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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2015
Swisslog Logistics, Inc., Newport News, VA (US);
Mike Terrill, Lathrop, CA (US);
Mohan Ramankutty, Mountain House, CA (US);
Christopher Brumm, Ripon, CA (US);
Pat Mitchell, Lathrop, CA (US);
Rodney Tipton, Lathrop, CA (US);
Swisslog Logistics, Inc., Newport News, VA (US);
Abstract
A system for positioning a lifting cart in an automated storage facility is described. In one example, the system includes a motorized lifting cart configured to move about a railway of a storage area. An encoder on the cart reads a property of rotation of a rotating element on the cart, and a controller may receive the property of rotation from the encoder and convert it to a rotation count of the rotating element. The rotating element may be an encoder shaft, drive shaft, and like elements. Some systems include a signal emitter or photo sensor to position the lifting cart and to facilitate providing instructions to the cart.