Daifuku Co., Ltd.

Kanto Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Akio Kimura

Shigeyoshi Nishihara

Toshiyuki Iba

Naoyuki Kiuchi

Susumu Nakagawa

Masao Kasagi

Yutaro Hyogo

Shinji Kawabe

Eiji Taguchi

Shinji Katsuta

Kouetsu Ishii

Masanori Fujimaru

A conveyance device has a carriage drive for driving and propelling a pair of left and right carriage units which individually support left and right sides of an object to be conveyed. A pair of left and right screw shafts is pivotally supported in a rotatable manner along the movement path of the carriage units. Driven rollers are pivotally supported in a rotatable manner by the carriage units and engage with the screw shafts. A transmission connects the pair of left and right screw shafts through the outside of a conveyance path such that the left and right screw shafts are linked and coupled; and a single motor drives the pair of left and right screw shafts through the transmission means.

Conveyance device

The invention relates to a device for conveying travelable bodies which are provided no driving source, on a fixed path. A plurality of travelable bodies can travel on the fixed path while aligned substantially in close contact with each other. Traveling power is transmitted to one of a plurality of travelable bodies which is positioned on at least one end of the alignment. The traveling power drives the travelable body with frictional force while pressing one side surface of the travelable body, and is transmitted to the travelable body while backing up the other side surface of the travelable body. A device to transmit traveling power is arranged on only a part of the fixed path.

Apparatus for conveying travelable body

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Yokosuka, Japan

Akio Kimura