公开(公告)号：US12122611B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-22

申请号：US18448552

申请日：2023-08-11

Applicant: Symbotic LLC

Inventor： Robert Sullivan ,  Stephen C Toebes

IPC: B65G1/04 ,  B65G1/06 ,  B65G1/12 ,  B65G1/127 ,  B65G1/137 ,  B65G47/08

CPC classification number: B65G47/086 ,  B65G1/0485 ,  B65G1/06 ,  B65G1/12 ,  B65G1/127 ,  B65G1/1371

Abstract: A pickface builder for a storage and retrieval system for storing goods units and having an in-feed conveyor and a picking device, each goods unit holding at least one product package therein, the pickface builder including a frame, a pusher member movably coupled to the frame, and a snugger member movably coupled to the frame, wherein the pickface builder is configured to receive goods units from the in-feed conveyor and the pusher member and snugger member are movable at least in a direction transverse to a direction of goods unit travel on the in-feed conveyor and configured to form the goods units into a pickface picked by the picking device as a unit and having a predetermined reference datum relating the pickface to a placement position of goods units forming the pickface along a storage surface of the storage and retrieval system.

公开(公告)号：US11939158B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-26

申请号：US17476232

申请日：2021-09-15

Applicant: SYMBOTIC LLC

Inventor： John Lert ,  Stephen C Toebes ,  Robert Sullivan ,  Foster Hinshaw ,  Nathan Ulrich

IPC: B65G1/04 ,  B65G1/06 ,  B65G1/137 ,  B65G1/10 ,  B65G1/127 ,  B65G47/57 ,  G06Q10/087

CPC classification number: B65G1/0492 ,  B65G1/065 ,  B65G1/1373 ,  B65G1/1378 ,  B65G1/045 ,  B65G1/10 ,  B65G1/127 ,  B65G1/137 ,  B65G1/1371 ,  B65G47/57 ,  G06Q10/087 ,  Y10S901/01

Abstract: A storage and retrieval system including a vertical array of storage levels, each storage level having, picking aisles, storage locations, disposed within the picking aisles, and at least one transfer deck providing access to the picking aisles, a multilevel vertical conveyor system configured to transport the uncontained case units to and from the vertical array of storage levels, each storage level being configured to receive uncontained case units from the multilevel vertical conveyor system, at least one autonomous transport located on each storage level for transporting the uncontained case units between respective storage locations and the multilevel vertical conveyor system, and a controller configured to create a primary access path through the transfer decks and picking aisles to a predetermined one of the storage locations and at least one secondary access path to the predetermined one of the storage locations when the primary path is impassable.