公开(公告)号：US20220327480A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-13

申请号：US17762807

申请日：2020-09-22

申请人： Walmart Apollo, LLC

发明人： James Benjamin Edwards ,  Brian C. Roth ,  Paul E. Durkee

IPC分类号： G06Q10/08 ,  B65G1/137

摘要： A parent tote container is segmented into smaller, child tote containers. Each of the child tote containers includes products that are commonly sold together and are removed from the tote containers at picker stations with the same type of picker mechanism. Items are moved from the child tote containers to a customer order tote container at a picker station.

公开(公告)号：US20220306387A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-29

申请号：US17618044

申请日：2020-06-18

申请人： Walmart Apollo, LLC

发明人： Brian C. Roth ,  Paul E. Durkee

IPC分类号： B65G1/137 ,  G06Q10/08

摘要： There are provided systems and methods for assembling merchandise ordered by customers, such as at shopping facilities. In one form, the system includes: a shopping order interface for receiving merchandise orders; a shopping facility including a merchandise pickup area and a merchandise assembly area; an automated retrieval system for transporting merchandise to the assembly area; an automated retrieval inventory database; an offline retrieval inventory database; and a merchandise database containing dimensions of merchandise. The system also includes a control circuit configured to: receive a merchandise order, determine dimensions of the items in the order, determine an arrangement of the items in order containers, instruct retrieval of items by the automated retrieval system; instruct retrieval of a second set of items not capable of retrieval by the automated retrieval system; and instruct transfer and deposit of the items in the order containers.

公开(公告)号：US20220306385A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-29

申请号：US17839183

申请日：2022-06-13

申请人： Walmart Apollo, LLC

发明人： David G. Tovey ,  Bruce W. Wilkinson ,  Paul E. Durkee ,  Kurt William Robert Bessel

IPC分类号： B65G1/137 ,  B65G1/127 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  G06Q10/06 ,  G06K7/14 ,  G05B19/418

摘要： An autonomous storage and retrieval tower with dynamic resizing of available space is discussed.

公开(公告)号：US20210191366A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-24

申请号：US17195939

申请日：2021-03-09

申请人： Walmart Apollo, LLC

发明人： James Benjamin Edwards ,  Paul E. Durkee

IPC分类号： G05B19/416 ,  G06K7/14 ,  G06K7/10 ,  G06T7/60 ,  G06T7/70 ,  G06K9/62 ,  B65G15/30 ,  G06T7/00 ,  B26D5/00 ,  B65B69/00

摘要： First scanned images of the first container are received from a scanning device that show the contents of the interior of the first container before the first container is cut and opened. Second scanned images that are of the contents of the first container after the first container is cut and opened are also received. The images are analyzed and, based upon the analysis, selective modifications to the operating parameters of the container opening machine are determined and made.