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US 2006/0222479 A1Published application
Overhead traveling vehicle system
AssigneeMurata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTamotsu Shiwaku, Takashi Nakao
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Abstract
A lower buffer 6 is placed under a traveling rail for an overhead traveling vehicle 16, and a side buffer 8 is provided on a side of the traveling rail. The overhead traveling vehicle 16 has a hoisting frame 30, and a lateral feeding unit 24 for laterally feeding the hoisting frame 30.
Claims6
An overhead traveling vehicle system including:
- a traveling rail for an overhead traveling vehicle in an overhead space;
- and a load port for a processing apparatus in a ground space under the overhead space, the overhead traveling vehicle having an elevation drive unit which elevates and lowers a hoisting frame for transferring an article stored on the hoisting frame, the system comprising:
- a first article rack in the overhead space under the traveling rail, and a second article rack in the overhead space on a side of the traveling rail;
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- lateral feeding means, in the overhead traveling vehicle, for laterally feeding the elevation drive unit and the hoisting frame to the side of traveling rail, wherein
- the article is transferred between the hoisting frame and the first article rack by elevating and lowering the hoisting frame, and
- the article is transferred between the hoisting frame and the second article rack by laterally feeding, elevating and lowering the hoisting frame.
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