Guide rail, spacer, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
AssigneeThk Co., Ltd.
InventorsYuki Ota, Soshi Miyahara, Mitsumasa Wada
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Abstract
A guide rail (122) that can be repositioned is configured such that: a guide block (4) slides on the guide rail (122) in a longer-side direction of the guide rail (122); the guide rail (122) is connected to an adjacent guide rail (122) via a spacer (3) in the longer-side direction so as to enable the guide block (4) to slide between the guide rail (122) and the adjacent guide rail (122); and the spacer (3) is attachable to the guide rail (122) so as to absorb a positional error of the guide rail (122) and the adjacent guide rail (122) in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the guide rail (122) and the adjacent guide rail (122) are connected.
Claims10
A guide rail wherein:
- a guide block slides on the guide rail in a longer-side direction of the guide rail;
- the guide rail is connected to an adjacent guide rail via a spacer in the longer-side direction so as to enable the guide block to slide between the guide rail and the adjacent guide rail;
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- the spacer is attachable to the guide rail so as to absorb a positional error of the guide rail and the adjacent guide rail in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the guide rail and the adjacent guide rail are connected.
A spacer attached between guide rails, wherein:
- a guide block slides on the guide rails in a longer-side direction of the guide rails;
- the spacer connects adjacent guide rails in the longer-side direction so as to enable the guide block to slide between the adjacent guide rails;
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- the spacer absorbs a positional error of the adjacent guide rails in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the adjacent guide rails are connected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.