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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2009
Shigeyoshi Nishihara, Shiga, JP;
Tomohiro Sugo, Shiga, JP;
Shigeyoshi Nishihara, Shiga, JP;
Tomohiro Sugo, Shiga, JP;
Daifuku Co., Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
A suspension conveyance apparatus has a conveying traveling body movably supported on a traveling guide rail and a hanger suspended from the conveying traveling body, and an anti-swaying guide rail in parallel with the traveling guide rail, the anti-swaying guide rail is engaged with a roller and prevents lateral swaying of the hanger. The anti-swaying guide rail is installed on only one of the right and left sides of the traveling guide rail and includes a horizontal flat rail surface and a circular rail surface curvedly protruding in the vertically opposite direction of the horizontal flat rail surface, and a flat peripheral surface roller adjoining to the horizontal flat rail surface and rolling and an hourglass-shaped peripheral surface roller fitted to the circular rail surface are provided as the roller.