公开(公告)号：US11338997B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-24

申请号：US16644000

申请日：2018-07-31

Applicant: Daifuku Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Yuichi Ueda ,  Masashige Iwata ,  Akira Emoto

IPC: B65G1/04 ,  B65G1/137 ,  G05D1/02

Abstract: A transport vehicle (2) is provided with: a support region (22) where a container (W) is supported; a container transfer apparatus (24) that inserts/takes a container (W) into/out of a container shelf; a recognition apparatus (27) that recognizes at least one of an article stored in a container (W) in a first state in which the container (W) is supported in the support region (22) and an article stored in a container (W) in a second state in which the container (W) is supported by the container transfer apparatus (24); and an article transfer apparatus (26) that transfers an article recognized by the recognition apparatus (27) between a container (W) in the first state and a container (W) in the second state.

公开(公告)号：US11325789B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-10

申请号：US17143682

申请日：2021-01-07

Applicant: DAIFUKU CO., LTD.

Inventor： Yuichi Ueda ,  Osamu Matsui ,  Hiroyuki Koide ,  Atsushi Ishikura

IPC: B65G43/08 ,  B07C3/08 ,  B65G17/12 ,  B65G47/44

Abstract: A sorting facility for sorting articles by a plurality of connected conveyance carriages. The sorting facility includes a supervisory controller managing a position of each of the conveyance carriages, a trigger sensor detecting each of the conveyance carriages, and a belt conveyor provided on each of the conveyance carriages. The supervisory controller identifies each of the conveyance carriages that should deliver the articles to the chute based on the managed position of each of the conveyance carriages. The supervisory controller instructs the belt conveyor provided in each of the conveyance carriages identified to start a delivery operation of each of the articles at timing when each of the conveyance carriages identified is detected by the trigger sensor.

公开(公告)号：US11124362B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-21

申请号：US16913099

申请日：2020-06-26

Applicant: Daifuku Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Yuichi Ueda ,  Masashige Iwata ,  Akira Emoto

IPC: B65G1/04 ,  H05K7/14

Abstract: Provided is an article transport apparatus which can transfer an article to a transfer target portion at a low height. A movable member having a support portion includes a transfer mechanism for moving an article between the support portion and a transfer target portion. The transfer mechanism includes an interlocking portion capable of being interlocked with an article along the front-and-back direction, a first guide portion for guiding the interlocking portion along the front-and-back direction, and a second actuator for moving the interlocking portion along the front-and-back direction. The transfer mechanism moves an article between the support portion and the transfer target portion by moving the interlocking portion along the front-and-back direction. The first guide portion and the second actuator are located higher than an article supported by the support portion.

公开(公告)号：USD923908S1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-29

申请号：US29705466

申请日：2019-09-12

Applicant: DAIFUKU CO., LTD.

Designer： Yuichi Ueda ,  Osamu Matsui ,  Atsushi Ishikura

公开(公告)号：US11034518B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-15

申请号：US16412607

申请日：2019-05-15

Applicant: Daifuku Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Yuichi Ueda ,  Masaya Miyamoto

IPC: B65G1/137

Abstract: A picking system includes: a multi-column sorting device that sorts articles based on an order, and discharges each of the articles into one of a plurality of columns of compartments; a plurality of storage devices that receive the articles discharged from the respective corresponding compartments until article groups that are each a set of the articles for each order have been collected, and temporarily store the articles; and a transport device that receives and unloads the article discharged from each of the storage devices with an accommodating container located at a standby position, and loads an empty accommodating container to the standby position.

