CN216637692U - Goods shelf device and sorting system - Google Patents

Abstract

The application provides a goods shelves device and letter sorting system, the goods shelves device that this application provided, including goods shelves, support frame and at least one delivery unit, have a plurality of buffer memory positions that are used for depositing the material case on the goods shelves, have the delivery position on the support frame, the delivery unit moves on the delivery position to carry the material case to the buffer memory position on, perhaps carry the material case to the target location after handling on the buffer memory position. The application provides a goods shelves device and letter sorting system can improve the efficiency of the whole operation of leaving warehouse of goods.

Description

Goods shelf device and sorting system

Technical Field

The application relates to the field of warehouse logistics, in particular to a goods shelf device and a sorting system.

Background

Warehousing is an important link in the logistics process. The robot can replace manual goods handling, and plays an important role in intelligent warehouse logistics.

The warehousing system may include a robot that places goods of the shelves in the material boxes and carries the material boxes with the goods to the manual workstation, and a seeding wall. The operating personnel process the material box according to the order, deliver the goods in the material box to the material box on the seeding wall, push the material box which is processed from the seeding wall, and supplement a new empty material box to the vacancy of the seeding wall.

However, the work of completing the processing of the goods in the order by the operator, feeding out the processed material box, and replenishing the new material box results in inefficient work of discharging the entire goods out of the warehouse.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The application provides a goods shelves device and letter sorting system can improve the efficiency of the whole operation of leaving warehouse of goods.

In a first aspect, the present application provides a shelf device, including goods shelves, support frame and at least one carrying unit, have a plurality of buffer memory positions that are used for depositing the material case on the goods shelves, have the carrying position on the support frame, the carrying unit moves on the carrying position to carry the material case to the buffer memory position, perhaps carry the material case after handling to the target location on the buffer memory position.

In a possible implementation manner, in the shelf device provided by the application, the number of the carrying positions is multiple, and the carrying positions and the cache positions are arranged in a one-to-one correspondence manner. In a possible implementation manner, the shelf device provided by the application has the advantages that the support frame is provided with a plurality of support layers, each support layer is provided with a plurality of carrying positions, and the support layers are arranged at intervals along the vertical direction;

the carrying unit comprises at least one tray trolley, the tray trolley is used for carrying the material box, the tray trolley moves among the carrying positions of the same supporting layer, and the tray trolley is transferred among different supporting layers.

In one possible implementation manner, the shelf device provided by the application, the carrying unit further comprises at least one elevator, and the elevator is used for driving the tray trolley to transfer between different supporting layers.

In one possible implementation, the application provides a shelf device, and the lifting machine is located on the outer side of the support frame.

In a possible implementation manner, in the shelf device provided by the application, the elevator is located in the support frame, and the support frame is internally provided with a channel for the elevator to lift.

In a possible implementation manner, the goods shelf device provided by the application has the advantages that the tray trolley comprises a tray trolley body and a carrying device connected to the tray trolley body, and the carrying device is used for carrying the material box to the tray trolley body or carrying the material box on the tray trolley body out of the tray trolley body.

In one possible implementation manner, in the shelf device provided by the present application, the carrying device is at least one of a robot, a fork assembly, or a suction cup assembly.

In a possible implementation mode, the application provides a shelf device, support frame include along the support body of vertical direction setting and along a plurality of crossbeams of horizontal direction setting, have two crossbeams on the same height along vertical direction, be located the same supporting layer of crossbeam formation of same height, tray dolly and two crossbeam roll connection of same height.

In a possible implementation manner, the shelf device provided by the application is provided with a plurality of partition parts at intervals in the extending direction of the cross beam, and the adjacent partition parts and the cross beam between the adjacent partition parts form a carrying position.

In a possible implementation manner, in the shelf device provided by the application, the number of the hoists is two, and the two hoists are respectively located at two ends of the supporting layer.

