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US 11,554,944 B2Granted
Fork lift device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKohei Hisada
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Abstract
To realize a fork lift device capable of contributing to space-saving for an aisle width at a warehouse. A fork lift device according to an embodiment of the present includes: a first fork and a second fork moveable in a lateral direction and a vertical direction with respect to a traveling direction; and an interchanging mechanism configured to interchange vertical positions of the first fork and the second fork.
Claims6
A fork lift device comprising:
- a first fork and a second fork moveable in a lateral direction and a vertical direction with respect to a traveling direction;
- and
- an interchanging mechanism configured to interchange vertical positions of the first fork and the second fork,
- wherein the interchanging mechanism comprises:
- a first mast;
- a second mast disposed at an interval from the first mast in the traveling direction;
- a first moving mechanism provided on the second mast side of the first mast in a moveable manner in the vertical direction and configured to move the first fork in the lateral direction, and
- a second moving mechanism provided on the first mast side of the second mast in a moveable manner in the vertical direction and configured to move the second fork in the lateral direction, wherein
- positions of the first fork and the second fork in the vertical direction are interchanged by moving the first fork or the second fork in the lateral direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.