Patent ID: 8701864

Claim:
An article transport facility comprising: a travel guide member provided on a ceiling side for defining travel paths for an article transport vehicle; wherein the travel guide member defines a plurality of the travel paths along which the article transport vehicle travels in the same direction such that the travel paths are spaced apart from each other in a path lateral direction, and defines a first diverging path and a second diverging path for connecting, with each other, a first travel path that is one of a pair of adjacent travel paths among the plurality of the travel paths and a second travel path that is the other of the pair of the adjacent travel paths, wherein the first diverging path is a diverging path by means of which the article transport vehicle diverges from the first travel path and travels into the second travel path, wherein the second diverging path is a diverging path by means of which the article transport vehicle diverges from the second travel path and travels into the first travel path, and wherein the first diverging path and the second diverging path are formed such that the first diverging path and the second diverging path extend in directions that are slanted with respect to the first travel path and the second travel path in plan view and such that the first diverging path and the second diverging path intersect each other in plan view.