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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2019
Sick Ag, Waldkirch/Breisgau, DE;
Jürgen Bürger, Teningen, DE;
Matthias Opfolter, Denzlingen, DE;
SICK AG, Waldkirch/Breisgau, DE;
Abstract
A flow rack unit for providing stock material units includes at least two rack bays and one control system. Each rack bay has a removal side and a storage side opposite the removal side and is configured to provide the stock material units in a respective bay level arranged next to one another starting in the direction of the storage side. A respective sensor arrangement of the control system is associated with each rack bay. Each sensor arrangement is arranged at the storage side of the associated rack bay and connected to a control unit of the control system via a common data line. The sensor arrangements each include an occupancy sensor configured as a distance sensor. Each occupancy sensor has a measurement zone that is aligned to measure a distance from a rearmost stock material unit stored in the associated rack bay and disposed closest to the occupancy sensor.