The present disclosure provides a kit assembly for a truck body including a plurality of composite panels that may be shipped from a manufacturer to a customer for subsequent assembly of the truck body. The composite panels of the kit assembly may be flat, rigid, and lightweight to facilitate shipment. The composite panels of the kit assembly may also include embedded anchors and/or adhered connectors to facilitate alignment and subsequent assembly of the cargo body using common mechanical fasteners.

An insulating panel for a commercial vehicle superstructure, with an outer top layer and an inner top layer, including more than two plies, and with a core layer in a thermally insulating material between the top layers. At least one of the top layers is constructed as an at least three-ply sandwich, including an outer ply in light metal material associated with the respective outside of the insulating panel, an inner ply in light metal material associated with the core layer and a core ply having an integrally joined connection to the outer ply and the inner ply, including a core ply material having a higher strength than the light metal material of the outer and inner ply.

The present disclosure provides a kit assembly for a truck body including a plurality of composite panels that may be shipped from a manufacturer to a customer for subsequent assembly of the truck body. The composite panels of the kit assembly may be flat, rigid, and lightweight to facilitate shipment. The composite panels of the kit assembly may also include embedded anchors and/or adhered connectors to facilitate alignment and subsequent assembly of the cargo body using common mechanical fasteners.

An automated storage and retrieval system includes a framework structure constructed of a plurality of upright members connected by horizontal members to define a storage grid of storage columns, within which storage columns may be stacked a plurality of storage containers. The framework structure has a rail system arranged at the upper level of the framework structure, with parallel rails in a first direction and parallel rails in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, upon which rails a plurality of wheeled container handling vehicles travel. The container handling vehicles are equipped with a gripping and lifting device for removing storage containers from the storage columns and replacing the storage containers in the storage columns. The upright members of the framework structure have corner sections directed towards an interior of a particular storage column. The corner sections include two vertically elongated, perpendicular corner guiding plates. The corner guiding plates of the upright members are proximate to a storage column forming a guide for corners of the storage containers stored in that storage column A bracing system includes a plurality of plate members mounted between adjacent upright members. The bracing plate members include a plate segment removably mounted between two retaining profiles. Each retaining profile has a shape adapted to engage an upright member. The retaining profiles of the plate members have a box shape adapted to be securely inserted between and essentially occupy the space between the corner guiding plates of two adjacent corner sections of an upright member. A plate segment of plate member is arranged to be connected to a flange of the inserted retaining profiles. The bracing plate members are arranged to provide structural support stability for the framework structure. The guiding plates have inwardly projecting ribs that engage corresponding grooves of the retaining profiles by snap fit.

A temperature control structure for a transport container includes: a temperature control compartment provided in a truck; a transport container that is loaded into the temperature control compartment, and has a box shape capable of accommodating an object, in which at least a part of a wall constituting the box shape is a heat conduction portion made of metal; and a heat exchanger of a solid-state heat transfer type that is disposed in contact with the heat conduction portion and controls a temperature of the object via the heat conduction portion.

A device measures a force acting on a king pin of a semitrailer. The device includes the king pin and a sensor unit. The sensor unit is configured to ascertain a bending of the king pin caused by the force. The king pin has an opening, and the sensor unit is arranged in at least one of the following locations: in the opening and at one end of the opening.

A refrigeration body to be mounted to a chassis to obtain a climatized vehicle. The refrigeration body has an enclosure delimited by external surfaces; internal and walls dividing the enclosure into a plurality of sub-cargo volumes accessible through dedicated doors. The refrigeration body has a plurality of conditioning units mounted to at least one of the external surface, with at a first one of the plurality of conditioning units that is fluidly coupled to a first one of the sub-cargo volumes, and a second one of the plurality of conditioning units that is fluidly coupled to a second one of the sub-cargo volumes.

Systems and methods are provided for a dual-access refrigeration space with conveyance system. The dual-access refrigeration space being accessible from both inside and outside the passenger cabin of a vehicle, and the conveyance system capable of conveying objects within the dual-access refrigeration space. The conveyance of such objects enabling passengers of the vehicle to access refrigerated objects that may have been loaded from an area external to the passenger cab without the passengers needing to exit the vehicle. In some examples, such convention may be reversed such that the refrigeration space within a passenger cabin may be utilized by a user outside the passenger cabin.

A magnified linear power generation system includes a vehicle with a tractor, or other tow vehicle, and a trailer, the trailer being separable from the tractor, the vehicle including at least one force receiving surface, the force receiving surface receiving input forces from the ground as the vehicle moves across the ground. A power generator is mounted to the trailer, the power generator including a stator and a mover. A mechanical magnification component is coupled between the power generator and the vehicle, the mechanical magnification component including a first hydraulic cylinder connected to the force receiving surface and a second hydraulic cylinder connected to the power generator, the first hydraulic cylinder having a first cylinder diameter, the second hydraulic cylinder having a second cylinder diameter smaller than the first cylinder diameter, wherein the first hydraulic cylinder is connected to the second hydraulic cylinder by a hydraulic line extending between the tractor and the trailer.

The present disclosure provides an embedded mounting assembly for mounting a large component (e.g., a refrigeration unit) to a cargo vehicle. The mounting assembly includes a mounting insert embedded within a wall of the cargo vehicle to support the loading of the large component while providing for cost-effective manufacturing and installation without reduction of structural integrity and safety.