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US 12,406,868 · App. 18/293,103 · Granted Sep 2, 2025

Overhead conveying vehicle

Inventors: Makoto Kobayashi (Ise, JP); Yohei Matsumura (Ise, JP)
Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
H01L21/67733B61B3/00B61B13/06B65G1/0457B65G47/61B65G2201/0297
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Patent No.
US 12,406,868
App. No.
18/293,103
Granted
Sep 2, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An overhead conveying vehicle in which a main body part holding a conveyed object is suspended and supported by a traveling part includes a base unit suspended by the traveling part, a horizontal shaft integrally provided with the base unit and extending in a horizontal direction, and a support part provided on the main body part and supporting the horizontal shaft via a rubber bush.

Claims (22)

1. An overhead conveying vehicle in which a main body part having a main frame and a lifting part provided at a lower part of the main frame and configured to elevate a holding part holding a conveyed object is suspended and supported by a traveling part, the overhead conveying vehicle comprising:

a base unit suspended by the traveling part;

a horizontal shaft integrally provided with the base unit and extending in a horizontal direction; and

a pair of support parts provided on the main frame and supporting the horizontal shaft via rubber bushes, wherein

the main body part is suspended and supported by the traveling part via the base unit that is disposed between the traveling part and the main frame in a vertical direction, and the pair of support parts that are provided on a top surface of the main frame.

2. The overhead conveying vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the horizontal shaft is disposed to extend in a direction orthogonal to both a traveling direction of the traveling part and the vertical direction.

3. The overhead conveying vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein

a plurality of the horizontal shafts are arrayed along a direction orthogonal to both an extending direction of the horizontal shafts and the vertical direction, and

the horizontal shafts are supported in an unrotatable manner with respect to the base unit and the pair of support parts.

4. The overhead conveying vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein

only one horizontal shaft is provided, and

the overhead conveying vehicle further include a pair of dampers provided in the base unit in a manner of sandwiching the horizontal shaft in the traveling direction of the traveling part, and are configured to contact the top surface of the main frame.

5. The overhead conveying vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein

the base unit is suspended by the traveling part via a pair of suspension members extending downward in the vertical direction from the traveling part, and

the base unit rotatably supports each of the suspension members around an axis as a turning axis that extends in an extending direction of the suspension members.

6. The overhead conveying vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the rubber bushes respectively provided in the pair of support parts are formed by materials of different hardness from each other.

7. The overhead conveying vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein

a plurality of the horizontal shafts are arrayed along a direction orthogonal to both an extending direction of the horizontal shafts and the vertical direction, and

the horizontal shafts are supported in an unrotatable manner with respect to the base unit and the pair of support parts.

8. The overhead conveying vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein

only one horizontal shaft is provided, and

the overhead conveying vehicle further include a pair of dampers provided in the base unit in a manner of sandwiching the horizontal shaft in the traveling direction of the traveling part, and are configured to contact the top surface of the main frame.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 16, 2024
From: KOBAYASHI, MAKOTO; MATSUMURA, YOHEI
To: MURATA MACHINERY, LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2021-126804 · Aug 2, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20240375690A1 · Nov 14, 2024
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