PALLET SUPPLYING AND DISCHARGING SYSTEM

• Main Authors: KASHIWAGI EIJI, HASEGAWA NOZOMI, OTSUYAMA TAKAYOSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 11.12.2014
• Subjects: COMBINED OPERATIONS; CONVEYING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; OTHER WORKING OF METAL; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS; SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; STORING; TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING; TRANSPORTING; UNIVERSAL MACHINE TOOLS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a large number of pallets to be loaded to a carrier truck without increasing the width of the carrier truck and increase supplying/discharging efficiency of components to a production line.SOLUTION: A pallet supplying and discharging system comprises: supplying and discharging apparatus 1 in which a pallet supplying lane 71, which is adjacent to an assembly station W of a production line L and supplies pallets P in which components are housed to the assembly station W, and a pallet discharging lane which discharges empty pallets are provided so as to position in a vertical direction to each other; and a carrier truck 200 in which pallet housing part 202a that mounts a plurality of pallets P in which components are housed in a row in a traveling direction and an empty pallet housing part that mounts a plurality of empty pallets in a row in a traveling direction are provided so as to position in a vertical direction to each other. The carrier truck 200 is placed alongside the supplying and discharging apparatus 1, the pallets P in which components are housed are transferred from the pallet housing part 202a to the pallet supplying lane 71, and empty pallets are transferred from the pallet discharging lane to the empty pallet housing part. 【課題】搬送台車の幅を大きくすることなく多数のパレットを搬送台車に積載可能として、生産ラインに対する部品の給排効率を高める。【解決手段】生産ラインＬの組立ステーションＷに隣接し、部品を収容したパレットＰを組立ステーションＷに供給するパレット供給レーン７１と空のパレットを排出するパレット排出レーンとが互いに上下方向に位置するように設けられた給排装置１と、部品を収容した複数のパレットＰを進行方向に列状に載置するパレット収容部２０２ａと複数の空のパレットを進行方向に列状に載置する空パレット収容部とが互いに上下方向に位置するように設けられた搬送台車２００と、を備え、搬送台車２００が給排装置１に横付けされ、部品を収容したパレットＰがパレット収容部２０２ａからパレット供給レーン７１に移載され、空のパレットがパレット排出レーンから空パレット収容部に移載される。【選択図】図１