Article Transport Facility

摘要

When transporting an article between a transport target location that belongs to, located along, or associated with, a first travel path in which actuating electricity is supplied to transport vehicles and a transport target location that belongs to, located along, or associated with, a second travel path in which actuating electricity is not supplied to transport vehicles, a managing member manages traveling of a first transport vehicle to cause the first transport vehicle to travel only along a first travel path and manages traveling of a second transport vehicle to cause the second transport vehicle to travel along both a first travel path and a second travel path.

主权项

1. An article transport facility comprising:
travel paths provided to interconnect a plurality of processing devices; transport vehicles for traveling along the travel paths to transport articles processed by one or more of the plurality of processing devices; a managing member for managing traveling of the transport vehicles; wherein the travel paths include one or more first travel paths in which electricity is supplied to the transport vehicles, and one or more second travel paths in which electricity is not supplied to the transport vehicles, wherein the transport vehicles include a first transport vehicle configured to travel by means of electricity supplied from the one or more first travel paths, and a second transport vehicle having a battery and configured to travel by means of electricity supplied from the battery; wherein the one or more first travel paths and the one or more second travel paths are connected to one another directly or indirectly, wherein the managing member is configured: to manage traveling of the first transport vehicle to allow the first transport vehicle to travel only along one or more of the one or more first travel paths; and to manage traveling of the second transport vehicle to allow the second transport vehicle to travel along both one or more of the one or more first travel paths and one or more of the one or more second travel paths.