Transport system
AssigneeMurata Machinery, Ltd.
InventorsNaohisa ITO, Eijiro AOKI
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Abstract
A transport system includes transport vehicles to travel along a track and transport a load, and a controller configured or programmed to control traveling of the transport vehicles, the track including a main track and first branch tracks branching off from the main track via branch points different from each other. The controller is configured or programmed to execute entry control to cause the transport vehicles to enter each of the first branch tracks and to cause the transport vehicles to enter any of the first branch tracks in a priority order according to entry information on entry states of the respective transport vehicles to the first branch tracks.
Claims11
1-10. (canceled)
A transport system comprising:
- a plurality of transport vehicles to travel along a track and transport a load;
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- a controller configured or programmed to control traveling of the transport vehicles;
- the track including a first main track and a plurality of branch tracks branching off from the first main track via branch points different from each other;
- the controller being configured or programmed to execute entry control to cause the transport vehicles to enter each of the branch tracks from the first main track and to cause the transport vehicles to enter the branch tracks in a priority order according to entry information on entry states of the respective transport vehicles to the branch tracks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.