Patent ID: 8855805

Claim:
A conveyance vehicle system comprising: an automated warehouse including racks, a loading port, a crane port, a loading conveyor configured to move an article placed on the loading port to the crane port, and a stacker crane configured to transfer the article between the crane port and the racks, and an automated warehouse controller configured and programmed to control the loading conveyor and the stacker crane; a conveyance vehicle configured to convey an article to the loading port; and a conveyance vehicle controller configured and programmed to assign the conveyance vehicle with an article conveyance command to convey the article to the automated warehouse; wherein the automated warehouse controller is configured and programmed to receive a predicted conveyance command including ID information of the article and information about whether or not the article is to be loaded into the racks before the article is loaded from the conveyance vehicle into the automated warehouse, and to execute a conveyance preparation operation including at least one of controlling the loading conveyor to move the article placed on the loading port to the crane port and controlling the stacker crane to move the article between the crane port and the racks before the article is loaded to the loading port.