Kanesaka, Berner & Partners LLP
Track transportation system
The essential feature of the present invention is the provision of a track transportation system in which a vehicle runs on a predetermined track, being automatically steered, having a simplified and lightweight structure so as to surely ensure a safety, and to be capable of carrying out efficient and high-speed operation. The track transportation system according to the present invention incorporates a steering mechanism for automatic steering by means of an M actuator, a protection guide rail laid on the track, protection guide wheels which travel together with the vehicle along the protection guide rail without making contact with the latter, and a control means for controlling automatic steering in accordance with a result of determination by a track data determining means for determining a straight portion, a curved portion, a turnout portion or the like of the track in view of vehicle position data, and steering caused by the protection wheels making contact with the protection guide rail.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
B B B
B62D B61B B61B
inventional inventional inventional
Hiroshi Shunji Masahiro Kosuke Hiroyuki Katsuaki Hiroyuki
Yamashita Morichika Yamaguchi Katahira Kono Morita Mochidome