Knapp Ag

Franz Mathi

Wolfgang Puntigam

Marc Pendl

Heiko Süss

Michael Wend

Peter Stelzer

Peter Stock

Johannes Alois Hutter

Klaus Uller

Bernhard Gütl

Alexander Resch

Dirk Sieksmeier

Roland Koholka

Thomas Schnadwinkel

Doris Elebracht

Wilfried Waukmann

Christoph Lafer

Rick Bingle

Thomas Johaim

Peter Puchwein

Claus Blödorn

Jörg Bergmann

Johannes Holas

Alfred Gindl

Paul Mess

Bernhard Pürschl

Franz Hornhofer

Robert Lerche

Christian Steinbauer

Christoph Gailberger

Bernhard GÜTL

Perter Herbert Stock

Heiko SÜSS

Gregor Lebernegg

Anton Tschurwald

Wolfrum Hofbauer

Oliver Lehner

A method and a central belt system for order-picking articles into order packages transported with a container conveyor, having a central belt which has a conveying direction toward the container conveyor, with the central belt having first and second belt areas in the transverse direction to the conveying direction, and having first and second article chutes associated with the first and second belt areas for ejecting articles into the first and second belt areas. The central belt system has a control in order to eject articles from the first article chutes during a first time window according to a first order and to eject articles from the second article chutes during a second time window according to a second order.

Central belt system and method for picking articles

The invention relates to a light barrier system, comprising at least two reflection light barrier devices, each of which is configured to emit a light beam and to detect a reflected light beam, wherein the light barrier system comprises a reflection body, which is configured to reflect back light beams emitted from at least two different directions in parallel, which are spaced apart at an angle of at least 20°, wherein the at least two reflective light barrier devices are arranged in such a way that they emit light beams from different directions onto the same reflection body in order to monitor at least two spatially different areas. In a further aspect, the invention relates to the use of a reflection body.

Light barrier system, comprising at least two reflection light barrier devices

A key storage device for storing a key provided with an identification code, including a locking unit which has an unlocked state in which the key can be removed from the key storage device, and a locked state in which the key is locked in or on the key storage device. The key storage device includes a control unit connected to the locking unit and having a data interface, the control unit operable to read out the identification code of the key and to provide the identification code of the key at the data interface.

Key storage device

A vertical transfer device for a conveying device, including a main rotor operable to rotate about a node point for a conveyed goods support about a main axis of rotation (HA) extending horizontally, the node point being at a first distance from the main axis of rotation (HA) and the vertical transfer device is operable to keep the conveyed goods support horizontal during the rotation about the main axis of rotation (HA). The conveyed goods support is coupled at the node point of the main rotor by a compensation rotor that is operable to rotate the conveyed goods support about a compensation axis of rotation (AA) extending in parallel to the main axis of rotation (HA) through the node point, and the conveyed goods support being at a second distance from the compensation axis of rotation (AA).

Vertical conveyor for a conveying installation

A sorting device and a method for sorting articles at delivery points are shown, the sorting device having a conveying device comprising transport platforms that are movable along a transport direction for transporting the articles and for delivering the articles to the delivery points, with the transport platforms having a bearing surface for the articles and with at least one transport platform having a first delivery device for vertically delivering the articles from the bearing surface to at least one first delivery point. To provide a sorting device for reliable and careful joint sorting of articles with different transport and delivery requirements, at least one transport platform has a second delivery device for laterally delivering the articles from the bearing surface to at least one second delivery point.

Method for sorting articles, and sorting device

A racking for storing articles having guiding tracks and a rail vehicle, which may be moved on the guiding tracks for storing and retrieving the articles, wherein the guiding tracks merge in an intersection area. Within the guiding tracks there are formed current bars and at the rail vehicle there are formed current receivers engaging with the current bars and supplying the rail vehicle in the guiding tracks with energy. The intersection area is free of current bars. The rail vehicle has an intersection sensor, which is configured to detect whether the rail vehicle is within the intersection area. The vehicle control is configured to switch the rail vehicle, on the basis of the signals of the intersection sensor and the voltage in the guiding tracks, into different operation modes.

Racking for storing articles in storage locations of racks

A suspension conveyor system for sorting products, having a plurality of conveyor bags for at least one product. The conveyor bags may be moved along a continuous closed conveyor path, wherein the suspension conveyor system comprises conveyor means, configured to move the conveyor bags, at least one loading source, configured to load the conveyor bags with the at least one product, a control unit, configured to control the conveyor means, and at least one first unloading line having a plurality of unloading positions along a first closed conveyor path. At least one further unloading line is arranged having a plurality of unloading positions along at least one further closed conveyor path, wherein the at least two closed conveyor paths are connected to one another via at least two gates, wherein the conveyor bags may be controlled, independently from one another, in regard to the conveyor path using the conveyor means.

