公开(公告)号：US20210147146A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-20

申请号：US17108265

申请日：2020-12-01

Applicant: Symbotic LLC

Inventor： Juergen D. Conrad ,  Robert Hsiung ,  Kirill K. Pankratov ,  Robert Sullivan ,  Larry M. Sweet

IPC: B65G1/04

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.

公开(公告)号：US10974897B2

公开(公告)日：2021-04-13

申请号：US14997892

申请日：2016-01-18

Applicant: Symbotic LLC

Inventor： Kirill K. Pankratov ,  Juergen D. Conrad ,  Robert Hsiung ,  Edward A. Macdonald ,  Larry M. Sweet

IPC: B65G1/04 ,  B65G1/137

Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous transport vehicle, a transfer deck that defines an undeterministic transport surface for the at least one autonomous transport vehicle, the transfer deck having multiple travel lanes, at least one reciprocating lift, and at least one pickface handoff station connected to the transfer deck and interfacing between the at least one autonomous transport vehicle on the transfer deck and the at least one reciprocating lift so that a pickface is transferred between the at least one reciprocating and the at least one autonomous transport vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US10954066B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-23

申请号：US16284930

申请日：2019-02-25

Applicant: Symbotic LLC

Inventor： Kirill K. Pankratov ,  Juergen D. Conrad ,  Robert Hsiung ,  William Johnson, Jr. ,  Edward A. MacDonald ,  Larry M. Sweet

IPC: B65G1/137 ,  B65G1/04

Abstract: In accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosed embodiment, a lift includes at least one load handling device configured so as to reciprocate along a lift axis, the load handling device including a frame forming a payload section with a payload support surface having a common elevation configured to hold one or more pickfaces at the common elevation of the payload support surface, at least one transfer arm movably mounted to the frame, and a drive section connected to the load handling device and being configured to move the load handling device along the lift axis, wherein the one or more pickfaces carried in unison by the payload support surface of the at least one load handling device, define an order sequence of pickfaces on the at least one load handling device according to a predetermined case out order sequence of mixed cases.

公开(公告)号：US10102496B2

公开(公告)日：2018-10-16

申请号：US14997925

申请日：2016-01-18

Applicant: Symbotic LLC

Inventor： Kirill K. Pankratov ,  Juergen D. Conrad ,  Robert Hsiung ,  Larry M. Sweet

IPC: B65G1/137 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  B65G1/04

Abstract: A product order fulfillment system includes multiple decks arrayed at different levels and defining multilevel decks, at least one autonomous transport vehicle on each of the decks, and configured for holding and transporting a pickface on each deck, at least one lift, traversing and connecting more than one level of the decks, and arranged for lifting and lowering the pickface from the decks, and at least one pickface transfer station on each deck interfacing between the transport vehicle and the at least one lift to effect transfer of the pickface between the transport vehicle and the at least one lift, the at least one lift defines a fulfillment stream of mixed case pickfaces outbound from the multilevel decks to a load fill, at least one stream of the fulfillment stream has an ordered sequence of streaming pickfaces wherein the ordered sequence of streaming pickfaces is based on another fulfillment stream.

公开(公告)号：US20140343716A1

公开(公告)日：2014-11-20

申请号：US14215289

申请日：2014-03-17

Applicant: SYMBOTIC, LLC

Inventor： Larry Sweet ,  Kil D. Kwak ,  Kirill Pankratov ,  Russell G. Barbour ,  William Johnson ,  Juergen D. Conrad ,  Juergen Baumbach ,  Ronald Kyslinger

IPC: B65G1/137

CPC classification number: B65G1/137 ,  B65G1/0485 ,  B65G1/0492 ,  G06Q10/08

Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system includes a first independently operable section having a first number of predetermined storage and retrieval transactions, and a second independently operable section in communication with the first independently operable section and having a second number of predetermined storage and retrieval transactions. The first and second independently operable sections are configured to provide a respective number of predetermined storage and retrieval transactions so that the first number of predetermined storage and retrieval transactions substantially matches the second number of predetermined storage and retrieval transactions.

Abstract translation: 自动存储和检索系统包括具有第一数量的预定存储和检索事务的第一独立可操作部分，以及与第一独立可操作部分通信并具有第二数量的预定存储和检索事务的第二独立可操作部分。 第一和第二独立可操作部分被配置为提供相应数量的预定的存储和检索事务，使得第一数量的预定存储和检索事务基本上与第二数量的预定存储和检索事务相匹配。