ARTICLE ALIGNING/SUPPLYING APPARATUS

• Main Authors: MORINO SATOSHI, TOKUNAGA KOSUKE, MIHASHI TOMOHIRO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 12.09.2019
• Subjects: CONVEYING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS; SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; STORING; TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING; TRANSPORTING

To provide an article aligning/supplying apparatus capable of efficiently supplying a container etc. supplied in an unarranged state to a conveying device in an upright posture with the bottom facing downward.SOLUTION: An article aligning/supplying apparatus comprises: a rotary aligning device 20 having an article housing part 21 and an article placing part 24 for placing an article side by side on an outer periphery of an upper portion of the article housing part; a picking robot 30 having a holding means for holding the article located on the article placing part 24, and placing the article held by the holding means on an adjacent conveying device 40 in a predetermined posture; and a controller for determining the article arranged in the article placing part 24 and its position based on an image obtained by an imaging device, and controlling the holding of the article and the transfer of the article to the conveying device by the picking robot 30 .SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】バラバラの状態で供給された容器などを、底部を下にして立てた姿勢で、効率よく搬送装置に供給することができる物品整列供給装置を提供すること。【解決手段】物品の収容部２１を備え、収容部上部の外周部に、物品を並べて載置する物品載置部２４を備えた回転式整列装置２０と、物品載置部２４に位置する物品を保持する保持手段を備え、隣接する搬送装置４０に、保持手段により保持した物品を所定の姿勢で載置するピッキングロボット３０と、撮像装置による画像を基に、物品載置部２４に並べられた物品とその位置を判定し、ピッキングロボット３０による物品の保持と搬送装置への移し替えを制御する制御部とを備える。【選択図】図１