CN111689117A

CN111689117A - Micro warehouse and system thereof

Info

Publication number: CN111689117A
Application number: CN202010697827.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 石胜君; 王磊; 王信尧
Original assignee: Harbin Institute Of Technology Robot Shandong Logistics Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Harbin Institute Of Technology Robot Shandong Logistics Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2020-07-20
Filing date: 2020-07-20
Publication date: 2020-09-22

Abstract

The invention relates to the field of intelligent warehousing, in particular to a micro warehouse and a system thereof. A micro warehouse comprises a frame structure, a plurality of goods shelves which are arranged in the frame structure and connected in parallel, and walking channels which are correspondingly arranged. The goods shelves are used for placing materials, and the walking channel is provided with a stacking and sorting device which is used for placing/sorting the materials to the corresponding goods shelves; the stack picking device comprises a track and a stack picking vehicle arranged on the track and moving along the track. According to the invention, the single micro warehouse is arranged as an independent module, so that the micro warehouse can be independently assembled and transported, the expansion of the micro warehouse can be carried out at any time according to actual requirements on a use site, and the flexibility of the micro warehouse is greatly improved. The number and the positions of the picking platforms in the invention can be flexibly increased or decreased or changed according to actual requirements, thereby improving the picking speed of the system and the flexibility of the picking mode.

Description

Micro warehouse and system thereof

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of intelligent warehousing, in particular to a micro warehouse and a system thereof.

Background

With the rapid development of emerging industries and the introduction of new and old kinetic energy conversion policies, in-site logistics, production logistics and the like of production and manufacturing enterprises and flow processing enterprises enter the development period of changing from traditional logistics to modernization, automation and intelligent logistics.

The existing light material box type goods shelf adopts a common stacker matched with a standard sheet metal goods shelf, is integrally and integrally installed and installed on site, and a warehouse inlet and a warehouse outlet adopt a conveying line to carry out warehouse inlet and outlet work on materials, wherein the weight of a single material box of the common small-sized warehouse is within 50 kilograms, the integral height is within 6 meters, and the light material box type goods shelf is suitable for warehousing and sorting of various small and medium-sized articles.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a micro warehouse and a system thereof, which can be used for quickly and conveniently expanding according to different requirements of users and realizing high-speed warehouse entry and exit of materials.

The invention is realized by the following steps:

a micro warehouse comprises a frame structure, a plurality of goods shelves which are arranged in the frame structure and connected in parallel, and walking channels which are correspondingly arranged. The goods shelves are used for placing materials, and the walking channel is provided with a stacking and sorting device which is used for placing/sorting the materials to the corresponding goods shelves; the stack picking device comprises a track and a stack picking vehicle arranged on the track and moving along the track.

Further, the goods shelf comprises a bottom beam, a vertical column and a top beam. Wherein, floorbar, stand and back timber enclose into the goods space, still include with floorbar, back timber parallel arrangement's a plurality of supporter, a plurality of supporter divide into a plurality of goods positions with the goods space.

Further, the supporter includes two sets of crossbeams with stand swing joint, and crossbeam swing joint has puts the thing roof beam, sets up relatively between two sets of crossbeams, puts and sets up relatively between the thing roof beam.

Further, the track is arranged above the bottom beam.

Further, the stacking and picking truck comprises a chassis, wherein a traveling mechanism is arranged on the bottom surface of the chassis and is in fit connection with the rail; the lifting mechanism is arranged on the upper surface of the chassis; the fork is connected with the lifting mechanism in a matched mode and moves along the vertical direction, and the moving height corresponds to the cargo space.

Furthermore, the lifting mechanism also comprises a lifting rod, and the lifting rod is connected with any two symmetrically arranged lifting upright columns; the belt pulleys are arranged at the two ends of the lifting rod and the pallet fork, the belt is arranged between the belt pulleys, and the pallet fork is moved along the vertical direction through the belt pulleys and the belt.

Furthermore, the pallet fork comprises at least two telescopic fork plates, and the fork plates relatively do telescopic motion.

Further, frame construction includes storage back timber and storage floorbar, and the storage back timber outwards extends along the back timber, and the storage floorbar outwards extends along the floorbar, is provided with the storage stand between storage back timber and the storage floorbar.

A micro-warehouse system comprises a plurality of micro-warehouses connected in parallel, a plurality of goods shelves connected, a plurality of tracks connected, and stacking and picking trucks arranged on the tracks.

