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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2011
Shinji Fujioka, Ise, JP;
Shinji Fujioka, Ise, JP;
MURATA MACHINERY, LTD., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
In a rail guided vehicle system, unnecessary slowing down and stopping of a vehicle passing through a divergence point and a merge point is avoided. The rail guided vehicle system comprises a railincluding a guidepath wirein a predetermined area including the divergence point and the merge point, and a plurality of vehiclesthat travel while being supported and guided by the rail. Each of the plurality of vehiclesincludes a generating unitconfigured to generate each of a plurality of signals each having different frequencies from the others, a transmitting unitconfigured to send each of the plurality of signals generated by the generating unit to the guidepath wire, a receiving unitconfigured to receive each of the plurality of signals transmitted via the guidepath wire, a determining unitconfigured to determine, based on the kind of the signal received by the receiving unit, whether the vehicle is slowed down, stopped, or kept travelling, and a controlling unitconfigured to control the vehicle in accordance with a result of a determination determined by the determining unit.
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