Data processing: generic control systems or specific application – Specific application – apparatus or process – Article handling
Reexamination Certificate
2006-09-19
2006-09-19
Tran, Khoi H. (Department: 3651)
Data processing: generic control systems or specific application
Specific application, apparatus or process
Article handling
C700S214000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07110855
ABSTRACT:
A method of processing orders in a warehouse. The method includes the steps of: providing a first pick module in a first pick zone with a plurality of stored items and a first picking station; providing a second pick module in a second pick zone with a second plurality of stored items and a second picking station; releasing a first order including at least one item from each of the first and second pick modules and thereby causing a) the at least one item in the first module to be retrieved and delivered to the first picking station and b) the at least one item in the second pick module be retrieved and delivered to the second picking station; directing a first tote serially to the first and second pick zones; determining whether the first tote is at the first pick zone and, upon determining that the first tote is at the first pick zone, picking the at least one item from the first picking station and placing the at least one item from the first picking station in the first tote; and determining whether the first tote is at the second pick zone and, upon determining that the first tote is at the second pick zone, picking the at least one item from the second picking station and placing the at least one item from the second picking station in the first tote.
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SK Daifuku Corporation
Tran Khoi H.
Wood Phillips Katz Clark and Mortimer
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