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US 12,084,285 B2Granted
Conveyance apparatus
AssigneeIshida Co., Ltd.
InventorsRyo Ichihashi, Mikio Kishikawa, Yoshiki Horitani, Hidemasa Cho, Takahide Kasugai
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Abstract
A conveyance apparatus (1) according to an embodiment includes: a trough (11) that receives an article from an outside and conveys the article in a conveyance direction from upstream to downstream; and a drive unit (20) that drives the trough. The trough includes a plurality of protrusions (92) on a front surface (91) on which the article is conveyed, and an opening (91A) passing from the front surface to a back surface (93) is formed at an end (92E) on a downstream side of the plurality of protrusions.
Claims10
A conveyance apparatus comprising:
- a trough that receives an article from an outside and conveys the article in a conveyance direction from upstream to downstream;
- and
- a drive unit that drives the trough, wherein
- the trough includes:
- a first sliding surface having a plurality of openings;
- and
- a second sliding surface that closes a part of each of the openings and is located at a more inward position of the trough than the first sliding surface, and
- the second sliding surface is continuous with the first sliding surface on an entirety of each of an upstream side, a left side, and a right side of each of the openings.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.