Patent ID: 9139363
Filing Date: 2015-09-22
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
1. An automated warehouse storage system comprising; a multilevel storage array with storage distributed along multiple aisles, each aisle of which has a set of storage levels and each level has storage locations distributed along the aisle; a guideway network extending through the multilevel storage array and configured for autonomous vehicles to move along the guideway network within the multilevel storage array; the guideway network including an inter-aisle guideway spanning at least two of the multiple aisles and a set of guideway levels extending in an aisle of the multiple aisles and disposed so that each guideway level is at a different one of the storage levels and the vehicles on the guideway level can access the storage locations distributed along the aisle; and a ramp guideway communicably connecting each of the set of guideway levels to the inter-aisle guideway forming a common ramp guideway path connecting the inter-aisle guideway and each guideway level so that a vehicle moving between inter-aisle guideway and each guideway level moves along the common ramp guideway path.