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US 10,850,923 B2Granted
Transporter and transporting method
AssigneeMurata Machinery, Ltd.
InventorNaruto Adachi
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AssigneeMurata Machinery, Ltd.
InventorNaruto Adachi
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A transporter that moves between a plurality of transfer destinations at which articles can be placed, and transfers the article to the transfer destination, the transporter including a transferer capable of extending to or retracting from the transfer destination, and that places the article at the transfer destination in a state of having extended to the transfer destination from a waiting position; a detector that detects, after the transporter has transferred the article to the transfer destination, before the transporter starts moving toward another transfer destination, and before the transporter has returned to the waiting position, a posture or a position of the article; and a determiner that determines whether or not the posture or the position of the article is within a preliminarily set appropriate range, on the basis of detection results of the detector.
A transporter that moves between a plurality of transfer destinations at which articles can be placed, and transfers the article to the transfer destination, the transporter comprising:
A transporting method in which an article is moved by a transporter between a plurality of transfer destinations at which articles can be placed, and the article is transferred to the transfer destination by a transferer included in the transporter, and in which the transferer is capable of extending to or retracting from the transfer destination, and places the article at the transfer destination in a state of being extended to the transfer destination from a waiting position, the transporting method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.