Patent ID: 7413396

Claim:
An article storage facility system comprising: an overhead travelling carriage which runs along a running rail and comprises: (a) a drivingly raising and lowering section and, (b) a lateral feeding device which laterally feeds the drivingly raising and lowering section to above a storage position, in order to transfer an article to the storage position, a storage shelf placed beside and below the running rail and comprising: (a) said storage position to and from which the overhead travelling carriage directly transfers said article, and (b) an ID reader mounted on said storage shelf in an obliquely upward position relative to said storage shelf, which reads an ID of said article while it is being unloaded onto said shelf, and a memorizing means for memorizing the ID of the article read by the ID reader and said storage position where the article is stored, wherein said drivingly raising and lowering section raises and lowers a platform of said overhead travelling carriage which chucks an article, and wherein said overhead travelling carriage transfers said article to a load port in a processing device located below the running rail in a vertical direction.