In a possible implementation manner, the shelf device further comprises a first conveying line and/or a second conveying line, the first conveying line and the second conveying line are adjacent to the support frame, the first conveying line is used for conveying the material boxes to the carrying units, and the second conveying line is used for receiving the processed material boxes conveyed by the carrying units from the buffer positions.

In a possible implementation manner, the shelf device provided by the application has a detection assembly on the shelf, and the detection assembly is used for detecting whether the material box is arranged on each cache position.

In a possible implementation manner, in the shelf device provided by the present application, the detection component is at least one of a photoelectric door detection component, a pressure sensor, a visual sensor, a laser sensor, an acoustic wave sensor, or a code scanning component.

In one possible implementation, the shelf device provided by the application has a camera on the shelf.

In a second aspect, the present application further provides a sorting system, including a third conveyor line for conveying material boxes with goods and at least one of the above-mentioned shelf devices.

In a possible implementation manner, the sorting system provided by the application has at least two shelf devices, the shelf devices are arranged at intervals along the transmission direction of the third conveying line, the shelf devices form a work station in a group of two shelf devices, the shelves of the shelf devices in the same work station are adjacent,

the application provides a goods shelves device and letter sorting system, goods shelves device has a plurality of buffer positions through setting up goods shelves, support frame and at least one delivery unit on the goods shelves, has the delivery position on the support frame, and one or more delivery unit move on the delivery position in the support frame, has saved the space that letter sorting system took from this. In the process that the carrying unit moves between the carrying positions, the material box processed on the cache position corresponding to the carrying position can be carried to the target position, or the material box is transported to the empty cache position through the carrying position. Therefore, the operation of sending out the processed material box and supplementing the new material box is completed through the plurality of carrying units, and the operator only needs to select the goods, so that the efficiency of the whole goods delivery operation is improved.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present application or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the embodiments or the prior art descriptions will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following descriptions are some embodiments of the present application, and other drawings can be obtained by those skilled in the art without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a shelf device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a support frame and a carrying unit in a shelf device provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a left side view of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a top view of FIG. 2;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a sorting system according to an embodiment of the present application.

Description of reference numerals:

100-a shelf device;

110-a shelf;

111-cache bits;

120-a support frame;

121-carry position;

122-a support layer;

123-frame body;

1231-support column;

1232-connecting column;

124-a cross beam;

1241-divider;

1242-chute;

130-a carrier unit;

131-a hoisting machine;

132-a pallet cart;

1321-pallet car body;

1322-a wheel;

140-a first conveyor line;

150-a second transfer line;

200-third transfer line.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present application clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings in the preferred embodiments of the present application. In the drawings, the same or similar reference numerals denote the same or similar components or components having the same or similar functions throughout. The described embodiments are a subset of the embodiments in the present application and not all embodiments in the present application. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are exemplary and intended to be used for explaining the present application and should not be construed as limiting the present application. 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 application. Embodiments of the present application will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In the description of the present application, it should be noted that unless otherwise explicitly stated or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, e.g., such that a first connection, a second connection, an indirect connection via an intermediary, a connection between two elements, or an interaction between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art as appropriate.

In the description of the present application, it is to be understood that the terms "upper", "lower", "front", "back", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", and the like, indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientation or positional relationships illustrated in the drawings, are merely for convenience in describing the present application and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present application.

The terms "first," "second," and "third" (if any) in the description and claims of this application and the above-described drawings are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used is interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the application described herein are, for example, capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or otherwise described herein.

Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or display that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or display.

The sorting system of storage can include robot and seeding wall, and one side of seeding wall has manual work station, has the grid of placing the material case of a plurality of mutual isolations on the seeding wall. In a sorting system for warehouses, a robot places goods on a rack in a material box and carries the material box with the goods to a manual workstation. And the operating personnel at the manual workstation pick the goods from the material boxes according to the order and deliver the goods in the material boxes into the material boxes in the corresponding grids on the sowing wall. After the operator finishes the treatment of the material box, the operator pushes the treated material box out of the grid opening on the shelf device to the transmission line, and then the new empty material box is supplemented to the vacant position of the grid opening of the sowing wall. However, in the above process, the worker finishes picking and delivering the goods in the order, and the worker supplements the new goods box, which results in low efficiency of the whole goods delivery operation.

