# US 11,999,567 B2 · Picking device with remaining time display > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,999,567 B2 - Document ID: US11999567B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/767,845 - Filed: 2018-04-06 - Published: 2020-10-01 - Granted: 2024-06-04 - Earliest claimed: 2017-12-20 - Assignees: Kardex Produktion Deutschland GmbH - Applicants: Kardex Produktion Deutschland GmbH - Inventors: Volker Jungbluth; Emmanuel Harder; Pavel Kraus; Bohumil Tejnicky - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11999567B2 ## CPC - B65G 1/06: with means for presenting articles for removal at predetermined position or level (B65G1/12 takes precedence) - B65G 1/137: with arrangements or automatic control means for selecting which articles are to be removed - G05B 15/02: electric - G06Q 10/08: Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management - B65G 2209/04: Indication location means - B65G: TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS (packaging B65B; handling thin or filamentary materials, e.g. paper sheets or thread, B65H; cranes B66C; portable mobile or lifting or hauling appliances, e.g. hoists, B66D; devices for lifting or lowering goods for loading or unloading purposes, e.g. fork-lift trucks, B66F9/00; emptying bottles, jars, casks, barrels or similar containers, not otherwise provided for, B67C9/00; delivering or transferring liquids B67D; filling or discharging vessels for liquefied, solidified or compressed gases F17C; pipe-line systems for fluids F17D) - G05B: CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (systems for controlling or regulating non-electric variables G05D; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables G05F; control devices or systems insofar as characterised by mechanical features only G05G) - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR ## Abstract The invention refers to a picking device, in particular a storage lift, comprising at least one removal point for storage products and/or storage products carriers. In order to increase the efficiency of the operation of a picking device, it is provided according to the invention that the picking device is connected to at least one remaining time calculating device with which the remaining time until the arrival of a storage product and/or storage product carrier transported in the picking device at the at least one removal point can be calculated, wherein the picking device has at least one display device on which an image that represents the remaining time can be displayed. ## Claims ### Claim 1 Picking device, with at least one removal point for storage products and/or storage product carriers, wherein the picking device is connected to at least one remaining time calculating device, with which the remaining time until the arrival of a storage product and/or storage product carrier transported in the picking device at the at least one removal point can be calculated, and wherein the picking device has at least one position determination device for determining the position of a stored product and/or storage product carrier within the picking device, which is connected with the at least one remaining time calculation device in a data-transmitting manner, characterized in that the picking device has at least one display device on which a destination for storage products to be removed and an image representing the remaining time can be displayed in real-time, the remaining time being recalculated upon detecting a position and/or speed of a transported storage good along a transport path in the picking device and the at least one display device being updated to display the recalculated time. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) Picking device according to claim 1, characterised in that the at least one display device comprises at least one screen and/or a light-emitting diode matrix. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) Picking device according to claim 1, characterised in that the at least one display device comprises at least one light element, the light colour and/or brightness of which is adjustable. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) Picking device according to claim 1, characterised in that the at least one display device comprises at least one movable mechanical element. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) Picking device according to claim 1, characterised in that the at least one display device comprises at least one numerical display. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) Picking device according to claim 1, characterised in that the at least one remaining time calculating device is integrated in the picking device. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) Picking device according to claim 1, characterised in that the at least one remaining time calculating device is part of a control device arranged outside the picking device. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) Picking device according to claim 1, characterised by at least one memory in which at least one previously known transport time belonging to at least one transport section is stored. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) Picking device according to claim 1, characterised by at least one further removal point provided with at least one display device. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) Picking device according to claim 1, characterised in that a plurality of removal points are provided, wherein a display device is associated with a plurality of removal points. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) Picking device according to claim 10, the display device comprises at least two fields which are each associated with different removal points and are activated in dependence thereon, at which of the removal points the remaining time is shortest.