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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2016
Murata Machinery, Ltd., Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, JP;
Kazumi Harasaki, Inuyama, JP;
MURATA MACHINERY, LTD., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A transport system includes a track, overhead transport vehicles, and a controller. The controller provides a traveling command to travel to a destination point, to a first overhead transport vehicle that is able to receive a transport command to acquire a FOUP from a station and that is less than a first distance from the station. When a second of the overhead transport vehicles that is able to receive the transport command and is less than the first distance from the station, is detected before providing the transport command to the overhead first transport vehicle, the controller provides the traveling command to the second overhead transport vehicle. Then, the controller provides the transport command to the one of the first and second overhead transport vehicles that first passes through the destination point.