Ceiling carrier
AssigneeDaifuku Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakeshi Abe, Takumi Sakata, Daichi Tomida, Yoshitaka Tanaka
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Abstract
In order to prevent an article from oscillating or inclining, a ceiling carrier includes: an elevator member including a body part, a gripping part that grips an article P, elastic parts that elastically support the gripping part, and a locking mechanism that creates a lock state which prevents the elastic parts from operating; and a switching part that switches between the lock state and an unlock state of the locking mechanism, the switching part being configured to switch the locking mechanism from the lock state to the unlock state after the article P has been sandwiched between oscillation prevention parts.
Claims6
A ceiling carrier configured to convey an article, the ceiling carrier comprising:
- a travelling part that travels along a track;
- an elevator member that is suspended from the travelling part so as to be raisable and lowerable and that grips an article;
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- oscillation prevention parts between which the article is sandwiched so as to prevent the article from oscillating,
- the elevator member including:
- a body part;
- a gripping part that grips the article;
- elastic parts that elastically support the gripping part with respect to the body part;
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- a locking mechanism that creates a lock state which prevents the gripping part from operating with respect to the body part due to the elastic parts,
- the ceiling carrier further comprising a switching part that switches between the lock state and an unlock state of the locking mechanism,
- the switching part switching from the lock state of the locking mechanism to the unlock state after the article has been suspended and has been sandwiched between the oscillation prevention parts, and
- the travelling part starts travelling when the locking mechanism is in the lock state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.