公开(公告)号：US20220397231A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-15

申请号：US17775476

申请日：2020-09-01

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Tomoya TSUTSUI ,  Eiji FUJITA

IPC: F16M11/20 ,  F16M11/22

Abstract: A positioning apparatus includes: an upper unit that includes a spherical body, a retainer part that retains the spherical body, and an upper plate part provided on the retainer part and adapted to carry a carried object; a lower unit that includes a lower plate part on which the upper unit is mounted and a guide part that marks a region of movement of the upper unit on the lower plate part; and a tilting structure that tilts the region of movement relative to a horizontal plane and guides the upper unit, on which the carried object is not mounted, toward a reference position located on a lower side of a tilt.

公开(公告)号：US20170325368A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-09

申请号：US15659862

申请日：2017-07-26

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Takuto YAMAZAKI ,  Eiji FUJITA

IPC: H05K13/00 ,  H05K13/04 ,  H05K13/02

CPC classification number: H05K13/00 ,  G11B17/225 ,  G11B23/0323 ,  H05K13/021 ,  H05K13/0404

Abstract: A conveyance robot apparatus of this disclosure includes: a plurality of modules arranged in a row in a first direction; a robot capable of moving each of the plurality of modules in the first direction; a pinion mounted on the robot; a plurality of racks which are respectively supported on the plurality of modules in a slidable manner in the first direction, are meshable with the pinion, and are arranged in a row in the first direction; and a rack connecting mechanism configured to connect adjacent racks each other with respect to the plurality of racks arranged in a row in the first direction, by making at least one of the racks positioned at one terminal end slide toward at least one of the racks positioned at another terminal end.