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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2024
Filed:
May. 05, 2023
Crown Equipment Corporation, New Bremen, OH (US);
Matthew J. Otto, New Bremen, OH (US);
Gregory S. Garmann, Maria Stein, OH (US);
Mark E. Addison, Ludlow Falls, OH (US);
Crown Equipment Corporation, New Bremen, OH (US);
Abstract
A goods-to-man warehousing system comprises a multilevel racking system, a plurality of mobile storage units, a storage unit transporter, a pick-place vehicle, a mobile storage unit transfer node, and a warehouse management computing hub. The multilevel racking system comprises a vertically and horizontally distributed array of storage bays. One or more of the mobile storage units are positioned in respective ones of the storage bays of the multilevel racking system. The pick-place vehicle comprises pick-place hardware that enables the pick-place vehicle to transfer mobile storage units between a plurality of different, vertically displaced storage bays of the multilevel racking system and the mobile storage unit transfer node of the goods-to-man warehousing system. The storage unit transporter comprises storage unit engagement hardware that enables the storage unit transporter to transport mobile storage units to or from the mobile storage unit transfer node of the goods-to-man warehousing system.