Device for storing standardized storage goods in a high-bay warehouse

Abstract

The disclosure relates to a device and a method for storing standardized storage goods in a high-bay warehouse and to the transfer thereof.

Claims

1-23. (canceled)

24. A high-bay warehouse (1) for storing storage goods (3), comprising: a high-bay rack (11) for storing the storage goods (3); an internal warehouse transport system (14) for storing and retrieving the storage goods (3) from the high-bay rack (11), for transporting the storage goods (3) horizontally and/or vertically in a movement level (141) parallel to storage levels (13) of the high-bay rack (11) and for transferring the storage goods (3) at an exchange location (143) to an external transportation means (2) supplying or removing the storage goods (3) from the high-bay warehouse; a horizontal level of transport (12) that is perpendicular to the movement level (141) of the internal warehouse transport system (14) and can be described by an x, y coordinate system; and at least one traversable route that can be traversed by the external transportation means (2) in the horizontal level of transport (12), wherein the horizontal level of transport (12) is accessible from at least one side for the external transportation means (2), wherein the internal warehouse transport system (14) has means with which the storage goods (3) are acquired from the external transportation means (2) and/or transferred to the external transportation means (2) by a vertical movement of the storage goods (3), and wherein the exchange location (143) can be freely positioned along a line (142) which is congruent with or parallel to the horizontal level of transport (12) within the movement level (141) of the internal warehouse transport system (14).

25. The high-bay warehouse (1) according to claim 24, wherein more than ten movement levels (141) are present, each having an associated transport system (14).

26. The high-bay warehouse (1) according to claim 24, wherein the exchange location (143) can be freely positioned within at least 90% of the line (142) parallel to the horizontal level of transport (12).

27. The high-bay warehouse (1) according to claim 24, wherein at least two transport systems (14) are present within the movement level (141).

28. The high-bay warehouse (1) according to claim 24, wherein the horizontal level of transport (12) can be traversed simultaneously by different external transportation means (2).

29. The high-bay warehouse (1) according to claim 24, wherein the horizontal level of transport (12) can be traversed by an autonomously driving transport vehicle.

30. The high-bay warehouse (1) according to claim 24, wherein the horizontal level of transport (12) can be traversed by a truck.

31. The high-bay warehouse (1) according to claim 24, wherein the horizontal level of transport (12) can be traversed from opposite sides of the high-bay warehouse (1).

32. The high-bay warehouse (1) according to claim 24, wherein the horizontal level of transport (12) lies below the storage levels (13).

33. The high-bay warehouse (1) according to claim 24, wherein the horizontal level of transport (12) is connected by at least one ramp and/or a terrain cut with an external traffic feeder, and wherein the ramp or terrain cut does not exceed 0.5 m in height difference.

34. The high-bay warehouse (1) according to claim 24, wherein the high-bay rack (11) is elevated to allow passage of external transportation means (2) thereunder.

35. The high-bay warehouse (1) according to claim 24, wherein the traversable route within the horizontal level of transport has an entrance or exit route (121) extending substantially perpendicularly to the movement level (141) for reaching the movement level (141) having the exchange location (143); and wherein the traversable route has a traversable exchange route (122) along the line (142) of the exchange location (143).

36. The high-bay warehouse (1) according to claim 24, wherein the horizontal level of transport (12) consists of more than 90% of traversable routes.

37. A method for storing standardized storage goods (3) in a high-bay warehouse (1), comprising: providing the high-bay warehouse (1) according to claim 24; effecting a supply and/or removal of the storage goods (3) by the external transportation means (2) to the exchange location within the high-bay warehouse (1) along a route in the horizontal level of transport (12) that is perpendicular to the movement level (141) of the internal warehouse transport system (14); and acquiring and/or transferring, with the internal warehouse transport system (14), the storage goods (3) from the external transportation means (2) by a vertical movement of the storage goods (3), wherein the vertical movement for acquiring and/or transferring the storage goods (3) at the exchange location (143) takes place within a line (142) of the movement level (141) of the internal warehouse transport system (14) that is congruent or parallel to the horizontal level of transport (12), and wherein the exchange location (143) is freely positioned along the line (142).

38. The method according to claim 37, wherein the external transportation means (2) reaches the movement level (141) having the exchange location (143) by means of an entrance or exit route (121) running as far as possible perpendicularly to the movement level (141); and wherein the exchange location (143) along the line (142) is reached by a traversable exchange route (122).

39. The method according to according to claim 37, wherein different types of external transportation means (2) are used for the supply and removal of the storage goods (3).

40. The method according to according to claim 37, wherein at least two directions of flow of storage goods (4,5) are used for the supply and removal of the storage goods (3) into the high-bay warehouse (1).

