Racking system and method for operating a racking system having a vehicle

• US 10,435,243 B2
• Filed: 02/29/2016
• Issued: 10/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sew-Eurodrive GmbH & Company KG (BV Beteiligung GmbH & Company KG)
• Original Assignee: Sew-Eurodrive GmbH & Company KG (BV Beteiligung GmbH & Company KG)
• Inventors: Schmidt, Josef, Degen, Dirk
• Primary Examiner(s): Myers, Glenn F
• Application Number:
  US15/563,536
• Publication Number:
  US 20180086560A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,317 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60B 19/003 Multidirectional wheels
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 1/0492 with cars adapted to travel in storage aisles
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 2207/34 Omni-directional rolls
• CPC Class Codes: B66F 9/063 Automatically guided
• CPC Class Codes: B66F 9/07568 Steering arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: B66F 9/07577 not supported by wheels, e.g. tracks or air cushions

Abstract

In a racking system and a method for operating a racking system having a vehicle, the vehicle has omnidirectional wheels.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a multi-level racking system including aisles and a hoisting platform movable vertically between the levels of the multi-level racking system;

a vehicle having omnidirectional wheels;

wherein a secondary winding, which is inductively couplable with a primary conductor disposed in the hoisting platform and which is inductively couplable with a primary conductor disposed in the aisle, is situated on an underside of the vehicle; and

wherein a capacitance is connected to the secondary winding, in series or in parallel, to form a resonant frequency of an oscillating circuit that substantially corresponds to a frequency of a current impressed into the primary conductor.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein each omnidirectional wheel includes a drive.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle has a length and a width, and an absolute amount of the length is greater than an absolute amount of the width.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein a main aisle is at least as wide as the length.

5. The system according to claim 3, wherein a side aisle is at least as wide as the width and narrower than the length.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle includes a hoisting gear such that a load is able to be carried by underriding the load with the vehicle and subsequent lifting of the hoisting gear.

7. A method for operating a system according to claim 1, comprising:

bringing the vehicle from forward travel to sideways travel via a curve, wherein the vehicle is not rotated relative to stationary parts of the system.

8. A method for operating a system according to claim 1, comprising:

bringing the vehicle from forward travel to sideways travel by braking, stopping, and subsequently accelerating in a transverse direction, wherein the vehicle is not rotated relative to stationary parts of the system.