Based on this, this application embodiment provides a goods shelves device and letter sorting system, can improve the efficiency of the whole operation of leaving warehouse of goods.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a shelf device according to an embodiment of the present application. Referring to fig. 1, a shelf device 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a shelf 110, a support frame 120, and at least one carrying unit 130, where the shelf 110 has a plurality of buffer positions 111 for storing material boxes, the support frame 120 has a carrying position 121, and the carrying unit 130 moves on the carrying position 121 to carry the material boxes to the buffer positions 111 or to carry the material boxes processed at the buffer positions 111 to a target position.

The shelf device 100 provided in the present application can be applied to work stations having different functions. For example, the shelf device 100 may be used as a seeding wall or a sorting buffer rack during delivery. The shelf device 100 may be used as a temporary storage rack for placing source boxes when warehousing, replenishment, returning or tallying, a workstation places target boxes, and the items in the source boxes are collated into the target boxes, as opposed to being delivered. For convenience of description, the embodiment of the present application is illustrated with the shelf device 100 as a sowing wall.

Specifically, the shelf 110 may include a shelf body and a plurality of partition plates located on the shelf body, the partition plates partition the shelf body into a plurality of buffer positions 111 for storing the material box, and the buffer positions 111 are arranged at intervals in a row and column manner. Each buffering position 111 is provided with a material box inlet and a material box outlet, the material box inlet and the material box outlet are arranged oppositely, the material box enters the buffering position 111 through the material box inlet, and the material box is carried out of the goods shelf 110 through the material box outlet. A material box can be placed on the cache position 111, and an operator delivers goods into the material box on the cache position 111 to form a processed material box.

The support frame 120 has a carrying position 121, and the carrying position 121 may be a general name of positions on the support frame 120 corresponding to all the buffer positions 111. For convenience of corresponding to the buffer bits 111, the positions of the supporting rack 120 corresponding to the buffer bits 111 may also be described in segments, in this case, the number of the carrying bits 121 may be multiple, the carrying bits 121 and the buffer bits 111 correspond to each other one by one, that is, one buffer bit 111 corresponds to one carrying bit 121, and the carrying unit 130 moves on the carrying bits 121. During the movement of the carrying unit 130 between the carrying positions 121, the material box may be carried to an empty buffer position 111, or the material box processed on the buffer position 111 may be carried to a target position.

It should be noted that the target position may be any position designated on the support frame 120. When there are multiple carrying positions 121, the target position may be any one of the carrying positions 121 on the supporting frame 120, the carrying unit 130 may move the material box to another carrying position 121 on the supporting frame 120 through the carrying position 121, or the carrying unit 130 may transport the material box processed on the buffering position 111 to the carrying position 121 through another carrying position 121.

The rack device 100 provided by the embodiment of the present application, by providing the rack 110, the supporting rack 120 and the at least one carrying unit 130, the rack 110 has a plurality of buffer positions 111 thereon, the supporting rack 120 has a carrying position 121 thereon, and the one or more carrying units 130 move on the carrying position 121 in the supporting rack 120, thereby saving the space occupied by the sorting system. During the movement of the carrying unit 130 between the carrying positions 121, the material box processed at the buffer position 111 corresponding to the carrying position 121 may be carried to the target position, or the material box may be transported to the empty buffer position 111 through the carrying position 121. Therefore, the operation of sending out the processed material box and supplementing the new material box is completed through the plurality of carrying units 130, and the operator only needs to select the goods, so that the efficiency of the whole goods warehouse-out operation is improved.

Fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a support frame and a carrying unit in a shelf device provided by an embodiment of the present application; FIG. 3 is a left side view of FIG. 2; fig. 4 is a top view of fig. 2. Referring to fig. 1 to 4, in the shelf device 100 according to the embodiment of the present disclosure, the supporting frame 120 has a plurality of supporting layers 122, each supporting layer 122 has a plurality of carrying positions 121, and the supporting layers 122 are spaced apart in a vertical direction.

The carrying unit 130 comprises at least one tray trolley 132, the tray trolley 132 is used for carrying material boxes, the tray trolley 132 moves among the carrying positions 121 of the same supporting layer 122, and the tray trolley 132 is transferred among different supporting layers 122.

Specifically, the carrying unit 130 further includes at least one elevator 131, and the elevator 131 is used for driving the pallet cart 132 to move between different support layers 122.

Specifically, the carrying sites 121 on each layer of the supporting layer 122 are arranged at intervals, and the carrying sites 121 between different layers may be arranged oppositely in the vertical direction. Because the tray trolley 132 moves on the carrying positions 121, the carrying positions 121 correspond to the buffer positions 111 one by one, and meanwhile, the distance between the carrying positions 121 can be larger than or equal to the distance between the buffer positions 111, so that the tray trolley 132 is convenient to carry the material box.

In the shelf device 100 provided by the embodiment of the application, the pallet trolley 132 moves between the carrying positions 121 on the same floor, and the pallet trolley 132 is moved to different supporting layers 122 by the elevator 131, so that the pallet trolley 132 moves between all the carrying positions 121.

The elevator 131 may be a lifting structure that is conventional to those skilled in the art. For example, the lifter 131 may include a vertical guide rail driving the support plate to be lifted and lowered in a vertical direction so that the support plate is flush with the different support layers 122, respectively, and a support plate coupled to the vertical guide rail. The support frame 120 may include a frame body 123, and in order to save space, the vertical guide rail may be integrally formed with the support frame 120, that is, the vertical guide rail is a part of the support frame 120, for example, the support frame 120 is a part of the frame body 123 of the support frame 120. The number of the lifters 131 may be two or more.

In the present application, the locations of the hoists 131 may have a variety of distributions. In one possible implementation, the hoists 131 are located outside of the support frame 120. For example, the hoists 131 are located at the ends of the support frame 120 and/or at the sides of the support frame 120.

In another possible implementation, the elevator 131 is located in the support frame 120, and the support frame 120 has a passage for the elevator 131 to ascend and descend. For example, the end of the support frame 120 near the support frame 120 has a passage for the elevator 131 to lift and lower, and the elevator is located in the passage. Or a channel is arranged in the support frame 120 at any position corresponding to the carrying position 121 along the X direction in fig. 2, that is, the carrying position 121 is not arranged in the Y direction in fig. 2, so as to form a channel for the lifting machine 131 to lift, at this time, the support plate of the lifting machine 131 is lifted or lowered to the layer of the support layer 122, and the support plate serves as one carrying position 121 in the support layer 122.

In some embodiments, pallet cart 132 includes a pallet cart body 1321 and a handling device coupled to pallet cart body 1321 for handling the material container to pallet cart body 1321 or for moving the material container from pallet cart body 1321 to pallet cart body 1321.

In particular implementations, the handling device may be at least one of a robot, a fork assembly, or a chuck assembly. The manipulator can grip the side plates of the material tank and pull the material tank onto the pallet trolley body 1321 or push out the pallet trolley body 1321. The pallet fork assembly may be a push-pull rod type structure, a drag hook type structure, a clamp type structure, or a fork type structure similar to a forklift.

