US 12,084,292 B2
Mobile body positioning station and mobile body positioning system
Koji Shukutani, Tokyo (JP); Ken Onishi, Tokyo (JP); Noriko Onishi, Tokyo (JP); Hiroyoshi Okazaki, Tokyo (JP); Hiroyoshi Kojima, Tokyo (JP); and Syuhei Kobori, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 15/734,049
Filed by MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Feb. 26, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/007392
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 1, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/235000, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 12, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-109057 (JP), filed on Jun. 6, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0216078 A1, Jul. 15, 2021
Int. Cl. B65G 47/22 (2006.01); B60L 53/36 (2019.01); B65G 17/18 (2006.01); B65G 39/18 (2006.01); B65G 41/00 (2006.01); B65G 13/11 (2006.01); F16H 57/00 (2012.01); G05B 19/418 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 47/22 (2013.01) [B60L 53/36 (2019.02); B65G 17/18 (2013.01); B65G 39/18 (2013.01); B65G 41/006 (2013.01); B65G 13/11 (2013.01); F16C 2326/00 (2013.01); F16H 2057/0093 (2013.01); G05B 19/4189 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mobile body positioning station comprising:
a first partition;
a second partition disposed along a direction intersecting an extending direction of the first partition; and
a guide disposed on a movement path of a mobile body, wherein
the guide comprises a plurality of guide rollers horizontally disposed along an oblique direction with respect to a direction perpendicular to the extending direction of the first partition to extend from the first partition toward the second partition side, the guide rollers having rotary center axes extending along a direction that is perpendicular to the oblique direction, and
the guide rollers are configured to be rotated by reward or forward movement of the mobile body so that the guide rollers cause the mobile body, which is in the reward or forward movement after the mobile body comes into contact with the first partition, to move along the first partition toward the second partition;
the mobile body positioning station further comprising a third partition facing the second partition and disposed along a direction intersecting the extending direction of the first partition; and
an entrance port of the mobile body defined between an end portion of the second partition in the extending direction and an end portion of the third partition in the extending direction, wherein a distance between the second partition and the third partition increases from the first partition toward the entrance port;
a power feeding device for the mobile body disposed on the third partition; and
an air replenishment device for the mobile body disposed on the third partition.