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US 12,591,846 B2Granted
Mobile fulfillment system
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorsSiWon Kim, Won Chol Yeom, Wonseok Choi, Jungu Lee
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Abstract
A mobile fulfillment system includes a shipper system that collects and manages customer information and order data input from customers; a fulfillment platform that receives the customer information and order data from the shipper system and controls vehicle control and dispatch accordingly; and a mobile fulfillment center that includes a plurality of vehicles dispatched from the fulfillment platform and delivers products to customers and monitors delivery status according to the customer information and order data.
Claims10
A mobile fulfillment system, comprising:
- a shipper system that collects and manages customer information and order data input from customers;
- a fulfillment platform that receives the customer information and order data from the shipper system and controls vehicle control and dispatch accordingly;
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- a mobile fulfillment center that includes a plurality of vehicles dispatched from the fulfillment platform and delivers products to customers and monitors delivery status according to the customer information and order data,
- wherein the plurality of vehicles performs automatic sorting and automatic picking inside while moving to a delivery destination by using the order data transmitted from the fulfillment platform,
- wherein a plurality of roll containers is provided inside the plurality of vehicles, and each stage of the roll containers is formed of a conveyor belt,
- wherein at a front end of the conveyor belt of each stage of the roll containers, a picking conveyor belt of which a vertical height is adjusted and disposed in a direction perpendicular to the conveyor belt of each stage of the roll containers is provided,
- wherein each of the conveyor belts is partitioned by item separation membranes,
- wherein a reusable shopping cart containing items is disposed on an end side of the picking conveyor belt, and
- wherein a direction in which the items move on the picking conveyor belt is perpendicular to a direction in which the items move on the conveyor belt of each stage of the roll containers.
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