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Patent No.:

US 10233039 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 06, 2017

Raising/lowering conveyance apparatus for article conveying container with container condition sensors

Applicant:

Daifuku Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Kazuhiko Miyoshi, Shiga, JP;

Jun Hamaguchi, Shiga, JP;

Masato Inaba, Shiga, JP;

Assignee:

Daifuku Co., Ltd., , JP;

Attorney:

St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens LLC

Primary Examiner:

Gregory W Adams

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 15/04 (2006.01); B25J 15/02 (2006.01); B25J 13/08 (2006.01); B65G 63/02 (2006.01); B65G 63/00 (2006.01); B65G 1/04 (2006.01); B65G 1/14 (2006.01); B65G 43/00 (2006.01); B65G 61/00 (2006.01); B65G 47/90 (2006.01); B25J 9/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 63/025 (2013.01); B25J 13/08 (2013.01); B65G 1/04 (2013.01); B65G 1/0407 (2013.01); B65G 1/14 (2013.01); B65G 43/00 (2013.01); B65G 61/00 (2013.01); B65G 63/00 (2013.01); B25J 9/026 (2013.01); B25J 13/086 (2013.01); B65G 47/901 (2013.01); B65G 47/905 (2013.01); Y10S 294/902 (2013.01); Y10S 294/907 (2013.01); Y10S 901/47 (2013.01);
Abstract

A raising/lowering conveyance apparatus has at least two sets of container holders operable to be raised/lowered in conjunction with each other, and to be freely movable closer to or away from containers in the back-and-forth horizontal direction. A sensor operable to detect the upper end height of the transferred containers which have been transferred and raised is attached to a position near the lower end of each container holder, to determine abnormality in posture of the transferred containers through a comparison operation between the value of the upper end height of the transferred containers detected by the sensor and the normal value of the upper end height of the transferred containers calculated on the basis of the height of the container being handled.

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