Method of storage control in an automated storehouse and apparatus therefor

• US 5,734,574 A
• Filed: 12/21/1995
• Issued: 03/31/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Uchida, Kazuhiro, Makinose, Hiroto, Yamashita, Tomimasa, Hagino, Katsuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Elmore, Reba I.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dolan, Robert J.
• Application Number:
  US08/576,476
• Time in Patent Office: 831 Days
• Field of Search: 364/478.02, 364/478.03, 414/274, 414/268, 414/269, 414/266, 414/286, 414/273
• US Class Current: 700/215
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 1/1371 with data records

Abstract

A method of storage control of component works in an automated storehouse, including a plurality of shelf equipment for storage/delivery of component works conveyed by a plurality of transporters, and an apparatus therefor are provided. The control method comprising the steps in that the shelf-array equipment storage status is confirmed in step S11, a shelf-array containing an empty shelf is extracted in S12, the specification information is entered in S13, and the stored work having the same specification information as that to be stored is retrieved, and a shelf containing the minimum number of works is decided as the target location (in S14 to 17).

Claims

1. A method of storage control of component works in an automated storehouse, wherein said storehouse includes a plurality of storage equipment for storage/delivery of component works conveyed by a plurality of transporters, comprising the steps of:

reviewing the condition of stored works to extract storage equipment containing storage space;

retrieving stored works having specification information the same as that of works to be stored in said storehouse;

extracting storage equipment containing a minimum amount of stored works having the same specification information;

designating the extracted storage equipment as a target for storing said works to be stored;

adding the number of stored works having specification information the same as that of said works to be stored, obtained with respect to each storage equipment, to the number of works to be stored to form a total; and

retrieving the total resulting from said addition as a stored number of storage equipment.

2. A storage control apparatus for component works in an automated storehouse, wherein said storehouse includes a plurality of storage equipment for storage/delivery of component works conveyed by a plurality of transporters, comprising:

means for reviewing the condition of stored works to extract storage equipment containing storage space;

means for retrieving stored works having specification information the same as that of works to be stored in said storehouse;

means for extracting storage equipment containing a minimum amount of stored works having the same specification information;

means for designating the extracted storage equipment as a target for storing said works to be stored;

means for adding the number of stored works having specification information the same as that of works to be stored, obtained with respect to each storage equipment, to the number of works to be stored to form a total; and

means for retrieving said total as the stored number of storage equipment.