Conveyor and conveying method
AssigneesNissan Motor Co., Ltd., Automotive Energy Supply Corporation
InventorsShinji Ishimatsu, Keiji Nasu, Koji Hibino, Yoshirou Yamamoto
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Abstract
A conveyor is provided with a supply roll, a detection device and a brake force applying device. The supply roll is rotatably arranged and is configured to support a belt-shaped cell material for an electrode or a separator to intermittently feeding out the cell material by rotation of the supply roll. The detection device is arranged with respect to the supply roll to detect an amount of the cell material remaining on the supply roll. The brake force applying device operatively coupled to the supply roll to apply brake force to the rotation of the supply roll based on the amount of the cell material detected by the detection device.
Claims8
A conveyor comprising:
- a supply roll rotatably arranged and configured to support a belt-shaped cell material for an electrode or a separator to intermittently feeding out the cell material by rotation of the supply roll;
- a detection device arranged with respect to the supply roll to detect an the amount of the cell material remaining on the supply roll;
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- a brake force applying device operatively coupled to the supply roll to apply brake force to the rotation of the supply roll based on the amount of the cell material detected by the detection device.
A conveying method comprising:
- feeding out and conveying a belt-shaped cell material from a supply roll on which the cell material is wound, the cell material being a material for an electrode or a separator;
- detecting an amount of the cell material remaining on the supply roll while the supply roll is rotated to intermittently feed out the cell material, and
- applying a brake force to decrease the rotation of the supply roll based on the detected amount of the cell material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.