ASSEMBLED-TYPE TRAVELING CARRIAGE

• US 20190031221A1
• Filed: 10/03/2018
• Published: 01/31/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Atsumi Real Estate & Corporation Inc.
• Original Assignee: Atsumi Real Estate & Corporation Inc.
• Inventors: Atsumi, Kazuya
• Granted Patent: US 10,625,763 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B61B 13/00 Other railway systems
• CPC Class Codes: B62B 2205/12 Collapsible wheels
• CPC Class Codes: B62B 2205/18 Geared articulations
• CPC Class Codes: B62B 3/02 involving parts being adjustable, collapsible, attachable, detachable or convertible
• CPC Class Codes: B62B 5/065 by means of telescopic elements
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 21/14 of adjustable length or width
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 39/00 Vehicle bodies not otherwise provided for , e.g. safety vehicles safety equipment B60R21/00
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 35/00 Mechanical conveyors not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: B66C 19/005 Straddle carriers B66C19/007 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B66C 19/007 for containers
• CPC Class Codes: B66F 9/14 laterally movable, e.g. swingable, for slewing or transverse movements

Abstract

The assembled-type traveling carriage includes: the telescopic cylindrical body being an extendable telescopic cylindrical body rotatably provided with a first one of screw means at each end thereof, and incorporating an actuator configured to extend and withdraw a nest; a joint block provided with a second one of the screw means; a traveler rotatably provided with a first one of the screw means and attached a driving device thereto; and a coupling rod rotatably provided with the first one of the screw means on each end thereof. A first planar frame body is assembled by screwing joint blocks to four of the telescopic cylindrical bodies, screwing the travelers to the joint blocks such that the travelers are positioned on extension lines of the telescopic cylindrical bodies, and coupling one ends of the four telescopic cylindrical bodies to one another by the coupling rods through the joint blocks.

Claims

1. An assembled-type traveling carriage comprising:

a telescopic cylindrical body being an extendable telescopic cylindrical body rotatably provided with a first one of a male screw and a female screw collectively serving as screw means at each end thereof, and incorporating an actuator configured to extend and withdraw a nest;

a joint block provided with a second one of the screw means;

a traveler rotatably provided with a first one of the screw means and attached a driving device thereto; and

a coupling rod rotatably provided with a first one of the screw means on each end thereof, wherein

a first planar frame body being in a rectangular shape seen from a plane is assembled by screwing joint blocks to four of the telescopic cylindrical bodies, screwing the travelers to the joint blocks such that the travelers are positioned on extension lines of the telescopic cylindrical bodies, and coupling one ends of the four telescopic cylindrical bodies to one another by the coupling rods through the joint blocks.

2. The assembled-type traveling carriage according to claim 1, wherein each of the four telescopic cylindrical bodies further comprises:

an energy storage unit configured to store operation energy that operates the actuator; and

a switch configured to switch supply of the operation energy to the actuator.

3. The assembled-type traveling carriage according to claim 2, wherein

the actuator is an electric motor;

the driving device is an electric driving motor;

the energy storage unit is a first storage battery; and

the driving motor is electrically connected to the first storage battery by screwing the traveler to the telescopic cylindrical body through the joint block.

4. The assembled-type traveling carriage according to claim 1, wherein the coupling rod is an extendable telescopic cylindrical body.

5. The assembled-type traveling carriage according to claim 1, wherein:

the telescopic cylindrical body comprises a receiver that receives a signal from a remote-control transmitter to operate the switch and control electric current to the electric motor and the drive motor.

6. The assembled-type traveling carriage according to claim 1, wherein

a plurality of telescopic cylindrical body sets, each formed by screwing the traveler to the telescopic cylindrical body through the joint block, are coupled to one another by the coupling rods and configure the assembled-type traveling carriage to be extendable in a lateral direction of a traveling direction and in the traveling direction.

7. The assembled-type traveling carriage according to claim 1, wherein one or more following traveler, each pivotably supporting the first one of the screw means, are screwed to the first planar frame in place of a part of the travelers.

8. The assembled-type traveling carriage according to claim 1, wherein

the assembled traveling carriage is assembled into a stereoscopic frame through assembling a second planar frame having a rectangular shape when being seen from a plane by screwing other ends the telescopic cylindrical bodies with the joint blocks and coupling the telescopic cylindrical bodies to one another by the coupling rods through the joint blocks.

9. The assembled-type traveling carriage according to claim 7, wherein

the travelers or the following travelers travel or follow on a ceiling face, following movement of the assembled-type traveling carriage, by urging the telescopic cylindrical bodies in an extending direction and screwing the travelers or the following travelers on an upper portion of each telescopic cylindrical bodies through the joint block.

10. The assembled-type traveling carriage according to claim 1, wherein

a suspension-type traveling wheel or a suspension-type following wheel is attached to an upper portion of the telescopic cylindrical body through the joint block;

and

the suspension-type traveling wheel or the suspension-type following wheel travels or follows movement of the assembled-type traveling carriage, being accompanied by the movement of the assembled-type traveling carriage and grasping a rail suspended from a ceiling face or a rope extended near the ceiling face.

11. The assembled-type traveling carriage according to claim 1, wherein

a groove wheel set including a pair of upper and lower groove wheels is attached to each of an upper portion and a lower portion of the telescopic cylindrical body through the joint blocks in place of the traveler attached to the lower portion of the telescopic cylindrical body;

the groove wheel sets attached to the upper portion and the lower portion are both for traveling or either one of the groove wheel sets are for following; and

the groove wheel sets travel or follow movement of the assembled-type traveling carriage, being accompanied by the movement of the assembled-type traveling carriage and sandwiching ropes suspended over and under the assembled-type traveling carriage.

12. The assembled-type traveling carriage according to claim 1, wherein

a second storage battery is placed on one of a first one of the first planar frame and the second planar frame;

and

an electric machinery unit that uses the second storage battery as a power source is placed on a second one of the first planar frame of the second planar frame.

13. The assembled-type traveling carriage according to claim 1, wherein

the second one of the screw means on each of at least faces facing in the horizontal direction among the screw means of each joint block is a male screw;

the male screw is swingably connected to a main body of the joint block through a ball joint; and

the first one of the screw means of the coupling rod is a female screw.