Global Patent Index - EP 4164965 A1

EP 4164965 A1 20230419 - GOODS-STORAGE AND ORDER-FULFILLMENT SYSTEM

Title (en)

GOODS-STORAGE AND ORDER-FULFILLMENT SYSTEM

Title (de)

WARENLAGER- UND AUFTRAGSERFÜLLUNGSSYSTEM

Title (fr)

SYSTÈME DE STOCKAGE DE MARCHANDISES ET D'EXÉCUTION DE COMMANDES

Publication

EP 4164965 A1 20230419 (DE)

Application

EP 21731064 A 20210531

Priority

  • DE 102020115619 A 20200612
  • EP 2021064560 W 20210531

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO2021249810A1] The invention relates to a goods-storage and order-fulfillment system, comprising: - a rack store consisting of rack units, which can be freely stacked on placement surfaces, more particularly on a floor, stage surfaces or other surfaces, and which form at least one multi-level rack and provide the rack store, the multi-level rack being a shelving rack, each shelf being designed to be used to store a plurality of articles, either with or without removable trays; - at least one automated, preferably autonomous, depositing and retrieving machine for depositing the trays or articles into and/or retrieving the same from the shelving racks, which depositing and retrieving machine is in the form of a floor-bound conveying means having its own travel drive and is automatically controlled and contactlessly guided; - at least one automated, preferably autonomous, transport unit for receiving articles from or transferring articles to the depositing and retrieving machine in order to transport an individual article unloaded from the tray to a picking station or to transfer an individual article to the tray or to the machine, the transport unit being in the form of a floor-bound conveying means having its own travel drive and being automatically controlled and contactlessly guided; and - at least one picking station, which is supplied with individual articles by the transport unit for at least partial order fulfillment on the basis of order data.

IPC 8 full level

B65G 1/02 (2006.01); B65G 1/04 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

B65G 1/02 (2013.01 - EP); B65G 1/0407 (2013.01 - US); B65G 1/10 (2013.01 - US); B65G 1/1373 (2013.01 - US); B65G 61/00 (2013.01 - US); B65G 1/0407 (2013.01 - EP); B65G 2207/30 (2013.01 - EP US)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR

Designated extension state (EPC)

BA ME

Designated validation state (EPC)

KH MA MD TN

DOCDB simple family (publication)

DE 102020115619 A1 20211216; EP 4164965 A1 20230419; US 2023242338 A1 20230803; WO 2021249810 A1 20211216

DOCDB simple family (application)

DE 102020115619 A 20200612; EP 2021064560 W 20210531; EP 21731064 A 20210531; US 202118001362 A 20210531