41. The method according to according to claim 37, wherein autonomous transport vehicles are used for the supply and removal of the storage goods (3) in at least one direction of a flow of storage goods (4, 5).

42. The method according to according to claim 37, wherein semitrailer trucks are used for delivering and removing of the storage goods (3) in at least one direction of a flow of storage goods (4, 5).

43. The method according to according to claim 40, wherein the at least two directions of the flow of storage goods (4,5) are operated within one level of transport (12).

44. The method according to according to claim 40, wherein the at least two directions of the flow of storage goods (4, 5) are operated along parallel entrance or exit routes (121) in the horizontal level of transport (12).

45. The method according to according to claim 40, wherein the high-bay warehouse is arranged in a seaport, and wherein one of the at least two directions of the flow of storage goods (5) is toward a seaward side and another one of the at least two directions of the flow of storage goods (4) is toward a landward side.

46. The method according to according to claim 37, wherein the external transportation means (2) pass at least partially under the high-bay warehouse (1) for the supply and removal of the storage goods (6).

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0028] The description is accompanied by the following four figures:

[0029] FIG. 1: Side view of a high-bay warehouse.

[0030] FIG. 2: Loading and unloading of a truck.

[0031] FIG. 3: Directions of the flow of loading and possible transfer positions.

[0032] FIG. 4: Level of transport and adjacent storage levels.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0033] The invention is described in detail below with reference to the above figures in the form of exemplary embodiments. In all figures, the same technical elements are provided with the same reference signs.

[0034] FIG. 1 shows a section through a high-bay warehouse 1 with a level of transport 12 and 12 storage levels 13 above it. 24 different transport systems 14 move the storage goods 3 within the high-bay warehouse 1 along the storage rows of the high-bay warehouse 11 to the specific storage position of the storage goods 3. Furthermore, the transport systems 14 can acquire or transfer a storage good 3 below the storage levels 13 from a transportation means 2. In such a case, high-bay warehouse 1 is designed to transfer standardized sea containers. Here, level of transport 12 can be reached at ground level by the truck 8 transportation means.

[0035] FIG. 2 shows a section of a high-bay warehouse 1 of FIG. 1. A part of the level of transport 12, the three storage levels 13 above it and a transport system 14 arranged between two rows of storage are illustrated. For example, the transport system 14 can remove a container 3 from a truck 8 located below by moving it vertically and then store it at a corresponding position in the high-bay rack 11. By designing the level of transport 12 accordingly, for example in terms of width and height, it can be traversable for different transportation means 2. This must be observed in particular if rail-bound transportation means 21 are to be used.

[0036] FIG. 3 shows a schematic sketch of the directions of the flow of storage goods 4, 5 in a high-bay warehouse 1. Containers 3 are unloaded from a sea-going vessel 6 by means of an unloading crane 7 and loaded onto an ideally autonomously moving transportation means 2. These traverse into the high-bay warehouse 1 from the seaward side, transfer a container 3 to a transport system 14 of the high-bay warehouse 1, for example, and leave the high-bay warehouse 1 again in the direction of the seaward side. In the opposite direction, trucks 8, for example, traverse on the same level of transport 12 from the landward side. The trucks 8 travel to a previously defined exchange location 143 or pass-through point 15 within the level of transport 12 of the high-bay warehouse 1, and the transport system 14 transfers a container 3 from the high-bay warehouse 1 to a truck 8 at such location. This then leaves the high-bay warehouse 1 again towards the landward side. The pass-through point 15 can vary within the level of transport 12 for each of the traffic means 2, 21, 8 involved. This results in a two-dimensional interface design in the level of transport 12 for the transfer of the storage goods 3 to the transport systems 14, compared to a previous linear interface design at the outer edges of the high-bay warehouse 1.

[0037] As shown in FIG. 4, an appropriately configured level of transport 12 can allow a traversable route to also be an exchange location 143. Here, three trucks 8 can drive parallel to each other. If, on the other hand, the truck 8 is standing vertically within the traversable route, it can be loaded or unloaded by the transport system 14.

REFERENCE SIGNS

[0038]

TABLE-US-00001 Number Description 1 High-bay warehouse 11 High-bay rack 12 Level of transport 13 Storage levels 14 Transport system 143 Exchange location 2 Transportation means 21 Rail-bound transportation means 3 Storage goods 4 Landward side flow of storage goods 5 Seaward side flow of storage goods 6 Sea-going vessel 7 Unloading crane 8 Truck 141 Movement level 142 Parallel line 121 Entrance/exit route 122 Exchange route 15 Pass-through point