公开(公告)号：US11498784B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-15

申请号：US17319779

申请日：2021-05-13

Applicant: Symbotic LLC

Inventor： Robert Sullivan ,  Gregory Thronson ,  Christopher Kiley ,  Todd E. Kepple ,  Jared Ploss

IPC: B65G57/24 ,  B65G59/02 ,  B65G57/03

Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system includes a storage array of storage locations for case units. An in-out case conveyor is capable of bi-directionally transporting case units to and from the storage array, and an in-out loaded pallet conveyor is capable of bi-directionally transporting loaded pallets towards and away from the storage array. A palletizer-depalletizer cell includes a bi-directional pallet transport system with more than one independently driven pallet transports, each with a different pallet holder independently movable relative to a cell frame. Placement of case units commissioning a pallet layer loading a pallet, and removal of case units decommissioning a pallet layer unloading another pallet are both effected at the common pallet layer interface at a predetermined level of the cell frame. The pallet transports independently index a first and a second of the different pallet holders, each independently holding the pallet loading at the common pallet layer interface.

公开(公告)号：US10781060B2

公开(公告)日：2020-09-22

申请号：US16538665

申请日：2019-08-12

Applicant: Symbotic, LLC

Inventor： Michael Cyrulik ,  Todd E. Kepple ,  Scott Collins ,  Jason S. Sirois

IPC: B65G67/02 ,  B65G1/04 ,  B65G1/137

Abstract: An autonomous transport vehicle includes a frame forming a payload section configured to hold one or more pickfaces, a transfer arm movably mounted to the frame, a drive section connected to the frame, and a controller connected to the drive section, the controller being configured to effect an on-the-fly sortation of pickfaces carried by the autonomous transport vehicle according to a predetermined case out order sequence where the controller commands the drive section so that two or more pickfaces are picked from one or more first case unit holding locations and placed at one or more different second case unit holding locations according to the predetermined case out order sequence.

公开(公告)号：USD857072S1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-20

申请号：US29621320

申请日：2017-10-06

Applicant: Symbotic LLC

Designer： Michael Cyrulik ,  Michael Kapust ,  Todd E. Kepple

公开(公告)号：US10377585B2

公开(公告)日：2019-08-13

申请号：US15848446

申请日：2017-12-20

Applicant: Symbotic, LLC

Inventor： Michael Cyrulik ,  Todd E. Kepple ,  Scott Collins ,  Jason S. Sirois

IPC: B65G1/04 ,  B65G67/02 ,  B65G1/137

Abstract: An autonomous transport vehicle includes a frame forming a payload section configured to hold one or more pickfaces, a transfer arm movably mounted to the frame, a drive section connected to the frame, and a controller connected to the drive section, the controller being configured to effect an on-the-fly sortation of pickfaces carried by the autonomous transport vehicle according to a predetermined case out order sequence where the controller commands the drive section so that two or more pickfaces are picked from one or more first case unit holding locations and placed at one or more different second case unit holding locations according to the predetermined case out order sequence.

公开(公告)号：US10196207B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-05

申请号：US15231340

申请日：2016-08-08

Applicant: Symbotic, LLC

Inventor： John F. Keating ,  Thomas G. Perry ,  William Johnson, Jr. ,  Todd E. Kepple ,  Lawrence A. Margagliano

IPC: B65G1/00 ,  B65G1/02 ,  B65G1/04

Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system includes an autonomous rover and a multilevel rack structure. The multilevel rack structure includes columns connected by rail beams transversely spanning between the columns. The rail beams define storage and transport levels and provide riding surfaces for the autonomous rover. The rail beams include integral fatigue resistant rover location apertures.