US 12,119,253 B2
Transport vehicle
Wataru Kitamura, Inuyama (JP)
Assigned to Murata Machinery, Ltd., Kyoto (JP)
Appl. No. 17/620,967
Filed by Murata Machinery, Ltd., Kyoto (JP)
PCT Filed May 8, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/018612
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 20, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/255577, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 24, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-114535 (JP), filed on Jun. 20, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0359251 A1, Nov. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. H01L 21/677 (2006.01); B65G 1/04 (2006.01)
CPC H01L 21/67733 (2013.01) [B65G 1/0457 (2013.01); H01L 21/67706 (2013.01); H01L 21/67727 (2013.01); H01L 21/6773 (2013.01); B65G 2201/0297 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A transport vehicle comprising:
a traveler;
a transferer mounted on the traveler and receives or delivers an article from or to a transfer destination;
an antenna provided so that at least the position or the posture thereof can be changed to follow action of the transferer, and that performs wireless communication with another device; and
a rotation driver that rotates the transferer around a vertical axis, wherein
the position of the antenna around the vertical axis is changed to follow the rotation of the transferer by the rotation driver, wherein
the transferer includes a lateral mechanism that causes a holder for holding an article to move horizontally,
the rotation driver causes the lateral mechanism to rotate around the vertical axis, and
the antenna is provided in a portion of the transferer other than the portion that is moved horizontally by the lateral mechanism.