Automated conveyance system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuta Itozawa, Kunihiro Iwamoto, Hirotaka Komura
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Abstract
An automated conveyance system that enables an autonomous mobile robot having a width larger than a distance between the legs of a load carrier to enter under the load carrier is provided. The automated conveyance system is an automated conveyance system for conveying a load carrier by an autonomous mobile robot entering below the load carrier, in which the load carrier includes a plurality of leg parts on sides of a bottom surface thereof, and at least one of the plurality of leg parts includes a U-shaped member, and the U-shaped member is disposed so that two end parts of the U-shaped member on an opening side thereof are arranged in a vertical direction.
Claims10
An automated conveyance system comprising:
- a load carrier;
- and
- an autonomous mobile robot configured to convey the load carrier by entering below the load carrier, wherein
- the load carrier comprises a plurality of leg parts on sides of a bottom thereof,
- at least one of the plurality of leg parts comprising a U-shaped member and
- the U-shaped member being disposed with two end parts of the U-shaped member on an opening side thereof arranged in a vertical direction;
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- the autonomous mobile robot comprises a main body and a plate disposed above the main body;
- and
- the autonomous mobile robot is configured to convey the load carrier via contact of the plate with the plurality of leg parts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.