Specifically, the structure of push-pull rod formula can be including flexible arm and the rotating member of connection on flexible wall, and the quantity of flexible arm can be two, and two flexible walls are located the relative both sides of tray dolly body 1321 respectively, and flexible arm stretches out to the rear of material case, and the rotating member is rotatory for flexible arm to rotatory rear to material case, flexible arm shrink in order to push out tray dolly body 1321 with the material case on the tray dolly body 1321, and flexible arm continues to shrink, in order to release tray dolly body 1321 with the material case. The sucker assembly can comprise a telescopic arm and a plurality of adsorption pieces connected to the telescopic arm, and the adsorption pieces adsorb the material box, so that the material box is pulled to the tray trolley body 1321, or the tray trolley body 1321 is pushed out. The difference of the towing hook type structure, the clamping type structure or the forking type structure lies in that the structures on the telescopic arms are different, and the structures of the rest parts can be the same. For example, in the hook-pulling type structure, a hook is arranged on the telescopic arm and is connected with a connecting part matched with the hook on the material tank through the hook, so that the material tank is pulled into or pulled out of the pallet trolley body 1321. The telescoping arms of the clasping structure can be directly clamped on both sides of the material box to move the material box into or out of the pallet trolley body 1321. The fork-lift structure is similar to a forklift and is not described in detail here.

Wherein, the adsorption piece can be a vacuum chuck (also can be called as a vacuum lifting appliance), or an electromagnet or a magnet, and an adsorbed piece which can be adsorbed by the adsorption piece is arranged on the corresponding material box.

This application does not do the restriction to handling device's structure, as long as can realize carrying the material case to tray dolly body 1321 on, perhaps carry out tray dolly body 1321 with the material case on the tray dolly body 1321 can.

In some embodiments, the supporting frame 120 includes a frame body 123 arranged in a vertical direction and a plurality of cross beams 124 arranged in a horizontal direction, two cross beams 124 are arranged at the same height in the vertical direction, the cross beams 124 at the same height form the same supporting layer 122, the tray trolley 132 is connected with the two cross beams 124 at the same height in a rolling manner, and the tray trolley 132 moves along the extending direction of the cross beams 124.

Specifically, the frame body 123 may include at least four support columns 1231 and a plurality of connection columns 1232, the four support columns 1231 enclose a rectangular frame, the connection columns 1232 are connected between two support columns 1231 in the width direction, and the cross beam 124 is connected between two support columns 1231 in the length direction. The cross beam 124 is provided with a sliding chute 1242, the extending direction of the sliding chute 1242 is the same as the extending direction of the cross beam 124, the sliding chute 1242 faces the tray trolley 132, the tray trolley 132 further comprises at least two wheels 1322, the two wheels 1322 are respectively connected to two opposite sides of the tray trolley body 1321, the wheels 1322 are inserted in the sliding chute 1242 opposite to the wheels 1322, and the driving member drives the wheels 1322 to roll along the extending direction of the sliding chute 1242, so that the tray trolley 132 moves between the carrying positions 121 on the same floor.

Each wheel 1322 may be driven to roll by the same driving member, or each wheel 1322 may correspond to one driving member, which is not limited herein.

In a specific implementation, a plurality of partitions 1241 are provided at intervals in the extending direction of the beam 124, and the adjacent partitions 1241 and the beam 124 between the adjacent partitions 1241 form the carrying space 121.

The dividing portion 1241 may be a notch communicating with the chute 1242.

With continued reference to fig. 1 and fig. 2, in the shelving device 100 provided in the embodiment of the application, the number of the hoists 131 is two, and the two hoists 131 are respectively located at two ends of the supporting layer 122. In this way, the efficiency of the movement of the pallet car 132 between the different support layers 122 can be improved.

In order to improve the working efficiency of the shelf device 100, the shelf device 100 provided in the embodiment of the present application further includes a first conveyor line 140 and/or a second conveyor line 150, where the first conveyor line 140 and the second conveyor line 150 are both adjacent to the supporting frame 120, the first conveyor line 140 is used for conveying the material boxes to the carrying unit 130, and the second conveyor line 150 is used for receiving the processed material boxes conveyed by the carrying unit 130 from the buffer position 111.