Furthermore, the micro-warehouse system also comprises a picking conveying platform arranged on one side of the micro-warehouse close to the materials.

The beneficial effect of above-mentioned scheme:

according to the micro warehouse and the system thereof provided by the invention, the single micro warehouse is arranged as an independent module, the micro warehouse can be independently assembled and transported, the expansion of the micro warehouse can be carried out at any time according to actual requirements on a use site, and the flexibility of the micro warehouse is greatly improved. The number and the positions of the picking platforms in the invention can be flexibly increased or decreased or changed according to actual requirements, thereby improving the picking speed of the system and the flexibility of the picking mode.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below, it should be understood that the following drawings only illustrate some embodiments of the present invention and therefore should not be considered as limiting the scope, and for those skilled in the art, other related drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without inventive efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of the overall structure of a micro-warehouse system provided by the invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a micro-warehouse architecture provided by the present invention;

FIG. 3 shows a schematic view of the stacking and picking arrangement provided by the present invention;

fig. 4 shows a schematic structural diagram of a stacking and picking device provided by the invention corresponding to a micro warehouse.

Icon:

100-micro warehouse system;

110-micro-warehouse; 120-a walking channel; 130-stack picking means; 140-a picking conveyor station; 150-warehouse housing;

111-upright post; 112-bottom beam; 113-top beam; 114-a cross beam; 115-a placement beam; 116-storage cap; 117-storage columns; 118-storage bottom beams; 119-a stiffening beam;

131-a track; 132-a chassis; 133-a running gear; 134-a lifting mechanism; 135-lifting the upright post; 136-a lifting bar; 137-a belt pulley; 138-a hoist motor; 139-pallet fork.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present invention. The components of embodiments of the present invention generally described and illustrated in the figures herein may be arranged and designed in a wide variety of different configurations. Thus, the following detailed description of the embodiments of the present invention, presented in the figures, is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, as claimed, but is merely representative of selected embodiments of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

It should be noted that: like reference numbers and letters refer to like items in the following figures, and thus, once an item is defined in one figure, it need not be further defined and explained in subsequent figures.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", etc. indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings or the orientations or positional relationships that the products of the present invention are conventionally placed in use, and are only used for convenience in describing the present invention and simplifying the description, but do not indicate or imply that the devices or elements referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," "third," and the like are used solely to distinguish one from another and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.

In the description of the present invention, it should also be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "disposed," "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly and may, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.

The following is a detailed description of the micro-warehouse and the system of the embodiments of the present invention:

example 1

Referring to fig. 1 and 4, the present embodiment provides a micro warehouse 110 for placing materials, which includes a frame structure and a plurality of shelves disposed in the frame structure and connected in parallel. A walking passage 120 is provided at one side of the shelf.

In this embodiment, the shelves are used for placing materials, and the walking path 120 is provided with a stacker picking apparatus 130 for placing/picking the placed materials to the corresponding shelves.

Participate in fig. 2, the goods shelves comprise four stands 111, four floorbeams 112 and four corresponding top beams 113, and stand 111, floorbeam 112 and top beam 113 have formed storage space in the vertical direction, through be provided with the supporter on the horizontal direction, decompose storage space into a plurality of goods positions, and a plurality of goods shelves are connected through the connecting piece and are formed a whole.

The commodity shelf in this embodiment includes the crossbeam 114 that is connected with stand 111 and puts the thing roof beam 115 of being connected with crossbeam 114, and crossbeam 114 is connected through the swing joint spare with putting between the thing roof beam 115. In this embodiment, the movable connection is a fixed block with a through hole, wherein the beam 114 is inserted into the fixed hole and connected to the object placing beam 115.

In this embodiment, the two-way locking blocks connect the corresponding cross beams 114 with the columns 111 of the adjacent shelves.

As can be seen from the figure, in the present embodiment, the same vertical column 111 is shared between adjacent shelves, that is, the bidirectional locking blocks are respectively connected with the cross beams 114 corresponding to the adjacent shelves and the common vertical column 111. In this embodiment, the bidirectional locking block is a communication structure provided with three openings, one of the two openings is a plurality of through holes, two of the through holes are non-through holes, the correspondingly arranged cross beams 114 are correspondingly connected through the through holes, and the common upright column 111 penetrates through the through holes and is connected with the bottom beam 112 of the shelf.

