OpenTechnical
This is a record of a document published elsewhere, first published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, as US-12565244-B2, on 3 March 2026. OpenTechnical did not first disclose it. The identifier, hashes and timestamps below record what this library served and when, not when the material became public. View the original.

OT-2026-000002395

Article transport facility

Published
Permanent URL
Classification
Material Handling › Conveying Systems
Inventors
OTSUKA HIROSHI, TOMIDA Daichi
Assignee
DAIFUKU KK
Original source
US-12565244-B2, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 3 March 2026
Document SHA-256
e37784294dd43f1bf60b56866059e3e835d94708684ca459055453842ecc43e7

Abstract

An article transport facility includes a transport vehicle and a controller, and the transport vehicle includes: a drive unit; a speed detector configured to detect a traveling speed; and a distance detector configured to detect an inter-vehicle distance, which is a distance to another transport vehicle. The controller is configured to (i) refer to at least one target speed that is set in advance according to the inter-vehicle distance, and (ii) perform an inter-vehicle adjustment control to control the drive unit in such a manner as to cause the traveling speed to approach the at least one target speed, based on the traveling speed and the inter-vehicle distance, the at least one target speed includes an accelerating target speed and a decelerating target speed, and the accelerating target speed is lower than the decelerating target speed for each inter-vehicle distance.

Publication information

Plain textMarkdownManifestIntegrity record

Citation

OpenTechnical Publication OT-2026-000002395, “Article transport facility,” published September 15, 2026 at 19:12:42 UTC, https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000002395.

To cite specific content, add the paragraph or figure numbers.

Terms

This record reproduces a document published elsewhere and is provided for reference and study. Rights in the original remain with its owner. See the publication policy.