AUTONOMOUS TRANSPORTS FOR STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS
    91.
    发明申请
    AUTONOMOUS TRANSPORTS FOR STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS 审中-公开
    存储和检索系统的自动运输

    公开(公告)号:US20140308098A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-10-16

    申请号:US13860802

    申请日:2013-04-11

    Applicant: SYMBOTIC, LLC

    CPC classification number: B65G1/1373 B65G1/0492 B65G1/065

    Abstract: An autonomous transport vehicle for transferring case units to and from predefined storage areas in an automated case unit storage system, the automated case unit storage system including an array of multilevel storage racks with picking aisles passing therebetween and at least one multilevel vertical conveyor having movable shelves, the autonomous transport vehicle including a frame configured to traverse the picking aisles and a transfer deck connecting the picking aisles to the at least one multilevel vertical conveyor for transferring case units between the predefined storage areas and the at least one multilevel vertical conveyor, and a controller connected to the frame, the controller being configured to effect movement of the autonomous transport vehicle through the picking aisles for accessing each storage area within a respective level of the array of multilevel storage racks and each shelf of the at least one multilevel vertical conveyor.

    Abstract translation: 一种自动运输车辆,用于将自动化箱单元存储系统中的箱单元传送到预定义的存储区域,该自动化箱单元存储系统包括具有通过它们的采摘通道的多层存储架阵列和至少一个具有可移动架的多层立式输送机 所述自主运输车辆包括构造成横穿所述挑选通道的框架和将所述挑选通道连接到所述至少一个多层垂直输送机的转移甲板,用于在预定义的存储区域与所述至少一个多层垂直输送机之间传送箱单元,以及 控制器被配置为通过采摘通道来实现自主运输车辆的运动,以便访问多层存储架阵列和至少一个多层垂直输送机的每个搁板的相应级别内的每个存储区域。

    Pickface builder for storage and retrieval systems

    公开(公告)号:US11724890B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-15

    申请号:US17657007

    申请日:2022-03-29

    Applicant: Symbotic LLC

    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.

    Autonomous transports for storage and retrieval systems

    公开(公告)号:US11661279B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-30

    申请号:US17814937

    申请日:2022-07-26

    Applicant: SYMBOTIC LLC

    CPC classification number: B65G1/1373 B65G1/0492 B65G1/065

    Abstract: An autonomous transport vehicle for transferring case units to and from predefined storage areas in an automated case unit storage system, the automated case unit storage system including an array of multilevel storage racks with picking aisles passing therebetween and at least one multilevel vertical conveyor having movable shelves, the autonomous transport vehicle including a frame configured to traverse the picking aisles and a transfer deck connecting the picking aisles to the at least one multilevel vertical conveyor for transferring case units between the predefined storage areas and the at least one multilevel vertical conveyor, and a controller connected to the frame, the controller being configured to effect movement of the autonomous transport vehicle through the picking aisles for accessing each storage area within a respective level of the array of multilevel storage racks and each shelf of the at least one multilevel vertical conveyor.

    Pickface builder for storage and retrieval systems

    公开(公告)号:US11286118B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-29

    申请号:US17136475

    申请日:2020-12-29

    Applicant: Symbotic LLC

    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.

    Bot position sensing
    97.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11279557B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-22

    申请号:US16917555

    申请日:2020-06-30

    Applicant: Symbotic, LLC

    Abstract: A storage and retrieval system including a storage structure having storage shelves, each storage shelf having slats for supporting stored items where the slats are spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance, an autonomous transport vehicle including at least one sensor configured to sense each of the slats and output a signal indicating when a slat is sensed, and a controller for verifying a location of the autonomous transport vehicle within the storage structure based on at least the output signal.

    Storage and retrieval system
    98.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11254502B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-22

    申请号:US17108265

    申请日:2020-12-01

    Applicant: Symbotic LLC

    Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous transport vehicle, a transfer deck that defines a transport surface for the vehicle, at least one reciprocating lift, a first and second pickface interface station connected to the deck and spaced apart from each other, each station forming a pickface transfer interfacing between the vehicle on the deck and the lift at each station so that a pickface is transferred between the lift and the vehicle at each station, wherein the vehicle is configured to pick a first pickface at the first station, traverse the deck and buffer the first pickface, or at least a portion thereof, at the second station so that the second station has multiple pickfaces buffered on a common support in an order sequence of pickfaces according to a predetermined case out order sequence of mixed case pickfaces.

    BOT POSITION SENSING
    99.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200331699A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-22

    申请号:US16917555

    申请日:2020-06-30

    Applicant: Symbotic, LLC

    Abstract: A storage and retrieval system including a storage structure having storage shelves, each storage shelf having slats for supporting stored items where the slats are spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance, an autonomous transport vehicle including at least one sensor configured to sense each of the slats and output a signal indicating when a slat is sensed, and a controller for verifying a location of the autonomous transport vehicle within the storage structure based on at least the output signal.

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