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).
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Patent number: 12459734Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: November 4, 2025Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tooru Siraisi, Tooru Arii, Takehito Ito
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Patent number: 12428229Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: September 30, 2025Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tooru Siraisi, Tooru Arii, Takehito Ito
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Patent number: 12312106Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 30, 2023Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tooru Arii, Tooru Siraisi
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Patent number: 12030720Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaru Yoshida, Tooru Arii, Tooru Siraisi, Noritaka Arai
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Publication number: 20240076072Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Daifuku Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tooru Arii, Tooru Siraisi
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Publication number: 20240076144Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Hiroyuki Fukuda, Ryohei Yamauchi, Toshitaka Sugano, Kimiko Kanbe, Tooru Arii, Tooru Siraisi
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Publication number: 20230348186Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2021Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Tooru Siraisi, Tooru Arii, Takehito Ito
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Publication number: 20230271779Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2021Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Tooru Siraisi, Tooru Arii, Takehito Ito
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Publication number: 20210395013Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Masaru Yoshida, Tooru Arii, Tooru Siraisi, Noritaka Arai