US 12,466,646 B2
Article storage facility
Takanori Nakamura, Hinocho (JP); and Kazuharu Yoshinaga, Hinocho (JP)
Assigned to Daifuku Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed by Daifuku Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Jun. 22, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/212,782.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-101171 (JP), filed on Jun. 23, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0415991 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. B65G 1/04 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 1/0492 (2013.01) [B65G 1/0414 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An article storage facility, comprising:
a transport vehicle configured to travel along a travel path to transport an article;
an article storage configured to store the article transported by the transport vehicle;
a transporter configured to transport the article from a loader to the transport vehicle;
an operation vehicle configured to travel and carry an operator along the travel path along which the transport vehicle travels; and
a holding device comprising a holder configured to hold the operation vehicle and an elevator configured to lift and lower the operation vehicle,
wherein:
the holder has a state changeable between a holding state in which the holder holds the operation vehicle and a non-holding state in which the holder does not hold the operation vehicle,
the holding device with the holder holding the operation vehicle is transported by the transporter from the loader and is placed on a mount located along the travel path, and
the state of the holder in the holding device placed on the mount is changed to the non-holding state and the elevator lowers the operation vehicle to place the operation vehicle on the travel path.