Automatic warehouse

Abstract

The invention discloses an automatic warehouse which is composed of one or more storage units. Each storage unit comprises goods shelves arranged in a ring shape, a round guide rail, a mechanical handand a mechanical hand transporting vehicle. When materials are taken, a material box is transported to the centers of the goods shelves arranged in a ring shape, the mechanical hands are transportedto the position near the goods shelves through the mechanical hand transporting vehicle, and the mechanical hands clamp the materials in the goods shelves and place the materials into the material box. Compared with a traditional automatic warehouse, the automatic warehouse is flexible to arrange, easy to assemble and disassemble, convenient to maintain, high in storing and taking efficiency, andparticularly suitable for storing and taking management of multiple kinds of materials.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to an automatic warehouse, which is mainly suitable for the automatic storage and retrieval management of multi-variety materials. technical background [0002] Large-scale automated warehouses are mainly used for access management of various materials in the product manufacturing process. As far as aircraft manufacturing is concerned, during the assembly process, nearly half of the assembly instructions have material matching work. Material matching is to take out the required materials and put them together in accordance with the requirements of the instructions, so that the on-site workers can use them conveniently. Therefore, the efficiency of automated warehouse access will greatly affect the efficiency of aircraft assembly. [0003] The current automated warehouses are mostly in the form of stackers, and their shelves are arranged in a rectangular array. Multiple containers need to be placed in parallel or side by side, an...

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Problems solved by technology

In the application of material warehousing in the aircraft assembly process, on the one hand, due to its "multi-variety, small-batch" material characteristics, it is often necessary to pick up a variety of different types of materials for a single material matching, and most of the feeding ports are fixed positions. In this case, the shuttle will go back and forth between the material and the pick-up port many times, and its reciprocating stroke will be greatly increased, which will consume a lot of equipment, increase maintenance costs, and greatly affect the efficiency of material access; on the other hand, this A type of automated warehouse, with strong integrity, is often installed at a fixed location, which is extremely cumbersome to assemble and disassemble, and subsequent expansion is difficult, making it difficult to adapt to the upgrade and transformation requirements of the production line

Therefore, the current automated warehouse still has many disadvantages in the storage management of multi-variety materials and the application of fast reconfigurable production lines, which need to be improved.

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