Article conveying facility
    1.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11325785B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-10

    申请号:US17143620

    申请日:2021-01-07

    Abstract: An article conveying facility in which an article is conveyed by a conveyance carriage travelling on a pair of left and right rails provided along a conveyance path. The article conveying facility includes a carriage driving apparatus that drives the conveyance carriage by utilizing a frictional force generated by contact with the conveyance carriage, and sensors that detect floating of the conveyance carriage with respect to the rails. The conveyance carriage includes a fin that contacts the carriage driving apparatus. The fin is provided so as to extend along the travelling direction of the conveyance carriage, at a lower position than the position of an upper surface of the rails. The sensors detect floating of the conveyance carriage with respect to the rails by detecting the fin.

    Article Transfer Device and Article Transport Facility

    公开(公告)号:US20170137221A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-05-18

    申请号:US15353094

    申请日:2016-11-16

    Inventor: Hiroyuki Koide

    Abstract: When an external force applied condition that an external force that causes a decrease in a rotational speed of an electric motor is applied to the contact member moved by the electric motor is satisfied while the actuation controller is performing a first control for continuously performing a process of providing the electric motor with a command value that depends on an error between an actual rotational speed of the electric motor and a first target rotational speed so as to cause the actual rotational speed to approach the first target rotational speed, then the actuation controller, subsequent to the first control, performs a second control for providing the electric motor with a command value that allows the actual rotational speed of the motor to be equal to, and to fall below, the first target rotational speed at a time of the external force applied condition becoming satisfied.

    Article transport facility
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11795013B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-24

    申请号:US17422915

    申请日:2019-11-21

    Abstract: An article transport facility includes a main conveyor device and induction conveyors. The main conveyor device includes belt conveyors and carriage bodies. The induction conveyor includes a first conveyor device for loading article onto a second transport path and a second conveyor device that is provided for an article-loading position on a transport path and loads the article onto the belt conveyor. The first conveyor device adjusts the timing of loading the article to the article-loading position, by controlling the timing of loading the article onto the second conveyor device. The second conveyor device adjusts, on the belt conveyors, loading position of the article loaded onto the belt conveyor by controlling the timing of loading the article onto the belt conveyor.

    Article Storage Facility
    4.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180370729A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-27

    申请号:US16012904

    申请日:2018-06-20

    Abstract: A control apparatus monitors an amount of time that has elapsed since an article was stored at a first storage position or an amount of positional misalignment from a reference position of the article stored at the first storage position. This amount of time is a monitoring target amount, and the control apparatus monitors the monitoring target amount for each of multiple storage sections and causes a conveying apparatus to execute correction processing with a storage section in which the monitoring target amount has exceeded the set threshold as a target storage section. Correction processing is used for correcting the position of only the target article stored at a first storage position in a target storage section relative to a reference position.

    Sorting facility
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11325789B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-10

    申请号:US17143682

    申请日:2021-01-07

    Abstract: A sorting facility for sorting articles by a plurality of connected conveyance carriages. The sorting facility includes a supervisory controller managing a position of each of the conveyance carriages, a trigger sensor detecting each of the conveyance carriages, and a belt conveyor provided on each of the conveyance carriages. The supervisory controller identifies each of the conveyance carriages that should deliver the articles to the chute based on the managed position of each of the conveyance carriages. The supervisory controller instructs the belt conveyor provided in each of the conveyance carriages identified to start a delivery operation of each of the articles at timing when each of the conveyance carriages identified is detected by the trigger sensor.

    Article storage facility
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10479605B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-19

    申请号:US16012904

    申请日:2018-06-20

    Abstract: A control apparatus monitors an amount of time that has elapsed since an article was stored at a first storage position or an amount of positional misalignment from a reference position of the article stored at the first storage position. This amount of time is a monitoring target amount, and the control apparatus monitors the monitoring target amount for each of multiple storage sections and causes a conveying apparatus to execute correction processing with a storage section in which the monitoring target amount has exceeded the set threshold as a target storage section. Correction processing is used for correcting the position of only the target article stored at a first storage position in a target storage section relative to a reference position.

