Patent ID: 11912498
Assignee: AUTOSTORE TECHNOLOGY AS
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A container handling vehicle for picking up storage containers from a three-dimensional grid of an underlying storage system, comprising:
a first set of wheels arranged at opposite portions of a vehicle body of the container handling vehicle, for moving the vehicle along an X direction on a rail system of the grid; and
a second set of wheels arranged at opposite portions of the vehicle body, for moving the vehicle along a Y direction on the rail system of the grid, the Y direction being perpendicular to the X direction;
wherein the vehicle body comprises walls on all sides forming a footprint defined by horizontal peripheries in the X and Y directions of the vehicle body, and the container handling vehicle further comprises:
a first section and a second section arranged side-by-side such that a centre point of a footprint of the first section is arranged off centre relative a centre point of the footprint of the vehicle body,
wherein a size ratio of the footprint of the first section relative a footprint of the second section is at least 2:1,
wherein the first section is configured to accommodate a storage container and have at least two of the first set of wheels arranged at opposite sides of the first section along the X direction and at least two of the second set of wheels arranged at opposite sides of the first section along the Y direction, and
wherein the second section comprises an assembly of motors for driving at least one wheel of each of the sets of wheels.