Automated Warehouse

• US 20070296585A1
• Filed: 12/01/2005
• Published: 12/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Murata Machinery Limited (Muratec)
• Original Assignee: Murata Machinery Limited (Muratec)
• Inventors: Ishida, Masato, Mitta, Yoshinori
• Application Number:
  US11/631,791
• Publication Number:
  US 20070296585A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/572.1
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 1/1371 with data records
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management

Abstract

An ID tag of an article is read at the time of storing the article in a warehouse. An ID and a rack address of the article are written in an ID tag of a bucket. A stacker crane stores the bucket 24 at the rack address written in the ID tag of the bucket.

Claims

1. An automated warehouse transporting an article set in a carrier between a station and a rack by a transportation apparatus, wherein

an ID tag is attached to the carrier, and a rack address is written in the ID tag;

and

the transportation apparatus is provided with a reader for reading the ID tag for transporting the carrier to the rack address read from the ID tag of the carrier.

2. The automated warehouse of claim 1, wherein an ID writer for writing data in the ID tag is provided at the station, and the rack address of a transportation destination is written in the ID tag of the carrier.

3. The automated warehouse of claim 2, wherein data of the article set in the carrier is written in the ID tag by the ID writer at the station.