UNMANNED CARRIER AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME

• Main Authors: AKAMATSU MASAHIRO, AKAMATSU HIROKI, INOUE HITOSHI, DEGUCHI NORIO, SATO SHUNTA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 15.02.2018
• Subjects: COUPLINGS; DRAUGHT AND BUFFING APPLIANCES; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; RAILWAY SYSTEMS; RAILWAYS; TRANSPORTING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an unmanned carrier that moves a truck and that has a structure enabling vertical miniaturization, and a control method for the same.SOLUTION: An unmanned carrier 10, which moves a truck C having a truck body CB, a wheel CH attached to the truck body CB and a part-to-be-connected CA provided on an undersurface of the truck body CB, comprises a vehicle body 11, a driven wheel that is attached to the vehicle body 11, and a connection mechanism 20 that is connected to the truck C. The connection mechanism 20 has a connection part 22 that is arranged in such a manner as to be movable in a first direction of horizontal directions on the upside of a top surface of the vehicle body 11, and a drive unit 21 that moves the connection part 22 in the first direction to connect it to the part-to-be-connected CA.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】台車を移動させる無人搬送車であって、鉛直方向に小型化できる構造を有する無人搬送車、およびそのような無人搬送車の制御方法を提供する。【解決手段】台車本体ＣＢ、台車本体ＣＢに取り付けられた車輪ＣＨ、および台車本体ＣＢの下面に設けられた被連結部ＣＡを有する台車Ｃを移動させる無人搬送車１０であって、車体１１と、車体１１に取り付けられた駆動車輪と、台車Ｃに連結される連結機構２０と、を備え、連結機構２０は、車体１１の上面の上側において水平方向のうちの第１方向に移動可能に配置された連結部２２と、連結部２２を第１方向に移動させて被連結部ＣＡに連結させる駆動装置２１と、を有する。【選択図】図１