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 is equipped with a pair of the right and left traveling rails for traveling of a traveling wheel equipped with a vehicle, a slit formed to pass a traveling vehicle body between the traveling rails and a traveling face provided over the traveling rails, and the vehicle is provided with a pressure device for contacting a drive wheel with a traveling face.
Claims4
A track guided vehicle system having right and left traveling rails and a diverging part for changing the direction that a vehicle travels on a track having a groove or a slit between the traveling rails, wherein the vehicle travels on the traveling rails such that a part of a traveling wheel or a training wheel supporting the vehicle at least travels on the right and left traveling rails in the diverging part and the vehicle travels by pressing a driving wheel energized by a pressure means to always contact a traveling face formed along the track.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.