In a specific implementation, the first conveying line 140 is adjacent to any one of the carrying positions 121 on the support frame 120, optionally, the first conveying line 140 is adjacent to any one of the carrying positions 121 on the bottom layer of the support frame 120, the first conveying line 140 conveys the material box to the carrying position 121 adjacent thereto, the carrying device in the carrying unit 130 on the carrying position 121 carries the material box to the tray trolley 132, and the material box is conveyed to the buffer position 111 through the tray trolley 132.

The second conveyor line 150 is adjacent to any one of the carrying positions 121 on the support frame 120, optionally, the second conveyor line 150 is adjacent to any one of the carrying positions 121 on the bottom layer of the support frame 120, the carrying unit 130 carries the processed material box from the storage position 111 and moves to the carrying position 121 adjacent to the second conveyor line 150, and the carrying device in the carrying unit 130 carries the processed material box to the second conveyor line 150.

When the first conveyor line 140 and the second conveyor line 150 are arranged at the same time, the first carrying position 121 of the bottom layer of the support frame 120 is adjacent to the first conveyor line 140, and the last carrying position 121 of the bottom layer of the support frame 120 is adjacent to the second conveyor line 150. That is, there is a space between the first conveyor line 140 and the second conveyor line 150, so that it is convenient to place material boxes on the first conveyor line 140 and take treated material boxes on the second conveyor line 150. Thereby, the first transfer line 140 and the second transfer line 150 are prevented from interfering with each other.

In addition, in the shelf device 100 provided in the embodiment of the present application, the shelf 110 has a detection component, and the detection component is configured to detect whether each cache location 111 has a material tank. The detection assembly can be electrically connected with the controller, the driving piece on the tray trolley 132 is electrically connected with the controller, and the controller controls the tray trolley 132 to move to the cache position 111 without the material box according to the detection result of the detection assembly, so that the material box is placed on the cache position 111.

The first detection assembly is at least one of a photoelectric door detection assembly, a pressure sensor, a visual sensor, a laser sensor, an acoustic wave sensor or a code scanning assembly. Exemplarily, light-emitting spare and receiving piece are located the relative both sides of buffer position 111 respectively including light-emitting spare and receiving the spare, and when having the material case in buffer position 111, the material case shelters from the light that light-emitting spare sent to lead to receiving the unable light that receives light-emitting spare and send, thereby can judge and have the material case in the buffer position 111. When the receiving part can receive the light emitted by the light emitting part, the fact that no material box exists in the cache position 111 can be judged. Two-dimensional codes or bar codes are pasted on the material boxes, and the material boxes are scanned through the code scanning assembly so as to detect whether the material boxes are arranged on the cache bits 111 or not.

In some embodiments, the shelf 110 has a camera thereon. The speed of picking the goods by the operator can be acquired through the camera, the speed of conveying the material boxes to the carrying unit 130 by the first conveying line 140 can be controlled according to the speed of picking the goods, and the speed of receiving the processed material boxes conveyed from the buffer position 111 by the carrying unit 130 by the second conveying line 150.

Fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a sorting system according to an embodiment of the present application. Referring to fig. 1 to 5, the present embodiment further provides a sorting system, which includes a third conveyor line 200 and at least one shelf device 100 provided in the above embodiments, where the third conveyor line 200 is used for conveying a material box with goods.

The structure and the operation principle of the shelf device 100 are explained in detail in the above embodiments, and are not described in detail herein.

In this application, the third conveyor line 200 conveys the material box with the goods to the position where the operator is located, the operator picks the goods and places the picked goods in the material box on the buffer position 111 to form a processed material box, and the carrying unit 130 moves between the carrying positions 121 to carry the processed material box on the buffer position 111 to the target position. The carrying unit 130 may also carry the material box to the buffer position 111. Like this, send goods, send material case and carry the material case automatic completion after handling, need not the operation that the operation personnel sent material case and carried the material case after handling, improved letter sorting system's work efficiency.

