Transport device
AssigneeJapan Cash Machine Co., Ltd.
InventorsKeita Shingai, Shigenori Matsushita
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Abstract
To downsize a curved transport route through which a transport target is transported without being deformed. A transport path 401 includes a first curved transport tubular-body unit 415B having a first curved shape in which a bottom surface 411B located beside an air blowing tube 100 bulges into a convex shape toward the air blowing tube. The first curved transport tubular-body unit is configured to increase a distance H between the bottom surface and a top surface 413B opposite to the bottom surface from each end portion toward an intermediate portion in a transport direction x to prevent a banknote P retained by a transport body 500 from coming into contact with the top surface.
Claims5
A transport device comprising:
- an air blowing tube that forms a gas flow path;
- a moving body that travels inside the air blowing tube while receiving an air flow flowing within the air blowing tube in a predetermined direction;
- a transport body route that has at least a portion arranged along the air blowing tube to be adjacent to the air blowing tube;
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- a transport body that is configured to be able to retain a transport target in a predetermined attitude and that travels inside the transport body route,
- where the moving body includes a moving body magnetic material, while the transport body includes a transport body magnetic material, and
- where the transport device has a configuration to move the transport body in conjunction with movement of the moving body by using a repelling force generated based on a magnetic force applied between the moving body magnetic material and the transport body magnetic material when there is a proximal positional relation between the moving body magnetic material and the transport body magnetic material, wherein
- the transport body route includes a first curved transport body route having a first curved shape in which a bottom surface located beside the air blowing tube bulges into a convex shape toward the air blowing tube, and
- the first curved transport body route is configured to increase a distance between the bottom surface and a top surface opposite to the bottom surface from each end portion toward an intermediate portion in a transport direction to prevent the transport target retained by the transport body from coming into contact with the top surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.