Daifuku Co., Ltd.

Masayuki Uchida

Natsuo Takagawa

Kazuhiro Taguchi

Disclosed is an article storage facility which can be downsized by minimizing the width of the travel path for a pair of stacker cranes, in which its configuration is simplified as much as possible, and in which its throughput can be efficiently improved. The control device is configured to perform a mutual avoidance vertical movement process in which a pair of vertically movable bodies are raised or lowered by a vertical movement operation for avoiding interference, which is different from the vertical movement operation in the article transporting operation to raise and lower the pair of vertically movable bodies, to the vertical positions for passing each other which are spaced apart in the vertical movement direction by a distance greater than or equal to the required separating distance which is defined as a separating distance which allows the pair of stacker cranes to pass each other without interfering.

Article storage facility and method of operation therefor

The transport apparatus is provided with a path that extends past a plurality of article transferring locations, a plurality of article transporting vehicles that run on the path, a travel driving means provided on each of the article transporting vehicles for controlling movement of the article transporting vehicle, and a ground-side controller for managing operation of the plurality of article transporting vehicles by managing the travel driving means, wherein the ground-side controller is capable of transmitting run command information and stop command information, relating to each of the article transporting vehicles, to their corresponding travel driving means, and wherein the travel driving means drives and stops the article transporting vehicles based on the run command information and the stop command information from the ground-side controller.

Growing community of inventors

Ritto, Japan

Masayuki Uchida