Article supply device
AssigneeBandai Co., Ltd.
InventorsHajime Kondo, Tatsushi Ikarashi, Hiroki Kobayashi, Nobuo Kurokawa
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Abstract
An article supply device capable of supplying first and second type articles comprises a main body, an accommodation unit for accommodating articles, a supply unit for supplying articles accommodated in the accommodation unit, a lock unit which prevents articles from being supplied from the supply unit; and a detection unit capable of detecting the presence or absence of first type articles and the presence or absence of the second type articles accommodated in the accommodation unit, wherein the lock unit is turned into a lock state, on condition that the absence of the articles is detected by the detection unit.
Claims14
An article supply device capable of supplying first type articles and second type articles comprising:
- a main body;
- an accommodation unit which accommodates articles;
- a supply unit for supplying one of the articles accommodated in the accommodation unit;
- a lock unit which prevents the articles from being supplied from the supply unit;
- and a detection unit capable of detecting presence or absence of the first type articles and presence or absence of the second type articles accommodated in the accommodation unit, wherein the lock unit is turned into a lock state, on condition that the absence of the articles is detected by the detection unit, the detection unit includes a first detection unit and a second detection unit, the first and second detection units each include a first member provided on the main body in a fixed state, and a second member movably provided on the accommodation unit, and the first member includes one first member of the first detection unit, which detects absence or presence of the first type articles, and another of the first members includes another first member of the second detection unit, which detects absence or presence of the second type articles, the one first member and the another first member are provided at different positions from each other in the main body.
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