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Granted Patent B2
US 12,620,916 · App. 18/696,153 · Granted May 5, 2026

Transport device

Inventors: Takahiro Suzuki (Tokyo, JP); Satoru Kaneko (Tokyo, JP); Shinji Azuma (Tokyo, JP); Takeshi Tamakoshi (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
H02N15/00H01F7/064
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Patent No.
US 12,620,916
App. No.
18/696,153
Granted
May 5, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

To prevent liquid sloshing caused by switching a coil to be energized in a transport device. A transport device that transports an object to be transported provided with a magnetic body, the transport device includes: a plurality of coils configured to generate a thrust for transporting the object to be transported; a coil drive unit configured to apply a pulsed voltage to each of the plurality of coils; and a calculation unit. When switching a coil to be energized, the calculation unit determines a width of the pulsed voltage such that a speed or an acceleration of the object to be transported is stabilized based on a position of the object to be transported and a time at which the object to be transported passes through the position or a current flowing through an energized coil in a predetermined period before switching the coil to be energized, and outputs the determined width to the coil drive unit.

Claims (20)

1 . A transport device that transports an object to be transported provided with a magnetic body, the transport device comprising:

a plurality of coils configured to generate a thrust for transporting the object to be transported; and

a processor configured to:

apply a pulsed voltage to each of the plurality of coils, and

when switching a coil to be energized, determine a width of the pulsed voltage such that a speed or an acceleration of the object to be transported is stabilized based on a position of the object to be transported and a time at which the object to be transported passes through the position or a current flowing through an energized coil in a predetermined period before switching the coil to be energized, and outputs the determined width.

2 . A transport device that transports an object to be transported provided with a magnetic body, the transport device comprising:

a plurality of coils configured to generate a thrust for transporting the object to be transported; and

a processor configured to:

apply a pulsed voltage to each of the plurality of coils, and

when switching a coil to be energized, determine a width of the pulsed voltage such that a speed or an acceleration of the object to be transported is stabilized based on a position of the object to be transported and a time at which the object to be transported passes through the position or a current flowing through an energized coil in a predetermined period before switching the coil to be energized, and outputs the determined width,

wherein the width of the pulsed voltage is determined based on the speed or the acceleration of the object to be transported, the current flowing through the coil, or a time for the object to be transported to pass between two predetermined positions during the predetermined period before switching the coil to be energized.

3 . A transport device that transports an object to be transported provided with a magnetic body, the transport device comprising:

a plurality of coils configured to generate a thrust for transporting the object to be transported;

a transport surface; and

a processor configured to:

apply a pulsed voltage to each of the plurality of coils,

when switching a coil to be energized, determine a width of the pulsed voltage such that a speed or an acceleration of the object to be transported is stabilized based on a position of the object to be transported and a time at which the object to be transported passes through the position or a current flowing through an energized coil in a predetermined period before switching the coil to be energized, and outputs the determined width, and

store data of a time change rate of the current or inductance of the coil on the transport surface, the data being determined based on a positional relationship between the magnetic body and the coil, and estimates the position of the object to be transported using a measured value of the current flowing through the coil.

4 . The transport device of claim 2 , wherein

the speed or the acceleration of the object to be transported or the current flowing through the coil during the predetermined period before switching the coil to be energized, which is used for determining the width of the pulsed voltage, is any one of a maximum value, a minimum value, an average value, and an effective value.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2021-168208 · Oct 13, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
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