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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10501222 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 13, 2017

Article transport apparatus

Applicant:

Toyo Jidoki Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Kakue Nakamoto, Iwakuni, JP;

Assignee:

Toyo Jidoki Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP

Primary Examiner:

Marina A Tietjen

Assistant Examiner:

Paul J Gray

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 21/12 (2006.01); B65B 43/46 (2006.01); B65B 1/04 (2006.01); B65B 3/04 (2006.01); B65G 17/12 (2006.01); B65G 17/32 (2006.01); B65B 43/52 (2006.01); B65G 47/86 (2006.01); B65B 51/10 (2006.01); B65B 51/32 (2006.01); B65B 7/16 (2006.01); B65B 43/44 (2006.01); B65G 23/30 (2006.01); B65B 1/02 (2006.01); B65B 3/02 (2006.01); B65B 7/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 43/465 (2013.01); B65B 1/04 (2013.01); B65B 3/04 (2013.01); B65B 7/16 (2013.01); B65B 43/52 (2013.01); B65B 51/10 (2013.01); B65B 51/32 (2013.01); B65G 17/12 (2013.01); B65G 17/323 (2013.01); B65G 21/12 (2013.01); B65G 47/842 (2013.01); B65B 1/02 (2013.01); B65B 3/02 (2013.01); B65B 7/02 (2013.01); B65B 43/44 (2013.01); B65G 23/30 (2013.01); B65G 2201/0238 (2013.01);
Abstract

A transport apparatus including a rotary transport mechanism (), which rotationally transports multiple equidistantly installed article holding members (gripper pairs ()) in one direction along an annular trackway having a pair of parallel portions, and a reciprocating drive mechanism (), which causes the entire rotary transport mechanism () to reciprocate a predetermined distance along the parallel portions. The article holding members are moved at a velocity of travel that is a combination of velocity of the reciprocating motion and velocity of the rotary transport. The velocity of the rotary transport and the velocity of the reciprocating motion are controlled by a control unit (). The article holding members travel along the parallel portions on both sides (Lanes A and B) in an intermittent manner, each time covering a distance that is an integral multiple of the installation spacing p of the article holding members.

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