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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2019
Daifuku Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Daifuku Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A picking facility is realized that can shorten the time required to transfer an article from a first support body to a second support body. Of a plurality of articlessupported by the first support body, the articlelocated at the highest position and the articlewhose upper face Tis present in a range of a set distance D downward from the upper face Tof the articlelocated at the highest position are set as transfer-target articlesA, and the control device performs a selection control to preferentially select, from the transfer-target articlesA, a transfer-target articleA in the normal orientation SC, and a transfer control to control the transfer device so as to transfer the transfer-target articleA selected through the selection control from the first support bodyto the second support body.