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US 12,679,660 B2Granted
Transport carriage
AssigneeDisco Corporation
InventorsMasaya Kotani, Tsuyoshi Nakashima
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Abstract
A transport carriage for transporting a workpiece by traveling on a transport passageway installed over a processing apparatus includes a receptacle for housing the workpiece, a storage area for storing the receptacle, a lifting and lowering unit for lifting and lowering the receptacle between the storage area and the processing apparatus, and a determining unit for determining whether the workpiece is housed in the receptacle or not.
Claims6
A transport carriage for transporting workpieces by traveling on a transport passageway installed over a processing apparatus, the transport carriage comprising:
- a main body frame;
- a receptacle for housing workpieces, wherein said receptacle includes a first workpiece unit and a second workpiece unit, said first workpiece unit having a first size and said second workpiece unit has a second size, wherein said first size and said second size are different;
- a storage area on the main body frame configured for storing the receptacle;
- a lifting and lowering unit attached to the main body frame configured for lifting and lowering the receptacle between the storage area and the processing apparatus;
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- a determining unit for determining whether the workpiece is housed in the receptacle or not.
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