In the sorting system provided by the embodiment of the application, the number of the shelf devices 100 is at least two, each shelf device 100 is arranged at intervals along the transmission direction of the third conveyor line 200, the shelf devices 100 form work stations in a group, and the shelves 110 of the shelf devices 100 in the same work station are adjacent. That is, at least two shelf devices 100 may be provided in the same work station, so that the space of the sorting system is saved, the moving range of the operator is reduced, and the work efficiency of the operator is improved.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solutions of the present application, and not to limit the same; although the present application has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it should be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some or all of the technical features may be equivalently replaced; and these modifications or substitutions do not depart from the scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application.

Claims (17)

1. The goods shelf device is characterized by comprising a goods shelf, a support frame and at least one carrying unit, wherein the goods shelf is provided with a plurality of cache positions for storing material boxes, the support frame is provided with carrying positions, and the carrying unit moves on the carrying positions to carry the material boxes to the cache positions or carry the material boxes processed on the cache positions to a target position.

2. The rack device according to claim 1, wherein the number of the carrying positions is plural, and the carrying positions are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the buffer positions.

3. The shelving unit of claim 1, wherein the support shelf has a plurality of support layers, each support layer having a plurality of the carry positions thereon, the support layers being vertically spaced apart;

the carrying unit comprises at least one tray trolley, the tray trolley is used for carrying the material box, the tray trolley moves between the carrying positions of the same supporting layer, and the tray trolley is transferred between different supporting layers.

4. The racking device according to claim 3 wherein said carrier unit further comprises at least one elevator for driving said pallet car to transition between different said support layers.

5. The shelving unit defined in claim 4, wherein the lift is located outside of the support shelf.

6. The shelving unit defined in claim 4, wherein the lift is located within the support frame, the support frame having a channel therein for the lift to rise and fall.

7. The rack device according to any one of claims 3 to 6, wherein the pallet truck comprises a pallet truck body and a handling device connected to the pallet truck body, the handling device being configured to handle the material tank to the pallet truck body or to handle the material tank from the pallet truck body.

8. The rack device of claim 7, wherein the handling device is at least one of a robot, a fork assembly, or a suction cup assembly.

9. The shelving device as defined in any one of claims 3 to 6, wherein the support frame comprises a frame body arranged in a vertical direction and a plurality of cross beams arranged in a horizontal direction, two cross beams are arranged at the same height in the vertical direction, the cross beams at the same height form the same support layer, and the pallet trolley is in rolling connection with the two cross beams at the same height.

10. The rack device according to claim 9, wherein a plurality of partitions are provided at intervals in the extending direction of the cross member, and the adjacent partitions and the cross member between the adjacent partitions form the carrying positions.

11. The shelving unit defined in any one of claims 4 to 6 wherein there are two hoists, one at each end of the support layer.

12. The shelving unit defined in any one of claims 1 to 6 further comprising a first conveyor line and/or a second conveyor line, the first and second conveyor lines each being adjacent the support shelf, the first conveyor line being for conveying material bins to the carrying units, the second conveyor line being for receiving processed material bins from the buffer locations for the carrying units.

13. The rack device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the rack is provided with a detection component for detecting whether each buffer position is provided with a material tank.

14. The rack device of claim 13, wherein the detection assembly is at least one of a photoelectric door detection assembly, a pressure sensor, a visual sensor, a laser sensor, a sonic sensor, or a code scanning assembly.

15. The shelving unit defined in any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the shelves have cameras thereon.

16. A sorting system, characterised by comprising at least one shelf device according to any one of claims 1 to 15 and a third conveyor line for conveying material bins with goods.

17. The sortation system as claimed in claim 16, wherein said plurality of shelf units is at least two, each of said shelf units being spaced along the direction of travel of said third conveyor line, said shelf units being grouped in pairs to form workstations, the shelves of said shelf units within a same said workstation being adjacent.

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