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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2023
Murata Machinery, Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Makoto Kobayashi, Ise, JP;
MURATA MACHINERY, LTD., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
An overhead transport vehicle system includes an overhead transport vehicle including a traveler and a body supported by the traveler via a suspension to hold an object to be transported, and a traveling rail including a slit, through which the suspension is movable when the traveler travels, and rolling portions along which traveling wheel rolls, and having a tubular shape including an internal space through which the traveler travels. In the internal space in a curved section, above a passing area through which the traveling wheel rolling on the rolling portion on an outer side of a curve passes, a rising restriction portion, with which the traveling wheel having risen by a predetermined amount from the rolling portion comes into contact, extends along an extending direction of the traveling rail.