Patents by Inventor Tooru Arii

Tooru Arii 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).

  • Patent number: 12459734
    Abstract: A specific transfer mode is a mode for causing a transport device to execute a first transfer operation, a travel operation, and a second transfer operation in this order. The first transfer operation is transferring a second article from a storage region to the transport device with use of a second transfer device, and thereafter transferring a first article from the storage region to the transport device with use of a first transfer device. The travel operation is traveling to a position corresponding to a boundary between a relay section and a temporary placement region while holding the first article and the second article. The second transfer operation is transferring the first article from the transport device to the relay section with use of the first transfer device, and transferring the second article from the transport device to the temporary placement region with use of the second transfer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2025
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tooru Siraisi, Tooru Arii, Takehito Ito
  • Patent number: 12428229
    Abstract: An unloading priority mode is a mode for causing a transport device to execute a first transfer operation, a second transfer operation, a first travel operation, a third transfer operation, and a second travel operation in this order. The first transfer operation is an operation of transferring a second article to the transport device. The second transfer operation is an operation of transferring a first article to the transport device. The first travel operation is an operation of traveling to a position corresponding to a relay section while holding the first article and the second article. The third transfer operation is an operation of transferring the first article to the relay section, and thereafter transferring a third article to the transport device. The second travel operation is an operation of traveling to a position corresponding to a storage section while holding the second article and the third article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2025
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tooru Siraisi, Tooru Arii, Takehito Ito
  • Patent number: 12312106
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle station includes a takeoff-landing unit for an unmanned aerial vehicle to take off and land, a parcel receiver, a parcel deliverer, a storage that stores a plurality of parcels, a replenishment hangar that houses a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles and replenishes the housed plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles with energy, a parcel transporter that transports the plurality of parcels between the parcel receiver and the storage and between the parcel deliverer and the storage, and an aircraft transporter that transports the plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles between the takeoff-landing unit and the replenishment hangar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tooru Arii, Tooru Siraisi
  • Patent number: 12030720
    Abstract: A warehouse facility for transporting and storing transporting tools for placing articles thereon or putting articles therein when the articles are transported is disclosed in which the transporting tools handled by a plurality of users can be appropriately managed. If an unloading request is made from a target block management unit Mb, a comprehensive management unit Mt gives a storage area management unit Ms an unloading transport instruction to perform unloading transport for a transporting tool P for which the unloading request has been made, under an unloading permission condition that the relationship between a tool code Cp designated in the unloading request and a user code Ch of a target user H1, H2 is stored in usage-related information Ih.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Yoshida, Tooru Arii, Tooru Siraisi, Noritaka Arai
  • Publication number: 20240076072
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle station includes a takeoff-landing unit for an unmanned aerial vehicle to take off and land, a parcel receiver, a parcel deliverer, a storage that stores a plurality of parcels, a replenishment hangar that houses a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles and replenishes the housed plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles with energy, a parcel transporter that transports the plurality of parcels between the parcel receiver and the storage and between the parcel deliverer and the storage, and an aircraft transporter that transports the plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles between the takeoff-landing unit and the replenishment hangar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tooru Arii, Tooru Siraisi
  • Publication number: 20240076144
    Abstract: A package receiving and storage apparatus includes a takeoff and landing section; a package receiving section; a storage section; a retrieval section at which the first package stored in the storage section is retrievable; a transport device configured to transport the package between the package receiving section, the storage section, and the retrieval section; and a gas spray device installed at the package receiving section or in a package transport path extending from the package receiving section to the storage section, and configured to spray a gas onto the first package to remove foreign matter adhering to the first package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fukuda, Ryohei Yamauchi, Toshitaka Sugano, Kimiko Kanbe, Tooru Arii, Tooru Siraisi
  • Publication number: 20230348186
    Abstract: An unloading priority mode is a mode for causing a transport device to execute a first transfer operation, a second transfer operation, a first travel operation, a third transfer operation, and a second travel operation in this order. The first transfer operation is an operation of transferring a second article to the transport device. The second transfer operation is an operation of transferring a first article to the transport device. The first travel operation is an operation of traveling to a position corresponding to a relay section while holding the first article and the second article. The third transfer operation is an operation of transferring the first article to the relay section, and thereafter transferring a third article to the transport device. The second travel operation is an operation of traveling to a position corresponding to a storage section while holding the second article and the third article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Tooru Siraisi, Tooru Arii, Takehito Ito
  • Publication number: 20230271779
    Abstract: A specific transfer mode is a mode for causing a transport device to execute a first transfer operation, a travel operation, and a second transfer operation in this order. The first transfer operation is transferring a second article from a storage region to the transport device with use of a second transfer device, and thereafter transferring a first article from the storage region to the transport device with use of a first transfer device. The travel operation is traveling to a position corresponding to a boundary between a relay section and a temporary placement region while holding the first article and the second article. The second transfer operation is transferring the first article from the transport device to the relay section with use of the first transfer device, and transferring the second article from the transport device to the temporary placement region with use of the second transfer device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Tooru Siraisi, Tooru Arii, Takehito Ito
  • Publication number: 20210395013
    Abstract: A warehouse facility for transporting and storing transporting tools for placing articles thereon or putting articles therein when the articles are transported is disclosed in which the transporting tools handled by a plurality of users can be appropriately managed. If an unloading request is made from a target block management unit Mb, a comprehensive management unit Mt gives a storage area management unit Ms an unloading transport instruction to perform unloading transport for a transporting tool P for which the unloading request has been made, under an unloading permission condition that the relationship between a tool code Cp designated in the unloading request and a user code Ch of a target user H1, H2 is stored in usage-related information Ih.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru Yoshida, Tooru Arii, Tooru Siraisi, Noritaka Arai