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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2017
Daifuku Co., Ltd., Osaka-shi, JP;
Takeshi Abe, Hinocho, JP;
Tadahiro Yoshimoto, Hinocho, JP;
Daifuku Co., Ltd., Osaka-shi, JP;
Abstract
A container storage facility has storage portions for storing containers, and supplies a purge gas to the interior of the containers. The container storage facility includes ejection portions that eject the purge gas, a gas supply device that controls the supply flow rate of the purge gas, a main pipe that conducts the purge gas output from the gas supply device, and branch pipes that are branched from the main pipe and are connected to the ejection portions. The ejection portions eject the purge gas regardless of whether or not containers are stored in the storage portions, and the gas supply device controls the supply flow rate of the purge gas so as to increase as the total number of containers stored in the storage portions decreases.