    Article transfer device and article transport facility

    公开(公告)号:US09718617B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-01

    申请号:US15353094

    申请日:2016-11-16

    Inventor: Hiroyuki Koide

    Abstract: When an external force applied condition that an external force that causes a decrease in a rotational speed of an electric motor is applied to the contact member moved by the electric motor is satisfied while the actuation controller is performing a first control for continuously performing a process of providing the electric motor with a command value that depends on an error between an actual rotational speed of the electric motor and a first target rotational speed so as to cause the actual rotational speed to approach the first target rotational speed, then the actuation controller, subsequent to the first control, performs a second control for providing the electric motor with a command value that allows the actual rotational speed of the motor to be equal to, and to fall below, the first target rotational speed at a time of the external force applied condition becoming satisfied.

    Article Storage Facility and Method of Operating Same
    8.
    发明申请
    Article Storage Facility and Method of Operating Same 有权
    文章存储设施及操作方法相同

    公开(公告)号:US20160016732A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-01-21

    申请号:US14799939

    申请日:2015-07-15

    Abstract: A main controller controls carry in operations and carry out operations of articles to or from an article storage rack using article transport devices by causing a control command to be transmitted from a first optical communication device that is associated with each article transport device to a second optical communication device provided to each article transport device. The main controller is configured to perform a temporally-divided light-emission control in which a plurality of the first optical communication devices are caused to emit light in a temporally divided manner such that there is only one first optical communication device that emits light in any one time period among the first optical communication devices that are located close to one another in the vertical direction.

    Abstract translation: 主控制器通过使控制命令从与每个物品传送装置相关联的第一光通信装置发送到第二光学器件来控制物品携带和使用物品传送装置从物品存放架执行物品的操作 通信设备提供给每个物品传送设备。 主控制器被配置为执行时间分割的发光控制,其中使多个第一光通信装置以时间上分开的方式发光,使得只有一个第一光通信装置发射任何光 在垂直方向上彼此靠近的第一光通信设备中的一个时间段。

    Sorting facility
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11794213B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-24

    申请号:US17143730

    申请日:2021-01-07

    CPC classification number: B07C3/082 B65G47/68

    Abstract: A sorting facility for sorting an article by a belt conveyor provided on a traveling carriage traveling along a conveyance path. A plurality of traveling carriages travel on the conveyance path. Each of the plurality of traveling carriages is provided with a power generation motor generating electric power by traveling of the traveling carriage. The belt conveyor provided on each of the plurality of traveling carriages is driven in a predetermined position on the conveyance path by the electric power generated by the power generation motor. The power generation motor provided in each of the plurality of traveling carriages starts generation of the electric power necessary to drive the belt conveyor in order from the power generation motor provided in the traveling carriage scheduled to pass the predetermined position on the conveyance path first, after the traveling carriages are actuated and traveling speeds become a constant speed.

    Article storage facility and method of operating same
    10.
    发明授权
    Article storage facility and method of operating same 有权
    物品储存设施及运行方式

    公开(公告)号:US09577765B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-02-21

    申请号:US14799939

    申请日:2015-07-15

    Abstract: A main controller controls carry in operations and carry out operations of articles to or from an article storage rack using article transport devices by causing a control command to be transmitted from a first optical communication device that is associated with each article transport device to a second optical communication device provided to each article transport device. The main controller is configured to perform a temporally-divided light-emission control in which a plurality of the first optical communication devices are caused to emit light in a temporally divided manner such that there is only one first optical communication device that emits light in any one time period among the first optical communication devices that are located close to one another in the vertical direction.

    Abstract translation: 主控制器通过使控制命令从与每个物品传送装置相关联的第一光通信装置发送到第二光学器件来控制物品携带和使用物品传送装置从物品存放架执行物品的操作 通信设备提供给每个物品传送设备。 主控制器被配置为执行时间分割的发光控制,其中使多个第一光通信装置以时间上分开的方式发光,使得只有一个第一光通信装置发射任何光 在垂直方向上彼此靠近的第一光通信设备中的一个时间段。

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