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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2023

Filed:

Apr. 15, 2019
Applicant:

Daifuku Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Takuya Gondoh, Tokyo, JP;

Masami Iwai, Tokyo, JP;

Atsushi Minoo, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Daifuku Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 59/04 (2006.01); B65G 61/00 (2006.01); B65G 1/137 (2006.01); B65G 60/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 61/00 (2013.01); B65G 1/137 (2013.01); B65G 59/04 (2013.01); B65G 60/00 (2013.01); B65G 2203/0233 (2013.01); B65G 2203/041 (2013.01); B65G 2814/0305 (2013.01); B65G 2814/0308 (2013.01);
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.


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