Hitachi, Ltd.

Yozo Konishi

Kichizo Akashi

Hideo Watase

Tadashi Tenma

Tatsuo Yoshioka

An automatic freight stacking system for loading previously determined freight articles of various configurations (shapes, size, material, etc.) to be shipped, using a loading scheduler for determining a loading schedule on the basis of the existing various configurations of the freight articles, marshalling equipment for receiving the freight articles in a given order and delivering them in a predetermined order which is determined by the scheduler, a feeding conveyor for carrying the delivered freight articles and transporting means to the places of the respective loading means allocated by the loading scheduler, and the loading means for loading the carried freight articles on the transporting means in accordance with the scheduled operation sequence. In the case where the configurations of certain freight articles to be shipped are unknown before the arrival thereof, a reader is provided to read the dimensions of the freight articles upon arrival thereof and then the operator monitors through a display terminal the state of the articles and the state of the articles loaded on the transporting means and indicates the freight article to be loaded as well as the position to be loaded to the loading means.

Automatic freight stacking system

A piling planning method for cargoes in which an operator can designate a piling position of each of the various cargoes, and by displaying the piling result graphically on a graphic terminal, a piling patern is determined so that vacant space is reduced, and by using a final piling pattern, a piling position and a piling order of each cargo, and a piling operation sequence of the palletizing robot are determined. A piling system is provided in which cargoes supplied thereto are piled on a pallet in accordance with piling planning data prepared by a piling planning device which executes the above piling planning method.

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Tochigi, Japan

Yozo Konishi