Abstract: A remotely operated vehicle assembly for picking up storage bins from a storage system includes a vehicle body that displays a cavity for receiving a storage bin situated somewhere within the storage system, a vehicle lifting device at least indirectly connected to the vehicle body for lifting the storage bin into the cavity, driving mechanisms or components connected to the vehicle body allowing remotely controlled movements of the vehicle assembly within the storage system, a wireless communication link that provides wireless communication between the vehicle assembly and a remote control unit such as a computer, one or more main power sources supplying electrical power to the driving mechanisms or components and vehicle coupling means for operational and releasable coupling of the main power source to the vehicle body.

Abstract: A bin storage system includes a bin storage structure and robot vehicles for retrieving storage bins from the bin storage structure. The bin storage structure includes pillars that define storage columns for the storage bins, supporting rails, arranged on top of the pillars to provide a vehicle support for the plurality of robot vehicles allowing each robot vehicle to travel across the bin storage structure, a storage bin delivery station, and a bin lift device, arranged to receive storage bins from the plurality of robot vehicles and transport the storage bins from a top level of the bin storage structure to the delivery station. Each robot vehicle includes sets of rolling means for moving the robot vehicle along the supporting rails, a cavity for receiving a storage bin, and a lifting device for retrieving a storage bin from a storage column and storing the storage bin in the cavity.

Abstract: A storage system includes a first grid structure of storage cells, each cell being arranged to accommodate a vertical stack of storage bins, and the first grid structure having a top level. The system further includes a first vehicle, arranged to move horizontally at the top level of the first grid structure, and a bin lift device, arranged to convey a bin in a vertical direction between the top level of the grid structure and a delivery station. The first vehicle is further arranged to receive a storage bin from a storage cell at the top level of the first grid structure and to deliver the storage bin to the bin lift device. The bin lift device is arranged to receive a bin from the vehicle at the top level of the first grid structure and to convey the bin to the delivery station.

Abstract: A remotely operated vehicle or robot for picking up storage bins from a storage system includes a vehicle body, which includes a first section for storing vehicle driving means and a second section for receiving any storage bin stored in a storage column within the storage system, a vehicle lifting device in order to lift the storage bin into the second section, a first and a second set of vehicle rolling means allowing movement of the vehicle along a first and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, respectively, within the storage system. The second section includes a cavity arranged centrally within the vehicle body. This cavity has at least one bin receiving opening facing towards the underlying storage columns At least one of the two sets of vehicle rolling means is arranged fully within the vehicle body.

Abstract: A rotating device for receiving and handling goods or products, where the device has a number of holding devices designed for receiving storage devices, where the holding devices are rotatable about a central axis in the rotating device by a common drive arrangement, where at least one holding device with a received storage device is made available to an operator, while at least one other holding device is made available for receiving a storage device.

Abstract: A remotely operated vehicle or robot for picking up storage bins from a storage system includes a vehicle body, which includes a first section for storing vehicle driving means and a second section for receiving any storage bin stored in a storage column within the storage system, a vehicle lifting device in order to lift the storage bin into the second section, a first and a second set of vehicle rolling means allowing movement of the vehicle along a first and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, respectively, within the storage system. The second section includes a cavity arranged centrally within the vehicle body. This cavity has at least one bin receiving opening facing towards the underlying storage columns At least one of the two sets of vehicle rolling means is arranged fully within the vehicle body.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotating device (1) for receiving and handling goods or products, where the device (1) comprises a number of holding devices (5) designed for receiving storage devices (4), where the holding devices (5) are rotatable about a central axis in the rotating device by means of a common drive arrangement, with the result that at least one holding device (5) with a received storage device (4) is made available to an operator, while at least one other holding device (5) is made available for receiving a storage device (4).

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for organising the flow of goods for a stock consisting of heterogeneous units arranged closely on top of and beside one another in stacked standardised parallelepiped-shaped containers (1) which are joined into several co-ordinate-forming layers of containers in a vertical framework (6). With one or more computer-controlled lifting devices (5) with a gripping device (3) each individual container is lifted mechanically up and out of the stack for manual replenishment or a manual packing station (7). After dispatch the container (1) is returned to a new random, but continuously known position. The random and continuous alteration of location compels the statistically most frequently sold goods to be located in containers which have recently been returned to the upper layer of the stack, while those goods which statistically are seldom sold over a period of time will be located in containers in the lower layers of the stack.