Patents by Inventor Rick Youping-Huang
Rick Youping-Huang has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240051768Abstract: A product order fulfillment system including a multi-level transport system and a lifting transport system. Each level of the multi-level transport system having a corresponding independent asynchronous level transport system separate and distinct from the asynchronous level transport system corresponding to each other level of the multi-level transport system. Each independent lift axis of the lifting transport system being configured to independently hold at least one case and being communicably coupled to each asynchronous level transport system so as to provide for exchange of the at least one case between each asynchronous level transport system and each independent lift axis. Each independent lift axis is communicably coupled to each other independent lift axis of the more than one lift axis and forms a common output of mixed cases so as to create an ordered sequence of mixed cases in accordance to a predetermined case out ordered sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Richard B. COHEN, Brian SVOBODA, Kirill K. PANKRATOV, Jason CHRISOS, Rick YOUPING-HUANG, Juergen D. CONRAD, Elizabeth CLARK-POLNER
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Publication number: 20240017941Abstract: A material handling system for handling, placing packages onto pallets destined for an order store, the material handling system comprising, a storage array with storage spaces for holding packages therein, an automated package transport system communicably connected to the storage array for storing packages within the storage spaces of the storage array and retrieving packages from the storage spaces of the storage array, an automated palletizer for placing mixed packages onto a pallet to form a pallet load of mixed packages, the automated palletizer is communicably connected to the automated package transport system which provides individual packages from the storage array to the automated palletizer for forming the pallet load of mixed packages, the pallet load of mixed packages including more than one composite layers of mixed packages, a controller operably connected to the automated palletizer, the controller being programmed with a pallet load generator with an initial pallet load.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Kirill Pankratov, Ilya Erokhin, Oleksandr Muzychko, Rick Youping Huang
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Publication number: 20230382644Abstract: A product order fulfillment system of mixed product units, the product order fulfillment system comprising a storage array, with at least one elevated storage level, wherein mixed product units are input and distributed in the storage array in cases, of product units of common kind per case, an automated transport system, with at least one asynchronous transport system, for level transport, and a lift for between level transport, communicably connected to the storage array so as to automatically retrieve and output, from the storage array, product units distributed in the cases in the at least one elevated storage level of the storage array, the output product units being one or more of mixed singulated product units, in mixed packed groups, and in mixed cases, wherein the at least one asynchronous transport system, and the lift are configured so as to form more than one transport channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Ashish Aggarwal, Rick Youping Huang, Andrew Goodwin, Aaron Vande Ven
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Patent number: 11787642Abstract: A product order fulfillment system including a multi-level transport system and a lifting transport system. Each level of the multi-level transport system having a corresponding independent asynchronous level transport system separate and distinct from the asynchronous level transport system corresponding to each other level of the multi-level transport system. Each independent lift axis of the lifting transport system being configured to independently hold at least one case and being communicably coupled to each asynchronous level transport system so as to provide for exchange of the at least one case between each asynchronous level transport system and each independent lift axis. Each independent lift axis is communicably coupled to each other independent lift axis of the more than one lift axis and forms a common output of mixed cases so as to create an ordered sequence of mixed cases in accordance to a predetermined case out ordered sequence.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: SYMBOTIC LLCInventors: Richard B. Cohen, Brian Svoboda, Kirill K. Pankratov, Jason Chrisos, Rick Youping-Huang, Juergen D. Conrad, Elizabeth Clark-Polner
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Publication number: 20230002171Abstract: A product order fulfillment system including a multi-level transport system and a lifting transport system. Each level of the multi-level transport system having a corresponding independent asynchronous level transport system separate and distinct from the asynchronous level transport system corresponding to each other level of the multi-level transport system. Each independent lift axis of the lifting transport system being configured to independently hold at least one case and being communicably coupled to each asynchronous level transport system so as to provide for exchange of the at least one case between each asynchronous level transport system and each independent lift axis. Each independent lift axis is communicably coupled to each other independent lift axis of the more than one lift axis and forms a common output of mixed cases so as to create an ordered sequence of mixed cases in accordance to a predetermined case out ordered sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Richard B. COHEN, Brian SVOBODA, Kirill K. PANKRATOV, Jason CHRISOS, Rick YOUPING-HUANG, Juergen D. CONRAD, Elizabeth CLARK-POLNER
