Daifuku Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Daifuki Co., Ltd.

Yoshitaka Watanabe

Takashi Okamura

Shigeyoshi Fujita

Hideichi Tanizawa

Toshihiko Sato

Yasuaki Abe

Kazuyoshi Fukuhara

Michio Iwama

Naobumi Sekiya

Haruo Oda

Kajio Asano

Naofumi Sekiya

A vehicle control system for a multi-branching track has a main travelling track for guiding a vehicle, a storage unit disposed before a branch point and storing data for selectively guiding the vehicle to one of a plurality of branch tracks, and a data-reading unit mounted on the vehicle and for reading the data stored at the storage unit. The storage unit stores data of branching directions of the branch tracks and further data of addresses of stations included in the respective branch tracks, with the data and further data being correlated with each other.

Vehicle control system for multi-branching track

A carriage running control system includes a plurality of readable and writable memory media installed along a running track of carriages. Each carriage is capable of communicating information with the memory media. The running track includes special zones such as curved sections, branching sections, merging sections, and sections including stations. When a preceding carriage is present in one of such special zones, the memory medium disposed at the entry end of this zone supplies presence information to a succeeding carriage to prevent the latter from entering the zone. A detector is disposed at the exit end of each such zone for detecting departure of the carriages and resetting the memory medium at the entry end.

Carriage running control system

The present invention is based on the critically important feature of providing a left-right parallel arranged linear motor-based conveying system in which the upper surfaces of the guide rails do double duty as providing the rolling surfaces for the wheel pairs, and also as being secondary (reaction) conductor surfaces for the linear motors, and the linear motors are spaced closely above the upper surfaces of the guide rails by a predetermined clearance.

Conveyor driven by linear motor with rolling surface of rail acting as

A conveyor system comprising a conveyor vehicle, a guide rail for supporting the conveyor vehicle to be freely movable relative thereto, and a linear motor including a primary coil and a secondary conductor for driving the conveyor vehicle. The primary coil is mounted on the conveyor vehicle and the secondary conductor is mounted on the guide rail. The guide rail defines a secondary conductor support portion for limiting downward and transverse movements of the secondary conductor.

Conveyor system utilizing linear motor

A method of mounting parts to both sides of a main body characterized by moving a carriage at a predetermined speed along a specified path of transport with the main body placed on the carriage; moving a pair of movable tables in synchronism with the carriage in the same direction as the movement thereof, the movable tables being disposed at opposite sides of the transport path and each carrying at least one robot and an assembling device; causing the movable tables to support the main body during the synchronized movement; setting a part held by the robot in a specified position on the main body; attaching the part to the main body by the assembling device; and thereafter delivering the main body from the movable tables onto the carriage. Since the carriage is moved during the assembly of parts, this method assures the assembly line of a high-speed operation.

Method and apparatus for mounting parts to both sides of a main body

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Takarazuka, Japan

Yoshitaka Watanabe