Stacked disk item storage and retrieval system with optimized item positioning and item data control
AssigneeCapps Oy
InventorsTeemu Oittinen, Ilpo Hakkarainen
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Abstract
This disclosure includes an item storage and retrieval device comprising one or more stacked circular disks, each disk having a slot on its radius to the center and rotating on a central column such that, when slots on higher disks are aligned, a target disk may be accessed below for item storage or retrieval; which device may further comprise a disk item access unit for placement, orientation, and retrieval; which device may further comprise one or more RFID readers; and which device may further comprise a system and interface for managing and optimizing item storage to and retrieval from stacked circular disks.
Claims6
An item storage and retrieval device comprising:
- one or more stacked circular disks;
- each disk configured with a disk slot on its radius extending to a disk center;
- each disk rotatable on a central column such that higher stacked disks may be positioned with aligned slots, and an item may be stored on or retrieved from a lower target disk that is reached through the aligned slots;
- and
- a disk item access unit that can move through aligned disk slots for placement, orientation, and retrieval of items on the target disk.
An item storage and retrieval device comprising:
- one or more stacked circular disks;
- each disk configured with a disk slot on its radius extending to a disk center;
- each disk rotatable on a central column such that higher stacked disks may be positioned with aligned slots, and an item may be stored on or retrieved from a lower target disk that is reachable through the aligned slots;
- a disk item access unit configured to move through the aligned disk slots for placement, orientation, and retrieval of items on the target disk;
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- a temporary storage disk to use as a buffer for an input item before it is assigned to its target disk and position.
An item storage and retrieval device comprising:
- one or more stacked circular disks;
- each disk configured with a disk slot on its radius extending to a disk center;
- each disk rotatable on a central column such that higher stacked disks may be positioned with aligned slots, and an item may be stored on or retrieved from a lower target disk that is reachable through the aligned slots;
- a disk item access unit configured to move through the aligned disk slots for placement, orientation, and retrieval of items on the target disk;
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- a system and interface for managing item storage and retrieval on stacked circular disks, including:
- a computing system, including a processor and a memory, with program instructions causing the processor to at least:
- maintain a database of the stacked disk and position attributes and item attributes;
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- control one or more item positioning elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.