Traveling vehicle and traveling vehicle system
AssigneeMurata Machinery, Ltd.
InventorsYuji SHIMIZU, Hiroyuki HIRAKAWA
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Abstract
A traveling vehicle includes a body, a traveling unit assembly, an information output unit interface, an information acquirer, and a controller. The information output interface outputs second information according to a state of a preceding traveling vehicle acquired by the information acquirer in addition to first information according to a state of a subject vehicle. The controller is configured or programmed to control the traveling assembly of the subject vehicle based on both the first information and the second information output from the preceding traveling vehicle and acquired by the information acquirer.
Claims7
1-6. (canceled)
A traveling vehicle usable in a traveling vehicle system including three or more traveling vehicles traveling in one direction along a predetermined traveling path, the traveling vehicle comprising:
- a body;
- a traveling assembly configured to allow the body to travel along the traveling path;
- an information output interface configured to output information to a following traveling vehicle;
- an information acquirer configured to acquire the information output by the information output interface provided in a preceding traveling vehicle located directly ahead of a subject vehicle in a traveling direction;
- and
- a controller configured or programmed to control the traveling assembly;
- wherein
- the information output interface is configured to output to the following traveling vehicle first information according to a state of the subject vehicle and second information according to a state of the preceding traveling vehicle of the subject vehicle acquired by the information acquirer;
- and
- the controller is configured or programmed to control the traveling assembly based on both the first information and the second information output from the preceding traveling vehicle and acquired by the information acquirer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.