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7559731 |
Depot for material rolls, material supply system and method for storing material rolls
A depot or a storage facility for a plurality of material rolls, which rolls are intended for further processing in a processing machine, includes two outer shelving blocks in addition to at least...
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7546180 |
Position determination of multiple mechanisms sharing a common axis of motion in a robotic tape library
A system and method for determining relative positions of robots constrained to move along a common axis of motion, where a controller of the system has no prior knowledge of the relative...
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7334978 |
Cartridge-handling apparatus for a media storage system
Cartridge-handling apparatus for a media storage system comprising a lift assembly having at least one guide track aligned along a first displacement path in the media storage system. A carriage...
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7326565 |
Storage apparatus
The invention provides an incubator 1 wherein a microplate transport device 5 is disposed inside a chamber 11 centrally thereof. The transport device 5 comprises a transport table 50 for...
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7255525 |
Online, safe service technique for automated libraries
A safety system for online servicing of a media library is provided, wherein the library comprises a plurality of media storage cells and at least one media picker robot that moves along the media...
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7192236 |
Shelf stacking machine
The invention relates to a shelf stacking machine for stocking and removing paper reels, especially in the printing industry. The shelf stacking machine can be driven in a lane with storage places...
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7010377 |
Method, system, and storage medium for facilitating a transport scheme in an automated material handling system environment
A method, system, and storage medium for facilitating a transport scheme in an automated material handling system environment are provided. The method includes detecting an occurrence of a trigger...
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6943976 |
Rezeroing a robot accessor of an automated data storage library
The positioning of a robot accessor in an automated data storage library is rezeroed with respect to a home position which potentially avoids moving the robot accessor to the home position in every...
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6834215 |
Mass load method and apparatus for a data storage library
A data storage library is disclosed that provides a variable sized load/unload area within the library. The data storage library includes a housing defining an exterior and an interior region,...
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6832129 |
Method for packing rectangular strips
A method packs input rectangles into a target rectangle. The rectangles are permuted into one or more an ordered list according to dimensions of the rectangles, e.g., width, height, perimeter, and...
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6817824 |
Picking apparatus
The invention relates to an apparatus for picking articles situated on retrieval pallets ( 38 ) in a pallet rack ( 52 ), characterized by a vehicle ( 10 ) capable of travelling along the picking...
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6809510 |
Configuration in which wafers are individually supplied to fabrication units and measuring units located in a fabrication cell
A configuration for treating wafers in at least one clean room includes a configuration of production units and measuring units that receive wafers via a transport system for transporting...
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6808353 |
Method of non-disruptive capacity scaling for a data storage library
A method for scaling a media storage library is provided, wherein the library comprises a plurality of media storage cells and at least one media picker robot. The method comprises connecting a new...
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6801834 |
Data library system having movable robotic librarian operable for accessing statically mounted drives
An automated data library system includes a data library housing drive clusters. The drive clusters include drive arrays of disk drives. The drive clusters are statically mounted within the data...
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6728597 |
Storage system for storing items to be distributed
A storage system for receiving, delivering and storing items, e.g. mail items, to be distributed. Items are stored in a flexible manner allowing sufficient space to be allocated to each item while...
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6691001 |
Diagnostic port between independent robots
An automated storage library structure, a structure of at least one robot operating within the automated storage library, and a method of connecting the robot to test equipment to facilitate...
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6602037 |
System for picking articles situated in rack storage units
The invention relates to a system for picking articles situated in a rack storage unit, comprising a plurality of parallel rack rows ( 60, 62, 63 ) for the storage of articles situated on retrieval...
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6597970 |
Automated library kiosk
A self-service kiosk having a walk-in enclosure, interactive selection panel, multi-section inventory storage area for dispensing items and accepting returns. User selections are entered via...
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6591164 |
Library failover method using hot spare redundant picker mechanism
A “hot spare” method for facilitating the seamless transition from a failed robotic mechanism to backup unit is provided. A spare robot is located inside a storage library on a section of rail...
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6579053 |
Robotic containerization and palletizing system
A robotic containerization and palletizing system having a multiple-fingered end effector. The system includes a frame that defines one or more cells. Each cell has one gantry-type robot, which is...
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6550391 |
Method and system for moving cartridges between storage libraries
A system and a method for moving cartridges between individual cartridge libraries of a multi-library system. The system includes one or more transport robots operating on one or more guide...
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6533076 |
Materials handling vehicle mast height sensor
A knurled wheel is coupled to a sensor mounted to one mast member and the wheel is forced into another mast member so that the wheel/sensor rotate upon mast movement. The sensor generates signals,...
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6520735 |
Method of automation for flow through storage
An autonomous remote controlled vehicle for use in the automation of an existing refrigerated flow through storage facility food processing application. The remote vehicle is specifically designed...
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6463353 |
Library apparatus
The library apparatus of the present invention includes a cell unit having a plurality of cells which are configured to accept cartridges for accommodating storage media. The library apparatus also...
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6457928 |
Inter-row transfer unit for moving tape cartridges between rows of library systems
An easily installed inter-row transfer unit is disclosed employing a movable cartridge bin assembly suspended via linkage from a pair of bearing blocks, wherein the resulting bin assembly carriage...
