公开(公告)号：US11414271B2

公开(公告)日：2022-08-16

申请号：US16903180

申请日：2020-06-16

Applicant: Symbotic, LLC

Inventor： Forrest Buzan ,  Michael Cyrulik ,  Aria Reynolds ,  Jason S. Sirois ,  Larry Sweet ,  Edward A. MacDonald ,  Taylor A. Apgar ,  Timothy Perrault ,  Stephen C. Toebes

IPC: G06F7/00 ,  B65G1/137 ,  B65G1/04

Abstract: An autonomous rover including a frame having a first end and a second end longitudinally spaced from the first end and forming a payload bay, the payload bay being sized to support a pickface, a common active registration surface configured to engage the pickface, and a drive section connected to the common active registration surface, the drive section being configured to variably position the common active registration surface relative to at least one storage shelf of an automated storage and retrieval system to effect placement of the pickface on the storage shelf so that pickfaces are substantially continuously arranged along the at least one storage shelf with a predetermined storage spacing between the pickfaces.

公开(公告)号：US20200307912A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-01

申请号：US16903180

申请日：2020-06-16

Applicant: Symbotic, LLC

Inventor： Forrest Buzan ,  Michael Cyrulik ,  Aria Reynolds ,  Jason S. Sirois ,  Larry Sweet ,  Edward A. MacDonald ,  Taylor A. Apgar ,  Timothy Perrault ,  Stephen C. Toebes

IPC: B65G1/137 ,  B65G1/04

Abstract: An autonomous rover including a frame having a first end and a second end longitudinally spaced from the first end and forming a payload bay, the payload bay being sized to support a pickface, a common active registration surface configured to engage the pickface, and a drive section connected to the common active registration surface, the drive section being configured to variably position the common active registration surface relative to at least one storage shelf of an automated storage and retrieval system to effect placement of the pickface on the storage shelf so that pickfaces are substantially continuously arranged along the at least one storage shelf with a predetermined storage spacing between the pickfaces.

公开(公告)号：US20180127210A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-10

申请号：US15798216

申请日：2017-10-30

Applicant: Symbotic, LLC

Inventor： Forrest Buzan ,  Michael Cyrulik ,  Aria Reynolds ,  Jason S. Sirois ,  Larry Sweet ,  Edward A. MacDonald ,  Taylor A. Apgar ,  Timothy Perrault ,  Stephen C. Toebes

IPC: B65G1/137 ,  B65G1/04

CPC classification number: B65G1/1373 ,  B65G1/0492

Abstract: An autonomous rover including a frame having a first end and a second end longitudinally spaced from the first end and forming a payload bay, the payload bay being sized to support a pickface, a common active registration surface configured to engage the pickface, and a drive section connected to the common active registration surface, the drive section being configured to variably position the common active registration surface relative to at least one storage shelf of an automated storage and retrieval system to effect placement of the pickface on the storage shelf so that pickfaces are substantially continuously arranged along the at least one storage shelf with a predetermined storage spacing between the pickfaces.

公开(公告)号：US11634279B2

公开(公告)日：2023-04-25

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: B65G1/137 ,  B65G1/04

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：US20190193938A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-27

申请号：US16293309

申请日：2019-03-05

Applicant: Symbotic, LLC

Inventor： Forrest Buzan ,  Edward A. MacDonald ,  Taylor A. Apgar ,  Thomas A. Schaefer ,  Melanie Ziegler ,  Russell G. Barbour

IPC: B65G1/04

CPC classification number: B65G1/0492

Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous rover for transferring payload within the system and including a communicator, a multilevel storage structure, each level allowing traversal of the at least one autonomous rover, at least one registration station disposed at predetermined locations on each level and being configured to communicate with the communicator to at least receive rover identification information, and a controller in communication with the at least one registration station and configured to receive the at least rover identification information and at least one of register the at least one autonomous rover as being on a level corresponding to a respective one of the at least one registration station or deregister the at least one autonomous rover from the system, where the controller effects induction of the at least one autonomous rover into a predetermined rover space on the level.

