公开(公告)号：US20230150773A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-18

申请号：US17920617

申请日：2021-04-13

Applicant: FERAG AG

Inventor： Andreas DURTSCHI

IPC: B65G47/49 ,  B65G1/04 ,  B65G47/64 ,  B65G43/08 ,  B07C5/10 ,  B07C5/36

CPC classification number: B65G47/493 ,  B65G1/0457 ,  B65G47/644 ,  B65G43/08 ,  B07C5/10 ,  B07C5/36

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for operating a transport apparatus with a storage apparatus and to a corresponding transport apparatus with a storage apparatus. The method includes the following steps, providing the transport apparatus (1) with the storage apparatus (2) for storing transport units (3), including a plurality of transport units (3), a plurality of storage conveyors (4), and a feeding conveyor (5) to the storage conveyors. Furthermore, the transport apparatus includes an optical sensor (7) arranged at the feeding conveyor (5) and an evaluation electronics (8) connected to the optical sensor. The method also includes determining measurement data with the optical sensor (7) from a transport unit (3) moving past the optical sensor (7), and processing the measurement data obtained from the optical sensor (7) with the evaluation electronics (8) in order to determine the spatial extent in at least one dimension of the transport unit (3) moving past; and selecting a storage conveyor (4) for storing the transport unit (3) moving past on the basis of the determined spatial extent of the transport unit (3) moving past.