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US 2019/0160609 A1Published application
Transport system, transport method, and article manufacturing method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakashi Nakamura, Hidetada Narahara, Shinichiro Takahama
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Abstract
A transport system includes a transport path having at least two transporting modules, a carriage configured to move on the transport path, a controller provided on each of the two transporting modules and configured to drive the carriage in response to a drive command, and a sensor provided on each of the two transporting modules. The drive command is corrected with a distance between the sensors provided on the two transporting modules.
Claims8
A transport system comprising:
- a transport path having at least two transporting modules;
- a carriage configured to move on the transport path;
- a controller provided on each of the two transporting modules and configured to drive the carriage in response to a drive command;
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- a sensor provided on each of the two transporting modules,
- wherein the drive command is corrected with a distance between the sensors provided on the two transporting modules.
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A transport method for a carriage, the method comprising:
- moving the carriage along a first transporting module in response to a first drive command;
- moving the carriage across the first transporting module and a second transporting module in response to the first drive command and a second drive command;
- moving the carriage along the second transporting module in response to the second drive command,
- wherein the second drive command is corrected with a distance between a first sensor provided on the first transporting module and a second sensor provided on the second transporting module.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.