Track guided vehicle system
AssigneeMurata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakuo Akiyama
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Abstract
A driving wheel is displaced downward by running off a traveling wheel when a vehicle passes through a diverging part and a detection value of an encoder provided in the driving wheel becomes incorrect by spinning free of the driving wheel. A track 20 is equipped with a pair of the right and left traveling rails 40, 40 for traveling a traveling wheel 23 equipped with a vehicle 13, a slit 60a formed to pass a traveling vehicle body 21 between the traveling rails 40, 40 and a traveling face 43 provided over the traveling rails 40, 40, and the vehicle 13 is provided with a pressure means 35 for contacting a drive wheel 25 with a traveling face 143.
Claims4
A track guided vehicle system having right and left traveling rails and a diverging part on the way that a vehicle is traveled on a track served as a groove or a slit between traveling rails, wherein the vehicle is traveled on the traveling rail such that a part of the traveling wheel supporting the vehicle blocks the groove or the slit in the diverging part and the vehicle is driven to travel by pressing the top or bottom driving wheel energized to either one side to the traveling face formed along the track.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.