Passenger boarding bridge

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10875666
APP PUB NO 20200165009A1
SERIAL NO

16630069

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A passenger boarding bridge for docking a cab with an aircraft. The passenger boarding bridge includes: a tunnel unit; a cab; a drive wheel provided on the tunnel unit or the cab; a rotational mechanism configured to rotate the cab; a controller configured to control the drive wheel and the rotational mechanism; a camera configured to capture an image of an entrance of an aircraft; and an entrance position calculator configured to detect the entrance of the aircraft based on the image and calculate horizontal positional information of the entrance. The controller is, when the cab is at a predetermined standby position from which the cab starts moving at a time of performing docking of the cab with the entrance, configured to: calculate a target position based on the horizontal positional information; and move the cab from the standby position to the target position.

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SHINMAYWA INDUSTRIES LTD1-1 SHINMEIWA-CHO TAKARAZUKA-SHI HYOGO 665-8550

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Sonoda, Yoshihiro Takarazuka, JP 8 137

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