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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2019
Murata Machinery, Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Haruki Ogo, Inuyama, JP;
Kazuhiro Ishikawa, Inuyama, JP;
Yasuhisa Ito, Ise, JP;
Masayoshi Torazawa, Inuyama, JP;
MURATA MACHINERY, LTD., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A traveling vehicle system includes a track and a ceiling traveling vehicle. The track includes a first track, a second track, and a connection track. The ceiling traveling vehicle includes a direction changer that turns a coupler, which couples a traveling wheel and a main body to each other and passes through a gap between the first track or the second track and the connection track. A guider is provided in the coupler, moves along a first guide surface in a first state in which the traveling wheel rolls on the first track, and moves along a second guide surface in a second state in which the traveling wheel rolls on the second track.