US 12,242,275 B2
Automatic guided vehicle system
An (Joshua) Yang, Shanghai (CN); Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Shanghai (CN); and Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Bellevue, WA (US)
Assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai (CN); and TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Schaffhausen (CH)
Filed by Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai (CN); and TE Connectivity Services GmbH, Schaffhausen (CH)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/955,928.
Claims priority of application No. 202111155225.0 (CN), filed on Sep. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0094516 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. G05D 1/00 (2024.01); B65G 69/00 (2006.01)
CPC G05D 1/0225 (2013.01) [B65G 69/006 (2013.01); B65G 69/003 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An automatic guided vehicle system, comprising:
an automatic guided vehicle; and
a docking station for docking with the automatic guided vehicle, the docking station includes a frame, and a V-shaped panel arranged vertically and installed on the frame, the V-shaped panel having a first panel and a second panel which intersect obliquely, one of the automatic guided vehicle and the docking station has a pair of first vertical guide surfaces and the other has a pair of rows of rollers, the first vertical guide surfaces extend a predetermined length along a first horizontal direction and are spaced by a predetermined distance in a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction, the rows of rollers are in rolling contact with the first vertical guide surfaces to guide the automatic guided vehicle to a predetermined position in the docking station.