Systems and methods determine an angle of an articulated trailer relative to a tractor that the trailer is hitched to. An optical encoder is positioned beneath a fifth-wheel of the tractor to couples with a kingpin of the trailer when the trailer is hitched to the tractor. The optical coupler has a rotating shaft that may include pins that physically interact with the kingpin and/or may include a magnet that magnetically attaches to the kingpin. A cleaning block is positioned interact with a bottom surface of a kingpin of the trailer during hitching of the trailer to the tractor. The trailer angle encoder may be automatically deployed when the kingpin is locked in the fifth-wheel. A LIDAR attached to the tractor may detect a front end of the trailer to determine the trailer angle relative to the tractor.


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    Title :

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEPLOYING A TRAILER ANGLE ENCODER


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    Publication date :

    2024-08-01


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B60R Fahrzeuge, Fahrzeugausstattung oder Fahrzeugteile, soweit nicht anderweitig vorgesehen , VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR / G01S RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING , Funkpeilung



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