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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7845284 | Overhead traveling vehicle having safety member A safety frame is provided to face a lid at a position where an article is held by an overhead traveling vehicle. A lower frame of the safety frame is movable upwardly relative to an upper frame of the safety frame. Further, an optical axis of a photoelectric sensor... | 12/07/2010 |
| RE41077 | Station control system for a driverless vehicle A station control system for and method of controlling the operation of a driverless vehicle. The system includes a vehicle travel path, a plurality of station tags in readable proximity to the travel path, and a vehicle movable along the travel path. Each of the ta... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7409286 | Application for diminishing or avoiding the unwanted effects of traffic congestion A process to interchange the “stop and go” driving behaviour of the traffic with a “stop and wait, then go later without stopping” driving behaviour, consisting on a partitioning of the congested route in segments through pre-installed stop and go signals ma... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7356428 | Overhead traveling vehicle testing and calibration A method, system and test fixture for allowing testing and calibration of various operation parameters of an overhead traveling vehicle (hereinafter “OTV”) are disclosed. The invention implements a test fixture that includes a rotatable bearing set for rotatably... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7303169 | Rail guided vehicle system An overhead running vehicle 10 uses an absolute position sensor or an encoder to detect its own position. The overhead running vehicle 10 then reports its own position and state to a system controller 14 via a communication line also used as an ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7230702 | Monitoring of smart pin transition timing A movable portion of a substrate carrier handler is extended into a transport path along which a substrate carrier transport system transports a substrate carrier, respective kinematic coupling events are detected between corresponding interface elements of the mova... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7174836 | Station control system for a driverless vehicle A station control system for and method of controlling the operation of a driverless vehicle. The system includes a vehicle travel path, a plurality of station tags in readable proximity to the travel path, and a vehicle movable along the travel path. Each of the ta... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7168369 | Device for moving a machine A device for moving a machine or the like between plural workstations includes: a mechanism for suspending the machine, a guide, a structure for supplying the guide with electrical energy, a mechanical linkage between the machine and the guide, a connector for elect... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7117799 | Overhead material handling system and track block The present invention is directed to a material handling system (100) and method (200) for isolating a carrier mechanism (110) from the system. The system (100) comprises a track (103) having a channel (105), a turntable ( | 10/10/2006 |
| 7102849 | Modular data cartridge library A data storage library comprising a plurality of library modules (13, 15) for storing a plurality of data storage media (35) and writing data to and reading data from said media (35), at least two of said library modules (13, 15) being in... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7047888 | Transit system A point-to-point transit system for riders includes an elongate guideway, a plurality of autonomous vehicles disposed in the guideway, a plurality of selectively actuable rider access portals in the side of the guideway, and a control system, configured to automatic... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6976324 | Method of scanning a track bed profile A method for the contactless scanning of a track bed profile extending perpendicularly to a longitudinal extension of the track, comprises the steps of simultaneously effectuating the scanning and a measurement of any deviation from a desired track level at a locati... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6957124 | System and method for providing power and control signals to an element retrieval device An element handling system utilizes an element retrieval device and a decoder. The element retrieval device is configured to retrieve and transport a movable element in response to control data. The decoder is coupled to the element retrieval device. The decoder is ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6923124 | Tritrack system of mass transit A rail system for transporting dual use vehicles includes a network of multiple non-interconnected rails where each rail comprises an extruded triangular shell and a support material. The rails are supported by a system of support structures where each support struc... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6810817 | Intelligent transport system A public transportation system includes control by highly distributed communications, ultra-light transit vehicles suspended from single or dual rails and powered by electricity. The electric power supplied independently and supplemented by wind generators and solar... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6810306 | Data storage library status monitoring Library system health is monitored and displayed based on the location of equipment within the library relative to track layout. Robotic devices travel on rails within the data storage library accessing data storage devices such as cartridges, cassettes, media packa... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6745102 | Automatic transporting system and method for operating the same An automatic transporting system and a method for operating the same. The automatic transporting system includes a main track, a plurality of transport vehicles, a loading and unloading track, a stocker, a rapid track and an emergency track. The plurality of transpo... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6721627 | Track conveyance system A conveyance system which performs conveying action operating carrier vehicles, including a loop track, carrier vehicles which run on the track, a station where each carrier vehicle performs loading and unloading of a cargo, and a standby station for storing the car... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6698359 | Data storage library rail anomaly recovery Operations along a track suffering some track anomaly are resumed by bridging the anomaly with a robotic device. The track supports operation of a plurality of robotic devices. The anomaly prevents the flow of electrical current from reaching an affected ... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6550391 | Method and system for moving cartridges between storage libraries A system and a method for moving cartridges between individual cartridge libraries of a multi-library system. The system includes one or more transport robots operating on one or more guide structures. The transport robots carry the cartridges independent... