Overhead conveyance device and overhead conveyance vehicle
AssigneeShinko Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasanao Murata, Teruya Morita, Hitoshi Kawano
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Abstract
An overhead conveyance device and an overhead conveyance vehicle that can convey a conveying object, while keeping it at a minimum distance from surrounding equipment when the overhead conveying vehicle turns around during conveyance of the conveying object. The overhead conveyance device (1) is so structured that even when a carriage part (6) of the overhead conveyance vehicle (5) enters a branching part (3) for allowing the carriage part to change in traveling direction and turns around, the conveying object (25) grasped by a hand (9) can be kept unchanged in direction.
Claims1
An overhead conveyance device comprising a carriage part that travels along an overhead track, a hand suspending part mounted on said carriage part in rotatable relation relative thereto, a hand part suspended from said hand suspending part in such a manner as to be movable up and down, and rotation control means for controlling turning said hand suspending part relative to said carriage part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.