Bin infeed and removal systems and methods for processing objects including mobile matrix carrier systems

US11084660B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Berkshire Grey, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Thomas Wagner · Concord, US
• Kevin Ahearn · Nebo, US
• John Richard Amend, Jr. · Belmont, US
• Benjamin Cohen · Somerville, US
• Michael Dawson-Haggerty · Pittsburgh, US
• William Hartman Fort · Stratham, US
• Christopher Geyer · Arlington, US
• Jennifer Eileen King · Oakmont, US
• Thomas Koletschka · Cambridge, US
• Michael Cap Koval · Mountain View, US
• Kyle Maroney · Dodgeville, US
• Matthew T. Mason · Pittsburgh, US
• William Chu-Hyon McMahan · Cambridge, US
• Gene Temple Price · Cambridge, US
• Joseph Romano · Arlington, US
• Daniel Smith · Pittsburgh, US
• Siddhartha Srinivasa · Seattle, US
• Prasanna Velagapudi · Pittsburgh, US
• Thomas Allen · Reading, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 25, 2018
• Grant date: Aug 10, 2021
• Expiry date: Oct 25, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/40252
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A bin exchange system is disclosed that includes a plurality of automated carriers, each of which is adapted to be remotely movable on an array of track sections, at least one input station by which bins may be introduced to the array of track sections, at least one processing station in communication with the array of track sections wherein objects may be moved between bins, and at least one output station by which bins may be removed from the array of track sections.