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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2018
Yi-lung Lee, Taichung, TW;
Tsair-rong Chen, Changhua, TW;
Chiung-ying Huang, Changhua, TW;
Shu-ming Chen, Taichung, TW;
Po-hsuan Chen, Changhua, TW;
Yi-Lung Lee, Taichung, TW;
Tsair-Rong Chen, Changhua, TW;
Chiung-Ying Huang, Changhua, TW;
Shu-Ming Chen, Taichung, TW;
Po-Hsuan Chen, Changhua, TW;
Tera Autotech Corporation, Taichung, TW;
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Changhua Univ. of Education, Changhua, TW;
Abstract
An automated warehouse storage and retrieval system may comprise at least an aisle, and each of two sides of the aisle has a shelf. A rail is laid along the aisle to enable at least an automated vehicle to move thereon. The automated vehicle has a platform, and a top surface thereof comprises at least a working station and at least a pick-and-place unit. Each of two lateral sides of the platform has two openings separated by a desired distance, and each of the openings has a climbing unit installed therein. The climbing units are configured to synchronously protrude from or move back in the openings. A side of the shelf faced to the rail has a plurality of vertical supporting members arranged in parallel, and each two adjacent supporting members are separated by the distance same as the two climbing units on the same lateral side of the platform.