Transport control apparatus for automated guided vehicles
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Sep 14, 1993
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Nov 12, 1991
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Dec 25, 1990
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A transport control apparatus for a plurality of automated guided vehicles traveling a transport path having a confluence junction, a turnout or a crossing is comprised of a conductor of a loop-shaped configuration formed to surround the confluence junction, the turnout or the crossing, a magnetic field generating device provided on each of the plurality of automated guided vehicles and generating a magnetic field having a cycle peculiar to each of the automated guided vehicles, a magnetic field detecting device provided on each of the plurality of automated guided vehicles and detecting a magnetic field, wherein when the magnetic field detecting device of a rear automated guided vehicle detects a magnetic field from the loop-shaped conductor induced by the magnetic field generating device of a front automated guided vehicle, the rear automated guided vehicle is halted.
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