发明名称 WAREHOUSE SYSTEM HAVING SEVERAL AISLES AND AUTOMATED METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME
摘要 <p>It is disclosed a warehouse system comprising: a control device; a plurality of racks defining a plurality of rack aisles therebetween, wherein each of the rack aisles comprises an access and is secured against unauthorized entry by an operator by means of the access, which is locked and unlocked by means of an access key, wherein a first sensor monitors, whether the access is closed or open, and transmits corresponding status signals to the control device; a plurality of rack serving units, wherein in each of the rack aisles at least respectively one rack serving unit can travel in an automated manner at least along a longitudinal direction of the rack aisle and wherein each of the rack serving units comprises at least one load handling device or shuttle, which can be extracted and retracted on both sides along a transverse direction, for storing and retrieving storage goods in an automatic mode in and from each of the racks in an automated manner, the racks being arranged directly adjacent to the respective load handling device, wherein each of the load handling devices has assigned at least one second sensor which detects whether the load handling device is in a retracted neutral position, currently extracts, or is extracted, and which transmits a corresponding state signal to the control device; and at least one aisle-serving switch device, wherein each of the switch devices communicates with the control device and can be shifted physically by means of an access key between an automatic position and a maintenance position, wherein the access key in the automatic position is physically connected inseparably to the respective switch device and is physically connected in the maintenance position separable from the respective switch device, in order to open one of the accesses which is determined by one of the rack aisles to be maintained; wherein the control device is adapted to: communicate with the rack serving units, each of the switch devices, the first sensors and the second sensors; to operate each of the rack serving units in the automatic mode if the status signal signals that all of the accesses are closed; to instruct each of the load handling devices of one of the rack serving units which is operated in a directly neighbouring rack aisle adjacent to the to-be-maintained rack aisle to which the operator needs to gain admission for the purpose of maintenance, in a maintenance mode to only store and retrieve storage goods in and from such racks which are not arranged directly adjacent to the to-be-maintained rack aisle; and to initiate an emergency switching of the to-be-maintained rack aisle and at least of the directly adjacent rack aisle, if a state signal comes in which indicates that one of the load handling devices of the rack servicing units of the directly adjacent rack aisles is extracted towards one of the racks which is arranged direct adjacent to the to-be-maintained rack aisle.</p>
申请公布号 EP2688818(B1) 申请公布日期 2014.12.17
申请号 EP20120778987 申请日期 2012.10.08
申请人 SSI SCHÄFER NOELL GMBH LAGER-UND SYSTEMTECHNIK 发明人 STEINBACH, RAINER
分类号 B65G1/04 主分类号 B65G1/04
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