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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2022
Applicant:
Daifuku Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Daifuku Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 43/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 43/08 (2013.01); B65G 2203/0241 (2013.01); B65G 2203/0258 (2013.01);
Abstract
Article transport vehicles have, as operation states, a first state of traveling toward a transport destination that is a destination set for receiving an article or delivering an article, and a second state in which a transport destination has not been set. A controller divides the entirety of a travelable route into a plurality of set areas and executes imbalance reduction control to arrange standby transport vehicles such that imbalance of the densities of standby transport vehicles present in the areas is within a predetermined range, the standby transport vehicles being article transport vehicles in the second state.