Daifuku Co., Ltd.

Yukihiro Goto

Yoshihiko Yamada

Kazushi Tsujimoto

Yuso Ogawa

Katsuji Ohnishi

A transporter movable perpendicularly to a transfer path along one or more shelving racks containing shelves, a cargo transfer apparatus is mounted from the transporter, and has a cargo platform for receiving cargo transferred therefrom and thereto along a horizontal transfer path between the platform and a shelf, a traverser disposed along at least one side of the transfer path and having a retracted position along said cargo platform and being extendable from its retracted position to and into the shelf, a first drive for reciprocating the traverser along the transfer path, a pair of transfer arms for pushing cargo toward and away from the cargo platform, and a second drive for moving the transfer arms between their resting positions and their active positions.

Apparatus for transferring cargoes

A force motivating a strut to incline itself in the running direction (front-and-rear direction) of a movable main body is produced by impact stress caused by accelerating, decelerating or stopping the operation of a delivery device. Such force can securely be received by a bottom frame structure as well as by a reinforcing structure of the portions of projected corner members protruding in the running direction which are formed integrally with a cylindrical body of the strut at respective corners thereof. A force motivating the strut to incline itself in the direction orthogonal to the running direction is produced by inward/outward load delivery operation by means of a delivery instrument provided on a carriage. Such force can also securely be received by the bottom frame structure as well as by the reinforcing structure of the portions of the projected corner members protruding in the orthogonal direction.

Inward/outward delivery device of automated warehouse

A handling apparatus for warehousing arrangement which is supported on and guided by a floor rail installed in, for example, a factory for movement along a predetermined track provided in front of load-in/load-out sections of a rack. A pair of front and rear posts upstanding from a travel carriage of the handling apparatus and spaced from each other in the dirction of horizontal movement of the carriage have opposed surfaces on which are formed front and rear guide faces. The elevator is guided at one and the other ends thereof by and along the front and rear guide faces so that the elevator is vertically movable along the guide faces. Cord members for vertical drive are arranged along the opposed surfaces of the pair of posts and are connected to the elevator. On the opposed surfaces of the posts at positions opposite to the cord members is defined a relief spacing between each cord member and each respective post.

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Komaki, Japan

Yukihiro Goto