The upright 111 and the bottom beam 112 are fixedly connected through shaft supports.

In the present embodiment, the corresponding cross beams 114 are located on the same plane, i.e. the non-penetrating holes in the bidirectional locking block are located on the same plane. However, in other embodiments, the corresponding cross beams 114 may be in different planes, i.e., the non-through holes in the bi-directional locking blocks may be in different planes, according to different requirements.

In this embodiment, the frame structure comprises a storage top beam 116 and a storage bottom beam 118, wherein the storage top beam 116 is an extension of the top beam 113, and in this embodiment, the storage top beam 116 is mainly a radial extension of the top beam 113. Likewise, the storage sills 118 are extensions of the sills, and the storage sills 118 are likewise lateral extensions of the sills 112.

The frame structure further comprises storage pillars 117 connected to the storage top beams 116 and the storage bottom beams 118, the storage pillars 117 being arranged parallel to the pillars 111 of the cargo storage device.

In the present embodiment, the cross position of the storage pillar 117 and the storage top beam 116, and the cross position of the storage pillar 117 and the storage bottom beam 118, i.e. the diagonal position of the plane, are connected to be provided with the reinforcing members. In this embodiment, two reinforcing beams 119 are provided in the same plane as the reinforcing member, so that the stability of the entire micro warehouse 110 can be achieved.

The walking path 120 provided in this embodiment is disposed at one side of the micro warehouse 110, and is a non-material placement area for material moving and picking placement, and the walking path 120 is disposed with a stack picking device 130.

Referring to FIG. 3, in the present embodiment, stacker picking apparatus 130 includes a track 131 disposed above base beam 112 and includes a stacker picker vehicle disposed on track 131 for movement along track 131.

The stacker picker includes a chassis 132 for carrying the components and a traveling mechanism 133 coupled to the track 131, the traveling mechanism 133 moving the stacker picker along a predetermined path of the track 131. The traveling mechanism 133 is disposed on a surface of the floor close to the rail 131.

A lifting mechanism 134 is provided on the upper surface of the chassis 132, and in this embodiment, the lifting mechanism 134 mainly performs vertical movement of the cargo to be processed.

In this embodiment, the lifting mechanism 134 includes a plurality of lifting columns 135 connected with the chassis 132 in the vertical direction, the plurality of lifting columns 135 are symmetrically disposed, the plurality of lifting columns 135 are disposed in parallel with the column 111, in this embodiment, the number of lifting columns 135 is 6, that is, three lifting columns 135 are disposed on one side, and the other three lifting columns are disposed on the other symmetrical side.

The lifting column 135 is provided with a lifting bar 136 remote from the chassis 132, the lifting bar 136 being arranged parallel to the roof beam 113. In the present embodiment, the lifting rod 136 is fixedly connected to any two symmetrically arranged lifting columns 135. Two sections of the lifting rod 136 are provided with belt pulleys 137, two ends of the pallet fork 139 corresponding to the lifting rod 136 are also provided with the belt pulleys 137 with the same size, and the two groups of belt pulleys 137 are connected through a belt.

A lifting motor 138 is arranged on any one group of belt pulleys 137, an output shaft of the lifting motor 138 is connected with the belt pulleys 137, so that the belt pulleys 137 are driven to rotate in the forward/reverse directions through the rotation of the output shaft, a belt is driven, another group of belt pulleys 137 are driven to rotate in the same direction, and the pallet fork 139 is driven to move in the vertical direction through the rotation of the two groups of belt pulleys 137. The raising and lowering of the forks 139 is effected by the change of direction of the lift motor 138.

In order to achieve stability of the forks 139 during lifting, a lifting wheel set is also provided.

The lifting wheel set includes a wheel set housing connected to the forks 139 and also includes at least two pulleys disposed within the wheel set housing. The pulleys are symmetrically arranged with the lifting column 135 as a symmetry axis, i.e. the pulleys are arranged closely to the lifting column 135, so that the forks 139 move in the vertical direction of the lifting column 135.

In this embodiment, the forks 139 are telescoping forks, including at least two stages of forks, and relative movement is achieved between the two stages of forks, and the direction of movement of the forks 139 is perpendicular to the direction of movement of the stacker picker.

