Traveling Type Immersion Treatment Apparatus

• US 20140374214A1
• Filed: 09/09/2014
• Published: 12/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Daifuku Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Daifuku Company Limited
• Inventors: Nishihara, Shigeyoshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,010,516 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 198/339.1
• CPC Class Codes: B05C 13/02 for particular articles
• CPC Class Codes: B05C 3/10 the articles being moved through the liquid or other fluent material conveying articles through baths B65G, e.g. B65G49/02
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 17/005 comprising individual load carriers which are movably mounted B65G17/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 17/48 Controlling attitudes of load-carriers during movement B65G17/18 takes precedence; guides B65G21/20; inverting or tilting load carriers to discharge contents B65G47/38
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 49/0459 movement in a vertical direction is caused by self-contained means

Abstract

A traveling type immersion treatment apparatus for a vehicle body has a speed control device which controls the traveling speed of the conveying traveling body according to the angle of rotation of a rotary shaft that rotates the vehicle body. Between an upright position and a 90° rotation position the forward speed of the conveying traveling body is gradually decreased in relation to a reference conveying speed; then the forward speed of the conveying traveling body is gradually increased in relation to the reference conveying speed until the vehicle body reaches a 270° rotation position from the 90° rotation position; and then the forward speed of the conveying traveling body is gradually decreased in relation to the reference conveying speed until the vehicle body returns to the original upright position from the 270° rotation position.

Claims

1. A traveling type immersion treatment apparatus comprising:

a conveying traveling body traveling along an immersion treatment bath, the conveying traveling body having a rotary shaft horizontally crossing above the immersion treatment bath, a rotary shaft drive means rotationally driving the rotary shaft, a workpiece supporting means connected to the rotary shaft, and a workpiece to be treated supported by the workpiece supporting means, whereby the workpiece can be immersed within the immersion treatment bath by rotation of the rotary shaft,

the conveying traveling body having a traveling speed variable travel drive means and a traveling speed control device operable to control a traveling speed of the conveying traveling body in response to an angle of rotation of the rotary shaft,

the traveling speed control device being operable to perform control such that (i) while the workpiece moves to a 90°

rotation position in a forward rolling direction from an upright position horizontally positioned above the rotary shaft, a forward speed of the conveying traveling body is gradually decreased from a reference conveying speed of a reference position on the workpiece located at a fixed distance from an axial center of the rotary shaft, (ii) while the workpiece moves to a 270°

rotation position from the 90°

rotation position, the forward speed of the conveying traveling body is gradually increased, and (iii) while the workpiece returns to the original upright position from the 270°

rotation position, the forward speed of the conveying traveling body is gradually decreased, and

a forward rolling locus of the workpiece, assuming that the reference conveying speed is zero, is configured to be a vertically long shape.

2. The traveling type immersion treatment apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a plurality of conveying traveling bodies on a traveling path wherein each conveying traveling body is arranged such that intervals in a conveying traveling body traveling direction between reference positions on workpieces of front and rear adjacent conveying traveling bodies are equal, and a traveling speed control device of each conveying traveling body controls forward speeds of the respective conveying traveling body such that a reference conveying speed of the reference position of the workpiece of each conveying traveling body is equal to each other.

3. The traveling type immersion treatment apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the traveling speed control device is operable to perform traveling speed control over the conveying traveling body such that δ

x=X−

Rsinθ

, where a vertical coordinate axis passing through the reference position on the workpiece is a reference coordinate axis X, a vertical coordinate axis passing through an axial center of the rotary shaft is a control target coordinate axis x, an amount of displacement in the conveying traveling body traveling direction of the control target coordinate axis x with respect to the reference coordinate axis X as a result of the traveling speed control over the conveying traveling body is δ

x, the radius of rotation of the reference position about the rotary shaft is R, the angle of rotation of the rotary shaft is θ

, and the angle of rotation θ

at the time when the workpiece is in the upright position and the reference coordinate axis X and the control target coordinate axis x agree is zero.

4. The traveling type immersion treatment apparatus according to claim 2, wherein each conveying traveling body is provided with a detection means for detecting a state that an interval in the conveying traveling body traveling direction between the reference positions on the workpieces of the front and rear adjacent conveying traveling bodies is narrowed.

5. The traveling type immersion treatment apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the conveying traveling body is provided with a detection means for detecting a state that an interval in the conveying traveling body traveling direction between the reference position on the workpiece of the conveying traveling bodies and a corresponding reference position on a front or rear adjacent conveying traveling body is narrowed.

6. The traveling type immersion treatment apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the detection means comprises a rod-shaped movable body supported to the associated conveying traveling body so as to be reciprocable in the traveling direction, a vertical guide rail attached to the rod-shaped movable body, a revolving arm rotating together with the rotary shaft, an engaging member pivotally supported to a distal end of the revolving arm so as to agree with the reference position on the workpiece, the engaging member vertically movably engaged with the guide rail, a portion to be detected provided on one end of the rod-shaped movable body, and a detector provided on the other end of the rod-shaped movable body for detecting a portion to be detected of the rod-shaped movable body of an adjacent conveying traveling body when the interval in the conveying traveling body traveling direction between the reference positions on the workpieces of the front and rear adjacent conveying traveling bodies is narrowed.