ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,747, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Rail-guided vehicle" was invented by Hidekazu Atake (Ise, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rail-guided vehicle is capable of accurately determining an abnormality of a position of rail peripheral equipment. The rail-guided vehicle travels along a rail. The rail-guided vehicle is provided with: a vehicle body including a body part and a traveling part; a light projecting/receiving sensor and contact type sensors provided in the vehicle body that each detect a position of rail peripheral equipment; and a length measuring sensor that measures behavior of ...