Suspension conveyor system for sorting products

The invention relates to an automated storage system comprising at least two shelves having storage locations for storing load carriers comprising articles, wherein the load carriers are storable in a storage direction in the storage locations, and a shelve aisle formed by the two shelves, in which a load reception means comprising a transfer means is movable in a travel direction in order to store at least one load carrier transported with the load reception means from the load reception means in the storage location or to pick up at least one load carrier from the storage location onto the load reception means during a transfer procedure with the transfer means, and the transfer means comprises rotation means in order to rotate the load carrier during the transfer procedure between the travel direction on the load reception means and the storage direction in the storage location.

Automated storage system for transporting load carriers rotated into a travel direct

A self-contained guide track is formed by first guide tracks and second guide tracks of a rack level and each track section of the closed guide track is determined from an intersection point of one of the first guide tracks with one of the second guide tracks to the next intersection point of one of the first guide tracks with one of the second guide tracks and the at least one rail vehicle is configured to be controlled on the track sections of the closed guide track during storing and removing the items in a main direction in the form of a roundabout such that the track section of the closed guide track, on which more than one rail vehicle is located, is used by the rail vehicles only in the main direction.

Rack store with a roundabout on a closed guide track

A system and method for a picking station operation, provides switched flexibly between single-step- and dual-step-picking into various types of order containers. The task is solved by the provision of a second order container conveyor technique for transporting second order containers, in particular boxes, for receiving articles into order container bays, arranged also in the arrangement row, of the picking station.

Picking station for picking articles into order containers and conveyor bags for order and batch picking

A system for picking articles from storage containers into containers by using a computer for handling and processing picking orders and a picking station according to the good-to-person-principle. Selected articles by the computer are picked from the storage containers into conveyor bags, and a suspension conveyor transports the conveyor bags to a packing location for packing the articles assigned to a picking order, and retrieves the conveyor bags into the order container assigned to the picking order. An order container conveyor transports order containers (boxes), and the computer processes a first picking order to determine the number of article to be picked at the picking station such that the number of articles required for picking the first picking order is picked into the order container assigned to the first picking order with later articles matched/picked to a conveyor bag for later picking of further picking orders at the packing location.

Picking system and picking site for picking articles for order and batch picking

In the case of a central belt system () with article shafts (), ejectors (), moving central belt () and central control unit (), an automatic control system (') which is connected to the control unit () for articles to be controlled on the moving central belt (), with a connected image processing unit (), and a camera system () possibly in addition with an illumination system (). The camera and illumination systems () are set in such a way, and the articles to be controlled which are arranged chaotically on the central belt () are ejected by the ejectors () in such a way, that optical shadow formation at the article to be controlled on the central belt () is preferably just prevented.

Central belt system of a commissioning unit

The invention relates to a storage and order-picking system () for the fully-automated picking of articles that are stored in storage loading aids () and are picked according to an order, which includes an article store, a first conveyor system that conveys storage loading aids leaving the article store to a picking station that is operated unmanned, a fully-automated robotic gripping unit on said picking station, which removes articles to be picked from said storage loading aids and deposits them in accordance with the order, the articles deposited according to an order, particularly in an order loading aid, subsequently being conveyed away by means of a second conveyor system, an image identification device for determining possible gripping points for the gripping unit in order to grip articles from the storage loading aids, wherein the image identification device comprises at least one and preferably at least two cameras in the region of the robotic gripping unit () and, if at least two cameras are provided, the capturing directions thereof are aligned into the storage loading aid located in the gripping region of the gripping unit, while being coordinated and in particular inclined toward each other.

Storage and order-picking system for the fully-automated identification and picking of articles

A clutch/brake unit for an accumulating conveyor for driving and for braking at least one roller which is provided for transporting a unit load on a roller path of the accumulating conveyor. The clutch/brake unit is driven continuously during operation via an endless drive traction mechanism on a driving roller and is configured, in an engaged operating state, for transmitting the rotational movement of the driving roller about an axis to a driven roller and, in a braking operating state, for slowing down the driven roller on a housing of the clutch/brake unit. The driven roller is connected to the roller via the endless traction mechanism. A compression spring displaces the driven roller along the axis in the direction of the housing in order to shift the clutch/brake unit into its braking operating state. A piston/cylinder unit integrated in the clutch/brake unit displaces the driven roller along the axis in the direction of the driving roller in order to shift the clutch/brake unit into its engaged operating state.

Clutch/brake unit for an accumulating conveyor

A method for order picking products in an order picking facility having at least one rack for storing products and an assigned warehouse transport system for collecting and storing the products and for transferring the collected products to a transport system, by means of which the collected products are transported to a good-to-picker order picking station, at which the quantity of the collected products that is determined in a picking order is order-picked manually or automatically by a robot, into one order transport unit for each picking order. Product types corresponding to the picking order are collected, order-picked at the good-to-picker order picking station, one after the other, and the remaining products of the product type are stored via the transport system again in the rack. The warehouse transport system further transfers collected products via at least one through-channel to an intermediate storage site of a order picking station, from where collected products are manually or automatically by robot, supplied to a central belt assembly on a central belt. Irrespective of whether a product is to be order picked at the good-to-picker order picking station or at the order picking station, the product is collected from the same storage site of the rack.

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Gleisdorf, Austria

Franz Mathi