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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2022
Autostore Technology As, Nedre Vats, NO;
Ivar Fjeldheim, Haugesund, NO;
Ingvar Fagerland, Kolnes, NO;
Trond Austrheim, Etne, NO;
Jørgen Djuve Heggebø, Langhus, NO;
AutoStore Technology AS, Nedre Vats, NO;
Abstract
A container handling vehicle is fitted with a coupler for coupling to a delivery container and/or to a storage container. The coupler includes a coupler frame, a delivery container gripper, and a storage container gripper. The delivery container gripper is provided on the coupler frame and protrudes from a lower face of the coupler frame. The delivery container gripper is configured to enable releasable coupling to corresponding coupling structure of a delivery container. The storage container gripper is provided on the coupler frame and protrudes from the lower face of the coupler frame. The storage container gripper is configured to enable releasable coupling to corresponding coupling structures of a storage container having a size allowing the delivery container to be held therein. The delivery container gripper includes two gripper paddles for gripping the delivery container. Each gripper paddle is pivoted from a pivot axis spaced equally and oppositely from a vertical centre plane oriented perpendicular to the lower face of the coupler frame. Each of the gripper paddles includes a protrusion located below the lower face of the coupler frame for insertion into a corresponding coupling structure of the delivery container.