Patents by Inventor Tetsuya HIRAYASU

Tetsuya HIRAYASU has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20160246301
    Abstract: A transport vehicle control device of the present invention includes: a storage portion that stores map information in which a state of a cell where a rack is arranged is saved for each cell; a data transceiver that receives the latest state of a cell from a transport vehicle which transports the rack; a map manager that updates the map information, each time the data transceiver receives the latest state of the cell, using the latest state of the cell received; and a route searcher that searches for a route for the transport vehicle transporting the rack based on the map information updated. The transport vehicle control device of the present invention further includes a cell-for-rearranged-rack determiner that determines a cell into which the rack is rearranged on the basis of a usage frequency of articles to be stored on the rack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoriko KAZAMA, Junichi KIMURA, Takashi WATANABE, Tetsuya HIRAYASU