Patents by Inventor Robert Kottlan

Robert Kottlan 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).

  • User-configurable guidance system of an order-picking warehouse and method for configuring the order-picking warehouse
    Patent number: 8626334
    Abstract: A method for manually configuring an order-picking warehouse by using a guidance system comprises equipping at least some of the storage locations with respective storage-location displays; connecting the associated storage-location displays to a master computer via a controller, and allocating to each controller a dedicated controller address; and configuring the order-picking warehouse by assigning respectively dedicated storage-location addresses to the equipped storage locations. All of the displays, which have not yet been assigned a dedicated storage-location address, are visually activated. At least one visually activated display is selected, thereby selecting the associated storage location and causing visual deactivation of the selected storage-location display. Each of the selected storage locations is assigned one dedicated storage-location address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: SSI Schaefer Peem GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Buchmann, Markus Schlagbauer, Robert Kottlan
  • USER-CONFIGURABLE GUIDANCE SYSTEM OF AN ORDER-PICKING WAREHOUSE AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING THE ORDER-PICKING WAREHOUSE
    Publication number: 20120232689
    Abstract: A method for manually configuring an order-picking warehouse by using a guidance system comprises equipping at least some of the storage locations with respective storage-location displays; connecting the associated storage-location displays to a master computer via a controller, and allocating to each controller a dedicated controller address; and configuring the order-picking warehouse by assigning respectively dedicated storage-location addresses to the equipped storage locations. All of the displays, which have not yet been assigned a dedicated storage-location address, are visually activated. At least one visually activated display is selected, thereby selecting the associated storage location and causing visual deactivation of the selected storage-location display. Each of the selected storage locations is assigned one dedicated storage-location address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Inventors: Rainer Buchmann, Markus Schlagbauer, Robert Kottlan