Article transport facility
    31.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12006158B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-11

    申请号:US17639491

    申请日:2020-05-21

    Abstract: A shield gate includes a door member disposed in a gap region located between an intra-area transport unit and an extra-area transport unit in a transport direction in a closed state in which the shield gate shields an opening, and is disposed at a position displaced from the gap region in an open state in which the shield gate opens the opening. A second interval is a length of the gap region that allows the door member to be disposed, during at least a part of a non-transport period, the length of the gap region is set to be greater than or equal to the second interval, and the shield gate is in the closed state, and, during the transport period, the shield gate is in the open state, and the length of the gap region is set to a first interval that is shorter than the second interval.

    Loading Assistance Device
    33.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240140711A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-02

    申请号:US18385767

    申请日:2023-10-31

    CPC classification number: B65G1/1371 B65G2203/0216

    Abstract: A loading assistance device includes an infeed unit to which a plurality of articles are transported, a work area, a transporter that transports the plurality of articles from the infeed unit to the work area, a reader that reads identification information on the plurality of articles, a writer that writes operation assistance information on a surface of each of the plurality of articles, and a control system. The work area includes a plurality of work sections in which supports are placed. The operation assistance information includes section specification information specifying a work section of the plurality of work sections for each of the plurality of articles to undergo loading. The control system generates the section specification information to be written on each of the plurality of articles based on the identification information to allow articles in a same category to be preferentially loaded onto a same support of the supports.

    Article transport facility
    34.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11966231B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-23

    申请号:US17401732

    申请日:2021-08-13

    Inventor: Hiroshi Otsuka

    CPC classification number: G05D1/0223 B61B3/02 B65G43/00 B65G2811/095

    Abstract: In a case of changing the traveling speed of a transport vehicle, in order for the traveling speed of the transport vehicle to reach a target speed at a target position that is on a downstream side in the travel path relative to the current position of the transport vehicle, a control unit generates reference speed commands in accordance with a traveling speed time change pattern according to which the travel acceleration changes in a stepwise manner, generates a moving average command obtained using the moving average of the reference speed commands in a set period, and controls travel operations of a travel unit based on the moving average command.

    Contactless Power Feeding Facility
    35.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240128800A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-18

    申请号:US18378903

    申请日:2023-10-11

    Inventor: Makoto Nunoya

    CPC classification number: H02J50/40 B60L53/12 H02J50/005 H02J50/10

    Abstract: A contactless power feeding facility includes a coupling unit electromagnetically coupling a target feeder line and an adjacent feeder line. A target power supply apparatus includes: a phase detector detecting the induced current phase which is the phase of an induced current flowing through the target feeder line by the electromagnetic induction via the coupling unit while an alternating current is supplied to the adjacent feeder line by an adjacent power supply apparatus; an alternating-current generator generating the alternating current to be supplied to the target feeder line; and a phase controller controlling the alternating-current generator such that the phase of the alternating current to be supplied to the target feeder approaches the induced current phase detected by the phase detector.

    Raising/lowering conveyance device for container for conveying article

    公开(公告)号:US11945662B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-02

    申请号:US17095447

    申请日:2020-11-11

    Abstract: A raising/lowering conveyance device for a container for conveying an article has container supports that can move toward or away from a container in the horizontal direction and up and down with respect to the container. The container supports have a plurality of container support pins that can advance/retreat in the horizontal direction from the container and that are forcibly held at a position protruding from a front surface of the container support. The container supports are configured to lift the container by the container support pins which protrude under a downward step surface formed on the outside of the container. A pin main body of the container support pins protrudes from the front surface and has a flat tip perpendicular to the center axis of the pin main body, and has a tapered shape that increases in diameter toward the flat tip and is thicker toward the end.

    Article accommodation facility
    37.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11939163B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-26

    申请号:US17213949

    申请日:2021-03-26

    Inventor: Toshitaka Fuji

    CPC classification number: B65G1/1375

    Abstract: An article accommodation facility includes: an article container that contains one or more types of articles; a container accommodation member that has an accommodation compartment capable of accommodating the article container on a plurality of levels in a vertical direction; an accommodation member transport apparatus that transports the container accommodation member between a storage portion and a pick-up position; a container pick-up apparatus that takes out the article container from the container accommodation member at the pick-up position; and a container transport apparatus that transports the article container taken out from the container accommodation member by the container pick-up apparatus to a picking section.

    Plane Storage Facility
    38.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240092571A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-21

    申请号:US18266078

    申请日:2021-11-30

    CPC classification number: B65G1/0464

    Abstract: A control apparatus receives designation of a target position (Pt) in a storage plane (F); and, in response to the target position (Pt) being designated, the control apparatus can execute a passage formation mode for forming a passage (R). In the passage formation mode, a passage area (AR) for ensuring a passage (R) is set, and all target articles (C) placed in the passage area (AR) are moved to a location outside of the passage area (AR) in the storage plane (F) by a conveying apparatus.

    Article Transport Facility
    40.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240076141A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-07

    申请号:US18241352

    申请日:2023-09-01

    CPC classification number: B65G47/46

    Abstract: An article transport facility of the present invention includes: a transport vehicle that travels along a predetermined travel route and transports articles; an unmanned aerial vehicle that flies along a route and transports articles; a transfer section provided in correspondence with a processing device that processes articles, and to and from which articles that are processing targets of the processing device are transferred; and a storage section that is arranged at a location along the travel route and stores articles. The transport vehicle carries in articles to the storage section and carries out articles from the storage section, and the unmanned aerial vehicle transports articles between the storage section and the transfer section.

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