MUMBAI, India, Sept. 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202348046561 A) filed by Hirata Corporation, Kumamoto, Japan, on July 11, 2023, for 'automated warehouse unit and automated warehouse equipment.'
Inventor(s) include Matsumoto, Bungo; and Iwata, Yuichi.
The application for the patent was published on Sept. 5, under issue no. 36/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An automated warehouse unit includes two rows of fixed conveyors, on which a storage target object is placed, configured to convey the storage target object in a first direction, a receiving-side transfer unit provided on one end portion side of the two rows of the fixed conveyors and extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a shipping-side transfer unit provided on the other end portion side of the two rows of the fixed conveyors and extending in the second direction. Each of the receiving-side transfer unit and the shipping-side transfer unit includes a first moving device configured to reciprocally move a first moving body in the second direction between a position facing one fixed conveyor in the two rows of the fixed conveyors and a position facing the other fixed conveyor in the two rows of the fixed conveyors, and a first transportation conveyor supported by the first moving body and configured to transfer the storage target object to the two rows of the fixed conveyors in the first direction."
The patent application was internationally filed on Feb. 04, 2020, under International application No.PCT/JP2020/004153.
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