Patent ID: 11927958
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B  E | IPC B  E  G

Claim 8:
9. A storage facility that stores a plurality of automatic traveling vehicles, each of the plurality automatic traveling vehicles includes a vehicle structure including a first top plate having an upper surface configured for a user to ride on or for a luggage to be placed on; and
one or more electronic control units configured to execute automatic travel control of the automatic traveling vehicle, wherein
the one or more electronic control units are configured to execute a storage mode being one of modes of the automatic travel control when a storage execution condition for moving the automatic traveling vehicle to a storage facility is satisfied,
the storage mode includes a storage posture formation process of causing the automatic traveling vehicle to automatically travel so as to take a predetermined storage posture in the storage facility together with one or more other automatic traveling vehicles having a same configuration as the automatic traveling vehicle,
in the storage posture, the automatic traveling vehicle is in a superposition state in which the automatic traveling vehicle overlaps with the one or more other automatic traveling vehicles in a plan view, or a parallel state in which the automatic traveling vehicle is lined up with the one or more other automatic traveling vehicles while the first top plate and a second top plate are standing and facing each other so as to be parallel to or substantially parallel to a vertical direction, the second top plate being included in each of the one or more other automatic traveling vehicles,
the storage facility comprising:
a mobile platform including a climbing section where the automatic traveling vehicle that is automatically traveling by the storage posture formation process climbs, and a falling section located in front of the climbing section in a traveling direction of the automatic traveling vehicle and formed to drop the automatic traveling vehicle, the mobile platform being configured to be movable in a direction parallel to the traveling direction;
a storage location where the plurality of automatic traveling vehicles after falling in order from the falling section are arranged side by side in a direction parallel to the traveling direction in an inverted state; and
one or more supports configured to support the plurality of automatic traveling vehicles in the inverted state, wherein
the plurality of automatic traveling vehicles take the storage posture in the superposition state or the parallel state at the storage location.