Stacking apparatus and stacking method
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasato Ono, Yuichi Itoh, Yusuke Ikeda, Kazuhito Kato
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Abstract
A stacking apparatus provided with a flexible conveyor plate (20), a clamp mechanism (25) for holding a sheet-shaped member carried on the conveyor plate (20) against the conveyor plate (20), and an adjustment mechanism able to adjust the degree of curvature of the conveyor plate (20). When stacking a new sheet-shaped member (1) carried on the conveyor plate (20) onto already stacked sheet-shaped members (1), the adjustment mechanism makes the conveyor plate (20) deform from a flat state to a curved state to make the new sheet-shaped member (1) carried on the conveyor plate (20) deform from a flat state to a curved state.
Claims7
A stacking apparatus comprising:
- a flexible conveyor plate,
- a clamp mechanism for holding a new sheet-shaped member carried on the conveyor plate against the conveyor plate, and
- an adjustment mechanism able to adjust a degree of curvature of the conveyor plate, wherein the adjustment mechanism makes the conveyor plate deform from a flat state to a curved state to make the new sheet-shaped member carried on the conveyor plate deform from a flat state to a curved state when stacking the new sheet-shaped member carried on the conveyor plate onto already stacked sheet-shaped members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.