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公开(公告)号:US12071303B2
公开(公告)日:2024-08-27
申请号:US18051715
申请日:2022-11-01
申请人: Symbotic LLC
发明人: John G. Lert, Jr.
CPC分类号: B65G1/0492 , B65G1/1378
摘要: Methods and apparatus for selecting and combining items in an outbound container through the use of autonomous vehicles, each of which includes means for automatically loading and unloading a payload, to perform both transfer and transport functions in moving containers of items within a workspace via a network of roadways. Under computer control, said autonomous vehicles transfer and transport case containers of item units between incoming receiving stations, intermediate storage locations, and outgoing order-assembly stations where entire containers or individual item units are combined in the outbound container.
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公开(公告)号:US12059811B2
公开(公告)日:2024-08-13
申请号:US17659746
申请日:2022-04-19
申请人: Symbotic LLC
发明人: Ke Fu , Wenyin San , Rick Youping Huang
IPC分类号: G06F7/00 , B25J9/16 , B65G57/02 , B65G61/00 , G05B15/02 , G05B19/418 , G06Q10/0631 , G06Q10/08 , G06Q10/087 , B65G57/03
CPC分类号: B25J9/1687 , B65G57/02 , B65G61/00 , G05B15/02 , G05B19/41865 , G05B19/4189 , G06Q10/06316 , G06Q10/08 , G06Q10/087 , B65G57/03 , G05B2219/40006
摘要: An automated palletizer for building a mixed case pallet, the automated palletizer including a case infeed that feeds mixed cases to provide an input queue feed sequence of mixed cases. At least one pallet building robot communicably connected to the case infeed and configured to receive the mixed cases in the input queue feed sequence of mixed cases, and place the mixed cases according to and dependent on the input queue feed sequence of mixed cases so as to effect building the mixed case pallet at a predetermined substantially steady placement rate. A controller communicably connected to the case infeed and at least one pallet building robot, and being configured so as to generate a complete and stable mixed case arrangement plan that completes at least a predetermined whole part of the mixed case pallet and that describes a predetermined planned location and pose for each case.
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公开(公告)号:US11989016B2
公开(公告)日:2024-05-21
申请号:US17812009
申请日:2022-07-12
申请人: Symbotic LLC
发明人: Rick K. Dorval , Todd Comins
IPC分类号: G05D1/00
CPC分类号: G05D1/00 , G05D1/0297 , G05D2201/0216
摘要: A transportation system having a transportation space including destinations distributed in the transportation space, multiple independent automated vehicles configured for free roving through the transportation space to and between the destinations so that the vehicles are dynamically distributed through the transportation space, a control system communicably connected via a remote communication link to each of the vehicles and having a system controller that addresses each vehicle to different destinations, and the control system having a vehicle accountant controller separate and distinct from the system controller and configured to independently register a dynamic location of at least one of the vehicles, selected from the multiple vehicles in the transportation space, and command shutdown, via the remote communication link, to only the selected at least one vehicle at the registered location if the registered location corresponds to a predetermined location.
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公开(公告)号:US20240140708A1
公开(公告)日:2024-05-02
申请号:US18402385
申请日:2024-01-02
申请人: Symbotic, LLC
发明人: Larry SWEET , Kil KWAK , Kirill PANKRATOV , Russell G. BARBOUR , William JOHNSON , Juergen D. CONRAD , Juergen BAUMBACH , Ronald KYSLINGER
CPC分类号: B65G1/137 , B65G1/0485 , B65G1/0492 , G06Q10/08
摘要: An automated storage and retrieval system includes a first independently operable section having a first number of predetermined storage and retrieval transactions, and a second independently operable section in communication with the first independently operable section and having a second number of predetermined storage and retrieval transactions. The first and second independently operable sections are configured to provide a respective number of predetermined storage and retrieval transactions so that the first number of predetermined storage and retrieval transactions substantially matches the second number of predetermined storage and retrieval transactions.
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公开(公告)号:US11952214B2
公开(公告)日:2024-04-09
申请号:US17654752
申请日:2022-03-14
申请人: Symbotic, LLC
发明人: Robert Sullivan , Stephen C. Toebes
IPC分类号: B65G1/04
CPC分类号: B65G1/0492
摘要: An autonomous transport vehicle including a transfer arm including at least one finger and a movable finger support member, at least one sensor configured to detect movement of the at least one finger, the at least one sensor having a registration member and a detection member where one of the registration member and detection member is mounted to each of the at least one finger so as to be movable with a respective one of the at least one finger and the other one of the registration member and detection member is stationary relative to the at least one finger, and a controller in communication with the at least one sensor, the controller being configured to determine a position of the at least one finger along the second direction based on a proximity of the registration member relative to the detection member.
