Method and arrangement for loading a driverless transport vehicle for individual products
AssigneeDematic Corp.
InventorJoachim Tödter
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Abstract
A method and arrangement for loading a driverless transport vehicle for individual products with an individual product, wherein the individual product is transferred from a delivery station to the driverless transport vehicle, and the driverless transport vehicle is in motion during the acceptance, wherein the individual product is accelerated for the transfer from the delivery station and leaves the latter at such a speed and the spacing of the driverless transport vehicle from the delivery station is so great that the individual product passes through a flight phase between leaving the delivery station and landing on the driverless transport vehicle moving at a normal transport speed.
Claims20
A method for loading a driverless transport vehicle for individual products with an individual product, said method comprises:
- transferring the individual product from a delivery station to the driverless transport vehicle;
- moving the driverless transport vehicle during said transferring-;
- accelerating the individual product for the transfer from the delivery station wherein the individual product leaves the delivery station at such a speed and the distance between the driverless transport vehicle and the delivery station is of such a size that the individual product passes through a flight phase between leaving the delivery station and landing on the driverless transport vehicle moving at a transport speed.
An arrangement for loading a driverless transport vehicle for individual products with an individual product, said arrangement comprising:
- a driverless transport vehicle for individual products;
- a delivery station for individual products;
- at least one individual product;
- a controller, wherein the delivery station comprises a controlled conveyor system having a delivery end for delivering the individual product to a loading surface of the driverless transport vehicle, the conveyor system, controlled via the controller, accelerating the respective individual product to such a speed that the individual product, when leaving the delivery station via the delivery end of the conveyor system, passes through a flight phase between leaving the delivery station and landing on the driverless transport vehicle moving at a transport speed, and that the movement of the driverless transport vehicle is synchronised to the flight path of the individual product via the controller.
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