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Patent Issued for Apparatus and method for building a pallet load (USPTO 1210379 2)

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From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents o btained the following quote: “1. Field “The exemplary embodiments generally relate to storage and retrieval systems and , more particularly, to palletizing/depalletizing cells of the storage and retri eval systems. “2. Brief Description of Related Developments “The retail distribution of products (whether for conventional “brick and mortar ” stores, online stores, or mixed retail channels) demands improvements in stora ge, sortation, and transport efficiencies, particularly for distribution of what is known as mixed cases or heterogeneous cases (within a given transport) wheth er for store replenishment or individual orders. The application of intelligent/ adaptive automation thereto has increasingly facilitated improvement in efficien cy at many levels of distribution including storage, sortation and transport. St ill, persistently difficult problems remain producing bottlenecks that disrupt, or adversely impact general system efficiency, such as the mixed case pallet loa d (or truck load) efficiency problem. As may be readily realized, the difficulty of the pallet load (or truck load) efficiency problem is not die singularly fro m the desire for high packing density, but rather pallet load efficiency is depe ndent on both packing density and building the pallet load in a time optimal man ner (i.e. the build puzzle of packing the pallet load to densities over 90% may be solved readily given whatever time necessary and the necessary selection of mixed cases, but such pallet load would not be efficient if the pallet load b uild time is not time optimal).

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年,卷(期):2024.(Oct.22)