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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2007
Hiroshi Okubo, Shinagawa-ku, JP;
Hirofumi Kinoshita, Shinagawa-ku, JP;
Hiroshi Hori, Shinagawa-ku, JP;
Tsugumitsu Kandabashi, Kumamoto, JP;
Hiroshi Okubo, Shinagawa-ku, JP;
Hirofumi Kinoshita, Shinagawa-ku, JP;
Hiroshi Hori, Shinagawa-ku, JP;
Tsugumitsu Kandabashi, Kumamoto, JP;
Hirata Corporation, Shinagawa-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A transport system of this disclosure includes a transporter for forming a plurality of transport paths from a transport source to a transport destination and transporting a work via a transport path selected from the plurality of transport paths, a controller for controlling the transport, and a reader for, when the work has arrived at a branch point in the transport path, reading out, from a storage medium, transport path information representing a transport direction of the work at the branch point in the transport path, the storage medium being provided on the work and storing the transport path information. The controller controls the transport to transport the work in the transport direction of the work at the branch point represented by the transport path information read out by the reader.