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Patent number: 11440746Abstract: A product order fulfillment system including a multi-level transport system and a lifting transport system. Each level of the multi-level transport system having a corresponding independent asynchronous level transport system separate and distinct from the asynchronous level transport system corresponding to each other level of the multi-level transport system. Each independent lift axis of the lifting transport system being configured to independently hold at least one case and being communicably coupled to each asynchronous level transport system so as to provide for exchange of the at least one case between each asynchronous level transport system and each independent lift axis. Each independent lift axis is communicably coupled to each other independent lift axis of the more than one lift axis and forms a common output of mixed cases so as to create an ordered sequence of mixed cases in accordance to a predetermined case out ordered sequence.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Symbolic LLCInventors: Richard B. Cohen, Brian Svoboda, Kirill K. Pankratov, Jason Chrisos, Rick Youping-Huang, Juergen D. Conrad, Elizabeth Clark-Polner
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Publication number: 20220241976Abstract: An automated palletizer for building a mixed case pallet, the automated palletizer including a case infeed that feeds mixed cases to provide an input queue feed sequence of mixed cases. At least one pallet building robot communicably connected to the case infeed and configured to receive the mixed cases in the input queue feed sequence of mixed cases, and place the mixed cases according to and dependent on the input queue feed sequence of mixed cases so as to effect building the mixed case pallet at a predetermined substantially steady placement rate. A controller communicably connected to the case infeed and at least one pallet building robot, and being configured so as to generate a complete and stable mixed case arrangement plan that completes at least a predetermined whole part of the mixed case pallet and that describes a predetermined planned location and pose for each case.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Ke FU, Wenyin SAN, Rick Youping HUANG
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Patent number: 11305430Abstract: An automated palletizer for building a mixed case pallet, the automated palletizer including a case infeed that feeds mixed cases to provide an input queue feed sequence of mixed cases. At least one pallet building robot communicably connected to the case infeed and configured to receive the mixed cases in the input queue feed sequence of mixed cases, and place the mixed cases according to and dependent on the input queue feed sequence of mixed cases so as to effect building the mixed case pallet at a predetermined substantially steady placement rate. A controller communicably connected to the case infeed and at least one pallet building robot, and being configured so as to generate a complete and stable mixed case arrangement plan that completes at least a predetermined whole part of the mixed case pallet and that describes a predetermined planned location and pose for each case.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Symbotic LLCInventors: Ke Fu, Wenyin San, Rick Youping Huang
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Publication number: 20210347581Abstract: A product order fulfillment system including a multi-level transport system and a lifting transport system. Each level of the multi-level transport system having a corresponding independent asynchronous level transport system separate and distinct from the asynchronous level transport system corresponding to each other level of the multi-level transport system. Each independent lift axis of the lifting transport system being configured to independently hold at least one case and being communicably coupled to each asynchronous level transport system so as to provide for exchange of the at least one case between each asynchronous level transport system and each independent lift axis. Each independent lift axis is communicably coupled to each other independent lift axis of the more than one lift axis and forms a common output of mixed cases so as to create an ordered sequence of mixed cases in accordance to a predetermined case out ordered sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2021Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: Richard B. COHEN, Brian Svoboda, Kirill K. Pankratov, Jason Chrisos, Rick Youping-Huang, Juergen D. Conrad, Elizabeth Clark-Polner
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Patent number: 10947060Abstract: A product order fulfillment system including a multi-level transport system and a lifting transport system. Each level of the multi-level transport system having a corresponding independent asynchronous level transport system separate and distinct from the asynchronous level transport system corresponding to each other level of the multi-level transport system. Each independent lift axis of the lifting transport system being configured to independently hold at least one case and being communicably coupled to each asynchronous level transport system so as to provide for exchange of the at least one case between each asynchronous level transport system and each independent lift axis. Each independent lift axis is communicably coupled to each other independent lift axis of the more than one lift axis and forms a common output of mixed cases so as to create an ordered sequence of mixed cases in accordance to a predetermined case out ordered sequence.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Symbolic LLCInventors: Richard B Cohen, Brian Svoboda, Kirill K. Pankratov, Jason Chrisos, Rick Youping-Huang, Juergen D. Conrad, Elizabeth Clark-Polner