Ceiling suspended shelf
AssigneeMurata Machinery, Ltd.
InventorsMasayoshi Torazawa, Masataka Hayashi
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Abstract
An overhead transport vehicle temporarily places a FOUP at a ceiling suspended shelf while transporting the FOUP to a target position by traveling along a rail on a ceiling of a building from which the ceiling suspended is suspended. The ceiling suspended shelf includes an upper shelf including an upper support surface that supports the FOUP. A level of the upper support surface is the same or substantially the same as a level of the rail.
Claims14
A ceiling suspended shelf where an overhead transport vehicle temporarily places articles while transporting the articles to a target position, the overhead transport vehicle transporting the articles by traveling along a rail while being suspended, the rail being provided on a ceiling of a building, the ceiling suspended shelf being suspended from the ceiling, the ceiling suspended shelf comprising:
- an upper shelf including an upper support surface that supports the articles;
- wherein
- a level of the upper support surface is the same or substantially the same as a level of the rail;
- and
- the upper shelf includes a switching mechanism to switch a state of the upper shelf between an open state that allows the articles to pass from below to above the upper shelf and a closed state that allows the upper shelf to support the articles and does not allow the articles to pass from below to above the upper shelf.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.