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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2019
Murata Machinery, Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Kazumi Harasaki, Inuyama, JP;
MURATA MACHINERY, LTD., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A transport vehicle system includes a controller that controls multiple transport vehicles. The controller performs, push out control to, when a transport vehicle travelling on a main route approaches a push out target vehicle, transmit a travel command to the push out target vehicle, and travel stop control, when there is no transport vehicle to which a transport command is assigned on the main route, sequentially transmit a travel stop command to the multiple transport vehicles travelling on the main route. In push out control, when there is a transport vehicle to which a transport command is assigned on the main route, a first travel command for a first distance is transmitted, and when there is no transport vehicle to which a transport command is assigned on the main route, a second travel command for a second distance smaller than the first distance is transmitted.