Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Collision avoidance system, position detector, collision avoidance method, position detecting method and program for realizing the same
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Application No.: US09985656Application Date: 2001-11-05
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Publication No.: US06658365B2Publication Date: 2003-12-02
- Inventor: Minoru Kodaira
- Applicant: Minoru Kodaira
- Priority: JP2000-337438 20001106
- Main IPC: G01P1100
- IPC: G01P1100

Abstract:
A travelling track on which a plurality of movers travel is divided into sections of various lengths. A position/velocity calculator obtains the position and velocity of the movers in the sections, using the position and velocity of each mover having passed the boundary of the section in which the mover travels. A collision-chance determiner determines whether there is a great chance that each pair of neighboring movers will collide with each other, using the position and velocity obtained by the position/velocity calculator. An emergency stopper stops a pair of neighboring movers that the collision-chance determiner determined that they would collide with each other, in an emergency.
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