Patent ID: 7963349
Filing Date: 2011-06-21
Classification: B62D,B66F

Abstract:
1. A drive and steering equipment for a floor conveyor, with a drive unit which has a driving motor, a gear and a driving wheel and which is mounted in a bearing around a vertical axis in a vehicle-fixed frame of the floor conveyor, a steering motor which pivots the drive unit around the vertical axis, and a drawbar, an angle sensor and a steering control equipment, which adjusts a steering angle of the driving wheel through the steering motor in accordance with the signal of the angle sensor, characterised in that the drawbar is rotatably mounted in a bearing coaxially or axially parallel to the drive unit by means of a bearing component part ( 50 ), the angle sensor ( 68 ) is attached on the bearing component part ( 50 ) and the steering control equipment ( 72 ) adjusts the drive unit via the steering motor ( 44 ); further wherein the bearing component part ( further wherein the bearing component part ( further wherein the drive unit has a tooth segment ( further wherein that the sensor (