Storage System

• US 20080024274A1
• Filed: 12/01/2005
• Published: 01/31/2008
• 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:
  US11/792,043
• Publication Number:
  US 20080024274A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.1
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 1/1371 with data records
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 2203/046 RFID

Abstract

At the time of warehousing of an article, an ID tag attached to the article is read and memorized in a CPU in a manner associated with a bucket, and data and shelf address of the article are written in an ID tag of the bucket. A stacker crane reads the ID tag of the bucket and stores the bucket into the written shelf address. Management and transportation of articles stored in the warehouse can be facilitated.

Claims

1. A storage system storing articles with ID tags on a carrier being characterized in that

said carrier is provided with another ID tag;

that a transportation apparatus for storage of the storage system is provided with means for reading data in the ID tags of the articles and means for reading data in the ID tag of the carrier; and

that a memory means for storing ID data of the articles in such a way that the data read from the ID tags of the articles is associated with ID of the carrier.

2. An automatic warehouse storing articles with ID tags on a carrier being characterized in that

said carrier is provided with another ID tag;

that a transportation apparatus for storage of the automatic warehouse is provided with means for reading data in the ID tags of the articles and means for reading data in the ID tag of the carrier; and

that a memory means for storing ID data of the articles in such a way that the data read from the ID tags of the articles is associated with ID of the carrier.

4. The automatic warehouse of claim 2 being characterized in that said carrier is a bucket with said another ID tag and that a transportation apparatus for transporting said bucket in the automatic warehouse is provided with means for reading data in said another ID tag of the bucket and that stock taking of the automatic warehouse is performed with reading data in said another ID tag of the bucket, while making said transportation apparatus for transporting said bucket in the automatic apparatus traveling in the automatic warehouse.

5. The automatic warehouse of claim 2 being characterized in that the transportation apparatus for storage comprising a storage station and a conveyor connected to the station, that said means for reading data in the ID tags of the articles is provided in the vicinity of the conveyor, and that said means for reading data in the ID tag of the carrier is provided for said storage station.

3. The automatic warehouse being characterized in that said memory means is provided in a control processing unit of the automatic warehouse and that the control processing unit is provided with means for storing storage information of the articles inputted from an outside data source and means for comparing the data read from the ID tags of the articles when being stored and said storage information for inspection.