Title:
OVERHEAD CONVEYANCE VEHICLE
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2024/070303
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
This overhead conveyance vehicle comprises: a traveling cart that moves on a track including a plurality of first rails extending in a first direction and second rails extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the first rails and the second rails being disposed in a grid pattern, the traveling cart moving in the first direction by traveling on a pair of first rails adjacent to each other in the second direction, and moving in the second direction by traveling on a pair of second rails adjacent to each other in the first direction; a body unit that is installed rotatably with respect to the traveling cart; a transfer device that is installed rotatably with respect to the traveling cart together with the body unit, and transfers an article; and a control unit that, when the traveling cart starts traveling, rotates the body unit such that the orientation of the article held by the transfer device is uniform with respect to a traveling direction of the traveling cart.
Inventors:
TORAZAWA MASAYOSHI (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2023/029638
Publication Date:
April 04, 2024
Filing Date:
August 16, 2023
Export Citation:
Assignee:
MURATA MACHINERY LTD (JP)
International Classes:
B61B3/02; B61B13/00; B65G1/00
Domestic Patent References:
| WO2020090288A1 | 2020-05-07 | |||
| WO2018142811A1 | 2018-08-09 | |||
| WO2019102743A1 | 2019-05-31 | |||
| WO2020090254A1 | 2020-05-07 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
HASEGAWA Yoshiki et al. (JP)
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