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Granted Patent B2
US 12,606,371 · App. 18/575,102 · Granted Apr 21, 2026

Overhead traveling carrier with left and right arms and supports

Inventor: Makoto Kobayashi (Ise, JP)
Assignee: MURATA MACHINERY, LTD.
B65G1/0464B65G1/0457H10P72/3221
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Patent No.
US 12,606,371
App. No.
18/575,102
Granted
Apr 21, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

An overhead transport vehicle includes a lifter to be raised and lowered by a plurality of suspensions on left and right sides. The lifter includes a base portion, a left support and a right support attached to lower ends of the suspensions and each supporting the base portion via an elastic body, and a left arm and a right that are respectively bridged between the left support and the base portion and between the right support and the base portion, and each including a first end attached to each of the left support and the right support via a first rotation shaft and a second end attached to the base portion via a second rotation shaft.

Claims (13)

1 . An overhead transport vehicle comprising:

a lifter to be raised and lowered by a plurality of suspensions on left and right sides; wherein

the lifter includes:

a base portion;

a left support and a right support attached to lower ends of the suspensions and located on the left and right sides, the left support and the right support each supporting the base portion via an elastic body;

a left arm bridged between the left support and the base portion; and

a right arm the right support and the base portion; wherein

a first end of the left arm is attached to the left support via a first rotation shaft, and a second end of the left arm is attached to the base portion via a second rotation shaft;

a first end of the right arm is attached to the right support via a third rotation shaft, and a second end of the right arm is attached to the base portion via the second rotation shaft; and

the first rotation shaft, the second rotation shaft, and the third rotation shaft each extend in a left-right direction.

2 . The overhead transport vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the second rotation shaft includes a rubber bush as a bearing.

3 . The overhead transport vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein a support position at which the base portion is supported via the elastic body is different in plan view from suspension positions at which the left support and the right support are suspended by the suspensions.

4 . The overhead transport vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein a number of support positions at which the base portion is supported via the elastic body is the same as or less than a number of suspension positions at which the left support and the right support are suspended by the suspensions.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 29, 2023
From: KOBAYASHI, MAKOTO
To: MURATA MACHINERY, LTD.
Reel/Frame 065982/0402 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2021-113319 · Jul 8, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20240300736A1 · Sep 12, 2024
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