Transverse Conveyor High-Bay Storage Reducing Steel Outlay
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current high-bay warehouse systems require substantial steel structures and complex track networks for efficient transshipment of containers, leading to high outlays and inefficiencies in storage and retrieval processes, especially in seaport and inland port transshipment facilities.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a transverse conveyor system that crosses lanes in a high-bay warehouse, allowing for the conveyance of storage items into and out of the warehouse, reducing the need for extensive travel paths and steel structures, and enabling efficient handling of storage items below the travel plane of the storage and retrieval apparatus.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If track networks with multiple interconnected tracks and transport pallets are used to achieve high transshipment rates, then transshipment efficiency is improved, but steel construction outlay and device complexity increase substantially
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex track network and multiple interconnected tracks from the system, replacing them with a simplified linear track design. The core transshipment function is maintained by removing unnecessary track interconnections and using a single continuous track path with transport pallets that can reverse direction, thereby reducing steel construction outlay while preserving high transshipment rates.
Solution Approach 2:
The linear track design serves multiple functions: it provides the primary transport path, enables bidirectional movement of transport pallets, and eliminates the need for separate tracks for different directions. This multi-functionality reduces the overall track network complexity and steel construction requirements while maintaining efficient transshipment operations.
2Productivity
If multiple interconnected tracks with transport pallets operated by linear motor are used, then transshipment efficiency is improved, but steel construction outlay increases substantially
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the extensive steel construction associated with multiple interconnected tracks and replaces it with a minimal linear track structure. The essential transshipment function is achieved through this simplified track design, dramatically reducing steel construction outlay while maintaining high transshipment efficiency through the use of transport pallets with linear motor drives.
3Quantity of substance
If storage and retrieval apparatus travel long distances to access storage locations, then storage capacity is increased, but transshipment time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preparation stations positioned at optimal locations where storage and retrieval apparatus can pre-position containers before actual storage or retrieval operations. This preliminary action reduces the travel distance required during active transshipment operations, thereby decreasing transshipment time while maintaining high storage capacity through the multi-level rack structure.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution significantly accelerates transshipment processes by reducing the travel distance for storage and retrieval apparatus, minimizing the need for steel structures, and facilitating efficient handling of storage items, thereby enhancing operational efficiency and reducing costs.
Implementation Method 1
transport pallets operated by linear motor
Implementation Method 2
The raising and lowering of the hoist platform that is provided with load receiving means, of the storage and retrieval apparatus is carried out by a cable traction device or a hoist, comprising a cable
Data Source
AI summary
The invention relates to a transport and handover system for storing and removing or relocating storage goods (1) in high-bay warehouses (2), in particular in a transshipment facility of a seaport or inland port for the storage of standard containers, wherein the high-bay warehouse (2) consists of an arbitrary number of warehouse modules (10), which are arranged next to each other in the longitudinal direction and in the width direction of the high-bay warehouse (2) extending transversely to the longitudinal direction and which have a plurality of rack compartments (12) lying one over the other in the vertical direction, said warehouse modules being separated from each other by aisles (11) extending parallel to the storing and removal sides of the rack compartments (12) or warehouse modules (10), wherein at least one storage and retrieval machine (19) that can move back and forth is provided in each aisle (11) for transporting and storing and removing or relocating the storage goods (1), and a storage and retrieval machine (19). Accelerated transfer with fewer steel constructions is achieved in that the high-bay warehouse (2) is designed with at least one transverse conveying device (13; 113), which crosses at least some aisles (11) and conveys the supplied storage goods (1) into the high-bay warehouse (2) and/or out of the high-bay warehouse. For handling of the storage goods (1) provided from below the level of the running rails (20), the base bar of the storage and retrieval machine (19) is designed with a passage opening in a frame-like manner so that the storage goods (1) can be lifted through.