Edward R Macdonald

US Patent:

20190256289, Aug 22, 2019

Filed:

Feb 25, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/284930

Inventors:

- Wilmington MA, US
Juergen D. CONRAD - York PA, US
Robert HSIUNG - Cambridge MA, US
William JOHNSON, Jr. - Wilmington MA, US
Edward A. MACDONALD - Somerville MA, US
Larry M. SWEET - Atlanta GA, US

International Classification:

B65G 1/137
B65G 1/04

Abstract:

In accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosed embodiment, a lift includes at least one load handling device configured so as to reciprocate along a lift axis, the load handling device including a frame forming a payload section with a payload support surface having a common elevation configured to hold one or more pickfaces at the common elevation of the payload support surface, at least one transfer arm movably mounted to the frame, and a drive section connected to the load handling device and being configured to move the load handling device along the lift axis, wherein the one or more pickfaces carried in unison by the payload support surface of the at least one load handling device, define an order sequence of pickfaces on the at least one load handling device according to a predetermined case out order sequence of mixed cases.

US Patent:

20160207709, Jul 21, 2016

Filed:

Jan 18, 2016

Appl. No.:

14/997892

Inventors:

- Wilmington MA, US
Juergen D. Conrad - York PA, US
Robert Hsiung - Cambridge MA, US
Edward A. MacDonald - Somerville MA, US
Larry M. Sweet - Atlanta GA, US

International Classification:

B65G 1/04

Abstract:

An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous transport vehicle, a transfer deck that defines an undeterministic transport surface for the at least one autonomous transport vehicle, the transfer deck having multiple travel lanes, at least one reciprocating lift, and at least one pickface handoff station connected to the transfer deck and interfacing between the at least one autonomous transport vehicle on the transfer deck and the at least one reciprocating lift so that a pickface is transferred between the at least one reciprocating and the at least one autonomous transport vehicle.

US Patent:

20160207711, Jul 21, 2016

Filed:

Jan 18, 2016

Appl. No.:

14/997902

Inventors:

- Wilmington MA, US
Juergen D. CONRAD - York PA, US
Robert HSIUNG - Cambridge MA, US
William JOHNSON, JR. - Wilmington MA, US
Edward A. MACDONALD - Somerville MA, US
Larry M. SWEET - Atlanta GA, US

International Classification:

B65G 1/137
B65G 1/04

Abstract:

In accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosed embodiment, a lift includes at least one load handling device configured so as to reciprocate along a lift axis, the load handling device including a frame forming a payload section with a payload support surface having a common elevation configured to hold one or more pickfaces at the common elevation of the payload support surface, at least one transfer arm movably mounted to the frame, and a drive section connected to the load handling device and being configured to move the load handling device along the lift axis, wherein the one or more pickfaces carried in unison by the payload support surface of the at least one load handling device, define an order sequence of pickfaces on the at least one load handling device according to a predetermined case out order sequence of mixed cases.