US 11,460,766 B2Granted

Article storage facility

AssigneesTaiwan Daifuku Co., Ltd., Daifuku Co., Ltd.

InventorIsamu Sasaki

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Abstract

An article storage facility is disclosed which has a relatively high article storage efficiency and which can reduce the possibility of degradation, etc., of articles that may occur within a storage structure. The article storage facility includes: a storage structure; a first support station provided inside the storage structure and configured to support a storage container; a second support station configured to support a transporting container; and an article transfer device. A transporting container is a container that is used to transport articles outside the storage structure whereas a storage container is a container that is used to transport and store articles inside the storage structure, and is configured to hold a plurality of articles with greater holding efficiency than a transporting container. The article transfer device is configured to transfer articles, one or more articles at a time, between a storage container placed on the first support station and a transporting container placed on the second support station.

Claims9

Dependent claims

An article storage facility, comprising:

a storage structure;
one or more storage racks provided inside the storage structure and configured to store storage containers;
a first support station provided inside the storage structure and configured to support a storage container of the storage containers;
an internal transport device configured to transport storage containers, one storage container at a time, between the one or more storage racks and the first support station;
a second support station provided outside the storage structure and configured to support a transporting container;
and
an article transfer device;
wherein the transporting container is a container that is used to transport articles outside the storage structure, and is configured to hold a plurality of articles therein,
wherein the storage container is a container that is used to transport and store articles inside the storage structure, and is configured to hold a plurality of articles with greater holding efficiency than the transporting container, and
wherein the article transfer device is configured to transfer articles, one or more articles at a time, between the storage container placed on the first support station and the transporting container placed on the second support station.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/716,812Filed 17 Dec 2019
Priority: JP JP2019-02689018 Feb 2019
Published: US 2020/0264506 A120 Aug 2020
Granted: 4 Oct 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

G03F 1/66
Originals for photomechanical production of textured or patterned surfaces, e.g., masks, photo-masks, reticles; Mask blanks or pellicles…
B65G 1/137
Mechanical: with arrangements or automatic control means for selecting which articles are to be removed
H10P 72/1902
Closed carriers: specially adapted for a single substrate
H10P 72/1906
Closed carriers: specially adapted for containing masks, reticles or pellicles