construction vehicle is a road finishing machine or a feeder for a road finishing machine, the method comprising:
keeping constant, by a distance control system, a distance between the driving road construction vehicle and a truck driving in front of the road construction vehicle without contact with the road construction vehicle; and
dumping material from a loading cavity of the truck into a material hopper of the road construction vehicle while the distance between the driving road construction vehicle and the truck is kept constant;
wherein the distance control system comprises 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; and
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.