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US 12,762,508 B2Granted
Order fulfillment system and method with item sensor
AssigneeApex Industrial Technologies LLC
InventorsRichard Mathias Alden, Benjamin V. Savage
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Abstract
An order fulfillment system including a frame defining a passageway, a tray positioned in the passageway and pivotable between a first position and a second position, and a sensor system configured to sense the position of the tray.
Claims39
An order fulfillment system comprising:
- a frame defining a passageway, wherein said passageway is a continuous opening extending through said frame in a horizontal direction;
- a tray positioned in the passageway and pivotable about a generally horizontally oriented axis between a first position and a second position;
- a sensor system configured to sense the position of the tray in at least one of the first or second positions, wherein the sensor system includes an electronic sensor configured to provide an output;
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- a controller operatively coupled to said sensor system.
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An order fulfillment system comprising:
- a frame having a stocking side and a retrieval side, the frame including a passageway extending entirely through the frame from the stocking side to the retrieval side and configured to receive an item therein;
- an access control system configured to control access to the passageway;
- a controller operatively connected to the access control system;
- a tray positioned in the passageway and pivotable between a first position when no items are positioned on the tray and a second position when an item or items of sufficient predetermined weight are positioned on the tray;
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- a tray position sensor system configured to sense the position of the tray in at least one of the first or second positions, wherein the tray position sensor system includes an electronic sensor configured to provide an output to the controller.
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An order fulfillment system comprising:
- a frame defining a passageway;
- a tray positioned in the passageway and pivotable about a generally horizontally oriented axis between a first position and a second position;
- a first sensor portion positioned adjacent to the tray and configured to sense when the tray is in the first position;
- a second sensor portion positioned adjacent to the tray and configured to sense when the tray is in the second position;
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- a controller operatively coupled to said first sensor portion and to said second sensor portion.
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An order fulfillment system comprising:
- a frame defining a passageway;
- a tray positioned in the passageway and pivotable about a generally horizontally oriented axis between a first position when no items are positioned on the tray such that the tray is inclined relative to a horizontal plane at a first angle and a second position when an item or items of sufficient predetermined weight are positioned on the tray such that the tray is inclined relative to a horizontal plane at a second angle that is different from said first angle;
- a door coupled to said frame, wherein said door is movable between a first position where said door generally blocks access to at least one end of said passageway and a second position where said door does not generally block access to said at least one end of said passageway;
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- a controller operatively coupled to said door and configured to retain said door in said first position unless the controller determines that an approved transaction has occurred or unless the controller receives information that an approved transaction has occurred.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.