US 11,939,163 B2
Article accommodation facility
Toshitaka Fuji, Hinocho (JP)
Assigned to Daifuku Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed by Daifuku Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Mar. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/213,949.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-058653 (JP), filed on Mar. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0300681 A1, Sep. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. B65G 1/137 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 1/1375 (2013.01) 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An article accommodation facility comprising:
an article container that contains one or more types of articles;
a container accommodation member comprising an accommodation compartment capable of accommodating the article container on a plurality of levels in a vertical direction, the accommodation compartment having an opening for putting the article container into and taking out the article container from the accommodation compartment, the opening being formed in a side face of the accommodation compartment;
an accommodation member transport apparatus that transports the container accommodation member between a storage portion in which the container accommodation member is stored and a pick-up position;
a container pick-up apparatus that takes out the article container from the container accommodation member through the opening at the pick-up position; and
a container transport apparatus,
wherein the container transport apparatus transports the article container taken out from the container accommodation member by the container pick-up apparatus to a picking section where the article container is subjected to a picking operation, and
wherein the container transport apparatus transports the container pick-up apparatus from a position corresponding to the pick-up position to a position corresponding to the picking section.