Power Supply System For Crane

• US 20120043291A1
• Filed: 03/05/2010
• Published: 02/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsui E&S Machinery Co., Ltd. (Mitsui E&S Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Company Limited (Mitsui E&S Holdings Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ichimura, Kinya
• Granted Patent: US 8,499,911 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 212/312
• CPC Class Codes: B66C 13/12 Arrangements of means for transmitting pneumatic, hydraulic, or electric power to movable parts of devices

Abstract

Provided is a power supply system including a crane and a power supply truck. In the power supply system, a linkage mechanism efficiently transmits a force in a travel direction x to the power supply truck, while not transmitting any force in a transverse direction y or a twisting direction, and has a highly durable configuration. In a power supply system 1 for a crane in which a crane 2 for loading and unloading a container for marine transportation is linked to a power supply truck 3 for supplying power while following the crane 2, with a linkage mechanism 4, the linkage mechanism 4 includes a receiving member 10 disposed on the power supply truck 3, and a pushing member 11 disposed on the crane 2. The power supply system 1 includes the linkage mechanism 4 configured in a manner that, when the crane 2 moves in a travel direction x, the pushing member 11 comes into contact with the receiving member 10, to transmit a force of the crane 2 moving in the travel direction x to the power supply truck 3, and when the crane 2 moves in a transverse direction y intersecting the travel direction x, the receiving member 10 does not disturb move of the pushing member 11 and a force of the crane 2 moving in the transverse direction y is not transmitted to the power supply truck 3.

Claims

1. A power supply system for a crane in which a crane for loading and unloading a container for marine transportation is linked to a power supply truck for supplying power while following the crane, with a linkage mechanism, the power supply system characterized in that

the linkage mechanism includes:

a receiving member disposed on the power supply truck; and

a pushing member disposed on the crane, and

the power supply system includes the linkage mechanism configured in a manner that,

when the crane moves in a travel direction, the pushing member comes into contact with the receiving member to transmit a force of the crane moving in the travel direction to the power supply truck,

when the crane moves in a transverse direction intersecting the travel direction, the receiving member does not disturb move of the pushing member, and thus a force of the crane moving in the transverse direction is not transmitted to the power supply truck, and

when the crane is displaced in a vertical direction, the receiving member does not disturb move of the pushing member, and thus a force of the crane moving in the vertical direction is not transmitted to the power supply truck.

2. The power supply system according to claim 1, wherein

the receiving member includes two contact bars each extending in a direction intersecting the travel direction while the pushing member includes a rod protruding from the crane, and the rod is arranged between the two contact bars,

when the crane moves in the travel direction, the rod comes into contact with one of the two contact bars to transmit the force in the travel direction, and

when the crane moves in the transverse direction, the rod moves in the direction in which the two contact bars extend, and does not transmit, to the power supply truck, the force of the crane moving in the transverse direction.

3. The power supply system according to claim 2, wherein

the receiving member includes:

a slide bar extending from the power supply truck in the travel direction; and

the contact bars are disposed on the slide bar, and

the pushing member has a portal form in which two rods spaced from each other are disposed on a crossbar extending from the crane.

4. The power supply system according to claim 1, wherein

power supply equipment of a container terminal and the power supply truck are connected to each other with a power supply belt, and

the power supply belt includes:

a bendable articulated belt formed by connecting a plurality of tubular bodies; and

a power supply cable passing inside the articulated belt.

5. The power supply system according to any one of claim 2, further comprising

a power supply belt connecting power supply equipment of a container terminal and the power supply truck to each other, wherein

the power supply belt includes:

a bendable articulated belt formed of a plurality of tubular bodies connected together; and

a power supply cable passing inside the articulated belt.