公开(公告)号：US20210229914A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-29

申请号：US17229424

申请日：2021-04-13

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 vertically 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 vertically reciprocating lift so that a pickface is transferred between the at least one vertically reciprocating and the at least one autonomous transport vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US20240051754A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-15

申请号：US18488606

申请日：2023-10-17

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

CPC classification number: B65G1/1373 ,  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：US20210073721A1

公开(公告)日：2021-03-11

申请号：US16950383

申请日：2020-11-17

Applicant: Symbotic LLC

Inventor： Kirill K. PANKRATOV ,  Juergen D. CONRAD ,  Robert HSIUNG ,  Larry M. SWEET

IPC: G06Q10/08 ,  B65G1/04 ,  B65G1/06

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 fulfilment stream.

公开(公告)号：US20230162150A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-25

申请号：US18158882

申请日：2023-01-24

Applicant: Symbotic LLC

Inventor： Kirill K. PANKRATOV ,  Juergen D. CONRAD ,  Robert HSIUNG ,  Larry M. SWEET

IPC: G06Q10/087 ,  B65G1/04 ,  B65G1/06

CPC classification number: G06Q10/087 ,  B65G1/0492 ,  B65G1/04 ,  B65G1/06

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 fulfilment stream.

公开(公告)号：US20210292092A1

公开(公告)日：2021-09-23

申请号：US17204107

申请日：2021-03-17

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 ,  B66F9/06

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：US20160214797A1

公开(公告)日：2016-07-28

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 ,  B65G1/04 ,  G06Q10/08

CPC classification number: G06Q10/087 ,  B65G1/0492

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.

Abstract translation: 产品订单执行系统包括排列在不同级别的多个甲板，并且定义多层甲板，每个甲板上至少有一个自动运输车辆，并且被配置为在每个甲板上保持和运输接头，至少一个升降机，穿越和连接更多 并且布置成用于从甲板升高和降低接收面，以及在运输车辆和至少一个升降机之间的每个甲板上的至少一个接地转运站，以实现运输车辆之间的接头的传送 并且所述至少一个升降机，所述至少一个升降机将从所述多层甲板出站的混合箱体接收物的履行流定义为装载填充物，所述履约流的至少一个流具有流式接收器的有序序列，其中， 流接口基于另一个实现流。

公开(公告)号：US20190050795A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-14

申请号：US16162247

申请日：2018-10-16

Applicant: Symbotic LLC

Inventor： Kirill K. PANKRATOV ,  Juergen D. CONRAD ,  Robert HSIUNG ,  Larry M. SWEET

IPC: G06Q10/08 ,  B65G1/04

CPC classification number: G06Q10/087 ,  B65G1/04 ,  B65G1/0492 ,  B65G1/06

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：US20180111756A1

公开(公告)日：2018-04-26

申请号：US15848809

申请日：2017-12-20

Applicant: Symbotic, LLC

Inventor： Juergen D. CONRAD ,  Robert HSIUNG ,  Kirill K. PANKRATOV ,  Robert SULLIVAN ,  Larry M. SWEET

IPC: B65G1/04 ,  B65G1/137

CPC classification number: B65G1/0492 ,  B65G1/0435 ,  B65G1/0485 ,  B65G1/1376

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：US20160207711A1

公开(公告)日：2016-07-21

申请号：US14997902

申请日：2016-01-18

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

CPC classification number: B65G1/1373 ,  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.

Abstract translation: 根据所公开的实施例的一个或多个方面，升降机包括至少一个装载处理装置，其构造成沿着提升轴线往复运动，所述载荷处理装置包括形成有效载荷部分的框架，所述载荷部分具有具有共同的有效载荷支撑表面 高度构造成将一个或多个接头保持在有效负载支撑表面的共同高度处，至少一个可移动地安装到框架的传送臂，以及连接到负载处理装置的驱动部分，并被配置成沿着 提升轴，其中由所述至少一个负载处理装置的有效载荷支撑表面一致承载的所述一个或多个拾取器根据预定的外部输出顺序顺序在所述至少一个负载处理装置上定义接收点的顺序序列 案件

公开(公告)号：US20240177111A1

公开(公告)日：2024-05-30

申请号：US18434282

申请日：2024-02-06

Applicant: Symbotic LLC

Inventor： Kirill K. PANKRATOV ,  Juergen D. CONRAD ,  Robert HSIUNG ,  Larry M. SWEET

IPC: G06Q10/087 ,  B65G1/04 ,  B65G1/06

CPC classification number: G06Q10/087 ,  B65G1/04 ,  B65G1/0492 ,  B65G1/06

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 fulfilment stream.