---
publication_id: "OT-2026-000001628"
title: "Overhead storage system"
published_at: "2026-09-15T19:07:08.146464Z"
canonical_url: "https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000001628"
categories:
  - "material-handling/conveying-systems"
keywords:
  - "b61b13/00"
  - "b65g1/0464"
  - "b65g1/0464"
  - "h10p72/3221"
  - "h10p72/3404"
  - "b61b3/02"
---

# Overhead storage system

## Abstract

An overhead storage system includes an overhead transport vehicle including a traveling unit configured to travel on a rail arranged in a grid pattern and a body section suspended from the traveling unit and configured to hold an article below the rail; a storage rack disposed below the rail; and a control unit configured to control operation of the overhead transport vehicle. The body section includes a transfer device capable of transferring the article to and from the storage rack. In the storage rack, a plurality of article placement areas on which the article is able to be placed by the transfer device are set in a storage area corresponding to each of cells forming a matrix in the grid pattern of the rail.