Patent ID: 8948908
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: B65G,H01L

Abstract:
1. An automated warehouse comprising: a storage rack which separately stores articles and a case for containing at least one of the articles; a load port which supplies to an operator the at least one article contained in the case; a temporary storage rack which temporarily stores the at least one article contained in the case until the at least one article is transported to the load port; a placing apparatus which, when a first instruction from the operator is detected indicating that a predetermined one of the articles is to be taken out, (i) obtains the predetermined article and a case from the storage rack, and (ii) places the obtained predetermined article in the case; and a transporting apparatus which (i) puts, on the temporary storage rack, the predetermined article placed in the case by the placing apparatus, and, (ii) when a second instruction from the operator is detected indicating that the predetermined article is actually ready to be taken out, transports the predetermined article placed in the case from the temporary storage rack to the load port, wherein the temporary storage rack stores the articles each contained in one of cases including the case, the second instruction includes information for specifying an article to be taken out among the articles that are temporarily stored on the temporary storage rack, and the transporting apparatus transports, from the temporary storage rack to the load port, the article specified by the second instruction.