公开(公告)号：US20210130095A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-06

申请号：US17053087

申请日：2019-04-18

Applicant: Daifuku Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Yuichi Ueda ,  Masaya Miyamoto ,  Masashige Iwata ,  Kazunari Kimura

IPC: B65G1/137 ,  B65G1/04

Abstract: A picking system is realized that can efficiently perform operations from collection to delivery of articles in a limited space. A picking system (1) includes: a multi-row sorting device (2) configured to sort the article into one of the plurality of rows of exits (21) and discharge the sorted article; a container supporting device (3) capable of supporting an accommodating container (B) on a plurality of rows of container supporting portions (32) until an article group that is a set of articles for the order is collected; and a transport device (4) configured to unload the accommodating container (B) in which the article is accommodated from the container supporting portion (32), and load an empty accommodating container (B) to the container supporting portion (32).

公开(公告)号：US10913577B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-09

申请号：US16115978

申请日：2018-08-29

Applicant: Daifuku Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Yuichi Ueda ,  Noriyuki Wada ,  Masashige Iwata

IPC: B65D33/14 ,  B65G17/20 ,  B65G19/02 ,  B65G47/61

Abstract: A bag capable of storing an article, the bag being conveyed while being suspended from a rail. The bag includes: a body that stores the article; a suspending member that suspends the body from the rail; and a reorienting member that reorients the body with respect to the suspending member. The body includes a bag having an internal storage space for the article, and the reorienting member is provided independently of the body, is supported pivotally with respect to the suspending member, has a free end in the body so as to pivot with respect to the suspending member, and pivots with respect to the suspending member so as to reorient the body.

公开(公告)号：US10800617B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-13

申请号：US16632243

申请日：2018-07-13

Applicant: Daifuku Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Yuichi Ueda ,  Masashige Iwata ,  Akira Emoto

IPC: B65G65/00 ,  B65B35/40 ,  B65G57/30 ,  B65G61/00 ,  B65G1/06 ,  B65G1/04 ,  B65G59/06 ,  B65G1/137

Abstract: A transport vehicle (2) that travels along a container shelf (1) is provided with a plurality of levels of shelf portions (11) arranged in a vertical direction (Z) and configured to support containers (W), thereby transporting the containers (W). The transport vehicle (2) is provided with a support region (22) where the containers (W) are supported in a stacked state, a transfer apparatus (24) that transfers the containers (W) supported by the shelf portions (11) to the support region (22) and transfers the containers (W) supported in the support region (22) to the shelf portions (11), and a lifting mechanism (25) that lifts a container (W) at any height among a container group (WG) stacked in the support region (22) with respect to a container (W) lower than the container (W) at that any height.

公开(公告)号：US10730697B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-04

申请号：US16077788

申请日：2017-02-15

Applicant: Daifuku Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Yuichi Ueda ,  Masashige Iwata ,  Akira Emoto

IPC: B65G1/04 ,  H05K7/14

Abstract: Provided is an article transport apparatus which can transfer an article to a transfer target portion at a low height. A movable member having a support portion includes a transfer mechanism for moving an article between the support portion and a transfer target portion. The transfer mechanism includes an interlocking portion capable of being interlocked with an article along the front-and-back direction, a first guide portion for guiding the interlocking portion along the front-and-back direction, and a second actuator for moving the interlocking portion along the front-and-back direction. The transfer mechanism moves an article between the support portion and the transfer target portion by moving the interlocking portion along the front-and-back direction. The first guide portion and the second actuator are located higher than an article supported by the support portion.

公开(公告)号：US10479605B2

公开(公告)日：2019-11-19

申请号：US16012904

申请日：2018-06-20

Applicant: Daifuku Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Yuichi Ueda ,  Masashige Iwata ,  Hiroyuki Koide

IPC: G06F7/00 ,  B65G1/137

Abstract: A control apparatus monitors an amount of time that has elapsed since an article was stored at a first storage position or an amount of positional misalignment from a reference position of the article stored at the first storage position. This amount of time is a monitoring target amount, and the control apparatus monitors the monitoring target amount for each of multiple storage sections and causes a conveying apparatus to execute correction processing with a storage section in which the monitoring target amount has exceeded the set threshold as a target storage section. Correction processing is used for correcting the position of only the target article stored at a first storage position in a target storage section relative to a reference position.