1. A goods handling device for a cargo storage and transport vehicle, said goods handling device comprising:
a trailer assembly comprising an enclosure including a trailer floor defined by a trailer floor perimeter, a vertical wall extending upwards from said trailer floor perimeter, a roof assembled to an upper portion of said vertical wall, and a door;
said trailer floor comprising a fixed floor portion having a fixed floor upper surface and a moveable cargo platform having a cargo platform upper surface forming one substantially continuous and uninterrupting trailer floor surface when placed in an upper position;
said moveable cargo platform comprising a platform periphery, said platform periphery having a perimeter edge portion that defines a portion of said trailer floor perimeter;
at least two vertical actuators located on opposing sides of said moveable cargo platform, providing vertical motion of said moveable cargo platform between said upper position and a lower position, said lower position being at least one of a ground and a vehicle support surface;
wherein said door is located proximate said floor perimeter edge portion of said platform periphery allowing for transfer of cargo between said moveable cargo platform and said at least one of a ground and a vehicle support surface;
a cargo module comprising a module floor;
a second moveable cargo handling platform being a subcomponent of said module floor, wherein a top surface of said second moveable cargo handling platform is substantially continuous with and uninterrupting of said module floor when placed in an upper position, and a top surface of said module floor is substantially continuous with and uninterrupting of said trailer floor when placed in an stored position;
a horizontally sliding track, providing a horizontal motion to said cargo module;
a second pair of vertical actuators located on opposing sides of said second moveable cargo platform, providing vertical motion of said second moveable cargo platform between said upper position and a lower position, said lower position being at least one of a ground and a vehicle support surface; and
wherein a second door is located proximate a floor perimeter edge portion of said second moveable cargo platform allowing for transfer of cargo between said second moveable cargo platform and said at least one of a ground and a vehicle support surface.
2. A goods handling device as recited in claim 1, wherein said door spans an entire length of said trailer floor perimeter edge portion of said platform periphery.
3. A goods handling device as recited in claim 1, said cargo handling platform further comprising a ramp assembled along said trailer floor perimeter edge portion of said platform perimeter.
4. A goods handling device as recited in claim 1, wherein a vertical portion of said vertical actuators are concealed by said trailer assembly when said cargo handling platform is in said upper position.
5. A goods handling device as recited in claim 1, said goods handling apparatus further comprising a horizontally sliding mechanism, providing said cargo handling platform with a horizontal motion.
6. A goods handling device as recited in claim 1, wherein said door spans between the at least two vertical actuators when said door is in a closed position.
7. A goods handling device as recited in claim 1, said trailer floor perimeter further defined by a front edge located towards a front of a vehicle, a rear edge located towards a rear of the vehicle, and a pair of side edges spanning between said front edge and said rear edge; and
wherein said trailer floor perimeter edge portion of said platform periphery forms a continuous section of said rear edge of said trailer floor.
8. A goods handling device as recited in claim 1, said goods handling apparatus further comprising a cargo module, said cargo module comprising:
said cargo handling platform is a subcomponent of a module floor, wherein a top surface of said cargo handling platform is substantially continuous with and uninterrupting of said module floor when placed in a stored position, and a top surface of said module floor is substantially continuous with and uninterrupting of said trailer floor when placed in an upper position; and
a horizontally sliding track, providing a horizontal motion to said module floor.
9. A goods handling device as recited in claim 8, wherein a fixed portion of said vertical actuators are assembled to said module floor.
10. A goods handling device as recited in claim 8, wherein said door spans between the at least two vertical actuators when said door is in a closed position.
11. A goods handling device as recited in claim 8, said trailer floor perimeter further defined by a front edge located towards a front of a vehicle, a rear edge located towards a rear of the vehicle, and a pair of side edges spanning between said front edge and said rear edge; and
wherein said trailer floor perimeter edge portion of said platform periphery forms a continuous section of said side edge of said trailer floor.
12. A goods handling device as recited in claim 1, said trailer floor perimeter further defined by a front edge located towards a front of a vehicle, a rear edge located towards a rear of the vehicle, and a pair of side edges spanning between said front edge and said rear edge; and
wherein said trailer floor perimeter edge portion of said second moveable cargo platform periphery forms a continuous section of said side edge of said trailer floor.
13. A goods handling device as recited in claim 12,
wherein said trailer floor perimeter edge portion of said moveable cargo platform periphery forms a continuous section of said rear edge of said trailer floor.
