FLEXIBLE AND COMPACT ORDER PICKING SYSTEM
    81.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200071077A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-05

    申请号:US16347047

    申请日:2017-11-03

    发明人: Walter WINKLER

    摘要: A method and installation for picking items from storage units into one or more outbound units. The installation has a small parts store in which the storage units are stored, and a pick area, in which storage units from the parts store are presented at several pickup points. Assigned to the pick area is a conveyor track via which the outbound units can be moved in or out of the pick area, such that items can be picked from the storage units disposed in the pickup points and into the outbound units. The installation has a pick location, at which one or more receiving locations for outbound units and a conveyor device for storage units from the parts store are disposed such that items can be picked from the storage units delivered on the conveyor device and into the outbound units disposed at the receiving locations.

    System and method for managing packages in a kiosk

    公开(公告)号:US10573116B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-25

    申请号:US16226111

    申请日:2018-12-19

    摘要: A package storage system for a kiosk includes a shelf on which packages are stacked. The shelf is configured to be adjustable in a vertical height. The system also includes a sliding guide configured to be movable with respect to the shelf, and a clamp device having two adjustable side arms and slidably attached to the sliding guide. The clamp device is also configured to grip one of the packages by the two adjustable side arms. The system further includes a blade slidably attached to the sliding guide and configured to pull out a package that is stacked immediately beneath the one package griped by the clamp device. The system also includes a labelling device configured to label the packages inside the kiosk, and a receiving tray configured to receive the packages that are delivered to the kiosk. The system further includes a controller to control movement of the clamp device. The controller is further programmed to move the packages based on specified rules.

    DRIVERLESS TRANSPORT SYSTEM
    85.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200031639A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-30

    申请号:US16522621

    申请日:2019-07-25

    发明人: Martin RAUWOLF

    摘要: A lifting device comprises a delivery direction-reversible hydraulic unit and at least three hydraulic lifting cylinders. The hydraulic cylinders are dimensioned in a stepped manner in such a way that the piston rod working space of an n-th lifting cylinder and the piston working space of an (n+1)-th lifting cylinder, with n from 1 to z−1, wherein z indicates the number of hydraulic lifting cylinders of the lifting device, have the same effective area. The at least three lifting cylinders are hydraulically connected in series in such a way that the respective working spaces with the same effective area are directly fluidically coupled by means of a hydraulic connection. The piston working space of the first lifting cylinder and the piston rod working space of the z-th lifting cylinder are in fluid connection with the connections of the delivery direction-reversible hydraulic unit.

    METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MOVEMENT OF TRANSPORTING DEVICES

    公开(公告)号:US20200012268A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-09

    申请号:US16575906

    申请日:2019-09-19

    摘要: A system and method for controlling movement of transporting devices arranged to transport containers stored in stacks arranged in a facility having pathways arranged in a grid-like structure above the stacks, the transporting devices being configured to operate on the grid-like structure. A movement optimisation unit is configured to determine a route of a transporting device from one location on a grid-like structure to another location on the grid-like structure for each transporting device. A reservation unit is configured to reserve a path on the grid-like structure for each transporting device based on the determined route. A clearance unit is configured to provide clearance for each transporting device to traverse a portion of the reserved path.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSPORTING CONTAINERS

    公开(公告)号:US20200002092A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-02

    申请号:US16448578

    申请日:2019-06-21

    IPC分类号: B65G1/06

    摘要: Among other things, a connection assembly for motion along a rail is disclosed. The connection assembly can include a first plate assembly, a second plate assembly, and a release assembly. The first plate assembly can include a first stop mounted to a first base. The second plate assembly can include a second stop mounted to a second base and a post mounted to the second base. The release assembly can include a rod and a spring. The rod can include an outward extension. The spring can be disposed between the extension and the second stop. The release assembly can be configured to occupy: a first state such that the spring pushes the extension against the first stop and thereby biases the first base away from the second base; and a second state such that the spring pushes the extension against the post.

    Modular base for forming installations and method for storage by means of stacking and movement of cases

    公开(公告)号:US10479602B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-19

    申请号:US15511230

    申请日:2015-09-17

    摘要: Of the type capable of being combined side by side with other similar units and compose an installation for storage, movement and dispatching of several volumes which can be packaged in boxes which are stacked on each module, each base comprising a structural module (1) with three functional sections that constitute real pavements, one lower (2) referred as ground floor, one intermediate defined as first floor (3) and one upper defined as support level (4), the latter has support locks (5) for the stacked boxes (6); each one of the two pavements (2 and 3) are equally provide with four rails segments (7) and (8), on which work at least one movement robot (10) and one lifting robot (9); all this set is combined with other equal units fitted on all or any of its four sides, this combination also coincides with the alignment between all the rails (7) and (8) by configuring paths in the four directions of each structural module and which constitutes routes for the robots (9 and 10); said robots combine to remove the boxes (6) from each stack to place it on another base or to send it in anywhere point of the perimeter of the installation for dispatch.