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US 11,299,055 B2Granted
Non-contact power supply device
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsRyohei Miyoshi, Kazuyuki Matsumura
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Abstract
A non-contact charging cart station includes a housing and a plurality of non-contact charging devices. The housing has a cart placement region on which stackable carts or the like can be inserted along a cart placement direction. The plurality of non-contact charging devices are in the housing and aligned in the cart placement region along the cart placement direction.
Claims11
A non-contact power supply device, comprising:
- a housing having a cart placement region into which stackable carts can be inserted along a cart placement direction, the stackable cart being stackable at a first interval;
- three or more non-contact charging devices that are in the housing and aligned in the cart placement region along the cart placement direction at the first interval, wherein each of the non-contact charging devices is configured to perform non-contact charging with respect to a non-contact power receiver of one of the stackable carts stacked at the first interval and inserted into the cart placement region;
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- a wheel guide in the cart placement region, the wheel guide extending in the cart placement direction, wherein the wheel guide includes three or more wheel settlement regions aligned along the cart placement direction at the first interval, each of the wheel settlement regions being shaped to fit a wheel of one of the stackable carts stacked at the first interval and inserted into the cart placement region.
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