The fork body in this embodiment is three-level telescopic structure, including outer fork body (not marked), well fork body (not marked) and interior fork body (not marked), well fork body sets up and is connected with outer fork body in the outer fork space that outer fork body formed, and interior fork body sets up and is connected with well fork body in the interior fork space that well fork body formed. The outer fork body is fixedly connected with the wheel set shell, the middle fork body moves in parallel relative to the outer fork body, and the inner fork body moves in parallel relative to the middle fork body and the outer fork body.

In this embodiment, a plurality of shelves that are movably connected and are arranged in parallel are provided, so that the micro warehouse 110 can be assembled in a modularized manner, and picking and placing of goods in the micro warehouse 110 can be realized by providing the stack picking device 130.

Referring to the drawings, the present embodiment further provides a micro-warehouse system 100, wherein the micro-warehouse system 100 includes a plurality of micro-warehouses 110 connected in parallel, and further includes a picking and conveying platform 140 disposed on a side of the micro-warehouses 110 close to the materials.

In the embodiment of the micro warehouses 110 connected in parallel, the warehousing top beams 116 between the adjacent micro warehouses 110 are connected in parallel, the warehousing bottom beams 118 are connected in parallel, and the warehousing top beams 116 are connected in parallel. The plurality of adjacent shelves are communicated, that is, the shelves can be connected by the same cross beam 114 by reducing the number of the adjacent columns 111. A plurality of tracks 131 are communicated, and the same stacker picker is arranged on the tracks 131.

And further includes a warehouse housing 150, wherein the warehouse housing 150 in this embodiment is disposed outside the plurality of micro warehouses 110 arranged in parallel.

In the micro-warehouse system 100 provided in this embodiment, the plurality of micro-warehouses 110 are arranged in parallel, so that the number of micro-warehouses 110 can be increased or decreased according to a specific use situation to meet a specific use requirement. And according to the actual service condition, the number and the position of the picking platforms can be flexibly increased or decreased or changed according to the actual requirement, so that the picking speed of the system and the flexibility of the picking mode are improved.

In the present embodiment, the above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention. In the present embodiment, the above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A micro warehouse is characterized by comprising a frame structure, a plurality of goods shelves which are arranged in the frame structure and connected in parallel, and a walking channel which is correspondingly arranged; the goods shelves are used for placing materials, and the walking channel is provided with a stacking and picking device which is used for placing/picking the materials to the corresponding goods shelves; the stack picking device comprises a track and a stack picking truck arranged on the track and moving along the track.

2. A micro-warehouse as claimed in claim 1, wherein the shelves comprise bottom beams, columns, and top beams; the bottom beam, the upright post and the top beam form a cargo space; still include with bottom beam, back timber parallel arrangement's a plurality of supporter, it is a plurality of the supporter will the goods space divide into a plurality of goods positions.

3. A micro-warehouse as claimed in claim 2, wherein the shelf includes two sets of beams that are movably connected to the columns, the beams being movably connected to a shelf beam; the two groups of cross beams are oppositely arranged, and the object placing beams are oppositely arranged.

4. A micro-warehouse as claimed in claim 2, wherein the rails are disposed above the bottom beams.

5. A micro-warehouse as claimed in claim 4, wherein the stacker picker includes a chassis having a chassis floor provided with a running mechanism, the running mechanism being in mating connection with a track; the lifting mechanism is arranged on the upper surface of the chassis; the fork is connected with the lifting mechanism in a matched mode and moves in the vertical direction, and the moving height corresponds to the cargo space.

6. A micro-warehouse as claimed in claim 5, wherein the lifting mechanism further comprises a lifting bar connected to any two of the symmetrically disposed lifting columns; the lifting rod the fork both ends are provided with the belt pulley, be provided with the belt between the belt pulley, the belt pulley the belt is realized the fork removes along vertical direction.

7. A micro-warehouse as claimed in claim 6, wherein the forks comprise at least two telescopic fork arms that are telescopically movable relative to one another.

8. A micro-warehouse as claimed in claim 1 wherein the frame structure includes a warehousing header and a warehousing sill, the warehousing header extending outwardly along the header, the warehousing sill extending outwardly along the sill, and a warehousing upright disposed between the warehousing header and the warehousing sill.

9. A micro-warehouse system comprising a plurality of micro-warehouses according to any one of claims 2 to 8 connected in parallel, a plurality of racks connected in parallel, a plurality of rails connected, the rails having the stacker trucks disposed thereon.

10. The micro-warehouse system as claimed in claim 9, further comprising a picking conveyor station disposed on a side of the micro-warehouse proximate to the items.