PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905985
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["700", "218000"]

Abstract:
It is disclosed a method ( 70 ) for operating a storage and order-picking system ( 10 ) in which a plurality of manipulators ( 40 ) process a plurality of picking/storing orders in accordance with a manipulator-to-handling-unit principle, wherein the system ( 10 ) comprises a provision zone ( 12 ), a picking zone ( 14 ), a plurality of provision units ( 42, 62 ) in the provision zone, a plurality of, particularly stationary arranged, transfer locations ( 46 ) in the picking zone ( 14 ), a DTS ( 18 ) including a plurality of DTVs ( 20 ), and a controlling device ( 32 ), and wherein the method ( 70 ) comprises the following steps of: analyzing (S 10 ) the plurality of picking/storing orders by the controlling device ( 32 ) for determining retrieval/delivery locations in the provision zone ( 12 ); setting (S 12 ) of transfer actions ( 48 ) by selecting for each of the retrieval/delivery locations one or more of the transfer locations ( 46 ) in the picking zone ( 14 ) as delivery/retrieval location and by assigning the same thereto, wherein the delivery/retrieval location is located within an action zone ( 72 ) extending around the respective retrieval/delivery location and moving dynamically with the respective manipulator ( 40 ); generating (S 14 ) an action order for each of the manipulators ( 40 ) by selecting some of the transfer actions ( 48 ), and setting a, particularly unidirectional, moving path ( 74 ) along which the respective manipulator ( 40 ) moves between the selected retrieval/delivery locations throughout the, preferably entire, picking zone ( 14 ); and generating (S 16 ) transport orders for the DTVs ( 20 ) so that each of the manipulators ( 40 ), during performance of its action order, can perform its transfer actions ( 48 ) within its action zone ( 72 ), preferably without interruption.

Claim (Index 17):
A method for operating a storage and order-picking system in which a plurality of manipulators process a plurality of picking/storing orders in accordance with a manipulator-to-handling-unit principle operating in accordance with the \u201cman-to-goods\u201d principle where humans and/or machine are employed, wherein the system comprises a provision zone, a picking zone adjacent to the provision zone, a plurality of provision units in the provision zone, a plurality of transfer locations arranged stationary in the picking zone, a DTS including a plurality of DTVs, and a controlling device, wherein the transfer locations respectively comprise a frame on which handling units are deposited for retrieval or delivery by the DTVs, and wherein the method comprises the steps of:\n analyzing the plurality of picking/storing orders by means of the controlling device for determining retrieval/delivery locations in the provision zone; \n setting transfer actions by selecting for each of the retrieval/delivery locations at least one of the transfer locations in the picking zone as delivery/retrieval location in the pricking zone and by assigning the same to the retrieval/delivery location in the provision zone, wherein the delivery/retrieval location is located within an action zone extending around the respective retrieval/delivery location in the provision zone and moving dynamically with the respective manipulator, wherein each of the transfer actions further defines number and type of the handling units which are to be transferred by the respective manipulator between the locations being assigned to each other; \n generating an action order for each of the manipulators by:\n selecting some of the transfer actions; and \n setting a, in particular unidirectional, moving path along which the respective manipulator moves between the selected retrieval/delivery locations in the provision zone through the, preferably entire, picking zone; \n and generating transport orders for the DTVs so that each of the manipulators can perform, during performance of its action orders, its transfer actions within its action zone, in particular without interruption, due to the DTVs preparing the corresponding selected transfer locations within the action zone and/or downstream thereto in time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.12389
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15429406', '13279781', '13783904', '14845730', '14979775']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4561183576696173
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.483284061752048
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4588349280778603
- Mean Citation Score: 215.617632
- Max Citation Score: 225.64458
- Similarity Product: 168.13509788726802

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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