US 12,275,599 B2
Conveyor system, cause information report device, and computer-readable recording medium recording program for cause information report device
Kazuo Itoh, Kasai (JP); Toshiyuki Tachibana, Himeji (JP); and Tomoya Matoba, Kasai (JP)
Assigned to ITOH DENKI CO., LTD., Kasai (JP)
Filed by Itoh Denki Co., Ltd., Kasai (JP)
Filed on Oct. 4, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/492,703.
Application 17/492,703 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/JP2020/013075, filed on Mar. 24, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-073018 (JP), filed on Apr. 5, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0024697 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. B65G 43/08 (2006.01); B65G 43/10 (2006.01); G05B 19/418 (2006.01); G05B 23/02 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 43/08 (2013.01) [B65G 43/10 (2013.01); G05B 19/4189 (2013.01); G05B 23/0272 (2013.01); B65G 2203/042 (2013.01); G05B 2219/2621 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A conveyer system comprising:
a conveyer device that includes a plurality of zones in a transport direction along which a conveyed object is transported, and a local controller provided in each of the zones for controlling a transport operation of the zone; and
a cause information report device that reports information relating to a cause of non-transport in at least one of the plurality of zones, wherein
the cause information report device include:
a selection instruction receiving unit that receives, from a user, a selection instruction for selecting one of the plurality of zones; and
a report processor that obtains, from the local controller of a target zone that is a zone selected in accordance with the selection instruction, information relating to a phenomenon that is a possible cause included in the cause of the non-transport of the conveyed object in the target zone as clue information, and reports, when the clue information satisfies a determination condition previously set, cause information that is the information relating to the cause based on the clue information.