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 28):
A storage and order-picking system in which a plurality of manipulators processes a plurality of picking/storing orders with a manipulator-to-goods-principle, wherein the system comprises:\n a provision zone; a picking zone adjacent to the provision zone and extending along the provision zone; a plurality of provision units arranged in the provision zone next to each other and/or on top of each other, wherein each of the provision units comprises at least one handling unit; a plurality of stationary arranged transfer locations being arranged in the picking zone, preferably continuously, along the provision zone, and wherein each of the transfer locations is configured to receive and buffer one of the handling units, wherein the transfer locations respectively comprise a frame on which the handling units are deposited for retrieval or delivery by the DTVs; a driverless transport system comprising a plurality of driverless transport vehicles, wherein the DTVs and the transfer locations are configured to exchange the handling units, preferably passive and in a bidirectionally meshing manner, with each other, wherein the DTVs are movable autonomously; and a controlling device being configured to:\n analyze the plurality of picking/storing orders for determining retrieval/delivery locations in the provision zone; \n set transfer actions by selecting for each of the retrieval/delivery locations in the provision zone at least one of the transfer locations in the picking zone as delivery/retrieval location in the picking 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 and moving dynamically with the respective manipulator, and 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 generate, preferably in a work-load optimized manner, action orders for each of the manipulators by: \n selecting some of the transfer actions, preferably such that an action density and a work load are adjusted to each other, wherein the work load represent a desired number of transfer actions per standard length of a picking zone, and wherein the action density represents a location-dependent number of the selected transfer actions per standard length of a picking zone; and \n set, in particular a unidirectional, moving path along which the respective manipulator moves between the selected retrieval/delivery location in the provision zone through the, preferably entire, picking zone; \n and generate transport orders for the DTVs so that each of the manipulators, during performance of its action order, can perform its transfer actions within its action zone, preferably without interruption, due to the DTVs preparing the corresponding selected transfer locations within the action zone and/or downstream thereto in time for the transfer of the handling units.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.12389
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15429406', '13279781', '13783904', '14845730', '14979775']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4279127305675287
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4762832155999227
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4327497790707681
- Mean Citation Score: 215.617632
- Max Citation Score: 225.64458
- Similarity Product: 177.49673252049922

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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