Patent ID: 8909369
Filing Date: 2014-12-09
Classification: H01L

Abstract:
1. A transport facility including a transport device configured to transport an article having a held portion to be held by holding member, along a transporting path with the article in a transporting attitude in which the held portion is located in a central part of the article in a fore and aft direction, the transport device being configured to transport different kinds of articles having different lengths from the held portion to one end portion along the fore and aft direction with the article in the transporting attitude, the transport facility comprising: article detection member for detecting an article located at a predetermined article position with the held portion being located at a held portion set position that is set in advance; end detection member for detecting one end portion, along the fore and aft direction, of the article detected by the article detection member; and determining member for determining a kind of the article based on detected information from the article detection member and on detected information from the end detection member.