GUIDED VEHICLE SYSTEM
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Abstract
A guided vehicle system that achieves a higher conveyance efficiency by manipulating an exclusion control executed with respect to a junction section includes a traveling path, a plurality of guided vehicles, and a guided vehicle controller. The traveling path includes a linear section, an exit-side connecting path, and a second junction section where the linear section and the exit-side connecting path converge. The guided vehicles travel along the traveling path. The exit-side connecting path includes a standby section. The guided vehicle controller controls the movement of the guided vehicles. During a period until a prescribed number of guided vehicles has stopped in the standby section of the exit-side connecting path, the guided vehicle controller allows guided vehicles to pass from the linear section to the second junction section continuously while making guided vehicles wait at the standby section of the exit-side connecting path.
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31 Claims
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12. A guided vehicle system, comprising:
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a traveling path including a first path, a second path including a standby section, and a junction section where the first path and the second path merge; a plurality of guided vehicles configured to travel along the traveling path; and a controller configured to control the travel of the guided vehicles;
whereinduring a period of time before a prescribed number of the guided vehicles have stopped in the standby section of the second path, the controller allows the guided vehicles on the first path to pass to the junction section continuously while making the guided vehicles wait at the standby section of the second path. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A guided vehicle system, comprising:
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a traveling path including a first path, a second path, and a junction section where the first path and the second path merge; a plurality of guided vehicles arranged to travel along the traveling path; a controller arranged and programmed to control the travel of the guided vehicles;
whereinthe controller switches between a first mode, in which the controller only allows guided vehicles from the first path to travel through the junction section, and a second mode, in which the controller only allows guided vehicles from the second path to travel through the junction section; and in at least one of the modes, the controller switches modes when the number of guided vehicles stopped on one of the first path and the second path, from which traveling to the junction section is not permitted, reaches a prescribed number. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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