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公开(公告)号:US20240017941A1
公开(公告)日:2024-01-18
申请号:US18353551
申请日:2023-07-17
申请人: Symbotic LLC
CPC分类号: B65G57/24 , B65G43/08 , B65G1/16 , B65G2201/0267
摘要: A material handling system for handling, placing packages onto pallets destined for an order store, the material handling system comprising, a storage array with storage spaces for holding packages therein, an automated package transport system communicably connected to the storage array for storing packages within the storage spaces of the storage array and retrieving packages from the storage spaces of the storage array, an automated palletizer for placing mixed packages onto a pallet to form a pallet load of mixed packages, the automated palletizer is communicably connected to the automated package transport system which provides individual packages from the storage array to the automated palletizer for forming the pallet load of mixed packages, the pallet load of mixed packages including more than one composite layers of mixed packages, a controller operably connected to the automated palletizer, the controller being programmed with a pallet load generator with an initial pallet load.
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公开(公告)号:US11807127B2
公开(公告)日:2023-11-07
申请号:US18161759
申请日:2023-01-30
申请人: SYMBOTIC LLC
发明人: Robert Sullivan , Dmitry Vasilyev
IPC分类号: B60L53/63 , G06Q30/0207 , G06Q40/00 , B60L53/66 , G06Q20/10 , B65G47/04 , B65G67/02 , B60S5/00 , B65G1/04 , B65G1/137 , B60G5/00 , G06Q10/087
CPC分类号: B60L53/63 , B60G5/00 , B60L53/66 , B60S5/00 , B65G1/0492 , B65G1/1373 , B65G47/04 , B65G67/02 , G06Q20/105 , G06Q30/0215 , G06Q40/00 , G06Q10/087
摘要: A charging system for autonomous transport vehicles including at least one charging contact disposed on each pick floor level of a storage and retrieval system, each of the at least one charging contact being located at a transfer station, at least one power supply configured to supply power to the at least one charging contact, and a controller in communication with the transfer station and being configured to communicate information relating to a transfer of items between the transfer station and a predetermined one of the autonomous transport vehicles and to apply power from the power supply to the at least one charging contact for charging the predetermined autonomous transport vehicle corresponding to the transfer and located at the transfer station, wherein the controller is configured to supply power to the charging contacts simultaneously with the predetermined autonomous transport vehicle exchanging items related to the transfer at the transfer station.
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公开(公告)号:US20230333537A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-19
申请号:US18337596
申请日:2023-06-20
申请人: Symbotic LLC
发明人: Melanie ZIEGLER , Russell G. BARBOUR , Matt EARL
IPC分类号: G06Q10/087 , G05B19/418 , G06Q10/08 , B65G1/137 , G05B19/414
CPC分类号: G05B19/4148 , B65G1/137 , G05B19/4185 , G06Q10/08 , G06Q10/087 , G05D2201/0216
摘要: An automated storage and retrieval system includes a storage space with storage locations defined therein, an automated transport system connected to the storage space and configured to transport store units for storage in the storage locations and retrieval from the storage locations, and a control system disposed for managing throughput performance of the automated storage and retrieval system, the control system being operably coupled to the automated transport system and having more than one separate and distinct control sections each configured for managing throughput performance with respect to a common group of the storage locations, wherein at least one of the control sections manages aspects of throughput performance of the common group independent of another of the control sections.
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公开(公告)号:US20230173930A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-08
申请号:US18162307
申请日:2023-01-31
申请人: Symbotic LLC
CPC分类号: B60L53/14 , B60L3/0069 , B60L3/04 , B60L3/12 , B60L50/40 , B60L53/305 , B60L53/30 , H02J7/00032 , H02J7/00034 , B60L53/66 , B60L2240/36 , B60L2240/545 , B60L2240/547 , B60L2240/549 , B60L2250/10 , B60L2260/32 , Y02T10/7072 , Y02T90/14 , Y02T10/70 , Y02T90/12
摘要: A charging system for an autonomous rover includes a charging interface with contacts that interface with the autonomous rover, a rover power source for the autonomous rover, and circuitry operated by the autonomous rover for controlling charging of the rover power source.
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公开(公告)号:US20230162150A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-25
申请号:US18158882
申请日:2023-01-24
申请人: Symbotic LLC
IPC分类号: G06Q10/087 , B65G1/04 , B65G1/06
CPC分类号: G06Q10/087 , B65G1/0492 , B65G1/04 , B65G1/06
摘要: 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.
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