To provide a hoist communication apparatus for a
carriage of an automatic
transfer system, capable of individually communicating with a motor in an inner part of a gripper and various sensors by a
carriage control
machine.SOLUTION: A hoist communication apparatus for a
carriage contains: a master
communication unit that assigns transfer frequencies which are different in each gripper device identification information, modulates them, and transfers at least one modulated
control signal to a slave communication apparatus via a power supply line formed in a belt by being superposed on a power supply; and a slave
communication unit that supplies the power supply provided from the master
communication unit to a gripper unit that carries out a hoist operation, demodulates the modulated
control signal by using the transfer frequency, transfers the demodulated
control signal to the gripper device corresponding to identification information, and transfers to the master communication unit the
signal applied from each gripper device after the different transfer frequency is assigned and modulated, via the power supply line formed in the belt.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3