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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2019
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 17/12 (2006.01); B65G 43/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 17/12 (2013.01); B65G 43/00 (2013.01); B65G 2203/0266 (2013.01); B65G 2203/0283 (2013.01);
Abstract
An embodiment includes a plurality of transport modules forming a transport path on which a carriage travels and a plurality of control units each provided to corresponding one of the plurality of transport modules and configured to perform position control of the carriage in accordance with a pre-stored drive condition and a control start timing, and one of the plurality of control units which corresponds to a first transport module that is one of the plurality of transport modules corrects the drive condition by using a difference between an entry timing at which the carriage enters the first transport module and the control start timing.