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AssigneeShikoku Kakoki Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasakatsu Kondo, Takayoshi Kamiji, Michio Ueda
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Abstract
A conveyor has a rotary encoder for measuring the amount of rotation of a driven sprocket having an intermittently drivable chain reeved therearound, and a processor for processing the measurement obtained by the encoder as operation support operating data corresponding to the amount of rotation of the driven sprocket. The processor determines a reference position of the chain in time series when the chain is moved a distance at a time by intermitting driving, computes the actual position of the chain corresponding to the reference position based on the measurement obtained by the encoder, and computes the deviation of the actual position of the chain from the reference position.
Claims6
A conveyor comprising a drive sprocket, a driven sprocket and an intermittently drivable chain reeved around the sprockets, the conveyor being characterized in that the conveyor comprises an instrument for measuring the amount of rotation of the driven sprocket, and a processor for processing the measurement obtained by the instrument as operation support operating data corresponding to the amount of rotation of the driven sprocket.
A conveyor comprising a pair of drive sprockets, a pair of driven sprockets and a pair of intermittently drivable chains each reeved around the drive sprocket and the driven sprocket corresponding to the chain, the conveyor being characterized in that the conveyor comprises a first instrument for measuring the amount of rotation of one of the driven sprockets, a second instrument for measuring the amount of rotation of the other driven sprocket, and a processor for processing the measurements obtained by the two instruments as operation support operating data.
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