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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2018
Endless-track traveling apparatus, and movable body of generator inspection robot including the same
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Naoya Kadota, Tokyo, JP;
Kota Yano, Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Mizuno, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihikro Morimoto, Tokyo, JP;
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An endless-track traveling apparatus includes a casing, pulleys having axes arranged in parallel in the casing, a motor for driving the pulleys, and an endless track wound on outer circumferential surface portions of the pulleys to rotate together with the pulleys and move on a traveling target. The endless-track traveling apparatus further includes: a plate-shaped member disposed in contact with the endless track and opposed to the traveling target in a space surrounded by the endless track, and fitted in the casing; a magnet fixed in the casing to attract the traveling target; and an elastic member having one end in contact with an inside of the casing and another end in contact with the plate-shaped member, and urging the plate-shaped member in such a direction as to press the plate-shaped member against the endless track.