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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 23, 1999
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Nagaokakyo, JP;
Abstract
A part transfer apparatus includes a guide groove for aligning and guiding parts, a blade placed at the bottom of the guide groove so as to move forward and backward in the direction of the groove, and a driving device for reciprocally driving the blade so that the speed of backward movement of the blade is higher than the speed of forward movement. The part transfer apparatus conveys the parts forward by using the difference in frictional force. The driving device includes a cam, and a cam lever having a cam follower in contact with the peripheral surface of the cam. The rear end of the blade is in contact with the front side of the cam lever. Since the rotational motion of the cam is converted into the pivotal motion of the cam lever, and further into the reciprocating motion of the blade, vertical force hardly acts on the blade, and vertical vibration of the blade is inhibited. This makes it possible to prevent parts laid on the blade from being lifted and popped off, and to thereby stably transfer the parts.