公开(公告)号：US10221013B2

公开(公告)日：2019-03-05

申请号：US15598969

申请日：2017-05-18

Applicant: Symbotic, LLC

Inventor： Forrest Buzan ,  Edward A. MacDonald ,  Taylor A. Apgar ,  Thomas A. Schaefer ,  Melanie Ziegler ,  Russell G. Barbour

IPC: G06F7/00 ,  B65G1/04

Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous rover for transferring payload within the system and including a communicator, a multilevel storage structure, each level allowing traversal of the at least one autonomous rover, at least one registration station disposed at predetermined locations on each level and being configured to communicate with the communicator to at least receive rover identification information, and a controller in communication with the at least one registration station and configured to receive the at least rover identification information and at least one of register the at least one autonomous rover as being on a level corresponding to a respective one of the at least one registration station or deregister the at least one autonomous rover from the system, where the controller effects induction of the at least one autonomous rover into a predetermined rover space on the level.

公开(公告)号：US09988213B2

公开(公告)日：2018-06-05

申请号：US15798216

申请日：2017-10-30

Applicant: Symbotic, LLC

Inventor： Forrest Buzan ,  Michael Cyrulik ,  Aria Reynolds ,  Jason S. Sirois ,  Larry Sweet ,  Edward A. MacDonald ,  Taylor A. Apgar ,  Timothy Perrault ,  Stephen C. Toebes

IPC: G06F7/00 ,  B65G1/137 ,  B65G1/04

CPC classification number: B65G1/1373 ,  B65G1/0492

Abstract: An autonomous rover including a frame having a first end and a second end longitudinally spaced from the first end and forming a payload bay, the payload bay being sized to support a pickface, a common active registration surface configured to engage the pickface, and a drive section connected to the common active registration surface, the drive section being configured to variably position the common active registration surface relative to at least one storage shelf of an automated storage and retrieval system to effect placement of the pickface on the storage shelf so that pickfaces are substantially continuously arranged along the at least one storage shelf with a predetermined storage spacing between the pickfaces.

公开(公告)号：US11001444B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-11

申请号：US16293309

申请日：2019-03-05

Applicant: Symbotic, LLC

Inventor： Forrest Buzan ,  Edward A. MacDonald ,  Taylor A. Apgar ,  Thomas A. Schaefer ,  Melanie Ziegler ,  Russell G. Barbour

IPC: B65G1/04

Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous rover for transferring payload within the system and including a communicator, a multilevel storage structure, each level allowing traversal of the at least one autonomous rover, at least one registration station disposed at predetermined locations on each level and being configured to communicate with the communicator to at least receive rover identification information, and a controller in communication with the at least one registration station and configured to receive the at least rover identification information and at least one of register the at least one autonomous rover as being on a level corresponding to a respective one of the at least one registration station or deregister the at least one autonomous rover from the system, where the controller effects induction of the at least one autonomous rover into a predetermined rover space on the level.

公开(公告)号：US10954066B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-23

申请号：US16284930

申请日：2019-02-25

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

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：US09656803B2

公开(公告)日：2017-05-23

申请号：US14348786

申请日：2014-03-13

Applicant: Symbotic, LLC

Inventor： Forrest Buzan ,  Edward A. MacDonald ,  Taylor A. Apgar ,  Thomas A. Schaefer ,  Melanie Ziegler ,  Russell G. Barbour

IPC: G06F7/00 ,  B65G1/04

CPC classification number: B65G1/0492

Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous rover for transferring payload within the system and including a communicator, a multilevel storage structure, each level allowing traversal of the at least one autonomous rover, at least one registration station disposed at predetermined locations on each level and being configured to communicate with the communicator to at least receive rover identification information, and a controller in communication with the at least one registration station and configured to receive the at least rover identification information and at least one of register the at least one autonomous rover as being on a level corresponding to a respective one of the at least one registration station or deregister the at least one autonomous rover from the system, where the controller effects induction of the at least one autonomous rover into a predetermined rover space on the level.