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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2023
Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Mumbai, IN;
Venkatesh Prasad Bangalore Srinivas, Bangalore, IN;
Raghav Ponnath, Bangalore, IN;
Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Mumbai, IN;
Abstract
Conventional fork-type autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) have been suited to handle pallets and are typically designed with two forks. Such AMRs are very bulky in nature and specifically designed for a cart handling application, and usually have large openings and less suitable for lifting roller carts. Present disclosure provides a fork assembly for AMRs/Autonomous Guided Vehicles (AGVs) for transporting roller cages/carts within warehouses. The fork assembly when integrated with AMR enables performing various tasks. More specifically, the fork assembly includes a first plate and a second plate. The fork assembly further include roller movement enabler blocks that are driven by respective fork motors. Movement of the roller movement enabler blocks enable rolling of rollers on respective roller guides within tapered region thereby enable lowering and rising of the second plate with reference to the first plate for lifting a payload and movement thereof to a desired location.