Abstract
No assignee for this patent application has been made.News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“US 2019/0276238 A1, also published as EP 3 539 904 A1, dis closes a mobile drive for driving rollers ina roller conveyor. The mobile drive comprises a main body, a first drive motor to drive the mobile drivebetween di fferent positions along the conveyor and a roller driving device mounted to the chassis frame.A conveyor drive is attached to an upper side of the main body. T he conveyor drive is adapted to bemechanically coupled to one or a plurality of rollers of the roller conveyor. A second drive motor of themobile drive provid es drive power for the conveyor drive and consequently provides the drive power to therollers of the roller conveyor. The conveyor drive can get into direct co ntact of the rollers so as to bringthe rollers in rotational movement. The mobi le drive is moving synchronously with a pallet to be conveyedalong the directio n of travel. The mobile drive is powered by a battery located within the mobile drive.So there is no need for complex wiring along all the entire roller convey or.
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