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US 12,583,492 B2Granted
Transport cart system
AssigneeMurata Machinery, Ltd.
InventorsAkito Shimomura, Toru Hamaguchi, Naoki Manabe, Hiroaki Izumi
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Abstract
A transport vehicle system includes a transport vehicle to travel along a track, a controller to control the transport vehicle, and a power supply provided at each of a plurality of sections of the track. Each of the power supplies includes a sensor to monitor a state of the power supply and a communicator to transmit the monitoring result by the monitor to the controller. The controller is configured or programmed to control the transport vehicle in accordance with the monitoring result.
Claims7
A transport vehicle system comprising:
- a transport vehicle to travel along a track;
- a controller configured or programmed to control at least one operation of the transport vehicle;
- and
- a power supply provided at each of a plurality of sections of the track;
- wherein
- each of the power supplies includes a sensor to monitor a state of the power supply and a communicator to transmit a monitoring result by the sensor to the controller;
- the sensor includes a plurality of temperature sensors to measure temperature data of the power supply;
- the monitoring result transmitted from the communicator to the controller includes first information including at least one of the temperature data and power data of the power supply, and second information regarding whether the power supply is in an abnormal state;
- the second information regarding whether the power supply is in the abnormal state is based on the temperature data and the power data of the power supply;
- the controller is configured or programmed to request the first information from the power supply based on the second information;
- the communicator outputs the first information to the controller when the controller requests the first information from the power supply;
- and
- the controller is configured or programmed to control the at least one operation of the transport vehicle in accordance with the monitoring result.
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