Automated storage system and transport vehicle

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8983649
APP PUB NO 20100183409A1
SERIAL NO

12688813

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An automated storage system for vehicles or the like is provided with a guidance system that interacts with a remote-controlled transport system that transports a vehicle between an access location, such a drive-up location, and a storage location. More particularly, in one embodiment, an omni-directional, battery-powered, wirelessly-controlled, transport system or so-called automated guided vehicle (“AGV”) is designed to follow magnetic field generating wires and RFID chips on the floors of the parking facility to move forward, backward and side to side underneath cars that are parked on a flat surface. In one embodiment, the AGV automatically contracts and expands its body to slide its arms under the wheelbase of a car, lift the car, and roll with speed and precision in any direction on to a waiting lift, that will then raise and lower the AGV and its automobile payload toward its ultimate destination.

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BOOMERANG SYSTEMS INC355 MADISON AVENUE MORRISTOWN NJ 07960

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Barwick, Stott Smithfield, US 5 208
Checketts, Stanley J Providence, US 32 351
Swasey, Merin North Logan, US 14 270

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