Article transport facility
AssigneeDaifuku Co., Ltd.
InventorYuichi Ueda
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Abstract
An article transport facility includes a plurality of transport vehicles. In a combined state in which the plurality of transport vehicles are combined in such a manner as to be adjacent to each other, the plurality of transport vehicles constitute a transport route in which a plurality of transfer sections cooperate to transport articles. While the transport vehicle performs a combining operation with a combination target vehicle that is another transport vehicle that is a combination target, the control unit at least partially disables a surrounding area sensor so as not to detect the combination target vehicle.
Claims6
An article transport facility comprising:
- a plurality of transport vehicles configured to transport an article by traveling on a travel surface without a track, and
- wherein:
- each of the transport vehicles comprises:
- a placement section on which the article is placeable;
- a transfer section configured to transfer the article placed on the placement section to and from a transfer target location;
- a surrounding area detection sensor;
- and
- a control unit configured to control the transport vehicle,
- the control unit is configured to stop or decelerate the transport vehicle in response to the surrounding area detection sensor detecting an obstacle in a surrounding area of the transport vehicle while the transport vehicle is traveling,
- in a combined state in which the plurality of transport vehicles are combined in such a manner as to be adjacent to each other, the plurality of transport vehicles constitute a transport route in which the plurality of transfer sections cooperate to transport the article, and
- while the transport vehicle performs a combining operation with a combination target vehicle that is another transport vehicle that is a combination target, the control unit at least partially disables the surrounding area detection sensor in such a manner as not to detect the combination target vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.