Picking device for picking from a storage container into an order container, and corresponding method

US11034532B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Dematic Corp. · US

Inventors

• Matthias Wehner · Offenbach, DE
• Hartwig Reckemeier · Rodgau, DE
• Tobias Polanz · Görgeshausen, DE
• Armin Jung · Mühlheim, DE
• Sören Mushack · Langen (Hessen), DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 1, 2019
• Grant date: Jun 15, 2021
• Expiry date: May 4, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G1/0492
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A picking device and method for increasing the through-put of picking an order from a storage container into an order container. The picking device includes a mobile platform capable to travel along a guide rail and a robotic gripping arm. The mobile platform includes a receiving location for each of a storage container and an order container, which are both reachable by the robotic gripping arm. The robotic gripping arm is actuated by a platform-supported image acquisition and evaluation unit and by a platform-supported controller.