Articles are flexibly delivered to and removed from load ports using a large number of buffers and a large number of local vehicles that can freely choose a travelling path. A plurality of overhead travelling vehicles each having a hoist travel along an overhead travelling vehicle travelling route. A local vehicle travelling route is disposed under the overhead travelling vehicle travelling route and over a plurality of load ports at a position higher than the load ports. A plurality of local vehicles each including a hoist travel along the local vehicle travelling route. A plurality of buffers are disposed along the local vehicle travelling route. The local vehicle travelling route includes a plurality of local vehicle travelling routes that are provided in parallel, and the local vehicles are configured to diverge and merge from one local vehicle travelling route to another local vehicle travelling route. The local vehicles transport articles between a load port and a buffer under control of a controller. The overhead travelling vehicles, under control of the controller, transfer articles to and from a load port or a buffer and transport articles between a load port or a buffer and a section other than the local vehicle travelling routes.


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    Title :

    CARRYING SYSTEM AND CARRYING METHOD


    Additional title:

    TRAGESYSTEM UND TRAGEVERFAHREN
    SYSTÈME DE TRANSPORT ET PROCÉDÉ DE TRANSPORT


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2021-06-09


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B65G TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS , Transport- oder Lagervorrichtungen, z.B. Förderer zum Laden oder Abladen / B66C Krane , CRANES / H01L Halbleiterbauelemente , SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES



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