14. A goods handling device as recited in claim 1, said trailer floor perimeter further defined by a front edge located towards a front of a vehicle, a rear edge located towards a rear of the vehicle, and a pair of side edges spanning between said front edge and said rear edge; and
wherein said trailer floor perimeter edge portion of said moveable cargo platform periphery forms a continuous section of said rear edge of said trailer floor.
15. A goods handling device as recited in claim 1, wherein said door spans across the at least two vertical actuators located on opposing sides of said moveable cargo platform; and
further comprising a second door spanning across the second pair of vertical actuators located on opposing sides of said second moveable cargo platform.
16. A goods handling device as recited in claim 1, wherein said door is a roll up form factor and spans between the at least two vertical actuators when said door is in a closed position.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An automobile antenna apparatus comprises an antenna control section including:
a first means for electronically and variably controlling an emitting-beam pattern of each of antennas mounted on an automobile, based on high-precision positional information of the automobile; and
a second means for optimizing a function of using an electric wave for vehicle based on the electrically and variably controlling of the emitting-beam pattern.
2. An automobile antenna apparatus comprises a smart antenna, the smart antenna including:
a slot antenna having a slot space as a main element, the slot space being surrounded with a first region in which a metal film covers a defogger formed on a window of an automobile and a second region formed of a metal portion of a car body including a window frame of the automobile; and
an integrated multiband antenna having a plurality of antenna elements of thin-film conductive pieces which are arranged such that at least some of the antenna elements are inserted into the slot space of the slot antenna.
3. An automobile antenna apparatus according to claim 2, further comprises:
a control circuit section provided close to the smart antenna and connected to at least part of the smart antenna; and
an antenna unit which is electronically controlled by the control circuit section to make the smart antenna integrated and intelligent so as to fulfill a receiving function of receiving an AM broadcast wave, an FM broadcast wave, a TV broadcast wave, and a GPS wave and a transmittingreceiving function of transmittingreceiving waves for a car phone and keyless door-lock control, broadcast waves relayed by a broadcast satellite and a communications satellite, and a wave for using an automatic toll collection system.
4. An automobile antenna apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the antenna unit is connected to a reception set section and a car computer network, which are both provided inside the automobile, through an optical fiber LAN using an optical fiber as a signal transmission line.
5. An automobile antenna apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the antenna unit incorporates tuners separated from receiver main bodies of the reception set section.
6. An automobile antenna apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the control circuit section of the antenna unit includes a reception circuit capable of receiving at least one of the FM broadcast wave and the TV broadcast wave in a diversity reception mode.
7. An automobile antenna apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the control circuit section of the antenna unit includes an FM reception circuit for receiving the FM broadcast wave and a TV reception circuit for receiving the TV broadcast wave, and at least one of the FM reception circuit and the TV reception circuit is a reception circuit having a beam steering function.
8. An automobile antenna apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the control circuit section of the antenna unit includes:
means for adding a beam steering function to at least one of an FM reception circuit for receiving the FM broadcast wave and a TV reception circuit for receiving the TV broadcast wave;
a DGPS engine, which is constituted by forming a normal GPS receiver and a DGPS data link for receiving differential correction data integrally with each other as one unit, for processing signals and data in accordance with predetermined algorithm to output high-precision positioning data; and
means for varying directivity of a beam in a desired direction by both the high-precision positioning data output from the DGPS engine and the beam steering function added by the beam steering function adding means.
9. An automobile antenna apparatus comprises an anti-collision EHF radar mounted at least on a front of an automobile and having a beam scanning function capable of emitting a beam within a predetermined angle range.
10. An automobile antenna apparatus comprising:
an anti-collision EHF radar mounted at least on a front of an automobile and having a beam scanning function capable of emitting a beam within a predetermined angle range;
automobile position detection means for correctly detecting automobile position information by a composite high-precision positioning system of DGPS and dead reckoning navigation; and
means for automatically setting a target detection range by the automobile position information detected by the automobile position detection means and the beam scanning function of the anti-collision EHF radar.
11. An automobile antenna apparatus according to claim 8, comprising:
an anti-collision EHF radar mounted at least on a front of the automobile and having a beam scanning function capable of emitting a beam within a predetermined angle range;
automobile position detection means for correctly detecting automobile position information by a composite high-precision positioning system of DGPS and dead reckoning navigation; and
means for automatically setting a target detection range by the automobile position information detected by the automobile position detection means and the beam scanning function of the anti-collision EHF radar.