Itoh Denki Company, Limited

Jun Maekawa

Kazuo Itoh

Tatsuhiko Nakamura

A transfer device having: a frame; a main conveyer unit having a main conveying passage disposed in a fixed planar area; and a sub conveyer unit having a sub conveying passage disposed in a planar area identical to the planar area of the main conveying passage and conveying an object in a direction crossing a conveying direction of the main conveying passage. A lifting and lowering unit lifts one of the conveying passages to a position above the other conveying passage. A regulating unit is provided for allowing linear upward and downward movement of at least one of the conveyer units. The regulating unit is a plate body or a linear body that bends and/or tilts. A bending direction or a tilting direction is aligned with an upward and downward movement direction of the main conveyer unit or the sub conveyer unit.

Transfer device

To develop a transfer device which has a lower overall height than that of a conventional technology. A transfer deviceincludes a main conveying unitequipped with main conveying bodies, a sub conveying unitequipped with sub conveying bodies, a lifting and lowering mechanismwhich lifts and lowers the main conveying unitand the sub conveying unitsuch that the respective unitsandare located at different positions in the up-down direction, and a motorwhich operates the lifting and lowering mechanism. A planar position of the motorresides in a planar area overlapping with the main conveying bodiesand the sub conveying bodies. A position of the motorin the height direction is set such that a part or the whole of the motoris located above a height of a lower end of a rotational track or a traveling track of any one of the conveying bodiesandin a lowered state of any one of the conveying unitsand. This structure can reduce the overall height of the transfer devicein a state that the motoris disposed within the transfer device

A long roller conveyor device having a plurality of long rollers and a short roller conveyor device having a plurality of short roller rows each of which includes a plurality of short rollers are used. Rotation axes of the long rollers and rotation axes of the short rollers cross each other. Each of the short roller rows is arranged between the long rollers. On a conveying passage, any of the long rollers and the short roller rows are arranged.

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Takasago, Japan

Jun Maekawa