Container storage and retrieval system
AssigneeOcado Innovation Limited
InventorsLars Sverker Ture LINDBO, Wilhelm Karl JOHANNISSON, Måns Fredrik Jonathan NILSSON
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Abstract
This disclosure relates a container storage and retrieval system including a frame structure configured to store a plurality of rows of containers. The system includes a load handling device including a first actuating assembly configured to move a container row lengthwise in order to retrieve a container from the container row for delivery to the workstation or add a container from the workstation to the container row.
Claims32
-31. (canceled)
A load handling device for a container storage and retrieval system, the container storage and retrieval system including a frame structure configured to store a plurality of rows of containers, the load handling device being configured to be positionable between the frame structure and a workstation and comprising:
- a first actuating assembly configured to move a container row lengthwise in order to retrieve a container from the container row for delivery to a workstation or add a container from a workstation to the container row.
A load handling device according to claim 31, comprising:
- a third actuating assembly configured to stack downwards one or more containers following their retrieval from a container row such that another container from the container row can be accessed.
A method of retrieving one or more target containers from a container storage and retrieval system, the method comprising:
- moving a load handling device to a target container row of the container storage and retrieval system;
- moving the target container row lengthwise using the load handling device to retrieve an end container from the target container row;
- determining if the retrieved container is the target container;
- and
- moving the retrieved container using the load handling device to a temporary storage location when the retrieved container is determined to be a non-target container;
- or
- moving the retrieved container out of the load handling device for delivery to a workstation when the retrieved container is determined to be the target container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.