Shutter
AssigneeDaifuku Co., Ltd.
InventorsAkira Miyahara, Kouichirou Nakashima
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Abstract
An opening and closing body includes a plurality of rod-shaped members, and a plurality of coupling members configured to couple the plurality of rod-shaped members. Each of the coupling members includes a pair of fitting parts that are spaced apart in a guide direction and configured to be fitted to a coupling target pair of rod-shaped members that are adjacent to each other in the guide direction. Each of the fitting parts includes a cover part having flexibility and configured to cover a range of an outer circumferential surface of the fitted rod-shaped member, the range being smaller than a circumference of the outer circumferential surface and larger than half the circumference as viewed in a first direction.
Claims14
A shutter comprising:
- a pair of guide rails spaced apart in a first direction extending in a horizontal direction;
- a guide path extending in an extension direction of the pair of guide rails at a position between the pair of guide rails in the first direction;
- and
- an opening and closing body configured to move along the guide path,
- wherein:
- the opening and closing body comprises a plurality of rod-shaped members extending in the first direction and arranged at an interval in a guide direction extending along the guide path, and a plurality of coupling members disposed in the guide direction and configured to couple the plurality of rod-shaped members,
- opposite end portions of each of the plurality of rod-shaped members in the first direction are respectively guided by the pair of guide rails in such a manner as to be movable in the guide direction,
- each of the coupling members comprises a body part extending in a planar manner along the guide direction, a pair of fitting parts that are disposed at the body part, spaced apart in the guide direction, and configured to be fitted to a coupling target pair of rod-shaped members that are adjacent to each other in the guide direction, and one or more reinforcing ribs protruding from the body part from a front surface side or a back surface side and extending in a planar manner along the guide direction,
- opposite end walls of the body part in the first direction protrude from the back surface side in a planar manner, and
- each of the fitting parts comprises at least one cover part having flexibility and configured to cover a range of an outer circumferential surface of each rod-shaped member of the coupling target pair of rod-shaped members, the range being smaller than a circumference of the outer circumferential surface and larger than half the circumference as viewed in the first direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.