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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2021
Murata Machinery, Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Shinjiro Kuroda, Inuyama, JP;
Murata Machinery, Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
Reducing the time necessary for transferring a package from a shelf to a cart, when unloading an package, a conveyance controller of a moving cart performs control including: measuring width of the unloading package using first or second package detection sensors disposed on a front side of the moving cart in traveling direction when performing an unloading travel to a position corresponding to a placed position of the unloading package on a shelf; moving a second arm based on a measurement result of the width of the unloading package to adjust arm distance between a first and the second arm to distance larger than the width of the unloading package by a predetermined amount, and pulling in the unloading package after the moving cart reaches the position corresponding to the placed position of the unloading package, by extending and retracting the first and second arms while keeping adjusted arm distance.