ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,244, issued on March 3, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Article transport facility" was invented by Hiroshi Otsuka (Hinocho, Japan) and Daichi Tomida (Hinocho, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article transport facility includes a transport vehicle and a controller, and the transport vehicle includes: a drive unit; a speed detector configured to detect a traveling speed; and a distance detector configured to detect an inter-vehicle distance, which is a distance to another transport vehicle. The controller is configured to (i) refer to at least one target speed that is set in advance according to the inter-veh...