Article Transport Facility and Article Transport Method

    公开(公告)号:US20200010274A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-09

    申请号:US16452606

    申请日:2019-06-26

    申请人: Daifuku Co., Ltd.

    IPC分类号: B65G1/137 B65G63/00

    摘要: A control device executes retrieval control to, in response to a transport request in which a type and an order of each of a plurality of articles that are transported to a transport target location are specified, retrieve all the articles specified in the transport request from a target automatic warehouse, which is one automatic warehouse selected from among a plurality of automatic warehouses, to a retrieval transport device in a specified order that is specified in the transport request. The control device executes, before execution of the retrieval control, inter-warehouse movement control to, if at least one of the plurality of articles specified in the transport request is not stored in the target automatic warehouse, move the article that is not stored in the target automatic warehouse from another automatic warehouse to the target automatic warehouse by using an inter-warehouse transport device.

    Article Rearranging Device and Article Storage Facility Including Same

    公开(公告)号:US20180022551A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-01-25

    申请号:US15654841

    申请日:2017-07-20

    申请人: Daifuku Co., Ltd.

    IPC分类号: B65G1/137 G06Q10/08

    摘要: An arranging section is provided to rearrange the order of articles received by a receiving portion into a specified order. When distributing and collecting a plurality of articles, that are being rearranged, among and in a plurality of upstream collecting branch portions, the operations of the arranging section are controlled such that the articles are classified into article groups of the same number of articles as the number of the last collecting branch portions, and such that, for each article group, elements of a subsequence representing the specified order assigned to a plurality of articles forming an article group are elements of a consecutive subsequence for the articles forming the article group, so that the articles in one article group are distributed and collected before the articles in any other article group. And when transporting the plurality of articles being rearranged, from the upstream collecting branch portions to the last collecting branch portions, the operations of the arranging section are controlled such that articles in an article group formed by the articles to which earlier positions in the specified order are assigned are distributed among the last collecting branch portions before articles in any other article group formed by articles to which later positions in the specified order are assigned, and such that the articles that form any one given article group are distributed among, and collected in, the last collecting branch portions, one by one in accordance with the specified order.

    Article Sorting Facility
    3.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230241647A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-03

    申请号:US18102877

    申请日:2023-01-30

    申请人: Daifuku Co., Ltd.

    IPC分类号: B07C3/02 G05D1/02

    CPC分类号: B07C3/02 G05D1/0289

    摘要: An article sorting facility includes: a first floor including a plurality of first travel paths; a second floor installed at a different height from the first floor in a vertical direction, and including a plurality of second travel paths; a plurality of first elevation mechanisms connecting terminating ends of the first travel paths to starting ends of the second travel paths; a plurality of second elevation mechanisms connecting terminating ends of the second travel paths to starting ends of the first travel paths; a plurality of receiving sections configured to receive articles from the transport vehicles; and at least one supply section configured to supply the articles to the transport vehicles. The plurality of second travel paths overlap corresponding first travel paths or corresponding receiving sections as viewed in the vertical direction, at least in a partial segment.

    Article transport facility and article transport method

    公开(公告)号:US11383929B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-12

    申请号:US16452606

    申请日:2019-06-26

    申请人: Daifuku Co., Ltd.

    IPC分类号: G06F7/00 B65G1/137 B65G63/00

    摘要: A control device executes retrieval control to, in response to a transport request in which a type and an order of each of a plurality of articles that are transported to a transport target location are specified, retrieve all the articles specified in the transport request from a target automatic warehouse, which is one automatic warehouse selected from among a plurality of automatic warehouses, to a retrieval transport device in a specified order that is specified in the transport request. The control device executes, before execution of the retrieval control, inter-warehouse movement control to, if at least one of the plurality of articles specified in the transport request is not stored in the target automatic warehouse, move the article that is not stored in the target automatic warehouse from another automatic warehouse to the target automatic warehouse by using an inter-warehouse transport device.

    Article rearranging device and article storage facility including same

    公开(公告)号:US09938081B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-04-10

    申请号:US15654841

    申请日:2017-07-20

    申请人: Daifuku Co., Ltd.

    摘要: An arranging section is provided to rearrange the order of articles received by a receiving portion into a specified order. When distributing and collecting a plurality of articles, that are being rearranged, among and in a plurality of upstream collecting branch portions, the operations of the arranging section are controlled such that the articles are classified into article groups of the same number of articles as the number of the last collecting branch portions, and such that, for each article group, elements of a subsequence representing the specified order assigned to a plurality of articles forming an article group are elements of a consecutive subsequence for the articles forming the article group, so that the articles in one article group are distributed and collected before the articles in any other article group. And when transporting the plurality of articles being rearranged, from the upstream collecting branch portions to the last collecting branch portions, the operations of the arranging section are controlled such that articles in an article group formed by the articles to which earlier positions in the specified order are assigned are distributed among the last collecting branch portions before articles in any other article group formed by articles to which later positions in the specified order are assigned, and such that the articles that form any one given article group are distributed among, and collected in, the last collecting branch portions, one by one in accordance with the specified order.