Elevator system that autonomous mobile robot takes together with person

US8958910B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-8958910-B2
Application numberUS-201113177789-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateJul 7, 2011
Priority dateJul 8, 2010
Publication dateFeb 17, 2015
Grant dateFeb 17, 2015

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An elevator system which an autonomous mobile robot and human user can utilize safely and efficiently. The system has an available area detection unit to detect an available area in a cage, and a riding possibility/impossibility determination unit to determine whether or not the autonomous mobile robot can get on the cage based on information on size and position of the available area detected by the available area detection unit. The autonomous mobile robot gets on the cage only when the riding possibility/impossibility determination unit determines that riding is possible.

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What is claimed is: 1. An elevator system that an autonomous mobile robot takes together with a person, comprising: the autonomous mobile robot having: a self position recognition unit that recognizes a current self position; a mobile unit that both generates a route to a destination based on self position information recognized by the self position recognition unit, and moves by driving a mobile mechanism; and an autonomous mobile controller that controls respective units in…

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  • B66B1/2458Primary

    Operations & Transport · mapped topic

  • Operations & Transport · mapped topic

  • B66B1/14Primary

    Operations & Transport · mapped topic

  • Operations & Transport · mapped topic

  • Operations & Transport · mapped topic

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What does patent US8958910B2 cover?
An elevator system which an autonomous mobile robot and human user can utilize safely and efficiently. The system has an available area detection unit to detect an available area in a cage, and a riding possibility/impossibility determination unit to determine whether or not the autonomous mobile robot can get on the cage based on information on size and position of the available area detected …
Who is the assignee on this patent?
Ichinose Ryoko, Takeuchi Ikuo, Teramoto Takashi, and 1 more
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification B66B1/2458. Mapped technology areas include Operations & Transport.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Tue Feb 17 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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We list 8 related publications on this page (citations in our corpus or others sharing the same primary CPC).