Conveyance system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKunihiro Iwamoto, Hirotaka Komura
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Abstract
A conveyance system which improves the stability of a mounting base raised and lowered along a guide rail is achieved. A conveyance system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a mounting base with a groove guided along a guide rail extending in a vertical direction and a lifting mechanism configured to raise and lower the mounting base. When a direction of a movement of an item to be carried out from the mounting base is defined as a forward direction and a direction opposite to the forward direction is defined as a rearward direction, the conveyance system raises and lowers the mounting base while pressing a side surface on a rear side of the groove against the guide rail.
Claims4
A conveyance system comprising:
- a mounting base with a groove guided along a guide rail extending in a vertical direction;
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- a lifting mechanism configured to raise and lower the mounting base, wherein when a direction of a movement of an item to be carried out from the mounting base is defined as a forward direction and a direction opposite to the forward direction is defined as a rearward direction, the mounting base is raised and lowered while pressing a side surface on a rear side of the groove against the guide rail, wherein
- the side surface on the rear side is pressed against the guide rail using an actuator, and
- the higher a height of the mounting base, the greater a force exerted by the actuator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.