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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2018
Autostore Technology As, Nedre Vats, NO;
Ingvar Hognaland, Nedre Vats, NO;
Ivar Fjeldheim, Haugesund, NO;
Trond Austrheim, Etne, NO;
Borge Bekken, Haugesund, NO;
Autostore Technology AS, Nedre Vats, NO;
Abstract
A remotely operated vehicle assembly for picking up storage bins from a storage system and a method for change of vehicle direction. The vehicle assembly has a vehicle body with a cavity suitable for receiving a storage bin stored within the storage system, a lifting device for lifting the containers into the cavity and a displacement motor for lifting one of two sets of wheels in or out of engagement with an underlying track for changing vehicle direction. The wheels are arranged at outer side walls of the vehicle body facing away from the cavity, arranged at, or near, each of the respective two corners of the lower edge of the vehicle body.