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6438459 |
Multiple independent intelligent pickers with dynamic routing in an automated data storage library
Multiple intelligent pickers for an automated data storage library, the library having a library controller which identifies the start and end locations of the received move jobs, and places the...
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6421580 |
Distributing equipment for piece goods
Distributing equipment for piece goods composed of (a) an order device ( 1 ), (b) locations ( 3 ) where the available piece goods can be arranged in such a way that the same goods are contained at...
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6398476 |
Automatic storage unit and automatic storing method
In an automatic storage system and an automatic storing method for automatically take in and out a container box 1 accommodating therein a wafer carrier 6 , a take-in port and a take-out port of...
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6393335 |
Synchronous mounting and dismounting method and system for multiple accessor storage libraries
An automated storage library for the storage and retrieval of cartridges and an associated method includes a frame having cartridge storage cells for storing cartridges and at least one cartridge...
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6390756 |
Transfer of cartridges containing flat articles
An apparatus for automatically transferring and handling cartridges containing flat articles. The method and apparatus robotically transfers filled cartridges from the output compartments of a...
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6381517 |
Method and apparatus to analyze accessor performance
An automated data storage system which comprises one or more robotic accessors movably disposed therein, each such accessor including a revolving memory buffer and a velocity control program,...
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6351685 |
Wireless communication between multiple intelligent pickers and with a central job queue in an automated data storage library
A wireless communication link provides picker to picker communication between multiple intelligent pickers for an automated data storage library, and provides central communication between at least...
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6330489 |
Magnetic tape apparatus
A magnetic tape apparatus of the present invention includes an accessor mechanism movable in a Y direction in response to a command received from a host and a hand mechanism mounted on the accessor...
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6321138 |
Storage and retrieval system with automated order make up
A basket storage and retrieval apparatus and method has spaced parallel rows of storage racks with multiple horizontal tiers having aisles between the storage racks. Guides are connected to the...
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6309162 |
Data storage system with redundant media handling assemblies
A data storage system comprising: a media picker displacement path having a first end and a second end; a first media picker assembly mounted in the picker displacement path; a second media picker...
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6289260 |
Automated order pick process
A method for controlling order setup and operation of order fulfillment devices, which devices include dispensers that dispense low quantities of low-demand articles from an inventory containing a...
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6269913 |
Roller position monitoring device for an industrial lift truck
An industrial lift truck with a load lifting device (15), a device (3, 9, 11) for moving the load lifting device (15) on the lift truck (1) having at least one element (7) that can move, together...
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6267042 |
Position detector for fluid cylinder
A position detector includes a fluid cylinder having a piston. An ultrasonic transceiver is provided at one end of the piston outside of the moving range of the piston. In response to electrical...
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6243332 |
Input/output periscope station for libraries
An Input/Output periscope station for automated storage and retrieval systems is disclosed. The periscoping I/O station provides a push down action after a cartridge is imported or exported and...
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6208908 |
Integrated order selection and distribution system
An integrated order selection and distribution system is provided for selecting and delivering a plurality of articles associated with a preselected customer order. The system includes discrete...
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6186724 |
Storage device for packaged goods
A computer-controlled storage device for packaged goods has a storage area with parallel storage tracks having a first and a second end, wherein each one of the storage tracks stores only one type...
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6169935 |
Control method of stocker entry task and stocker exit task in semiconductor wafer cassette transportation apparatus
In a stocker entry task control method employed in a semiconductor wafer cassette transportation apparatus that has high transportation ability of a semiconductor wafer cassette, a host computer...
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6158942 |
Tape cartridge access port
A tape cartridge access port includes frames defining a series of tape cartridge magazine cavities for directly loading magazines filled with tape cartridges with the labels on the front surfaces...
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6149379 |
Wafer transfer method using a serial number detecting device in semiconductor fabricating equipment
A wafer transfer method of semiconductor fabricating equipment is capable of successively arranging a plurality of wafers in a designated order (e.g., an ascending order, a descending order, an...
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6120230 |
Roller-inserter for use with cartridge style information storage media
The present invention discloses methods and apparatus for use in a mass memory data storage system. The present invention includes a gripper assembly having a roller-inserter, which permits contact...
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6076023 |
Physical distribution storage system
A physical distribution storage system comprises a series of storage racks, a host processing unit and hand-held terminals, the storage racks storing articles and each storage rack having rack...
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6074155 |
Method and device for handling and stacking pressed bales
A process and a device for handling and stacking pressed bales in a bale storage facility with at least one stacking device (1), which has a traveling crane bridge (3), a bogie truck (4) and a...
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6071060 |
Calibration jig for an automated placement machine
A calibration jig for establishing a home position of a robotic mechanism which retrieves components from a parts tray. The calibration jig includes: an angled member having a first wall member and...
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6012894 |
Automatic lot organization method
An apparatus for automatically organizing a variable number of lots into a batch which can be treated with high efficiency in a semiconductor wafer manufacturing line is installed for changing the...
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6011998 |
High speed picking system
An automated material handling picking system including a plurality of storage locations for objects which are to be picked, a moveable picking head for picking the objects from the storage...
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