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6318274 | Guideway transit system A PRT (personal rapid transit) system, utilizing both course reservation and branch stop technologies and radically solving the various problems experienced in conventional roadway systems, conventional railway systems and prior art APM or PRT systems, is... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6129026 | Dual mode cargo transport apparatus and method of using same A method and apparatus for handling cargo are disclosed which include a plurality of cargo carriers capable of being operated manually by human operators or remotely by a central controller. The carriers are operated in their manual mode to traverse paths... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6129025 | Traffic/transportation system In a transportation/logistics system in which a pallet/vehicle with an automobile/container mounted/fixed thereon travels, a normal steering operation is carried out by changing the direction of the wheels (including tires) by an electronically controlled... | 10/10/2000 |
| 5743962 | Product conveying system for coating and treating surfaces A work is applied with a solvent-containing thermosetting coating composition to a thickness larger than a limit thickness over which the coating composition on a surface of the work extending in a vertical direction will normally run or sag in a coating ... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5577593 | Carrier conveyor system A carrier conveyor system wherein carriers are disengaged from a main conveyor in advance of a work station and re-engaged beyond the work station. A transfer conveyor is positioned such that it receives the carriers as they are disengaged from the main c... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5575215 | Bypass for the cars of a circuit cable railway system A bypass for a car of a circuit cable railway system, which is positioned at a turn-about station of the system between the incoming and outgoing lines of at least one revolving conveying cable. The bypass includes coupling points, disposed on incoming an... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5570637 | Garage for a continuous cable railway A garage for storing vehicles of a continuous cable railway system. The garage has a plurality of side tracks arranged parallel or substantially parallel to one another to form preferably a rectangular shape. The garage is loaded with vehicles from the st... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5551348 | Automatic conveyance system An automatic conveying system includes a main loop-like conveying track, a plurality of auxiliary loop-like conveying tracks along the main conveying track for selective coupling and de-coupling by couplers to and from the main track, and a plurality of a... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5297483 | Work conveyor Left side panels and right side panel are produced in a left side panel production line and a right side panel production line, respectively By vertical lifters, each left side panel and each right side panel are lifted at the delivery stations and then t... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5284097 | Ballast distribution, regulation and reclaiming railroad maintenance device A railroad maintenance device distributes, regulates and reclaims ballast along a railway road bed. The device includes one or more hopper cars for transporting and depositing ballast, a regulating car including a track regulator, a shoulder regulator, an... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5190428 | Conveyor system for rod-like articles Containers for rod-like articles are provided with a device, e.g. a transponder, capable of carrying variable coded information. Read and write devices are provided at appropriate positions, e.g. tray fillers and unloaders, to ensure that only containers ... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5108052 | Passenger transportation system for self-guided vehicles A transportation system for moving passengers comprising a plurality of terminals interconnected by a track network, upon which are supported a plurality of independent and individual self-guided vehicles. Each terminal has a plurality of Automated Ticket... | 04/28/1992 |
| 4958574 | Cable transport system with garaging of carriers A cable conveyance having a storage region for garaging the carriers which an be decoupled from the transport cable. The carriers are displaced along a transport rail to the storage regions by a reversible drive and are permitted to move by gravity along s... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4890715 | Method of and a device for coding workpiece carriers in a production plant Workpiece carriers are fed to successive work stations along conveyor tracks at which stations work operations are performed on individual parts on the carrier and in which a defect signal is allocated when appropriate. After a work operation has been per... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4791871 | Dual-mode transportation system A dual-mode transportation system comprises a monotube guideway along which a dual-mode vehicle travels in a first mode of operation, the dual-mode vehicle having a second mode of operation in which it travels along a roadway. Each dual-mode vehicle carri... | 12/20/1988 |
| 4733616 | Track-bound selfpropelled car conveyor My conveyor comprises an associated track-bound car including a drive motor supplied with drive current by current-carrying rails, a container, and a cover for the conveyor, as well as a track on which the conveyor runs by a plurality of stations. In orde... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4726299 | Method and apparatus for controlling a vehicle A method and apparatus for controlling movement of a vehicle through a network is disclosed. The network has a plurality of stations interconnected by a plurality of path segments. A plurality of branch points connect the path segments and require a vehic... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4685398 | Comprehensive unit transportation system A comprehensive transportation system with the ability to transport an individual passenger or a unit of cargo directly from a point of origin to a desired destination. A plurality of vehicles are directed about a network of continuous guideways. The guid... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4361202 | Automated road transportation system An automated transportation system for vehicular travel along a roadway is presented. The roadway can be any hard surface that contains an embedded metallic guiderail along its center. A proximity transducer (metal detector) installed under the vehicle, s... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4245561 | Controllable distributing conveying systems A controllable distributing conveying system for transporting people or goods is provided with stations which are arranged on a passive rail network and which include container loading-on positions, container off-loading positions, and container depots. S... | 01/20/1981 |
