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US 5,628,604 AGranted
Conveying system
AssigneeShinko Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasanao Murata, Teppei Yamashita, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Teruya Morita, Hiroyuki Oyobe
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Abstract
A conveying system provides a cassette accommodating workpieces; a container containing the cassette; a transferring device for conveying the cassette while supporting it or conveying the container which is empty or contains the cassette while supporting it, the transferring device having a supporting device for supporting the cassette. In the conveying system, a handle is provided on the upper surface of the container so that it is supported by the supporting device.
Claims6
In a conveying system comprising:
- a cassette arranged to accommodate a workpiece;
- a container arranged to contain said cassette;
- container transferring means for transferring a container to a position in a sealed area where a cassette can be loaded or unloaded into or from the container and for transferring the container away from said position;
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- cassette transferring means for transferring said cassette to or from said position, the improvement comprising:
- said cassette transferring means and said container transferring means including a single supporting means for supporting not only said cassette but also said container, said supporting means including a hand having a pair of fingers which are movable to and from each other;
- and
- a handle provided on an upper surface of said container in such a manner that said handle can be supported by said supporting means, wherein a distance between side portions of said handle which are held by said fingers when the container is supported by the supporting means is substantially equal to a distance between side surfaces of said cassette which are held by said fingers when the cassette is supported by said supporting means.
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