Unit driving apparatus
AssigneesToyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha, Tohoku University
InventorsKoji KANEDA, Kazuki ABE
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Abstract
A unit driving apparatus includes a guide rail including at least one guide groove, a moving unit displaceable along the guide rail, and a first drive part and second drive part disposed inside at least one guide groove. The moving unit includes a first joint part joined to the first drive part, a second joint part joined to the second drive part, a displacement part, and a mechanism part joined to the first joint part and second joint part. The mechanism part displaces the displacement part so that the displacement part approaches and leaves the guide rail as the second joint part is displaced relative to the first joint part.
Claims10
A unit driving apparatus comprising:
- a guide rail extending in a longitudinal direction and including at least one guide groove extending along the longitudinal direction;
- a moving unit configured to be displaceable along the guide rail;
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- a first drive part and a second drive part that are disposed to extend along the longitudinal direction inside the at least one guide groove, and are configured to be displaceable along the longitudinal direction independently of each other, wherein
- the moving unit includes:
- a first joint part joined to the first drive part;
- a second joint part joined to the second drive part and configured to be displaceable relative to the first joint part in the longitudinal direction;
- a mechanism part joined to the first joint part and the second joint part;
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- a displacement part configured to be displaceable so as to approach and leave the guide rail, and
- the mechanism part is configured to displace the displacement part so that the displacement part approaches and leaves the guide rail as the second joint part is displaced relative to the first joint part in the longitudinal direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.